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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.

1. Erikson, T. Ch1, What is Ethnicity? In Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives, New York: Pluto Press, 2010.
2. Gravlee, C. How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 139, no. 1, 2009, pp. 47-57.
3. Hall, S. The Rest and the West: Discourse and Power. In Hall, S. and Gieben, B. (eds), The Formations of Modernity. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press with Blackwell, 1992, pp. 184-227
4. Said, E. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors, Critical Inquiry, vol. 15, no. 2, 1989, pp. 205-225
5. Trouillot, M. Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises. In Trouillot, M. (ed), Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003, pp. 97-116.

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Week 2: Thursday March 5

Imagined communities: the nation and nationalisms

Readings

1. Anderson, B. Ch1-3, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London; New York: Verso, 2006.

Second reading either:

1. Hobsbawm, E. Introduction: Inventing Traditions, and Trevor-Roper, H. The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland. In Hobsbawm, E. and Ranger, T. (eds), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 1-41. OR
2. Andrew Lattas, Aborigines and Contemporary Australian Nationalism: Primordiality and the Cultural Politics of Otherness, Social Analysis, no. 27, 1990, pp. 50-69.

Extended reading:

• Rytter, M. ‘The Family of Denmark’ and ‘the Aliens’” Kinship Images in Danish Integration Politics, Ethnos, vol. 75, no, 3, 2010, pp. 301-322
• Harrison, S. Cultural Difference as Denied Resemblance: Reconsidering Nationalism and Ethnicity, Comparative Studies in Society & History, vol. 45, no. 2, 2003, pp. 343-61.
• Abu-Lughod, L. Finding a Place for Islam: Egyptian Television Serials and the National Interest, Public Culture, vol. 5, no. 3, 1993, pp. 493-513.

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Week 3: Thursday March 12

Indigeneity and the state in an age of globalisation

Readings:

1. Clifford, J. Indigenous Articulations, In Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 50-67.
2. Mamdani, M. Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 43, no. 4, 2001, pp. 651-664.
3. Igoe, J. Becoming Indigenous Peoples: Difference, Inequality, and the Globalisation of East African Identity Politics, African Affairs, 105/420, 2006, pp. 399-420.

Extended Reading:

• Shah, A. The Dark Side of Indigeneity? Indigenous People, Rights and Development in India, History Compass, vol. 5, no. 6, 2007, pp. 1806-1832.
• McDonald, D. Carrying Words like Weapons: Hip-Hop and the Poetics of Palestinian Identities in Israel, Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology, vol. 7, no. 2, 2010, pp. 116-130.

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Week 4: March 19

Migration, transnationalism and the immigration experience

Readings:

1. Thomas, M. Estranged Bodies and Vietnamese Identities, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 1998, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 74-88.
2. Jackson, M. The Shock of the New: On Migrant Imaginaries and Critical Transitions. Ethnos, vol. 73, no. 1, 2008, pp. 57-72.
3. Stoller, P. Urban Intersections/Existential Crossroads. In Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 11-27.

Extended reading:

• Massey D. et al. Causes of Migration. In edited by Guibernau, M. and Rex, J. (eds), The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration,  Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010.
• Levitt, P. and Lamb-Nieves, D. Social Remittances Reconsidered, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-22.

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Week 5: Thursday March 26

Theorising and living multiculturalism

Readings:

1. Wise, A. Hope and Belonging in a Multicultural Suburb, Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 26, nos.1 / 2, 2005, pp. 171-86.
2. Wise, A. and Velayutham, S. Conviviality in Everyday Multiculturalism: Some Brief Comparisons Between Singapore and Sydney, European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, 2014, pp. 406-430.
3. Ghassan Hage, At Home in the Entrails of the West: Multiculturalism, Ethnic Food and Migrant Home-Building, In H. Grace, G. Hage, L. Johnson, J. Langsworth and M. Symonds (eds), Home/world: Space, Community and Marginality in Sydney’s West, Pluto Press: Annandale, 1997, 99-153.

Extended readings:

• Hale, C. Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governance, Cultural Rights and the Politics of Identity in Guatemala, Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 34, 2002, pp. 485-524. 

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Week 6: Thursday April 2

Refugees and asylum seekers

Readings

1. Malkki, L. National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees. Cultural Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 1, 1992, pp. 24-44.
2. Fassin, D. Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 3, 2005, pp. 362-387.
3. Mogelson, L. The Dream Boat, The New York Times Magazine, November 15, 2013. (Available online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/the-impossible-refugee-boat-lift-to-christmas-island.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)

Extended reading:

• Fassin, D. and Rechtman, R. Asylum. In An Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood, 2009.
• Neumann, K. Attentiveness and Indifference, Inside Story, July 2013. Available from http://insidestory.org.au/attentiveness-and-indifference

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Week 7: Thursday April 23

Whiteness, ‘privilege’ and power

1. Wray, M. and Newitz, A. What is 'White Trash'? Stereotypes and Economic Conditions of Poor Whites in the United States. In Hill, M. (ed), Whiteness: A Critical Reader, New York and London: New York University Press, 1997,168-164.
2. Frankenburg, R. Growing Up White: The Social Geography of Race, In White Women, Race Matters, The Social Construction of Whiteness, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, pp 43-70.
3. Hage, G. Good White Nationalists: The Tolerant Society as a White Fantasy, White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, Sydney: Pluto Press, 1998, pp. 78-104.

Extended Reading:

• Low, S. Maintaining Whiteness: The Fear of Others and Niceness, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 2, 2009, pp. 79-92.

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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:

1. Nagel, J. Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol.  21, no. 2, 1998, pp. 242-269.
2. Smith, C. Race-Class-Gender Ideology in Guatemala: Modern and Anti- Modern Forms, Society for Comparative Study of Society and History, vol. 37, no. 4, 1995, pp. 723-49.
3. Nagel, J. Sex and Nationalism: Sexually Imagined Communities. In Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Week 10: Thursday May 14

The commodification of ethnicity?

Readings:

1. Comaroff, J. & J. Comaroff, Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 1-5 and 60-85.
2. Bruner, E. The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism. American Ethnologist vol. 28, no. 4, 2001, pp. 881-908.

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Week 11: reading week

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Week 12: Thursday May 28

Race ‘riots’?

1. Fassin, D. The Violence of Racialisation: The 2005 Riots as Event. In Browne, C. and McGill, J. (eds), Violence in France and Australia: Disorder in the Postcolonial Welfare Atate, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2010, pp. 181-187.
2. Poynting, S. What caused the Cronulla riot? Race and Class, vol. 48, no. 1, 2006, pp. 85-92.
3. Cowlishaw, C. Prologue and Injury and Agency, In Blackfellas, Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004, pp. ix-xvi, 60-82.

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Week 13: Thursday June 4

Presentation of findings of ethnographic research project.