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240515 SE MM3 De-colonising border study: border-making and mobility in South Asia (2023W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Participation at first session is obligatory!The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used.The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor.
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Fr 01.09.2023 00:01 bis Mo 25.09.2023 23:59
- Abmeldung bis Mo 16.10.2023 23:59
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Mittwoch 04.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 11.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 18.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 25.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 08.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
- Mittwoch 15.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 22.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 29.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 06.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 13.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 10.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 17.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 24.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 31.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Oral presentation of one academic text (article or book chapter): 20 points
Preparation of two question on a text presented by another student: 10 pts
Participation in the discussion during the seminar sessions: 10 pts
Oral presentation of the written essay: 20 pts
Written essay (4000 words): 40 pts1 (very good): 91-100 points
2 (good): 81-90 points
3 (satisfactory): 71-80 points
4 (sufficient): 61-70 points
5 (not sufficient): less than 60 points.
Preparation of two question on a text presented by another student: 10 pts
Participation in the discussion during the seminar sessions: 10 pts
Oral presentation of the written essay: 20 pts
Written essay (4000 words): 40 pts1 (very good): 91-100 points
2 (good): 81-90 points
3 (satisfactory): 71-80 points
4 (sufficient): 61-70 points
5 (not sufficient): less than 60 points.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Participation in collective discussion during the seminar sessions; reading of the texts presented by other students; efforts to understand the texts, and clarity of the oral presentations. For the final written essay: Reading and understanding of the written sources, capacity to find relevant academic sources, structure of the essay as in academic publications (precise explanations will be given during the course sessions); clarity of writing; in-text quotation and reference to literature as in academic publications (explanations given during the course sessions).To pass the course, a minimum of 61 points is required
Prüfungsstoff
Reading of academic sources on the topics of the seminar, and oral presentations of these sources (with support of PowerPoint) during the seminar sessions; writing of a final essay (max. 4000 words) structured as an academic article, also on the topics of the seminar.
Literatur
Preliminary reading list:
Aggarwal, R. 2004. Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Gohain, S. 2020. Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands. Culture, Politics, Place. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Horstmann, A.; Saxer, M.; and Rippa, A. 2018. Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands. New York: Routledge.
Scott, J. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed. An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press
van Schendel, W. 2002. “Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 647–68.A complete list will be provided at the beginning of the semester
Aggarwal, R. 2004. Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Gohain, S. 2020. Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands. Culture, Politics, Place. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Horstmann, A.; Saxer, M.; and Rippa, A. 2018. Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands. New York: Routledge.
Scott, J. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed. An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press
van Schendel, W. 2002. “Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 647–68.A complete list will be provided at the beginning of the semester
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Di 03.10.2023 16:28
What does the study of borders tell us about the role of mobility and space in the constitution of societies and the state today? Why have borders received renewed interest since the 1990s in the social sciences, and in anthropology in particular? This course, firstly, concerns the history of the social sciences approach to borderlands in Asia, in particular, the criticism of the state-centred perspective on borders and space in social science disciplines on the ground that it reproduced colonial concepts of territory, mobility and society. It secondly focuses on the representation and experience of the border by people living in border regions with a specific focus on South Asia, and more specifically on India. This concerns the influence of borders on borderland people, trans-border migrations and mobility, and how they contribute to both making and challenging state territorialisation.
The course will show how the decolonisation of the approach to borders and territories as well as a reconceptualization of the role of mobility in social dynamics from the 1990s led to reconceptualise the border and the state; it will also show how anthropology and ethnographic research in border regions can contribute to this reconceptualization by highlighting the construction and deconstruction, as well as the performance of borders.
Aims of the course:
Provide an understanding of the anthropology of borders and borderlands, and of the role of mobility in social dynamics; provide tools to critically analyse the colonial organisation of space, and the present-day role of borders and border regulation; provide knowledge about South Asian (in particular Indian) history and present-day’s society. The course will also provide the students with the possibility to gain experience in academic writing.
Methods:
Lectures and study of academic written sources during the sessions. Learning academic writing will be integrated into the course through exercises. Whereas the lectures will focus on South-Asia, and India in particular, the students have the possibility to choose other regions of the world for their exercises.