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Lara Palombo is an Associate Lecturer in Criminology at Macquarie University, holding a BA (Hons), MA in Gender Studies, and a PhD in Cultural Studies. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections of space, practices, and technologies of incarceration. In 2015, she completed her doctoral research on the historical mutations of camps and the impact of indefinite incarceration on racialized communities, particularly women. Lara specializes in settler colonial penal governance and transnational penal technologies, emphasizing the incarceration of migrants and diasporic women in media and carceral imaginaries. She employs a critical theoretical framework informed by feminist and critical race theory, intersectionality, and decolonial approaches. Currently, Lara is working on a project that examines the representation of prisons in media and their implications for carceral imaginaries in the post-COVID era. She has published in various journals, including the Journal of Global Indigeneity and the Journal of Globalization. A proud Italian migrant, Lara has also served as Chairperson for the NSW Immigrant Women's SpeakOut Association and Secretary of the International Carceral Geography Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society - IBG.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).