Anna Szörényi
Biographic Data
| ID | 138304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Szörényi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Szörényi |
| SIGNATURE | SZÖRÉNYI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2092-5970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Animism meets posthumanism
How can we rethink the human-nature relationship in the Anthropocene? Posthumanist approaches offer a critique of anthropocentrism, but often implicitly appropriate spiritual approaches, and explicitly dismiss one of these - animism - as premodern, negating the theoretical possibility of exploring the human-nature relationship charged with animistic imagination. We argue that films by Miyazaki Hayao and Shinkai Makoto can work as a medium to tran…
Supporting neurodiversity in higher degree research supervision
The numbers of neurodivergent HDR candidates are increasing, but there is little guidance for higher-degree supervisors on working with these students. We report on qualitative data from surveys conducted with HDR students and supervisors at an Australian university, asking about experiences with neurodivergence in supervision. There were many reports of stigma, inappropriate support systems, inflexible and unsympathetic supervisors, and entrench…
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene
Children and young people today are growing up in an increasingly urban, technical, virtual and ecologically precarious world, leaving many feel disconnected from nature yet anxious about its degradation at the same time. Two distinct bodies of knowledge – namely youth human-nature relationships and youth eco-anxiety – are concerned with the former and the latter respectively. Through a narrative literature review, we bring these fields together …
Broadening participation not border protection
Computer science, like technology in general, is seen as a masculine field and the under-representation of women an intransigent problem. In this paper, we argue that the cultural belief in Australia that computer science is a domain for men results in many girls and women being chased away from that field as part of a border protection campaign by some males - secondary school teachers, boys and men playing games online and young men on campus a…
Expelling Slavery from the Nation
On 4 May 2015, the Australian national broadcaster’s current affairs programme Four Corners aired an episode titled ‘Slaving Away: The dirty secrets behind Australia’s fresh food’, that provided revelations of labour exploitation of migrant workers on working holiday visas. The government reacted swiftly to these allegations with an ‘operation’ ostensibly designed to stop the exploitation. In reports of Operation Cloudburst, however, there was a …
Saving virgins, saving the USA
Sex trafficking has become a high-profile, celebrity endorsed issue, attracting much international attention. Accompanying this has been a proliferation of films, including full-length feature films, which address the topic and have done much to influence public perception of the issue. This paper analyses two of these films which were made for the mainstream US market: Trade and Taken. Both films present a conservative and heteronormative perspe…
Rethinking the Boundaries
Feminist debates on sex trafficking have become entrenched and polarised, with abolitionists producing images of helpless abused victims, while sex worker advocates work hard to achieve some recognition of the agency of migrant sex workers. This article explores constructions of embodiment, subjectivity and agency in the debate, showing how abolitionist views, in spite of their efforts to challenge liberal pro-sex perspectives, rely on a familiar…
Two Dreams in One Bedroom
This paper explores two stories of the author’s own family, one of post-Second World War Displaced Persons, and one of Nazi collaboration. Juxtaposed, these two stories attached to one familial identity throw into relief the expectations of victimhood and responsibility encoded in stereotypical refugee narratives. The paper tracks such expectations in contemporary Australian refugee debate, showing that essentialised equations between refugees an…
Immanent Critiques
Giving an Account of Myself
This paper is a theoretical exploration of the limits of guilt and responsibility in relation to the Holocaust, using the author’s own family history as an example. Popular writer and lawyer Bernhard Schlnk has argued that German collective guilt for the Holocaust can be geometrically mapped, and that it dissolves by the third generation. However his argument slips from historical guilt to guilt as a ‘feeling’ felt by an individualised, liberal s…
Till Human Voices Wake Us1
Personal narratives by people who have been displaced by injustice or war are often included in the genre of ‘testimonial’ witness to atrocity, and mobilised by human rights advocates as ways to promote sympathy. However as ‘refugee stories’, they also circulate within ‘refugee discourse’. This article undertakes a rhetorical analysis of the ways in which this discourse and its associated viewing and speaking positions can work to reduce the impa…
