In this unit we examine a range of embodied subjects that stand in a relation of crisis and/or dissent in the context of dominant Australian culture. We focus specifically on how such apparatuses of racialised punishment as the camp, prison, reserve and detention centre have been constitutive in founding and shaping the Australian nation. We examine: Aboriginal sovereignty and the colonial camp; the cultural panics generated by the ethnic descriptor of 'Middle Eastern appearance'; the cultural politics of terrorism and state violence; the power of whiteness; the racialisation of criminality and the prison industry; histories of political internment; Indigenous life writing and the... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Joseph Pugliese
Prerequisites: 39cp
