Instructors: Ali Glassie and Lilly Havstad
Meeting time: Monday, 12:00-2:30pm
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This course will introduce students to scholarship on decolonization and migration from the 1920s to the present with an emphasis on the Caribbean, India, and Africa. As we discuss processes of decolonization and migration in relation to geographic, cultural, and historical contexts, we will also explore how these processes reshaped Europe over time. In the first half of the semester, we study how key scholarly debates and approaches developed over the course of the turbulent twentieth century. In the second half of the semester, we consider how current, innovative scholarship on decolonization and migration helps us understand and reinterpret primary sources ranging from literature and national dishes, to the global game of football (soccer). By the end of this course, students will be able to apply their understanding of decolonization as an unfinished, multigenerational process to their reading of some of the world’s most pressing problems, such as the entwined realities of deepening inequality and the global climate crisis.