2009 Course Handbook
CUL301: Unassimilable Bodies: UnAustralian Cultural Studies
In this unit, we discuss a range of embodied subjects that stand in a relation of dissent and/or crisis in the context of dominant Australian culture. Topics examined in this unit include: the 'war on terror'; the cultural panic generated by the ethnic descriptor 'of Middle Eastern appearance' in the context of Arabophobia and Islamophobia; the power of whiteness; the racialisation of criminality and the prison industry; the politics and poetics of unassimilable bodies; 'migrant' architecture and cultural politics of heritage; queer bodies and intercultural desire; buried histories of internment; colonialism and the cultural politics of counter-histories; and diaspora and the poetics of anger. These topics are examined in the context of film, documentaries and literary culture.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 4 |
| When Offered: |
D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: No session) X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year (On Campus session: No session) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Joseph Pugliese |
| Prerequisites: | (40cp including CUL100 or CUL101) or (admission to GradCert/Dip in CCS and 6cp in 100-level CUL units) |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies |
Timetable Information
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