140412 VO+UE VM4 -VM5 - Encountering development in colonial and postcolonial imaginations (2015S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Fr 20.02.2015 10:00 to Fr 27.02.2015 10:00
- Registration is open from Sa 28.02.2015 10:00 to Mo 02.03.2015 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.03.2015 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Monday
16.03.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
23.03.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
13.04.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
20.04.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
27.04.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
04.05.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
11.05.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
18.05.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
01.06.
14:00 - 16:00
Seminarraum SG3 Gender-Studies, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
Monday
08.06.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
15.06.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
22.06.
14:00 - 16:00
(ehem. Seminarraum Internationale Entwicklung Afrikawissenschaften UniCampus Hof 5 2Q-EG-05)
Monday
29.06.
14:00 - 16:00
Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
This course is approaching the history of development in the 20th century by tales and stories that connect to it. It explores memories and representations of the development encounter in literature and film, and examines how popular narrative worlds interact with institutional discourses of development. The term ‘development encounter' was coined by Arturo Escobar (1991) who described it both as a continuation and a substitution of the colonial encounter. The encounter with ‘development' as a concept and as a field has not only been productive in terms of creating a series of policies and practices such as development planning, for instance, or development aid. It has also produced its own medial forms, cultures, specific languages and epistemologies. How are concepts and practices of development culturally represented? How is ‘development’ presented as practice and ideology, if looked at through narratives created in popular culture, fiction and film?
Assessment and permitted materials
Regular attendance; participation in discussions; small assignments; oral presentation; short essay (approx. 7 pages).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The course aims to create awareness for the role of cultural representations in discourses of development. It encourages students to work with fiction, art and popular culture as a source of knowledge in development studies and provides them with a methodological and theoretical background for that purpose.
Examination topics
Introduction; presentation and discussion of set reading; close reading and analysis of development narratives in fiction, film and popular media based on theoretical approaches from literary studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, and media and memory studies.
Reading list
Reading (secondary literature):
Achebe, Chinua. ‘The Truth of Fiction.’ Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1965-1987. London: Heinemann, 1988. 95105.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. ‘The Danger of a Single Story.’ TEDGlobal 2009. 2009. 18:49.
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
De vries Pieter. ‘Don’t Compromise Your Desire for Development! A Lacanian/Deleuzian Rethinking of the Anti-Politics Machine.’Third World Quarterly 28/1, 2007, 2543.
Erll, Astrid, and Ann Rigney, eds. Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012.
Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Grillo, R. D., and R. L. Stirrat, eds. Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Explorations in Anthropology.Oxford; New York: Berg, 1997.
Hacker, Hanna. Queer entwickeln: Feministische und postkoloniale Analysen. Wien: Mandelbaum, 2012.
Hunt, Nancy Rose. ‘Between Fiction and History: Modes of Writing Abortion in Africa.’ Cahiers d’études africaines [en Ligne] 186 (2007): 225.
Lewis, David, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael J. V. Woolcock, eds. Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media. London; New York: Routledge, 2014.
Nederveen Pieterse, Jan. Development Theory. 2nd ed. London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi; Singapore: SAGE Publications, 2010.
Achebe, Chinua. ‘The Truth of Fiction.’ Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1965-1987. London: Heinemann, 1988. 95105.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. ‘The Danger of a Single Story.’ TEDGlobal 2009. 2009. 18:49.
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
De vries Pieter. ‘Don’t Compromise Your Desire for Development! A Lacanian/Deleuzian Rethinking of the Anti-Politics Machine.’Third World Quarterly 28/1, 2007, 2543.
Erll, Astrid, and Ann Rigney, eds. Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012.
Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Grillo, R. D., and R. L. Stirrat, eds. Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Explorations in Anthropology.Oxford; New York: Berg, 1997.
Hacker, Hanna. Queer entwickeln: Feministische und postkoloniale Analysen. Wien: Mandelbaum, 2012.
Hunt, Nancy Rose. ‘Between Fiction and History: Modes of Writing Abortion in Africa.’ Cahiers d’études africaines [en Ligne] 186 (2007): 225.
Lewis, David, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael J. V. Woolcock, eds. Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media. London; New York: Routledge, 2014.
Nederveen Pieterse, Jan. Development Theory. 2nd ed. London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi; Singapore: SAGE Publications, 2010.
Association in the course directory
VM4, VM5
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