Universität Wien

240116 SE VM5 / VM2 - Working the Land (2021W)

Labour, Technology and the Environment in Global Agriculture

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
DIGITAL NR

An/Abmeldung

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

*** FIRST SESSION on 7 OCTOBER ***
You'll find the link to the first zoom session on this seminar's moodle page.

*** A Seminar in Times of Covid-19 ***

I decided to teach this seminar online. This was not an easy decision since I absolutely prefer teaching in a classroom. However, the (once again!) increasing covid-19 cases and the difficulties with planning a seminar in the context of constantly changing covid-19 regulations, led me to make this decision.

Thus, you will be able to complete this seminar without being physically present at Vienna University. This allows those of you who currently cannot travel to Vienna or those who are part of a corona high-risk group to attend this seminar without any disadvantages.

Moodle will serve as our central platform of communication. We will replace the physical attendance in classrooms with a weekly live video conference (see dates below). Attendance to these videoconferences is mandatory. You can miss max. 3 sessions.

You will receive all the materials needed for this seminar via moodle. For your seminar paper you will need to access online sources via u:search.

  • Donnerstag 07.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 14.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 21.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 28.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 04.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 11.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 18.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 25.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 02.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 09.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 16.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 13.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 20.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 27.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Digital

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Agriculture is a coproduction of society and nature. Agricultural work, e.g. growing crops or raising cattle, differs from other forms of work in many ways, most importantly due to its natural embedment. Weather, soil fertility and many other natural factors not only have an impact on the choice of crops or animals, but also on the organisation of labour, the application of technology or even the composition of households. At the same time agriculture shares fundamental features with other branches of work, as it is part of larger political and economic systems. Issues like free and un-free labour, gender relations or migration are as relevant in agriculture as they are in all other social and economic spheres. This seminar is primarily based on a recent academic conference on agricultural work (ITH 2019) and an on-going book project. It thus aims at providing the students with both an introduction to various academic approaches to agricultural work and a selection of state-of-the-art research. We discuss topics such as slavery on American cotton plantations, Indian peasant households producing opium for the colonial state and migrant workers on today’s palm oil plantations in South-East Asia.

For a detailed schedule follow this link: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/rolf.bauer/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Schedule_Se_Working_the_Land.pdf

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

// Requirements:

- Reading: Read the texts provided for each session in weeks 2–8.

- Writing: You have to write 3 essays (2 pages) based on our readings.

- Proposal: Write a proposal (2 pages, excluding bibliography) and upload until 29 Nov.

- Presentation: Present the draft of your seminar paper in weeks 11–13.

- Seminar Paper: min. 15 pages, excluding bibliography. Upload until 28 February 2022.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

You can miss class max. 3 times.

// Grading:

1) Active participation in videoconferences // 15%
2) Essays // 25%
3) Presentation // 10%
4) Final Seminar paper, 15 pages // 50%

>= 87,5% very good (1)
>= 75% good (2)
>= 62,5% satisfactory (3)
>= 50% sufficient (4)
< 50% deficient (5)

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

VM5 / VM2

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:20