Alessio Genovese
Biographic Data
| ID | 160805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessio Genovese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessio |
| FAMILY NAME | Genovese |
| SIGNATURE | GENOVESE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5098-5053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Author Meets Readers: Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing
The following is an edited version of an Author Meets Readers conversation held on 20 February 2025 at UNSW Sydney celebrating Ann Genovese’s book Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing (Routledge, 2023). The event chaired by Mehera San Roque brought author Ann Genovese into dialogue with three readers, Ann Curthoys, Alecia Simmonds and Angela Kintominas
"Il gioco" as collaborative method: Feminist and antiracist musings on the power of play
What transformative potential might reside in play as a collaborative method, particularly in contexts of migration and with populations of marginalized youth? In this paper, we explore play "in anthropology and as anthropology" while drawing from our collective experiences with collaborative research through a Palermo-based participatory film and storytelling lab that foregrounds "il gioco" (play). We discuss the lab's approach to play as a coll…
Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics
Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics." Australian Historical Studies, 54(2), pp. 374–375
Places Lived: An Ego-Histoiriste and Jurisographer Discuss Living with Law in Sydney
The following essays, by John Docker and myself, were delivered on the final panel of the ‘Lives Lived with Law’ symposium, held at the Melbourne Law School in December 2014. The panel was called ‘Places Lived’, and our purpose was to reflect together on how intellectual traditions are inherited and inhabited in a place. The essays were written and presented as they are published here, commencing with this short introduction. We wanted to stage i…
About Libraries: A Jurisographer’s Notes on Lives Lived With Law (in London and Sydney)
This essay, like much of my recent writing, is concerned with explaining how I go about my work, by reflecting on what I have inherited from others, how I have conducted my own practices over time as feminist, jurisprudent, and historian, and how those personae join together. The central thread of this self-consciously explanatory writing, and the histories of jurisprudence and feminism that accompanies it, is to make plain that the personae I in…
Nineteen eighty three: A jurisographic report on Commonwealth v Tasmania
The question we ask in this essay is quite direct: did the Tasmanian Dams case change the conduct of jurisprudence in Australia? To reflect on that question, we stand to the side of the review of the events of 1983 as constitutional decision, and present the jurisprudence of Dams and 1983 in terms of the incidents of legal thinking in the conduct of the office of the jurisprudent. Writing as jurisographers, we reflect historically on the conduct …
Critical decision 1983: Remembering Commonwealth v Tasmania
This special edition of Griffith Law Review began its life as a symposium to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the 1983 High Court decision Commonwealth v Tasmania.11 Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983)
Occasions and Events: Australian Feminist Jurisprudence at 25
"Occasions and Events: Australian Feminist Jurisprudence at 25." Australian Feminist Law Journal, 41(1), pp. 1–2
On The Liberal Promise: A Conversation
Margaret Thornton's The Liberal Promise was published in 1990.11. Thornton Margaret The Liberal Promise: Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Australia Oxford University Press Melbourne 1990. In this interview, conducted at the ANU College of Law on 3 February 2015, Margaret Thornton discusses with Ann Genovese three broad, and interrelated, questions. One is the achievement of The Liberal Promise, the conditions of its production and publication a…
Critical decision, 1982: Remembering Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen
This article introduces the writings of jurists, lawyers, scholars and activists who were invited to review and remember the 1982 High Court decision Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen (‘Koowarta’). The judgment is important doctrinally and is often cited on the legal record. What is less familiar is how Koowarta is also a public trial, an event of law that carries many different accounts of how jurisprudence is experienced in the life of a community. Th…
On Australian feminist tradition: Three notes on conduct, inheritance and the relations of historiography and jurisprudence
This essay is a meditation on how Australian feminists inherit traditions of practice, and how they have reimagined disciplinary personae. I focus on Ann Curthoys as an exemplar, and her contributions to the creation of a field of feminist history. In particular, I draw out how Ann Curthoys has placed the conduct of relations with others, and how those relations might be experienced in time and place, at the centre of her history writing. I empha…
Australian Communist Party of Australia v The Commonwealth: Histories of Australian Legalism
In this article I structure legalism as a device to interpret how 1951 is remembered in law, in order to show what legal orthodoxies meant in their own time, and how that shifts to a different form of legalism in our own. In doing so, I will argue that the idea of legalism famously produced by the High Court judgment in 1951 has shifted its meaning as much as the ideological support of and opposition to communism that were expressed in the case. …
