Lehrveranstaltungen im laufenden Semester

Colonization, Recognition, and the State: Introducing Settler Colonial Studies

Dozent:innen: Andreas Womelsdorf
Kurzname: Settler
Kurs-Nr.: 07.798.197
Kurstyp: Proseminar
Format: hybrid

Empfohlene Literatur

References
Alfred, Taiaiake (2004): Sovereignty. In: Deloria, Philip J. & Salisbury, Neal (eds.): A Companion to American Indian History. Malden, MA et al.: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 460—473.
Althusser, Louis (2014 [1970]): On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. London & New York: Verso.
Coulthard, Glen S. (2014): From Wards of the State to Subjects of Recognition? Marx, Indigenous Peoples, and the Politics of Dispossession in Denendeh. In: Simpson, Audra & Smith, Andrea (eds.): Theorizing Native Studies. Durham & London: Duke University Press, pp. 56—98.
Harris, Douglas (2001): Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia. Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press.
Honneth, Axel (2018 [1992]): Kampf um Anerkennung: Zur moralischen Grammatik sozialer Konflikte. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
Kauanui, Kehaulani J. (2018): Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (2015): The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press.
Nadasdy, Paul (2017): Sovereignty’s Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon. Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press.
Povinelli, Elizabeth A. (2016): Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Povinelli, Elizabeth A. (2002): The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Povinelli, Elizabeth A. (2001): Settler Modernity and the Quest for an Indigenous Tradition. In: Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar (ed.): Alternative Modernities. Durham & London: Duke University Press, pp. 24—57.
Rifkin, Mark (2011): When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty. Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press.
Simpson, Audra (2014): Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Smith, Andrea (2015 [2005]): Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
TallBear, Kim (2013): Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press.
Taylor, Charles (1994 [1992]): The Politics of Recognition. In: Gutmann, Amy (ed.): Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 25—73.
White, Richard (1999 [1980]): Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press.
Wolfe, Patrick (2006): Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native. In: Journal of Genocide Research 8 (4), pp. 387—409.

Inhalt

In recent decades, notions of Recognition have increasingly been mobilized in settler colonial contexts to mediate claims to lands and resources between settlers and aboriginal peoples (cf., e.g., Moreton-Robinson 2015). In contrast to philosophical positions stressing the liberating implications of Recognition (cf., e.g., Taylor 1994; Honneth 2018), however, scholars such as Glen S. Coulthard (cf., e.g., Coulthard 2014) or Elizabeth A. Povinelli (cf., e.g., Povinelli 2002) have frequently argued that these philosophical, legal and political conceptions of a multi-cultural, pluralist and inclusive nation state do in fact represent yet another instrument in the toolbox of settler colonial regimes of domination and dispossession.
By reconstructing the ongoing debate over the consequences of the implementation of a Politics of Recognition, this course provides both an introduction to and a critical discussion of central features of contemporary conceptions of setter colonialism (cf., e.g., Wolfe 2006; Smith 2015). What are settler colonialism’s distinctive features; and why would a differentiation between various types of colonialism prove analytically valuable? Apart from extensive studies of particular conflicts over lands and resources, situated primarily in (post)colonial Northern America and the Circumpolar North (cf., e.g., Harris 2001; Nadasdy 2017), this course puts a strong emphasis on the implications of Settler Colonial Studies to current Gender and Queer Theories (cf., e.g., Rifkin 2011) and the Anthropology of the State (cf., e.g., Simpson 2014). How, for instance, can we conceive of concepts such as sovereignty in settler colonial contexts (cf., e.g., Alfred 2004); and how are notions of sovereignty in settler colonial configurations related to notions of territoriality and historicity (cf., e.g., Povinelli 2001; Kauanui 2008)? Which forms of subjectivity are articulated, ‘recognized’ by settler colonial “ideological state apparatuses” (Althusser 2014), and which are not (cf., e.g., TallBear 2013)? What kinds of assemblages of human and non-human entities are representable within settler colonial juridico-political frameworks of power (cf., e.g., White 1999), and which are not (cf., e.g., Povinelli 2016)?

Termine

Datum (Wochentag) Zeit Ort
02.11.2020 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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09.11.2020 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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16.11.2020 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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23.11.2020 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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30.11.2020 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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07.12.2020 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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14.12.2020 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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04.01.2021 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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11.01.2021 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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18.01.2021 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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25.01.2021 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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01.02.2021 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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08.02.2021 (Montag) 12:15 - 13:45 01 715 HS 14
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