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Affective Publics (CULS90009)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Contact information
July
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Overview
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What theoretical and conceptual frameworks emerge when we stage conversations between the scholarship on publics and public cultures and the so-called “affective turn” in the social sciences and humanities? How do affective publics implicate discourses of belonging, citizenship, and minoritarian identity? How do the discursive, the performative, and the material generate affective publics? To what extent have postcolonial theorists, critical race theorists, and femiqueer scholars destabilized our thinking on publics and affect? And, most importantly, what happens when we diverge from Eurocentric theories to engage affective publics in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East?
Following a seminar format, this subject will be of particular interest to doctoral students interested in cultural and screen studies, performance, literature, anthropology, sociology, and political theory. Some of the scholarship with which we will engage includes work by: Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Arjun Appadurai, Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Charles Hirshkind, Saba Mahmood, Brian Larkin, and Rustom Bharucha.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should have:
- enhanced knowledge of how contemporary public cultures are being constituted and reconstituted;
- an ability to reflect upon their own research work particularly in relation to questions of affect and public cultures;
- enhanced engagement with leading-edge research in transnational scholarship on knowledge, culture and affect; and
- an ability to engage with and contribute to accounts of belonging, citizenship and identity in comparative public cultures.
Generic skills
The subject will contribute, through teaching and discussion with academic staff and peers, to developing skills and capacities including those identified in the University-defined Graduate Attributes for the PhD, in particular:
- the capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge;
- an advanced ability to engage in critical reflection, synthesis and evaluation of research-based and scholarly literature; and
- an advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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An essay
| 4 Weeks after the end of teaching | 100% |
Hurdle requirement: Students are required to attend a minimum of 100% of classes in order to pass this subject and regular class participation is expected. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- July
Principal coordinator Purnima Mankekar Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 12 hours: 3 x 4 hour seminars, taught intensively over 1 week. Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 20 July 2020 to 24 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 21 July 2020 Census date 31 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 August 2020 Assessment period ends 21 August 2020 July contact information
Time commitment details
85 hours
Additional delivery details
This subject will be taught intensively over one week in July.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Doctor of Philosophy - Arts - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required
Last updated: 3 November 2022