Teaching
Einführung in die Nord-Süd-Beziehungen
Nina Baghery
BA Politikwissenschaften
Seminar: Tue 16:00 - 18:00, Arnold-Bode 10 - Room 0104
Das Seminar befasst sich mit der Geschichte und Struktur der Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. Zentral besprochen wird der Zusammenhang zwischen der kolonialen Expansion des Kapitalismus zu aktuellen globalen Ungleichheitsverhältnissen. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in Ansätze und Grundbegriffe der Postkolonialen Studien sowie der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie, wird die Geschichte des europäischen Kolonialismus im Zusammenhang mit der internationalen Reproduktion von sozialen und ökonomischen Ungleichheiten analysiert. Anschließend wird die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) als Instrument der politischen und ökonomischen Behandlung von globalen Ungleichheiten in den Blick genommen. Unter Betrachtung der Agenda der deutschen EZ wird untersucht, inwiefern ihre Ausrichtung koloniale Herrschafts- und Ausbeutungsverhältnisse fortführt. Abschließend werden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Post-Development und Degrowth Ansätze als Alternativen zum kapitalistischen Entwicklungsmodell diskutiert.
From Colonialism to Globalization
Nina Baghery
MA Global Political Economy and Development
Seminar: Thu. 12:00 - 14:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Room 3023
Tutorial: Thu. 16:00 - 18:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Room 3023
This seminar will trace the history of the modern political and economic world order from colonialism to globalization. Students will engage with twelve landmark events between the seventeenth and twenty-first century to make sense of the emergence, consequences, and contemporary forms of global inequalities. The course introduces key concepts like globalization, capitalism, imperialism, decolonization, and neoliberalism and uses them to show continuities and ruptures in the making of the contemporary world. At the end of the class students can identify and analyze key mechanisms that shape the global political economy. The seminar will be complemented by a tutorial which provides space for personal and peer-reflection on the topics, texts, and personal experiences. Moreover, the tutorial will introduce some basic academic skills.
Landmark Events: Bank of England (1694), Haitian Revolution (1791), Berlin Conference (1884-1885), Paris Peace Conference (1919), Bandung Conference (1955), Organisation of African Unity (1963), World Economic Forum (1971), Chilean coup d’etat (1973), World Conference on Women (1995), World Social Forum (2001), International Trade Union Confederation (2006), Paris Agreement (2015)
Governance of the World Market
Dr. Frauke Banse
MA Global Political Economy and Development
Lecture: Tue. 10:00 - 12:00, Arnold-Bode 10 - Room 1102
Seminar: Tue. 12:00 - 14:00, Arnold-Bode 10 - Room 1102
Tutorial: Tue. 14:00 - 16:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Room 2019
The course will provide an introduction to the most important institutions of the global political economy, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It will discuss the international division of labour and global value chains, the Bretton Woods system and its failure, the attempts to establish a New International Economic Order and the debt crisis and the subsequent Structural Adjustment Programs and their effects. The gender dimension of the global political economy and the role of multinational companies will also be discussed.
Einführung in das politikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten
Dr. Frauke Banse
BA Politikwissenschaften
Seminar: Tue. 14:00 - 16:00, G.-Forster-Str. 4 - Room 0005
Tutorial: Wed. 14:00 - 16:00, Kurt-Wolters 3 - Room 1120 A
In diesem Seminar und im dazu zugehörigen Tutorium (von Sophia Lutum) geht es darum, die grundlegenden Fertigkeiten für ein erfolgreiches Studium der Politikwissenschaft zu erlernen. Wie lese und schreibe ich wissenschaftliche Texte? Wie zitiere ich korrekt? Wie entwickle ich eine Fragestellung und eine Gliederung? Wie erkenne ich verschiedene Thesen von Autor*innen? Weshalb ist eine gute Begriffsarbeit bedeutend für die politikwissenschaftliche Analyse? Diese und andere Fragen behandeln wir anhand des Themenfeldes Globalisierung.
Nur wer sich über Ecampus anmeldet und einen Platz erhält, kann am Seminar teilnehmen. Wer bei der ersten Sitzung unangekündigt fehlt, verliert den Platz wieder. Nachrücker*innen werden dann entsprechend berücksichtigt.
Voraussetzung für das Erbringen einer Studien- oder Prüfungsleistung ist eine aktive Teilnahme am Seminar, die regelmäßige Lektüre der Textgrundlagen sowie das Schreiben dreier kurzer wissenschaftlicher Texte.
So es die Pandemielage erlaubt, finden die Seminarsitzungen bis auf wenige Ausnahmen in Präsenz statt.
Governance of Globalisation
Dr. Frauke Banse
Tutorial: Tue. 12:00 - 14:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Room 3023
This seminar deepens issues discussed in the lecture on “Governance of the World Market” and can only be attended if the lecture is visited parallel.
The class is designed for students of the MA program “Global Political Economy and Development”. Other interested students are requested to contact the lecturer first.
Trade Union Strategies
Dr. Frauke Banse
MA Labour Policies and Globalisation
Seminar: Wed 10:00 - 12:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Room 3023
In this class we will first develop a common understanding of what a “trade union” is. Hereafter, we learn about the different theoretical approaches to understand this specific organization of workers´ interest within capitalist societies. Based on these discussions, we will develop a common analytical framework to do practical research on different trade union strategies regarding wages, precarity, organizational health and safety, informality, social security, environment and others.
The class is designed for students of the MA program “Labour Policies and Globalisation”. Other interested students are requested to contact the lecturer first.
Foundations of Global Political Economy and Development
Jahnavi Rao
MA Global Political Economy and Development, MA Politikwissenschaften
Seminar: Mo. 14:00 - 16:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Room 3023
This tutorial introduces students to the fundamentals of Global Political Economy and Development. It is designed as a supplement to the other core courses ‘From Colonialism to Globalisation’ and ‘Governance of the World Markets’. Students will learn about the origins, goals, and perspectives of the following three transdisciplinary research areas: Development Studies, International Political Economy (IPE), and Postcolonial Studies. The course is structured into three major parts. The first will engage with what GPE is and how it evolved as an academic approach since the 1970s. Emphasis will be laid on the history of political and economic thought, and how political science became separated from economics. The second part covers the history and state of development studies as well as critiques and alternative approaches to study global inequalities from the perspective of postcolonial studies. The final part of the course draws on current debates and selected issues concerning poverty, inequality, and sustainable development to show how different approaches may be applied to contemporary phenomena.
Postcolonial Political Economy
MA Global Political Economy and Development, MA Politikwissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
Seminar: Tue. 14 - 16 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Room 3023
What stakes are at play within the current global political economy? Rising inequality, deepening social antagonisms, and market logic with impunity in the face of the climate emergency. International Political Economy has so far responded to these recurring concerns as representative of the long-standing relationship between power and wealth. Yet other relationships, namely those that involve imperialism, race and gender, and settler colonialism have been marginal to these debates. Following on recent calls for a more ‘global conversation’ within GPE that pays greater attention to spaces and communities beyond Europe and North America, this module seeks to confront the Eurocentric analysis of global political economy that might inform our understandings of contemporary issues of neoliberal conjuncture of global capitalism. This course offers an historically-informed reassessment of political economy that exposes its imperial foundations by drawing on the entangled histories between European industrialization, Atlantic slavery and its civilizing mission. The course broadly surveys the role of land and dispossession as both object and instrument of colonial power in the consolidation of the settler‐colonial state. The colonial origins of poverty within 18th century neoclassical tradition and the case of Haiti to explore ways debt was weaponized to compromise the nation-building processes of the world’s first black republic. This historical foregrounding situates contemporary challenges and political struggles as the colonial afterlives of contemporary global economic globalisation to explore issues of financialization and the “rise” of corporate power, global care work and social reproduction, extractive industries and the ecology as well as the return to alt-right populism and anti-imperial politics in the form of reparations. By confronting the colonial amnesia of the discipline, the module hopes to provide students with interdisciplinary analyses that renders visible global political economy to its embedded relationship with coloniality, racism, sexism or anthropocentrism and to invite new framings and questions to attend to the ongoing global crises.
