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55007-01 - Proseminar: Anthropology of Mining (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2020 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Rita Kesselring (rita.kesselring@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The production of commodities is global, but extraction necessarily happens locally as minerals and other raw materials are place-bound deposits. This dual dimension of global production chains (including consumption, finance, trade, ownership) versus local extraction is the starting point for the “Anthropology of Mining”, an area of ethnographic research which has gained much traction since the most recent mining boom. Raw materials and minerals not simply products. They are based on cultural and specific histories, and become a socialized product as soon as human lay hands on it. In this Proseminar, we look at the growing ethnographic literature that engages with mining in relation to, among others, labour migration, large-scale on-shore and off-shore operations, the economies of artisanal mining, liberalisation, urbanisation, miners and unions, corporations and corporate social responsibility, environment and human rights, resistance, stateness, mines’ afterlives, and trade and logistics. We read literature from and on the global South and the global North. |
| Lernziele | - You have an understanding of the extractive practices and their impact on environments and communities around the world - You have a good grasp of the variety of perspectives anthropology employs to describe and explain practices around mining |
| Literatur | Ballard, Chris, und Glenn Banks. 2003. „Resource Wars: The Anthropology of Mining“. Annual Review of Anthropology 32 (1): 287–313. |
| Bemerkungen | Depending on the participants, their skills and preferences, the language of instruction can be either English or German. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | The number of participants is limited to 30 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 |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften B.A. (Bachelor Studienfach: Politikwissenschaft) Modul: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2020)) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| 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 | Fachbereich Ethnologie |