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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2023 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Ernest Sewordor (ernest.sewordor@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | By 2050, the population of Africa is estimated to double. Its urban residents will rise almost threefold, and become the most demographically youthful worldwide if current growth rates continue. This prediction has prompted policymakers, planners, and architects on the continent to think about the unprecedented implications for urban governance/planning. Taking a longue durée approach, this course retraces how the continent’s socio-spatial pasts have shaped contemporary urban realities and examine, through decolonial lenses, the potential in Africa’s non-colonial urban histories for confronting the challenges of planning future cities. Each week, participants will read and discuss published research. This will be complemented by a semester-long reading, analysis, and interpretation (in the final week) of one African-authored novel that intimately documents modern urban lifeworlds in a colonial African city, yet refuses it as a sole model for organising urban space and lived experiences by imagining alternative Black-centred future possibilities. |
| Lernziele | (a) To develop a historically informed understanding of current urban experiences in Africa (b) To reflect on how urban research relates to ongoing processes of city-making/ life in Africa (c) To use Africa as a lens to question and rethink urban theories rooted in global northern epistemologies from the perspectives of global southern urbanism (d) To independently assess and interpret urban historical scholarship about Africa |
| Literatur | Selected Bibliography 1. Adelusi-Adeluyi, Ademide. Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City. Ohio University Press, 2023. 2. Ekwensi, Cyprian. People of the City. New York Book Reviewers, [2020] 1954. 3. Pieterse, Edgar. City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development. University of Cape Town Press, 2008. 4. Simone, AbdouMaliq. For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Lives in Four Cities. Duke University Press, 2004. 5. Silva, C. Nunes (ed). Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial and Post-Colonial Planning Cultures. Routledge, 2015. 6. Yiftachel, Oren and Mammon, Nisa (eds). TheorISE: Debating the Southeastern Turn in Urban Theories. Africa Centre for Cities, 2022. |
| Bemerkungen | The course is open to Master students from other programs with a priority for Critical Urbanisms students on timely registration |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | wöchentlich |
| Datum | 29.09.2023 – 22.12.2023 |
| Zeit |
Freitag, 12.15-14.00 Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Freitag 29.09.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 06.10.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 13.10.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 20.10.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 27.10.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 03.11.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 10.11.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 17.11.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Mehrzweckraum 035 |
| Freitag 24.11.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Dies Academicus |
| Freitag 01.12.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 08.12.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 15.12.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 22.12.2023 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Module |
Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang African Studies) Modul: Migration, Mobility and Transnationalism (Master Studiengang Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources ) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang Critical Urbanisms) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Pass/Fail |
| 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 |