14.05. Afrikakolloquium: Book Launch „Dividing Dar: Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920”
Dr. des. Patrick C. Hege (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin / IAAW)
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/afrika/veranstaltung/termine/15-01-afrikakolloquium-may-1968-in-africa-revisiting-the-1960s-mit-prof-dr-omar-gueye
- 14.05. Afrikakolloquium: Book Launch „Dividing Dar: Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920”
- 2025-05-14T16:15:00+02:00
- 2025-05-14T17:15:00+02:00
- Dr. des. Patrick C. Hege (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin / IAAW)
- Wann 14.05.2025 von 16:15 bis 17:15
- Wo Ihnestr. 21, 14195 Berlin, lecture hall A
- Name des Kontakts Carolin Gantz Vargas
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Africa Colloquium
Sommersemester 2025
Venue & time: Invalidenstraße 118, r. 315; 16-18 h c.t.
The Afrikakolloquium is organised this semester jointly by
Dr. Lamine Doumbia (Department for African Studies, HU) and
Dr. Susann Baller (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin)
The colloquium is open to the public. Students, colleagues and guests are welcome!
Dr. des. Patrick Hege
(Ethnologisches Museum Berlin / IAAW)
Book Launch „Dividing Dar: Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920”
(Event in collaboration with the Intitute of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Panel with: Patrick C. Hege, Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham University, New York City), Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University) and Frank Edward (University of Dar es Salaam) moderated by Daniel Tödt (Centre Marc Bloch). Introduction Omar Gueye (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar), Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke (de Gruyter Berlin)
How did a diversity of intermediaries shape not only the everyday divisions but also the dynamics and growth of the colonial city? This is the central question of Dividing Dar. Focusing on South Asian elites, Askari soldiers and police, and a minority of European settlers, the book illustrates how three continents converged to produce the colonial city in East Africa. Dividing Dar shows how negotiations, ranging from contestation to anti-colonial resistance, derailed German colonial plans to transform African "cosmopolitanism" into neatly divided races and city spaces.
Dividing Dar offers a novel approach to colonial urban history. In contrast to the traditional focus on top-down urban planning, knowledge production, and municipal politics, the book builds on a growing body of literature on colonial intermediaries and urbanism "from the middle" to address questions of historical agency, the construction of sociocultural hierarchies, and the mutations of African urbanism under the forces of German colonial occupation.