World Bank Inspection Panel
MA Global Political Economy and Development, MA Politikwissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
Seminar: Wed 10:00 - 12:00, Arnold-Bode 10 - Room 1217
After a general introduction to the World Bank, its history and changing purpose, the course will focus on the accountability mechanism of the institution: the Inspection Panel. The IP provides the opportunity for persons negatively affected by World Bank projects to file claims against them. Examining case studies, we will explore to what extent the IP was able to serve its purpose of making the voice of these persons heard and democratize global governance. Instead of a normal seminar paper, students can write reports on so far unresearched case studies which can be published on the home page of the research project on the IP.
Einführung in Rassismus und postkoloniale Studien
Nina Baghery
BA Politikwissenschaft
Di 16:00 bis 18:00, Moritzstr. 18 Campus Center - Raum 1111, Seminarraum 2
Zunächst befassen wir uns im Seminar mit dem Phänomen des Rassismus, seinen unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen sowie mit unterschiedlichen Ansätzen der Rassismustheorie. Anschließend werden postkoloniale Studien, die sich mit den Nachwirkungen des Kolonialismus nach seinem formalen Ende, v.a. mit kolonial geprägten Denkweisen und Darstellungsformen befassen, beleuchtet. Diese Ansätze werden durch Lektüre einiger zentraler Texte verschiedener postkolonialer Theoretiker*innen erschlossen. Im dritten Teil wird die postkoloniale Rassismusanalyse mit historisch materialistischen Perspektiven erweitert und unter dem Begriff Racial Capitalism erörtert, wie Rassismus innerhalb der kapitalistischen Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsform einzuordnen ist. Die Seminartexte werden in einem Moodle-Kurs zur Verfügung gestellt.
EU-Africa trade, development and investment relations - with excursion to Brussels
Frauke Banse
MA GPED, MA Politikwissenschaft
Mi 10:00 bis 12:00, Nora-Platiel 8 - Raum 0419
In this class, we will analyse the (contradictory) relationship between the investment and development policies of the European Union in Africa. Particular attention will be paid to the newly announced Global Gateway infrastructure initiative. Since this initiative is explicitly conceived as a geopolitical response to China's Belt and Road Initiative, this seminar will also address the geopolitical role of infrastructure and investment policies.
The course comprises of seminar sessions in Kassel and an excursion to Brussels. In the seminar sessions, we will discuss general questions concerning the EU trade, investment and development policies and ask which interest groups are dealing with these three interconnected policy fields. In Brussels we will discuss these issues with representatives of the European Commission, the African Union, the European Parliament, NGOs and business organisations.
As the preparation time is very limited, previous reading is obligatory. Students registered through hispos will be informed about required readings before the first seminar session.
Active participation in all seminar sessions is a precondition to taking part in the excursion. Students who are absent will not be able to take part in the excursion, for which there are only 25 places in total. MA Students from ”Political Science” and ”Global Political Economy and Development” are invited to join the class.
The excursion to Brussels will take place from June 5th to June 9th. Students will receive support for travel expenses.
Der Konflikt in der Sahelzone - internationale Dimensionen
Frauke Banse
MA GPED, MA Politikwissenschaft, MA Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
Di 10:00 bis 12:00, Moritzstr. 18 Campus Center - Raum 1118, Seminarraum 5
Seit 10 Jahren ist die Bundeswehr im Rahmen der UN-Mission MINUSMA im westafrikanischen Mali stationiert, eine Verlegung in den benachbarten Niger ist wegen Unstimmigkeiten mit der malischen Regierung anvisiert. Der Konflikt in der Sahelregion hat sich in den letzten Jahren dramatisch ausgeweitet, weitere Länder wie Burkina Faso und Niger sind inzwischen schwer betroffen. Die sozialen, politischen und ökonomischen Kosten sind verheerend. Zudem sehen wir eine Zunahme geopolitischer Interessen an der Region.
In dem Seminar wollen wir den Ursachen des Konflikts in der Sahelregion auf den Grund gehen und die geopolitischen Interessen an der Region analysieren.
Mit Hilfe unterschiedlicher theoretischer Ansätze der Internationalen Beziehungen und der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie werden wir die verschiedenen Blickwinkel kennenlernen, aus denen dieser Konflikt verstanden werden kann.
BA-Kolloquium
Frauke Banse
BA Politikwissenschaft
Di 14:00 bis 16:00, Moritzstr. 18 Campus Center - Raum 1117, Seminarraum 4
Das Kolloquium unterstützt BA Studierende beim Anfertigen ihrer Abschlussarbeit. Wir werden einführend wichtige Anforderungen an eine BA Arbeit, Aufbau sowie Herausforderungen des theoretischen und empirischen Arbeitens besprechen. Je nach Anzahl der Studierenden werden die Teilnehmenden in der zweiten Phase des Seminars ihr BA-Vorhaben einzeln präsentieren können oder sie fertigen in thematisch organisierten Arbeitsgruppen ein kurzes Forschungsexposé an. Auf Grundlage der Exposés werden wir dann die Herausforderungen gemeinsam diskutieren.
Die Klimakrise: Grundlagen, Herausforderungen, Lösungen
Svenja Quitsch
BA Politikwissenschaft
Mo 18:00 bis 20:00, Arnold-Bode 2 - Raum 0408
Dieser Kurs vermittelt ein umfassendes Verständnis des Klimawandels mit seinen politischen, gesellschaftlichen und individuellen Herausforderungen. Ziel ist es außerdem, Studierenden ein Verständnis für Klimamodelle, die Rolle des IPCC und den Zusammenhang zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik zu vermitteln und sie zu befähigen, Lösungsansätze kritisch zu betrachten und eigenes Handeln zu reflektieren.
Dieser Kurs basiert auf dem Ansatz Problem-basierten Lernens (PBL). Neben dem inhaltlichen Verständnis der Thematik, ist auch die Entwicklung methodischer Kompetenzen und sog. soft-skills ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Kurses. Dazu gehören sowohl eine eigenständigen, strukturierten Herangehensweise an neue Lerninhalte, als auch die Fähigkeit der pro-aktiven Gesprächsführung und konstruktives, reflektiertes Diskussionsverhalten.
Wichtig: Die Literatur für diesen Kurs besteht größtenteils aus englischsprachigen Fachartikeln. Die Bereitschaft, sich damit auseinanderzusetzen wird vorausgesetzt.
Wachstum überdenken: Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik im Wandel
Svenja Quitsch
BA Politikwissenschaft
Mo 16:00 bis 18:00, Nora-Platiel 8 - Raum 0419
Es ist doch gut, wenn die Wirtschaft wächst, oder? Inzwischen wird diese gar nicht so neue Frage nicht zuletzt wegen der schon eingetretenen und noch erwarteten Folgen der globalen Erwärmung wieder ambivalenter beantwortet. Dieses Seminar beleuchtet die Debatte über das „richtige“ Ziel des Wirtschaftens vor dem Hintergrund alten und neuen Postwachstumsdenkens. Studierende lernen verschiedene alternative Ansätze kennen, die das Wachstumsparadigma der klassischen Ökonomie hinterfragen. Dabei werden sie befähigt, die unterschiedlichen Dimensionen der Postwachstumsdebatte in einen politikwissenschaftlichen Kontext einzuordnen.
Dieser Kurs basiert auf dem Ansatz problembasierten Lernens (PBL). Neben dem inhaltlichen Verständnis der Thematik ist auch die Entwicklung methodischer Kompetenzen und sogenannter Soft Skills ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Kurses. Dazu gehören eine eigenständige und strukturierte Herangehensweise an neue Lerninhalte, die Fähigkeit der pro-aktiven Gesprächsführung sowie konstruktives und reflektiertes Diskussionsverhalten.
Wichtig: Die Literatur für diesen Kurs besteht größtenteils aus englischsprachigen Fachartikeln. Die Bereitschaft, sich damit auseinanderzusetzen wird vorausgesetzt.
Decolonial Feminisms
Julia Schöneberg
MA GPED, MA Politikwissenschaft
Di 18:00 bis 20:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
This seminar will explore intersectional and gendered inequalities through a decolonial lens. We will explore the ways feminisms have been and are used to resist and challenge effects of colonialism and (gendered) power relations. Departing from Olufemi’s claim that “feminist work is justice work” (Olufemi 2020) we will engage with approaches and demands of decolonial feminisms and explore their potential to transform power relations and promote social justice.
Alternativen zur "Entwicklung"? Einführung in Post-Development
Julia Schöneberg
BA Politikwissenschaft
Mi 08:00 bis 10:00, Arnold-Bode 10 - Raum 0104
„Die Idee der Entwicklung steht heute als geistige Ruine in der intellektuellen Landschaft. Sie überschattet unser Denken, aber gehört doch unübersehbar einer vergangenen Epoche an “ so schrieb Wolfgang Sachs 1992 im ‚Development Dictionary.‘ Fast 30 Jahre später wird ‚Entwicklung‘ allgemein noch immer als Allheilmittel verstanden um das „Leben aller Menschen grundlegend [zu] verbessern und eine Transformation der Welt“ (UN Agenda 2030 für Nachhaltige Entwicklung) herbeizuführen.
Der Kurs gibt einen Überblick über die Argumente verschiedener Postdevelopment Proponent*innen, ihrer Kritik an ‚Entwicklung‘ als eurozentristisch-hegemonialem Konstrukt und Alternativen hierzu. Zunächst werden wir Ansätze zur Dekonstruktion des Entwicklungsparadigmas und der verknüpften Diskurse diskutieren bevor wir uns mit der Frage beschäftigen: Was folgt auf die Kritik? Welche praktischen Alternativen zur Entwicklung sind denkbar, welche gibt es bereits? (Inwiefern) ist Postdevelopment gescheitert?
Theories of Development and GPE
Julia Schöneberg
MA GPED
Di 14:00 bis 16:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
After a general introduction on epistemology, the course will cover different paradigms concerning theories of global political economy, inequality and social change. It will engage with explanations from historical and contemporary perspectives (such as modernization, dependency, neo-gramscian and feminist approaches) and analyse their ontological and methodological assumptions – as well as their biases and blind spots.
The session are usually structured into a 45 min lecture, 15 min break, followed by a 90 min seminar.
Summer School: Decolonising Development
Julia Schöneberg
Blockseminar vom 03.07.2023 bis 05.07.2023, jeweils 08:00-20:00 Uhr
Racial Capitalism
Anil Shah
MA GPED
Mi 12:00 bis 14:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
In recent years, racial capitalism has developed into a buzzword. Within social movements and amongst many critical scholars, it has become a truism that racism and capitalism are thoroughly imbricated. But where does the term racial capitalism come from, and what does it mean? How exactly are racism and capitalism entangled, and how are they related to other processes of oppression, like coloniality and patriarchy? And how can one explore these relations empirically? The course engages with these questions and thereby touches on contemporary debates. In the first part of the course, we will engage with foundational theoretical concepts and historical processes that help us make sense of the term racial capitalism. In the second part, we will examine empirical analysis from different parts of the world concerning the prison-industrial complex, the rise of the global far right, border regimes, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial finance capitalism, algorithms of oppression, climate justice and reparations and strategies for anti-racist politics.
The course will be an excellent preparation for participating in the “Racial Capitalism: Marxism meets Postcolonial Studies” conference on 5.-6. October 2023 in Kassel.
Master Thesis Kolloquium
Anil Shah
MA GPED
Do 12:00 bis 14:00, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
The colloquium is a mandatory part of the MA Thesis module. All GPED students in the 4th semester and above are encouraged to participate and discuss their research projects. Throughout the semester, students will engage with vital questions that help them progress with their MA Thesis, for example: how to find a suitable topic, research question, and supervisor? What research design fits my project? How can I plan and organize the writing process amidst other responsibilities? How can I manage my fieldwork? How can I align the thesis writing process with my future career perspectives? Each session consists of two parts. In the first half an hour, one of the above questions will be tackled collaboratively (input by the lecturer + questions and experience-sharing from students). In the second part, students present their work in progress, paying particular attention to problems and questions they face. Students will receive constructive feedback from the group, which will help them to continue. There will be no regular readings or assignments, but all students are expected to participate regularly and actively for a positive group dynamic. The course is designed as a Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) seminar, i.e. everyone is invited to bring sandwiches, fruits, or other snacks to consume while pondering over the difficult questions outlined above.
From Colonialism to Globalization
Anil Shah
MA GPED
Do 10:00-14:00 Uhr, Moritzstr. 25-31 Systembau 3 - Raum 0305
This seminar will trace the history of the modern political and economic world order from colonialism to globalization. Students will engage with twelve landmark events between the seventeenth and twenty-first century to make sense of the emergence, consequences, and contemporary forms of global inequalities. The course introduces key concepts like capitalism, imperialism, decolonization, and neoliberalism and uses them to show continuities and ruptures in the making of the contemporary world. At the end of the class students can identify and analyze key mechanisms that shape the global political economy. The seminar will be complemented by a tutorial which provides space for personal and peer-reflection on the topics, texts, and personal experiences. Moreover, the tutorial will introduce some basic academic skills.
Introduction to GPED Tutorial
Anil Shah
MA GPED
Mo 10:00-12:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
This tutorial introduces students to the fundamentals of Global Political Economy and Development. It is designed as a supplement to the other core courses ‘From Colonialism to Globalisation’ and ‘Governance of the World Markets’. Students will learn about the origins, goals, and perspectives of the following three transdisciplinary research areas: Development Studies, International Political Economy (IPE), and Postcolonial Studies. The course is structured into three major parts. The first will engage with what GPE is and how it evolved as an academic approach since the 1970s. Emphasis will be laid on the history of political and economic thought, and how political science became separated from economics. The second part covers the history and state of development studies as well as critiques and alternative approaches to studying global inequalities from the perspective of postcolonial studies. The final part of the course draws on current debates and selected issues concerning poverty, inequality, and sustainable development to show how different approaches may be applied to contemporary phenomena.
Governance of the World Market: Institutions and actors in trade, finance and development
Aram Ziai
MA GPED
Di 16:00-18:30 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
The course will provide an introduction to the most important institutions of the global political economy, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It will discuss the international division of labour and global value chains, the Bretton Woods system and its failure, the attempts to establish a New International Economic Order and the debt crisis and the subsequent Structural Adjustment Programs and their effects. The gender dimension of the global political economy and the role of multinational companies will also be discussed.
Post-Development - Introduction and current debates
Aram Ziai
MA GPED, MA Politikwissenschaft
Blockseminar vom 16.-18.12.1022, Domäne Frankenhausen
Post-Development approaches can be conceived of as theories of imperialism focusing on the discourse and practice of ‘development’. They challenge the very foundations of development theory and policy as being Eurocentric and constituting relations of power between those defined as ‘developed’ and as ‘underdeveloped’. They propose ‘alternatives to development’ to be found in grassroots movements and indigenous communities which go beyond the Western models of the economy, politics and knowledge.
The seminar will deal with some of the main texts of Post-Development, current contributions to or critiques of PD, and presentations by the students of empirical examples.
Climate and Development Finance
Frauke Banse
MA GPED
Mi 10:00-12:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3024
In recent years, we have often heard of an end to development aid, of a new partnership at eye level, for example, between Africa and Europe.
Among other things, the idea is to give less public money from Western countries to so called development projects in the Global South. Instead, more private money should flow to financing roads, schools, health care or ports. The financing of climate protection is also closely related to this. Thus, also for projects of renewable energies less public, but rather private funds are to be activated.
But what is behind the postulate of "beyond aid"? What are the social consequences of this paradigm shift in development aid and climate protection? How are these new financing practices to be classified in the global dynamics of a financialization, i.e., a growing political and economic influence of financial markets actors?
After clarifying what is meant by financialization, we will first address the question of the relationship between financialization, development aid and climate finance. Afterwards, we will deal more concretely with the social, economic, and political consequences of this connection.
For participating in the seminar, knowledge of international political economy or development/ climate policies is an advantage, but not a must. You will, however, need a general curiosity to get involved in economic issues.
Das Politische der Klima- und Entwicklungsfinanzierung, Teil II
Frauke Banse
MA Politikwissenschaft
Di 10:00-12:00 Uhr, Kurt-Schumacher 25 - Raum 2210/2212
Bei dem Seminar handelt es sich um den zweiten Teil des Projektseminars. Dieser wird inhaltlich sehr stark von den studentischen Projektgruppen geprägt werden, genaue inhaltliche Schwerpunkte sind entlang der jeweiligen Projektinhalte in Planung. Studierende, die ihre Abschlussarbeit zu dem Thema Entwicklungs- und Klimafinanzierung planen, können nach Rücksprache gern zusätzlich an dem Seminar teilnehmen.
Einführung in das politikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten
Frauke Banse
BA Politikwissenschaft
Di 14:00-16:00 Uhr, Nora-Platiel 6 - Raum 0211
In diesem Seminar und im dazu zugehörigen Tutorium (von Sophia Schönig) geht es darum, die grundlegenden Fertigkeiten für ein erfolgreiches Studium der Politikwissenschaft zu erlernen. Wie lese und schreibe ich wissenschaftliche Texte? Wie zitiere ich korrekt? Wie entwickle ich eine Fragestellung und eine Gliederung? Wie erkenne ich verschiedene Thesen von Autor*innen? Weshalb ist eine gute Begriffsarbeit bedeutend für die politikwissenschaftliche Analyse? Diese und andere Fragen behandeln wir anhand des Themenfeldes Globalisierung.
Einführung in die Nord-Süd Beziehungen
Nina Baghery
BA Politikwissenschaft
Do 16:00-18:00 Uhr, Nora-Platiel 5 - Raum 0107
Das Seminar befasst sich mit der Geschichte und Struktur der Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. Zentral besprochen wird der Zusammenhang zwischen der kolonialen Expansion des Kapitalismus zu aktuellen globalen Ungleichheitsverhältnissen. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in Ansätze und Grundbegriffe der Postkolonialen Studien sowie der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie, wird die Geschichte des europäischen Kolonialismus im Zusammenhang mit der internationalen Reproduktion von sozialen und ökonomischen Ungleichheiten analysiert. Anschließend wird die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) als Instrument der politischen und ökonomischen Behandlung von globalen Ungleichheiten in den Blick genommen. Unter Betrachtung der Agenda der deutschen EZ wird untersucht, inwiefern ihre Ausrichtung koloniale Herrschafts- und Ausbeutungsverhältnisse fortführt. Abschließend werden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Post-Development und Degrowth Ansätze als Alternativen zum kapitalistischen Entwicklungsmodell diskutiert.
Climate Change: Foundations & Governance
Svenja Quitsch
MA GPED
Di 12:00-14:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3024
This course covers the main topics of global climate change and sustainable development. The aim is to equip students with the necessary knowledge to understand climatic and environmental change, interpret the models developed by the IPCC and evaluate political implications and policy responses within the context of sustainable development. More specifically, this course discusses concepts such as the earth’s climate system, planetary boundaries, various IPCC scenarios, mitigation and adaptation efforts, climate justice, the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and socio-ecological transformation.
N.B. This course follows the principles of problem-based learning (PBL), a co-creative and collaborative approach to learning that relies heavily on group discussions and independent self-study rather than lecture-style presentations.
Systems Thinking for Sustainability Transformations
Svenja Quitsch
MA GPED
Mo 16:00-18:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
Achieving sustainability requires system change. But what even is a system? And how does a system change? Answering these two seemingly simple questions is at the core of this seminar. In the first part of this course, students learn basic concepts and tools of systems thinking and develop an in-depth understanding of system dynamics and transformations. In the second part, this new-found knowledge is applied to the governance of sustainability transformations.
N.B. This course follows the principles of problem-based learning (PBL), a co-creative and collaborative approach to learning that relies heavily on group discussions and independent self-study rather than lecture-style presentations.
International Organisations in World Politics
Matthias Kranke
MA GPED
Do 10:00-12:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3024
International organisations (IOs, understood here as intergovernmental organisations) are highly influential actors in world politics. Although only few contemporary IOs possess considerable material power, many contribute substantially to the setting of global political agendas and rules for international cooperation. Yet while we tend to read and learn only about a fairly small number of fairly large IOs that are often in the public spotlight, a fairly large number of fairly small IOs remains out of sight. The seminar wants to make such IOs more visible. After a brief introduction to some of the best-known IOs, students undertake (group) projects to conduct empirical research on less-well-known IOs. The overarching objective is to gain a better understanding of smaller IOs by developing a general profile of their activities and analysing key operations through case studies in greater depth. Because many IOs engage in routines of cooperation, the seminar also encourages students to pay attention to these widely neglected inter-organisational dynamics.
More or Less? Post-Growth in Global Politics
Matthias Kranke
MA GPED
Mi 16:00-18:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
Global politics has been marked by the pursuit of economic growth for decades. The widely accepted approach has been to tout growth as a solution to various socioeconomic problems. However, this logic has overlooked the prevalence of socioecological problems, which arise from the constraints imposed on human affairs by ‘planetary boundaries’. This increasingly palpable trade-off between growth and sustainability raises nagging questions about how to do global politics in the first place. How to generate and secure prosperity? How to reduce poverty? How to generate energy? How to build physical and other infrastructures? How, in short, to organise contemporary societies and their economies? The seminar addresses these and related questions, introducing students to the concepts of ‘economic growth’ and ‘post-growth’ (and, relatedly, ‘degrowth’ and ‘sufficiency’). Within self-designed case study projects, students can deepen their grasp of the emerging debate on growth vs. post-growth in global politics.
Capitalism, Development & Underdevelopment
Tolga Tören
MA GPED
Mo 18:00-20:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
Since the end of World War II, there has been an interest in the ‘development’ or ‘industrialization’ problems of the ”underdeveloped countries” by scholars from the US or from European countries. In addition to the studies carried out at universities, many studies on development issues were supported or financed by some institutions including the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation etc. In other words, during the period, the development issue became one of the most prevalent topics at the academy and studies carried out by development economists, development sociologists or development anthropologists were gathered under the same headline: Modernization Theory.
Since the late 1950s, in parallel with the conditions of the world economy and debates on the relationship between ”developed” and ”underdeveloped” countries, different ”development” / ”underdevelopment” approaches, including the Latin American Structuralism, Dependency Theory, World-System Theory, the Theory of Articulation of Modes of Production, Basic Needs Approach, Washington Consensus, Institutionalist Economics and Post Development Approach, emerged.
From this, the aim of this course is critically to deal with the concepts of ”development” and ”underdevelopment” in parallel with the periodization of capitalist production relations on a world scale. In this context, during the course, the arguments of the approaches mentioned above will critically be discussed.
Labour, Capital, Welfare & Development in the Age of Globalization
Tolga Tören
MA GPED
Mi 8:00-10:00 Uhr, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3029
Ivan Illich – Selbstbegrenzung. Eine politische Kritik der Technik
Jacqueline Krause
BA Politikwissenschaft
Blockseminar, Vorbesprechung am 09.11.2022 von 12:00-14:00 Uhr
Das Seminar bietet die Möglichkeit einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit Ivan Illichs Kritik der Industriegesellschaft und seiner Werkzeuge. Es bietet die Möglichkeit des tieferen Verständnisses seiner Analysen und der daraus resultierenden möglichen Alternativen für postindustrielle, konviviale Gesellschaften. Was bedeutet Konvivilalität? Was umfasst seine Gesellschaftskritik? Was beinhaltet sein Modell multidimensionaler Ausgewogenheit? Welche Ansatzpunkte für sozial-ökologische Veränderungen sieht Illich? Dies und mehr wird im Seminar besprochen und diskutiert.
