Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History

10/07/2023 45 min Episodio 62
Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History

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Drawing upon a career of scholarship extending from studies of labor, citizenship, and the state in Africa to explorations of global empire, colonialism, and globalization, three-time CASBS fellow Frederick Cooper – in conversation with 2022-23 fellows Jean Beaman and Martin Williams – gives a master class on how critical and relational thinking serve historical inquiries that advance our understandings. Frederick Cooper, CASBS fellow 1990-91, 1995-96, 2002-03NYU faculty pageWikipedia page Fred Cooper booksCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives (2018)Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 (2014)Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010)Cooper Books in CASBS's Ralph W. Tyler Collection:Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (2005)Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996)Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (1993)Fred Cooper article referenced in the episode"What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective" (2001) Jean Beaman faculty pageMartin Williams faculty page Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford UniversityCASBS:website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach​Follow the CASBS webcast series,Social Science for a World in Crisis  
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford UniversityExplore CASBS: website|Bluesky|X|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach​Human CenteredProducer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |