IA3024 - Navigating Complex Contests: Indigenous Narratives in the Contemporary Era

Credit points:	03
Year:	2019
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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In this subject students will engage in deeper analysis of the complexity of the contemporary Indigenous position through examination of the goals and conceptual basis of some major narratives of the post-1967 era. The selected narratives represent Indigenous contestation with the continuing terms and conditions of the Australian nation-state and efforts to redress the ongoing legacy of colonial injustice. A focus is placed on the complex entanglements of key Indigenous goals with Western concepts, laws, knowledge and discourses. Students will critically engage with the strengths and limits of Indigenous contestation within the boundaries of non-Indigenous knowledge, law, bureaucratic, and public discourses. Major narratives include self-determination, Indigenous rights, sovereignty and treaty, land and sea rights and native title, identity, cultural difference, positive discrimination, reconciliation, constitutional recognition.

Learning Outcomes

• deconstruct the complex conceptual entanglements that frame Indigenous people's relations and negotiations with the nation-state and its social institutions;
• identify and analyse the evidence of complexity in contemporary fields of debate;
• apply productive dispositions and communication skills required to discuss and navigate complex knowledge intersections in professional and other everyday spaces, appropriate to Level 3 study;
• critically engage with the strengths and limits of Indigenous contestation within the boundaries of non-Indigenous knowledge, law, bureaucratic and public disclosures.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

IA3101; IA3003

Availabilities
, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2019
Contact hours:	13 hours - Online 26 hours - Online discussion boards
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	tutorial attendance and participation (10%); weekly annotations (20%); essays (40%); mid term essay (1500-2000 words) (30%).
Townsville, , Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2019
Contact hours:	13 hours 26 hours
Assessment:	tutorial attendance and participation (10%); weekly annotations (20%); essays (40%); mid term essay (1500-2000 words) (30%).
Cairns, , Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2019
Contact hours:	13 hours 26 hours
Assessment:	tutorial attendance and participation (10%); weekly annotations (20%); essays (40%); mid term essay (1500-2000 words) (30%).

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