Dr. Henryk Alff

Principal Investigator, HNEE

•  D3: Dams and State Borders in Central Asia – Pre-programmed Conflicts? (with Beate Eschment)

Henryk Alff is a postdoctoral researcher, at TRANSECT research group at HNEE

Henryk Alff studied Human Geography, Slavic and Central Asian Studies at the University of Potsdam, Humboldt University Berlin, the Kazakh National University Almaty and the Pedagogical University Dushanbe and received his doctorate from University of Potsdam focusing on the role of transnational social networks of Mongolia’s Kazakhs in post-Soviet migration and integration processes. After that, he was postdoctoral researcher, among others, within the BMBF-funded competence network Crossroads Asia at the Centre for Development Studies of Freie Universität Berlin and Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, as well a co-editor of of the online journal ‚Zentralasien-Analysen‘.

• Geography and Anthropology of post-Soviet Central Asia and Coastal West Africa
• Migration and Mobility Research
• Geographical Development Research
• Border & Boundary Studies
• (post-) Area Studies
• Translocality and Positionality
• Critical Spatial Theory
• Actor-based and Ethnographical Approaches
• Qualitative Social Research

Alff, Henryk; Konysbayev, Talgarbay; Salmyrzauly, Ruslan. Old stereotypes and new openness: Discourses and practices of trans-border re- and disconnection in south-eastern Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector. In: Eurasian Geography and Economics. Special issue ‘Coexistence or competition for resources? Transboundary transformations of natural re-source use in China’s neighbourhood’, (2023), pp. 1-23

Alff, Henryk (accepted). Maize-farming forever? Path dependency and friction in South-east Kazakhstan’s ‘post-Soviet’ borderland agriculture. In: Central Asian Affairs. Special issue ‘Life in the Province: Socioeconomic and Cultural Transformations outside the Capital Cities – A ‘Global Province’ in Central Asia’

Alff, Henryk; Spies, Michael. Pfadabhängigkeiten in der Bioökonomie überwinden? Landwirtschaftliche Intensivierungsprozesse aus sozial-ökologischer Perspektive. In: Peripherie- politik, ökonomie, kultur, 40 (2020), 2, pp. 334-359.