Informações sobre a disciplina

Course Contents
- Construction of "Otherness" and the "Foreign" (othering)
- European history of the long 19th century in a global context
- Technology as the "other": man-machine relations
- Understanding linguistic exclusion of minorities
- Travel experiences and perceptions of foreignness
- Environmental history of the import of foreign species (plants, animals)

Literature
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[*]Uta Eser: „Strangers in Paradise – Über den Einfluss der Kultur auf die Haltung gegenüber eingeführten Arten“, in: Lucie Vítková/Frank Krumm (Hrsg.): Eingeführte Baumarten in europäischen Wäldern: Chancen und Herausforderungen, Joensuu 2016 (In focus - Managing Forest in Europe), S. 60–69.
[*]Schmidt, Uwe Eduard u. a.: „Überblick über die Geschichte eingeführter Baumarten in Europa“, in: Lucie Vítková/Frank Krumm (Hrsg.): Eingeführte Baumarten in europäischen Wäldern: Chancen und Herausforderungen, Freiburg (i. Br.) 2016, S. 46–58.
[*]Zechner, Johannes: „Von ‚Waldvölkern‘ und ‚Wüstenvölkern‘. Nationalistische Naturinstrumentalisierungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik“, in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 25 (2016), S. 37–69.
[*]Boyce, Travis D./Chunnu, Winsome M. (Hrsg.): Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering, University Press of Colorado, Louisville 2019.
[*]Ihde, Don: Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1990.
[*]Oudshoorn, Nelly: „Die natürliche Ordnung der Dinge? Reproduktionswissenschaften und die Politik des “Othering”“, in: Ilse Lenz/Lisa Mense/Charlotte Ullrich (Hrsg.): Reflexive Körper? Zur Modernisierung von Sexualität und Reproduktion, Wiesbaden 2004, S. 241–254.
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Preconditions
It helps to have basic knowledge in history of technology, but it is not obligatory.

Official Course Description
The late 19th century is characterized by diverse migration processes. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, people moved from the countryside to the city; in the course of colonialism and imperialism, ideas, techniques, and concepts migrated around the globe; and "foreign" species were imported into countries where they had not been native before. Experiences of foreignness were thus perpetuated. At the same time, a new way of thinking about one's own identity and collective belonging began to emerge. Often this happened through an exclusion of the other: "othering." This course asks for the changing conceptions of the "other" and its discursive counter-processes. The aim of the course is to learn about these processes of migration, experiences of foreignness and othering through the study of texts and sources. Thus, the exercise allows to develop a differentiated picture of environment, society and technology between 1871 and 1932 and to relate this to today's processes - through comparison, as well as in reflecting their long-term consequences.

Sustainability Reference of the Course Contents
In the course we will discuss, among other things, the anthropogenic influences on climate change and the transformation of nature, e.g. through the introduction of new species to Europe. The thematized contents are therefore characterized by a high relevance to sustainability. The exercise contributes to an understanding of how people in history have formed images of the environment and, based on this, have dealt with it.