This unit examines media representations of the concepts of borders and security. It situates the study of these concepts in the charged context of a post-9/11 world preoccupied with borders, security and the movement of peoples. Students will be enabled to deploy a range of critical theories in order to critique and evaluate media representations of the borderscapes (such as national borders, airports, and territorial waters) and sites of exception (such as immigration detention centres and CIA black sites) that are used to control, manage and detain figures who are deemed to be 'suspect' (terrorists, refugees, or racialised subjects). -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Joseph Pugliese, Dr Goldie Osuri
Prerequisites: (12cp in CUL or MAS units at 300 level or 42cp in LAW units at 400 or 500 level) or admission to MA or PGDipArts or PGCertArts
