Day 1

Lecture 1: Introduction
Required Reading:
Michel Foucault, What is Enlightenment?
Additional Reading:
Christina Hendricks, Foucaults Kantian Critique:
Philosophy and the Present Philosophy & Social
Criticism (2008) 34, 357
Judith Butler, What is Critique? An Essay on Foucaults
Virtue
Axel Honneth, Reconstructive Social Critique with a
Genealogical Reservation, Graduate Faculty
Philosophy Journal (2001) 22 (2)
Lecture 2: The Emancipatory Promise of
Modernity
Required Reading:
Marshall Berman, All that is Solid Melts into Air, intro,
15-36
Additional Reading:
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, The Communist
Manifesto
Stephen Eric Bronner, Reclaiming the Enlightenment,
intro
Jrgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of
Modernity, 1-23
Day 2
Lecture 3: Power and Oppression
Required Reading:
Sandra Hinson and Alexa Bradley, A Structural Analysis
of Oppression (based on Iris Marion Young, Five Faces
of Oppression, in Justice and the Politics of Difference,
which is worth reading)
Peter Digeser, The Fourth Face of Power, Journal of
Politics (1992) 54 (4): 9771007
Additional Reading:
Iris Marion Young, Five Faces of Oppression, in Justice
and the Politics of Difference

Cynthia Kaufman, Ideas for Action, 9-37

Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View, in Power: A
Reader, 41-57
Allan G. Johnson, Privilege, Oppression and
Difference, in Privilege, Power and Difference
Antonio Negri, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of
Spinozas Metaphysics and Politics
Hannah Arendt, On Violence
Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
Michel Foucault, The Subject and Power
Alli Kirkham, Micro Aggressions
Lecture 4: Practices of Resistance
Required Reading:
Allan G. Johnson, What Can We Do? Becoming a Part of
the Solution, in The Gender Knot: Unravelling our
Patriarchal Legacy
Audre Lorde, The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle
the Masters House
Indigenous Action Media, Accomplices not Allies: An
Indigenous Perspective and Provocation
Cindy Milstein, From Charity to Solidarity: A Critique of
Ally Politics (extract from Taking Sides)
Additional Reading:
Brent L. Pickett, Foucault and the Politics of
Resistance, Polity (1996) 28(4)
James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance,
chaps. 1, 2
Day 3
Lecture 5: Neoliberal Capitalism
Required Reading:
Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of
Capitalism, presentation
Wendy Brown, Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal
Democracy
Additional Reading:
Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed: Finance,
Globalisation and Welfare, chaps. 1, 2, 1-50

William Robinson, Understanding Global Capitalism

John Peters, The Rise of Finance and the Decline of
Organised Labour in the Advanced Capitalist
Countries, New Political Economy, (2011) 16 (1), 73-99
Thomas Piketty, 6 Graphs on Income Inequality
Lecture 6: Why Class Matters
Required Reading:
Erik Olin Wright, Why Class Matters
Erik Olin Wright, Understanding Class
Additional Reading:
Erik Olin Wright, Understanding Class
Erik Olin Wright, How to be an Anticapitalist Today
Karl Marx, Price, Labour, Value in Early Philosophical
and Economic Manuscripts
Mike Savage, Social Class in the 21st Century
Jill Sheppard & Nicholas Biddle, Social Class in
Australia: Beyond the 'working' and 'middle' classes
Day 4
Lecture 7: Destabilising Sex/Gender
Required Reading:
Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender, intro
Dispelling Neuromyths in Understanding the Brain:
The Birth of a Learning Science, OECD report, 117-118
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, intro (1-10, 22-34)
The Genderbread Person, infographic
Additional Reading:
Azeen Ghorayshi, This Sex Which Is Not Two
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Myths of Gender and Sexing the
Body
Daphna Joel et al., Sex beyond the genitalia: The
human brain mosaic, PNAS
Lecture 8: Intersectionality
Required Reading:
Kimberl Crenshaw, Why Intersectionality Cant Wait,
Washington Post
Patricia Hill Collins Black Feminist Thought in the
Matrix of Domination in Black Feminist Thought:

Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of

Empowerment, 221238
Hari Ziyad, Im Black and Queer at the Same Time, All
the Time
Additional Reading:
Kimberl Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins:
Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against
Women of Color,
Patricia Hill Collins, Black feminist thought: knowledge,
consciousness, and the politics of empowerment
Patricia Collins: Intersecting Oppressions
Dorothy E. Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power: A
Feminist Sociology of Knowledge
Day 5
Lecture 9: Whiteness
Required Reading:
Francis E. Kendall, Understanding White Privilege
Kevin Rigby Jr. and Hari Ziyad, White People have no
Place in Black Liberation
Amelia Shroyer, White Fragility is Racial Violence,
Huffington Post
Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the
invisible knapsack
Additional Reading:
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
Ghassan Hage, White Nation: Fantasies of White
Supremacy in a Multicultural Society
Aileen Moreton-Robinson (ed.), Whitening Race: Essays
in social and cultural criticism in Australia
Theodore W. Allen, Class Struggle and the Origin of
Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race
Michelle Fine (ed.), Off White: Readings on Race, Power,
and Society
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (eds.), Critical
White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror
Sam Adler Bell, Why White People Freak Out When
Theyre Called Out About Race

Lecture 10: Settler Colonialism

Required Reading:
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Decolonisation is not a
Metaphor
Claire Land, I Support Aboriginal People, What Can I
Do? http://decolonizingsolidarity.org/what-can-i-do/
Robbie Thorpe, Advice for pro-Indigenous white
activists in Australia,
Gary Foley, Advice for pro-Indigenous white activists in
Australia,
Additional Reading:
Evelyn Nakano Glynn, Settler Colonialism as Structure:
A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and
Gender Formation
Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Elimination
of the Native
Gary Foley, An Autobiographical History of the Black
Power Movement and the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy
PhD thesis, School of Culture and Communication, The
University of Melbourne, August 2012.
Andrew Schaap, Gary Foley and Edwina Howell, The
Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Sovereignty, Black Power,
Land Rights and the State
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (ed.), Sovereign Subjects:
Indigenous Sovereignty Matters
Black Nations Rising, publication of Warriors of the
Aboriginal Resistance
Claire Land, Decolonising Solidarity, chapters 5 and 6