Some material for independent learners

World map exercises: See and download here

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Timelines exercises: See and download here.

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Keywords exercise (Migration and Race)

Some relatively simple and accessible texts are linked here to offer some guidance on specific issues (although Stuart Hall’s “The West and the Rest”, the first one, can offer a more complete overview).

Most of them can be approached individually, depending on one’s level of preparation.

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For a simple and accessible history & explanation of European imperialism and its ideas of “civilization”, if one wants nothing too challenging and is going to read only one thing I suggest this one:

-> Stuart Hall’s 1992 “The West and the Rest” (in “Formations of Modernity”, Polity Press), linked -> HERE

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For an accessible history & explanation of racist theories:

-> Sven Lindqvist’s 1992 “Exterminate All the Brutes” (The New Press), especially the Part IV, from page 121 till the end, linked -> HERE

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For a critical history of ideas of “white Europe”:

-> Olivette Otele’s 2020 “African Europeans“, introduced in this page -> HERE

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For a more dense theorization of the idea of de-centering Europe:

-> Dipesh Chakrabarty’s 2008 “Provincializing Europe” (Princeton University Press), linked -> HERE

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For an accessible documentary on the connections between “civilization”, “colonization” and “extermination”:

-> Raoul Peck, Sven Lindqvist and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s 2021 “Exterminate All the Brutes” HBO mini-series, trailer below and also linked -> HERE

-> Raoul Peck’s 2021 interview with Amy Goodman on “Democracy Now!”, linked -> HERE

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To compare perspectives on of neoliberal globalization:

• Friedman, Thomas (2007) “While I was Sleeping” in “How the World Became Flat”, The World is Flat, Picador, pp. 1-50 (read pp. 3-16 and 40-50, skim the rest) https://canvas.harvard.edu/files/4971600/download?download_frd=1

• Stieglitz, Joseph (2002) Chapter 3 “Freedom to Choose?” in Globalization and Its Discontents, Penguin, pp. 53-88 (also, if you have time skim Chapter 2, “Broken Promises” pp. 21-52). http://digamo.free.fr/stig2002.pdf

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For readings on global inequalities in neoliberal times:

• Peck, Jamie (2010) “Preface” in Constructions of Neoliberal Reason, Oxford University Press, pp. xi-xxi. https://vdoc.pub/download/constructions-of-neoliberal-reason-6onor6ggh880

• Harvey, David (2003) “Accumulation by Dispossession”, in The New Imperialism, Oxford University Press, pp. 137-182; https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/download/5811/2707/7738
• Tsing, Anna (2007) “Introduction” and “Frontiers of Capitalism”, in Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, Princeton University Press, pp. 1-50 (read Introduction, skim Chapter 1). https://politicapueblosindigenas.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/tsing-2004-friction-an-ethnography-of-global-connection.pdf

For critical readings of neoliberal globalization and alternatives to it:

• Saval, Niki (2017) Globalization: The Rise and Fall of an Idea that Swept the World (The Guardian, 14 July 2017) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/14/globalisation-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-idea-that-swept-the-world

• Hall, Stuart with Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin (2013) “The Kilburn Manifesto: Our Challenge to the Neoliberal Victory” (The Guardian, 24 April 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/kilburn-manifesto-challenge-neoliberal-victory )

Whole edited volume, with collection of articles, accessible for free:

• Hall, Stuart, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin, eds. (2015) After Neoliberalism: The Kilburn Manifesto (Soundings) https://lwbooks.co.uk/product/after-neoliberalism-the-kilburn-manifesto-free-e-book
  
  

For critical geographies of borders/frontiers and local/global spaces:

• Gregory, Derek (2005) “The Colonial Present”, in The Colonial Present, Blackwell, pp. 1-16. https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/bpl_images/content_store/sample_chapter/1577180909/Gregory_Colonial%20Present_sample%20chapter.pdf

• Anzaldua, Gloria ([1987]2007) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, pp. 23-35. http://users.uoa.gr/~cdokou/TheoryCriticismTexts/Anzaldua-borderlands-la-frontera.pdf
• Massey, Doreen (1994) “A Global Sense of Place” in Space, Place and Gender, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 157-173. (Extra reading in this volume: “A Place Called Home”)  http://aughty.org/pdf/global_sense_place.pdf

For accessible contemporary discussions of European borders:

-> Nicholas De Genova’s 2017 introduction to “The Borders of Europe” (Duke University Press, pp.1-24), linked -> HERE

-> Martina Tazzioli’s 2018 “Crimes of solidarity. Migration and containment through rescue” (Radical Philosophy 2:1, pp.4-10), linked -> HERE

-> Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani, & Maurice Stierl’s 2017 “Disobedient Sensing and Border Struggles at the Maritime Frontier of Europe” (Spheres. Journal for digital cultures:4 pp. 1-13) linked -> HERE

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