Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Jillian Kramer
Contact via Email
Y3A 152 (02) 9850 2252
2-4pm on Mondays
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp at 100 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
In this unit we examine a range of embodied subjects that stand in a relation of crisis and/or dissent in the context of dominant Australian culture. We focus specifically on how such apparatuses of racialised punishment as the camp, prison, reserve and detention centre have been constitutive in founding and shaping the Australian nation. We examine: Aboriginal sovereignty and the colonial camp; the cultural politics of terrorism and state violence; the power of whiteness; the racialisation of criminality and the prison industry; histories of political internment; and Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum
seekers. These topics are examined through the lens of social justice and are situated in the context of film, documentaries and contemporary news media. The unit brings into focus the manner in which targeted communities have mobilised activist networks and a range of media in order to work toward social change and a more just society.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Late Submissions:
Tasks 10% or less: No extensions will be granted. Students who have not submitted the task prior to the decline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Tasks above 10%: No extensions will be granted. Students who submit late work without an extension will receive a penalty of 10% per day. This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Engagement & Participation | 10% | No | Ongoing |
Critical Analysis | 15% | No | 11:59pm 19 March 2017 |
Policy Briefing Paper | 25% | No | 11:59pm 26 April 2017 |
Final Essay | 50% | No | 11:59pm 5 June 2017 |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 10%
Over the course of this session, students are expected to actively engage and participate in weekly tutorial activities and class discussions. You will be assessed on your engagement in tutorial activities and, in line with the learning outcomes, your ability to develop ethical and informed means of contributing to debates on complex and often contentious issues of cultural difference and social justice.
Assessment Criteria:
Students will be assessed according to the following criteria:
If you cannot attend a tutorial due to an unavoidable and serious disruption, please email your unit convenor and submit a disruption to studies notification via ask.mq.edu.au. To learn more about how to apply for Disruption to Studies, please click here.
Due: 11:59pm 19 March 2017
Weighting: 15%
For this assessment, students are required to perform a 500-800 word critical analysis of one of the required readings from weeks one, two or three of this unit. In their analysis, students must outline the purpose of their chosen text and the contribution that it makes to scholarly research (such as the theoretical concepts, arguments or methodologies developed by the author). Most importantly, they should also include an informed and nuanced critique of their chosen text that identifies any inadequacies or gaps in the research and explores how the research could be extended and adapted for our contemporary context.
Assessment Criteria:
Students will be assessed according to the following criteria:
Submission: Students will submit their Critical Analysis via the Turnitin link on the unit iLearn Site.
Late Penalty: A late penalty of 10% per day (including weekends) will be deducted for late submissions.
Disruption to Studies: Students who have experienced an unavoidable and serious disruption to their studies and are seeking an extension should contact the unit convenor and submit a Disruption to Studies application via ask.mq.edu.au. Extensions will only be granted in line with University Policy. To learn more about how to apply for Disruption to Studies, please click here.
Due: 11:59pm 26 April 2017
Weighting: 25%
For this assessment, students are required to write a policy briefing paper that could be submitted to either local, state or federal institutions or government bodies. In order to write this briefing paper, they must select one specific issue or case study that we have discussed so far in the unit. Then, students must prepare a scholarly policy paper that draws on theoretical concepts and cultural studies methodologies in order to critically analyse the issue at stake and offer productive recommendations.
For example, you may identify a specific issue such as the criminalisation of Indigenous people in the Northern Territory following the introduction of new legislation or the erasure of Indigenous counter-histories in our high school history syllabus. After identifying a topic, you must then use cultural studies concepts and methodologies, relevant external research and a case study or example in order to perform a well-informed analysis of the issue. In line with the unit's learning outcomes, you must also outline well-researched and ethical recommendations. We will further discuss the components of policy briefings and scholarly research in selected weekly tutorials.
Assessment Criteria:
Students will be assessed according to the following assessment criteria:
Submission: Students will submit their Briefing Paper via the Turnitin Link on the unit iLearn Site.
Late Penalty: A late penalty of 10% per day (including weekends) will be deducted for late submissions.
Disruption to Studies: Students who have experienced an unavoidable and serious disruption to their studies and are seeking an extension should contact the unit convenor and submit a Disruption to Studies application via ask.mq.edu.au. Extensions will only be granted in line with University Policy. To learn more about how to apply for Disruption to Studies, please click here.
Due: 11:59pm 5 June 2017
Weighting: 50%
Students must write a 2,000 word essay in response to one of the questions listed below. In their answers, students must use the theoretical concepts discussed over the course of the semester in order to develop an well-informed argument that can be demonstrated via analysis of examples or a relevant case study.
Questions:
Assessment Criteria:
Students will be assessed according to the following assessment criteria:
Submission: Students will submit the Final Essay via the Turnitin Link on the unit iLearn Site.
