Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Kurongkurl Katitjin

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• Unit Title

  Indigenous Peoples and the West

• Unit Code

  IAS3104

• Year

  2015

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

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Description

This unit provides a global historical context for the post-contact experience of Indigenous Australians. The first part of the unit outlines European expansion from 1492 to World War II and the economic, religious and scientific factors that motivated it. Apache, Maori and Tasmanian case studies illustrate the impacts of invasion and dispossession on Indigenous communities. The second part of the unit explores reasons for European expansion and domination, outlining Eurasia's original ecological advantage, the development of early agricultural communities, the classical period, the renaissance, reformation, agrarian and industrial revolutions. The third part of the unit focuses on the emergence of capitalism, democracy and the modern nation state, detailing the 19th and 20th century social and institutional developments that underpin the contemporary dominance of Western industrial democracy.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded IAS4102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Critically analyse the development of Europe through the classical period, the renaissance, reformation, and the agrarian and industrial revolutions.
2. Critically analyse the technological innovations that underpinned the emergence of industrialism and their impact on Indigenous peoples and knowledge.
3. Describe the extent of European global expansion, its motivations and impacts on Indigenous peoples.
4. Discuss the 18th and 19th rise of democracy, the rule of law, and the formation of global institutions.
5. Evaluate the ecological advantages that led to the emergence of Eurasian agricultural communities.
6. Outline the emergence of new techniques of European (and Australian and North American) governance and identify key features of social change during the 19th and 20th centuries and their impact on Indigenous peoples.
7. Outline the shift in Europe from a feudal to a capitalist mode of production and describe the unique dynamism of capitalism.

Unit Content

1. A chronological overview of European history from early agricultural communities to the renaissance.
2. Case studies of the impact of invasion on Apache, Aztec and Tasmanian Indigenous peoples.
3. Eurasia's ecological advantages and the appearance of new technologies and human diseases.
4. European colonisation in Africa, Asia and Australia.
5. New forms of governance and social change in the 19th and 20th centuries and their impact on Indigenous peoples.
6. Pre-Columbian New World communities and the European invasion.
7. Technological innovation and the agrarian and industrial revolutions in Europe.
8. The rise of democracy and the rule of law.
9. The shift from feudalism to capitalism and the inherent dynamism of the latter.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Tutorials Videos

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Text References

• ^ Cocker, M. (2000). Rivers of blood, rivers of gold: Europe's conquest of Indigenous peoples. New York: Grove Press.
• ^ Goehring, B. (1993). Indigenous peoples of the world: An introduction to their past, present and future. Saskatoon: Purich.
• Goehring, B. (1993). Indigenous peoples of the world: An introduction to their past. Saskatoon: Purich.
• Historical perspective (c 1996). [Video]. Perth: Media Production Unit, Edith Cowan University.
• History: An untold story (c 1989). [Video]. Townsville: Aboriginal and Islander Media Association.
• Kramer, A. (1990). Revolution and technology and the growth of the modern world. New York: Warwick Press.
• Rosenfield, J. (1999). The island broken in two halves: Land and renewal movements among the Maori of New Zealand. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
• Daunton, M., & Halpern, R. H. (Eds.). (1999). Empire and others: British encounters with Indigenous peoples, 1600-1850. London: UCL Press.
• Burgmann, V. (2003). Power, profit and protest: Australian social movements and globalisation. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
• Sissons, J. (2005). First Peoples - Indigenous peoples and their futures. UK, Reaktion Books.
• Waites, B. (1999). Europe and the Third World: From colonization to decolonization, c 1500-1988. Houndsmills: Macmillan.
• State, economy and nation in 19th century Europe (c 1996). [Video]. Milton Keynes: Open University.

Journal References

• Arena Journal.
• Australian Economic Review.
• Australian Journal of Law and Society.
• Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism.
• Journal of Australian Political Economy.
• Indigenous Law Bulletin.
• Meanjin.

^ Mandatory reference

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