Autore: Sana Nakata

Sarah Maddison is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.Sarah co-founded and co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, a research unit in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.Her areas of research expertise include Indigenous-Settler relations, reconciliation and conflict transformation, Indigenous political culture, and social movements. Sana Nakata is a Torres Strait Islander, who has lived and worked on Wurundjeri land all her adult life. Trained as a lawyer and political theorist, her research is centered upon developing an approach for thinking politically about childhood in ways that improve the capacity of adult decision-makers to act in their interests. Her current Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous project looks at representations of children in Australian political controversies, with particular focus upon Indigenous Australian children and childasylum seeker.