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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Mary Elizabeth Davies (mary.davies@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course will focus on the everyday lives of African people travelling to, working, and living in Europe during the final decades of empire. Students will examine some of the experiences of this diverse group of men and women – who included Nigerian seamen, Ghanaian medical students, Sierra Leonean musicians, and Senegalese soldiers – as a way of understanding the contribution of black lives on “domestic” European culture, identity and politics, and in order to explore the emergence of transnational identities of citizenship and belonging at this time. During this period of decolonisation, the intellectual, cultural and social lives of African people in Europe were influenced by a range of associations, clubs and religious organisations which linked groups together in nationalist and pan-African political projects. London and Paris especially became places where subaltern networks of colonized people, including Africans, were able to organize, as well as to negotiate tensions and conflict between themselves. For most Africans resident in Europe, the institutions that governed their day to day lives mattered most; how they gained access to jobs, housing, education, health care. The distinctive forms of welfare that arose in these years were also shaped significantly by the changing social and economic landscape of decolonisation, and tell us much about the shifting moral responsibilities of governments at this time. Access to this welfare as well as to the labour market involved the constant negotiation of categories of identity; as such ideas about race, gender, ethnicity and class shifted and scrambled throughout this time when political, legal and social frameworks were altering in the metropolitan as well as the colonial spaces of empire. This course will investigate some of the personal challenges people faced in their daily lives as a result. By engaging with new historical approaches, which bring metropole and colony into one framework, this course will challenge students to investigate hidden and forgotten stories of African lives. The ways in which these individuals laboured and loved, studied and socialized, protested and prayed in the metropolitan spaces of Europe shaped, and were shaped by, decolonisation and its legacies. The majority of examples in this course will be drawn from the British imperial context. However, where possible, reference to other European experiences will be made. In addition to government reports and papers, historical sources will include film, photographs, song lyrics, press reports, magazines, and periodicals from the time. |
| Literatur | Adi, Hakim. "West African students in Britain, 1900–60: The politics of exile." Immigrants & Minorities 12.3 (1993): 107-128. Bailkin, Jordanna. The Afterlife of Empire. University of California Press, 2012. Cooper, Frederick, and Ann Laura Stoler. Tensions of empire: colonial cultures in a bourgeois world. Univ of California Press, 1997 Frost, Diane. Work and community among West African migrant workers since the nineteenth century. Liverpool University Press, 1999. Fryer, Peter. Staying power: the history of black people in Britain. University of Alberta, 1984. Gilroy, Paul. Black Britain: A photographic history. Al Saqi, 2007. Hall, Catherine, and Sonya O. Rose, eds. At home with the empire: Metropolitan culture and the imperial world. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Howe, Stephen, ed. The New Imperial Histories Reader. London: Routledge, 2010. Matera, Marc. Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 22. Univ of California Press, 2015. Olusoga, David. Black and British. Macmillan, 2016. Schler, Lynn. "Becoming Nigerian: African seamen, decolonisation, and the nationalisation of consciousness." Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 11.1 (2011): 42-62. Sherwood, Marika. Pastor Danies Ekarte and the African Churches Mission, Liverpool, 1932-64. Savannah P., 1994. Sherwood, Marika. "Strikes! African seamen, Elder Dempster and the government 1940–42." Immigrants & Minorities 13.2-3 (1994): 130-145. Tabili, Laura. We ask for British justice: Workers and racial difference in late imperial Britain. Cornell University Press, 1994. Tabili, Laura. "The construction of racial difference in twentieth-century Britain: the Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, 1925." The Journal of British Studies 33.01 (1994): 54-98. Tajfel, Henri, and John LM Dawson, eds. Disappointed guests: essays by African, Asian, and West Indian students. Oxford University Press, 1965 |
| Bemerkungen | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Grundmodul Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Ereignisse, Prozesse, Zusammenhänge (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Forschung und Praxis (Master Studienfach: Osteuropäische Geschichte) Modul Kommunikation und Vermittlung historischer Erkenntnisse (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Differenz - Identität - Kritik (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Methoden und Diskurse historischer Forschung (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Profil: Moderne (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Theorie und Praxis (Master Studienfach: Osteuropäische Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| 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 |