Indigenous Lifeworlds: Sovereignty, Justice, Society
UndergraduateTAS-HSS1132023
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Indigenous Lifeworlds: Sovereignty, Justice, Society
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Apply the concept of Indigenous lifeworlds to generate understanding of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of Palawa/Aboriginal life in Lutruwita/Tasmania.
- Describe the ways in which the criticality of the relationship to Country is expressed and practiced within Indigenous Lifeworlds
- Explain and reflect on how Indigenous Lifeworld differs from non-Indigenous Lifeworlds and how these Lifeworld differences shape relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups in Australia.
- 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
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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