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Biography
Joanne is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Literature, and Language (MCCALL), and was an ARC Future Fellow from 2018 - 2022. Her research investigates the ways in which representations of childhood circulate in Australian culture to manage anxieties about national identity and history; and, particularly, the specific meanings attributed to Aboriginal children as sites of mediation, intervention, and impasse between settler-colonial and First Nations peoples. Her most recent book is Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia (Routledge, 2023) and other books include Young and Free: [post]colonial ontologies of childhood, memory, and history in Australia (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016) and The Importance of Being Innocent: why we worry about children (Cambridge UP, 2011). She co-edited (with A/Prof Magdalena Zolkos) Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity Disciplining the Child (Lexington Books, 2015).
Joanne is a settler coloniser living on lands to which Gadigal and Wangal peoples belong, and working on Dharug country. These peoples' cultures and knowledges have nurtured country since the beginning of time and sovereignty was never ceded.
Research student supervision
I am available to supervise projects in critical child studies and cultural studies more broadly; as well as projects drawing on critical race theory, feminist theory and philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, media representations, settler colonial studies, and Nietzsche studies.
Current students
Zain Swaleh (as associate supervisor), PhD candidate, "Indigenous children in Australia and Occupied Palestine" (Primary: Professor Joseph Pugliese)
Sharri Lembryk (as associate supervisor), PhD candidate, “‘Anthropomorphic bias in animal ethics” (Joint primaries: Associate Prof Simon Lumsden and Karyn Lai, UNSW)
Completed supervisions
Annie Sandrussi (as associate supervisor), PhD candidate, “Phenomenology and the Sexed Body” (Primary: Associate Prof. Robert Sinnerbrink, Philosophy, MQ) – to be conferred in 2023.
Dr Chris Peers, PhD candidate, The Family Under Erasure (Associate supervisor: Professor Nicole Anderson), awarded 2022.
Dr Emily Hughes, PhD, "Heidegger, Affectedness, and the Temporality of Being" (Associate: Simon Lumsden), awarded 2017, winner of the Dean of Arts Best Thesis Award (UNSW)
Education/Academic qualification
Philosophy, PhD, Interpreting (and being interpellated) by Nietzsche, La Trobe University
Award Date: 16 Oct 2006
Philosophy, Master of Arts (research), Voices from the Depths: Irigaray Encountering Nietzsche, Australian National University
Award Date: 21 Apr 1999
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre
Mackenzie, C., Rogers, W., Meyerson, D., Kennett, J., Menary, R., Barrow, A., Bernal-Pulido, C., Deranty, J., Downey, G., Faulkner, J., Formosa, P., Hochman, A., Hutchison, K., Johnson, J., Levy, N., Lipworth, W., Lotz, M., Pugliese, J., Ross, R., Rossmanith, K., Schier, E., Sinnerbrink, R., Smith, N., Sorial, S., Sutton, J., Voyce, M., Gleeson, K. & MacDermott, T.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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ARC Future Fellowship: Significances of 'childhood' in postcolonial Australia
6/02/18 → 5/02/21
Project: Research
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Young and free: [post]colonial ontologies of childhood, memory and history in Australia
Faulkner, J., 2016, London ; New York: Rowman & Littlefield. 230 p. (Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The Importance of Being Innocent: Why we worry about children
Faulkner, J., 2010, Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press (CUP). 167 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
73 Citations (Scopus) -
Innocents and oracles: The child as a figure of knowledge and critique in the middle-class philosophical imagination
Faulkner, J., 2011, In: Critical Horizons. 12, 3, p. 323-346Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus) -
The innocence of victimhood versus the "innocence of Becoming": Nietzsche, 9/11, and the "Falling Man"
Faulkner, J., 2008, In: Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 35-36, p. 67-85 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The vulnerability of "virtual" subjects: childhood, memory, and the crisis in the cultural value of innocence
Faulkner, J., 2013, In: Sub-Stance. 42, 3, p. 127-147Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
16 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
Activities
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Rowman & Littlefield International (Publisher)
Joanne Faulkner (Editor)
2015Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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Childhood Vulnerabilty (Journal)
Joanne Faulkner (Member of editorial board)
2017 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (External organisation)
Joanne Faulkner (Member)
1 Jan 2017 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Cultural Studies Association of Australia (External organisation)
Joanne Faulkner (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (External organisation)
Joanne Faulkner (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of network
Press/Media
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'Sharenting' alert: the risks of sharing pics of your kids online
Joanne Faulkner & Wayne Warburton
1/06/19 → 4/06/19
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Representations of children in television and film
5/04/13
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Little Miss Innocent? Anxious Adults Await Australia’s First Child Beauty Pageant
25/07/11
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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