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136-075 Identities in Conflict | |
Note | Formerly available as 136-257/357. Students who have completed 136-257/357 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr John Cash |
Prerequisites | Usually 50 points of first year arts subjects. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject investigates identities in conflict by studying witchcraft accusations, Nazi doctors, Malcolm X, the bonds of love, formations of violence, ethnic and racial conflict, gender relations and everyday life in high or post modernity. These settings highlight the social, cultural and psychological processes involved in the ongoing politics of identity and provide the context within which a series of social-theoretical issues are raised regarding the relationship between the subjective and the social. Theories of ideology, discourse, agency, structuration, violence, intersubjectivity and subjectivity are drawn upon to analyse the centrality of individual and group identities to the organisation of social and political relations. Students completing this subject should develop a recognition of the ways in which social theory can provide both a range of approaches and a series of concepts for the analysis of the politics of identity, along with a critical perspective on standard approaches to identities in conflict. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words, and an oral class presentation. |
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