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SoSe 15: Empire and the Self: Classification and Identity in Colonial Latin America

Nino Vallen

Hinweise für Studierende

Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird für Studierende der Geschichtswissenschaft im Masterstudiengang Geschichte im Modul 3, Teil 2, Räume und Regionen der Geschichte als Methodenübung angeboten.

Kommentar

The last two decades have seen an avalanche of studies dealing with the impact of Empire on the making of national and ethnical identities both in the metropolis and the periphery. As more recent scholarship has noted, however, the focus on collective identities and identity politics at times tends to obscure the fluid, contiguous, and instable nature of images that people produced of themselves and of others. Dealing with such critiques, this seminar focuses on the tactical process of inventing the Self within the context of the Spanish Empire. We will explore distinct practices of description, identification, and classification, as well as the theories and ideologies underpinning them. Our main objective is to arrive at a better understanding of the different functions of descriptions of the Self in the politics of everyday life. Topics that will be discussed include early-modern notions of selfhood, body, and race; the influence of legal, administrative, and cultural norms on self-descriptions; and the relationship between the individual and collective Self. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Brubaker, Rogers, and Frederick Cooper: Beyond 'Identity,' Theory and Society 29: 1-47, 2000. - Folger, Robert: Writing as Poaching: Interpellation and Self-Fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios. Brill: Leiden, 2011. - Fisher, Andrew B., and Matthew D. O'Hara, eds.: Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. Schließen

13 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00 13 Termine

Mo, 13.04.2015 14:00 - 16:00

Dozenten:
Nino Vallen