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65328-01 - Übung: Insights to the Decoloniality Approach and Posthuman Theory (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2022 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende |
Aysegül Sah Bozdogan Iles (ayseguel.bozdogan@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Andreea-Florentina Midvighi (andreea.midvighi@unibas.ch) |
| Inhalt | This introductory course will expand on the trajectories and intersections of decolonial and post-human theories. Beginning with the 15th century debate in Spain regarding the ‘human-ness’ of the indigenous peoples in the Americas, we trace the construction of this concept, as well as the colonial continuities and the spatial transformations they generated. Among other things, we will look at the implications of this conceptualisation, the emergence of ‘epistemologies of the South’ (de Sousa Santos, 2014) and the potentialities of decolonizing knowledge to render visible and dismantle such epistemic hierarchies. While arguing that ‘the human’ is co-produced by different mechanisms and practices, we also look at how the Humanist ideal of ‘Man’ is changing and how enhancement technologies enable human beings to change their ‘naturally given’ bodies, to manipulate their genes and to reproduce ‘non-physically’. Whether the aim is to reduce the risk of hereditary diseases or to make medically unnecessary changes like deciding on the colour of the eyes, we will ask what kind of a post-human ethics is needed to discuss and regulate these transformations in the society. The very question about what kind of future we want to have has become increasingly imperative, as well as often at odds with epistemologies coming, on one hand, from indigenous peoples whose livelihoods are closely connected to nature, and, on the other hand, from proponents of new technologies that are overpowering and controlling nature and ‘natural bodies’. |
| Lernziele | ● understand decolonial and posthuman theory ● analyse the formation, reproduction, and implications of the Eurocentric conceptualisation of the ‘human’ ● discuss how knowledge production is legitimising worldviews producing inequalities and injustice ● discuss the role of Academia as one of the main loci of knowledge production bring forward alternative world-views |
| Literatur | - Grosfoguel, R. ‘The Structure of Knowledge in Westernised Universities: Epistemic Racism/Sexism and the Four Genocides/ Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century’. Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, XI, Issue 1, Fall 2013, 73-90. - Boatcă, M. ‘Why are the statues falling?’. Scena9. 23 June 2020. https://www.scena9.ro/en/article/statues-vandalism-colonialism-imperialism - Lugones, M. ’Toward a Decolonial Feminism’. Hypatia vol. 25, no. 4 (Fall, 2010). pp.742-759. - Gilmore, R..‘DAILY PODCAST #31 RUTH WILSON GILMORE /// “THE BEGINNING OF A PERFECT DECOLONIAL MOMENT”’. The Funambulist. April 23, 2020. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/a-moment-of-true-decolonization/daily-podcast-31-ruth-wilson-gilmore-the-beginning-of-a-perfect-decolonial-moment - Gilmore, R. ‘Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore – An Antipode Foundation film’, uploaded on 1 June 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS627aKrJI - Büchler, A. ‘Reproduktive Autonomie und Selbstbestimmung Dimensionen, Umfang und Grenzen an den Anfängen menschlichen Lebens. 2. Auflage (erste Auflage in ZSR 2016). Basel 2017. - Mignolo, W. in Barreto, J.-M. (2013). Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. - de Sousa Santos, B. (2015). If God Were a Human Rights Activist. Stanford University Press. - Spade, D. ‘Fight to Win! Critical Trans Resistance in Scary Times’. uploaded on 1 June 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J14Rp9s0v5s - Boatcă, M.; Roth, J. (2016). ‘Unequal and gendered: Notes on the coloniality of citizenship’. Current Sociology Monograph, Vol. 64(2) 191–212. - Roth, J. (2020): ‘Citizenship, Transnational Migration and the Gendering of Modern/Colonial Inequalities’ in Winkel, H. and Poferl, A. (eds.) Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology and Plural Modernities. Re-Reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a De-Colonial Perspective. Routledge. - Boatcă, M.; Roth, J.. ‘Women on the Fast Track? Coloniality of Citizenship and Embodied Social Mobility’, in Con, S; Blumberg, R . L. (eds.) Power of the Purse: Global Causes and Consequences of Women’s Economic Power. Sage Publishers. pp.162-74. - Le Guin, U. ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’. - de Sousa Santos, B. ‘Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges.’ Review, XXX-1-2007. - Abunimah, A. ‘EU forced to admit it can block trade in Israeli colonies’. The Electronic Intifada. 23 September 2021: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-forced-admit-it-can-block-trade-israeli-colonies. - Escobar, A. (2018). Design for a pluriverse. Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Duke University Press. - Mignolo, W. ‘On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after Decolonization; Dewesternization after the Cold War’, in Reiter, B.(ed.). (2018). Constructing the pluriverse. Duke University Press. - de Sousa Santos, B. (2014) Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide. Routledge. - Mignolo, W. ‘Philosophy and the Colonial Difference’. Philosophy Today 43, 1999 (Supplement): 36-41. - Chaia Heller (1999). Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature. Black Rose Books. - Braidotti, R. (2013). The Posthuman. Polity. - Braidotti, R. (2019). Posthuman Knowledge. Polity. - Sigusch, V. ‘The Neosexual Revolution’. Archives of Sexual Behavior‚ Vol. 27‚ No. 4‚ 1998. - Jones, E. ‘Posthuman international law and the rights of nature’. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 2021. - Kauanui, J. K. ‘Decolonial Self-Determination And ‘No-State Solutions’’. Humanity Journal. July 2, 2019. http://humanityjournal.org/blog/decolonial-self-determination-and-no-state-solutions/. - de Queiroz Sousa, L.P.; Pessoa, R.P.. ‘Humans, Nonhuman Others. Matter and Language: A Discussion from Posthumanist and Decolonial Perspectives’. Trab. Ling. Aplic., Campinas, n(58.2): 520-543, mai./ago. 2019. https://www.scielo.br/j/tla/a/r5XH5HzRYbpHKrwMn68rXwd/?format=pdf&lang=en. Accessed 15/10/2021. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14.15-16.00 | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Dienstag 22.02.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 212 |
| Dienstag 01.03.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 08.03.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Fasnachtsferien |
| Dienstag 15.03.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 22.03.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 29.03.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 05.04.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 12.04.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 19.04.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 26.04.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 03.05.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 10.05.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 17.05.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Biozentrum, Seminarraum U1.197 |
| Dienstag 24.05.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Dienstag 31.05.2022 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Pharmazentrum, Hörsaal 2 |
| Module |
Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) Modul: Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul: Vertiefung Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) |
| 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 Gender Studies |