Subject Guide 2019 PDF

Preview

Summary

Download Subject Guide 2019 PDF

Description

THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF ARTS

MULT10018 Power Subject Guide Semester One, 2019

The website for this subject is available through the Learning Management System (LMS) at: https://lms.unimelb.edu.au/ The LMS is an important source of information for this subject. Useful resources such as lecture / seminar notes, lecture recordings and subject announcements will be available through the website. It is your responsibility to regularly check in with the LMS for subject announcements and updates. You will require a university email account (username and password) to access the Learning Management System. You can activate your university email account at: https://accounts.unimelb.edu.au/manage

Page 1 of 40

Index Teaching Staff Staff Availability

3 11

Subject Background Overview Intellectual Logic Organisation (Timetable at a Glance) Subject Evaluation Learning Objectives

12 12 13 15 15

Lectures, Tutorials and Readings Timetable and Locations Class Registration Readings Attendance / Participation Requirements

17 17 17 18

Lecture, Tutorial and Readings Program Lecture Wk. 1 / Tutorial Wk. 2 Lecture Wk. 2 / Tutorial Wk. 3 Lecture Wk. 3 / Tutorial Wk. 4 Lecture Wk. 4 / Tutorial Wk. 5 Lecture Wk. 5 / Tutorial Wk. 6 Lecture Wk. 6 / Tutorial Wk. 7 Lecture Wk. 7 / Tutorial Wk. 8 Lecture Wk. 8 / Tutorial Wk. 9 Lecture Wk. 9 / Tutorial Wk. 10 Lecture Wk. 10 / Tutorial Wk. 11 Lecture Wk. 11 / Tutorial Wk. 12 Lecture Wk. 12

19 20 21 23 24 25 27 26 29 29 31 32

Assessment Overview Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Grading System Submission Academic Integrity

33 33 34 35 36 37 39

Page 2 of 40

Teaching Staff Subject coordinator and lecturer: Professor Andrew Dawson Brief profile: Andrew Dawson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he held a range of permanent and visiting research and lecturing positions in Europe and Africa. His research is conducted in the UK and former-Yugoslavia, and focuses largely on identity politics, especially in post-industrial and post-conflict contexts. Additionally, he has conducted significant theoretical work on postmodernism and human mobility, with a particular focus on automobility. Andrew’s books include: Ageing and Change in Pit Villages of North East England; International Impacts of Migration (with G. Craig et al); Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of Movement (with N. Rapport); and After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (with A. James and J. Hockey). In 2017 Andrew won the Australian Anthropological Association Best Article Award for his essay, ‘Driven to Sanity: A Critique of the senses in Automobilities.’ Much of Andrew’s work has an applied focus, and he has conducted research on migration and asylum-issues for a range of nongovernmental and governmental bodies, including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (U.K.). Finally, Andrew is a regular media commentator, appearing most recently on the ABC and Bloomberg, especially to discuss Brexit and other matters of Britsh politics. Office location: John Medley E571 Phone: E571 Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutor coordinator: Dr. Mediya Rangi Brief profile: Mediya Rangi is a migrant from Iran who lived in Auckland, New Zealand for 10 years before moving to Melbourne in 2013, to continue her higher education degree. Her Bachelor (Hons), and Masters are in Sociology from the University of Auckland. Mediya has recently completed her PhD degree in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis focuses on the ongoing ethnic repression of Kurdish people, who are the largest stateless nation to date, numbering approximately 40 million worldwide. Using first-hand narratives, this thesis brings together into one volume, the experiences of Kurds from various parts of Kurdistan, covering a wide time frame from the early 1900s until today. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Page 3 of 40

