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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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