Thomas Michael Blaser

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation researcher
Location Johannesburg, Gauteng
Introduction Born and raised in Switzerland, I studied politics in Vancouver and Montreal, Canada. I came to South Africa to research nationalism and nation building, "race" relations and "white" identities, the topics of my PhD thesis at Wits University.
Interests Politics and Society, the Fine Arts, Reading, Writing and Debate
Favorite Movies She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Night on Earth (Jim Jarmush), Zulu Love Letter (Ramadan Suleman), La Cage aux Folles (French and American version), Lord of the Rings, Casablanca
Favorite Music Ringo, Omou Sangare, John Coltrane, Coldplay, Joe Zawinul, Kabelo, Busi Mhlongo, Leonard Cohen, Stiller Haas, Miles Davies
Favorite Books Siddharta (Herman Hesse), South Sea Stories (Sommerset Maugham), Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique (Abdourahman Waberi), Corto Maltese (Hugo Pratt), Giovanni's 'Room (James Baldwin), The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt), An Anthology of Chinese Poetry, The collected works of Friedrich Durrenmatt