Late Penalty: A late penalty of 10% per day (including weekends) will be deducted for late submissions.
Disruption to Studies: Students who have experienced an unavoidable and serious disruption to their studies and are seeking an extension should contact the unit convenor and submit a Disruption to Studies application via ask.mq.edu.au. Extensions will only be granted in line with University Policy. To learn more about how to apply for Disruption to Studies, please click here.
Attendance:
You are required to attend all tutorials. As participation in the process of learning is linked to, and underpins the unit Learning Outcomes, you will need to either apply for Disruptions to Studies to cover any missed tutorial (if the disruption is greater than three consecutive days) or supply appropriate documentation to your unit convenor for any missed tutorial (if less than three consecutive days).
Unit Delivery:
Lectures and Tutorials will begin in the first week of the semester.
This unit will be taught through a combination of lectures and tutorials. Echo recordings of the lectures and the lecture notes will be available on iLearn. Each week, students will also be required to complete the set readings and relate them to the lecture material. Students should use the set tutorial questions in the unit schedule to orient their reading of relevant materials.
All students are expected to contribute to group discussions and, as this is a unit that explicitly taps into topical issues in the context of the Australian nation, students are expected to follow current developments in government policy, the media, and so on, and to related these developments to the issues under discussion.
For lecture times and classes, please consult the MQ timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au. This website will display up-to-date information on your classes and classroom locations.
Required Texts: CUL321 Reader
The CUL321 Unit Reader is available for purchase from the CoOp Bookshop. If you have any issues buying or finding a copy of the unit reader, please inform Jillian Kramer via email at jillian.kramer@mq.edu.au
REQUIRED TEXT: CUL321 READER: Racialised Punishment and the Construction of the Nation
Recommended texts:
Agamben, Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998)
Agamben, Giorgio, State of Exception (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Anderson, Warwick, The Cultivation of Whiteness (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002)
Ang, Ien, Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas (eds.), Alter/Asians (Annandale: Pluto Press, 2000)
Bahbha, H, Nation and Narration (London: Routledge, 1990)
Beaumont, Joan, Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien and Matthew Trinca, Under Suspicion: Citizenship and Internment in Australia during the Second World War (Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2008)
Blake, Thom, Dumping Ground: A History of the Cherbourg Settlement (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001)
Bonuto, Osvaldo, A Migrant’s Story (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994).
Burke, Anthony (2001) In Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (Annandale: Pluto Press)
Corlett, David, Following Them Home: The Fate of the Returned Asylum Seekers (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2005)
Couchman, Sophie, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor (eds.), After the Rush: Regulaiton, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Fitzroy, Vic.: Otherland, 2004)
Crock, Mary, Ben Saul and Azadeh Dastyari, Future Seekers II: Refugees and Irregular Migration in Australia (Annandale, NSW: Federation Press, 2006)
Cuneen, Chris, David Fraser and Stephen Tomsen, Faces of Hate: Hate Crime in Australia. (Annandale: Hawkins Press, 1997)
Davis, Angela Y., Are Prisons Obselete? (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003)
de Certeau, Michel, The Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997)
de Certeau, Michel, Luce Giard and Pierre Mayol, The Practice of Everyday Life, vol. 2 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998)
Donald, James and Ali Rattansi (eds.), 'Race,' Culture and Difference (London: Sage Publications, 1993)
Frankenberg, Ruth, The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women, Race Matters (London: Routledge, 1993)
Foucault, M, The History of Sexuality. Trans. Robert Hurley (London: Penguin, 1990)
Giannacopuolos, Maria, “Tampa: Violence at the Border,” Social Semiotics, 15.1 (2005): 29-47.
Giannacopoulos, Maria, “Mabo, Tampa and the Non-Justiciability of Sovereignty,” in S. Perera (ed.), Our Patch (Perth: Network, 2007.
