History and Politics of Contemporary Africa - JSM798

• Anglický název: History and Politics of Contemporary Africa
• Český název: Historie a politiky v současné Africe
• Zajišťuje: Katedra sociologie (23-KS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2024
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neomezen / neomezen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Garant: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
• Vyučující: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
• Třída: Externí předmět nevyučovaný na UK; Courses not for incoming students

Anotace

The course – taking the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a specific case-study – examines the trajectories the continent has experienced since the end of the colonial domination up to the present "new rush for Africa".



Lectureship: Associated Professor Maria Stella Rognoni

Poslední úprava: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (09.09.2023)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Attending students are required to actively participate in class discussions; in the second part of the second module they will be asked to work on a specific topic related to the themes of the course, to present in class the results of their research and to write a final essay (10/12 pages max.)
The final assessment will be based on :
- the active participation in class 30%
- the case study organisation 20%
- the case study presentation in class 20%
- the written essay 30%
No final exam for attending students

Non attending students:
an oral exam (or written at student's choice) on the course program consisting in answering open questions based on the topics presented by the authors of the suggested books.

Poslední úprava: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (03.08.2023)

Literatura

Reading material for the preparation of the exam.
Attending students:
- Kevin C Dunn, Imagining the Congo: The International Relations of Identity, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xi + 196 pp.
- Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History, London: Zed Books, 2002

-Attending students will also be given other reading materials (articles, essays, primary documents) in class that will be uploaded on the course's Moodle page

Non attending students:
- P. Nugent, Africa since independence : a comparative history, New York Macmillan : Palgrave ; 2012, pp. 1-57.
- E. Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2013.
- Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History, London: Zed Books, 2002


Recommended reading for all students who have no previous knowledge of African history:
- Dennis Laumann, Colonial africa 1884-1994, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013.

All the volumes will be found at the Library of the School of Political Science.

Poslední úprava: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (03.08.2023)