Postcolonial Development in Europe
Autumn Semester
Credits: 5 ECTS
Instructor: Oxana Karnaukhova, ass. prof.
Institute of History and International Relations
e-mail: oskarnauhova@sfedu.ru
Course description
The aim of the course is to introduce approaches of coloniality and postcoloniality into the study
of contemporary socio-cultural practices in Europe. We will consider state, social and cultural
transformations through a postcolonial perspective, focusing on three aspects – identity,
citizenship and ideology. The key binary categories in postcolonial theorization, such as
hegemony and resistance, and state versus civil society, will be examined along with localised
strategies of adaptation, accommodation and collaboration.
Students will be asked to reach conclusions about what modifications of cultural identity,
citizenship and ideology, if any, are called for in a globalised world by postcolonial discourse
and practice in the EU. In the course of doing so, they will have to become aware of the different
trends in postcoloniality as well as applications of postcolonial theories and critics, as well as
transnational perspectives on race, ethnicity and culture.
The basic concepts: empire, colony, postcoloniality; key theoretical debates about social
solidarity; citizenship and belonging; analysis of cultural identity transformation in globalising
world; intellectual justification of multiculturalism as a new European ideology.
Required texts
Gramsci, Antonio, Prison Notebooks. Columbia University Press, 1996
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
Princeton. 2001
Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979
Identities. Ed. Laura Garcia-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer. Columbia, SC : Camden House,
c1996
Citizenship and National Identity from Colonialism to Globalism. 1997
David A. Hollinger. Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity. Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and
Professional Affiliation in the United States. 2006
Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship.Oxford, 1995
№
module
1
1
Module Title
Can
Speak?
3
Identity
Evidence
Deadline
3
and We begin the course with an
overview of the concepts, notions
and transformations of Postcolonial
studies. Then we continue with
postcolonial transformations after the
WW II, trying to find out the
European and Subaltern roots of the
contemporary
Postcolonial
intellectual discourse. Finally, we
discuss transformations of this
discourse by the end of 20th century.
4
October
Essay,
describing
concepts
and issues discussed
during classes. Max 15
points
Subaltern As soon as postcoloniality is linked
with the historical period of
imperialism
and
colonial
development, first we describe
historical issues of Modern Europe
and discuss some basic notions such
as Empire, Colony, Imperialism.
November
Analytical report on
methodological tools
for investigation of
postcolonial
issues.
Max 15 points
2
Obedience
Resistence:
Postcolonial
Syndrom
2
Content
as
an Cultural Identity in Postcolonial
Perspective - examines a range of
transformations which are described
by
authors
as
hybridization,
including special representation,
autonomy and cosmopolitanism
The first set of the problems concerns
transformatios of cultural identity.
We pay attention to the theoretical
question
of
cultural
identity
formation and its connection with the
problem of “glocalisation”, meant
global-local collisions. Then we take
a
look
onto
the
identity
transformations of the former
colonies, including processes of
enclavisation, diasporisation and
hybridization. As well as these
procedures have dual character, we
demonstrate what the reaction of
Europe
is
(“provincialization”,
nationalism movements etc.)
4
Without
Citizenship:
Another
Cosmopolitanism
Without Citizenship - considered as
the relationship of developers and tobe-developed, a hybridized forms of
knowledge
as
a
reason
of
transformation of citizenship, that is
transnational social relation.
November
Case study, chosen by
students with further
discussion. Max 20
points
First, we look at the basic theories of
citizenship in order to find out the
most important concepts included.
Then we should discuss the problem
of erosion of this phenomenon, such
as flexibility, mutations, situational
erosion as the results of the new
imperialism and colonialism.
Multiculturalism:
Topic of Multiculturalism - defines
Who
Disagree? the most important source of the
intercultural
communications
in
Europe as well as multicultural
tendencies as European expansion of
the world. This Set is used to pull
together the first and second sets of
topics respectively by looking at
group rights and multicultural models
in policy.
We begin with the historical
introduction to the Multiculturalism,
trying to look at this concept as
connected
with
the
main
characteristics of the process of
globalisation (celebration of the
cultural diversity values, ideological
ground of the new policy standard on
the one side, and new imperial
movement on the other).

