Office hours: Fridays 2:00 pm 3:00 pm; GWZ, Beethovenstr. 15, Raum 3.213

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1 Germany and the postcolonial world Summer Term 2019 Lecturer: Dr. Jürgen Dinkel Contact: Office hours: Fridays 2:00 pm 3:00 pm; GWZ, Beethovenstr. 15, Raum Description: The course addresses the entangled history between Germany and anticolonial movements as well as postcolonial governments between the First World War and the 1970s. Therefore we will draw on approaches that have been introduced into the field of international history over the last decade, among them Global and transnational history and postcolonial studies. Seen from this perspective, it becomes evident that the various German governments of Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the GDR and West Germany and social movements within Germany interacted with anticolonial struggles worldwide, while, at the same time, anticolonialists and anticolonial movements shaped German politics, the activities of social movements in Germany and German perception of the non-european world. In this course we will examine this dialectic between anticolonial struggles and German politics: on the one hand, German actors dealt with anticolonial activists and tried to use them for their own political purposes. On the other hand, anticolonial movements not only used the resources provided by German actors but actively shaped German policies towards the postcolonial world. By analyzing these interactions this course will add a global and transnational perspective to established narratives of German History as well as shed new light on the history of decolonization and the Global Cold War. Course Requirements It is essential to read all required readings before the session. The course is a seminar, not a lecture, i.e. it can only be productive if all students have prepared the session and can engage in the joint discussion and on the basis of their preparation not only answer but also pose interesting questions. The obligatory readings are assembled online on Moodle. The syllabus gives details on what text to read when for which session. If you have questions concerning the syllabus, please ask the lecturer. For the grading of the course, further requirements are as follows: 1. Preparing and giving a short presentation (five to ten minutes) at the beginning of a session, in which you summarize the readings and discussions (including results and 1

2 open questions) of the previous sessions and in which you connect them to the readings of the session, in which you will hold your presentation. 2. Compiling an annotated bibliography until the end of the semester of approx. 10 titles, including primary sources, monographs and collective volumes as well as journal articles for the selected topic. 3. Writing a discussion paper. This paper shall be around 800 words and you should address the following questions: How would you describe the interactions between actors in the FGR and the GDR on the one hand and actors in the anti-/post-colonial world on the other hand? In what fields (approaches to the postcolonial world, actors, and ideologies) would you highlight similarities, in what fields would you highlight differences? Provide one or two short examples that support your arguments and thesis. The discussion paper has to be submitted no later than June 26 th. The discussion paper can be written in English or in German. In this way students will have developed the basic steps for the written exam (B.A. students from the History Department) or the composition of an essay (M.A. students from the Global and European Studies Program) at the end of the semester The written exam will take place on July, The essays have to be submitted.. until. 15 Plätze Freitag, 11 13, ab 3. Mai, Blocktermin 2

3 Schedule: Session 1: Approaches to German History Transnational History, Global History, Entangled History Sebastian Conrad: Double Marginalization: A Plea for a Transnational Perspective on German History, in: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Jürgen Kocka (eds.), Comparative and Transnational History: Central European Approaches and New Perspectives, New York (Berghahn Books) 2009[paperback edition: 2012], pp Kris Manjapra, "Transnational Approaches to Global History: A View from the Study of German-Indian Entanglement", German History, 2014, vol. 32, no. 2, pp Session 2: Definitions and Explanations of Anticolonialism and Decolonisation John Springhall, Decolonization since 1945, New York 2001, pp Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War. Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, Cambridge 2007, pp Additional readings: Elam, J. Daniel. December 27, "Anticolonialism." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. Accessed date The German-Anticolonialist Alliance, Har Dayal, Forty-Four Months in Germany and Turkey. February 1915 to October A Record of Personal Impressions, Westminster 1920, p Kris Manjapra, The Illusions of encounter: Muslim minds and Hindu revolutionaries in First World War Germany and after, in: Journal of Global History, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2006, pp Additional Reading: 3

4 Daniel Brückenhaus, Policing Transnational Protest. Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, , New York, NY 2017, p , Kris Manjapra, Age of Entanglement, Germany and Global Anti-Imperialism during the Weimar Republic Jawaharlal Nehru, India and the need for international contacts, in: The New Era, 1928, (Selected Works of Nehru), pp Daniel Brückenhaus, Policing Transnational Protest. Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, , New York, NY 2017, Nathanael Kuck, Anti-colonialism in a Post-Imperial Environment. The Case of Berlin, , in: Journal of Contemporary History 49 (2014) 1, pp Further Michele L- Louro, Comrades Against Imperialism, The Internationalist Moment Fredrik Petersson, League against Imperialism (Petersson?) The Anti-Imperialist Review? Double Session: How to conduct historical research? Tools and techniques for historical research (find primary sources and secondary literature; conduct a literature review; organize your literature; formulate and refine your research idea and questions, writing techniques). Nazi-Germany and Islam David Motadel, Islam and Nazi Germany s War, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014, pp (Islam and the War in North Africa and the Middle East). Additional David Motadel, Islam and Germany s War in the Soviet Borderlands, , Journal of Conteporary History 48 (4), 2013, pp

5 The Algerian War of Independence and German entanglements Jean-Paul Satre, Preface, in: Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth,. Mathilde von Bülow, Rebel sanctuaries and late Colonial conflict: the case of West Germany during Algeria's War of Independence, In: Thomas, M. and Curless, G. (eds.) Decolonization and Conflict: Colonial Comparisons and Legacies. Bloomsbury Academic: London; New York, 2017, pp The struggle for the hearts and minds: African students in East and West Germany Pugach, African Students and the Politics of Race and Gender in the German Democratic Republic, , pp Quinn Slobodian, Dissident Guests: Afro-Asian Students and Transnational Activism in the West German Protest Movement, in: Wendy Pojman (Hg.), Migration and Activism in Europe Since 1945, New York pp The Vietnam War: Responses and Involvements in East and West Germany Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, in: Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works, Vol. 3, Hanoi , pp Gerd Horten, Sailing in the Shadow of the Vietnam War: The GDR Government and the Vietnam Bonus of the Early 1970s, in: German Studies Review 36.3, 2013, pp Quinn Slobodian, Foreign Front, Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany, Durham 2012, pp Campaings against Racism: The Angela Davis case 5

6 Katerina, Hagen, The Free Angela Davis Campaing: Antiracism and the Other America, in:. pp The Sandinista Government of Nicaragua and its East and West Supporters Christian Helm, Booming Solidarity: Sandinista Nicaragua and the West German Solidarity Movement in the 1980s, in European Review of History / Revue europeenne d'histoire 4 (2014), pp Klaus Storkmann, East German Military Aid to the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua, , in: Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2014, pp Final discussions : 6