B4804 - Transnational Social Movements and Political Cultures (1) (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Aim of the course is to provide a theoretical framework and methodological tools, which will enable students to acquire a sound understanding of the transnational approach to global history. The critical analysis of sources will be the object of collective discussion. At the end of the course students will be familiar with the main historiographical trends in the field of global and transnational history and they will develop a research experience on specific processes of social mobilization in relationship with the formation of transnational political cultures in the 19th and 20th century.

Contenuti

The First World War introduced a radical turning point in contemporary history both from the point of view of power relations between social classes and from a geopolitical point of view. This year's course intends to investigate this double passage by delving into the role of new transnational actors who aimed at the empowerment of the global subaltern classes. These movements mobilised groups which were marginalized in the prewar political arena and sometimes even excluded from full citizenship. These were movements with profoundly different social, cultural and political features, which organized heterogeneous subjects in terms of gender, race and social origins. The geographical area of the former Habsburg, Tsarist and Ottoman empires will be considered with particular attention, but it will be placed within the global networks of political mobilization of the subaltern classes.

 

Schedule

16th-17th-19th September - Lectures: The national question and the collapse of the Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Empire

23rd and 24th September - Lectures: The Soviet Revolution and the Third International

26th September - Seminar: The international communist movement in the 1920s

30th September- 1st October - Lectures: Race and gender in the marxist political thought and in the Soviet policies

3rd October - Seminar: Race and Gender in the Comintern history

7th and 8th October - Lectures: Nation and culture in the socialist thought and in the Soviet policies

10th October - Seminar: Soviet nationalities policy

14th and 15th October Lectures: Muslim politics and socialism

17th October - Seminar: Panturkism and Panarabism in the interwar period

Testi/Bibliografia

This bibliography provides general reference texts that will be used during the course. For the bibliography relating to the final exam, consult the appropriate section.

Anderson, Kevin B. 2020. Marx at the Margins. On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Jürgen Dinkel The Non-Aligned Movement: Genesis, Organization and Politics (1927-1992), Brill, 2019

Aydin, Cemil. The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia: visions of world order in pan-Islamic and pan-Asian thought. Columbia University Press, 2007.

Connor, Walker. 1984. The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Conrad, Sebastian, and Dominic Sachsenmaier. " Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007.

Drachewych, Oleksa, and Ian McKay. 2019. Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial and Racial Question. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Keller, Shoshana. 2001. To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign against Islam in Central Asia, 1917–1941. Westport, CT.: Praeger.

Louro, Michele L., Carolien Stolte, Heather Streets-Salter, and Sana Tannoury-Karam, eds. 2020. The League against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives. Leiden: Leiden University Press. Project MUSE.

Löwy, Michael. 2020. Fatherland or Mother Earth? Essays on the National Question. Amsterdam: International Institute for Research and Education.

Mahler, Anne Garland, and Paolo Capuzzo, eds. The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters. Taylor & Francis, 2022.

Martin, Terry. 2017. The Affrmative Action Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Petersson, Fredrik. 2014. Willi Münzenberg, the League against Imperialism, and the Comintern, 1925–1933. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Pons, Silvio. 2014. The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism 1917–1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rees, Tim, and Andrew Thorpe, ed. 1998. International Communism and the Communist International, 1919–43. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.

Studer, Brigitte. 2015. The Transnational World of the Cominternians. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

———. 2020. Reisende der Weltrevolution. Eine Globalgeschichte der Kommunistischen Internationale. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Young, Robert J.C. 2001. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Wolikow, Serge. 2010. L’ Internationale communiste (1919–1943): le Komintern ou le rêve déchu du parti mondial de la révolution. Ivry-sur-Seine: Les Éditions de l’Atelier.

Metodi didattici

Teaching method will be based on lectures and seminars.

The teacher will present the main historiographical positions on the course topics. Students will be asked to read essays and present them to the class and to participate to the collective discussions.

Starting from the second week, every Thursday will be devoted to student presentations and collective discussions.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

The following instructions on the final exam concern both modules of the integrated course Global History (B4802 - 12 credits).

Attending students are required to participate actively to all classes and discussions on the reading texts listed in the class programm in due time; they will further write a 4500-word final paper on one of the following areas:

• End of Empires and transnational political movements after the First World War (to be agreed with Prof. Capuzzo)
• Ideas and practices of solidarity crossing European spaces in the late 19th and20th century (to be agreed with Prof. Tolomelli)

Students are required to choose a specific subject within one of these two areas with the advise of one of the two professors (Tolomelli and Capuzzo).

Deadline for the submission of the final paper is either on January 30th or March 30th.

The grade assigned to the paper will be based on:

- participation in class presentations and discussions;

- selection of the topic of the final paper and its relatedness with the course content

- ability to identify relevant bibliography

- critical analysis

- clarity in structure and aims

- language proficiency

The final grade will result from the evaluation of all aspects concerning the course: active participation in class; accuracy and punctuality in delivering the due papers; accuracy in oral presentation and academic writing; capability to deepen and master topics addressed during the course; ability to identify relevant bibliography; critical analysis; clear and logical structure of the final paper.

Proper language and the ability to critically analyze relevant topics will lead to a good/excellent final grade

Acceptable language and the ability to resume relevant topics will lead to a sufficient/fair grade.

Insufficient linguistic proficiency and fragmentary knowledge of relevant topics will lead to a failure in passing the exam.

Non-attending students are required to pass a written exam. The exam will refer to both modules of the integrated course (12CFU) and will consist of eight open questions (four for each module) that students are expected to answer in 2 hours.

The questions will deal with following books:

Section 1 (module 1):

S. Conrad, D. Sachsenmaier, Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s, New York 2007;

G. Sluga,P. Clavin, eds., Internationalisms: a twentieth-century history. Cambridge 2017.

Section 2 (module 2):

R. M. Dainotto, Europe (in theory), Durham 2007

G. Garavini, After empires. European integration, decolonization, and the challenge from the global south, 1957-1986, Oxford 2012

The final grade for non-attending will result from the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the two sections of the exam. It will be based on:

- critical analysis of the texts

- conciseness and clarity in exposition

- terminological and conceptual accuracy

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Lectures will be supported by power point presentations summarising the main points of the lecture as well as visual sources and maps.

Students who require specific services and adaptations to teaching activities due to a disability or specific learning disorders (SLD), must first contact the appropriate office: https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Paolo Capuzzo