本課由傅柯生命政治和治理性的角度起使，藉由閱讀經典理論和研究，以逐次探討以下攸關現代社會身份政治的課題： 一、生命政治、治理性、與民族國家的興起 二、殖民主義與後殖民國家國族認同的興起 三、多元文化身份認同如何執行

Anderson, Benedict (1983) Imagined Communities

Fanon, Franz (1953) Black Skin, White Masks

Foucault, Michel (1978) The History of Sexuality, Vol. I

Foucault, Michel (1991) “Governmentality”

In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality

Gilroy, Paul (1993) The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

Gordon, Colin (1991) “Governmental Rationality: An Introduction”

Kymlicka, Will (1996) Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights

Taylor, Charles (2011) Secularism and Freedom of Conscience