Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2023 - HIST 463W D100

Rebellion and Revolution: Topics in the Theory and Practice of Resistance (4)

Anti-colonialism

Class Number: 5597

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 4 – Apr 11, 2023: Wed, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units including nine units of lower division history.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Explores ideas, people, and movements of social criticism and social justice, stressing history as a way to understand and engage the present. Content may vary from offering to offering; see course outline for further information. HIST 463W may be repeated for credit only when a different topic is taught. Students with credit for HIST 412 or HIST 412W cannot take HIST 463W for further credit when offered with the course topic "Marxism." Writing.

COURSE DETAILS:

Rebellion and Revolution: Topics in the Theory and Practice of Resistance - Anti-colonialism

This course studies anti-colonial and anti-imperial resistance movements in late-modern world history. We will look at writings of anti-colonial thinkers and the organizing work of activists, and we will explore histories of anti-colonial revolution. Student term papers will research specific histories of anti-colonial resistance. Our readings will give special focus to broad contexts and the wider interaction of anti-colonial thought and anti-colonial movements through regions and around the world – exploring as well how anti-colonial movements contended with imperial reaction and new tactics of colonial regimes aiming to suppress dissent. We will think about colonialism today, historical legacies of colonialism, and how anti-colonial struggles of the past inform struggles of the present.



Grading

  • Reading Reflection Essays (x3) 45%
  • Final Paper 35%
  • Attendance and participation 20%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Quito Swan, Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World (NYU Press, 2022)

Moon-Ho Jung, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (University of California Press, 2022)

Other study materials will be available on the Canvas course page.


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

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Registrar Notes:

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