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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2016 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Giorgio Miescher (giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The history of colonialism is essentially the history of resistance against it. In southern Africa resistance manifested itself in the military, political, social and intellectual domains. Opposition to massive land loss and colonial rule was only broken in the late 19th century in South Africa, and in the early 20th century in Namibia. The decades after these violent events were marked by various forms of everyday resistance, and ongoing political and intellectual opposition to colonial tutelage. This resistance received inspiration from African historical consciousness, but also from the larger context of the Afro-American civil rights movement and the international communist-socialist labour movement. The persistent opposition to colonialism was substantially invigorated after World War II and led to the independence of most African countries in the late 1950s and 1960s. Yet, things were different in southern Africa, where political and military conflicts endured into the late 20th century and only after long and bitter struggle self-determination was eventually achieved. The course will provide an overview of anti-colonial resistance in southern Africa while focusing on Namibia and South Africa. We will read texts and (auto)biographies written by contemporary African intellectuals, activists and politicians, and will retrace the establishment of African political organisations. In doing so, we will critically put to test nationalist resistance and liberation narratives promoted by former liberation movements who have established themselves as post-colonial ruling parties, and will pay attention to ideas, initiatives and organisations that did not prevail nor persist. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | This seminar (Übung) will continue during several semesters, but it can be taken as a single semester course. This second part of the seminar (Übung) will cover the period starting with the radicalisation of the fight for self-determination in Southern Africa in the early 1960s, followed by the victories of the liberation movements in Mozambique and Angola (1975), Zimbabwe (1980) and Namibia (1990), and ending with the transition to democracy in South Africa in 1994. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Grundmodul Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) 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 Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul History (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 und Diskurse historischer Forschung (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Profil: Moderne (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Kompetenzzentrum Afrika |