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070053 KU Theories, Sources and Methods of Another Area of Specialisation in Global Studies (2012W)
Hybridity and Colonialism in Global History
Continuous assessment of course work
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- Registration is open from Mo 10.09.2012 06:00 to Su 23.09.2012 23:59
- Registration is open from Mo 15.10.2012 06:00 to Su 21.10.2012 23:59
- Deregistration possible until We 31.10.2012 23:59
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max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Thursday 15.11. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 22.11. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 29.11. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 06.12. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 13.12. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 10.01. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 17.01. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 24.01. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Thursday 31.01. 11:30 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Friday 01.02. 09:30 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
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Aims, contents and method of the course
That colonialism was as much a sexual venture as it was a cultural, political or economic one is a significant and vital part of the story of European expansion. Whether based on consent or coercion, sexual relationships between colonizers and the colonized were instruments of cultural and demographic change as well as templates for the power relations that underscored foreign occupation. In particular, fears about the impact of inter-racial relationships on the legitimacy of European power in colonial settlements often led to panic about moral decay and degeneration, but these relationships could also be tolerated and even encouraged as the route to assimilation and strategic alliance-building. Looking to the Spanish, Portuguese, French and British imperial experiences, we will explore the varied and often contradictory responses to what often became constructed as a mixed-race problem. We will consider the role played by concepts such as nationality, religion, social class and citizenship in forging attitudes towards mixed-race communities. We will also look at some of the historiographical challenges and methodological problems faced by global historians when considering notions of hybridity in European colonial environments.Scope: 16th to 19th centuries: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas
Assessment and permitted materials
1 x Research Paper; 1 x Seminar Presentation; Active Participation
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
Reading list
Charles R. Boxer, Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963).
Adrian Carton, Mixed-Race and Modernity: Changing Concepts of Hybridity across Empires (London: Routledge, 2012).
Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda (eds), Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999).
Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Jean Gelman Taylor, The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia [2nd edition], (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).
Durba Ghosh, Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2006).
Christopher Hawes, Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833 (Richmond: Curzon, 1996).
Damon Ieremia Salesea, Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Michael M. Pearson, The Portuguese in India, (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1988).
Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
Emmanuel Saada, Empires Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Owen White, Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1875-1960 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999).
Adrian Carton, Mixed-Race and Modernity: Changing Concepts of Hybridity across Empires (London: Routledge, 2012).
Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda (eds), Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999).
Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Jean Gelman Taylor, The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia [2nd edition], (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).
Durba Ghosh, Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2006).
Christopher Hawes, Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833 (Richmond: Curzon, 1996).
Damon Ieremia Salesea, Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Michael M. Pearson, The Portuguese in India, (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1988).
Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
Emmanuel Saada, Empires Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Owen White, Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1875-1960 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999).
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MA Globalgeschichte: Theorien, Quellen und Methoden in einer anderen Spezialdisziplin der Global Studies (5 ECTS) |
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