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Conference Announcement
"The Borderpolitics of Whiteness"
Interdisciplinary Conference
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie
University
Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association
(ACRAWSA)
Sydney (Australia)
11-13 December 2006
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In recent years, celebrative rhetoric about the 'the global
village' and the erosion of national borders appears to have
shifted. Borderpolitics has become an organisational
principle not only at the level of governmental concerns or
media debates, but in the practices of everyday life. This
is because the securing of borders is not simply about
national sovereignty, but about the reconfiguring of zones
of inclusion, exclusion, and the in-between in relation to
social, political, economic, and cultural practices.
The practices and implications of borderpolitics open up a
space for critical investigation especially in the area of
Race, Ethnicity and Whiteness Studies. This field is
concerned not merely with the politics of racial identities
(although this is one of its concerns) but with the complex
formation of colonial and racialised systems of knowledge.
These knowledges permeate a range of disciplinary areas such
as education, international relations, law, culture,
geography, media, religion, management, tourism, terrorism,
anthropology, sociology, politics, gender, sexuality,
bodies, linguistics, philosophy, history, medicine,
statistics, economics, biology and visual arts among others.
Topics:
whiteness and law
indigenous challenges/negotiations
whiteness and the beach
the Cronulla riots
whiteness and contested histories
race relations in community activism
whiteness in the work of contemporary artists
whiteness and sexual borders
whiteness and gendered borders
whiteness and the body
whiteness and language
white hybridities
whiteness and the state
whiteness and media technologies
whiteness and writing
whiteness and nationalism
whiteness and religion
whiteness and maps
whiteness and multiculturalism
whiteness and diasporas
whiteness in international relations
whiteness and terrorism
borders and war
whiteness and surveillance technologies
peacemaking processes
transnational whiteness
whiteness in institutional contexts
whiteness and medicine
whiteness and science
whiteness and education
whiteness and political economies
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Aileen Moreton Robinson, Quandamooka First Nation,
Professor of Indigenous Studies, Queensland University of
Technology
Professor David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of
California Humanities Research Institute
Professor Cheryl Harris, Law, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Associate Professor Joseph Pugliese, Critical and Cultural
Studies, Macquarie University
Conference Convenors:
Dr. Goldie Osuri, Macquarie University
Lara Palombo, Macquarie and Adelaide University
Contact:
Dr. Goldie Osuri
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies
Macquarie University
Building W6A
Sydney NSW 2109
Australia
Tel.: +61 (2) 9850 8606
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/borderpolitics/
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