191-024 Violence and the Nation State

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Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

37.5 points of Second/Third Year Criminology subjects for Third Year students. Admission to Criminology Honours for Fourth Year students.

Semester

Subject Description

The subject examines the role of the nation-state in promoting, regulating and carrying out violence. Case studies may include the white settlement of Australia, the Holocaust, the slave trade and corporal punishment in schools. Students who complete this subject should be able to analyse critically the role of nation-states in promoting, regulating and carrying out violence against individuals, communities and states; understand justifications and critiques of official violence in social theory; critically examine and deconstruct theories of the 'state', 'genocide', ethnicity and masculinity in relation to state-sanctioned violence; demonstrate an understanding of methods and techniques useful for analysing information about violence and the state, including oral history, document analysis and analysis of official statistics; demonstrate an ability to carry out independent research on state violence using an appropriate range of sources and techniques.