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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2023 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Özhan Kapici (oezhan.kapici@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The reforms initiated at the beginning of the 18th century in the Russian and Ottoman Empires were geared more towards preserving, enhancing, and consolidating the imperial state and military formation rather than fundamentally transforming society. The Ottoman and Russian Empires entered this course of reform and restructuring around the same time. The latter managed to perpetuate its construction of top-down modernity to a great extent, while the former even hesitantly persisted in its European-inspired reform until the middle of the 19th century. A new generation of reformers emerged in the 19th century in both empires. By the middle of the 19th century, reformists were generally divided into pro-conservative and pro-liberal reformism. Nevertheless, in both empires, the ideology of reformism, in which political economy and representation became the critical concepts in the language of reform, resulted in an autocratic way of modernization at the end of the century. Westernization became a common feature of both the Ottoman and Russian reforms, and as a result, inevitable similarities became apparent: the top-down approach to transformation and aims set by the bureaucracy to build an imperial centralization. However, all these similarities turned into dissimilarities as modernization advanced; quantitative differences turned into qualitative discrepancies. This seminar aims to compare the experiences of two imperial formations on the periphery of Europe as well as their post-imperial periods from the perspective of historical sociology; the factual comparison of the experiences and results of the encounters with the modernity of the Russian and Ottoman Empires is one of this course’s main subjects of discussion. |
| Lernziele | Students will -compare the historical experiences of the Ottoman and Russian Empires in their encounter with modernity -understand the perspectives and practices of Russian and Ottoman reformers -analyze in a comparative way the autocratic path toward modernization in the Near East and Eastern Europe |
| Literatur | Adrian Brisku, Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building, The Soviet and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires, ed. Karen Barkey- Mark von Hagen, Westview Press, 1997. (Chapters 4, 6, 9, 11). Alexander Polunov, Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914, (trans.Marshall S.Shatz), M.E.Sharpe, 2005. Gábor Ágoston, Military Transformation in the Ottoman Empire and Russia, 1500-1800, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol.12, Number 2 (2011), pp.281-319. Victor Taki, Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire, I.B. Tauris, 2016. Karen Barkey - Rudi Batzell. Comparisons across Empire: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians, and Habsburgs during the Seventeenth Century, in Tributary Empires in Global History, ed. P.F.BANG-C.A.Bayly, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp.227-261. Nader Sohrabi, "Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and Russia," American Journal of Sociology, vol.100, no.6 (1995), pp. 1383-1447. Kemal H.Karpat, The Transformation of the Ottoman State, 1789-1908, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol.3, no.3 (1972), pp. 243-281. * Readings and further readings will be available on ADAM. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | belegen |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| unregelmässig | Siehe Einzeltermine | ||
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Donnerstag 23.02.2023 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Maiengasse, Sitzungszimmer 204 |
| Donnerstag 09.03.2023 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Donnerstag 13.04.2023 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Donnerstag 11.05.2023 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Donnerstag 25.05.2023 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Maiengasse, Sitzungszimmer 204 |
| Donnerstag 01.06.2023 | 14.15-18.00 Uhr | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Module |
Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Modul: Vertiefung Near & Middle Eastern Studies (Master Studienfach: Near & Middle Eastern Studies) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Staatlichkeit, Entwicklung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global 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 | Fachbereich Nahost-Studien |