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Semester | Herbstsemester 2019 |
Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
Dozierende | Elisio Macamo (elisio.macamo@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
Inhalt | The seminar engages an important concept in development policy and, by implication, Africa. Probably no concept in recent years has played such an important role not only in framing the perception of Africa, but also in accounting for the present condition of the continent. This makes it absolutely important to train students to critically engage with the role concepts play in shaping perceptions. Students will be encouraged to articulate ideas from the philosophy of language (Paul Grice, John Searle and John Austin) with critical debates both in the field of political sociology and development studies. They will also be invited to explore the distinction between basic and applied research and how it bears on our perceptions of reality. Since the goal is to equip students to engage with how policy issues shape our perception of reality the seminar will also discuss key issues in the study of corruption and how knowledge thereof shapes development policy. |
Literatur | Austin, J. L., 1962: How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Susini, Marie-Laure 2008: Éloge de la corruption – Les incorruptible et leurs corrumpus. Fayard. Paris. Searle, John R. 1996: The Construction of Social Reality. New York. Free Press. Grice, Paul, 1991: Studies in the Way of Words. Boston. Harvard University Press. Escobar, Arturo. 1994. Encountering Development. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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Module |
Modul: Basics: Sociology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften B.A. (Bachelor Studienfach: Politikwissenschaft) Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften M.A. (Master Studienfach: Politikwissenschaft) 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: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul: Ungleichheit, Konflikt, Kultur (Master Studienfach: Soziologie) |
Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
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 | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |