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Unit Overview

Description

The 19th Century is often described as the ‘age of empires'. This subject charts colonised peoples' responses to European and Australasian imperialism from late 18th into the 21st Century, with case studies of Indonesian responses to Dutch colonisation, Aboriginal and Dalit responses to British colonisation in Australia and India, Korean responses to Japanese colonisation, Kinh and Montagnard responses to the Chinese and French colonisation of Vietnam, and Australia's role as an imperial power in the Pacific. How, and where, have colonists' assertions of legal sovereignty affected colonised and Indigenous people? How have Indigenous and colonised people used imperial languages and legal systems, routes and rights discourses for their own ends? And how have Indigenous and colonised people represented and contested imperialism in contemporary film and fiction? Students will gain an understanding of the ways that colonised and Indigenous peoples have variously negotiated, gained knowledge about, and resisted imperial power, engage with contemporary debates about empire, and assess the diversity of violent and peaceful strategies of responding to imperialism.

Credit
6 points
Offering
AvailabilityLocationMode
Not available in 2024UWA (Perth)Face to face
Not available in 2024AlbanyFace to face
Details for undergraduate courses
  • Level 2 option in the History; Indigenous Knowledge, History and Heritage; Human Rights major sequences
  • Level 2 elective
Outcomes

Students are able to (1) describe and assess the basic historiographical issues characteristic of the discipline of History,and apply critical thinking to historical writing on imperial power and resistance thereto; (2) demonstrate an understanding of the history of colonised people's responses to European imperialism, as well as cultural representations thereof; (3) present arguments in both written and oral assessments using the conventions of the historical discipline; (4) demonstrate the ability to locate sources for research essays, and evaluate the questions of historical justice and contemporary politics posed by historical analyses that connect empire with questions of legal rights, dispossession, and resistance; and (5) locate appropriate sources for research essays.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) primary source analysis; (2) research essay; and (3) reflective group tutorial presentation. Further information is available in the unit outline.



Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit rules
Prerequisites
a Level 1 HIST
or GEND unit.
or INDG1150 Aboriginal Encounters: Strangers in our Backyard
or INDG1160 Boodjar Moort Katitjin: Introduction to Indigenous Heritage and Knowledge.
or a Level 1 ASIA, JAPN, CHIN, KORE unit.
Contact hours
lecture: up to 1 hour per week for 12 weeks
Tutorial: up to 1 hour per week for 11 weeks
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  • Contact hours provide an indication of the type and extent of in-class activities this unit may contain. The total amount of student work (including contact hours, assessment time, and self-study) will approximate 150 hours per 6 credit points.