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Als Beitrag zur "Internationalization at Home" konnten wir einen Professor der University of Tennessee gewinnen. In diesem Seminar können Prüfungsleistungen nur auf Englisch erbracht werden. Außerdem sind alle Studierenden herzlich eingeladen eine freiwillige Zusatzleistung zu erbringen. Wir warten derzeit noch auf die Zusage des Gastdoziendenprogramms der UDE, die für Mitte Oktober angekündigt wurde. Weitere Fragen beantwortet gerne anja.weiss@uni-due.de
This course will examine the role of resource extraction in development in a world-historical perspective by focusing on the experience of Indonesia. Resource extraction is not new in Indonesia, dating back at least to the colonial period, but since independence leaders have expressed developmentalist hopes to turn resource extraction into bases or ‘engines’ of development based on their modernist dreams. As Indonesia democratized two decades ago, there were also hopes for a more democratic, fair, and equitable mode of development. Focusing on commodification and resource extraction of timber, coal, and even putatively agricultural (not extractive) commodities like oil palm in the case of Indonesia from a broad comparative and world-systems perspective, this course will examine how global, regional, national and local inequalities are (re)produced and how the development of society and nature are intertwined. The course will thus cover theories of global and national development; economics and geographies of extraction; and more contemporary debates on ‘land grabs’ in the periphery, ‘accumulation by dispossession’, and the potential for ‘rule of law,’ human rights, and other practices of reform and resistance to be of use to those peoples and regions most deeply exploited.
This course will be run as an undergraduate seminar. Therefore, it will include not only lectures by Dr. Gellert but also frequent small and large-group discussions and debates. |
