Course syllabus
MEDIA 325: Settlement, Indigeneity and Media
SEMESTER 1, 2019
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Convenor:
Stephen Turner
sf.turner@auckland.ac.nz
Social Science building, rm 538 (201E-538)
Office hours:
Tuesday 12-1, or by appointment
Course advisor
Dr Hirini Kaa
Kaiārahi (Arts Faculty)
Email: h.kaa@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 (0) 9 923 7376
Tuākana mentor
Kaitiaki Rodger
Email: krdo200@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Class representative
Lecture:
Thurs: 2.00-4.00, Conference centre, room 342 (423-342)
Tutorials:
See Student Services Online (SSO)
Course description:
This course looks at the range of media involved in the representation and implementation of the settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand in terms of questions of migrancy and indigeneity. So-called "new" countries are profoundly shaped by historical and contemporary media technologies. Indeed, such countries are significantly imagined before they are occupied by settlers. This course reads diverse media of settlement in terms of an existing indigenous presence. How do new and developing media enable and further settlement, and how has such media been resisted, negotiated and transformed by Māori? What questions, issues and possibilities are raised by looking at diverse media specifically within the parallax lens of indigeneity and migrant settlement?
In this course "media" encompasses cartography, writing, photography, film and television, digital sites and games.
Learning aims:
- To understand the provenance, range and effects of multiple media within the framework of an indigenous-settler situation
- To develop a critical vocabulary for analysing and discussing diverse and interrelated media technologies in specifically indigenous-settler contexts
- To become familiar with theories of First (indigenous) law and settler-colonialism, including critical race studies, in relation to indigenous and migrant media
- To understand the work of diverse media in the context of the Treaty of Waitangi and current constitutional debate
- To understand the representational role of government agencies, tourism and advertising in the mediation of history, ‘nature’ and nation
Resources:
write@uni [academic writing]
https://flexiblelearning.auckland.ac.nz/writeatuni/
Weekly topics and readings:
*See weekly ‘modules’ for readings, lecture recordings, power points and materials.
INTRODUCTION
Week 1 (March 7): Grounds of place with Sean Sturm
Barry Barclay, ‘Before the beginning’, Mana Tūturu, Māori Treasures and Intellectual Property Rights (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005), pp.7-32.
Alice Te Punga Somerville, ‘Conclusion: E kore Au e Ngaro’, Once Were Pacific, Minneapolis, Min.: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 191-211.
GEO-MEDIA
Week 2 (March 14): Writing the land
Giselle Byrnes, ‘The Calligraphy of Colonisation, Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2001), 77-93.
Mere Roberts, ‘Mind maps of the Māori’, GeoJournal 77.6 (2012): 741-751.
Mimi Sheller, ‘Media, Materiality, Mobility: Understanding Geomedia as Infrastructure Spaces,’ Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatised Worlds, eds. Karin Fast, André Jansson, Johan Lindell, Linda Ryan Bengtsson, and Mekonnen Tesfahuney (New York and London: Routledge, 2018), chapt. 5, pp.79-94.
Week 3 (March 21): Writing on paper with Alison Jones
Alison Jones and Te Kawehau Hoskins, ‘A Mark on Paper: The Matter of Indigenous-Settler History, Posthuman Research Practices in Education, eds. Carol A. Taylor and Christina Hughes. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.75-92.
Penny Van Toorn, ‘Encountering the Alphabet’, in Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006), chapt. 1, pp. 8-23.
Week 4 (March 28): Light writing #1 (painting)
Annette Tietenberg, ‘Gottfried Lindauer’s “Veracious Pictures”: On Transfers between Media and Patterns of Repetition’, in: Gottfried Lindauer: Die Maori Portraits, cat. exh. Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Auckland Art Gallery, eds. Udo Kittelmann and Britta Schmitz (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014), pp. 218-223.
Rawinia Higgins, ‘Tā Moko - From Practice to Expression’, in: Gottfried Lindauer: Die Maori Portraits, cat. exh. Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Auckland Art Gallery, eds Udo Kittelmann and Britta Schmitz. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014, pp. 241-244.
Week 5 (April 4): Light writing #2 with Susanna Collinson
Barbara Bolt, ‘Shedding Light for the Matter’, Hypatia 15.2 (Spring 2000): 202-216.
David Eggleton, Into the Light: A History of New Zealand Photography (Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2006), pp.24-44.
Kylie Message, ‘”Are We There Yet”? Natalie Robertson’s Roadsigns and the Redirection of Cultural Memory’, Space and Culture 8.4 (2005): 449-458.
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Reading exercise (1250 words) 20%
Hand in to Arts Student Centre, Monday, 8 April, by 3.00 pm
Week 6 (April 11): Media ecologies
Anna Boswell, ‘Anamorphic Ecology, or the Return of the Possum’, Transformations, 32 (2018): 1-18.
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MID-SEMESTER BREAK Monday, April 15 – Saturday, April 27
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MASS MEDIA
Week 7 (May 2): The ‘public’ sphere
Thomas Owen, ‘Neocolonialism, nation-building and global journalism in Aotearoa news,’ Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, eds. Emma Johnson, Giovanni Tiso, Sarah Illingworth and Barnaby Bennett Christchurch, N.Z.: Freerange Press, 2016), pp. 105-112.
