Associate Professor Sana Nakata is Associate Dean, Indigenous and co-director of the Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration at the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne. Trained as a lawyer and political theorist, her research is centred upon developing an approach for thinking politically about childhood in ways that improve the capacity of adult decision-makers to act in their interests.
She has recently completed an ARC Discovery Indigenous Research Fellowship examining Representations of Children in Australian Political Controversies (2016-2019). She is the author of Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy (2015), and along with co-director Sarah Maddison, edits the Springer book series: Indigenous Settler Relations in Australia and the World.
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Working through the problems: negotiating friendship, producing results
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Progressive Education And Race: A Transnational Australian History 1920-50s
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Closing the Gap – time for traction on the ground
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Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Reconciliation, recognition, responsibility
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Representing Children In Australian Political Controversies
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Who is the self in Indigenous self‑determination?
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REPRESENTING CHILDREN IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES
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Associate Professor (Indigenous)
Arts
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy
Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Laws
University of Melbourne