EAN: 9783926397621

MACHTBEZIEHUNGEN IN KOLONIALEN KONTEXTEN INITIA...

The Thyssen Lectures are a continuation of a tradition that the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
initiated in 1979  first at various institutions throughout Germany  and then at several
universities in Czechia  Israel  the Russian Federation  Turkey  and most recently in Greece.
The series in the United Kingdom and Ireland will be held over a period of four years.
Spearheaded by Prof. Christina von Hodenberg  director of the German Historical Institute
London  it will be dedicated to the overarching theme of Science  Knowledge  and the Legacy of
Empire. UNDERSTANDING POWER RELATIONS IN A COLONIAL CONTEXT: TOP-DOWN  BOTTOM-UP  IN-BETWEEN
Inspired by categories developed by the Senegalese politician  poet  and political thinker
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)  Frederick Cooper's talk broaches the question of how to
study power in the colonial and postcolonial world. Rather than postulating a duality between
top-down (elitist) history and a vision coming from the bottom of class  racial  and gender
hierarchies  Cooper argues that unequal relationships are still relationships and can be pushed
and pulled in different directions. He follows Senghor in linking two forms of solidarity:
horizontal (defined by people sharing a common culture or social position)  and vertical (the
relationship between top and bottom of a political or social order). If Africans across the
continent worked together  Senghor argued  they could turn colonizers' claims on Africans into
Africans' claim on the colonizer for the redistribution of resources and power. Cooper's talk
is a plea for studying the 'in-between' - in social  political  and geographical terms - and
for examining how people working across social categories have in recent history produced
fundamental changes in the world political order.

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