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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2015 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Mary Elizabeth Davies (mary.davies@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This exercise will challenge students to investigate the histories of colonialism and chieftaincy in Africa "between the lines" (in the archive) and "on the margins" (in the field). Histories of chieftaincy have largely focused on the role of the colonial state in restructuring traditional authority, and the legacy this has left in contemporary Africa; the question has been how state policy invented, shaped and restructured political and social identity, ethnicising and tribalising African society as it did so. This framing has not sufficiently examined the agency of African actors themselves throughout this period of historical change, nor has it brought forth the variety of experiences and diversity of opportunities. Bringing insights from other disciplines this course will encourage students to ask new questions about historical sources, and apply new methods to established theories. By focusing on a chieftaincy located on the Malawi-Zambian border, we will start to rethink the processes of indirect rule and decolonization through spatial and biographical lenses, and explore how this can also inform our understandings of contemporary land conflict and political change in post-colonial Africa. Interrogating historical texts located within government and mission archives, as well as oral histories and ethnographic observations gathered from the field, this seminar will examine how knowledge about the past is produced, and how it is used in the present. The classes will encourage approaches to history that question the nature of evidence and the role of memory, and will train students to interpret sources through a culturally informed framework. The exercise is divided into four sessions: the first two will be theoretical (an introduction to the methods and questions) and the final two sessions will be based around practical exercises where students will use a variety of sources to tell historical stories. |
| Literatur | Malawi: Chinsinga, Blessings. "The Interface between Tradition and Modernity. The Struggle for Political Space at the Local Level in Malawi." Civilisations. Revue internationale d'anthropologie et de sciences humaines 54 (2006): 255-274. Forster, Peter G. "Culture, nationalism, and the invention of tradition in Malawi." The Journal of Modern African Studies 32.03 (1994): 477-497. McCracken, John. A History of Malawi, 1859-1966. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012. Vail, Leroy, and Landeg White. "Tribalism in the political history of Malawi." The creation of tribalism in southern Africa (1989): 151-192. (Available here: http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft158004rs&chunk.id=d0e3729) Chieftaincy: Berry, Sara. "Hegemony on a shoestring: indirect rule and access to agricultural land." Africa 62.03 (1992): 327-355. Leonardi, Cherry. "Violence, Sacrifice and Chiefship in Central Equatoria, Southern Sudan." Africa 77.04 (2007): 535-558. Spear, Thomas. "Neo-traditionalism and the limits of invention in British colonial Africa." The Journal of African History 44.01 (2003): 3-27. Gray, Christopher. "The Disappearing district? Territorial transformation in southern Gabon 1850-1950." The Spatial factor in African history (2005): 221-44. Historical methods: Bozzoli, Belinda, and Mmantho Nkotsoe. "Women of Phokeng: Consciousness Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983." (1991). Vansina, Jan M. "Oral tradition as history." University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. |
| Bemerkungen | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot fakultativ |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Analysefelder: Akteure - Erfahrungen - Praktiken (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Archive / Medien / Theorien (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Modul Archive / Medien / Theorien (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Basics: History (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Ereignisse, Prozesse, Zusammenhänge (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Forschung und Praxis (Master Studienfach: Osteuropäische Geschichte) Modul History (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Introduction to Interdisciplinary African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Kommunikation und Vermittlung historischer Erkenntnisse (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Historik - Historiographie (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Methoden und Diskurse historischer Forschung (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Theorie (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) Modul Theorie und Praxis (Master Studienfach: Osteuropäische Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Aktive Teilnahme |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Departement Geschichte |