Abstract
This interdisciplinary subject applies a decolonising lens to understand significant social, political, and philosophical questions about the self. The subject provides students with the opportunity to examine the impact of Australia’s colonisation on their understanding of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people’s experiences of self and relationship to others. Students will analyse … For more content click the Read More button below.
Please note this subject is only offered in years ending in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.
Syllabus
Module 1: The Self
(a) Critical self-enquiry
(b) The nature of the self
(c) De-colonising the self
Module 2: Identity
(a) Colonisation and identity
(b) Identity politics in contemporary Australia
(c) Gender, sexuality, and identity
(d) Class and cultural identity
(e) Identity, race, and ethnicity
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(a) The metaphysics of survival and colonising hegemonies
(b) Selfhood and moral agency
(c) Re-thinking one’s self
Assessment items
1. Essay (Including Literature Review Component)
2. Oral Viva
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
1.
Demonstrate the role of identity within political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts, both Australian and international.
2.
Understand the complexity of individual and collective identity politics applying an Indigenist standpoint lens.
3.
Investigate how the metaphysics of survival illuminates colonising hegemonies which secure or disrupt one's self-conception.
4.
Examine the impact that colonialism and neo-colonialism has in Australia on a diverse range of conceptions of the self.
5.
Describe contemporary philosophical and ethical theories about the nature of the self.
6.
Understand the role of the self in moral agency, and interpersonal and intercultural relations.
Assumed knowledge
Nil