Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Katja Werthmann
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: 03-Afrikastudien
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung: The course focuses on natural resource extraction in Africa and at its relevance for economic development, governance, livelihoods and lifestyles in sub-Saharan Africa. We will specifically look at the impact of oil production and mining. Large-scale natural resource extraction has long been associated with the subjugation, expulsion or even decimation of local communities. The environmental and social damages caused by resource extraction in the past and the present have been extensively documented and discussed by academics and activists. Up until the 1990s, multinational corporations and governments did not consult with local populations when planning large-scale extractive activities. Nowadays, corporations have to sign agreements that stipulate the terms for integrating local communities’ concerns into schemes for sustainable development. One of the questions we will discuss is whether the relations between transnational organizations, governments, corporations and local populations have changed under these conditions.
Literatur: Recommended Reading: Ferguson, J. 2006. „Governing Extraction. New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in Neoliberal Africa“. In: J. Ferguson Global Shadows. Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Durham NC, London, 194-210.
