HIGH SCHOOL SYLLABI
(TEACHING MODULE HANDBOOKS):
World history
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High School syllabus (15-16 year-old students and above) -> HERE
[WEEK-BY-WEEK PLAN In progress]
SOME EXERCISES
FOR TEACHING AND SELF-TEACHING:
World Map exercise: Download the PDFs here
Timeline exercise (Europe & Islam): Download the PDFs here.
READING/WATCHING MATERIAL
FOR TEACHING AND SELF-TEACHING
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.
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
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
For a critical history of ideas of “white Europe”:
-> Olivette Otele’s 2020 “African Europeans“, introduced in this page -> HERE
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
SEE: Teaching the History of Racism -> HERE
For discussions of contemporary imperialism:
- 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
- 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
For a discussion of neo-liberal “globalization” and its inequalities:
- 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 )
For an 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
For critical geographies of borders/frontiers and of living between local/global spaces at the same time:
- 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
Europe is Not a Continent.
Europe is Not a Continent 