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| Semester | fall semester 2018 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann (danelle.vanzyl-hermann@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Since the emergence of South Africa as a modern unitary state in 1910, its political history has been shaped by changing conceptions of and contestations around who the country belongs to and the rights to which they can lay claim. This seminar will explore historically how ‘South Africans’ have been imagined in the course of the successive eras of segregation, apartheid and non-racial democracy, paying attention to the consequences of inclusion and exclusion in the body politic for different communities at specific historical junctures in the country’s national history, while also considering shifting global contexts of imperialism, decolonisation, the rise of human rights discourses, and the politics of multiculturalism. While the central focus will be on the politics of race and South Africa’s torturous struggle from a ‘white man’s country’ to a ‘rainbow nation’, we will also consider the role of social class, gender, ethnicity and legal status in determining access to the rights and resources of citizenship. The seminar will seek to equip participants with a deeper historical understanding of ideas around identity, nationalism, nation-building, and belonging, as well as the relations of power, obligations and claim-making between individuals, communities and the state. |
| Bibliography | - Saul Dubow, ‘South Africa and South Africans: Nationality, Belonging, Citizenship’ in Robert Ross, Anne Kelk Mager and Bill Nasson, The Cambridge History of South Africa Vol II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp.17-65. - Sarah Rich Dorman, ‘Citizenship in Africa: The politics of belonging’ in Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers, Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies. Oxon: Routledge, 2014, pp.161-171. - Bryan S. Turner, ‘Citizenship studies: A general theory’, Citizenship Studies, 1, 1, 1997, pp.5-18. |
| Admission requirements | Für Master- und fortgeschrittene Bachelorstudierende der Geschichte und African Studies. Bachelorstudierende weisen den Abschluss der Grundstufe des BSF Geschichte nach (mindestens 3 Proseminare und 3 Proseminararbeiten). Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| 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 |
Modul Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Differenz - Identität - Kritik (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree subject: History) Modul Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Profil: Moderne (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Aufbau Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| 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 |