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166-060 Postcolonial Concerns, Postmodern Theory | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-445. Students who have completed 166-445 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Michael Dutton |
Prerequisites | Admission to fourth year Honours in Political Science. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | The subject highlights a range of postcolonial concerns (such as, hybridity, alterity and subalterity etc.) and utilises a wide body of postmodern theory (Foucault, Derrida, de Certeau etc.) to examine certain specific issues of social, cultural and economic development. Students who complete this subject should be able to: understand the usefulness and importance of postmodern and postcolonial concerns; Discuss questions of social transition in a broader more theoretically informed manner; understand the limits of area studies and applied theory approaches to the construction of knowledge; analyse the limits to a select body of recent social, political and cultural theory Advance an alternative way of formulating the idea of mainstreaming Asian Studies. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 5000 words. |
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