Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. understand the role that historical and contemporary research methods and scholarship in the sciences and/or social sciences have played in the colonisation of Indigenous peoples in Australia and other colonised places;
2. understand decolonising methodologies and Indigenous research in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ experiences, history and culture, policies and practices;
3. analyse the ways in which history, culture and colonisation informs Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ perspectives on Indigenous research;
4. understand research in the context of Australian Indigenous cultures and traditions; and
5. develop insight into Indigenous peoples’ perspectives on research that concerns Indigenous Peoples in the global context.

Other Information

This course may be able to be undertaken by students enrolled in Honours programs/specialisations other than AINS-HSPC with the permission of individual program conveners and the INDG4001 course convener.

Indicative Assessment

1. Reflective report (2000 words), with portfolio of appended Weekly Reflections (25) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
2. Literature review (4400 words) with appended weekly Annotated Bibliography OR Memory landscape, oral presentation and exegesis (2400 words) with appended weekly Annotated Bibliography (50) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
3. Course participation (10) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
4. Presentation of major work (15) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]

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Workload

The 6 unit version consists of 130 hours of total student learning time made up from:

a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks which may include lectures, tutorials &/or seminars; and

b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.

The 12 unit version consists of 260 hours of total student learning time made up from:

a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks which may include lectures, tutorials &/or seminars; and

b) 244 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.

Inherent Requirements

A major in Australian Indigenous Studies or equivalent subject to approval by the convener of AINS-HSPC.

Requisite and Incompatibility

Prescribed Texts

Readings will be available on or through Wattle. Where possible readings will be selected that best support the research project of those undertaking this course.

Preliminary Reading

Readings will depend on the form the course takes, convener and teacher (including guest teachers) expertise, current trends, and adjusted to respond to research needs and interests of students. Readings may include:

Bamblett, L. (2019) ‘Rags to riches: Aboriginal identity as deficit’, in L. Bamblett, F. Myers & T. Rowse (Eds.), The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields, 141-156.

Fanon, F., (1952) Black skin, white mask.

Foley, D. (2003) “Indigenous Epistemology and Indigenous Standpoint Theory.” Social Alternatives 22 (1): 44– 52.

Moreton-Robinson, A. (2011) 'The White Man’s Burden: Patriarchal White Epistemic Violence and Aboriginal Women’s Knowledges within the Academy.' Australian Feminist Studies 26 (70): 413–431.

Nakata, M. N. (2007) Disciplining the savages, savaging the disciplines. Aboriginal Studies Press.

Patrick, WSJ, Williams, MS, (2018) 'Thoughts on the ‘Law of the Land’ and the Persistence of Aboriginal Law in Australia', Indigenous Justice: New Tools, Approaches, and Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 143-157 .

Rigney, L. I. (2006). Indigenist Research and Aboriginal. Indigenous peoples' wisdom and power: Affirming our knowledge through narratives, 32.

Smith, L. T. (2012) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. New York: Zed Books. .

Walter, M. M. (2010). The Politics of the Data. How the Australian Statistical Indigene is Constructed. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 3(2), 45-56.

Wolfe, P. (2006). Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native. Journal of genocide research, 8(4), 387-409.

Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2014). R-words: Refusing research. Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities, 223, 248.

Simpson, A and Andrea Smith, (2014). Theorizing native studies. Duke University Press.

Nimako, K. (2012). About them, but without them: Race and ethnic relations studies in Dutch uni

Assumed Knowledge

INDG1001 Indigenous Peoples, Populations and Communities,

INDG1002 Indigenous Peoples and Civil, Political and Legal Rights in Australia, and

INDG3006 Indigenous Research: Practice, Collaboration and Ethics,

Or equivalent.

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