03-AFR-2102.SE01 The State in Africa: Debates from Southern Africa

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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel

Event type: Seminar

Org-unit: 03-African Studies

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Hours per week: 2

Language of instruction: English

Official course description:
In African Studies, the African state is one of the most fiercely contested concepts. In this seminar, Southern Africa will be used as the regional context in which we will discuss various mainstream, critical and post-colonial contributions to this debate, with a focus on the nature of settler economies and their legacies, liberation movements in power and their political culture, the political economy of states in the region, regional integration through SADC and SACU as well as more recent processes of state capture in South Africa, etc.

Readings:
For preparation: Roger Southall 2013. Liberation Movements in Power: Party & State in Southern Africa. Woodbridge: James Currey. Henning Melber 2018. “Southern Africa”. In Africa yearbook online: politics, economy and society south of the Sahara. Leiden, Boston MA: Brill Academic Publishers (vol. 14, 2017).

Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Wed, 16. Oct. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
2 Wed, 23. Oct. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
3 Wed, 30. Oct. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
4 Wed, 6. Nov. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
5 Wed, 13. Nov. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
6 Wed, 27. Nov. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
7 Wed, 4. Dec. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
8 Wed, 11. Dec. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
9 Wed, 18. Dec. 2019 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
10 Wed, 8. Jan. 2020 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
11 Wed, 15. Jan. 2020 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
12 Wed, 22. Jan. 2020 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
13 Wed, 29. Jan. 2020 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
14 Wed, 5. Feb. 2020 13:15 14:45 Strohsackpassage, Raum 5.55 Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel
Contained in modules
Module
03-AFR-2102 Politics in and around Africa (WiSe 2019/20)
06-008-GS-0910 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East II (WiSe 2019/20, WiSe 2019/20)
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Instructors
Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel