Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(63ΛΕ159) -  Mina Karavanta

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course examines decolonial approaches to postcolonial and decolonial writing in the twenty-first century and explores the afropolitan, coolie, and migrant stories and histories whose social, political and aesthetic perspectives interrogate the power relations that inform the connections, reciprocities and associations among the three continents, Africa, Europe and the Americas. We will explore several texts by decolonial and postcolonial thinkers and twenty-first century and will examine a range of topics including migration, African diaspora, belonging, human rights, environment, political and ontological sovereignty and gender inequalities.

Students will be introduced to the relevant theoretical texts that delve into the issues of hospitality, human rights and democratic ethics and examine the growing phenomenon of statelessness in the present. The course also excavates the long durée of racism and nationalism that these texts try to challenge by unpacking the “minor histories” (Chakrabarty) and critiquing the ethnocentric and nationalistic grand narratives. Some of the questions we will be pursuing are: What are the neoliberal pitfalls and blind spots in the humanistic discourses in Europe and elsewhere that attempt to represent “les sans-terre”—the term Bruno Latour uses to refer to the ones “deprived of soil”—and thus democratize academic discourses and practices in and beyond the classroom? Are there forms of cosmopolitanization that the recent histories of dispossession and migration are generating and how can we critically attend to them in order to democratize the concepts of polity, citizen, and the human?

Students will be given the opportunity to write a seminar paper and give a presentation. Structure of the course: Lecture, student presentations  and class discussions.

 

 

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Δευτέρα 24 Φεβρουαρίου 2020