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School of History · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course considers transnational decolonial and postcolonial challenges to the discipline of history and asks: can history be decolonised? Linking Australian developments with international perspectives, it addresses themes including the challenge of ‘deep history’ to existing methodologies and periodisations; transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to history; questions of research ethics; decolonial movements related to archives, museums, and public heritage; and the diversity of historicities, or modes of knowing, telling and interpreting the past. Convened by the Research Centre for Deep History and the School of History with guest lecturers, the course will bring together a range of perspectives and voices.
Class Participation (weekly)
Learning outcomes 1, 4, 5
Source Review (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 2, 3
Research Essay - draft version (2000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Research Essay - final version (5000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of seminars and 12 hours of workshop and workshop-like activities. b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
Hokari, Minoru. Gurindji Journey: A Japanese Historian in the Outback. Kensington: UNSW Press, 2011. McGrath, Ann and Mary Anne Jebb, eds. Long History, Deep Time: Deepening Histories of Place. Canberra: ANU Press, 2015. Nakata, Martin N. Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007. Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies?: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books, 1999. Preliminary Reading Archibald, Jo-Ann, Jenny Lee-Morgan, Jason De Santolo, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds. Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology. London: ZED Books, 2019. Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial thought and historical difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Gaertner, David. ‘Decolonial DH?: The Maker Movement Across Indigenous Studies and the Digital Humanities’. Novel Alliances (blog), 5 June 2019. https://novelalliances.com/2019/06/05/decolonial-dh-the-maker-movement-across-indigenous-studies-and-the-digital-humanities/. Risam, Roopika. ‘Decolonizing The Digital Humanities In Theory And Practice’. In The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, edited by Jentery Sayers, 1st Edition., 78–86. New York: Routledge, 2018. Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. ‘Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor’. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (8 September 2012). Turner, Hannah. ‘Decolonizing Ethnographic Documentation: A Critical History of the Early Museum Catalogs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53, no. 5–6 (4 July 2015): 658–76.