Björn Reichhardt visited the MIASU from the University of Fribourg (May – July 2021). In his research, he is interested in how border making practices have an impact on the perception of environments and security in the context of post-socialist uncertainty in Mongolia. Having undertaken extensive ethnographic fieldwork in northern Mongolia, he investigates the historical, social and material conditions from which particular borders emerge as well as the socio-spatial agency exercised by borders, roads, and the liminal spaces they create.
He is also a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History where he works on pastoral dairying in Mongolia from a multispecies ethnography perspective within the project 'Dairy Cultures: Gene-Culture-Microbiome Evolution and the Ancient Invention of Dairy Foods'.
