SOCIOL 707

Special Topic: Governing Population and Society

Please note: this is archived course information from 2024 for SOCIOL 707.

Description

Explores the relationship between population, state and society with a particular emphasis on the settler colonial and post colonial context of Aotearoa New Zealand and the South Pacific. Social theories of biopolitics, gender, racism and technology are examined in order to develop critical insights into population ‘problems’ of migration, borders, fertility/mortality, citizenship and diversity.

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Availability 2024

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s)  Francis Collins

Points

SOCIOL 707: 30 points