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23050-01 - Seminar: Modernity in Africa (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2009 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk (brigit.obrist@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Many people in Europe are concerned that Africa falls behind and does not catch up with modernity. But what do they mean by "modernity"? Do they refer to the specific constellation of statehood, economics, technology and science characterizing Europe in the late 20th century? Such a view is ethnocentric and normative. It does not present an analytically useful angle from which to approach the African continent from a social science perspective. Peter Geschiere and his colleagues suggest understanding modernity relationally and identify its origins in the relationship between Europe and Africa. In Elisio Macamo's view, modernity rather refers to the ambivalent experience of promises and denials concerning progress, development and emancipation implied by colonialism and globalization which has constituted African social reality over a hundred years and continues to do so in the present. In this seminar we study how contemporary social scientists investigate the ways in which Africans negotiate modernity in their own terms, for instance through the ethnography of work, leisure and migration and the study of social imageries of success, power and development. We also review research on the upsurge of Pentecostalism as well as witchcraft and spirit possession, not as a return to tradition and a refusal of change, rather as ways of dealing with peoples obsession and disappointment with modernity. |
| Lernziele | The students will be able to - To critically discuss concepts of modernity - To unpack and disaggregate the notion of development - To understand components of modernity based on ethnographic evidence |
| Literatur | Macamo Salvado Elisio, ed. (2005) Negotiating Modernity. Africas Ambivalent Experience. Dakar: CODESRIA Books. Geschiere Peter, Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels, eds. (2008) Readings in Modernity in Africa. Oxford: James Currey. |
| Bemerkungen | Je nach Teilnehmerkreis wird das Seminar in Deutsch oder Englisch durchgeführt. Depending on the participants the seminar will be held in German or English. Students can write full seminar papers of 20 to 25 pages to acquire 5 additional credits. Papers are due on the date of presentation. |
| Weblink | http://www.unibas-ethno.ch/studium/lehrv |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Studierende im BA erst ab dem 5. Semester. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt, die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der Ethnologie und African Studies. Die Anmeldung erfolgt über ISIS. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | www.isis.unibas.ch |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Lehrveranstaltungs-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 | Ethnologisches Seminar |