Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Eve Vincent
Contact via eve.vincent@mq.edu.au
W6A, 611
Thursday 4-6pm
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MRes
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
ANTH805
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit targets students interested in the contemporary nature of states and nations with a focus on issues of ethnicity and citizenship. The evolution of transnational migration creates great challenges to the set ideas of citizenship and ethnicity. Migrants aspire to be citizens and this aspiration confronts the well-established rules on states' sovereignty. The unit will look into the denationalisation of citizenship and ethnicity and explore a set of ideas on citizenship as the exclusive domestic jurisdiction and its relation with globalisation and transnational migration.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Tutorial Participation | 10% | Various |
Seminar Facilitation | 10% | Various |
Ethnographic Research | 40% | Friday June 12 |
Essay | 40% | Friday April 24 |
Due: Various
Weighting: 10%
Each student is expected to actively participate in the weekly seminar discussions. Seminar attendance and participation is mandatory; please email in advance if you are unable to make the class for reasons beyond your control. Students are expected to be active participants and demonstrate that they have actively engaged with the readings. Participation also means contributing to a general atmosphere of critical inquiry, showing respect for others' opinions, and listening and responding to the contributions of others. If you are having trouble speaking up in class discussion, please come to speak with me and together we can strategise ways to facilitate your contribution. One suggestion is to take notes on what you read and to write out questions or comments in advance. It is especially useful to bring areas of confusion to the seminar, as these can be clarified through our discussions.
Due: Various
Weighting: 10%
Each student (or pair of students) is responsible for leading one seminar discussion during the semester. This is an opportunity to facilitate a class discussion - the object is to find ways to stimulate discussion and draw out your fellow classmates, rather than to spend the hour talking. Prepare for the task of facilitation by carefully reading the required readings (and consult any available recommended readings as needed), critically summarising them (identifying the central arguments, for example), clarifying unfamiliar themes or ideas, and raising points for general discussion. Think about the kinds of questions you might pose: choose questions that are not overly theoretical or tricky: what you want is to get people talking, the ideas can become more complex as the discussion develops. Creativity is definitely a plus: feel free to use techniques such as debates, role-play, film clips, etc.
Due: Friday June 12
Weighting: 40%
Over the semester, students will conduct a series of non-intrusive ethnographic observations in an 'ethnic' community or suburb in the Sydney region, and then produce an analysis of these observations. You will be responsible for finding a community and/or location for research. For example, Lakemba is a community that has received a great deal of media attention and occupies an interesting place in Sydney's social geography and imagination.This research project will culminate in a paper (between 2,000 and 2,500 words) that integrates your observations and experiences, an analysis of media and public discourse, demographic and historical details, and supporting literature and theory. The ultimate theme of your paper will depend on your community, the direction of your ethnographic gaze, and the types of participation and observations conducted. You might focus on themes such as food, the use of space, media discourse, ethnic identity, community relations, immigrant issues, and community services.
We will discuss the project throughout the semester. You will be required to draw on many of the fundamentals of conducting ethnographic research (writing fieldnotes, creating maps, participating in activities, gathering demographic and historical data), short of organising formal interviews with community members. A separate document in iLearn will offer further guidance and get you started. In Week 13 we will share the results of this research in an informal session.
Due: Friday April 24
Weighting: 40%
Students will write a research essay of no more than 3,000 words (not including the bibliography) addressing one or more of the themes of the unit. Essay questions will be circulated in Week 3. A detailed description of this assessment task and a marking rubric will be provided.
All required readings are available in your iLearn.
Week 1: Thursday February 26
Race, colonialism, and ethnicity: course introduction
Readings: For our first class please select one of the following readings and we will go over them together in class.
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Week 2: Thursday March 5
Imagined communities: the nation and nationalisms
Readings
Second reading either:
Extended reading:
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Week 3: Thursday March 12
Indigeneity and the state in an age of globalisation
Readings:
Extended Reading:
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Week 4: March 19
Migration, transnationalism and the immigration experience
Readings:
Extended reading:
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Week 5: Thursday March 26
Theorising and living multiculturalism
Readings:
Extended readings:
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Week 6: Thursday April 2
Refugees and asylum seekers
Readings
Extended reading:
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Week 7: Thursday April 23
Whiteness, ‘privilege’ and power
Extended Reading:
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Week 8: Thursday April 30
Abject Citizenship
Guest lecturer: Dr Kate Hepworth
Readings:
TBA
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Week 9: Thursday May 7
Gender, Sex, and Nationalism
Readings:
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Week 10: Thursday May 14
The commodification of ethnicity?
Readings:
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Week 11: reading week
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Week 12: Thursday May 28
Race ‘riots’?
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Week 13: Thursday June 4
Presentation of findings of ethnographic research project.
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central. Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
Assessment Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy.html
Grading Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html
Grade Appeal Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
Grievance Management Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grievance_management/policy.html
Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/support/student_conduct/
Results shown in iLearn, or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit ask.mq.edu.au.
Macquarie University provides a range of support services for students. For details, visit http://students.mq.edu.au/support/
Learning Skills (mq.edu.au/learningskills) provides academic writing resources and study strategies to improve your marks and take control of your study.
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