December
Article, discussing the
issues
around
postcoloniality
in
European and Russian
context. Max 30 points
2.2.Course Content
Module 1. Obedience and Resistence: Postcolonial Syndrom (6 hours)
We begin the course with an overview of the concepts, notions and transformations of
Postcolonial studies. Then we continue with postcolonial transformations after the WW II,
trying to find out the European and Subaltern roots of the contemporary Postcolonial intellectual
discourse. Finally, we discuss transformations of this discourse by the end of 20th century.
Week 1. Postcoloniality and Postcolonialism
Reading list in Russian
Ленин В.И. Империализм как высшая стадия капитализма (любое издание)
Саид Э. Ориентализм. М., 1995
Негри А. Империя. М, 2004
Reading list in English
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond/ Ed. Ania Loomba ets. Duke Un. Press. 2006
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Pluto Press, 1986
Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979
Supplementary reading:
Young, Robert. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Blackwell, 2001
Week 2. Seminar: Languges of Dominance and Resistance (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Грамши А. Тюремные тетради (любое издание)
Альтюссер Л. Государственные идеологические аппараты (любое издание)
Reading list in English
Gramsci, Antonio, Prison Notebooks. Columbia University Press, 1996
Althusser, Louis. On Ideology. Verso, 2008
Supplementary reading:
Guha, Ranajit. "Preface" & "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India."//
Selected Subaltern Studies. Ed. Ranjit Guha & G. C. Spivak. New York: OUP, 1988
Week 3. Postcolonialism vs Postmodernism (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Негри А. Империя. М., 2004
Reading list in English:
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond/ Ed. Ania Loomba ets. Duke Un. Press. 2006
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical
Difference. Princeton. 2001
Supplementary reading:
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Is the Post in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?" // Critical
Inquiry 17 (Winter 1991): 336-57.
Module 2. Can Subaltern Speak? (6 hours)
As soon as postcoloniality is linked with the historical period of imperialism and colonial
development, first we describe historical issues of Modern Europe and discuss some basic
notions such as Empire, Colony, Imperialism.
Week 4. Empires and Colonies (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Балибар Э., Валлерстайн И. Раса, нация, класс. Двусмысленные идентичности. – М., 2003
Андерсон Б. Воображаемые сообщества (любое издание)
Reading list in English
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. Verso, 2000
Noiriel, Gerard. The French Melting Pot...1996
Goran Therborn. European Modernity and Beyond. Routledge, London, 1995
Supplementary reading:
Cooper, Frederick. Tensions of empire: colonial cultures in a bourgeois world. 1997
Citizenship and National Identity from Colonialism to Globalism. 1997
Week 5. Seminar: Colonies Post- (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian
После империи / Под ред. И. Клямкина. – М, 2007
Саид Э. Ориентализм. М, 1995
Reading list in English
Cooper, Frederick. Tensions of empire: colonial cultures in a bourgeois world. 1997
Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979
Supplementary reading:
Dirlik, Arif. The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism//
Critical Inquiry 20 (Winter 1994): 328-56.
Module 3. Identity as an Evidence (6 hours)
Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Perspective - examines a range of transformations which are
described by authors as hybridization, including special representation, autonomy and
cosmopolitanism
The first set of the problems concerns transformatios of cultural identity. We pay attention to the
theoretical question of cultural identity formation and its connection with the problem of
“glocalisation”, meant global-local collisions. Then we take a look onto the identity
transformations of the former colonies, including processes of enclavisation, diasporisation and
hybridization. As well as these procedures have dual character, we demonstrate what the reaction
of Europe is (“provincialization”, nationalism movements etc.)
Week 6-7. Narratives and Memory: Constructing Cultural Identity (4 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Андерсон Б. Воображаемые сообщества. М, 2000
Х. Бхабха. Локализации культуры. (любое издание)
Reading list in English
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. Verso, 2000
Identities. Ed. Laura Garcia-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer. Columbia, SC : Camden House,
c1996.
