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
None.
Subject matter
1. \\"Imperialism\\", \\"Colonialism\\"\\" and \\"Post-colonialism\\": theoretical and historical issues. The construction of Africa in European and African discourses.
2. The establishment 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 and Empire. Imperialism and European Popular Culture. Identity and Ethnicity: colonial and post-colonial constructions.
4. Nationalism and nationalist movements in Africa. Blackness and the African diaspora. Transcultural processes and creolization. Identity and memory in post-colonial 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
The seminar combines lectures with the presentation and debate of bibliographical references presented by the students.
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;
3) A written text (15-20 pages) based on a search for bibliographic data.