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| Semester | fall semester 2016 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Jeremy Robert Ball (JEREMY.BALL@UNIBAS.CH)
Julia Tischler (julia.tischler@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This seminar deals with concepts of family and gender roles in African societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. We look at family and gender not as biological concepts, but as socially constructed identities and belongings. A key theme will be gendered divisions of labor both within and outside the household, for instance in agriculture, trade, mining, or domestic work. What kind of labor was performed by women, men, or children, respectively? What prestige and social roles were connected to these activities? How was women’s work involved in market relations and what did this mean for women’s position in society? By examining examples of individual families and case studies in western, eastern, and southern Africa, we trace how family concepts and gender roles changed under the impression of missionary engagement, increasing international trade and cash crop production, colonial occupation, industrialization, and post-colonial state-building. The course will be held in English. |
| Bibliography | Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff 1993, “Home-Made Hegemony. Modernity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in South Africa”, in Tranberg Hansen, K. (ed.) African Encounters with Domesticity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 37-74. Cornwall, A. 2005, "Introduction: Perspectives on Gender in Africa”, in Cornwall, A. (ed.), Readings in Gender in Africa. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana UP & Oxford, pp. 1-19. Schmidt, H. 1997, "Geschlechterverhältnisse. Gegenstand und Methode“, In Deutsch, J.-G., and A. Wirz (eds.), Geschichte in Afrika. Einführung in Probleme und Debatten. Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, pp. 175-200. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Aufbaumodul Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master's degree program: European History) Modul Aufbau Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History) Modul Ereignisse, Prozesse, Zusammenhänge (Master's degree subject: History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul History (Master's degree program: African Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul Kommunikation und Vermittlung historischer Erkenntnisse (Master's degree subject: History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Kultur und Symbolische Ordnung (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Lebensverhältnisse, Umwelt und Ökonomie (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Differenz - Identität - Kritik (Master's degree program: European History) Modul Methoden und Diskurse historischer Forschung (Master's degree subject: History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree subject: History) Modul Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree subject: History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History) Modul Profil: Moderne (Master's degree program: European History) Modul Themenfeld: Herrschaft, Normativität und symbolische Ordnung (Bachelor's degree subject: Gender Studies) Modul Themenfeld: Lebensverhältnisse, Umwelt und Ökonomie (Bachelor's degree subject: Gender Studies) Modul Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Bachelor's degree subject: Gender Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Vertiefung in Altertumswissenschaften und Geschichte (Master's degree subject: Ancient History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften BA (Bachelor's degree program: Ancient Civilizations) Modul Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Ancient Civilizations) Modul Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften MA (Master's degree subject: Ancient History) Modul Vertiefung Themenfeld: Herrschaft, Normativität und symbolische Ordnung (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies) Modul Vertiefung Themenfeld: Lebensverhältnisse, Umwelt und Ökonomie (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |