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Seminar
WiSe 14/15: Segregation: Harvest of a Connecting World?
Michael Goebel
Comments
Evoking the painful failure of overcoming the fallout of centuries of slavery in the United States and conjuring up the specter of state-enforced apartheid in South Africa, "segregation" nowadays appears to be almost ubiquitously condemned, but at the same time seemingly impossible to eradicate. Looking at (primarily urban, spatial, ethnic) segregation from a global angle, this seminar will reveal that the phenomenon has indeed plagued a great many societies since 1500, albeit in varying degrees and changing forms. Starting from recent arguments by historians (esp. Nightingale 2012) that segregation was primarily the result of state action, this seminar looks beyond the classic cases of the U.S. and South Africa in order to ask to what extent we should understand segregation as a side effect of the history of increasing global connectedness. Moving from rarely studied examples, such as 17th-century Ayutthaya, to better-known cases of late 19th-century Atlantic immigration cities, such as Buenos Aires, the seminar thus seeks to tease out the reasons and consequences of urban ethnic unmixing through wide-ranging comparisons. close
15 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Fri, 2014-12-05 12:00 - 14:00Regular appointments
Thu, 2014-10-16 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-10-23 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-10-30 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-11-06 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-11-13 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-11-20 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-12-04 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-12-11 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2014-12-18 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2015-01-08 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2015-01-15 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2015-01-22 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2015-01-29 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2015-02-05 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2015-02-12 12:00 - 14:00