Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests. The MMCCS in-session Re-mark Application form can be found here: http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download/?id=167914

Unit Delivery and Attendance:

In this unit, you are expected to attend and engage with your peers in the lectures and tutorials. As this unit is designed to equip you with both the critical knowledge and the ethical, analytical and argumentation skills necessary to engage with contentious social justice issues (see the Learning Outcomes), you will get the most out of this unit if you complete the readings,

share your knowledge in lecture and tutorial discussions and learn from your peers. We will also be discussing feedback and assessment information in the tutorials.

Lectures and tutorials will begin in week one.

Echo recordings of the lectures will be available on iLearn. Each week, students will also be required to complete the set readings and relate them to the lecture material before attending the tutorials. 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.

Required Texts:

The CUL321 Unit readings are all available via i-share and unit readings on ilearn. Please see the schedule below for the list of readings.

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 One: Introduction

This week we're going to begin exploring the political, legal and cultural forces that shape the Australian nation-state. In particular, we're going to unpack some of the key concepts that will orient our studies throughout the unit. We're going to ask: what is a nation-state? What is sovereignty? What does terra nullius mean?

Our lecture and tutorials begin this week.

Readings:

• Birch, Tony (2007) “‘The invisible fire:” Indigenous Sovereignty, history and responsibility,’ in A Moreton-Robinson (ed.), Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, pp. 105-117

• Perera, Suvendrini (2009) ‘Girt by Sea,’ Australia and the Insular Imagination, Palgrave Macmillian, New York, pp. 15-32

Week Two: Contested Histories and Aboriginal Sovereignties

This week we're going to continue exploring the contested foundations of the Australian nation- state. Building on the understanding of the nation that we've developed so far, we're going to draw on Indigenous counter-histories in order to question dominant historical narratives that suggest this continent was lawfully 'discovered' and 'settled' by English colonists. We'll also use examples, like headlines from the Daily Telegraph, in order to discuss the ways in which historical narratives and representations are policed and regulated.

Readings:

• Anderson, Ian (1993) ‘Reclaiming Tru-ger-nan-ner: De-colonising the symbol,’ Art Monthly Australia, Vol. 66, pp. 10-14

• Watson, Irene (2007) 'Aboriginal Sovereignties: Past, Present and the Future (Im)Possibilities', in S Perera (ed.), Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Post 2001, Network Books, Perth pp. 23-43.

Week Three: Whiteness

This week we're going to continue exploring the way race shapes the Australian nation-state. Building on our understanding of the nation's contested histories, we're going to turn a critical lens on a topic that is often evaded and silenced: whiteness. We're going to ask questions such as: What are the key attributes of whiteness? Is it rendered invisible? If so, how? What does Frankeberg mean by the “colour and power evasiveness” of whiteness? How does, according to Frankenberg, whiteness normalise race privilege?

Readings:

• Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (2010), ‘Whiteness, Epistemology and Indigenous Representation’ in A Moreton-Robinson (ed.), Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism,’ Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp. 75-88

• Frankenberg, Ruth (1993) ‘Thinking Through Race,’ White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 137-190

Week Four: The Racialisation of Punishment

This week we're going to draw on what we've learnt about Australia's contested histories and regime of whiteness in order to identify how our laws, policing strategies and infrastructure both target racialised subjects and exclude them from the body of the nation. Drawing on contemporary case studies, we're going to ask questions such as: How does the history of colonial policing fundamentally inform contemporary relations between Aboriginal people and the law? What is the relation between race and the punishment industry? What is the prison industrial complex?

Readings:

• Cunneen, Chris (2001) ‘The Nature of Colonial Policing,’ Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, pp. 46-79

• Davis, Angela (1998) ‘Race and criminalization: Black Americans and the punishment industry,’ in J Joy (ed), Angela Y. Davis Reader, Malden, Blackwell, pp. 61-73

• Davis, Angela (2003) ‘The Prison Industrial Complex,’ Are Prisons Obsolete?, Seven Stories Press, New York, pp. 84-104

Week Five: Colonial Law and the NT Intervention

This week we're going to explore how the doctrine of terra nullius shapes the Australian nation- state. Drawing on the work of scholars from critical race and whiteness and critical legal studies, we're going to track how this legal fiction continues to operate within contemporary laws, media representations and political discourses. We're going to ask: How does colonial law operate in policies such as the Northern Territory Intervention to reproduce white sovereignty?

Readings:

• Watson, Irene (2002), 'Buried Alive', Law and Critique, Vol. 13, pp. 253-69.

• Kunnoth-Monks, Rosalie (2015), ‘Reflections on the Intervention: Quotes made between

  2012 and 2014,’ in R Scott and A Heiss (eds.), The Intervention: An Anthology, Griffin Press, Australia, pp. 14-26

Week Six: The Racialisation of Crime and Cultural Panics

This week we're going to extend our study of the ways whiteness, colonial law and racialised punishment work within the context of the Australian nation-state. Using contemporary case studies, we're going to question why the nation's states and territories use the descriptor 'of Middle Eastern Appearance' in contemporary policing. We'll argue that this problematic descriptor has the potential to trigger cultural panics that have both material and symbolic effects. We'll ask: What is problematic about the ethnic descriptor “of Middle Eastern appearance” as used by both the police and the media? How do the government and the media play into the construction of cultural panics about “ethnic crime” and “ethnic gangs?” What is at stake in the use of "ethnic" descriptors when discussing crime and criminal behaviour?

