Sana Nakata

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Head of Research & Principal Research Fellow

Biography

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 limited availability for new HDR candidates, and currently supervises the following HDR candidates at JCU:

Aaminah Khan (PhD, Primary Supervisor)

Jamie Daisy (MPhil, Primary Supervisor)

Tamara Sam (PhD, Secondary Supervisor)

Elizabeth Brooker (PhD, Secondary Supervisor)

Erin Leach (PhD, Secondary Supervisor)

She has previously supervised the following six PhD candidates to successful completion on the following topics:

Meleesha Bardolia (2025) 'Unsettling the Settler Fiction of 'Rightful Dwelling' in Laws and Literatures'. The University of Melbourne.

Gearóid Brinn (2023) ‘Radicalising Democracy: Agonism, Anarchism and the State’. The University of Melbourne.

Jacynta Krakouer (2022), ‘Aboriginal Young Peoples’ experiences of Out of Home Care’. The University of Melbourne.

Laura Dunstan (2021) ‘The impact of family formation, change and family life events on Indigenous family health and wellbeing'. The University of Melbourne.

Claire Nyblom (2020) ‘Re-Substantializing Justice – the possibilities'. The University of Melbourne.

Hamza bin Jehangir (2019) ‘Determining the “political” through deliberative practices in non-liberal contexts'. The University of Melbourne.


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Maddison, Sarah; Nakata, Sana (2020) Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Per. Singapore: [Edited Publication] [DOI] ...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Nakata, Sana; Bray, Daniel (2023) 'On Representation and the Politics of Aboriginal and Torres Strai. PUBLIC LAW REVIEW, 34 (2):120-128. ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Krakouer, Jacynta; Nakata, Sana; Beaufils, James; Hunter, Sue-Anne; Corrales, Tatiana; Morris, Heath...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Bray, Daniel; Nakata, Sana (2020) 'The figure of the child in democratic politics'. Contemporary Political Theory, 19 :20-37. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
Dunstan, Laura; Hewitt, Belinda; Nakata, Sana (2020) 'Indigenous family life in Australia: A history. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 55 (3):323-338. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Nakata, Sana; Maddison, Sarah (2019) 'New collaborations in old institutional spaces: Setting a new . Australian Journal of Political Science, 54 (3):407-422. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Nakata, Sana (2008) 'Elizabeth Eckford's Appearance at Little Rock: The Possibility of Children's Po. Politics, 28 (1):19-25. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Nakata, Sana (2018) The infantilisation of Indigenous Australians: a problem for democracy. [Original Work] ...
Creative Works ResearchOnline@JCU
Nakata, Sana; Bray, Daniel (2023) 'Political Representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander In: Nakata, Sana, and Bray, Daniel (2023) Political Representati...
Book Chapter Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
Maddison, Sarah; Nakata, Sana (2020) 'Introduction: Questioning Indigenous-settler relations: Reconc In: Maddison, Sarah, and Nakata, Sana (2020) Introduction: Qu...
Nakata, Sana (2015) Childhood citizenship, governance and policy: The politics of becoming adult. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [DOI] ...