Jo Smith, ‘Māori television and a Politics of Culture Framework’, Māori Television: The First 10 years (Auckland: Auckland University Pres, 2015), chapter 3, pp.88-103.
Anne McClintock, ‘Imperial Ghosting and National Tragedy: Revenants from Hiroshima and Indian Country in the War on Terror,’ PMLA 129.4 (2014): 819-829.
Week 8 (May 9): Fourth media/cinema with Christina Milligan (AUT)
Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas, ‘Introduction. Fourth Eye: The Indigenous Mediascape in Aotearoa New Zealand’, The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand, eds. Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas, eds. (Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), pp. xv-l.
Barry Barclay, ‘Celebrating Fourth Cinema’, IIlusions (2003): 7-11.
See Feathers of Peace, dir. Barry Barclay (He Taonga films, 2000).
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Critical project (2000 words, or equivalent) 30%
Hand in to Arts Student Centre, Monday, 13 May, by 3.00 pm
Week 9 (May 16): Settler cinema with Laurence Simmons
See Broken Barrier, dirs. Roger Mirams and John O'Shea (Pacific Films, 1952)
Reading: David Ausebel, 'Race Relations in New Zealand/Maori and Pakeha: An American View', Landfall (1958): 233-246.
Week 10 (May 23): National cinema with Misha Kavka
See Hunt for the Wilderpeople, dir. Taika Waititi (Piki films, 2016)
Reading: Misha Kavka and Stephen Turner, ‘Boy and the Postcolonial Taniwha’. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies 13.1 (2012): 23-28.
Week 11 (May 30): Essay writing #1 (geo-media)
Examples: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, dir. Peter Jackson (New Line Cinema, 2001).
Reading:
Alice Te Punga Somerville, 'Asking that mountain" An Indigenous reading of The Lord of the Rings', Studying the event film: The Lord of the Rings, eds: Harriet Margolis, Sean Cubitt, Barry King, Thierry Jutel (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008), 249-258.
DUE: Long essay abstracts for peer review (250 words) in week 11 tutorial 10%
Circulate to peer group on Monday, 27 May, by 3.00 pm
Week 12 (June 6): Essay writing #2 (film analysis)
Examples: Twilight of the Gods, dir. Stewart Main (Zee films, 1996)
Tama Tu, dir. Taika Waititi (New Zealand Film Commission, 2004)
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Longer essay (2500 words) 40%
Hand in to Arts Student Centre, Friday, 14 June, by 3.00 pm
Coursework:
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20% Reading exercise (1250 words) Due: Monday, 1 April, by 3.00, hand in to Arts Student Centre,
30% Critical project (2000 words, or equivalent) Due: Monday, 27 May, by 3.00 pm, hand in to Arts Student Centre
10% Long essay abstracts for peer review (250 words)
40% Long essay (2500 words) Due: Friday, 14 June, by 3.00 pm, Hand in to Arts Student Centre, |
Detailed instruction and criteria for each assignment will be provided during the course.
Turnitin:
All coursework should be submitted through Canvas-turnitin under the relevant assignment. You cannot submit assignments to a GTA or lecturer. Failure to present your coursework appropriately will lose you marks. Assignments not submitted to Turnitin via Canvas by the deadline will not be given a mark and will not count towards your final grade.
Plagiarism:
All cases of plagiarism will be brought before a Disciplinary Committee. Plagiarism is committed when you fail to indicate clearly your use of other people’s ideas, facts, research, information, etc.
Learning the conventions of citing source material is an important academic skill that enables you to use other people’s ideas to support your own argument, or use them as a base from which to pitch your own counter-argument.
By submitting your coursework electronically, you are effectively declaring that your work is not plagiarized. Plagiarism is failure to properly and clearly acknowledge those words or ideas within your own work that are not your own. Plagiarism is regarded as a serious form of cheating and will result in a deduction of marks and possibly even a mark of zero for the assignment.
The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting his or her learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the world-wide web.
Note: Turnitin is the plagiarism software. It will not only pick up all cases of plagiarism in your paper, but it will also pick up sentences and paragraphs that you may have used in your own previous work. Please avoid repeating your arguments in the same words.
Deadlines:
Extensions must be personally negotiated with your instructor before the assignment is due. Extensions must be registered with the course convenor, preferably in person and confirmed by email.
Once you submit, you will need to place a note with your work, which specifies exactly the date the extension was granted, the new submission date and who granted the extension.
Aegrotat and compassionate consideration:
Information regarding the granting of aegrotat pass or compassionate consideration of grades is contained in the University Calendar under ‘Examination Regulations’.
Applications are not usually granted unless the student has completed all pieces of coursework and passed them with a C+ or higher. You must contact the Examinations Office (not the FTVMS Department) if you need to apply for an aegrotat pass.
Academic support services:
UoA provides a range of resources to support students towards achieving their academic potential. These resources are not restricted to assisting students who are encountering difficulties in their studies. To access information about the range of academic and learning support services at the University, please visit:
Student Learning Centre web site: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/slc ELE (English Language Enrichment) website: http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ele/
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