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Semester | fall semester 2021 |
Course frequency | Once only |
Lecturers | Luregn Lenggenhager (luregn.lenggenhager@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
Content | In contexts of growing habitat loss and climate change, human relations with and within nature are increasingly fraught. Both historically and currently, one place where this results in conflict is human-wildlife contact zones (national parks, conservancies, farms). This seminar looks at such zones and how human-wildlife relations are structuring interspecies societies in Southern Africa and Switzerland in the 20th and 21st century. In contemporary Southern Africa, human-wildlife relations are the result of colonial and apartheid history and still play a crucial economic and ideological role. Colonial understandings of human-wildlife relations were hierarchical: they established a normative differentiation of fauna, for example, by distinguishing between vermin, such as jackals, and so-called ‘royal game’ like elephants. These differentiations in turn justified the establishment of a hierarchy between humans, contesting the very humanity of colonized people. Switzerland, in contrast, has mostly been spared the ‘downgrading’ of groups of people to the domain of the non-human (Bätzing 2015). However, also in Switzerland, shifts in animal hierarchies have occurred as well and they are increasingly debated in the public. In the seminar, we will draw on Southern African case studies and academic debates and will discuss how far they can also help to understand transformation of human-wildlife relations in Switzerland, e.g. the reintroduction of the wolf or the beaver. |
Language of instruction | English |
Use of digital media | No specific media used |
Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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wöchentlich | Thursday | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Date | Time | Room |
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Thursday 23.09.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 30.09.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 07.10.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 14.10.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 21.10.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 28.10.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 04.11.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 11.11.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 18.11.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 25.11.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 02.12.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 09.12.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 16.12.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Thursday 23.12.2021 | 12.15-13.45 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.002 |
Modules |
Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African 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 | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |