Universität Wien

070341 KU Theories, Sources and Methods of Global History (2019S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Note: this class will partly be held in ‘blocked’ sessions. Regular classes will be held Wednesdays: 03.04., 10.04., 08.05., 15.05., 22.05., 29.05., 05.06., 12.06., and 19.06.

The blocked session (Blocktermin) will be: Saturday, 22nd June 2019, 10:00 – 13:00 and 14:00–17:00. Location: Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß.

This course, thus, presupposes the availability and willingness for an intensive work schedule from April to June.

Mittwoch 03.04. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 10.04. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 08.05. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 15.05. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 22.05. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 29.05. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 05.06. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 12.06. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Mittwoch 19.06. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Samstag 22.06. 09:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Mittwoch 26.06. 10:30 - 12:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The general topic of this course about theories, sources, and methods in global history will be ‘The history of work and workers' struggles in Latin America’. Labour history over the last 20 years has succeeded in opening new perspectives. In its turn towards the ‘global’ both the geographical scope and the notion of ‘worker’ have been broadened to include the history of slaves and other unfree labourers, as well as of self-employed, informal, precarious, or unpaid workers. Latin America is a case in point for such new approaches: Since conquest and colonization in the 16th century, it has witnessed the combination of a broad array of labour relations, from slavery, corvée, and other forms of coerced labour to debt peonage, share cropping, and free wage labour. These different constellations of the organization of work for world market production interacted in complex way with communal subsistence agriculture and the work in households. Up until today, the worlds of labour in Latin America are highly variegated, the Standard Employment Relationship constituting a relative minority in most countries. This situation has, over the centuries, conditioned very different forms of resisting exploitation and defending labour rights, ranging from marronage, peasant uprisings, classical workers’ unions to the organising of informal domestic workers. Recent research in this area has often included a transnational or global dimension, asking for connections between places and actors, as well as embedding their analyses in wider transatlantic exchanges and commodity chains. In this class, such research will be taken as a starting point to reflect upon the theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches involved in current global history. Furthermore, sources used in this research as well as their availability for researchers in Vienna through edited collections or online repositories will be analysed in detail.

Note: this class will partly be held in ‘blocked’ sessions.
The blocked session (Blocktermin) will be: Saturday, 22nd June 2019, 10:00 – 13:00 and 14:00–17:00.

This course, thus, presupposes the availability and willingness for an intensive work schedule from April to June.

This course will introduce ‘theories’ and ‘methods’ in current global historical debates through readings, discussion, and a number of smaller writing assignments. Meanwhile, students will get in touch with ‘sources’ by familiarizing themselves with archival material either published in edited collections or available through online repositories. The aim will be to elaborate a draft paper that specifies a topic a research question which can be related to a such primary material.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

The students will be expected to engage in continuous work throughout the semester with weekly reading and writing assignments. These writing assignments will involve abstracts, comments, etc or questions to be answered through the moodle platform. In addition, attendants will write a short paper on a topic chosen by them and using some primary material retrieved from edited source collections or online repositories. Course attendants are obliged to hand in a written draft of this paper already by 7th June 2019; this draft will then be feedbacked by a fellow student during the blocked session. Based on this, students will elaborate a revised final version to be handed in end of semester. Also, there will be oral presentations of students’ papers and findings.

Literatur

Rossana Barragán/David Mayer: "Latin America and the Carribean", in: Karin Hofmeester/Linden, Marcel van der (eds.), Handbook Global History of Work, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2018, 95-121.

Paulo Fontes/Alexandre Fortes/David Mayer (eds): "Brazilian Labour History: New Perspectives in Global Context (International Review of Social History 62, Special Issue 25), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017.

John D. French: "The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions", in: Jan Lucassen (ed.), Global Labour History. A State of the Art, Bern, etc.: Peter Lang 2006, 289-333.

Herbert Klein/Vinson III, Ben: African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, New York, etc.: Oxford University Press 20072.

Stephen Topik/Marichal, Carlos/Frank Zephyr (eds.): From Silver to Cocaine. Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, Durham/London: Duke University Press 2006.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MA Globalgeschichte: Theorien, Quellen und Methoden der Globalgeschichte und Global Studies (5 ECTS)

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:31