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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende |
Marie-Laure Allain Bonilla (m.allainbonilla@unibas.ch)
Kenny R. Cupers (kenny.cupers@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) Manuel Herz (manuel.herz@unibas.ch) Virginia Nolan (virginia.nolan@unibas.ch) |
| Inhalt | Highway Africa is a research studio which explores the pasts, presents, and futures of a trans-African highway system. The research studio is a new format of teaching at the University of Basel, and will become the central element of the new MA in Critical Urbanisms, which starts in the autumn 2017. With the end of colonization in Africa came unprecedented dreams of modernization. These coalesced around plans for highway networks linking the continent’s newly independent nations. For members of the elite, such networks were first and foremost economic propositions, to facilitate the movement of locally extracted materials toward coastal ports for export abroad. Political actors saw in the projected networks opportunities to forge a new era of pan-African cooperation and trans-continental development. For a fledgling middle class, the highways conjured imaginaries of upward social mobility and for entire communities they opened up hopes of movement unlike anything experienced before. With the gigantic boom in infrastructure investment across the continent today, the trans-African highways are experiencing second lives. Chinese developers, the African Development Bank, and other large institutions are laying vast multi-lane highways that are radically transforming urban centers and countrysides across Africa. How does highway infrastructure shape the course of history, and why are its dreams of development more pertinent than ever? Focusing on the multiple dimensions of development on the ground, Highway Africa questions conventional approaches to infrastructure urbanization in and beyond Africa. When highways or railways figure in urban or Africa-focused research, they tend to appear as merely technical problems of development: either they are described as lacking, or they are treated as magical solutions. The aim of the research studio is to contribute to new understandings about the relationship between material infrastructure and the everyday realities of urbanization, by taking account of its historical complexity and the multivalent dreams and projects that it generates. |
| Lernziele | The research studio aims to train students in collaborative interdisciplinary research that combines humanities and social-scientific methods with visual and spatial analysis and representation. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | none |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Komplementärer Bereich: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) 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 Raum/Bewegung (Bachelor Studienfach: Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) |
| 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 | Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften |