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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Lucy Koechlin (lucy.koechlin@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Why 'secondary' cities? What even are secondary cities? What may sound like a dry term is, on the contrary, alive and kicking and highly dynamic. There has been a lot of attention paid to capital cities in Africa, in particular to sprawling urban centres such as Lagos or Johannesburg. The focus on the metropolis is attractive because of the extremes that they invoke, from abject poverty to ubiquitous creativity to overwhelming sensory experience. In addition, capital cities in Africa have historically been the centres of administrative, political and economic power, magnetically attracting people from the rural "hinterland". However, the urban landscape in Africa is changing dramatically. For a whole host of reasons, so-called secondary or mid-sized cities are growing rapidly, both in terms of size as well as in terms of their importance. This makes them an urgent and exciting focus of anthropology, for secondary cities are fast becoming tropes of new social, economic and political articulations. In this seminar, we will be looking into what 'makes' a secondary city; what makes it specifically urban, rather than just a large settlement; what national, regional and global processes affect and are affected by the transformation of secondary cities; what these new and emerging spaces look like, and what they can tell us about the way in which people relate to each other, what horizons and aspirations and practices they enact. |
| Lernziele | 1. An understanding of constitutive features of urbanity. 2. An understanding of current empirical processes shaping and being shaped by secondary cities in Africa. 3. An understanding of interpretative methodologies capturing urbanity. |
| Literatur | De Boeck, Filip, Ann Cassiman and Steven Van Wolputte. 2009. "Recentering the City: An Anthropology of Secondary Cities in Africa." In African Perspectives – The African City: (Re)sourced, edited by K. Bakker, 33–41. Pretoria: University of Pretoria, Department of Architecture. Förster, Till. 2013. “On Urbanity: Creativity and emancipation in African urban life.” In Living the City in Africa, edited by Brigit Obrist, Veit Arlt, and Elísio Macamo, 235–251. Hamburg, Münster: Lit-Verlag. Koechlin, Lucy and Till Förster. forthcoming. Secondary Cities and the Formation of Political Spaces,.Urbanity and Political Articulation in West and East African Cities. In: The Palgrave Handbook on Urban Ethnography, edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato. London: Palgrave Macmillan. |
| Bemerkungen | The course will be held in English. Essays and seminar papers can be written in either English or German. However, all oral presentations will be held in English. All compulsory reading will be uploaded on ADAM. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 30 Personen beschränkt. Die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der unter "Module" aufgelisteten Studienfächer/-gänge. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung in der Ethnologie: Sachthemen (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Empirical group work that will be presented towards the end of the semester. |
| 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 Gesellschaftswissenschaften |