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COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY
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COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY
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Anno accademico 2024/2025
- Codice attività didattica
- CPS0364
- Docenti
- Federica Morelli (Titolare dell'insegnamento)
Tommaso Bobbio (Titolare dell'insegnamento) - Corso di studio
- Master's Degree Course in Area and global studies for international cooperation
- Anno
- 1° anno
- Periodo
- Primo semestre
- Tipologia
- Caratterizzante
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- SSD attività didattica
- SPS/05 - storia e istituzioni delle americhe
- Erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Frequenza
- Facoltativa
- Tipologia esame
- Scritto
- Prerequisiti
- Basic knowledge of Early Modern and Modern History.
It is strongly recommended that students who did not take any exam in history read the following text : Wolfgang Reinhard, A Short History of Colonialism (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011). - Oggetto:
Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
The course, focusing on different forms of colonialism and their legacies, will allow students to mature a greater awaraness towards the cultural diversity and to understand the relationship between past and present cultures.
It will also allow to acquire expertise on: forms of domination; interaction between different cultural groups; definitions of belonging; structuring of territories.
The course will offer to attending students an interactive form of teaching, based on discussion of sources and bibliographical material in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
The learning of colonial and post-colonial socio-cultural systems will allow the formation of sensibilities, knowledge, and expertise to understand the present multicultural contexts. In particular, the learning of interpretative and methodological tools on colonial and postcolonial history will provide students with the abilities to read documents in a critical way and to analyse, classify, and put into relation complex information in a coherent form.
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Programma
The course explores the expansion, consolidation, management, disintegration, and impact of early modern and modern European empires, with a specific aim to understand the impact and cultural legacies of colonial domination around the world. Through different case-studies and using primary and secondary sources, paintings, photographs, and videos, we will explore the meanings of colonialism and its aftermath. In particular, this year's class will focus on implications, effects and consequences of the encounter between European and native societies, slavery and forced labour, the networks of mobility that these created, and the culture of subalternity that came along with it.
More specifically, the course will analyse the following subjects:
- The Origins of European Colonialism
- Encounter and Engagement
- Mobility and Diaspora
- Slavery and Forced Labour
- Race and racism
- Identity and Violence
- Independence and Decolonization
- Postcolonial theory
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Modalità di insegnamento
Lessons will be in presence, attending students will be required to participate to in-class discussions and presentations.
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Attending students:
For attending students, the assessment procedure is based on active participation during class (20%), presentation of an essay agreed with the teacher (30% of the final grade), and a written exam in which the student will have to answer to open-ended questions (50% of the final grade). The written exam will be assessed according to the following criteria: a) the acquisition of the basic expertise; b) the ability to critically reasoning on the subjects of the course.
Non attending students:
To assess the ability to apply the acquaintances learnt during the readings, a final written exam is scheduled for non attending students. This exam will be assessed according to the following criteria: a) the acquisition of the basic expertise; b) the ability to critically reasoning on the subjects of the course.
Non attending students must write their program in the notes section when they register for the exam.
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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- Libro
- Titolo:
- Colonialism in Question. Theory, Knowledge, History
- Anno pubblicazione:
- 2005
- Editore:
- University of California Press
- Autore:
- F. Cooper
- Note testo:
- Testo per non frequentanti.
- Obbligatorio:
- Si
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Attending students:
- Essays and articles commented during the course.
Non attending students:
- F. Cooper, Colonialism in Question. Theory, Knowledge, History, University of California Press, 2005
and one of the following books planned with the teacher:
- S. Beckert, Empire of Cotton: a global history, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
- F. Bethencourt, Racisms : from the Crusades to the Twentieth century, Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- N. Bhattacharya, The Great Agrarian Conquest: the Colonial Reshaping of the Rural World, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2019.
- R. Blackburn, The American Crucible : Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
London-New York : Verso, 2011.- J. Breman, Labour Bondage in West India, from past to present, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- D. Chakrabarty, Provincilizing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000.
- G. Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Non attending students must write their program in the notes section when they register for the exam.
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Note
The material useful for the students will be available on the moodle page of the course.
Please, enrol online in moodle also if you do not intend to attend the classes - this will facilitate communication between the instructor and the students.
Student's participation in class is strongly recommended.
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