Kolonialism och imperialism, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Kolonialism och imperialism, 7.5 högskolepoäng

HI012G, Colonialism and Imperialism

Obligatorisk litteratur:

Burbank, Jane, and Fredrik Cooper. Empires in Worlds History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010), 1‑16; 413‑442.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, (chapter 4) “Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts”, in Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). Electronic resource, see PDF on Canvas, 16 p.

Chamberlain, Muriel Evelyn (M.E.), The Scramble for Africa (Longman, London 2010), 95 p.

Fanon, Frantz, Black Skin, White Masks (Pluto Press 2017). Sv. översättning: Svart hud, vita masker (Daidalos, 1995), 272 p.

Fanon, Frantz, “Concerning Violence”, in Wretched of the Earth (Penguin Books 2012). Sv. översättning: Jordens fördömda (Stockholm 2007). Electronic resource, see Canvas, 15 p.

Jansen Jan C. & Osterhammel, Jürgen, Decolonization. A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). Selected parts, 118 p.

Körber, Lill‑Ann, “Sweden and St. Barthélemy: Exceptionalisms, Whiteness, and the Disappearance of Slavery from Colonial History”, in Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 91, No. 1‑2, Spring/Summer 2019 (University of Illionis). Electronic resource, see PDF on Canvas, 20 p.

Levine, Philippa. “Introduction: Why Gender and Empire?”. In Gender and Empire, edited by Philippa Levine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 1‑13.

Lundin, Emma. “In exile: the office of the African National Congress of South Africa in Sweden” Third World Quarterly, 2024 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2024.2432496#abstract

Manjapra, Kris, Colonialism in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Electronic resource, selected parts, 100 p.

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

Naum, Magdalena & Nordin, Jonas M., “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). Electronic resource, 14 p.

Petersson, Fredrik, “From Versailles to Bandung: The Interwar Origins of Anticolonialism”, in Bandung, Global History, and International Law. Critical Pasts and Pending Futures, Luis Eslava et al. (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Electronic resource, see PDF, 15 p.

Wesseling, Hendrik L., Divide and Rule. The Partition of Africa, 1880‑1914 (1996). Sv. översättning: Söndra och härska: uppdelningen av Afrika 1880‑1914 (Lund 2006). Selected parts, 112 p.

Young, Robert J.C., Empire, Colony, Postcolony (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2015), 208 p.

Additional shorter texts may be used, accessible on Internet or Canvas.

In total: 1017 pages.

Literature for the book report, choose one of the books below:

Forclaz, Amalia Ribi, Humanitarian Imperialism. The Politics of Anti‑Slavery Activism, 1880‑1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 243 p.

Jansen Jan C. & Osterhammel, Jürgen, Decolonization. A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), 252 p.

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

Kortekangas, Otso, Language, Citizenship and Sami Education in the Nordic North, 1900‑1940 (Montreal: McGill‑ Queen’s University Press, 2021), 184 p.

Lee, Christopher J. (ed.), Making a World After Empire (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010), 443 p.

Olusoga, David & Erichsen, Casper W., Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s forgotten genocide and the roots of Nazism (Faber 2010). Sv. Översättning: Kejsarens förintelse: Tysklands bortglömda folkmord (Leopard, Stockholm 2014). Available as e‑book, 416 p.

Sahadeo, Jeff. 2007. Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865‑1923. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 316 p.

Prashad, Vijay, The Darker Nations. A People’s History of the Third World (New York: The New Press, 2007/2022), 364 p.

Pålsson, Ale, Our Side of the Water. Political Culture in the Swedish Colony of St Barthélemy 1800‑1825 (Diss. Stockholm University 2016). Accessible on Diva, Södertörn University Library) 269 p.