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COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY
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COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY
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Anno accademico 2020/2021
- Codice dell'attività didattica
- CPS0364
- Docenti
- Prof. Federica Morelli (Titolare dell'insegnamento)
Tommaso Bobbio (Titolare dell'insegnamento) - Corso di studi
- Master's Degree Course in Area and global studies for international cooperation
- Anno
- 1° anno
- Periodo didattico
- Primo semestre
- 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
Due to the restrictions following Covid-19 emergency, the course will adopt a blended methodology, thorugh online live classes, group work, weekly engagement and discussion.
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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 five 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.
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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 film, we will explore the meanings of colonialism and its aftermath. In particular, this year's class on Colonial and Post-colonial History will focus on implications, effects and consequences of 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 Europe
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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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. Belmessous, Native Claims : Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920, New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
- F. Bethencourt, Racisms : from the Crusades to the Twentieth century, Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- R. Blackburn, The American crucible : slavery, emancipation and human rights
London-New York : Verso, 2011.- J. Breman, Taming the coolie beast: plantation society and the colonial order in southeast Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- J. Breman, Labour Bondage in West India, from past to present, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- J. Burbank and F. Cooper, Empires in world history : power and the politics of difference, Princeton-Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2010
- D. Chakrabarty, Provincilizing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000.
- 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.
- D. Eltis, The rise of African slavery in the Americas, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- A. Stanzian, Bondage : labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 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.
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.
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