Tutorials*: Group 45: Tuesday – PAR-Old Quad-G10 Group 8: Wednesday – PAR-Alan Gilbert-G03 Group 40 Thursday – PAR-David Caro Podium 205 *[in weeks 2-4 Mediya’s tutorial groups will be taken by Orhan Karagoz] Guest lecturer : Dr. Clayton Chin Brief profile : Dr. Clayton Chin is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has a PhD from the University of London in the UK, as well as previous degrees from University College London and McGill University. His research focuses on the methodology of different traditions within political theory, particularly the relation between pragmatist political thought and the analytical and Continental approaches, and increasingly, issues related to multiculturalism and cultural diversity in contemporary liberal democracies. He has a forthcoming manuscript on the methodological significance of the pragmatist political philosophy of Richard Rorty and has published widely within academic journals in political theory. Email : [email protected] Guest lecturer : Dr. Brian Cook Brief profile : Brian’s research explores the topics of water, risk, scientific knowledge, expertise, and sustainable development. His recent research emphasises the role of scientific knowledge in environmental governance, situating the work at the science-society interface. He explores the (often) hidden power embedded in the knowledge that informs governance, most often relating to water and flood management. He is an applied social scientist with interest in the geographies of risk, culture, and development. He uses environmental controversies as entry points to examinations of the prevailing or dominant knowledges that inform policy and practice. He employs mixed methods, primarily qualitative, to engage with knowledge construction, calculation, and transfer in both developing and developed world contexts. His research is situated in multiple contexts (i.e., Australia, Cambodia, Canada, the UK, and Bangladesh) and across multiple scales. Email: [email protected] Guest lecturer : Dr. Sara Meger Brief profile : Sara Meger is a Lecturer in International Security at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, she was an Page 4 of 40

Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University. Her research draws on the intersection of critical political economy and feminist perspectives on security, with particular focus on war and armed conflict and gendered violence. She is the author of Rape Loot Pillage: The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. Email: [email protected] Tutor : Mr. Jesse Buck Brief profile: Jesse Buck recently submitted his doctoral dissertation at the Australian National University. He works and teaches at the intersection of history, anthropology, media studies, and politics. His research centres on revisions of a story about the first encounter between Iranian refugees known as the Parsis and Hindus in India. Prior to commencing a doctorate he travelled to just under one hundred countries and worked as a network engineer. As an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne he completed a science and an arts degree with majors in history and computer science. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 24: Friday 9.00 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Group 25: Friday 10.00 - PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Tutor : Mr. Paul Carter Brief profile: Paul Carter has tutored in the humanities for fifteen years, particularity in the program of History and Philosophy of Science, though in a number of interdisciplinary areas as well, especially regarding climate change and global warming. He is currently doing a PhD, considering the relationship between science and politics, as it played out around Australia's space programming the 1960s. He is interested in how technology has shaped history, particularly over the last century, and in the social and political challenges thus created. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials : Group 10: Thursday 9.00 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Page 5 of 40

Group 44: Thursday 12.00 – PAR-Old Arts-209 (Room 2) Group 20: Thursday 13.00 – PAR-Old Quad-G10 Group 41: Thursday 14.15 – PAR-Old Quad-G10 Group 39: Thursday 15.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Tutor : Ms. Charity Dodoo Brief profile: Charity Dodoo is currently a PhD Researcher in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her PhD thesis examines women’s agency and empowerment from the context of developing economies specifically Ghana, in the West African sub-region. Specifically, she examines the concepts of agency, power and social change using local communities’ conceptions of empowerment and dominant development frameworks deployed by non-governmental organisations in the sub-region. Prior to her PhD, Charity worked in the design and implementation of social change interventions for the United Nations (International Labour Organisation) and CARE international among others. She also tutored for undergraduate students in the University of Ghana, and is currently working towards developing a career as a Lecturer and Development Consultant. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials : Group 48 : Thursday 13.00 - PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Group 18 : Thursday 14.15 – PAR-David Caro Podium 205 Group 34 : Thursday 15.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Group 14 : Thursday 16.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Group 47 : Thursday 17.15 - PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Tutor : Mr. Adam Goatley Brief prolife: Adam Goatley is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne and holds a BA (Latrobe University) and BA hons first class (Unimelb). His current research includes a project on the art of the discipline of Art History through the study of rhetoric and the reproduction of a pseudo-science, and a project on the corporatisation of academic institutions through neo-liberal practice. Awards he has be granted include the Deans Honours List (2006 and 2007), the Australian Postgraduate Award, and The Norman Macgeorge Scholarship. The Norman Macgeorge Scholarship enabled Adam to work at Villa I Tatti Florence (Harvard University), the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence, the Max Planck Institut, and the Warburg Institute London. Before returning to study Adam was involved in the trade union movement in the building and Page 6 of 40

