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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (08.02.2023)
This course will focus on one of the key theoretical traditions in area studies, namely post-colonial theory, a tradition which has also strongly impacted on other fields of study, including media studies. The course aims to familiarize students with the key concepts of post-colonial theory, how they feature in the work of one of post-colonialism’s key authors (Edward Said) and show the application of these concepts in a variety of topical fields (materiality, class, environment) to better understand both post-colonial theory and these topical fields. The course will also explicitly thematize the connections of post-colonial theory with post-communism and a post-colonial approach to climate change and nature. |
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (13.02.2023)
The course evaluation consists out of three assignments, two of which are individual and one which is a group assignment. Each assignment contributes to the total grade in the following proportion: Assignment 1 (individual) (40% of the total mark) Assignment 2 (individual) (60% of the total mark) To pass the course, the total mark has to be E or above, AND the mark of each assignment has to be E or above. The following mark scale will be used:
Assignments need to be submitted on (or before) the indicated deadlines to receive a passing grade.
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (13.02.2023)
General & concepts Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth, Tiffin, Helen (2013) Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts, third edition. London & New York: Routledge. Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth, Tiffin, Helen (eds.) (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge. Nayar, Pramod K. (2015) The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Young, Robert J. C. (2003) Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edward Said, Orientalism and post-colonialism Ashcroft, Bill, Ahluwalia, Pal (1999) Edward Said. London: Routledge > Chapter Orientalism. Said, Edward (1978) Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Penguin > Afterword. Said, Edward (1993) Culture and Imperialism. London: Chatto & Windus. Huggan, Graham (1989) “Decolonizing the Map: Post-Colonialism, Post-Structuralism and the Cartographic Connection", Ariel, 20(4): 115-131. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1988) “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds.) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 271–313. Ashcroft, B., G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin (1989), The Empire Writes Back. Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London and New York: Routledge.
Postcolonial and Decolonial Bhambra, Gurminder K. (2014) Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues. Postcolonial Studies 17 (2), pp. 115–121. Quijano, Aníbal. (2000) Coloniality of power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America. Nepantla: Views from South, 1 (3), pp. 533–580. Walsh, Catherine E., and Walter D. Mignolo. (2018) On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Gianmaria Colpani, Jamila M. H. Mascat & Katrine Smiet (2022) Postcolonial responses to decolonial interventions, Postcolonial Studies, 25:1, 1-16, DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2041695 Grosfoguel, R. (2011). Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality. TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 1(1). Ascione G. (2016). Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory: Unthinking Modernity. Palgrave
Postcolonialism and post-socialism Kołodziejczyk, Dorota, Şandru, Cristina (2017) Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge. Lazarus, Neil (2012) “Spectres haunting: Postcommunism and postcolonialism”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48(2): 117-129. Moore, David Chioni (2001) “Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet? Toward a Global Postcolonial Critique”, PMLA, 116(1): 111-128. Madina Tlostanova (2019) The postcolonial condition, the decolonial option, and the post-socialist intervention, Postcolonialism Cross-examined
Post/Decolonial on More-than-Human Graham,Huggan and Helen, Tiffin (2010) Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. London: Routledge, 2010. Jan Wilkens, Alvine R C Datchoua-Tirvaudey, Researching climate justice: a decolonial approach to global climate governance, International Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 125–143, Hartnett, R. (2021). Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 20(2), 138–155. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3809 Dipesh Chakrabarty; Planetary Humanities: Straddling the Decolonial/Postcolonial Divide. Daedalus 2022; 151 (3): 222–233. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01940 Khoday, Kishan (2022) "Decolonizing the Environment: Third World Approaches to the Planetary Crisis," Indonesian Journal of International Law: Vol. 19: No. 2, Article 1. DOI: 10.17304/ijil.vol19.2.1 Available at: https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/ijil/vol19/iss2/1 Bhambra, G. K., & Newell, P. (2022). More than a metaphor: ‘climate colonialism’ in perspective, Global Social Challenges Journal (published online ahead of print 2022). Ax, Christina Folke, et. al. eds. Cultivating the Colonies: the Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies. Athens, United States: Ohio University Press, 2011. Barton, Gregory Empire, Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 19. Marks, Robert. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Second Edition). Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Co, 2007. Stibbe, Arran (2012) Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press > Introduction: Vanishing Animals. Carpentier, Nico (2020) “The Prague Zoo Wolf Assemblage: Reflections on the Frontiers of the Discursive and the Material”, Fotograf, 35: 4-7.
A southern Italian case study Schneider, Jane. (1998). Italy's "Southern question": orientalism in one country. Oxford ; New York : Berg Dickie, J. (1999). The Power of the Picturesque: Representations of the South in the Illustrazione Italiana . In: Darkest Italy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. Conelli, C. (2019). Back to the South: Revisiting Gramsci’s Southern Question in the Light of Subaltern Studies". In Revisiting Gr |
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (08.02.2023)
The course will consist of lectures, discussion seminars, film-screenings and presentation seminars. Face-to-face meetings will be used as the dominant teaching format. All available material can be found in Moodle, at https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3244. The path is Moodle 2 > Fakulta sociálních věd > Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky > Media and Areas Studies (MARS) |
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (22.02.2024)
The content of the assignments needs to be grounded in the lecture and course literature. Each submissed assignment needs to fulfil the following assignment requirements:
Assignment 1 (individual) (30%) Select one theoretical concept from “POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES: The Key Concepts” (by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin) Get approval from the course lecturer on the selected concept Present the concept to the group, on the basis of a literature review, using at least three different relevant academic publications Presentation 18 April 2024 Assignment 1+ (semi-collective, weekly assigment) (30%) Diary of the course – Produce a short note (from 300 to 500 words) at the end of each lecture to be shared during the successive lecture Assignment 2 (individual) (40%) Use the selected concept from assignment 1 to analyse one case study Get approval from the course lecturer on the object of the case study, and the research question Present the case study to the group Write a 3000-word academic paper about the case study, consisting out of theoretical framework and case study analysis.
All assignments needs to be submitted on (or before) the deadlines that will be communicated during the course, in order to receive a mark.
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (08.02.2023)
Introduction Core concepts of post-colonial theory Orientalism - Edward Said's work and poscolonial studies Postcolonialism and decoloniality Post-colonial identities: about others and the subaltern Post-colonialism and post-socialism Post- and de-colonial theorird and `the Nature` Post-colonial perspectives on environment and community - The southern Italian case |