Distanced suffering
There has been much debate about the ethics and effectiveness of the circulation of photographs of suffering. An analysis of commentaries and reviews of such photographs shows that the genre interpellates a particular spectator, for whom the “distance” of suffering is viewed from a comfortable centre. This mode of spectatorship is identifiable as “white” in its claim to unmarked privilege. The photographs threaten to destabilise this unmarked pri…
The images speak for themselves? Reading refugee coffee‐table books
The practice of collecting photographs of refugees in 'coffee-table books' is a practice of framing and thus inflecting the meanings of those images. The 'refugee coffee-table books' discussed here each approach their topic with a particular style and emphasis. Nonetheless, while some individual images offer productive readings which challenge stereotypes of refugees, the format of the collections and the accompanying written text work to produce…
Congealed By Law
This isssue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal edited by Juliet Rogers and Anna Szorenyi
The Face of Suffering in Afghanistan
Distanced suffering
There has been much debate about the ethics and effectiveness of the circulation of photographs of suffering. An analysis of commentaries and reviews of such photographs shows that the genre interpellates a particular spectator, for whom the “distance” of suffering is viewed from a comfortable centre. This mode of spectatorship is identifiable as “white” in its claim to unmarked privilege. The photographs threaten to destabilise this unmarked pri…
Rethinking the Boundaries
Feminist debates on sex trafficking have become entrenched and polarised, with abolitionists producing images of helpless abused victims, while sex worker advocates work hard to achieve some recognition of the agency of migrant sex workers. This article explores constructions of embodiment, subjectivity and agency in the debate, showing how abolitionist views, in spite of their efforts to challenge liberal pro-sex perspectives, rely on a familiar…
Till Human Voices Wake Us1
Personal narratives by people who have been displaced by injustice or war are often included in the genre of ‘testimonial’ witness to atrocity, and mobilised by human rights advocates as ways to promote sympathy. However as ‘refugee stories’, they also circulate within ‘refugee discourse’. This article undertakes a rhetorical analysis of the ways in which this discourse and its associated viewing and speaking positions can work to reduce the impa…
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene
Children and young people today are growing up in an increasingly urban, technical, virtual and ecologically precarious world, leaving many feel disconnected from nature yet anxious about its degradation at the same time. Two distinct bodies of knowledge – namely youth human-nature relationships and youth eco-anxiety – are concerned with the former and the latter respectively. Through a narrative literature review, we bring these fields together …
Broadening participation not border protection
Computer science, like technology in general, is seen as a masculine field and the under-representation of women an intransigent problem. In this paper, we argue that the cultural belief in Australia that computer science is a domain for men results in many girls and women being chased away from that field as part of a border protection campaign by some males - secondary school teachers, boys and men playing games online and young men on campus a…
Giving an Account of Myself
This paper is a theoretical exploration of the limits of guilt and responsibility in relation to the Holocaust, using the author’s own family history as an example. Popular writer and lawyer Bernhard Schlnk has argued that German collective guilt for the Holocaust can be geometrically mapped, and that it dissolves by the third generation. However his argument slips from historical guilt to guilt as a ‘feeling’ felt by an individualised, liberal s…
The Face of Suffering in Afghanistan
The Face of Suffering in Afghanistan
The images speak for themselves? Reading refugee coffee‐table books
The practice of collecting photographs of refugees in 'coffee-table books' is a practice of framing and thus inflecting the meanings of those images. The 'refugee coffee-table books' discussed here each approach their topic with a particular style and emphasis. Nonetheless, while some individual images offer productive readings which challenge stereotypes of refugees, the format of the collections and the accompanying written text work to produce…
Congealed By Law
This isssue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal edited by Juliet Rogers and Anna Szorenyi
Till Human Voices Wake Us1
Personal narratives by people who have been displaced by injustice or war are often included in the genre of ‘testimonial’ witness to atrocity, and mobilised by human rights advocates as ways to promote sympathy. However as ‘refugee stories’, they also circulate within ‘refugee discourse’. This article undertakes a rhetorical analysis of the ways in which this discourse and its associated viewing and speaking positions can work to reduce the impa…
