Sana Nakata

Working through the problems: negotiating friendship, producing results

Sana Nakata, Sarah Maddison

Journal article  |  2020  |  Griffith Law Review

From our first experiences to our last, institutions structure our world – through education and medicine to politics, justice, ci..

Who is the self in Indigenous self‑determination?

Sana Nakata

Book Chapter  |  2020

Yet, the defining features of this era, as well as how, why and when it ended, are far from clear. In this collection we ask: how ..

Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Reconciliation, recognition, responsibility

Sarah Maddison, Sana Nakata

Book Chapter  |  2020

This book is the first in a new series devoted specifically to understanding and transforming Indigenous-settler relations in Aust..

The figure of the child in democratic politics

D Bray, S Nakata

Journal article  |  2020  |  Contemporary Political Theory

This article seeks to illuminate the figure of the child in democratic politics by arguing that children play a constitutive role ..

Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Sarah Maddison, Sana Nakata

Book  |  2020

This book examines contemporary Indigenous affairs through questions of relationality, presenting a range of interdisciplinary per..

Indigenous family life in Australia: A history of difference and deficit

Laura Dunstan, Belinda Hewitt, Sana Nakata

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Social Issues

Indigenous family life has been a key target of family and child policies in Australia since colonisation. In this paper, we ident..

New collaborations in old institutional spaces: setting a new research agenda to transform Indigenous-settler relations

Sana Nakata, Sarah Maddison

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Political Science

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people navigate the social and political order of the Australian settler state in ways that ..

The infantalisation of Indigenous Australians: a problem for democracy

S Nakata

Book Chapter  |  2018

The Re-Making of Nation and Indigenous Australian Children

Sana Nakata

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Journal of Public Administration

Childhood citizenship, governance and policy: The politics of becoming adult

S Nakata

Book  |  2015

Debates about children's rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader so..