Concepts & Methods in Critical Black Geographies & Diaspora Studies / Konzepte und Methoden in kritischen Schwarzen Geographien und Diaspora-Studien - Detailseite

Gute Englischkenntnisse - good knowledge of English

This course is taught in English by the visiting professor from South Africa.

This seminar employs critical black geographies to engage with diasporic literatures beyond the habitual Black Atlantic epistemologies. Based on Katherine McKittrick, the “where” of blackness evokes geography that “maps the ties and tensions between material and ideological dominations and oppositional spatial practices”. Students will engage with translingual and translated diasporic fiction from diverse geographic locations, going beneath spectacular representations of ghettoised neighbourhoods, racial protests, and shipwrecked migrants. This approach to Black geographies and the consequent analysis of histories of African migration will enable a dual engagement with the internal spatially binaries created by racialized urban geographies and the national border as an ideological space that renders racialised or ethnicised minorities “strangers in their own country”. Framing diaspora as a heterogenous space, the seminar will enable students to explore the specificities of diasporic communities within specific national contexts and the everyday micro-struggles of visible minorities within the globalized context. The aim to develop an understanding of diaspora as a formation that is about relations of solidarity and similarity, as well as dynamics of difference, complicating the conceptions of diasporic solidarities and differences, as well as the dominant narrative of the African American diaspora. The comparative methodologies privileged by this course will enable student to engage concepts such as diasporic space, diasporic relationality, intercultural address, border locations and spatial negotiations, and place-making.

The course is weighted towards theoretical texts, proposed set works proposed include texts by: Gloria Wekker, Tina Campt, Katherine McKittrick, Avtar Brah and Edouard Glissant.

Afrika/African diasporas

(Gruppen)Referat, Kurzessay

Prüfungsart: Klausur - Exam type: Written exam