Inheriting and Inhabiting the Pleasures and Duties of Our Own Existence: The Second Sex and Feminist Jurisprudence
This essay considers the relation between the conduct and the personae of the feminist, the historian and the jurisprudent; and, the writing of history and of jurisprudence. It does so treating part of the relation between historiography and jurisprudence as engaged as an art of selffashioning, in the preparation for an ‘institutionalised social office’. The immediate purpose of this essay is to show how these arts of self fashioning came to be i…
Metaphor of Redemption, Myths of State: Historical Accountability in Luhrmann’s Australia and Trevorrow v South Australia
The current revisioning of the nation-state in terms of questioning accountability for violence committed against Indigenous Australians was opened up by a shift in Australian historical scholarship that began to argue nation-building was inseparable from genocidal intent. This historiography has been part of a wider post-imperial turn that has refused nostalgia in order to understand how race was constructed as part of the imperial mission, and …
National Legislation and Transnational Feminism
Worlds Turned Upside Down
Family Histories: John Hirstv.Feminism, in the Family Court of Australia
Rights for Aborigines
The battered body
Unravelling Identities: Performance and Criticism in Australian Feminisms
The following article is an exploration of the non-linear and non-unified identities that make up Australian feminism. The main premise is that the divergent strands of rational and romantic thought, central to the project of liberalism, are inherent in the characterization of Australian feminisms. As a result, there have always been tensions between feminists, centred around politics of self-identification. These tensions continue to exist, but …
Unravelling Identities: Performance and Criticism in Australian Feminisms
The following article is an exploration of the non-linear and non-unified identities that make up Australian feminism. The main premise is that the divergent strands of rational and romantic thought, central to the project of liberalism, are inherent in the characterization of Australian feminisms. As a result, there have always been tensions between feminists, centred around politics of self-identification. These tensions continue to exist, but …
The battered body
"Il gioco" as collaborative method: Feminist and antiracist musings on the power of play
What transformative potential might reside in play as a collaborative method, particularly in contexts of migration and with populations of marginalized youth? In this paper, we explore play "in anthropology and as anthropology" while drawing from our collective experiences with collaborative research through a Palermo-based participatory film and storytelling lab that foregrounds "il gioco" (play). We discuss the lab's approach to play as a coll…
Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics
Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics." Australian Historical Studies, 54(2), pp. 374–375
On Australian feminist tradition: Three notes on conduct, inheritance and the relations of historiography and jurisprudence
This essay is a meditation on how Australian feminists inherit traditions of practice, and how they have reimagined disciplinary personae. I focus on Ann Curthoys as an exemplar, and her contributions to the creation of a field of feminist history. In particular, I draw out how Ann Curthoys has placed the conduct of relations with others, and how those relations might be experienced in time and place, at the centre of her history writing. I empha…
Family Histories: John Hirstv.Feminism, in the Family Court of Australia
Unravelling Identities: Performance and Criticism in Australian Feminisms
The following article is an exploration of the non-linear and non-unified identities that make up Australian feminism. The main premise is that the divergent strands of rational and romantic thought, central to the project of liberalism, are inherent in the characterization of Australian feminisms. As a result, there have always been tensions between feminists, centred around politics of self-identification. These tensions continue to exist, but …
The battered body
Rights for Aborigines
Family Histories: John Hirstv.Feminism, in the Family Court of Australia
Worlds Turned Upside Down
Metaphor of Redemption, Myths of State: Historical Accountability in Luhrmann’s Australia and Trevorrow v South Australia
The current revisioning of the nation-state in terms of questioning accountability for violence committed against Indigenous Australians was opened up by a shift in Australian historical scholarship that began to argue nation-building was inseparable from genocidal intent. This historiography has been part of a wider post-imperial turn that has refused nostalgia in order to understand how race was constructed as part of the imperial mission, and …
National Legislation and Transnational Feminism
Australian Communist Party of Australia v The Commonwealth: Histories of Australian Legalism
In this article I structure legalism as a device to interpret how 1951 is remembered in law, in order to show what legal orthodoxies meant in their own time, and how that shifts to a different form of legalism in our own. In doing so, I will argue that the idea of legalism famously produced by the High Court judgment in 1951 has shifted its meaning as much as the ideological support of and opposition to communism that were expressed in the case. …
