Course overview
Drawing from scholars, elders, activists and artists with established traditions in superdiversity and/or connectedness including from across Africa, South America, Australia and the Pacific, students will be exposed to interdisciplinary critical frameworks for thinking through belonging and racial difference such as environmental race justice, decolonisation, critical whiteness studies, mobilities, diaspora studies, intersectionality, planetary entanglement and policulturalism.
- Selves & Others
- Ways of Re-Imagining Belonging
- Centring Extractive Zones
- Contemporary Migrations
Course learning outcomes
- Identify key concepts and practices in familiar and unfamiliar contexts of race and belonging.
- Explain how cultural practices may be made, spread, and exchanged in a variety of contexts.
- Evaluate the application and limits of theoretical concepts in the study of difference and entanglements between selves and others.
- Explore the relationship between theory and practice by applying concepts to the analysis of positionality and publicly available cultural texts.
- Apply appropriate approaches to qualitative research, through the analysis of cultural texts.
Degree list
The following degrees include this course