Explain Waldron’s argument against the claim that historic injustices are ‘past offences’. How does this relate to settlement and colonial dispossession?
ii. Decolonial Violence
Briefly introduce Fanon’s account of decolonial violence and evaluate the claim that violence is necessary. Is such violence instrumentally or intrinsically valuable, or both?
iii. Orientalist Depictions
What does Saïd mean by the term ‘orientalism’? What examples are there of orientalist assumptions, depictions and discourses on immigrants, Muslims, POC in Australia?