Inheriting and Inhabiting the Pleasures and Duties of Our Own Existence: The Second Sex and Feminist Jurisprudence
This essay considers the relation between the conduct and the personae of the feminist, the historian and the jurisprudent; and, the writing of history and of jurisprudence. It does so treating part of the relation between historiography and jurisprudence as engaged as an art of selffashioning, in the preparation for an ‘institutionalised social office’. The immediate purpose of this essay is to show how these arts of self fashioning came to be i…
Critical decision, 1982: Remembering Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen
This article introduces the writings of jurists, lawyers, scholars and activists who were invited to review and remember the 1982 High Court decision Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen (‘Koowarta’). The judgment is important doctrinally and is often cited on the legal record. What is less familiar is how Koowarta is also a public trial, an event of law that carries many different accounts of how jurisprudence is experienced in the life of a community. Th…
On Australian feminist tradition: Three notes on conduct, inheritance and the relations of historiography and jurisprudence
This essay is a meditation on how Australian feminists inherit traditions of practice, and how they have reimagined disciplinary personae. I focus on Ann Curthoys as an exemplar, and her contributions to the creation of a field of feminist history. In particular, I draw out how Ann Curthoys has placed the conduct of relations with others, and how those relations might be experienced in time and place, at the centre of her history writing. I empha…
Nineteen eighty three: A jurisographic report on Commonwealth v Tasmania
The question we ask in this essay is quite direct: did the Tasmanian Dams case change the conduct of jurisprudence in Australia? To reflect on that question, we stand to the side of the review of the events of 1983 as constitutional decision, and present the jurisprudence of Dams and 1983 in terms of the incidents of legal thinking in the conduct of the office of the jurisprudent. Writing as jurisographers, we reflect historically on the conduct …
Critical decision 1983: Remembering Commonwealth v Tasmania
This special edition of Griffith Law Review began its life as a symposium to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the 1983 High Court decision Commonwealth v Tasmania.11 Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983)
Occasions and Events: Australian Feminist Jurisprudence at 25
"Occasions and Events: Australian Feminist Jurisprudence at 25." Australian Feminist Law Journal, 41(1), pp. 1–2
On The Liberal Promise: A Conversation
Margaret Thornton's The Liberal Promise was published in 1990.11. Thornton Margaret The Liberal Promise: Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Australia Oxford University Press Melbourne 1990. In this interview, conducted at the ANU College of Law on 3 February 2015, Margaret Thornton discusses with Ann Genovese three broad, and interrelated, questions. One is the achievement of The Liberal Promise, the conditions of its production and publication a…
Places Lived: An Ego-Histoiriste and Jurisographer Discuss Living with Law in Sydney
The following essays, by John Docker and myself, were delivered on the final panel of the ‘Lives Lived with Law’ symposium, held at the Melbourne Law School in December 2014. The panel was called ‘Places Lived’, and our purpose was to reflect together on how intellectual traditions are inherited and inhabited in a place. The essays were written and presented as they are published here, commencing with this short introduction. We wanted to stage i…
About Libraries: A Jurisographer’s Notes on Lives Lived With Law (in London and Sydney)
This essay, like much of my recent writing, is concerned with explaining how I go about my work, by reflecting on what I have inherited from others, how I have conducted my own practices over time as feminist, jurisprudent, and historian, and how those personae join together. The central thread of this self-consciously explanatory writing, and the histories of jurisprudence and feminism that accompanies it, is to make plain that the personae I in…
Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics
Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics." Australian Historical Studies, 54(2), pp. 374–375
Author Meets Readers: Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing
The following is an edited version of an Author Meets Readers conversation held on 20 February 2025 at UNSW Sydney celebrating Ann Genovese’s book Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing (Routledge, 2023). The event chaired by Mehera San Roque brought author Ann Genovese into dialogue with three readers, Ann Curthoys, Alecia Simmonds and Angela Kintominas
"Il gioco" as collaborative method: Feminist and antiracist musings on the power of play
What transformative potential might reside in play as a collaborative method, particularly in contexts of migration and with populations of marginalized youth? In this paper, we explore play "in anthropology and as anthropology" while drawing from our collective experiences with collaborative research through a Palermo-based participatory film and storytelling lab that foregrounds "il gioco" (play). We discuss the lab's approach to play as a coll…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law in Society and Culture (8 works) · Feminism (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Jurisprudence (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (4 works)