220036 De-centralizing Europe? How to write the history of Europe as a globally entangled and constructed entity (GST) (SoSe 2021)
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The topic of the seminar is how can European history still be written after the demand to provincialise Europe. Europe only became what it is through translocal and global interconnections: one of many world regions. In this sense, it is a province, albeit a province that exists alongside other provinces.
Many theoretical problems of historiography arise with increased urgency when one wants to write world-regional history within a global context. The most prominent problem is the question of perspective and the historian's situatedness: Is it possible to write a non-Eurocentric history of Europe without essentialising Europe or under- or overestimating its global historical significance?
Other important approaches are concepts of space and time and power relations. Where is Europe, what is Europe? With which practices do Europe's global interactions and entanglements produce new asymmetries and perpetuate already existing ones, how can shifts in power constellations be described, how their production and contingency?
We will discuss these questions on the basis of the latest historiographical debates on the topic of European historiography and search for answers together.
Bibliography
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Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2000.
Cooper, Frederick: Europe and Beyond? How to Write Modern European History Today?, in: Journal of Modern European History 14 (2016), S. 474–478.
Epple, Angelika: Calling for a Practice Turn in Global History: Practices as Drivers of Globalization, History and Theory 57 (2018), S. 390-407.
Hunt, Lynn: Is European History Passé?, in: Perspectives on History 40.8 (2002), S. 1–6.
Stanziani, Alessandro, Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History, London 2018.
Zemon Davis, Natalie: Decentering History. Local Stories and Cultural Crossings in a Global World, in: History & Theory, Vol. 50, 2011, Issue 2, 188-202.
Blog: Why Europe, Which Europe, URL: https://europedebate.hypotheses.org
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