ASS205 - Who Gets What: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Global Justice
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ASS305, ASS331 |
| 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 | 1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week 1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided) 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
In this unit, students will learn to think critically about how relations of poverty and wealth are implicated in diverse human lives, including their own. An anthropological perspective encourages us to unsettle our commonsense understandings about what we value, and why, about how inequality is represented and reproduced, and about what a good life could, or should, look like. We consider the ways in which capitalism and colonialism structure distributions of wealth and human suffering. In the Global South, we ask what it means to aspire to development, or to set that as a goal for others? In the Global North, we consider transformations to work, welfare, and care. A key goal is to understand the relations that connect lives and experiences across both the Global North and Global South, and to think together about possibilities for global justice.
Unit Fee Information
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