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140410 VO+UE VM4 / VM6 - The Postcolonial Debate in Latin America (2018S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work
MOB
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 12.03. 18:00 - 21:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
  • Monday 19.03. 18:00 - 21:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
  • Monday 16.04. 18:00 - 21:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
  • Monday 30.04. 18:00 - 21:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
  • Monday 14.05. 18:00 - 21:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
  • Monday 04.06. 18:00 - 21:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
  • Monday 18.06. 18:00 - 21:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course examines the genealogy of the Postcolonial discourse from a Latin American perspective. Starting with the analysis of the Founding Statement of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group (1993) it discusses the main topics of the Latin American postcolonial outlook: eurocentrism, racism, indigenization of the knowledge production, colonialism, anti-colonialism and decolonization and center-periphery.

Learning Outcomes
• Evaluation of Latin American intellectual efforts to integrate the South-Asian Subaltern Debate into the continent´s context.
• A critical understanding of the main debates and problems of Latin American postcolonial thought.
• Understanding the criticism of postcolonial approaches within Latin American scholarship.

All texts will be provided as pdf files. If possible, students are encouraged to read the texts in their original language (Spanish).

Assessment and permitted materials

Attendance, assignments of small written exercises & participation 60%
Final essay (5-6 Pages) 40%

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Latin American Subaltern Studies Group 1993. Founding Statement, boundary 2,
Vol. 20, No. 3: 110-121
Verdesio, Gustavo 2005: Latin American Subaltern Studies revisited: Is there Life after the Demise of the Group?, Dispositio, Vol. 25, No. 52 : 5-42
Grosfoguel, Ramón 2011. Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 1(1):
Quijano, Aníbal 2007. Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality , Cultural Studies, 21:2-3, 168-178
Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia 2012. Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization, The South Atlantic Quarterly 111:1

Book (we will read selected chapters):
Moraña, Mabel et.alli (eds) 2008. Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, Duke University Press

Association in the course directory

VM4 / VM6; MA Globalgeschichte und Global Studies, Module Exkursion und Global Studies (Modulteil Global Studies)

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