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Racialised Punishment and the Construction of Nation

Undergraduate | MAQ-MECX321 | 2018

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Address the role of racialised punishment in shaping modern Australian life. Discuss how criminality can become racialised. Look at Aboriginal sovereignty in Australia. Shine spotlights on prisons, reserves, detention centres and refugee camps.

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Entry requirements
Prior study needed
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Racialised Punishment and the Construction of Nation

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate critical skills, informed by cultural theories, that will enable students to understand the ways in which the categories of nation and national identity are inscribed with a series of normative values that function to construct othered subjects that are disenfranchised and/or excluded from the official corpus of nation.
    2. Develop the ability to synthesise and articulate the relations between knowledge and power in the context of nation.
    3. Develop ethical skills that will enable students to address issues of cultural difference and social justice concerns within the context of the Australian nation and its relation to global events and issues.
    4. Deploy analytical skills that enable students critically to evaluate institutions of authority in order to disclose such things as institutional racism and other discriminatory practices.
    5. Deploy critical argumentation skills that will enable students to support and materially evidence their particular viewpoints on contentious national issues.
    6. Employ cultural literacy skills that will enable students to address issues concerned with cultural difference in an informed manner.
    7. Develop socially active and responsible skills that will enable students to analyse and solve problems collaboratively.

Entry requirements

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

  • MAQ-CLT310 (Not currently available)

Others

You must complete Level 1 and 2 Cultural Studies before starting this subject.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

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