Supplementary reading:
Bhabha, Homi K. "Introduction: Narrating the Nation." & "DissemiNation." // Nation and
Narration. London: Routledge, 1990. 1-7; 291-322
Week 8. Discourse of Oppression and Culture (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Грамши А. Тюремные тетради. (любое издание)
М. Фуко. Воля к истине: По ту сторону знания, власти и сексуальности. М. Магистериум
Касталь, 1996
Reading list in English
Identities. Ed. Laura Garcia-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer. Columbia, SC : Camden House,
c1996.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
Princeton. 2001
Supplementary reading:
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" // Marxism and the interpretation of
Culture. Ed. Cary Nelson and Larry Grossberg. Chicago: Uni of Illinois P, 1988): 271-313
Week 9. Seminar: Cultural Identity Reconsidered (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian:
Тишков В.А. Реквием по этносу (любое издание)
Малахов
В.А.
Неудобства
с
идентичностью
http://www.archipelag.ru/geoculture/new_ident/interpretatio/discomfort/
//
Reading list in English
Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World. London, UN Books, 1986
Waldron, Jeremy, 1993. Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981–91
Supplementary reading:
Keith Robbins. Great Britain. Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness. Longman,
London, 1998
Postcolonial Wales/ed. by Jane Aaron and Chris Williams. Cardiff: University of Wales Press,
2005
Module 4. Without Citizenship: Another Cosmopolitanism (6 hours)
Without Citizenship - considered as the relationship of developers and to-be-developed, a
hybridized forms of knowledge as a reason of transformation of citizenship, that is transnational
social relation.
First, we look at the basic theories of citizenship in order to find out the most important concepts
included. Then we should discuss the problem of erosion of this phenomenon, such as flexibility,
mutations, situational erosion as the results of the new imperialism and colonialism.
Week 10. Citizenship and Belonging (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian:
Бауман З. Индивидуализированное общество. М., 2002
Хабермас Ю. Моральное сознание и политическое действие. СПб, 2000.
Reading list in English
Citizenship and National Identity from Colonialism to Globalism. 1997
Jobu Lie. Modern peoplehood. 2004
Supplementary reading:
David A. Hollinger. Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity. Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and
Professional Affiliation in the United States. 2006
Week 11 и 12. Seminar: Erosions of Citizenship (4 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Reading list in English:
Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship. Duke University Press, 1999
Balibar, Etienne. "Ambiguous Universality." // Differences: a Journal of Feminist Studies 7.1
(1995): 48-74.
Supplementary reading:
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology." // Between the
Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996. 64-89.
Aihwa Ong. Mutations of Citizenship // Theory Culture and Society. Special Issue on
problematizing Global Knowledge. V. 23, 2-3, Mach-May 2006, pp. 499-505
Module 5. Multiculturalism: Who disagree? (6 hours)
Topic of Multiculturalism - defines the most important source of the intercultural
communications in Europe as well as multicultural tendencies as European expansion of the world.
This Set is used to pull together the first and second sets of topics respectively by looking at
group rights and multicultural models in policy.
We begin with the historical introduction to the Multiculturalism, trying to look at this concept
as connected with the main characteristics of the process of globalisation (celebration of the
cultural diversity values, ideological ground of the new policy standard on the one side, and new
imperial movement on the other).
Week 13 -14. History of Multiculturalism (4 hours)
Reading list in Russian:
Берри Дж. и др. Кросс-культурная психология. М, 2007
Триандис Г. Культура и социальное поведение. М, 2007
Reading list in English
Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship.Oxford, 1995
Taylor, Charles. Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Princeton, 1994
Supplementary reading:
David Bennet. Multicultural States. Rethinking Difference and Identity. London: Routledge, 1998
John W. Berry. Sociopsychological Costs and Benefits of Multiculturalism. Economic Council of
Canada, 1991
Tully, James. Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Week 15. Seminar: Multiculturalism and New Imperialism (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Национализм в мировой истории / Под ред. В. А. Тишкова и В. А. Шнирельмана. М.:
Наука, 2007
Reading list in English
Appiah, Kwame. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers. 2006
Supplementary reading:
Young, Robert. "Hybridity and Diaspora." // Colonial Desire : Hybridity in Theory, Culture and
Race. London: Routledge, 1995. 1-28; 183-7
Module 6. Reading «Ulterior”: Salman Rushdie (6 hours)
The set is devoted to analysis of phenomenon of Salman Rushdie, widely discussed IndianBritish author. His works are considered as a reflecton of Local-Global dimensions in
Postcolonial environment of Europe. Key concepts: Postcolonial literature, Localism, Globalism,
Mixed Identity, Hybridization, Mediation, Diversity Management.
Week 16. Seminar: Phenomenon of Salman Rushdie (2 hours)
Reading list in Russian
Салман Рушди. Сатанинские стихи// http://tkihi.narod.ru/frame.htm
Reading list in English
Salman Rushdi. Satanic verses (any edition)// http://tkihi.narod.ru/frame.htm
Supplementary reading:
Waldron, Jeremy, 1993. Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981–91
Week 17. Localism, Globalism in the Postcolonial Literature (4 hours)
Reading list in Russian
С. Рушди. Дети полуночи / Midnight’s Children, 2006
С. Рушди. Стыд / Shame, 2007
Reading list in English
S. Rushdie. Midnight’s Children, 2006
S. Rushdie. Shame, 2007
Supplementary reading:
Parekh, Bhikhu. Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. Harvard,
2002.
Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity (a Theory,
Culture & Society Special Issue). London: Sage Publications. 1994
Reading list
Althusser, Louis. On Ideology. Verso, 2008
Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1996
Appiah, Kwame. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers. 2006
Barry, Brian. Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism. Harvard, 2001.
Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.
Citizenship and National Identity from Colonialism to Globalism. 1997
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
Princeton. 2001
Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World. London, UN Books, 1986
Cooper, Frederick. Tensions of empire: colonial cultures in a bourgeois world. 1997
Eagleton, Terry. Ideology. An Introduction. Verso, 2007
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Pluto Press, 1986
Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity (a Theory,
Culture & Society Special Issue). London: Sage Publications. 1994
Gramsci, Antonio, Prison Notebooks. Columbia University Press, 1996
David A. Hollinger. Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity. Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and
Professional Affiliation in the United States. 2006
Identities. Ed. Laura Garcia-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer. Columbia, SC : Camden House,
c1996.
Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship.Oxford, 1995
Jobu Lie. Modern peoplehood. 2004
Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship. Duke University Press, 1999
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond/ Ed. Ania Loomba ets. Duke Un. Press. 2006
Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1979
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Can the Subaltern Speak? // Marxism and the interpretation of
Culture. Ed. Cary Nelson and Larry Grossberg. Chicago: Uni of Illinois P, 1988): 271-313
Taylor, Charles. Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Princeton, 1994
Young, Robert. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Blackwell, 2001
Suplementary reading list
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Is the Post in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial? // Critical
Inquiry 17 (Winter 1991): 336-57.
Balibar, Etienne. Ambiguous Universality // Differences: a Journal of Feminist Studies 7.1
(1995): 48-74.
Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996.
Dirlik, Arif. The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism//
Critical Inquiry 20 (Winter 1994): 328-56.
Guha, Ranajit. "Preface" & "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India." //
Selected Subaltern Studies. Ed. Ranjit Guha & G. C. Spivak. New York: OUP, 1988
Kant, Immanuel. Perpetual Peace. Hackett Publishing House, 1983
Noiriel, Gerard. The French Melting Pot...1996
Nussbaum, Martha C. “Kant and Cosmopolitanism.” // Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant's
Cosmopolitan Ideal, ed. James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, 25-57. Cambridge: MIT,
1997
Ong, Aihwa. Mutations of Citizenship // Theory Culture and Society. Special Issue on
problematizing Global Knowledge. V. 23, 2-3, Mach-May 206, pp. 499-505
Parekh, Bhikhu. Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. Harvard,
2002.
Postcolonial Wales/ed. by Jane Aaron and Chris Williams. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005
Keith Robbins. Great Britain. Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness. Longman,
London, 1998
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. 1993
Selected Subaltern Studies. Ed. Ranjit Guha & G. C. Spivak. New York: OUP, 1988
Goran Therborn. European Modernity and Beyond. Routledge, London, 1995
Tully, James. Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Steven Vertovec. Multi-multiculturalisms// Multicultural policies and the state: a comparison of
two European societies/ed. by Marco Martiniello. Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 1998
Waldron, Jeremy, 1993. Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981–91
Young, Robert. Hybridity and Diaspora // Colonial Desire : Hybridity in Theory, Culture and
Race. London: Routledge, 1995