Evropski kolonijalizam i njegova nasleđa

Ciljevi izučavanja predmeta

This course introduces students to contemporary debates in postcolonial and decolonial studies. Students will learn about the history of European colonialism and will study anticolonial struggles across the Global South. They will analyze how the colonial West continues to shape postcolonial societies through economic, military, and political interventions.

Ishodi učenja (stečena znanja)

After completing this course, students will be able to:
- understand colonial ideologies and their role in European politics and society;
- understand the colonial basis of contemporary race, class, and gender hierarchies;
- understand the role of culture and language in anticolonial and postcolonial struggles;
- understand the contemporary legacy of European colonialism.

Sadržaj teorijske nastave

1. Introduction: the history of European colonialism
2. The Haitian revolution
3. Revolution and resistance in the Caribbean
4. African anticolonialism
5. The case of Algeria
6. Orientalism
7. Orientalism and the Balkans
8. Midterm
9. On the postcolony
10. The struggle continues: decolonial thinking and praxis
11. The place of Latin America
12. Decolonizing gender
13. Globalization, borders, and neocolonialism
14. Decolonizing peace and conflict studies
15. Review for final exam

Sadržaj praktične nastave

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1. (mandatory) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past, Beacon Press, 2015

2. (mandatory) Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, NYU Press, 2000

3. (mandatory) Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth, Grove Press; Reprint edition, 2005

4. (mandatory) Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized, Beacon Press, 1999

5. (mandatory) Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Routledge, 2005

6. (mandatory) Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony, UC Press, 2001

7. (mandatory) Quijano, Anibal and Michael Ennis. "Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America." Nepantla: Views from South, vol. 1 no. 3, 2000, p. 533-580

8. (mandatory) Maria Lugones, The Coloniality of Gender, 2007

9. (mandatory) Harsha Walia, Undoing Border Imperialism, AK Press, 2014

10. (mandatory) Walter Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs, Princeton University Press, 2000

11. (mandatory) Sabaratnam M. “Avatars of Eurocentrism in the critique of the liberal peace.” Security Dialogue. 2013;44(3):259-278

12. (mandatory) Bakić-Hayden, M. “Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia”. Slavic Review, 54(4), 917-931, 1995

13. (mandatory) Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978

14. (mandatory) Todorova, Maria︡ N. Imagining the Balkans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009

15. (supplementary) Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996

16. (supplementary) Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. Oxon: Routledge, 1994

17. (supplementary) Chakrabarty, Dipesh, ‘Provincializing Europe: Postcoloniality and the Critique of History’, Cultural Studies, 6.3 (1992), 337-57

18. (supplementary) Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital. Verso, 2013

19. (supplementary) Glissant, Édouard. Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays. 1st pbk. ed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. Print. CARAF Books

20. (supplementary) Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire, Princeton University Press, 2019

21. (supplementary) Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, Eds., New York: Columbia UP, 1994

22. (mandatory) Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, eds., New York: Columbia U P, 1994

Lectures, discussions, student presentations.