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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2016 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Cédric Duchêne-Lacroix (c.duchene@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Studies which only compare the cultures of “western” or “non-western” societies are insufficient for the purpose of drawing general conclusions. Stein Rokkan and Melvin Kohn strongly suggest the inclusion of non-western and western cultures in the analysis. In this seminar I suggest as much for two important everyday life topics – mobility and living arrangements –, and for two continents – Africa and Europe. One goal is to go beyond the clichés and to get a more complex understanding of the situations in African and European countries. There is another Africa beyond stereotypical images, real local conflicts, instability and forced international emigration. Africa's cities grow and their administrations become decentralised, the world has begun to invest in the African economy, and the middle class rises. All these are generating new social configurations and patterns of mobility and living arrangements, transforming urban governance by redistributing population, shifting policy networks, altering the flow of information and resources, and generating new forms of citizenship and belonging. In contrast to the African situation, a wide range of people in late modern Europe had access to rapid and relatively well-distributed mobility means, and a wide range of them access also to quality housing. But the balance between possibilities and constraints is not the same. For instance, (endured) job related high mobility have an impact over the life course, implications for family and career development, place attachment and social inequality. In this course, after discussing the reality of the "Africa Rising" stories and the diversity of the middle class (from the floating to the upper middle class) as well as the reality of late modern diversity in Europe, we will examine the methodological possibilities of comparing mobility and living arrangements in different European and African countries. Furthermore, we will discuss the situation of mobility and living arrangements in different European and African countries through different perspectives (i.a. mobility between family places, student mobility, regional and domestic migration, amenity migration, multilocal living arrangements, ‘household’ and ‘family’ structure). |
| Lernziele | Students know - how to analyse and compare (international/intercontinental) data and data analyses; - how basic argument forms such as comparison and representativeness can be deployed in analysis; - how mobility and living arrangements differ in African and European countries; - critically analyse how (new) human mobility and housing practices reshape institutions, attitudes, economies and policies in different regions of the two continents; - provide a set of interdisciplinary conceptual tools to make sense of the complex conceptual, methodological, ethical and logistical concerns surrounding human mobility. This course is intended to strengthen students’ understanding of and capacity to conduct social research on issues related to mobility and living arrangements. |
| Literatur | To be provided during the course. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul "Research Lab" Kulturanthropologie (Master Studienfach: Kulturanthropologie) Modul Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Methoden und Felder der Kulturanthropologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Kulturanthropologie) Modul Politik, Entwicklung und soziale Ungleichheit (Bachelor Studienfach: Soziologie) Modul Politik, Entwicklung und soziale Ungleichheit (Bachelor Studienfach: Soziologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Schrift (Theorien, Methoden und Perspektiven der Analyse schriftlicher Kultur) (Bachelor Studienfach: Kulturanthropologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Schrift 2 (Theorien, Methoden und Perspektiven der Analyse schriftlicher Kultur) (Master Studienfach: Kulturanthropologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Students are expected to submit regular homework assignments throughout the semester and to actively participate in the course. |
| 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 | Fachbereich Soziologie |