If only: design, technology and society INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 4th semester
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Guest Lecture: Dr Cassandra Thiesen-Mark, Universität Basel
This lecture considers the history of the inclusion of West African labourers in the global economy: what specific mechanisms and terms defined this process? What was the promise of the creation of a system of free wage labour? And how convincing was its implementation in this part of the world? It will cover the current and past struggles of these male and female by exploring how they have managed to secure sources of power and security in the overwhelming absence of state- or employer-related social welfare mechanisms.
Readings:
- Kate Meagher, Laura Manna and Maxim Bolt, Making the Right Connections: Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African workers, Journal of Development Studies, 2016.
- Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, “Labour Recruitment in the Nineteenth Century: The Place of Practicality” (Ch. 2), Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909, University of Rochester Press, 2018).
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 11 – 13.05 - Commodities Trade
Guest Lecture: tbc Prof Dr Harald Fischer-Tiné
Details & Readings tba
Session 12 – 20.05 - The Silk Road
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