Dr Kam Kaur

Dr Kam Kaur
 Position Lecturer
 Org Unit Wirltu Yarlu Aboriginal Education
 Email kam.kaur@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 5131
 Location Floor/Room 1 ,  Schulz ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Dr Kameljeet Kaur is a lecturer at The University of Adelaide. She has course coordinated and lectured in various fields including Indigenous Knowledges, History, International Relation, Cultural Studies and Sociology. Currently, she is the course coordinator and lecturer for the Indigenous Knowledges courses taught through Wirltu Yarlu. She works with both local and global First Nations communities' Elders, cultural leaders, and scholars to construct and apply Indigenous methodologies to the courses that she coordinates. Her focus and aim is to build more courses that apply First Nations pedagogies, decolonial methods, and critical theory that works from within a decolonial theoretical lens. Her research focuses on race inequalities that have become invisible. Fusing Focucault's concept of biopolitics and Edward Said's concept of orientalism, Dr Kameljeet Kaur interrogates the constructions of labels through which colonial subjects have been 'othered'. She highlights the danger of the single story that fails to address, understand and celebrate cultural diversity, by showing how hegemonic discourses bind, construct and normalise ways of being from an Anglo-Western European perspective. Her recent publication, 'Horrors of Honour' in Living Legacies of Social Injustices: Power, Time and Social Change, interrogates the discourse of 'honour crimes' in the context of the United Kingdom. 

     

  • Qualifications

    Doctor of Philosophy  - The University of South Australia 

    Joint Honours - Sociology and Literature -  London South Bank University 

    BA of Arts -  London South Bank University 

  • Teaching Interests

    Critical Race Studies

    Cultural studies 

    Sociology 

    Global Indigenous Knowledges

    Gender Studies

    International Relations 

    Politics of the Body

    Language and Semiotics 

     

  • Research Interests

     

    Critical Race Studies

    Cultural Diversity

    Decolonisation

    Global Indigenous Knowledges

    Domestic Violence and “Honour Crimes"

    Gender Studies

    Theorising Social Change

    Politics of the Body

    Language and Semiotics

     

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