ACR304 - Surveillance and Social Justice
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Students must complete 4 credit points at any level |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ACR210 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 5 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per trimester in weeks TBA 5 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per trimester in weeks TBA |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 5 x 1-hour online lecture per trimester in weeks TBA (recordings provided) 5 x 2-hour online seminar per trimester in weeks TBA |
Content
This unit examines surveillance and social justice across 5 modules. It begins by examining theoretical understandings of surveillance and applies these in various spheres of society such as policing, the border, educational institutions, workplaces, public places, and the home and domestic contexts. It moves on to explore forms of marginalising surveillance and considers issues of social and data justice, including surveillance and race, welfare recipients, refugees, surveillance in the global south, gender, and family violence. Various perspectives on marginalising surveillance are explored via in-depth case studies that highlight the impacts on vulnerable and marginalised groups and individuals. The impacts of surveillance for human rights and democratic freedoms including the rule of law and the freedom of the press are then described. The unit concludes by exploring what can be done to resist surveillance through advocacy, activism, infrapolitics, obfuscation and sousveillance.
Unit Fee Information
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