In Kooperation mit dem FSP Globalgeschichte und der FG Figurationen der Ungleichheit
Programmänderung:
Nitin Varma kann krankheitsbedingt leider nicht nach Wien reisen. Der Eröffnungsvortrag zum Jahresthema „Intersecting Inequalities“ des FSP Globalgeschichte und der FG Figurationen der Ungleichheit muss deshalb leider entfallen.
Stattdessen nutzen wir aber die ohnehin geplanten Kommentare und Inputs von Angehörigen beider Forschungsgruppen zur Eröffnung unserer Wiener Diskussion über die Erforschung von Ungleichheiten in global- und sozialhistorischer Perspektive.
Es sprechen: Kirsten Rüther, Margareth Lanzinger, Christian De Vito und Juliane Schiel
Neues Programm:
* Juliane Schiel and Christian De Vito introduce the FSP and the main themes at stake ("What is global history?" and the question of "intersectional inequalities")
* Kirsten Rüther (Inst. für Afrikawissenschaften) talks about "Ties that bind in inequality?"
* Margareth Lanzinger connects the arguments to the themes of the FG Figurationen der Ungleichheit
* Discussion
Nitin Varma: "Social Histories of Subalterns in South Asia in the Age of Global History"
The histories of subalterns in the historiography of South Asia have a long and chequered genealogy. The emergence of subaltern studies from the late 1970s and particularly from the 1980s, drawing insights and inspiration from the writings of Antonio Gramsci and British social history, has brought the question of subalternity to the centre of teaching, research and writing of history. Taking this as the point of departure, the presentation will revisit historical research into two distinct yet related fields, namely coolies on colonial plantations and domestic servants in colonial households, in the last two decades. A particular interest here would be to evaluate how these categories of subalterns (i.e. coolies and servants) were seen as emerging through intersecting conditions of class, gender, caste and ethnicity and how particular approaches of social history, microhistory, and a growing salience of global history have informed and shaped the writing and understanding of these fields of research.
Nitin Varma works at the Department of Asian and African Studies, HU Berlin.
