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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2021 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Nina Studer Salouâ (nina.studersaloua@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | In this course, the students will critically analyse the differences in colonial descriptions of the consumption of alcoholic drinks among the Jewish and Muslim colonised in North Africa, as well as among the European settlers. In the first part, the long precolonial history of alcohol in the region (beer, wine, palm wine, date and fig liquors, etc.) will be studied alongside the prohibition of alcohol in the Qur’an. In the rest of the seminar, diverse aspects of the colonial discourse on alcohol in North Africa will be analysed, such as: the idea that civilisation could be measured (and, indeed, increased) through the levels of alcohol consumption in a society; the European understanding of the alcohol prohibition in the Qur’an, and the fixation of European authors on how Muslims circumvented this prohibition; the theory of insanity through alcohol consumption; an increase in criminality blamed on alcohol drinking; the notion of alcohol being a “male drink” and the pathologisation and criminalization of alcohol-drinking women resulting from this notion; the introduction of bans on the production, sale and consumption of alcohol in the North African colonies; the idea of alcohol smuggling as a loss for the colonial state, and taxes on imported alcohol. The principle question of this seminar is whether women and men, the colonised and the colonisers, settlers and metropolitans, workers, traders, and the elite, drank the same or different alcoholic drinks, and whether they were defined in these colonial descriptions by what and where they consumed their drinks of choice. |
| Literatur | Literature will be distributed in the seminar. The following may serve as introductory literature: Barrows, Susanna. Alcohol, France and Algeria: A Case Study in the International Liquor Trade. In: Contemporary Drug Problems. Vol. 11 (1982). 525-543. Foda, Omar D. The Pyramid and the Crown: The Egyptian Beer Industry from 1897 to 1963. In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. Vol. 46 (2014). 139-158. Hubbell, Amy L. (In)Edible Algeria: Transmitting Pied-Noir Nostalgia Through Food. In: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. Vol. 10, No 2 (July 2013). 1-18. Jansen, Willy. French Bread and Algerian Wine: Conflicting Identities in French Algeria. In: Scholliers, Peter (Hg.). Food, Drink and Identity. Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages. Oxford/New York: Berg Publishers, 2001. 195-218. Martinez, Francisco J. Drinking Dis-Ease: Alcohol and Colonialism in the International City of Tangier, c. 1912-1956. In: Ernst, Waltraud (ed.). Alcohol Flows Across Cultures: Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective. London/New York: Routledge, 2020. 61-83. Matthee, Rudi. Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East: Ambivalence and Ambiguity. In: Past and Present (2014). 100-125. Studer, Nina. It Is Only Gazouz: Muslims and Champagne in the Colonial Maghreb. In: Asiatische Studien. Vol. 73, No 3 (2020). 399-424. Znaien, Nessim. Boire en Tunisie sous le Protectorat (1881-1956). In: Le Carnet de l’IRMC. No 20 (2017). Available at: https://irmc.hypotheses.org/2168 [07.05.2021 Znaien, Nessim. Les territoires de l’alcool à Tunis et à Casablanca sous la période des Protectorats (1912-1956): Des destins parallèles? In: L’Année du Maghreb. Nr. 12 (2015). 193-206.] Comments: Due to the languages of the sources, an understanding of English and French is necessary for this seminar. |
| Bemerkungen | Due to the languages of the sources, an understanding of English and French is necessary for this seminar. Seminar findet 14-tägig statt. Teilnehmerzahl ist begrenzt. Verfügbarkeit je nach Betriebskonzept und Bestuhlung im Herbst 2021. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Für Masterstudierende und fortgeschrittene Bachelorstudierende der Geschichte mit abgeschlossener Grundstufe (Nachweis von drei Proseminaren und den drei obligatorischen Proseminararbeiten). Bei Überbelegung kann die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt werden. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14-täglich | Donnerstag | 14.15-18.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 1 |
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Donnerstag 23.09.2021 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 1 |
| Donnerstag 07.10.2021 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 1 |
| Donnerstag 21.10.2021 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 1 |
| Donnerstag 11.11.2021 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Donnerstag 18.11.2021 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 1 |
| Donnerstag 02.12.2021 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 1 |
| Donnerstag 16.12.2021 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 1 |
| Module |
Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Aufbau Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Public Health and Social Life (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) Modul: Themen der Nahoststudien (Bachelor Studienfach: Nahoststudien) Modul: Themen der Near & Middle Eastern Studies (Master Studienfach: Near & Middle Eastern Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| 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 | Departement Geschichte |