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47109-01 - Seminar: Terra-power: Technologies, Ideologies, and Aesthetics of Land (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Virginia Nolan (virginia.nolan@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The semester and readings will be organized into three sections: 1) Settlement and Unsettlement 2) Property and Expropriation 3) Land, Belonging, and Territorial Sovereignty Readings will draw from various disciplines, including (but not limited to): Anthropology; Architectural History; History; Media Studies, and Political Philosophy |
| Lernziele | Students will obtain a broad historical and a philosophically nuanced understanding of how practices and discourses of land management relate to culture, politics, and economics. |
| Literatur | Giorgio Agamben, “Beyond Human Rights,” Cities Without Citizens, ed. Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy (Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2003). Michel Agier, Managing the Undesirables: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government, trans. David Fernbach (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2011). Selection: Part I: “A World of Undesirables, a Network of Camps”. Antony Anghie. Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press): Ch. 1 “Francisco de Vitoria and the colonial origins of international law.” Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (London; New York: Verso, 1995): Ch. 3 “Anthropological Place.” Etienne Balibar, We the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Translation/Transnation) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003): Ch. 2, “Homo Nationalis: An Anthropological Sketch of the Nation-Form.” Barbara Bush and Josephine Maltby, “Taxation in West Africa: Transforming the Colonial Subject into the ‘Governable Person’” in Critical Perspectives on Accounting: 15 (2004) 5–34. James Clifford, “Indigenous Articulations” in The Contemporary Pacific , Vol. 13(2), 2001: 468-490. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991). Ch.3, “Pricing the Future: Grain”. Rosalyn Deutsche, Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998): Ch. 2 “Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City.” Severin Fowles, “Movement and the Unsettling of the Pueblos”, Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration, ed. Graciela Cabana and Jeffrey Clark (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2011): 45-67. David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity (London; New York: Routledge, 2003): Ch. 4, “The Organization of Space Relations.” Malcolm Lewis, “William Gilpin and the Concept of the Great Plains Region,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, March 1966. Charles Maier, “Transformations of Territoriality” from Transnationale Geschichte: Themen, Tendenzen und Theorien (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006): 32-55. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I ( ): Ch. 27 “Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land.” Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962): 11-51. Avinoam Meir. As Nomadism Ends: The Israeli Bedouin of the Negev (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997). Selections: Ch. 7: “The Role of Public Services”. Timothy Mitchell, “The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes Its World,” European Journal of Sociology, 46, no. 2 (2005): 297-320. Claude F. Oubre, “‘Forty Acres and a Mule’: Louisiana and the Southern Homestead Act” in Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1976): 143-157. Vittoria di Palma, Wasteland: A History (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2014): Ch. 2, “Improvement”. Roger J. P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent, The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1992): Ch. 8 “Colonial Settlement from Europe” up to p. 289. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957): Ch. 3, “Habitation versus Improvement.” Benjamin C. I. Ravid, “The First Charter of the Jewish Merchants of Venice, 1589” in AJS Review, Vol. 1 (1976): 187-222. James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1998): Ch. 7 “Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania.” Hernando De Soto, The Other Path (New York: Harper and Row, 1989): Ch. 2 “Informal Housing.” Eugene Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976): “Roads, Roads and Still More Roads”. Richard Wittman, “Space, Networks, and the St. Simonians” from Grey Room no. 40 (Summer 2010): 24-49. |
| Weblink | http://gingernolan.wixsite.com/unibas-te |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Weekly participation. (Students will be excused from 2 class sessions and readings). |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | This seminar explores specific ways that land has figured as both instrument and object of power during the past several centuries within a global context. Of central importance will be questions of how political rights have been grounded in structures of land tenure and ownership; and how land management has transformed under processes of economic liberalization, colonialism, state-building, and neo-colonialism. We will examine technologies, ideologies, and aesthetics of land management, while keeping in mind how conceptions of citizenship continue to be linked to issues of territory, land "improvement," and land ownership. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Komplementärer Bereich: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Seminar: Students will be evaluated according to their class participation and reading. For Seminararbeit: Students will work closely with instructor to develop a research topic and will present that topic to the class and visiting respondents. Students will write a short paper (3 to 5 pages) as a follow-up to the presentation. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften |