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LV-Nummer 3131 L 314
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Gesamt-Lehrleistung 34,67 UE
Semester SoSe 2024
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Organisationseinheiten Technische Universität Berlin
Fakultät I
↳     Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
↳         31311300 FG Technikgeschichte
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Weber, Heike Waltraud
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Weber, Heike Waltraud
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Termine (1)


10:00 - 12:00, Mo. 15.04 - 15.07.24, wöchentlich

(
Charlottenburg
)

31311300 FG Technikgeschichte

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Global Histories of Technology (Seminar)
H 2051 (Charlottenburg)
Weber, Heike Waltraud
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Weber, Heike 

  • Mo. 10-12 Uhr 
  • Raum: H 2051, Anmeldung über ISIS 
  • Beginn: 15.04.2024 

The history of technology still grapples with repercussions of the 'great divergence' debate. This debate posits that innovations and large-scale technological advancements, spearheaded by European industrialisation, created a chasm between Europe and other regions, a gap that still remains to be bridged. This seminar challenges this Eurocentric focus that measures all historical technological developments against Western standards and explores the history of technology in non-Western context by focusing on local actors and their knowledge-making processes. We will employ both a theoretical and an empirical approach, focusing on case studies from the Ottoman Empire, South America, India, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Korea from the mid-19th to the 20th century. Throughout the seminar, we will critically engage with themes such as globalisation, invention and innovation, maintenance and repair, "technological dialogue" and "transfer", infrastructures in (post)colonial contexts and the pivotal role of embedded and local knowledge in tailoring technologies to suit specific local needs and conditions. 

The seminar is geared towards the needs of beginners in history of technology. 

Literatur: 

  • Edgerton, David: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. Oxford 2008. 
  • Hasenöhrl, Ute: Histories of Technology and the Environment in Post/Colonial Africa: Reflections on the Field, in: Histories 1 (2021), S. 122-44.

Modulzuordnungen:

  • BA KulT WTG 3, 4  
  • BA KulT FW 14, 15, 16  
  • MA TGWT FW 9, 11, 12, 14 (in 11 & 12 nur kleine Leistung)