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<p>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 the role of historical and contemporary forms of identification such as race, nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and cultures in organising people&#39;s experience of everyday life and politics. Drawing on contemporary analytic metaphysics, students consider philosophical issues concerning the very nature of the self, the persistence of the self through time, and the relationship between selfhood and moral agency.</p>
<p>Please note this subject is only offered in years ending in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. </p>

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POL210 - Identity, Values and Colonisation

POL210-S1-D-W

Identity, Values and Colonisation

Understand the role of the self in moral agency, and interpersonal and intercultural relations.

Demonstrate the role of identity within political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts, both Australian and international.

Describe contemporary philosophical and ethical theories about the nature of the self.

Understand the complexity of individual and collective identity politics applying an Indigenist standpoint lens.

Investigate how the metaphysics of survival illuminates colonising hegemonies which secure or disrupt one's self-conception.

Examine the impact that colonialism and neo-colonialism has in Australia on a diverse range of conceptions of the self.