ZA321 Imperialism, postcolonialism, and their effects on nature

Přírodovědecká fakulta
podzim 2024

Předmět se v období podzim 2024 nevypisuje.

Rozsah
1/1/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
RNDr. Mgr. Pavel Doboš, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
RNDr. Mgr. Pavel Doboš, Ph.D.
Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: RNDr. Mgr. Pavel Doboš, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Předpoklady
Ability to read scholarly texts in English.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course aims at being an interdisciplinary treatise of how imperialism, colonialism, and postcolonialism has influenced natural environment, as well as people’s cultural and discursive views of it. It draws on thoughts and analyses from the fields of postcolonial studies, postcolonial geographies, and histories of (post)colonialism. During the emergence of colonialism in 16th century and beyond, Western states experienced a passage from pre-modern times into modernity, from feudal economic systems into capitalism and industrialism. These passages and related processes crucially affected natural ecosystems by new types of agriculture, forced migration, exploitation of natural resources, pollution, new efforts of preservation of newly explored “pristine” natures, or even wars. These passages and processes also affected how natural environment and the difference between nature and culture has been perceived. Some colonized people were approached as natural, even savage, in contrast to supposedly cultivated Western colonizer. Outcomes of these processes and differentiations can be seen even today in the age of neoliberal globalization and new imperialisms.
Výstupy z učení
After attending to the course students will be able:
- to understand current debates in postcolonial studies and postcolonial geography;
- to apply postcolonial critique into the studies of nature and environment;
- to recognise the interconnection of current global environmental problems with global postcolonial (and imperial) legacies;
- to understand the precariousness of differentiations between the natural and the cultural;
- to discuss about the topic in a geographical way.
Osnova
  • 1. What is colonialism and what is postcolonialism?
  • 2. Beginnings of postcolonial studies
  • 3. Critical views of Western global dominance
  • 4. Postcolonial insight into the difference between the cultural and the natural
  • 5. World-system theories and the global exploitation of natural resources
  • 6. Orientalism and nature
  • 7. African studies and ideas about African nature
  • 8. Development studies and modernization effects on nature
  • 9. Postcolonial legacies in global efforts to preserve natural environment
  • 10. Nature in the neoliberal view
  • 11. Wars and their destruction of nature
  • 12. Imperialism and oil
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • ROOTHAAN, Angela. Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature. London: Routledge, 2020. 180. ISBN 9780367728496
  • Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure, Edited by Hayley Saul - Emma Waterton. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2020. 224. ISBN 9780367589189
  • van HOLSTEIN, Ellen; HEAD, Lesley. 2018. Shifting settler-colonial discourses of environmentalism: Representations of indigeneity and migration in Australian conservation. Geoforum 94: 41-52.
  • FARIA, Caroline; KATUSHABE, Jovah; KYOTOWADDE, Catherine; WHITESELL, Dominica. 2021. "You Rise Up... They Burn You Again": Market fires and the urban intimacies of disaster colonialism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46(1): 87-101.
  • BRIGHENTI, Andrea Mubi a Mattias KÄRRHOLM. Animated lands : studies in territoriology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020, xi, 232. ISBN 9781496213396. info
    doporučená literatura
  • Wainwright, Joel. 2005. The geographies of political ecology: after Edward Said. Environment and Planning A, 37, 6, 1033-1043.
  • Sawyer, Suzana, and Arun Agrawal. 2000. Environmental Orientalisms. Cultural Critique, 45, 71-108.
  • Blaut, James M. 1993. The Colonizer’s Model of the World. New York: Guilford.
  • Said, Edward W. 1979. Orientalism. New York: Vintage.
  • Arnold, David. 1996. The Problem of Nature. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Social nature : theory, practice, and politics. Edited by Bruce Braun - Noel Castree. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, xiv, 249. ISBN 0631215689. info
Výukové metody
Presentations and discussions in class, reading of mandatory literature between classes, writing short texts as homework
Metody hodnocení
Regular attendance in classes and participation in discussions
Four short texts as written homework (30 % of final classification)
Oral examination (70 % of final classification)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The course is going to be affected by the research experience and research work of the course teacher.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2023.