070313 VO Why Global History - Which Global History? A Critical Introduction (2009S)
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The reader containing the required reading and the syllabus may be bought (as available; otherwise it may be ordered and will be produced soon) in the copy shop at Schwarzspanierstraße 10, 1090 Wien, from the beginning of the semester.
Please note that the reader is available in two versions:
1. English only.
2. English-German (in this version a few texts appear in German).
Please note that the reader is available in two versions:
1. English only.
2. English-German (in this version a few texts appear in German).
Details
max. 130 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Donnerstag
05.03.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
19.03.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
26.03.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
02.04.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
23.04.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
30.04.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
07.05.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
14.05.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
28.05.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
04.06.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
18.06.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Donnerstag
25.06.
08:30 - 10:00
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Writing global history builds on long historical traditions, and has been based on as many concepts, frameworks, interests, and perspectives as other branches of historical writing such as - for example - national political history, cultural history, or local history. Some major concerns, however, have been different in conceptualizing, writing, and teaching global history; scholarly debate, in part, has been focusing on a different set of core themes and problems; there are a number of more or less distinct "schools" of global history, built on competing concepts of how to do global historiography, and on their implicit or explicit relations with other branches and concepts of writing history; and finally, positioning and status of global history has varied in different periods, countries and traditions of historical writing.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
* While this course is a "Vorlesung" (at least for some), continuous participation, and careful preparation of the required reading for all units, is required.
* A closed-book exam (answer 10 questions).
* A closed-book exam (answer 10 questions).
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Aims:
* Developing students' knowledge about major ¿building-blocks¿ of the universe of global historiography in past and present.
* Developing students' understanding of what it means in concrete terms to do global history, i.e. (a) why and how historical writing can and should transcend national and other boundaries, and (b) on which methods and materials have global historians drawn in which ways as they created their histories.
* Enabling students to meaningfully relate to one key question: Which type(s) of global historiography do we promote, criticize, or even repudiate for what reasons?
* Developing students' knowledge about major ¿building-blocks¿ of the universe of global historiography in past and present.
* Developing students' understanding of what it means in concrete terms to do global history, i.e. (a) why and how historical writing can and should transcend national and other boundaries, and (b) on which methods and materials have global historians drawn in which ways as they created their histories.
* Enabling students to meaningfully relate to one key question: Which type(s) of global historiography do we promote, criticize, or even repudiate for what reasons?
Prüfungsstoff
Components:
* A critical introduction, discussion, and assessment of major traditions, concepts, perspectives, and implications of various "schools" and concepts in global history.
* Joint reading of foundational texts conceptualizing and/or writing global/universal/world history.
* A critical introduction, discussion, and assessment of major traditions, concepts, perspectives, and implications of various "schools" and concepts in global history.
* Joint reading of foundational texts conceptualizing and/or writing global/universal/world history.
Literatur
PROGRAM AND REQUIRED READING:Unit 1 5 MarchGeneral introductionRequired reading (to be read for the following meeting):Heather Sutherland, The Problematic Authority of (World) History. In: Journal of World History 18 (2007) 4, 491-522.Marnie Huges-Warrington, Shapes. In: M. Huges-Warrington (ed.), World Histories, Houndsmills 2005, (extracts) 118-129.I. Why global history - which global history? Critical approachesUnit 2 19 MarchWhy global history - which global history?Required reading (to be read for the following meeting):Fernando Coronil, Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories. In: Cultural Anthropology 11 (1996), 51-87.Unit 3 26 MarchEqualizing "regional traditions:" Eastern Europe, India, and the West as examplesRequired reading (to be read for the following meeting):Thomas M. Bohn, Writing World History in Tsarist Russia and in the Soviet Union. In: Benedikt Stuchey, Eckhardt Fuchs (eds), Writing World History 1800 - 2000, Oxford 2003, 197-212.Vinay Lal, Provincializing the West: World History from the Perspective of Indian History. In: Benedikt Stuchey, Eckhardt Fuchs (eds), Writing World History 1800 ¿ 2000, Oxford 2003, 271-289.Unit 4 2 AprilWhy global gender history - which global gender history?Required reading (to be read for the following meeting):Judit P. Zinser, Gender. In: Marnie Huges-Warrington (ed.), World Histories, Houndsmills 2005, 189-214.Mrinalini Sinha, Complicating the Categories of "Western" and "Non-Western" Feminisms. In: The Social Justice Group (ed.), Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice, New York University Press 2000, 168-186.Unit 5 9 AprilWhy global labour history - which global labour history?Required reading (to be read for the following meeting):Marcel van der Linden, Globalizing Labour Historiography. The IISH Approach, IISH, Amsterdam, 2002 (http://www.iisg.nl/publications/globlab.pdf)Alessandro Stanziani, Serfs, Slaves, or Wage Earners? The Legal Status of Labour in Russia from a Comparative Perspective, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. In: Journal of Global History 3 (2008) 2, 183 ¿ 202.II. "Masterly classics" in context - a critical reading of selected traditionsUnit 6 23 AprilIbn KaldhunUnit 7 30 AprilVoltaire and the varieties of universal historyUnit 8 7 MayFrom Hegel to Marx: Europe and the world in 19th century historical thinkingUnit 9 14 MayW.E.B. Du Bois and the varieties of Black visions of history beyond (and underneath) the nation stateUnit 10 28 MayWilliam McNeill and other 20th century attempts of writing world histories (from the West)Unit 11 4 JuneImmanuel Wallerstein and the varieties of a critical reading of the global in global capitalismUnit 12 18 JuneHistories and conceptualizations of writing the global: a reappraisal of current debatesUnit 13 25 JuneDiscussing of the reading, summary discussion, questionsUnit 14 date and time TBAExam
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