Litteratur

Imperialism och kolonialism, genus- och interkulturellt perspektiv, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Giltig fr.o.m.: VT2021
Giltig t.o.m.: HT2021
Beslutsdatum: 2020-11-19
Beslutad av: Ämnesrådet i historia

Obligatorisk litteratur:

Chamberlain, M e: The Scramble for Africa, Longman, London 2010 selected parts

Fanon, Frantz: Black skin, white masks, Pluto Press 2017. (Svart hud, vita masker, Göteborg 1995). 272 p.

Fanon, Franz: Wretched of the Earth, Penguin Books 2012. (Jordens fördömda, Stockholm 2007), approx. 15 p. (from chapter 1, ”About violence”, scanned version will be available on Studiewebben)

Hansen Jan C. & Osterhammel, Jürgen, Decolonization. A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017) 267 p.

 

McClintock, Anne: Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, London 1995 (Introduction, chapter 1, (2 och 3 supplementary reading), 5, 6, 7 and 10. Approximately 250 p.

Fur, Gunlög: “Colonialism and Swedish History. Unthinkable Connections?” in: Naum, Magdalena & Nordin, Jonas (ed.) Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, Springer, New York 2013, 20 p.

Lee, Crhistopher J., Making a World After Empire (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010) selected parts.

 

Naum, Magdalena: “Between Utopia and Dystopia: Colonial Ambivalence and Early Modern Perception of Sápmi”, Itinario, vol 40:3, 2016. Electronically available. 32 p.

Naum, Magdalena & Nordin, Jonas: “Introduction: Situating Scandinavian Colonialism” in: Naum & Nordin (ed.), Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, Springer, New York 2013, 14 p.

Pålsson, Ale: Our Side of the Water. Political Culture in the Swedish Colony of St Barthélemy 1800-1825, Stockholm 2016, pp. 49-65, 16 p. (Accessible on Diva, Södertörn University Library)

 

Wesseling, Henk: Söndra och härska: uppdelningen av Afrika 1880-1914, Lund 2006. 446 p. Original title: Divide and Rule. The Partition of Africa, 1880–1914 (1996)

Shorter source texts and articles will also be used; freely accessible on the internet.

Reference literature:

Howe, Stephen: Empire: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2002. 160 p.


Literature to the book report, chose one of the books below:

Hansen Jan C. & Osterhammel, Jürgen, Decolonization. A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)

• Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold’s Ghost Pan Books 2012 (Kung Leopolds Vålnad. Om girighet, terror och hjältemod i det koloniala Afrika, Stockholm 2002), 447 p.

• Olusoga, David & Erichsen, Casper W: Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s forgotten genocide and the roots of Nazism. Faber 2010. Available as e-book. .(Kejsarens förintelse: Tysklands bortglömda folkmord Leopard, Stockholm).

• Pratt, Mary Louise: Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation, Routledge, London 2007. 276 p.

• Pålsson, Ale: Our Side of the Water. Political Culture in the Swedish Colony of St Barthélemy •

• Samisk kamp. Kulturförmedling och rättviserörelse. Liljequist, Marianne & Cocq, Coppélie (ed.) Hström Serie Akademi, Umeå 2017. 298 p.

Samisk kamp. Kulturförmedling och rättviserörelse. Liljequist, Marianne & Cocq, Coppélie (ed.) Hström Serie Akademi, Umeå 2017. 298 p.

• Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena. Naum Magdalena & Nordin, Jonas (ed.) Springer, New York 2013.

• Weiss, Holger: Slavhandel och slaveri under svensk flagg: koloniala drömmar och verklighet i Afrika och Karibien 1770-1847, Stockholm: Atlantis, 2016. 328 p.

• Wesseling, Henk: Söndra och härska: uppdelningen av Afrika 1880-1914, Lund 2006. 446 p. Original title: Divide and Rule. The Partition of Africa, 1880–1914 (1996)

• Össbo, Åsa: Nya vatten, dunkla speglingar. Industriell kolonialism genom svensk vattenkraftsutbyggnad i renskötselområdet 1910-1968. Diss. Umeå Universitet 2014. 262 p.

In total approximately 1,200 pages.