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65908-01 - Seminar: Repair Infrastructures (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2022 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende |
Ernest Sewordor (ernest.sewordor@unibas.ch)
James Lawrence Zimmermann Merron (james.merron@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Material and symbolic infrastructures become visible when they break down (Star & Ruhleder 1996). Repair highlights the skilled work required to maintain large technical systems and infrastructural networks (Anand et al. 2018). However while repair and maintenance are essential, they are often overlooked (Henke & Sims 2020). This course interrogates the (in)visibility of socio-technical infrastructures by attending to everyday fixes, workarounds, and improvisations (Simone 2008) that are essential yet taken-for-granted. |
| Lernziele | Participants will be introduced to ‘repair’ via the conceptual categories, theoretical frameworks and methodological procedures through which it is rendered visible as an object of research. Special focus will be placed on case studies from Africa through which students will be equipped to grasp how repair is constructed as a researchable thing (see Macamo 2016). |
| Literatur | The course will be structured around book chapters and journal articles from the following sources: Macamo, Elisio. 2016. “Before We Start: Science and Power in the Constitution of Africa.” In The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa, edited by Melanie Boehi, Giorgio Miescher, and Maano Ramutsindela, 323–34. Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Mavhunga, Chakanetsa. 2017. What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa? MIT Press. Anand, Nikhil, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel. 2018. The Promise of Infrastructure. Duke University Press. Henke, Christopher R, and Benjamin Sims. 2020. Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power. MIT Press. Star, Susan Leigh, and Karen Ruhleder. 1996. “Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and access for large information spaces.” Information Systems Research 7 (1): 111–34. Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2008. “People as Infrastructure.” In Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, edited by Achille Mbembe, and Sarah Nuttal, 68–90. Duke University Press. Burrell, Jenna. 2012. Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana. MIT Press. Parks, Lisa et al. 2021. “Digital Empowerment for Whom? An analysis of ‘Network sovereignty’ in low-income, rural communities in Mexico and Tanzania.” Information, Communication & Society 1–22. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12.15-13.45 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Dienstag 20.09.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 27.09.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 04.10.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 11.10.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 18.10.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 25.10.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 01.11.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 08.11.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 15.11.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 22.11.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 29.11.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 06.12.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 13.12.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Dienstag 20.12.2022 | 12.15-13.45 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Module |
Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Kulturtechnische Dimensionen (Master Studiengang: Kulturtechniken) Modul: Materialitäten (Master Studiengang: Kulturtechniken) Modul: Resources and Sustainability (Master Studiengang: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources ) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Staatlichkeit, Entwicklung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | An assessment will be based on a short essay and presentation at the end of the semester. |
| 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 |