Decolonial Feminism
Hanna Al Taher
MA GPED, MA Politikwissenschaft
Blockseminar im Januar
Internationale Politik in einer postkolonialen Welt
Aram Ziai
BA Politikwissenschaft
Mi 08:00-10:00, Moritzstr. 18 Campus Center - Hörsaal 5 Raum 1101
Die Vorlesung befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Bereichen internationaler Politik (Globalisierung, Krieg, Migration, Verschuldung, Klimawandel, Hunger, Terrorismus, Demokratisierung) aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher Theorien (postkoloniale, feministische, marxistische, poststrukturalistische, neorealistische und institutionalistische Ansätze).
Theories of Development and GPE
Aram Ziai
MA GPED
Di 16:00-18:30, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023
After a general introduction on epistemology, the course will cover different paradigms concerning theories of global political economy, inequality and social change. It will engage with explanations from historical and contemporary perspectives (such as modernization, dependency, neo-gramscian and feminist approaches) and analyse their ontological and methodological assumptions – as well as their biases and blind spots. Each session usually consists of a 45 min lecture, 15 min break, and a 90 min seminar.
EU Investment and Development Policies in Africa
Frauke Banse
MA GPED/MA Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften/MA Politikwissenschaft
Mi 10:00-12:00, Moritzstr. 25-31 Systembau1 - Raum 0108
In this class, we will analyse the (contradictory) relationship between the investment and development policies of the European Union in Africa. Particular attention will be paid to the newly announced Global Gateway infrastructure initiative. Since this initiative is explicitly conceived as a geopolitical response to China's Belt and Road Initiative, this seminar will also address the geopolitical role of infrastructure and investment policies.
The course comprises of preparatory seminar sessions and online discussion with organisations based in Brussels and Accra. In the seminar sessions, we will discuss general questions concerning the EU trade, investment and development policies and ask which interest groups are dealing with these three interconnected policy fields. In the seminar sessions, student groups prepare the envisaged online meetings with representatives of these interest groups and decision-making bodies. The last session of the class will take place after the online meetings with the organisations. We will analyse the meetings conducted and discuss the conclusions.
As the preparation time is limited to only a few seminar sessions, dedicated readings and preparations are essential. Active participation in all seminar sessions is a precondition to taking part in the online discussions with the organisations. MA Students from ”Political Science” and ”Global Political Economy and Development” are invited to join the class.
Das Politische der Entwicklungs- und Klimafinanzierung
Frauke Banse
MA GPED/MA Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften/MA Politikwissenschaft
Di 10:00-12:00, Moritzstr. 18 Campus Center - Raum 1110, Seminarraum 1
In den letzten Jahren haben wir immer wieder von einem Ende der Entwicklungshilfe, von einer neuen Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe z.B. zwischen Afrika und Europa gehört. Es gelte unter anderem, weniger Geld westlicher Staaten zu geben und stattdessen stärker private Gelder in die Finanzierung von Straßen, Schulen, Gesundheitsversorgung oder Häfen in so genannten Entwicklungsländern fließen zu lassen. Damit eng verwoben ist auch die Finanzierung des Klimaschutzes. So soll auch für Projekte erneuerbare Energien weniger öffentliche, sondern vielmehr private Gelder aktiviert werden. Doch was verbirgt sich hinter diesem Postulat? Welche gesellschaftlichen Folgen hat dieser Paradigmenwechsel in der Entwicklungshilfe und im Klimaschutz? Wie sind diese neuen Finanzierungspraktiken in die globalen Dynamiken einer Finanzialisierung, also eines wachsenden politischen und ökonomischen Einflusses von Finanzmarktakteuren, einzuordnen? In diesem ersten Teil des zweisemestrigen Projektseminars werden wir uns mit diesen Fragen intensiv beschäftigen. Nachdem wir geklärt haben, was unter Finanzialisierung zu verstehen ist, widmen wir uns zunächst der Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Finanzialisierung, Entwicklungshilfe und Klimafinanzierung. Danach werden wir uns konkreter mit den gesellschaftlichen, ökonomischen und politischen Folgen dieses Zusammenhangs beschäftigen. Dieser erste Teil des Projektseminars im Sommersemester ist explizit auch für Studierende zugelassen, die lediglich eine einfache Studien- und oder Prüfungsleistung erwerben möchten. Im zweiten Teil des Projektseminars - also im Wintersemester - widmen wir uns dann ihren jeweiligen Projektarbeiten. In einer mehrtägigen Studienklausur auf der Domäne Frankenhausen werden wir uns intensiv mit ihren Studiendesigns beschäftigen, die sie dann im Laufe des WiSe in Gruppenarbeit erstellen werden. Für die Teilnahme am Seminar sind Kenntnisse der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie oder der Entwicklungs- bzw. Klimapolitik von Vorteil, aber kein Muss. Sie brauchen jedoch eine generelle Neugier, sich in ökonomische Fragen einzuarbeiten. Zudem brauchen Sie für Ihre Projektarbeiten Kenntnisse der qualitativen Sozialforschung. Sollten Sie diese noch nicht haben, besuchen Sie bitte den parallel angebotenen Methodenkurs im Modul 5.
BA Kolloquium
Frauke Banse
BA Politikwissenschaft
Di 14:00-16:00, Moritzstr. 2 - Raum Incon
Das Kolloquium unterstützt BA Studierende in der Abschlussphase beim Anfertigen ihrer Abschlussarbeit. Wir werden einführend wichtige Anforderungen an eine BA Arbeit, Aufbau sowie Herausforderungen des theoretischen und empirischen Arbeitens besprechen. Je nach Anzahl der teilnehmenden Studierenden werden die Teilnehmenden in der zweiten Phase des Seminars ihr BA-Vorhaben einzeln präsentieren können oder sie fertigen in thematisch organisierten Arbeitsgruppen ein kurzes Forschungsexposé an. Auf Grundlage der Exposés werden wir dann die Herausforderungen gemeinsam diskutieren.
Postcolonial Political Economy
Caroline Cornier
MA GPED
Mo 12:00-14:00, Nora-Platiel 6 - Raum 0211
What stakes are at play within the current global political economy? Rising inequality, deepening social antagonisms, and market logic with impunity in the face of the climate emergency. International Political Economy has so far responded to these recurring concerns as representative of the long-standing relationship between power and wealth. Yet other relationships, namely those that involve imperialism, race and gender, and settler colonialism have been marginal to these debates. Following on recent calls for a more ‘global conversation’ within GPE that pays greater attention to spaces and communities beyond Europe and North America, this module seeks to confront the Eurocentric analysis of global political economy that might inform our understandings of contemporary issues of neoliberal conjuncture of global capitalism. This course offers an historically-informed reassessment of political economy that exposes its imperial foundations by drawing on the entangled histories between European industrialization, Atlantic slavery and its civilizing mission. The course broadly surveys the role of land and dispossession as both object and instrument of colonial power in the consolidation of the settler‐colonial state. The colonial origins of poverty within 18th century neoclassical tradition and the case of Haiti to explore ways debt was weaponized to compromise the nation-building processes of the world’s first black republic. This historical foregrounding situates contemporary challenges and political struggles as the colonial afterlives of contemporary global economic globalisation to explore issues of financialization and the “rise” of corporate power, global care work and social reproduction, extractive industries and the ecology as well as the return to alt-right populism and anti-imperial politics in the form of reparations. By confronting the colonial amnesia of the discipline, the module hopes to provide students with interdisciplinary analyses that renders visible global political economy to its embedded relationship with coloniality, racism, sexism or anthropocentrism and to invite new framings and questions to attend to the ongoing global crises.
Einführung in Postkoloniale Studien und Rassismus
Lucia Fuchs
BA Politikwissenschaft
Blockseminar: 18.07.2022 bis 22.07.2022 jeweils 08:00 bis 14:00, Arnold-Bode 10 - Raum 0104
Die postkolonialen Studien befassen sich mit den Nachwirkungen des Kolonialismus nach seinem formalen Ende, vor allem mit kolonial geprägten Denkweisen und Darstellungsformen, welche in engem Zusammenhang mit Rassismus stehen. Nach einem kurzen Rückblick auf die Geschichte des Kolonialismus und seiner Legitimation geht es im Seminar zunächst um Begriffsdefinitionen und wichtige Konzepte der Rassismusforschung. Danach widmen wir uns zentralen Texten der wichtigsten postkolonialen Theoretiker*innen sowie der Anwendung postkolonialer Konzepte auf die Entwicklungspolitik. Die Bereitschaft zum Lesen und Diskutieren anspruchsvoller theoretischer Texte sowie ein großes Interesse an ihrer Anwendung auf Entwicklungspolitik wird vorausgesetzt. Keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich.
Epistemische Klimagerechtigkeit? Postkoloniale, feministische und dekoloniale Perspektiven auf Klima(wandel)wissen
Johanna Tunn
MA Politikwissenschaft/MA GPED
Blockseminar: 22./23.04, 29./30.04., 20./21.05., Arnold-Bode 2 - Raum 0408
Besonders in Ländern des Globalen Südens gefährden steigende Meeresspiegel, fortschreitende Wüstenbildung und andere Auswirkungen der globalen Erwärmung Millionen von Menschen. Gleichzeitig sind die Ursachen und Folgen des Klimawandels ein Spiegelbild globaler Ungleichheit und Ausbeutung. Im Zuge der wachsenden Aufmerksamkeit auf die Klimakrise und deren ungerechte Auswirkungen haben sich Institutionen gebildet, welche hohe gesellschaftliche Relevanz für die Erarbeitung von Strategien für die Bekämpfung des Klimawandels und seiner Ursachen innehaben. Dabei greifen Institutionen wie der Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) auf Wissen und Vorstellungswelten zurück, welche selbst das Ergebnis kultureller, politischer, historischer und sozialer Entwicklungen sind und in hegemoniale Strukturen eingebettet sind.
Wissen über den Klimawandel und von ihm betroffene Menschen ist weder neutral noch objektiv - es wurde und wird in privilegierten gesellschaftlichen Kontexten produziert. In diesem Seminar schauen wir uns die Kontexte, Prozesse und Auswirkungen der Produktion von Klimawandelwissen aus Perspektive der epistemischen Gerechtigkeit an. Ein genauer Blick auf die Einflüsse von Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Gewalt ist dabei unabdingbar. Die Traditionen des Postkolonialismus, der feministischen Wissenschaftskritik und des dekolonialen Denkens haben dabei ein großes Potenzial, diese gängigen Prozesse der Wissensproduktion zu hinterfragen, zu erschüttern und neu zu konstituieren.
Einführung in das politikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten: Ungleichheit, Rassismus, Klimawandel
Anil Shah
BA Politikwissenschaft
Mi 8-10h, Moritzstr. 18 Campus Center - Raum 1112, Seminarraum 3
The World Bank and the Inspection Panel
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
MA GPED, MCC V/MA Politikwissenschaft
Di 14-16h, Arnold-Bode 10 - Raum 0104
After a general introduction to the World Bank, its history and changing purpose, the course will focus on the accountability mechanism of the institution: the Inspection Panel. The IP provides the opportunity for persons negatively affected by World Bank projects to file claims against them. Examining case studies, we will explore to what extent the IP was able to serve its purpose of making the voice of these persons heard and democratize global governance. Instead of a normal seminar paper, students will write reports on so far unresearched case studies which can be published on the home page of the research project on the IP.
Introduction to Globalization and Development
Anil Shah
MA GPED, MCC I
Mo 9-12h, ICDD/GPN Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023, hybrid
This seminar will introduce students to the interconnected paradigms of globalization and development – both having shaped debates on economics, politics and culture throughout the world since the mid-20th century. Yet both have a much longer trajectory, notably 500 years of European imperialism and colonial conquest which have shaped contemporary forms of this interconnection. The course is structured along three major sections. In the first part, the meaning of globalization and development will be contextualized and discussed, particularly in relationship to the political economy of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and neoliberalism. The second section discusses contemporary issues and debates related to globalization and development, including the COVID-19 pandemic, global value chains, urbanization and informalization of production and labour in the Global South, the financialization of development, and the failure of international climate governance. The final part of the course is dedicated to questions of resisting, changing, and overcoming globalization and development, and developing a radical imagination of other common futures.
Discourse analysis and postcolonial research
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
MA GPED, Advanced Research methods
Mi 10-12h, Moritzstr. 25-31, Systembau2 - Raum 0206
This course must be taken in combination with the lecture on advanced research methods. The course will deal with the interconnectedness of knowledge and power, with discourse analysis as a methodological approach to trace this connection, and with postcolonial perspectives on methodology and research ethics highlighting specifically the relation between scientific knowledge and colonial relations of power.
Introduction to Political Science/GPE
Dr. Corinna Dengler
MA GPED
Blockseminar, am 27.10., 10.11. und 24.11. jeweils 10-16h. Gottschalkstr. 10-12 - Raum 2205
This seminar introduces you to the specific approach applied in the master’s program Global Political Economy and Development. It is designed as a supplementary tutorial to the core courses ‘Governance of the World Markets’ and ‘Introduction to Globalization and Development.’ The course covers the following questions:
• What is Global Political Economy and how did it emerge as an academic approach?
• What is the ‘political’ in GPE and why is the analysis of history and power relations essential?
• Why do ‘theory’ and ‘critique’ matter for GPE research?
• How can GPE analysis of the contemporary world economy look like?
The course is structured into three parts, namely (I) What is Global Political Economy?; (II) History, Power, Theory & Critique; and (III) Contemporary GPE Analysis, to which we will devote one seminar day (10am4-pm) respectively. The seminar is based on readings and students are expected to (a) read all texts, (b) highlight important arguments, and (c) note questions and criticism prior to the seminar sessions. Moreover, students are expected to actively participate in class discussions. There are neither assignments nor grades for this tutorial, which primarily seeks to prepare you for other courses in the GPED master’s program. The course is primarily oriented towards students who have no background in social sciences, however, students who are unfamiliar with International Political Economy (IPE) are also welcome to participate.
Arbeitsbeziehungen in Globalen Produktionsnetzwerken
Dr. Frauke Banse
MA Politikwissenschaft, Projektseminar, Teil 2
Di 10-12h, Moritzstr. 2 - Raum Incon
Einführung in das politikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten: Was sind Gewerkschaften?
Dr. Frauke Banse
Lehramt und BA Politikwissenschaft
Mittwoch 10-12h, Georg-Forster-Str. 4 - Raum 1004
BA Kolloquium
Dr. Frauke Banse
Dienstag 14-16h, Mönchebergstr. 1 - Raum 3012 Seminarraum III
Globale Gesundheit und COVID-19
Anna Weber
BA Politikwissenschaft
Blockseminar, am 22.10.21, 26.11.21, 27.11.21., 21.01.22 und 22.01.22
Post-Development Theories
Caroline Cornier
MA GPED/MA Politikwissenschaft, Modul 2
Di 10-12h, online
Post-Development approaches challenge the very foundations of development theory and policy as being Eurocentric and constituting relations of power between those defined as ‘developed’ and as ‘underdeveloped’. They propose ‘alternatives to development’ to be found in grassroots movements and indigenous communities which go beyond the Western models of the economy, politics and knowledge. The seminar will deal with some of the main texts of Post-Development, its variants and proposed alternatives, but also with the sharp criticisms raised against this school by development theory, with empirical examples and current debates on the topic.
Einführung in die postkoloniale Politikwissenschaft
Caroline Cornier
BA Politikwissenschaft
Blockseminar im Januar/Februar
Beyond Development? Entwicklungstheorien aus transdisziplinärer Perspektive
Dienstags, 10-12Uhr, für B.A. Politikwissenschaften
Dr. Corinna Dengler
Das Seminar is als Einführung in verschiedene Entwicklungstheorien und -paradigmen konzipiert und reicht von modernisierungstheoretischen Ansätzen über Dependenz- und Weltsystemtheorie hin zu Ansätzen, die nicht nach Entwicklungsalternativen, sondern nach Alternativen zur Entwicklung suchen. Ein thematischer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf feministisch-dekolonialen Ansätzen. Das Seminar stützt sich auf das Buch Schmidt, Lukas & Schröder, Sabine (2016): Entwicklungstheorien - Klassiker, Kritik und Alternativen. Wien: Mandelbaum. Die Anschaffung des Lehrbuchs wird empfohlen.