Gleeson, Jane, M. A. Hamilton, G. Morgan, M. Wynne-Jones, Marrickville Backyards (Dulwich Hill: Marrickville Community History Group, 2001)
Grimshaw, Patricia et al, Creating a Nation (Ringwood: McPhee Gribble, 1994)
Hage, G, White Nation (Annandale: Pluto Press, 1998)
Hall, Stuart, David Held and Tony McGrew (eds.), Modernity and Its Futures (Cambridge: Polity Press in Association with the Open University, 1992)
Heiss, Anita, Token Koori (Sydney: Curringa Communications, 1998)
Heiss, Anita, Dhuuluu-Yala (To Talk Straight): Publishing Aboriginal Literature (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2003)
Hill, Mike (ed.), Whiteness: A Critical Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1997)
Hodson, Michael, “Government Lies Again – Tiwi Islanders: ‘We’re all non-Australians’” fromGreen Left Weekly http://www.greenleft.org.au and
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/562/562p7b.htm
hooks, bell, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Boston: South End Press, 1990)
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), A Last Resort: A summary guide to the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (Sydney: HREOC, 2004)
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commisssion (HREOC), IsmaÎ -- Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians (Sydney: HREOC, 2001)
Jakubowicz, Andrew et al, Racism, Ethnicity and the Media (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1991994)
Leach, Michael and Fethi Mausouri, Lives in Limbo (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004)
Lygo, Iain, News Overboard: The Tabloid Media, Race Politics and Islam (n.p.: Southerly Change Media, 2004)
Nakayama, Thomas K. and Judith N. Martin (ed.), Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1999)
Mitchell, D. T. and S. Snyder, Cultural Locations of Disability (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2006)
Moores, Irene (ed.), Voices of Aboriginal Australia (Springwood: Butterfly Books, 1995)
Moreton-Robinson (ed.), Whitening Race (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004)
Morton-Robinson, Aileen, “The Possessive Logic of Patriachal White Sovereignty,” Borderlands ejournal 3.2 at: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol3no2_2004/moreton-possessive.html
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, “The House that Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession,” Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal, 1 (2005): 21-29.
Osuri, Goldie, “Regimes of Terror: Contesting the War on Terror,” Borderlands ejournal 5.1 at: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol5no1/osuri.html
Osuri, Goldie and Bobby Banerjee, “White Diasporas: Media Representations of September 11 and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being Australian,” Social Semiotics, 14.2: 151-171.
Palombo, Lara, “Whose Turn Is It? White Diasporic and Transnational Practices and the Necropolitics of the Plantation and Internment Camps,” Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association e-journal, 3.1 (2007: 1-20.
Perera, Suvendrini, Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Perera, Suvendrini, “The Impossible Refugee of Western Desire” at http://www.lines-magazine.org/
Perera, Suvendrini, “What is a camp…? Borderlands 1.1 (2002), at http://www.boderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol1no1_2002/perera.html
Perera, Suvendrini, “A Line in the Sea: The Tampa, Boat Stories and the Border,” Cultural Studies Review 8 (2002): 11-27.
Perera, Suvendrini,“Whiteness and Its Discontents,” Journal of Intercultural Studies 20.2 (1999): 183-198
Perera, Suvendrini (ed.), Our Patch (Perth: Network, 2007).
Poynting, Scott, Greg Noble, Paul Tabar and Jock Collins, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Sydney: Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004)
Pugliese, Joseph, “Penal Asylum: Refugees, Ethics, Hospitality,” Borderlands ejournal at: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol1no1_2002/pugliese.html
Pugliese, Joseph, “The Locus of the Non: The Racial Fault Line ‘of Middle Eastern Appearance,” Borderlands ejournal at: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol2no3/pugliese.html
Pugliese, Joseph, “Each Death is the First Death,” HEAT, 6 (2003): 7-12.
Pugliese, Joseph, “Subcutaneous Law: Embodying the Migration Amendment Act 1992,” The Australian Feminist Law Journal, 21 (2004): 23-34.
Pugliese, Joseph, “Asymmetries of Terror,” Borderlands ejournal at: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol5no1_2005/pugliese.html
Pugliese, Joseph, “Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Cultural Politics of Space,” in Sudeep Dasgupta (ed.), Constellations of the Transnational (Amesterdam: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 23-50.
Roediger, D., Towards an Abolition of Whiteness (London: Verso, 1994)
Sedgewick, Eve Kosofsky, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
Snyder, Sharon L. and David T. Mitchell, Cultural Locations of Disability (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Snyder, Sharon L. and David T. Mitchell, A World Without Bodies (Chicago: Brace Yourself Productions, 2002)
Spivak, G C, In Other Worlds (New York and London: Methuen, 1987)
Spivak, G C, The Post-Colonial Critic (London and New York: Routledge, 1990)
Thadenka, Learning to Be White (New York: Continuum, 2000)
Watson, Irene, “Aboriginal Sovereignties: Past, Present and Future (Im)Possibilities,” in Suvendrini Perera (ed.), Our Patch (Perth: Network, 2007), pp. 23-44.
Watson, Irene, “Buried Alive,” Law and Critique 13 (2000): 253-269.