construction industry and also undertook volunteer work for the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC). Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 19: Wednesday 9.00 pm – PAR-John Medley-EG64 Group 57: Thursday 14.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Group 2: Thursday 16.15 – PAR-John Medley-EG64 Group 30: Friday 11.00 – PAR-Alan Gilbert-G01 Group 56: Friday 14.15 – PAR-Davis Caro Podium 205 Group 21: Friday 16.15 pm – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Tutor : Dr. Tass Holmes Brief profile: Tass Holmes holds a PhD in Anthropology from University of Melbourne (graduated 2015), for which she conducted fieldwork about rural poverty and use of non-medical approaches to healing, in rural Victoria. Tass is has several undergraduate and graduate degrees in social sciences, business, and the holistic healthcare field, and has a professional background as a complementary medicine practitioner. Since completing her PhD, she has published a number of books and several journal articles. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 35: Monday 15.15 - PAR-David Caro Podium 201 Group 54: Tuesday 15.15 – PAR-Sidney Myer Asia Ctr-117 Group 22: Tuesday 16.15 – PAR-Elisabeth Murdoch-G04 Group 60: Tuesday 17.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Tutor : Dr. Aaron Jackson Brief profile: Aaron Jackson is a cultural anthropologist working in the areas of disability, illness, and care. His doctoral research project examines the embodied experience of fathers in the context of caring for children with severe physical and/or mental disabilities in the U.S. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Page 7 of 40

Tutorials: Group 53: Thursday 9.00 – PAR-David Caro-Podium 205 Group 17: Thursday 12.00 – PAR-John Medley-EG64 Group 26: Thursday 13.00 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Group 38: Thursday 14.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Tutor : Ms. Natalie Kamber Brief profile : Natalie Kamber has a Legal Studies BA and completed a MA which examined the politics of victimhood, and the im/possibility of getting over the loss of one’s family, friends and country after war and violence. Her PhD expands on this, and investigate pain in a more complex and comprehensive manner. By using psychoanalytic theory it examines the pain of loss under Communist Rule in Eastern Europe through a reading of dissident writers and their experience of displacement and exile. Natalie has also spent over 4 years working with asylum seekers and refugees who have recently arrived in Australia after fleeing from war; specifically in response to torture and trauma. She has taught at the University of Melbourne (and many others) for five years in Sociology, Criminology, Political Science and Literary Studies. She also studies with the Australian Institute of Psychoanalysis and has published on feminism, trauma, communism and psychoanalysis. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials : Group 29: Monday 9.00 – PAR-Babel-217 Group 15: Monday 10.00 – PAR-Babel-119 Group 12: Monday 13.00 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Group 4: Monday 14.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Group 50: Monday 17.15 – PAR-David Caro-Poduim 217 Tutor : Mr. Orhan Karagoz Brief profile: Orhan Karagoz is a Turkish-Australian born and raised in Melbourne. Orhan holds a Bachelor of Arts with combined Honours in History and Anthropology – his undergraduate majors were in History, Classics, and Archaeology. Orhan also hold a Graduate Diploma in Anthropology. He has recently submitted his PhD thesis in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne – it is concerned with everyday relations within the Turkish diaspora in Broadmeadows, Melbourne. Email: [email protected] Page 8 of 40

Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 13: Monday 10.00 – PAR-John Medley EG64 Group 46: Monday 13.00 – PAR-John Medley EG64 Group 49: Monday 14.15 – PAR-John Medley EG64 Group 5: Monday 15.15 – PAR-John Medley-EG64 Group 37: Monday 16.15 - PAR-John Medley-EG64 Group 32: Friday 13.00 – PAR-John Medley-EG64 Tutor : Dr. Camille La Brooy Brief profile: Camille La Brooy is a research fellow at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She has previously lectured for the School of Social and Political Sciences and The Asia Institute. She has a PhD (Political Science) from the University of Melbourne. Her PhD explored secondgeneration Muslim youth identity formation and experiences of belonging in the UK in the post-London bombings era. She also has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne with majors in Political Science, Economics and French. Her research interests are multiculturalism, identity, social inequality and difference, health and community participation, specifically pertaining to Muslim, Indigenous and other socially disadvantaged communities. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 6: Tuesday 17.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Group 7: Wednesday 17.15 – PAR-David Caro-Podium 206 Group 31: Thursday 17.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Group 1: Friday 13.00 – PAR-David Caro Podium 205 Tutor : Mr. Hau Pham Brief profile: Hau Pham is a PhD candidate at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Melbourne. His research project looks into the development of Vietnamese alcohol policy and its socio-political implications. He has research experience in alcohol consumption behaviour in urban Viet Nam, the promotion of unhealthy food and beverage in community sport settings in Australia, and social marketing in Viet Nam. For his doctoral research, he is currently looking at topics including sociological risk theories, subjectivitiy and governmentality of social deviances (alcohol, drugs, sex work), and health Page 9 of 40

governance in post-colonial contexts. When those don’t go so well, he does autoethnography in his own kitchen. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 52: Monday 13.00 – PAR-Old Quad-G10 Group 36: Monday 17.15 pm – PAR-Sidney Myer Asia Ctr-116 Group 27: Tuesday 11.00 – PAR-Arts West North Wing-461 Group 42: Friday 9.00 – PAR-Davis Caro Podium 205 Tutor : Ms. Gordana Subotic Brief profile: Gordana Subotic is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor from the Faculty of Security and an MA in Political Sciences from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. Gordana’s Ph.D. research is a political anthropology about how women in politics navigate their national and gender identities in consolidating democratic processes. Prior to her Ph.D., Gordana researched and published several Shadow Reports on the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 Women, peace, security (UNSCR 1325) for the several women’s civil society organizations. Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 23: Wednesday 15.15 – PAR-Old Arts-209 (Room 2) Group 28: Wednesday 16.15 – PAR-Old Arts-209 (Room 2) Group 58: Wednesday 17.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Group 59: Thursday 9.00 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1006 Group 55: Thursday 10.00 – PAR-John Medley-EG64 Tutor : Ms. Olivia Tasevski Brief profile: Olivia is a Politics and History tutor at the University of Melbourne, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of International Relations. Her history honours thesis examined U.S. human rights policy towards Indonesia and the Philippines during Gerald Ford's tenure. Her research interests include human rights issues in Indonesia, Indonesian political history, American politics and the history of U.S. foreign relations. Her work has Page 10 of 40

been published by The Conversation, New Diplomat, Pursuit and Election Watch.

Mandala, ABC

News, The

Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: By appointment Tutorials: Group 43: Friday 10.00 – PAR-David Caro-Podium 205 Group 51: Friday 12.00 – PAR-Old Quad-G10 Group 16: Friday 2.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Group 9: Friday 15.15 – PAR-Redmond Barry-1007 Teaching Staff Availability Teaching staff are available during their notified consultation times, and emails will be responded to in a timely manner (usually within 48 hours) during normal business hours. Teaching staff cannot be expected to respond to student queries during weekends. Note also that although teaching staff will make every effort to assist students prepare for their assessment tasks, this is limited to general advice and assistance with students developing their own responses to the tasks as set. Assessment assistance doesn't generally include technical advice (e.g. formatting and structure, referencing style, layout and presentation) which is advised in the Subject Guide and/or is available from other university departments such as the University's library service or the Academic Skills Unit.

Page 11 of 40

Background Subject Overview The idea of power is a way to grasp the character of social relations. Investigating power can tell us about who is in control and who may benefit from such arrangements. Power can be a zero-sum game of domination. It can also be about people acting together to enact freedom. This subject examines the diverse and subtle ways power may be exercised. It considers how power operates in different domains such as markets, political systems and other social contexts. It als...