Feminism, Decoloniality, and the Environment
Dienstags, 12-14Uhr, für M.A. GPED
Dr. Corinna Dengler
This class sketches out postcolonial perspectives on an ecofeminist political economy by examining existing and potential links, intersections, and discrepancies between feminisms, decoloniality, and the environment. In a first part, students will be familiarized with key concepts, engage with the feminist and postcolonial critique of science, and gain an overview of postcolonial feminisms as well as feminist academic engagement with the environment since the 1970s. The second part od the course then delves into postcolonial econfeminisms. After some socio-historical conceptual notes, e.g. on postcolonial intersectionality and feminist political ecology, the interdisciplinary inquiry will explore specificities of ecofeminisms in the context of Latin America (most notably the Andean region), Africa (most notably South Africa and Mozambique), and Asia (most notably India). Part III rounds off the course by critically engaging with current debates on feminisms, decoloniality, and the environment. The topics in this part range from feminist-decolonial perspectives on (neo-)extractivism and degrowth to global care chains, collective modes of caring, and environmental activism.
The Politics of Finance and Development
Montags, 10-12Uhr, für M.A. GPED
Anil Shah
In the modern world, it has become a truism that 'money makes the world go round'. But how so? What are the fundamental channels, instruments and institutions that organisze global financial glows in the field of Development? And how are these linked to relations of power, dependency, and oppression? This course introduces students to selected debates on Finance and Development in International Political Economy (IPE). It traces the relationship between finance and development from Europe's colonial expansion to the present-day era. The first part highlights how the birth of international finance in the form of joint-stock companies, insurance, and sovereign debt is linked to both capitalist development and colonial oppression. The secon part deals with key institutions, instruments and channels of development finance in the twentieth century, including (multilateral) development banks, bilateral development assistance and conditional loans. Building on these foundations, the third part of the seminar reviews current debates on financialization and financing sustainable development. Students will be familiarized with contemporary shifts in global development policy that highlight the role of private and market-based finance in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Policy Making in the European Union: EU Trade, Investment and Development Policies
Blockseminar + Exkursion, für M.A. GPED & M.A. Politikwissenschaften
Dr. Frauke Banse
Arbeitsbedingungen in globalen Produktionsnetzwerken
Dienstags, 10-12Uhr, für M.A. Politikwissenschaften
Dr. Frauke Banse
Die Bretton Woods Institutionen in der Entwicklungspolitik
Dienstags, 14-16Uhr, für M.A. Politikwissenschaften und Lehramt
Dr. Frauke Banse
Rassismus und Postkoloniale Studien
Mittwochs, 08-10Uhr, für B.A. Politikwissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
Das Seminar ist gegliedert in drei Teile. Im ersten befassen wir uns mit dem Phänomen des Rassismus, mit seinen unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen und unterschiedlichen Ansätzen der Rassismustheorie. Im zweiten Teil geht es um die postkolonialien Studien, die sich mit den Nachwirkungen des Kolonialismus nach seinem formalen Ende, v.a. mit kolonial geprägten Denkweisen und Darstellungsformen befassen. Diese Ansätze werden durch Lektüre einiger zentraler Texte verschiedener postkolonialier Theoretiker_innen (z.B. Hall, Fanon, Said, Mohanty,...) erschlossen. Im dritten Teil geht es um die Frage nach dem Verhältnis der beiden Forschungsfelder und ihre Verknüpfung. Die Seminartexte werden in einem Moodle-Kurs zur Verfügung gestellt.
Theories of Development and Global Political Economy
Dienstags, 16-18:30Uhr, für M.A. GPED
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
After a general introduction on epistemology, the course will offer different paradigms concerning theories of global political economy, inequality and social change. It will engage with explanations from historical and contemporary perspectives (such as modernization, dependency, neo-marxist and feminist approaches) and analyse their ontological and methodological assumptions - as well as their biases and blind spots.
The course consists of a 45min lecture and a 90min seminar. A number of texts will be taken from Chari, Sharad/Corbridge, Stuart (eds.) 2008: The Development Reader. London: Routledge.
Traumjob Entwicklungspolitik? Post-Development Perspektiven auf entwicklungspolitische Fachkräfte
Blockseminar, für B.A. Politikwissenschaften
Meike Strehl
Studying Social Movements beyond Eurocentrism
Blockseminar, für M.A. GPED
Sabrina Keller & Ruth Steuerwald
Decolonising Development
Do 10-12, Online
Dr. Jenna Marshall
Development projects conventionally claim to marshal scarce resources in the expectation for future benefits to enhance social and economic welfare. Yet how do legacies of imperialism and colonialism complicate this claim? What then does it mean to appraise the value of development projects decolonially? This course enables students to gain insights into how Eurocentrism remains entrenched within international development funding bodies, institutions and actors in order to understand the impact of colonial legacies on funding initiatives and policies - but also how these neo-imperial logics are confronted and resisted. In the first part of the syllabus, students will be exposed to post/decolonial methods of analysis that identify the various manifestations Eurocentrism takes (such as racialisation, othering, imperial episteme, economism etc.) in development. In the second part of the course, students will be introduced to current international development actors and policies to examine in-depth two (2) World-Bank sponsored projects: the Sardar Sarovar dam in India; the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline. The aim of this course is to assess the degree to which empire and its colonial afterlives persists in structuring the ecologies, economies and societies in the global South. This course will encourage the development of policy analysis skills and the application of de/postcolonial critique in the international development field.
Discourse analysis and postcolonial research
Di 14-16, Online
Dr. Jenna Marshall
This course explores the interconnectedness of research interests as well as political and ethical commitments through an examination of methods of discourse analysis and postcolonialism in social scienceresearch. Discourse analysis is concerned with, amongst other things, the structural relationships of power manifested, constituted and legitimized usinglanguage (or in discourse). It also gives rise to theorizessocial processes and structures that produces discoursesas well as the social structures and processes within which individuals makes these discourses meaningful. In furthering these dynamics of power and knowledge,the course asks: Who is permitted entry into such theorization of the social world? The reminder of the course follows this line of inquiry by outlining the significance of postcolonial perspectives on methodology and research ethics. Here, students will explore the ways in which some peoples, cultures, cosmovisions are foreclosed from the realm of legitimate knowledge production. This epistemic silencing is predicatedon European Enlightenment and institutionalised through various techniques of colonial domination. Research from the perspective of the colonized therefore becomes complicit in imperial expansion and legitimates colonial violence across the world. Yet postcolonial perspectives also seek to remedy this violence through alternative approaches to knowledge production that democratizes encounters with others, opening up new vistas and modes of critique.
Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik
Mi 10-12, Online
Beginn: 04.11.2020
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
Entwicklungspolitik soll die Lebensbedingungen von Menschen in als weniger entwickelt definierten Ländern verbessern. Das Seminar wird einen Überblick über das Politikfeld und seine Geschichte, Theorien, Akteure, Instrumente, Kritik und aktuellen Debatten aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven geben.
Finanzialisierung von Entwicklungspolitik
Dr. Frauke Banse
In den letzten Jahren haben wir immer wieder von einem "Ende der Entwicklungshilfe", von einer neuen "Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe" z.B. zwischen Afrika und Europa gehört. Es gelte unter anderem, weniger Geld westlicher Staaten zu geben und stattdessen stärker private Gelder in die Finanzierung von Straßen, Schulen, Energieversorgung oder Häfen in so genannten Entwicklungsländern fließen zu lassen. Doch was verbirgt sich hinter diesem Postulat? Welche gesellschaftlichen Folgen hat dieser Paradigmenwechsel in der Entwicklungshilfe? Wie sind diese neuen Finanzierungspraktiken in die globalen Dynamiken einer Finanzialisierung, also eines wachsenden politischen und ökonomischen Einflusses von Finanzmarktakteuren, einzuordnen? In dem Seminar werden wir uns mit diesen Fragen intensiv beschäftigen.
Globales Lernen, ein Beitrag zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation?