Week 1: Introduction
Readings: Michael Hodson, “Government Lies Again – Tiwi Islanders: ‘We’re all non-Australians’” from Green Left Weekly http://www.greenleft.org.au
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/562/562p7b.htm
Tony Birch, “The Last Refuge of the ‘un-Australian’”
Suvendrini Perera, “Girt by Sea”
WEEK 2: Contested Histories and Aboriginal Sovereignties
Screening: “Black Man’s Houses”
Readings: Ian Anderson, “Re-claiming Tru-ger-nan-ner: Decolonizing the Symbol”
Irene Watson, “Aboriginal Sovereignties: Past, Present and Future (Im)Possibilities”
First Nations Interim National Unity Government, “Declarations of Independence Advanced at Brisbane Treaty Talks”
Murrawarri Republic, “Queen Recognises Murrawarri Republic”
Questions:
WEEK 3: Whiteness
Readings: K. E. Supryia, “White Difference”
Ruth Frankenberg, “Thinking Through Race”
Anita Heiss, “Invisible Whiteness” and “My Best Friend is White”
Questions:
WEEK 4: The Racialisation of Punishment
Readings: Chris Cuneen, “The Nature of Colonial Policing”
Gerry Georgato, “The Burning Issue of Deaths in Custody: Aboriginal People Die 5 Times the Rate of Apartheid South Africa”
Natasha Robinson, “Black Sentences Soar as Juvenile Jails Become a ‘Storing House’”
Angela Davis, “Race and Criminalization”
Angela Davis, “The Prison Industrial Complex”
Questions:
WEEK 5: Aboriginal Law Versus Colonial Law
Readings: Irene Watson, “Buried Alive”
Shaunnagh Dorsett and Shaun McVeigh, “Just So: ‘The Law Which Governs Australia Is Australian Law’”
Screaning: Dhakiyarr vs the King
Questions:
WEEK 6: The Racialisation of Crime and Cultural Panics
Readings: Jock Collins et al, “Crime and Ethnicity in Australia: Myths and Realities”
Scott Pointing et al, “The Arab Other”
David Fraser et al, “Violence Against Arab Australians”
Joseph Pugliese, “The Locus of the Non: The Racial Fault-Line ‘of Middle Eastern Appearance,’” Borderlands e-journal 2.3 at: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol2no3_2003/pugliese_non.htm.
Questions:
MID-SEMESTER BREAK
WEEK 7: READING WEEK
WEEK 8: The Camp and Histories of Internment
Readings: Suvendrini Perera, “What is a camp…? Borderlands 1.1 (2002), at http://www.boderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/
David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, “The Eugenic Atlantic: Disability and the Making of an International Science”
“William Cooper: The Aboriginal Who Stood up to Hitler”
Osvaldo Bonuto, “’J’accuse’: Internment”
Lara Palombo, “Whose Turn Is It? White Diasporic and Transnational Practices and the Necropolitics of the Plantation and Internment Camps”
Questions:
WEEK 9: The Cultural Politics of Suburban Space and Ethnic Architecture
Mirjana Lozanovka, “Abjection and Architecture: The Migrant House in Multicultural Australia”
Said and Souad Lahoud “It’s In the Blood: Culture and Identity and Their Suburban Backyard”
Joseph Pugliese, “A Topolitology of Mourning: Practices of Mourning and the Diasporic Transpositions of Space”
Joseph Pugliese, “Migrant Heritage in an Indigenous Context”
Questions:
WEEK 10: “Fighting with Our Tongues”: Indigenous Life Writings
Readings: Jackie Huggins, selections from Auntie Rita
Tess Allas, “A Stitch in Time”
William Ferguson and John Patten, “Cries from the Heart: Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!”
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, “Tellin’ It Straight: Self-Representation within Indigenous Women’s Life Writings”
Jackie Huggins, “Auntie Rita’s File”
Anita Heiss, “Indigenous Writing and Identity”
Questions:
WEEK 11: At the Border: Australia’s Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Screening: “The Man Who Jumped”
Readings: Suvendrini Perera, “A Line in the Sea: The Tampa, Boat Stories and the Border”
Joseph Pugliese, “The Recknoning of Possibles: Asylum Seekers, Justice and the Indigenisation of the Levinasian Third”
Ray Jackson, “An Open Letter to Kevin Rudd MP”
Ray Jackson, “Indigenous Leader to Asylum Seekers: ‘You are Welcome Here’”
Bianca Hall, “Overwhelming Majority of Boat Arrivals Deemed to Be Refugees”
Maria Giannacopoulos, “Tampa: Violence at the Border”
Questions:
WEEK 12: The Politics of Fear and Terror
Readings: Goldie Osuri: “Regimes of Terror: Contesting the War on Terror”
Joseph Pugliese, “Asymmetries of Terror”
Suvendrini Perera, “Race Terror, Sydney, December 2005”
All three essays are in Borderlands ejournal available at:
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/issues/vol5no1.html
Questions:
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Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
Assessment Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy_2016.html
Grade Appeal Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
Complaint Management Procedure for Students and Members of the Public http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/complaint_management/procedure.html
Disruption to Studies Policy (in effect until Dec 4th, 2017): http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html
Special Consideration Policy (in effect from Dec 4th, 2017): https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration
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