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Citizens, States and Power
Coordinator: TBA
Citizens, States and Power explores the construction of citizenship, statehood and power, and the critical understanding of the actions, interactions and conflicts among individuals and states, non-state powers and other collectives.
While, traditionally, the analysis of these interactions have been constructed structurally in terms of "citizen", "state" and "civil society", which operate in relatively static relations of power, current theoretical engagement acknowledges the contested and changing nature of these categories and their roles in social theorising. This strength brings together active researchers, HDR students and ECRs working on critical exploration of these dynamics in a globalising world. The unifying theme of Citizens, States and Power is a critical analysis of the workings of social and political power, drawing on contemporary debates on social, historical, political and ethical theory in relation to exploration of four themes:
- citizenship, social groupings and civil society;
- states and regimes;
- political communities and conflict;
- public policy and public reason.
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Aboriginal Studies (ABST) is now called Indigenous Studies (INDS). INDS subject information can be found in the 2010 Course Handbook.