Mo 16-18, Online
Beginn: 02.11.2020
Nilda Inkermann
Globales Lernen versteht sich als pädagogische Antwort auf die Globalisierung und nimmt für sich in Anspruch, Veränderungsprozesse im Sinne globaler Gerechtigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit mitzugestalten. In diesem Seminar werden wir uns mit der Entstehung und Verbreitung des Globalen Lernens auseinandersetzen. Dem sowohl pädagogischen als auch politischen Bildungsansatz liegen globalgesellschaftliche Problemdiagnosen und -analysen zugrunde, diese zu verstehen und zu diskutieren ist wichtiger Bestandteil des Seminars. Im Zentrum dieses Seminars steht die Frage, welches Wissen und welche Bildung notwendig ist, für ein zukunftsfähiges Zusammenleben auf unserem Planeten und welche Perspektiven Globales Lernen dafür bietet.
Introduction to Global Political Economy
Mo 10-12, Online
Beginn: 02.11.2020
Anil Shah
This seminar introduces you to the specific approach applied in the master’s program Global Political Economy and Development. It is designed as a supplementary tutorial to the core courses ‘Governance of the World Markets’ and ‘Introduction to Globalization and Development’.
Introduction to Globalization and Development
Mi 14-16, Online, begleitendes Tutorium
Beginn: 04.11.2020
Dr. Jenna Marshall
This course will introduce students to the interconnected paradigms of globalization and development – both having shaped debates on economics, politics and culture in the ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ for at least three decades. Yet both have a much longer trajectory, notably 500 years of European imperialism and colonial conquest which have shaped contemporary forms of this interconnection. Moreover, both paradigms are be set by internal tensions between coexisting universalising as well as hierarchising dynamics withtheoretical roots in European Enlightenment thought. The course begins with situating both paradigms: development as a project of international policies towards and within the ‘Global South’ since the end of World War II and its replacement by a globalisation project emerging in the late 20th century. It then examines competing debates of globalisation and assessment of contemporary globalising processes, and how these particularly influence the developing world. It examines these influences through detailed analysis of contemporary manifestations of ‘globalisation’, including liberalism and protectionism and whether we can conceive of the present conjecture as the end of the globalization project due to the collapse of the liberal international order. The course will also be devoted to particular policy issues, such as global migration and transnationalism, the environment and land dispossession, underpinned by the international rules that govern them. The course will later examine the ways in which ‘globalisation’ is resisted,focusing on the rise of transnational social movements and the post-development era, as well as the possibility of transformation through an inclusion of marginalized voices that render visible the gendered and racialized processes embedded within these projects.
Propädeutikum: Einführung in das politikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten
Mi 8-10, Online, begleitendes Tutorium
Beginn: 04.11.2020
Anil Shah
Das Seminar verbindet aktuelle gesellschaftliche Debatten um Ungleichheit, Rassismus und die ökologische Krise mit kritischen Analysen aus dem Bereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften. In den ersten Sitzungen werden einführende Fragen geklärt: Was ist Wissenschaft? Wie politisch ist Politikwissenschaft? Was ist Bildung? Was hat all das mit Macht und Herrschaft zu tun? Im Anschluss setzen sich Studierende mit unterschiedlichen Textformen – von Zeitungsartikeln bis zu wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen aus Fachzeitschriften – auseinander und lernen dabei anhand von aktuellen Debatten Argumentationsmuster zu identifizieren, sowie Stärken und Schwächen eines Texts ausfindig zu machen. Im Laufe des Seminars lernen Studierende zwischen einer „Argumentation des Alltagsverstands“ und einer „wissenschaftlicher Argumentation“ zu unterscheiden. Ebenso sind Studierende nach Ende des Seminars dazu in der Lage zwischen „der Politik“ und „dem Politischen“ zu unterscheiden.
Postcolonial Political Eocnomy
Do 14-16, Online
Dr. Jenna Marshall
What stakes are at play within the current global political economy? Rising inequality, deepening social antagonisms, and market logic with impunity in the face of the climate emergency.International Political Economy has so far responded to these recurring concerns as representative of the long-standing relationship between power and wealth. Yet other relationships, namely those that involve imperialism, race and gender, and settler colonialism have been marginal to these debates. Following on recent calls for a more ‘global conversation’ within GPE that pays greater attention to spaces and communities beyond Europe and North America, this module seeks to confront the Eurocentric analysis of global political economy that might inform our understandings of contemporary issues of neoliberal conjuncture of global capitalism. This course offers an historically-informed reassessmentof political economy that exposes its imperial foundations bydrawing on the entangled histories between European industrialization, Atlantic slavery and its civilizing mission. The course broadly surveys the role of land and dispossession as both object and instrument of colonial power in the consolidation of the settler‐colonial state. The colonial origins of poverty within 18th century neoclassical tradition and the case of Haiti to explore ways debt was weaponized to compromise the nation-building processes of the world’s first black republic. This historical foregrounding situates contemporary challenges and political struggles as the colonial afterlives of contemporary global economic globalisation to explore issues of financialization and the “rise” of corporate power,global care work and social reproduction, extractive industries and the ecology as well as the return to alt-right populism and anti-imperial politics in the form of reparations. By confronting the colonial amnesia of the discipline, the module hopes to provide students with interdisciplinary analyses that renders visible global political economy to its embedded relationship with coloniality, racism, sexism or anthropocentrism and to invite new framings and questions to attend to the ongoing global crises.
Post-Development Theories and Alternatives to ‘Development’
Di 14-16, Online
Beginn: 03.11.2020
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
Post-Development approaches challenge the very foundations of development theory and policy as being Eurocentric and constituting relations of power between those defined as ‘developed’ and as ‘underdeveloped’. They propose ‘alternatives to development’ to be found ingrassroots movements and indigenous communities which go beyond the Western models of the economy, politics and knowledge.The seminar will deal with some of the main texts of Post-Development, its variants and proposed alternatives, but also with the sharp criticisms raised against this school by development theory, with empirical examples and current debates on the topic.
Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik
Blockseminar
Beginn: 05.06.2020
Esther Kronsbein
Internationale Politik in einer postkolonialen Welt
Mi 8 - 10 Uhr
Beginn: 22.04.2020
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
Di 12 - 14 Uhr
Beginn: 21.04.2020
Dr. Jenna Marshall
Decent Work in Global Value Chains
Di 12 - 14 Uhr
Beginn: 21.04.2020
Dr. Frauke Banse
Postcolonial Political Economy
Do 14 - 16 Uhr
Beginn: 23.04.2020
Dr. Jenna Marshall
Theories of Development and GPE
Di 16 - 18.30 Uhr
Beginn: 21.04.2020
Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
Discourse Analysis and Postcolonial Research
Do 14-16, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3024, ICDD
Beginn: 24.10.19
Dr. Jenna Marshall
Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik
Mo 16-18, Moritzstr. 25-31 Systembau2 - Raum 0209
Beginn: 21.10.19
Nilda Inkermann
Introduction to Globalization and Development
Mi 14-16, Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Raum 3023, ICDD
Beginn: 23.10.19
Dr. Jenna Marshall
Mali - der Konflikt und die internationalen Beziehungen
Mi 10-12, Gottschalkstraße 10-12 - Raum 2201
Beginn: 23.10.19
Dr. Frauke Banse
Postdevelopment zur Einführung
Blockseminar
Fr, 13.12.19; 16-20 Arnold-Bode 2 - Raum 0408
Sa, 14.12.19; 9-18 Arnold-Bode 2 - Raum 0401
Fr, 24.01.20;16-20 Nora-Platiel 8 - Raum 0419
Sa, 25.01.20; 9-18 Nora-Platiel 6 - Raum 0211
Dr. Julia Schöneberg
Propädeutikum mit post- und dekolonialen Perspektiven - Einführung in das politikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten (mit Tutorium)
Mi 10-12, Moritzstr. 25-31 Systembau 2 Raum 0208
Beginn: 23.10.19
Dipl. Pol. Joshua Kwesi Aikins
Ursachen und Migration in Subsahara Afrika und die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik, Teil 2
Mi 8-10, Arnold-Bode 2 - Raum 0402
Beginn: 23.10.19
Dr. Frauke Banse