Colonial and Post Colonial Contexts
Code
722170082
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Study the main theories and debates in the field of pos-colonial studies;
b) Study aspects of the Europen colonial process with special reference to Africa;
c) Discuss questions, discourses, experiences and political and cultural impacts of the colonial processes in Afrcan context.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. \"Imperialism\", \"Colonialism\"\" and \"Post-colonialism\": theoretical and historical issues. The construction of Africa in European and African discourses.
2. The esteblishment of colonialism in Africa. The culture of colonialism: language, discipline, knowledge, Christian missions. The relationship of the colonized with colonial power: ambivalence, complicity, resistance.
3. Colonialism and the idea of \"race\". The culture of colonialism. Sexualitiy, domesticity and race. Gender na Empire. Imperialism and European Popular Culture. Identity and Ethnicity: colonial and post-colonial constuctions.
4. Nationalism and nationalist movements in Africa. Blackness and the African diaspora. Transcultural processes and creolization. Identity and memory in post-colnial Africa.
Bibliography
ABBINK, Jon, M. de BRIJN, K. van WALRAVEN (eds.), 2003, Rethinking Resistance. Revolt and Violence in African History, Leiden: Brill
COOPER, R.F. e A.L.STOLER (eds.), 1997, Tensions of Empire. Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, Berkeley: University of California Press.
MUDIMBE, V.Y., 1994, The Idea of Africa, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
LANDAU, Paul, S., e D.B.KASPIN, 2002, Images & Empires.Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Berkeley: University of California Press.
GILROY, Paul, 1993, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Cambridge; Harvard University Press
Teaching method
Learning methodologies:
The seminar combines lectures with the presentation and debate of bibliographical references presented by the studentes.
Evaluation method
1) Oral presentation of bibliographical references and participation in the debates;2) Short essays using the bibliographical references fore each session of the seminar