Da Escravatura à Globalização: a Construção da Modernidade (not translated)
Code
722081041
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Using an historical perspective, this unit explores some of the main facets of a process, sometimes marked by violence, by which globalization was formed throughout the centuries, namely through human migrations.
Slavery and slave trade will be analysed as connected social institutions, culturally and historically inscribed.
Their tranformation until abolition, first of trade, then of slavery itself, will therefore be assessed. The case of the Portuguese empire will be at the core of our enquiry. The sucessfull frequency of this unit will enable the acquistion of skills that can be used in 1. academic research in Political and Historical Sociology, and Portuguese Colonial History; 2. mastering of scientific language and methods that are crucial to the production and assessment of public policies and private programs related to cooperation in the Lusophone world.
Prerequisites
N.A.
Subject matter
1) Slavery and Imperial and colonial expansions: concepts and histories
2) New Imperialism: Historiography and cases
3) Structures of colonial rule
4) Labour diasporas, \"Coolies\" and the transformation of labour in plantation economies
5) Colonial cities
6) The \"third\" Portuguese Empire I: Problems and perspectives
7) The \"third\" Portuguese Empire II: The Abolition of slave trade
8) The \"third\" Portuguese Empire III: The \"Civilizing Mission\" of Portuguese Colonialism and the policies of native labour (1880-1961)
9) The \"third\" Portuguese Empire IV: From the native to the assimilado
10) Contemporary slavery and the criminalization of poverty
11) From plural societies to multiculturalism: immigration as a colonial legacy
12) Immigration and globalization: Transnationalism as contingency
13) Labour trafficking and illegal immigration in the global economy
14) Globalization: issues and problems
15) Globalization, human rights, and social movements
Bibliography
Bales, Kevin (2000) Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, London, University of Califórnia Press
Marques, João Pedro (2004) Portugal e a escravatura dos africanos, Lisboa, ICS.
Duffy, James (1967) A Question of Slavery. Labour Policies in Portuguese Africa and the British Protest, 1850-1920, Oxford University Press.
Lovejoy Paul E (2000) Transformations in Slavery. A History of Slavery in Africa, 2 ª ed., Cambridge, Cambridge Unversiy Press.
Miers, Suzanne (2003) Slavery in the Twentieth Century. The Evolution of a Global Problem, New York and Oxford, Altamira Press.
Teaching method
Theoretical/practical lectures based on supporting material handed out in each session; research work; analysis and discussion of theoretical texts and case studies.
Evaluation method
Grading will be based on: oral participation during the unit sessions; oral and written presentation of a text (selected from the unit´s bibliography); and a final paper. The latter can be either an essay about a specific work or about divergent auhtors and perspectives (also from the unit´s bibliography) (c. 20 pages, without bibliography); or it can be a piece of empirical research (c. 30 pages)