International Indigenous Perspectives

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This unit expands students’ fundamental knowledge of Indigenous Australian peoples and cultures, and the ongoing impacts of colonial invasion. Students engage with Indigenous Knowledges at a multi-disciplinary level to explore issues in Australia’s national identity, and Australian socio-politics regionally, nationally, and internationally. Learning and teaching encourages critical analysis of Australia’s claims as a politically progressive, culturally inclusive society by considering the extent to which comparable societies such as Canada, New Zealand, and the US continue to address the colonial legacy of Indigenous dispossession. Comparative techniques and analytical skills enable students to critically examine and reflect on the impacts of systemic racism, understand the significance of Indigenous Human Rights, and unpack how postcolonial, democratic societies whose contemporary economic wealth and political freedoms continue to flow from the historic dispossession of First Peoples.

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