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Assessment Task 3: part one & two

PART ONE

10%

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ESSAY abstract

no word count for bibliography. Essay abstract to be between 250-400 words

DUE DATE:  8 May by 11.59pm 

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DESCRIPTION OF TASK

Stage One: After you have chosen your question from below, you will compile a bibliography that will be handed in before you actually start writing the essay. 

You will also submit a 250-400 word abstract for your essay

Remember to state the question you are answering at the beginning of your assignment.

PART TWO

45%

DUE DATE:5 June by 11.59pm

ESSAY WORD LENGTH: 2, 500 words

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ESSAY QUESTIONS

Intersectionality and the Subject (s) of oppression. 

1. Evaluate how the key concept of kyriarchy OR white patriarchal sovereignty can enhance intersectional approaches for combatting oppression (use two or more social movements to illustrate your answer) 

2. Outline some of the problems encountered when undertaking intersectional work in a particular site (eg. Activism, policy, workplace equity, political representation) and offer possible directions for dealing with the issues you identify. 

The ‘Politics’ of Democracy and the Public/Private Distinction 

3. Examine how technological and cultural changes of the Web and other networked communications media have altered political engagement and activism over a particular issue of social movement.. Use examples to illustrate your points and assess the extent to which such changes offer new strategies for organising emancipatory politics. 

4. Based on course readings and research, attempt your own working definition of the ‘public sphere’. How significant are constructions of a public sphere and counter publics to oppressed social groups contesting democratic inclusion and participation? 

5. Examine two contrasting case studies where the private/public distinction has called for a renegotiation of the ‘political’. 

The Democratic Subject: Equality. Injury and Identity politics 

6. Evaluate the ideal of democracy as a form of governance through a thinker of your choice (eg. Plato, Aristotle, Mill, Nietzsche, Arendt, Brown). How well does their assessment stand regarding the status of minority and marginalised social groups in terms of your understanding of democracy today? (use a specific marginalised group to illustrate your answer) 

7. Describe and evaluate Wendy Brown’s reconsideration of Nietzsche’s ressentiment as breeding a politics of ‘wounded attachments’ in the emancipatory projects of identity movements. Use examples to illustrate your answer. 

8. Both left and right critics argue that identity politics are divisive and detrimental to the common good. Given what you have learned about marginalised social groups responding to the abstracted citizen in democratic nations, what might be a more productive way for discussing identity politics? 

Sovereignty, The People and the State 

9. How successfully (or not) does the state provide a site for marginalised groups to seek justice? Illustrate your answer with reference to specific cases (eg. Indigenous rights, equal opportunity, asylum seekers rights). 

10. Discuss the role of the state in negotiating the politics of identity and difference with reference to specific examples (eg. Multiculturalism, hetero/sexism, etc.). How do such struggles impact on the articulation of state sovereignty on the one hand, and sovereign agency of particular people on the other? 

11. Aboriginal activist Gary Foley argues that native title is not land rights. Explain this statement and discuss its significance in relation to Aboriginal sovereignty 

Power, Governmentality and Homonormativity 

12. Examine David Eng’s claim that ‘queer liberalism’ (such as legislative accomplishments like same sex marriage) produces new normative configurations between gender, sexuality and race in family and kinship relations. 

13. Evaluate Foucault’s claim that where there is power there is resistance, with reference to a specific social movement (eg. Women’s GLBT, Aboriginal sovereignty, etc) or a particular form of activism (eg. Culture jamming, situationism). 

14. Outline your understanding of the concept, ‘homonormativity’, and give an appraisal of its significance in relation to ways in which sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and class are configured within the articulation of political struggles. 

15. With reference to the struggles one or more social group/s (eg. Disability, GLBT, asylum seekers, Indigenous people, etc) describe and evaluate a key concept of your choice (eg. Patriarchy, kyriarchy, governmentality, discourse, etc) that offers a useful understanding of power relations. 

Law and Justice 

16. With reference to specific examples, evaluate Caputo’s claim that the law will always fall short of justice. 

17. What are the benefits as well as limits of seeking substantive equality through courts and legislation? Illustrate your answer through one of more case studies (eg. Affirmative action, sexual harassment, gay marriage, land rights, better life chances). 

Violence, Reason and civil Disobedience 

18. Discuss the parameters of defining civil disobedience, and evaluate the grounds by which ‘legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ forms of disobedience can be distinguished (or not). Use examples to illustrate your answer. 

19. Explain Galtung and/or Žižek’s distinctions between physical, symbolic and structural violence. To what extent do you agree with Žižek’s (2008, p. 1) claim that we need to “step back [and] identify a violence that sustains our very efforts to fight violence and to promote tolerance.” Give examples to illustrate your answer (eg. Domestic violence, civil riots, civil war) 

20. Discuss and assess how the principle of reason figures in Nelson Mandela’s speech regarding his decision to plan sabotage. On what grounds (if any) would you argue that (physical) violence has a place in struggles for democratic inclusion and participation? 

On the Necessity and Insufficiency of Human Rights 

19. With reference to a specific example or case study, assess the statement that human rights discourses are both indispensible and insufficient. 

20. Evaluate the prospects and conundrums facing transfolk when developing strategies for engaging (or not) with human rights advocacy and activism. 

Democracy in Deconstruction 

21. Assess the articulation of the Occupy movement, international anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation movements as pro- democracy movements. How important is the naming of a movement, and what do all such variations imply for developing strategies for social change? 

22. Jean-Luc Nancy claims that the term “democracy” never stops posing difficulties when we try to make sense of it. With reference to some of difficulties we have explored in this course, what sense do you make of ‘democracy’? 

23. Offer a decolonial critique of one of the following: a) the Enlightenment; b) human rights; c) modernity and discourses of (under)development d) Private property e) your own topic approved by lecturer 

24. Describe abolition democracy (as first used by W E B du Bois), and outline its usefulness for informing resistance movements today.

25. develop own question in consultation with lecturer.