Meine Veranstaltungen - E.L.V.I.S. 3.1

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Kalender & Termine

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Paul WITZENHAUSEN

Reconceptualizing Transition - Colonialism and post-colonial Statehood in Africa

WS 2023

2040237

Teaching language

Englisch

Dates

Wö

16.10.2023–05.02.2024

10:00–12:00

C03-LG 1 | 323

Registration

Beachten Sie: Die Einschreibung in die sozialwissenschaftlichen Seminare ab dem dritten Studiensemester (Q-Phase) erfolgt vor Semesterbeginn über das Online-Einschreibeverfahren. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/staatswissenschaftliche-fakultaet/studium/im-studium/sowi-einschreibeverfahren

https://www2.uni-erfurt.de/sowi_einschreibung/sowiso/

Modules

B InB 2014 SVIntB#02 // S 6LP   ::241298::
B InB 2014 SVIntB#05 // S 3LP   ::241299::
B IntB 2021 SVIntB02#02 // S 6LP   ::241300::
B Sta 2012 SVIntB#02 // S 6LP  ::241296::
B Sta 2012 SVIntB#05 // S 3LP  ::241297::
B Sta 2021 SVIntB02#02 // S 6LP   ::241301::

Comment
This seminar will be a critical introduction to African state-formation in the wake of formal decolonization. It is looking to complicate hegemonic historiographies of the global diffusion and widespread adoption of the Western nation-state model which is pervasive in much of Political Science and International Relations’ literature. In order to understand the historical contingencies and particularities of postcolonial African societies and their respective political institutions, the course will address various dimensions: the (dis)continuities of precolonial formations, the global political economy of the post-WWII era, the politics of international law with particular emphasis on the UN system, social transformations at the time of declining imperial influence, and political philosophies and projects at the heart of African anticolonialism. Rather than reiterating discourses of ‘state-failure’ and developmentalism, the course will enable students to give a nuanced and interdisciplinary account of the broader international and intellectual currents that impacted Africa's political fate in the 19th and 20th century.

Literature

Mamdani, Mahmood (1996) Citizen and Subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late Colonialism (Princeton: PUP). Cooper, Frederick (2002) Africa since 1940: the past of the present (Cambridge: CUP). Marta Iñiguez de Heredia and Zubairu Wai (eds)(2018) Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (London, Palgrave Macmillan).

Legende Termintypen

Wö = wöchentlicher Termin , ET = Einzeltermin , AB = A- oder B-Woche , Vo = Vorbesprechung , Ex = Exkursion , Kl = Klausur , Tä, At, Wt = täglicher (Block-)Termin , nV = nach Vereinbarung/nicht festgelegt. Wö = wöchentlicher Termin (meets weekly) , ET = Einzeltermin (meets one time only) , AB = A- oder B-Woche (alternating: “A” or “B” weeks) , Vo = Vorbesprechung (preliminary meeting) , Ex = Exkursion (excursion/study trip) , Kl = Klausur (exam) , Tä, At, Wt = täglicher (Block-)Termin (meets daily/block seminar) , nV = nach Vereinbarung/nicht festgelegt (by appointment, TBA).

Legende Raumbezeichnungen

AMG = AudiMaxGebäude , APS = AlteParteiSchule , FG = Forschungsgebäude , GH = Gartenhaus , GSH = Große Sporthalle , HdProjekte = Haus der Projekte , KSyn = Kleine Synagoge , LG = Lehrgebäude , MG = Mitarbeitergbäude , MTV Halle = Männerturnverein Halle , SH JP = Schwimmhalle Johannesplatz , WBS = Willy Brandt School , ZSG = Zentralschulgarten