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COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY
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COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY
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Anno accademico 2019/2020
- Codice dell'attività didattica
- CPS0364
- Docente
- Prof. Federica Morelli (Titolare dell'insegnamento)
- Corso di studi
- Master's Degree Course in Area and global studies for international cooperation
- Anno
- 1° anno
- Tipologia
- Caratterizzante
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- SSD dell'attività didattica
- SPS/05 - storia e istituzioni delle americhe
- Modalità di erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua di insegnamento
- Inglese
- Modalità di frequenza
- Facoltativa
- Tipologia d'esame
- Scritto
- Prerequisiti
- Basic knowledge of Early Modern and Modern History.
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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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Modalità di insegnamento
Classwork consists in traditional teaching and discussion of papers between teachers and students.
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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 (open-ended questions) in which the student will have to answer to one general question (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. Students will have one hour to conclude their written exam.
Due to the Covid-19 situation, the exam will take place online through a webex monitoring.
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. Students will have two hours to conclude their written exam.
Due to the Covid-19 situation, the exam will take place online through a webex monitoring.
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Programma
The course explores the expansion, consolidation, management, disintegration, and impact of early modern and modern European empires, focusing on the ambiguities of identity produced by the encounter between European, American, African, Asian, and Pacific cultures. Through different case-studies and using primary and secondary sources, paintings, photographs, and film, we will explore the meanings of colonialism and its aftermath. Europe's ambivalent conquests - oscillating between attempts to project outward its own ways of understanding the world and efforts to demarcate colonizer from colonized, civilized from primitive, core from periphery- made the space of empire into a terrain where concepts were not only imposed but also engaged and contested.
More specifically, the course will analyse the following subjects:
- The Origins of European Colonialism
- Encounter and Engagement
- Savagery and Cannibalism
- Race and racism
- Violence and exploitation
- Independence and Decolonization
- Postcolonial Europe
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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Attending students:
Essays and articles presented and commented during the course.
Non attending students:
A choice of two of the following books planned with the teacher:
- S. Belmessous, Native Claims : Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920, New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
- L. Benton, A Search for Sovereignty : Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010
- F. Bethencourt, Racisms : from the Crusades to the Twentieth century, Princeton-Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2013
- J. Burbank and F. Cooper, Empires in world history : power and the politics of difference, Princeton-Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2010
- F. Cooper, Colonialism in Question. Theory, Knowledge, History, University of California Press, 2005
- F. Cooper, Citizenship between Empire and Nation : Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960, Princeton-Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2014
- J. Donoghue and E.P. Jennings (eds.), Building the Atlantic Empires : Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism, ca. 1500-1914, Leiden-Boston : Brill, 2016
- C. Hall, Civilising Subjects : Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867, Cambridge : Polity, 2002
- J. Hart, Comparing Empires : European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War, London, Palgrave, 2003
- T. Rizzo and S. Gerontakis, Intimate Empires : Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World, Oxford : Oxford University press, 2016
- A. L. Stoler, F. Cooper (eds.), Tensions of Empire : Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997
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Note
The material useful for the students will be available on the website of the course.
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