POL210 Politics of Identity (8)
AbstractThis subject seeks to examine recent developments within political theory that address questions of identity, subjectivity and difference. It charts the emergence of new political identities and their representations. It seeks to analyse the changing significance of public forms of identification such as nation, gender, class, multiculturalism and the media in organising people's experience of everyday life and politics. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
Session 2 | Online | Bathurst Campus |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: POL210
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject informationDuration | Grading System | School: |
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One session | HD/FL | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Assumed KnowledgePOL101 or POL110 or POL106 or POL105LIT1%%SOC101 |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of the role of identity within political cultures, both Australian and international. - be able to demonstrate an understanding of the limits of the category identity and an appreciation of post-identity politics - be able to analyse the ways in which identities are produced through narratives of the self and the implications of this - be able to critically examine the rise of identity politics and the assumed demise of traditional politics and their continuing interrelationships |
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics: . the rise of identity politics
. critique of individual versus society dualism
. post structural critique of gender
. narratives of self
. class, culture and popular culture
. ideology to discourse
. production of subjectivities
. otherness', orientalism and Aboriginality
. media and cyber identities
. corporal politics and the post-human multiculturalism and nationalism |
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The information contained in the 2017 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 25 August 2017. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.