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140213 SE VM4 / VM7 The Construction of Difference in (Post-)Colonialism (2015W)
'Race', Class, Gender and Sexuality
Continuous assessment of course work
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Schwerpunktthema: KOL
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Su 20.09.2015 10:00 to We 30.09.2015 10:00
- Registration is open from We 30.09.2015 18:00 to Fr 02.10.2015 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Sa 31.10.2015 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Dr. Sara de Jong
- Monday 05.10. 12:00 - 15:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
- Monday 19.10. 12:00 - 15:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
- Monday 16.11. 12:00 - 15:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
- Monday 30.11. 12:00 - 15:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
- Monday 14.12. 12:00 - 15:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
- Monday 11.01. 12:00 - 15:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
- Monday 25.01. 12:00 - 15:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
In the process of Europeans' colonial encounters with indigenous others since the 16th century, the so-called superiority of Western culture was asserted in many different ways, including judgments and norms concerning 'proper' gender relations and family organisation. These normative discourses functioned as signs and symbols of the alleged Occidental superiority versus the presumptive Oriental inferiority of colonised subjects. Accordingly, constructions of 'race', class, gender and sexuality, are inherently intertwined with the history of European colonial expansion and political governance in colonial Asia and Africa and in settler communities, and are at the root of contemporary power dynamics of differentiation. Through an examination of both contemporary and historical material, such as the writings and images of and about colonial missionaries, politicians, and social critics from the early modern period to the post-colonial era, students will acquire an understanding of the ways in which dynamics tied to class, gender, sexuality and 'race' were implicated in colonialism. The course's set up with offer an encounter with key theories in the field, a mapping of the research debates, as well as a focus on selected themes, such as science, representation, and anti-colonial resistance.
Assessment and permitted materials
Students will be evaluated on regular attendance and participation, short reflection papers and a final substantive paper.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
After finishing the course, you will
-have been introduced to the historical evolution and scientific justifications of gender relations and constructions of 'racial' difference as they emerged in the Western world and the contact zones established by European imperialisms
-have read key thinkers and topics in the field of gender, 'race', class, sexuality and (post)colonial history
- have learned about the ways in which the making of gender, class, sexuality and 'race' is crucial to the power relations in (post)colonial politics
- have engaged with the interplay of gender, 'race', class, and sexuality, on the level of representation, structures and everyday practices
-have been introduced to the historical evolution and scientific justifications of gender relations and constructions of 'racial' difference as they emerged in the Western world and the contact zones established by European imperialisms
-have read key thinkers and topics in the field of gender, 'race', class, sexuality and (post)colonial history
- have learned about the ways in which the making of gender, class, sexuality and 'race' is crucial to the power relations in (post)colonial politics
- have engaged with the interplay of gender, 'race', class, and sexuality, on the level of representation, structures and everyday practices
Examination topics
In this course, students are expected to participate actively in classroom discussions and to bring in and respond to materials relating to the topics addressed. The specified compulsory reading (book chapters and articles) needs to be studied autonomously. In every session we will discuss the literature together and critically assess its contributions, as well as applying it to primary documents, such as travel diaries and parliamentary discussions. The three hour sessions will generally combine a lecture format in which the readings can be contextualised and difficult terms clarified, with interactive exercises and discussions.
Reading list
(Selected and preliminary reading list) - Amidon, K. S. (2007) 'Carrie Chapman Catt and the Evolutionary Politics of Sex and Race, 1885-1940', Journal of the History of Ideas, 68(2): 305-328. - Bernasconi, R. (2001) 'Who Invented the Concept of Race: Kant's Role in the Enlightenment Construction of Race', in: Race. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 11-36. - Burton, A. (1994) 'A Girdle round the Earth: British Imperial Suffrage and the Ideology of Global Sisterhood' in: Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, pp. 171-204. - Ghosh, D. (2004) 'Gender and Colonialism: Expansion or Marginalization', The Historical Journal, 47(3): 737-755. - Gilman, S. L. (1985) 'Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature', Critical Inquiry, 12(1): 204-242. - Gouda, F. (1995) 'Gender, Race and Sexuality' in: Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in in the Netherlands Indies 1900-1942. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 157-193. - Legg, S. (2003) 'Gendered Politics and Nationalised Homes: Women and the anti-colonial struggle in Delhi, 1930-47', Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 10(1):7-27 - Levine, P. (2003) 'Colonial Medicine and the Project of Modernity' in: Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. New York: Routledge, pp. 61-90. - McClintock, A. (1995) [selected section of] 'The Lay of the Land: Genealogies of Imperialism' in: Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. London: Routledge, pp. 21-56. - Mills, S. (1991) 'Gender and the Study of Colonial Discourse'; and 'Mary Kingsley: Travels in West Africa (1897)', in: Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism. London: Routledge, pp. 47-63 and 153-174. - Scully, P. (2005) 'Malintzin, Pocahontas, and Krotoa: Indigenous Women and Myth Models of the Atlantic World', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 6(3). - Stoler, A. L. (2002) 'Carnal Know ledge and Imperial Pow er: Gender and Morality in the Making of Race', in: Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 41-78. - Woollacott, A. (2006) 'Women and Gender in Anti-Colonial and Nationalist Movements' in: Gender and Empire. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 104-121.
Association in the course directory
VM4, VM7
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