Dr. Joanne Faulkner

Biography

Joanne Faulkner is a senior lecturer in Media Communications at Macquarie University. Her research investigates how representations of childhood circulate within Australian culture and manage anxieties surrounding national identity and history. Her recent book, 'Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia' (Routledge, 2023), explores themes of memory and representation. Faulkner has also authored 'Young Free: [Post] Colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory, History in Australia' (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016) and 'The Importance of Innocence: Worrying About Children' (Cambridge, 2011). She co-edited 'Critical Childhood Studies and Practice: Interdisciplinarity and Disciplining the Child' (Lexington Books, 2015). Faulkner is involved in supervising research projects in critical childhood studies and cultural studies broadly, incorporating critical race theory, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and media representations. She has served as an associate supervisor for several PhD candidates, focusing on topics such as anthropomorphic bias in animal ethics and indigenous children in Australia and Occupied Palestine. Faulkner resides on the lands of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples, acknowledging the sovereignty and enduring culture of these communities in her work.

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