Sana Nakata

Sana Nakata is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University. She is trained in the law and political theory of the Western tradition, and her research focuses upon the politics of childhood, Indigenous policy and governance. She has held multiple Australian Research Council grants, written and edited books including Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy (Routledge, 2015) and published in leading international and Australian journals, including Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, and Australian Journal of Political Science.

She has supervision capacity for new HDR candidates at JCU, having previously supervised the following five PhD candidates to successful completion on the following topics:

• Gearóid Brinn (2023) ‘Radicalising Democracy: Agonism, Anarchism and the State’.
• Jacynta Krakouer (2022), ‘Aboriginal Young Peoples’ experiences of Out of Home Care’.
• Laura Dunstan (2021) ‘The impact of family formation, change and family life events on Indigenous family health and wellbeing’.
• Claire Nyblom (2020) ‘Re-Substantializing Justice – the possibilities’.
• Hamza bin Jehangir (2019) ‘Determining the “political” through deliberative practices in non-liberal contexts', The University of Melbourne.