项目来源

德国科学基金(DFG)

项目主持人

Professorin Iris Schröder

项目受资助机构

Universität Erfurt,Philosophische Fakultät,Historisches Seminar

立项年度

2020

立项时间

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项目编号

445491716

研究期限

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项目级别

国家级

受资助金额

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学科

Modern and Current History

学科代码

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基金类别

Research Units

关键词

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参与者

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参与机构

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项目标书摘要：The subproject analyses voluntariness in periods of decolonization,thereby focussing on an often overlooked political principle of(post-)colonial governance.By drawing on the example of the British Gold Coast/Ghana it will explore,in which ways voluntary social and political practices considerably shaped the political and social order during the transition from late colonial“indirect rule”to the post colony.By this,the subproject also enquires about the changing and dynamic significance of voluntariness as a norm and a resource in this particular period.In doing so,it examines the appeal to participate actively as Citizens in the making of a new Ghana and of a new Africa.It focuses on selected youth organizations that claimed to shape the new(post-)colonial subjects.The subproject will explore,too,whether and to what extent the respective actors regarded voluntariness as a constituent element of a western heritage,or if,by contrast,they claimed that voluntary practices should rather be taken,for instance,as driving elements of a future African modernity.The subproject investigates the colonial genealogies of organized forms of voluntary practices as well as their many linkages with pan-African movements on the one hand,and the many newly founded socialist states,on the other,focussing mainly on the GDR.When focussing on the close ties between decolonization and voluntariness,the project considerably contributes to the research group’s endeavour of exploring voluntariness beyond its liberal genealogy and the so-called Western world.The subproject draws on governmentality studies,asking how humans are being governed through voluntariness and how they are shaped as future political subjects by the means of guided self-government.In terms of subjectivity,the subproject especially examines in how far postcolonial settings shaped and built on „conduct and self-conduct“in possibly different ways.Taking up studies in social anthropology from the 1950s and 1960s,the subproject explores in which ways voluntariness became an object of social scientific inquiry in the context of decolonization.Against this background,it investigates,whether these studies also contributed to the reshaping of current political practices.The sources of the subproject include printed material(newspapers,journals,printed political speeches etc.),as well as archival material from the Scout Association Archives,the British National Archives as well as the Ghanaian Public Records and Archives Administration Department.Oral history interviews will complement these sources.

Application Abstract: The subproject analyses voluntariness in periods of decolonization,thereby focussing on an often overlooked political principle of(post-)colonial governance.By drawing on the example of the British Gold Coast/Ghana it will explore,in which ways voluntary social and political practices considerably shaped the political and social order during the transition from late colonial“indirect rule”to the post colony.By this,the subproject also enquires about the changing and dynamic significance of voluntariness as a norm and a resource in this particular period.In doing so,it examines the appeal to participate actively as Citizens in the making of a new Ghana and of a new Africa.It focuses on selected youth organizations that claimed to shape the new(post-)colonial subjects.The subproject will explore,too,whether and to what extent the respective actors regarded voluntariness as a constituent element of a western heritage,or if,by contrast,they claimed that voluntary practices should rather be taken,for instance,as driving elements of a future African modernity.The subproject investigates the colonial genealogies of organized forms of voluntary practices as well as their many linkages with pan-African movements on the one hand,and the many newly founded socialist states,on the other,focussing mainly on the GDR.When focussing on the close ties between decolonization and voluntariness,the project considerably contributes to the research group’s endeavour of exploring voluntariness beyond its liberal genealogy and the so-called Western world.The subproject draws on governmentality studies,asking how humans are being governed through voluntariness and how they are shaped as future political subjects by the means of guided self-government.In terms of subjectivity,the subproject especially examines in how far postcolonial settings shaped and built on „conduct and self-conduct“in possibly different ways.Taking up studies in social anthropology from the 1950s and 1960s,the subproject explores in which ways voluntariness became an object of social scientific inquiry in the context of decolonization.Against this background,it investigates,whether these studies also contributed to the reshaping of current political practices.The sources of the subproject include printed material(newspapers,journals,printed political speeches etc.),as well as archival material from the Scout Association Archives,the British National Archives as well as the Ghanaian Public Records and Archives Administration Department.Oral history interviews will complement these sources.