- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Post-colonial Africa. Wars, conflicts, development 3102-LAFPO-OG
The course presents political and social changes in Africa - from the colonial times to the present situation on the continent. Covered topics will include: migrations and their political, environmental and developmental conditionings
Type of course
Learning outcomes
The course offers general knowledge of history and political anthropology of contemporary Africa, and critical insight into present problems and developments in Africa.
Assessment criteria
attendance, essay
Bibliography
Agier Michel, Managing the Undesirables. Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government, Polity Press, 2011.
Bakewell Oliver, ‘Keeping Them in Their Place’. The ambivalent relationship between development and migration in Africa, „Third World Quarterly” 2008, 29(7), s. 1341–1358.
Brzezińska Magdalena, W cieniu europejskiej twierdzy. Obraz Zachodu wśród Afrykanów w Gwinei Bissau, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2017.
Czerep Jędrzej, Polityka i mistyka w Południowym Sudanie. Język sacrum jako przekaźnik projektów politycznych, w: Bilad as-Sudan. Kultury i migracje, red. Waldemar Cisło, Jarosław Różański, Maciej Ząbek, Polskie Towarzystwo Afrykanistyczne, Warszawa 2013, s. 131–142;
Ferguson J., The Anti-Politics Machine: „Development”, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho, Mineapolis, London, 1994.
Hutchinson Sharon E., Nuer ethnicity militarized, „Anthropology Today” 2000, 16(3), s. 8–9.
Malkki Liisa H., Purity and Exile. Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago–London 1995.
Meredith Martin, Historia współczesnej Afryki. Pół wieku niepodległości, Dialog 2011.
Mbembe A., Provisional Notes on the Postcolony, „Africa”, vol. 62 (1992) nr 1.
Moyo Dambisa, Dead Aid. Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, Penguin Books, New York 2009
Polman Linda, Karawana kryzysu. Za kulisami przemysłu pomocy humanitarnej, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2011.
Vorbrich Ryszard, Plemienna i postplemienna Afryka. Koncepcje i postaci wspólnoty w dawnej i współczesnej Afryce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2012.
Ząbek Maciej, Uchodźcy w Afryce. Etnografia przemocy i cierpienia, WUW 2018.
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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