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58595-01 - Kurs: The City as Archive (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes Herbstsemester |
| Dozierende | Ernest Sewordor (ernest.sewordor@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course explores conceptual, political, and practical questions about archives, using the city (of Basel) as a lens for urban research. From the premise that archives are repositories of selected material records containing public/private memories and sources of “objective” knowledge, this course rethinks, revises, and expands how archives are defined. Building on that, we will engage alternative archives (e.g., ephemeral traces, oral history, and sound records) curated by activists and civil society next to formal holdings managed by governmental institutions. We will aim to imagine the possibilities of finding evidence for research beyond existing archival repositories by scrutinising (un)built spaces as historically formed deposits of sources for conducting urban research. This course encourages students to approach urban research partly as a collaborative archival intervention for transformation that engages advocacy groups and marginalised (peoples’) conditions. |
| Lernziele | At the end of this seminar, participants will gain: (a) practical skills in designing strategies to conduct archival work for urban studies research; (b) an ability to select and curate relevant records for reconstructing urban pasts or presents, and imagining urban futures; (c) a critical understanding of the relationship between the archive and (un)built environment; (d) competence to examine the limits of knowledge produced with sources from formal/institutional repositories and creatively expand their repertoire of archival sources for researching the urban. |
| Literatur | Mbembe, Achille. “The Power of the Archive and its Limits.” In Carolyn Hamilton et al (eds), Refiguring the Archive (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 2002): 50-75. Stoler, Anne. “Introduction.” In Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton University Press, 2009): 1-75. Azoulay, Ariella. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (London: Verso, 2019) Zeitlyn, David. “Anthropology in and of the Archives: Possible Futures and Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates.” Annual Review of Anthropology (2012) 41: 461–80. Ann Laura Stoler. “Colonial Archives and Arts of Governance.” Archival Science 2 (2002): 87–109. Rao, Vyjayanthi. “City as Archive: Contemporary Urban Transformations and the Possibility of Politics.” In International Association for Educating Cities (eds), Education and Urban Life: 20 Years of Educating Cities (2009): 179-186. Burgum, Samuel. “This City Is an Archive: Squatting History and Urban Authority.” Journal of Urban History 48(3) (2022): 504–522. Bertschi, Denise. “Gaping Absences: Where is Helvécia?” In Denise Bertschi, et al (eds), Unearthing Traces: Dismantling Imperialist Entanglements of Archives, Landscape, and the Built Environment (Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2023): 141-63. Lüthi, Barabara, Falk, Francesca, and Purtschert, Patricia. “Colonialism Without Colonies: Examining Blank Spaces in Colonial Studies.” National Identities 18(1) (2016): 1–9. Purtschert, Patricia, and Fischer-Tiné, Harald (eds). Colonial Switzerland: Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Schär, Bernard. ”Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c .1770–1850.” Past & Present 257(1) (2022): 134–167. Michel, N. “Sheepology: The Postcolonial Politics of Raceless Racism in Switzerland.” Postcolonial Studies 18(4) (2015): 410–426. Schilliger, S. “Challenging Who Counts as a Citizen: The Infrastructure of Solidarity Contesting Racial Profiling in Switzerland.” Citizenship Studies 24(4) (2020): 530–547. Callaci, Emily. “Introduction.” In Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania (Duke University Press, 2017): 1-17. Quayon, Ato. “Signs of the Times: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life on Oxford Street, Accra.” City & Society 22(1) (2010): 72-96. |
| Bemerkungen | The course is open to Master students from other programs with a priority for MA Students in Critical Urbanisms and in Changing Societies on timely registration. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | The course is open to Master students from other programs with a priority for Critical Urbanisms students on timely registration |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Dienstag 24.09.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 01.10.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 08.10.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 15.10.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 22.10.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 29.10.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 05.11.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 12.11.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 19.11.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 26.11.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 03.12.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 10.12.2024 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Module |
Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Materialitäten (Master Studiengang: Kulturtechniken) Modul: Praktiken (Master Studiengang: Kulturtechniken) Modul: Research Lab Kulturanthropologie (Master Studienfach: Kulturanthropologie) Modul: Research Skills (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Vertiefung Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul: Ways of Knowing the City (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Pass/Fail |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Urban Studies |