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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Ben Spies-Butcher
Lecturer
Noah Bassil
Lecturer
Jean-Philippe Deranty
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to BPhil/MRes
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit introduces key themes and theorists in contemporary social and political theory. In particular, it will explore competing diagnoses and responses to the winding back of the post-war compromises between democratic states and corporate capitalism. Rather than taking a serial approach to a study of social and political theories, the unit will focus on their, at times diametrically opposed, configurations of this broad problem complex. In an epoch in which neoliberal agendas have both provoked, and perhaps also been facilitated by, the surge of populist politics across the globe, we look to contemporary social and political theories to help us make sense of new developments, to diagnose their costs and unravel future potentials. Can social democratic reformism survive the era of Trump, Brexit and Hanson? Organised as a workshop series, the unit will draw from leading theorists such as: Agamben, Boltanski, Brown, Chakrabarty, Fraser, Foucault, Habermas, Harvey, Honneth, Peck. Examining a problematic that is of foundational importance in much current social and political research, this unit is relevant to students across the humanities and social sciences. |
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:
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The unit involves a 3 hour workshop on Wednesdays, 3-6pm, held in room 234, 4 Western Rd. There is an iLearn site with weekly readings, assignments and other details.
Classes are run similar to a reading group. Most weeks lecturers will open the discussion, providing context to the readings and the themes of the week and then will open up a facilitated discussion. Some weeks there will be guest lecturers. It is expected that everyone will have read and digested the weekly readings. Given active participation in discussion is central to the pedagogy of the uni, students are expected to attend workshops.
The discussions will be interdisciplinary and we welcome students bringing insights from their home disciplines to the material we are discussing.
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Prof Jean-Philippe Deranty re-joins the unit for 2020.
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18/02/2020 | Assessment dates have been added. |