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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2016 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Jacob Geuder (jacob.geuder@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course tackles the plethora of discussions about the “the Right to the City”: it asks for the conceptual value and epistemic embedding of this slogan, aims at repositioning it in discourses relevant to the global South and particularly African contexts, and examines a number of case studies and possible methodological approaches. Consequently participants of the seminar shall acquire knowledge about what “the Right to the City” actually signifies in various urban settings and struggles in the “global South” and secondly, how the concept may be adapted and employed as a tool for analysis in academic research. Thus the course discusses how the notion of “the Right to the City” may inform social scientific analysis of struggles over urban spaces, particularly in the global South. Published by the French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre in 1968, the essay “the Right to the City” contributed immediately to student upheavals in Paris at that time. Despite this historic significance and Lefebvre’s immense influence on the “spatial turn”, the concept itself has re-gained crucial importance in various academic and activist debates on a global scale over the last decade. Whether “the Right to the City” is interpreted as an “empty signifier” (David Harvey) – i.e. as a form that can and is filled with concrete practices of producing certain urban spaces in political struggles, everyday resistances and academic discourses – is one of the questions to be discussed during the course. With Lefebvre we cannot assume and analyze space as an a-priori given “container”, but need to decipher it as a social product: thus analyzing political struggles over urban space is itself a creative and political act of producing these spaces in our academic discussions in the course. |
| Literatur | Lefebvre, H. 2009 [1968]. Le Droit à la ville, Paris: Economica–Anthropos (3rd edition), Paris: Éditions du Seuil. / English translation: Kofman, Eleonore / Lebas, Elizabeth (1996): Henri Lefebvre. Writing on Cities, Blackwell Publishing. Samara, Tony Roshan / He, Shenjing / Chen, Guo (2012): Locating Right to the City in the global South, London: Routledge. Brenner, Neil / Marcuse, Peter / Mayer, Margit (2012): Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City, London: Routledge. Harvey, David (2012): From the right to the city to the urban revolution, London: Verso. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Students from all levels are invited, in particular from following disciplines and courses: Anthropology, Soziologie, Kulturanthropologie, Geographie, Sustainable Development, Geschichte, European Global Studies, Medienwissenschaften |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Registration on MonA |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Will be announced in class. |
| 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 | Kompetenzzentrum Afrika |