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SoSe 16: A History of Rewards: Justice and Inequality in Colonial Spanish America

Nino Vallen

Hinweise für Studierende

Prüfungsform M.A. Interdisziplinäre Lateinamerikastudien: Hausarbeit (ca. 15 Seiten). Prüfungsleistung Global History Master: Hausarbeit (25 Seiten). Prüfungsleistung FMI – MA Geschichtswissenschaft Modul 4: Referat Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird außerdem für Studierende der Geschichtswissenschaft im Masterstudiengang Geschichte im Modul 4, Teil 2, Räume und Regionen der Geschichte als Methodenübung angeboten. Prüfungsform: Referat Schließen

Kommentar

Latin America today is known for being the most unequal region in the world. In this course we will consider the phenomenon of social inequality during the colonial period. For long, colonialism has been considered one of the main reasons for the persisting inequality in this part of the world. Recently, however, scholars working from macro-economical and micro-historical points of view have started to question such an assumption. It is the latter perspective that we assume as we will explore the discursive and material dimensions of the distribution of common goods, offices, and honors in Spain’s global empire. The aim of this course is to develop students’ sensibilities for the dynamical relationships and social mobility facilitated by means of distributive justice in societies that, albeit highly stratified, were far from static. Topics that will be discussed include the social and biological dimension of inequality, the role of knowledge-producing practices in legitimizing social stratifications, and the permeability of class and ethnical borders. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Fleischacker, Samuel. A Short History of Distributive Justice (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004). - Folger, Robert. Writing as Poaching: Interpellation and Self-Fashioning in Colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2011). - Twinam, Ann. Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press, 2015). Schließen

13 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Do, 16:00 - 18:00 13 Termine

Do, 21.04.2016 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Nino Vallen