Readings:

• Pointing, S, Noble, G, Tabar, P & Collins, J (2004) ‘The Arab Other.’ Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other’, Sydney Institute Crimonology Series Sydney, pp. 11-51

• Hussein, S, Poynting, S (2017) ‘We’re Not Multicultural, but...’ Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 333-348

Week Seven: Assessment Workshop Week

This week we're going to consolidate what we've learnt so far and begin preparing you for the remainder of the unit. In the lecture this week, we're going to recap key theories, provide feedback on the first assessment and discuss your next two assessments. In the tutorials, we're going to workshop your assessments.

Week Eight: The Camp and Histories of Internment

This week we're going to track how camps, missions and reserves have been mobilised since white invasion in order to exclude racialised bodies from the corpus of the nation. In particular, we're going to explore how these carceral spaces have been used to not only discipline, control and punish targeted subjects; they have also been used to define the nation-state, seize sovereignty and assert borders. We're going to ask questions such as: how does the camp construct the nation, its aliens and its borders?

Readings for this Topic:

• Perera, Suvendrini (2002) “What is a camp...? Borderlands e-journal, Vol. 1. No. 1, available at: http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol1no1_2002/perera_camp.html

• Palombo, Lara (2007) ‘Whose Turn is it? White Diasporic and Transnational Practices and the Necropolitics of the Plantation and Internment Camps’ available at: http://www.acrawsa.org.au/files/ejournalfiles/66LaraPalombo.pdf

Week Nine: The Politics of Suburban Space and Architecture

This week we're going to explore the cultural politics of our everyday built environment, including the construction of our schools, offices, homes and institutions. We're going to ask: what is at stake in the construction of our built environment and the policies that govern some choices we make about it - such as the colour of your house, size of your fence and use of your front yard? Does our built environment and the policies that serve to protect 'heritage' buildings reproduce colonial relations of power? What is the relation between migrant architecture, hegemonic concepts of nation/identity and abjection? How is the suburban backyard a site of resistance and a refuge against assimilation ideologies? What is the significance of locating migrant heritage within an Indigenous context?

Readings:

• Lozanovska, M (1994), ‘The Migrant House in Multicultural Australia,’ in L Johnson (ed.), Suburban Dreaming: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Australian Cities, Deakin University Press, Geelong, pp. 193-207

• Pugliese, J (2002), ‘Migrant Heritage in an Indigenous Context: For a Decolonising Migrant Historiography,' Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 23, pp. 5-8

Week Ten: "Fighting With Our Tongues"

This week we're going to explore Indigenous life writings that bare testimony to Indigenous people's long history of creative resistance against colonialism. In particular, we're going to map the ways that Indigenous life writings contest both dominant representations of white Australia's history and the objectifying accounts of Indigenous people produced by anthropologists and ethnograhers. We're going to ask: why is the oral history genre important in this context? What is the relationship between “life writing” and dominant histories as dramatised in Auntie Rita and as discussed by Moreton-Robinson? What are the tactics of resistance against colonial power as articulated by both Huggins and Moreton-Robinson?

Readings:

• Huggins, J (1998), ‘Auntie Rita’s File,’ in Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, pp. 131-134

• Moreton-Robinson, A (2000), ‘Tellin’ it Straight: Self-Presentation within Indigenous Women’s Life Writings,’ Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, pp. 1-31

Week Eleven: At the Border - Australia's Refugees and Asylum Seekers

This week we're going to extend our study of race, whiteness, sovereignty and racialised punishment a step further in order to examine what happens at Australia's border. In particular, we're going to examine the ways in which institutions of the law and politics are not only complicit but also instrumental in producing serial violence against refugees. We're going to put the law and policy under the spotlight in order to ask: can we trace fear of 'alien invasions' back to white Australia's foundation? How does the mandatory imprisonment of refugees and asylum seekers contravene Human Rights (as outlined by UN charters)? How does the law construct and maintain a regime of penal asylum for refugees and asylum seekers? What is the relationship between Indigenous sovereignty, white colonial possession and Australia’s refugee crisis?

Readings:

• Pugliese, J 2011 ‘The Recknoning of Possibles: Asylum Seekers, Justice and the Indigenisation of the Levinasian Third,’ The Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 34, pp. 23-42

Giannacopoulos, M (2005), Tampa: Violence at the border,' Social Semiotics, Vol. 15, pp. 29-42

Week Twelve: The Politics of Fear & Terror

Over the course of this unit, we’ve mapped a genealogy of historical incidents and moments of racialised violence that are generative of what we could call ‘terror.’ This week we're going to draw together what we've learnt about race, whiteness, racialised punishment and cultural panics in order to critique the contemporary cultural politics of terror and terrorism at both a national and international level. We're going to ask: What is at stake in the government and media fostering of a politics of fear and terror? Why must the concept of “terrorism” be thought outside of eurocentric discourses? What needs to be done in order to begin to dismantle regimes of fear and terror?

Readings:

• •Perera, Suvendrini (2006) 'Race Terror, Sydney, December 2005,' in Borderlands e-journal, Vol. 5, no. 1, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol5no1_2006/perera_raceterror.htm