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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Remo Reginold (remo.reginold@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Summary: Resource Economies from a Postcolonial Perspective The global need for natural resources is growing fiercely and the battle for securing resources for future consumption is impacting the principles of property rights, human security and political sovereignty. In the so-called race to the bottom logic, forces of globalization and neocolonial attitudes are evaluating economic deregulation and multinational corporation’s profit over democratic freedom and environmental rights. This seminar dissects the abstract logic of division of labour, global capitalism and resource exploitation thereby pointing to the hidden effects of causing wretched bodies. The wretched embody the epistemological production of the primitive, the under-developed and the rabble. By referring to the paradigms of postcolonial critique, we will analyse the interdependencies between countries of the South and the North and survey the hidden spaces of knowledge production. Based on two case studies, the seminar’s mission is to explore the everyday life of the wretched: (I) The fishing controversy in the Bay of Bengal (overexploitation, pollution and climate changes) outlines how Western industrial fishing practices (cf. trawling) have changed the local customs and daily practices of fishers and their families for the worse. (II) The second case draws a direct line between the Norwegian expertise in deep sea drilling and the vast oil resources in Angola. This case study exemplifies how the logic of profit is applying double standards. Norway, being a role-model for social welfare, is blind if social injustice is happening off their shores. |
| Lernziele | Pedagogical aims: The students will be acquainted with (I) the central concepts of postcolonial theory and (II) analyse how the logic of resource accumulation, land grapping and human exploitation can be exposed to postcolonial criticism. In addition, the students will learn to (III) apply postcolonial reasoning to case studies and (IV) question how political activism counterbalances and/or complements theory production. |
| Bemerkungen | This seminar will be taught by Dr. Remo Reginold |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Pass / Fail |
| 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 Urban Studies |