Knowledge Practices 2 (PHIL10004)

This subject offers an introduction to a number of key concepts and ideas emergent from the Western intellectual tradition such as liberalism and freedom, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, property, imperialism, race, gender and sexuality, justice, sovereignty and childhood. Drawing on the work of Australian and trans-national Indigenous scholars and other various critical theorists, students will further extend their intellectual praxis as developed in Knowledge Practices 1 by complicating these concepts and interrogating the conditions of their emergence. In doing so, students will move beyond positioning ‘Indigenous’ in opposition to ‘the West’ in order to more deeply comprehend the forces and contradictions that inscribe not only the daily lived realities of Australian Indigenous peoples, but all Australians.