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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Ernest Sewordor (ernest.sewordor@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course combines global urban history, planetary theory, and geology to explore what happens to landscapes from which resources are exploited and their urban inhabitants once exhaustion is reached. It traces the centrality of resource exploitation to slavery, the industrial revolution, colonialism, and has become a post-colonial condition for “development” aiding. Resource pillage historically shaped how Europe related with other societies, including their ex-colonies in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and how the current Euro-Americo-Sino push for capitalist notions of “progress” worldwide perpetuates past unequal power relations. Set against the violent consequences of today’s neoliberal world order, this course broadly surveys the temporal and spatial dimensions of the Anthropocene — which suggests that humans have caused the impending doom of our planet, Earth. With drastic climate changes as its reminder, the Anthropocene has sparked environmental justice activism for renewable energy policies and sustainable urban practices. By tracing the material markers of the Anthropocene, this course will examine the urban implications of resource extraction in the aftermath of exhaustion (and its associated pollution, dispossession, and degradation) across different sites, with special emphasis on Africa. |
| Lernziele | Each week’s readings and discussions of scholarly works will guide participants to: (a) centre a racial geo-logic to understand the historical origins of the Anthropocene, (b) examine the emergence of the idea of the environment and concerns with conservation, (c) assess the quality of urban life in extraction sites and how inhabitants adapt to precarity. |
| Literatur | 1. Gupta, Pamila, Sarah Nuttal, and Hanneke Stuit (eds). Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care. Palgrave MacMillan, 2024. 2. Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocene or None. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 3. Warde, Paul, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin (eds). The Environment: A History of the Idea. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. |
| Bemerkungen | Seminar with a cap of 35-40 students and with the priority for CU and CS Students on timely registration. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Anmelden erforderlich/Abmelden |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Montag | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Montag 26.02.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 04.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 11.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 18.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 25.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 01.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ostern |
| Montag 08.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 15.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 22.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 29.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 06.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 13.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Montag 20.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Pfingstmontag |
| Montag 27.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Module |
Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Resources and Sustainability (Master Studiengang: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources ) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Ways of Knowing the City (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| 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 |