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 131-025 Race and Colonisation in Western Discourse

Note

Formerly available as 131-208/308. Students who have completed 131-208/308 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Professor P Grimshaw

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year History, see Prerequisites.

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject examines different ways in which the historical subject known first as Christendom then as Europe now as 'the West' has constructed itself through representations of and discourses on foreigners. Relationships between these representational practices and the maintenance of colonial and 'post' colonial domination will be explored. By the end of the subject, students should be able to identity and situate some of the major western discourses on racial, cultural and evolutionary difference.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.



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