M5-MA Current Debates on Globalisation, Media & Culture A
Instructors: Toni Wilhelm AdscheidShortname: M5-MA Current Dibate
Course No.: 09.050.461
Course Type: Seminar
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Being enroled in our MA's study programAnwesenheitspflicht
We need to debate... so we need you all as often as possible to have vibrant discussions.Recommended reading list
Key readings include but are not limited to:Bledsoe, A. & Wright, W.J. (2019). The Pluralities of Black Geographies. Antipode, 51(2), pp. 419-437.
Hartman, S. (2019). Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. London: W. W. Norton & Company.
McKittrick, K. & Woods, C. (2007). Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Boston: South End Press.
Michel, B. (2019). Making Mount Kilimanjaro German: Nation building and heroic masculinity in the colonial geographies of Hans Meyer. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(3), pp. 437-632.
Contents
Black GeographiesIn this course we will engage in conversation around the following question: What does it mean to insist that Black lives matter from a geographical perspective? Building a shared understanding of place, we will attend to debates across human geography, Black studies and Black Geographies. Our aim is to initiate conversations around (1) the theoretical flaws of human geography theory-making as well as its apriorist empirical engagement with Black lives and (2) the different worlds that open when we center Black place-making practices and knowledges.
A specific focus will be on the racialized power-structures that shape how we come to know Black lives and on Black spatial practices, knowledges and imaginations that refuse these racialized knowledge systems, e.g. the city as sight of Black marginality, crime and poverty; the natural environments of Black inhabitation; Black humanity; the afterlives of colonialism and imperialism; the extraordinary disruptions enabled by mundane practices of Black place-making; Black imaginations. Hereby we will not only look at scientific literature, policy documents and urban development plans but also at songs, poetry, comics and movies.
After an initial introduction into the field of Black Geographies, each participant will choose one spatial context (a specific neighborhood, city, suburban setting, sea, forest, dessert, …) and present how their place has become known as Black as well as how Black and differently racialized populations refuse racialized geographical logics through place-making practices. While presentations will be held individually during each session, we engage into further discussion after each presentation. For this to be possible, the weekly reading of literature is mandatory. Participants are allowed to utilize Power-Point presentation formats but are highly encouraged to incorporate other formats to creatively engage with, and engage others in, their contexts.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11/04/2024 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 11/11/2024 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 11/18/2024 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 11/25/2024 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 12/02/2024 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 12/09/2024 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 12/16/2024 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/06/2025 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/13/2025 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/20/2025 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 01/27/2025 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |
| 02/03/2025 (Monday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02 142 N 239 1341 - Naturwissenschaftliches Institutsgebäude |