Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the lecture slides I provide below contain images and names of people who have died. This week we are looking at the role of punishment in modern society, predominantly the exponential growth of prisons. What role do…
After mid-semester break, this week we looked at gender and power mainly through the lens of social reproduction and the colonialist of gender. The main readings for the week were by Silvia Federici and the Combahee River Collective Statement. This week I invited Professor Alison Phipps,…
This week we looked at how race and gender are co-constitutive constructs, specifically focusing on the centrality of reproduction in racialisation under conditions of slavery, the different relationships to work of Black, Indigenous and migrant women as opposed to bourgeois white women, and the colonial context…