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.
We invite speakers from a broad range of disciplines who are interested in examining borderpolitics with particular reference to the way in which whiteness is implicated in the construction of borders in their multiple configurations, and the manner in which Race, Ethnicity, and Whiteness Studies can intervene in and engage with border practices.
Possible Topics
You may send your abstracts or direct inquiries about the conference to Elaine Laforteza at borderpolitics@scmp.mq.edu.au
Deadline for Abstracts: August 30, 2006
Conference Dates: 11-13 December, 2006
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
Fiona Foley, Adjunct Professor, Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University
Max Palombo: Visual Artist, B.A.Fine Arts (Honours), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; B.A.in Education at Melbourne University.
Ruth Park: Ceramic Artist and Sculptor, MA Fine Arts, University of Newcastle and Graduate Diploma in Ceramic Design at Monash University. Ruth is currently a PhD Scholar at Southern Cross University.
The Borderpolitics of Communities: Marking Cronulla
time: 6.30 - 9.30 pm,
date: 11th December, 2006
venue: 169-179 Thomas Street, Carlton Crest Hotel, Sydney
The Marking Cronulla forum is being held as part of The Borderpolitics of Whiteness Conference to mark the first anniversary of the Cronulla riots. The forum has two aims: reflection on the riots and development of anti-racist strategies. To this end, the forum is designed to bring together academics and members of local community, media and government organizations. Speakers who have been researching or working on the Cronulla race riots will speak alongside others who have worked over the years to improve inter-community relations. The speakers will discuss the event through the lens of research, community-based work and broad anti-racist approaches. The event will also enable a discussion between the audience and invited primary speakers.
Speakers include:
Dr Suvendrini Perera, Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
Ray Jackson, President of the Indigenous Social Justice Alliance Inc.
Angela Mitropoulos
Dr. Tanja Dreher, Research Manager, UTS Shopfront
Brett Williamson OAM, CEO, Surf Life Saving Australia
Kuranda Seyit, Executive Director of the Forum on Australia's Islamic Relations
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