Distanced suffering
There has been much debate about the ethics and effectiveness of the circulation of photographs of suffering. An analysis of commentaries and reviews of such photographs shows that the genre interpellates a particular spectator, for whom the “distance” of suffering is viewed from a comfortable centre. This mode of spectatorship is identifiable as “white” in its claim to unmarked privilege. The photographs threaten to destabilise this unmarked pri…
Immanent Critiques
Giving an Account of Myself
This paper is a theoretical exploration of the limits of guilt and responsibility in relation to the Holocaust, using the author’s own family history as an example. Popular writer and lawyer Bernhard Schlnk has argued that German collective guilt for the Holocaust can be geometrically mapped, and that it dissolves by the third generation. However his argument slips from historical guilt to guilt as a ‘feeling’ felt by an individualised, liberal s…
Two Dreams in One Bedroom
This paper explores two stories of the author’s own family, one of post-Second World War Displaced Persons, and one of Nazi collaboration. Juxtaposed, these two stories attached to one familial identity throw into relief the expectations of victimhood and responsibility encoded in stereotypical refugee narratives. The paper tracks such expectations in contemporary Australian refugee debate, showing that essentialised equations between refugees an…
Saving virgins, saving the USA
Sex trafficking has become a high-profile, celebrity endorsed issue, attracting much international attention. Accompanying this has been a proliferation of films, including full-length feature films, which address the topic and have done much to influence public perception of the issue. This paper analyses two of these films which were made for the mainstream US market: Trade and Taken. Both films present a conservative and heteronormative perspe…
Rethinking the Boundaries
Feminist debates on sex trafficking have become entrenched and polarised, with abolitionists producing images of helpless abused victims, while sex worker advocates work hard to achieve some recognition of the agency of migrant sex workers. This article explores constructions of embodiment, subjectivity and agency in the debate, showing how abolitionist views, in spite of their efforts to challenge liberal pro-sex perspectives, rely on a familiar…
Expelling Slavery from the Nation
On 4 May 2015, the Australian national broadcaster’s current affairs programme Four Corners aired an episode titled ‘Slaving Away: The dirty secrets behind Australia’s fresh food’, that provided revelations of labour exploitation of migrant workers on working holiday visas. The government reacted swiftly to these allegations with an ‘operation’ ostensibly designed to stop the exploitation. In reports of Operation Cloudburst, however, there was a …
Broadening participation not border protection
Computer science, like technology in general, is seen as a masculine field and the under-representation of women an intransigent problem. In this paper, we argue that the cultural belief in Australia that computer science is a domain for men results in many girls and women being chased away from that field as part of a border protection campaign by some males - secondary school teachers, boys and men playing games online and young men on campus a…
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene
Children and young people today are growing up in an increasingly urban, technical, virtual and ecologically precarious world, leaving many feel disconnected from nature yet anxious about its degradation at the same time. Two distinct bodies of knowledge – namely youth human-nature relationships and youth eco-anxiety – are concerned with the former and the latter respectively. Through a narrative literature review, we bring these fields together …
Supporting neurodiversity in higher degree research supervision
The numbers of neurodivergent HDR candidates are increasing, but there is little guidance for higher-degree supervisors on working with these students. We report on qualitative data from surveys conducted with HDR students and supervisors at an Australian university, asking about experiences with neurodivergence in supervision. There were many reports of stigma, inappropriate support systems, inflexible and unsympathetic supervisors, and entrench…
Animism meets posthumanism
How can we rethink the human-nature relationship in the Anthropocene? Posthumanist approaches offer a critique of anthropocentrism, but often implicitly appropriate spiritual approaches, and explicitly dismiss one of these - animism - as premodern, negating the theoretical possibility of exploring the human-nature relationship charged with animistic imagination. We argue that films by Miyazaki Hayao and Shinkai Makoto can work as a medium to tran…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)