Indigenous Lifeworlds: Sovereignty, Justice, Society

• • Welcome to Country/Indigenous Lifeworlds
  • Society and Culture: Palawa Deep History and Colonial History
  • Virtual Tour of Country
  • Society and Culture: Palawa Contemporary Ways of Being
  • Virtual Tour of County
  • Sovereignty: Palawa Activism Past and Present
  • Virtual Tour of Country
  • Sovereignty: Palawa Rights – Past and Present
  • Justice: Reparations for Palawa
  • Virtual Tour of Country
  • Justice: Unfinished Business
  • On-Country Experience

You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.

• TAS-HUM113-Indigenous Lifeworlds: Story, History, Country

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject explores Indigenous lived realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the theoretical concept of the lifeworld, the focus is the Palawa/Aboriginal People of Lutruwita/Tasmania but includes a comparative study of Navajo (US) peoples to demonstrate the shared historic, socio-cultural lifeworld as well as lifeworld distinctiveness. Country is integral to Aboriginal knowledge and wellbeing, and core learnings are built around a series of virtual tours of country. The end-of-subject on-Country tour guided by Palawa/Aboriginal Knowledge Holders offers students a personal learning engagement with Aboriginal people and culture. Equipping students with a greater understanding of Indigenous lifeworld also enhances understanding of their own lifeworld and how it locates them in relation to Indigenous peoples.

Based around the themes of Palawa/Aboriginal sovereignty, justice, and society the subject relates these through the perspective of Indigenous scholarship and Aboriginal voices active in these spaces. Palawa society is explored from deep to contemporary time, highlighting the unbroken social and cultural links as well as the dramatic societal and cultural disruption of colonisation. Aboriginal sovereignty explores the historic and contemporary pursuit of rights, inclusive of land rights, political rights as articulated in the Uluru Statement and data sovereignty rights. Under the theme of justice, we examine reparative actions such as Tasmanian constitutional recognition, repatriation of Aboriginal human remains and the processes of formal apologies.

• Learnings Portfolio (40%)
• Case Study (40%)
• Online Interpretive Task (20%)

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