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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Remo Reginold (remo.reginold@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Following the ideals of free markets and democracy, global capitalism exploits land, people and natural resources. Thereby it infringes the principles of human security, political sovereignty and environmental rights. Industrialised countries and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Bank are reproducing the colonial logic of the possessor and the possessed under different circumstances. Hence, it is about an imperial order that turns social spaces into spaces of commodification. This seminar analyses the premises of economics and its supremacy of markets as a medium of resource allocation. Via the rhetoric of mainstream or orthodox economics, we will point to the hidden effects of global capitalism. These effects create racist attitudes by producing and pointing to the primitive, the under-developed and the savage. The paradigms of postcolonial critique and heterodox economics offer us instruments to analyse the asymmetric power relations between countries of the South and the North and lay bare the conditions of theoretical violence economics can create. Based on the oil politics in the Gulf of Guinea, the seminar’s mission is to explore how the supremacy of free markets impacts bare life (Agamben) and changes fundamentally social and ecological settings. The countries around the Gulf of Guinea are rich of petroleum and yet poor. This paradox exemplifies how foreign interests, the survival of ruling cliques but also corporate social responsibility and good governance initiatives are the multi-layered mixture of what we relate to as rentier capitalism. The political economy of oil creates postcolonial realities in which the peoples of the Gulf of Guinea are still exposed to systematic violence. |
| Lernziele | The students will be acquainted with (I) the central premises of political economy and (II) analyse how the logic of resource accumulation, land grapping and human exploitation can be exposed to ideological criticism. In addition, the students will learn to (III) apply postcolonial and heterodox reasoning to case studies (IV) reason on how resource dilemmas impact urban environments and (V) question how political activism counterbalances and/or complements theory production. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Ethik des Christentums - materiale Ethik, Ethik der Lebensführung (ST/E 2) (Masterstudium: Theologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2018)) Modul Ethik des Christentums - materiale Ethik, Ethik der Lebensführung (ST/E 2) (Master Studienfach: Theologie) Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften M.A. (Master Studienfach: Politikwissenschaft) Modul: Ethik des Christentums – materiale Ethik, Ethik der Lebensführung (ST/E 2) (Masterstudium: Theologie) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Handel und Unternehmen in der 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 Urban Studies |