ant3aas aborigines and the state
ABORIGINES AND THE STATE
ANT3AAS
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this anthropology subject students analyse contemporary issues in the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the Australian State. Are Indigenous Australians to be understood as citizens like other Australians, as the descendants of a dispossessed people with unsettled claims against the settler state, or both? What implications do these differing positions have for how the Australian nation is understood? We will examine these questions anthropologically by looking at some of the following: Indigenous Australia and the criminal justice system; the politics and law of land rights and native title; relations with the welfare state; the issues and problems surrounding self-management and self-determination; and the role of public Aboriginality in Australian nationalism. In this subject we will primarily use perspectives from anthropology and also from sociology, politics and legal studies.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorNicholas Smith
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
PrerequisitesN/A
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjects ANT2AAS
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | Black politics: inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture | Preliminary | Maddison, S 2009 | ALLEN & UNWIN |
| Readings | Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: changing conceptions and possibilities | Preliminary | Peterson, N & Sanders, W (eds) 1998 | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
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