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71156-01 - Seminar: Practicing Epistemic Disobedience 3 KP

Semester Frühjahrsemester 2024
Angebotsmuster einmalig
Dozierende Lucy Koechlin (lucy.koechlin@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Inhalt Epistemic disobedience is both a theoretical concept as well as a rallying cry for meaningful decolonial politics of knowledge. As a concept, it was coined by Walter Mignolo’s “Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto” (2011), building on pluri-versal decolonial thinking of the last decades, indeed the last centuries. Epistemic disobedience allows us to think about knowledge-making that is liberated from an imperial structure of belief and truth: liberated from the Western “monocultures of the mind” (Vandana Shiva 1993) that classify knowledge, bodies, practices shaped by a (post)colonial matrix of power. The decolonial option means politically and epistemically de-linking from the hegemonic power/knowledge discourse.
However, the concept of epistemic disobedience goes well beyond the body of decolonial critique. Mignolo argues passionately for decolonial thinking that places human lives and life in general first – local experiences, practices, knowledges, aspirations, needs that underpin dignified lives and meaningful well-being.
This is the condensed backdrop of this seminar, upon which we will dwell in more depth in the course of the semester. The aim of the seminar is twofold: firstly, to understand the concept of epistemic disobedience and de-linking more fully; and, secondly, to develop practical approaches to epistemic disobedience. Subsequently, the first half of the seminar is devoted to texts engaging with selected aspects of epistemic disobedience, providing us with the analytic tools to think about epistemic de-linking in more discerning ways. In the second half of the semester we will be concentrating on practicing epistemic disobedience, starting with our own knowledge-making practices and extending it to different fields of knowledge.
Lernziele (1) to understand the concept of epistemic disobedience and decolonial de-linking more fully
(2) to develop practical approaches to epistemic disobedience
Literatur Mignolo, Walter. 2009. Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought, and De-colonial Freedom. In: Theory, Culture & Society 26(7–8): 159–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276409349275

Mignolo, Walter. 2011. Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto. In: Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 1(2): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/T412011807
Bemerkungen Please contact me under lucy.koechlin@unibas.ch if you have any questions about the course programme or assignments.
You must contact me if you are unable to take part in the first session of Monday, 26th of February.

 

Teilnahmebedingungen The number of participants is limited to 25 people. The places are assigned according to date of enrollment and subject of study. Priority will be given to the subjects listed under "modules".
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Einsatz digitaler Medien kein spezifischer Einsatz

 

Intervall Wochentag Zeit Raum
wöchentlich Montag 14.15-16.00 Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum

Einzeltermine

Datum Zeit Raum
Montag 26.02.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 04.03.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 11.03.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 18.03.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 25.03.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 01.04.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ostern
Montag 08.04.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 15.04.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 22.04.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 29.04.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 06.05.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 13.05.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Montag 20.05.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Pfingstmontag
Montag 27.05.2024 14.15-16.00 Uhr Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum
Module Modul: Ethnographien (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie)
Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies)
Modul: Methods for Analyzing Changing Societies (Master Studiengang: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources )
Modul: Praktiken (Master Studiengang: Kulturtechniken)
Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology)
Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive )
Modul: Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung in der Ethnologie: Ethnographien (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie)
Leistungsüberprüfung Lehrveranst.-begleitend
Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung Course assignments as well as the course programme will be discussed in the first session on Monday, 26th of February. Please contact me if you are unable to take part in the first session!
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 Ethnologie

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