Katrina Jaworski
Biographic Data
| ID | 298492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrina Jaworski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaworski |
| SIGNATURE | JAWORSKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5998-5241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Farming Women's Experience of Isolation: Creating Affective Connections Through Material Entanglements
This article contributes new insights into farming women's experiences of isolation and how they imagine and create socio‐spatial formations for affective connections in their socio‐cultural and material environments. We draw on in‐depth interviews with farming women and participatory co‐design research in a sparsely populated region of South Australia to explore gendered experience of isolation. We show that women experienced ‘the farm’ as gener…
Culture in practice
Reframing Suicide: The Development of Critical Suicide Studies
The ethics of facing the Other in suicide
Despite a plethora of existing literature on the topic of suicide, very little attention has been given to research ethics in practice in research on suicide. When suicide research does pay attention to the ethical issues researchers are likely to face, the focus is on the roles institutional human ethics review committees fulfil to ensure ethical conduct in all stages of research. In response to this problem, this article focuses on the philosop…
Towards Ethics of Wonder and Generosity in Critical Suicidology
More than ever before it is clear that suicidology requires a serious re-thinking of its approach to understanding and responding to suicide. This is not simply because disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry and psychology dominate what counts as valid knowledge about suicide. Rather, a serious re-thinking is required because the philosophical roots of suicidology remain taken for granted. This article addresses such a philosophical quandary by…
At the Limits of Suicide: The Bad Timing of the Gift
No matter how hard we try to grasp it fully, something about suicide always remains out of reach or outside of knowledge, unspoken, shrouded by the privacy and singularity of the moment in which someone suicided. How do we, the living, respond to this secret, to this bad timing so to speak? How do we give voice to the unspoken, which ironically is bespoken and embodied the moment it comes to be? In this paper we respond to the secret of suicide b…
Knowledge Is Made for Cutting – An Introduction
This special issue of Social Epistemology represents a departure point from the traditional field of suicidology. Unlike its predecessor, critical suicidology, or more recently, critical suicide studies, consider the scientific framework of research too narrow and argue against universalizing assumptions and applications of ideas about suicide, which often centre on Western notions of psychopathology, and individualist accounts of suicidal agency…
Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging
Recent quantitative investigations consistently single out considerable gender variations in the experience of loneliness in Australia, and in particular how men are especially prone to protracted and serious episodes of loneliness. In 2017 the Director of Lifeline implicated loneliness as a significant factor in suicide among Australian men - currently three times the rate of suicide among women. Compared to women men also struggle to talk about…
The Breath of Life and Death
In contemporary Western culture, death is often made separate from life. The dying body is rendered invisible, even though sociocultural performances of death foreshadow and signify death and dying. This article challenges this signifying by arguing that death and dying are constituted performatively through the inscriptive surfaces of living, dying, and dead bodies, rendered visible by breath and breathing. The article begins by reflecting on th…
The methodological crisis of theorising genocide in Africa: Thinking with Agamben and Butler
Theorising African genocide has reached a methodological crisis. This crisis is not only due to the poor understanding of contexts of genocide in Africa. Nor is it only caused by the continual theoretical reliance on Jewish Holocaust studies. This crisis is also due to the lack of analytical attention to how epistemological and theoretical frames might frame theorising African genocide. In response, I argue that it is essential to examine what fr…
Gender, embodiment and place: The gendering of skills shortages in the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries
This article examines skills shortages in the context of the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries. Drawing on Acker’s concept of inequality regimes, we examine gendered and classed bodies in relation to place. We argue that organizations are situated in place, and here, Australian rural places. We also argue that while specific industries are important to the rural economies, these economies are influenced by the gendered…
The Male Preserve of Martyrdom”: Representations of Palestinian female suicide bombers in Australian newsprint media
Suicide bombing occupies an uneasy place in relation to suicide in newsprint media. It is often described simultaneously as suicide, murder, and terrorist attack. It almost always involves the death of more than one person in a very public manner. When placed alongside cultural questions of gender in suicide, the uneasiness of suicide bombing intensifies, dominated by deeply biased and contradictory interpretations of gender. Guided by Debord's n…
Nowadays you don’t even see your neighbours’: Loneliness in the everyday lives of older Australians
Loneliness is a pressing social issue for older people globally. Despite this, there is a paucity of studies on how older people themselves perceive loneliness and how service providers can support them. This study sought to address the gap using in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 60 older people and eight focus groups with aged care service providers in Australia in 2007. A purposive sampling strategy was employed to incorporate maximu…
Older men’s participation in community-based men’s sheds programmes: Older men’s participation
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the lived experience of older men taking part in community-based shed programmes. Five men, aged 65 and over, who attended two different community sheds participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews in 2007. Data were analysed thematically with six main themes emerging as follows: 'company of fellas'; 'everybody's got a story to tell'; 'still got some kick'; 'passing on your experienc…
The Gender-Ing of Suicide
The author, agency and suicide
In the essay, ‘What is an Author?’, Michel Foucault contends that ‘the author does not precede the works’. If this is the case, then what happens when the notion of the author as never outside discourse is grafted to suicide? What happens when suicide – most commonly defined as a deliberate taking of one's life – is read through the idea that the one who is doing the taking does not precede it? Does this not obliterate agency in suicide: the key …
Elegantly wasted’: The celebrity deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates
The article discusses the issue of gender in suicide cases, specifically when handled by newsprint media sources. The author looks closely at the media representations of the deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates. The article notes that the coverage of these events did not necessarily draw a distinction between true and false due to the nature and celebrity of the deaths. The author suggests that truth claims represented in these deaths wer…
Suicide and gender: Reading suicide through butler's notion of performativity 1
(2003). Suicide and gender: Reading suicide through butler's notion of performativity1. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 27, Voicing Dissent, pp. 137-146
The Gender-Ing of Suicide
Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging
Recent quantitative investigations consistently single out considerable gender variations in the experience of loneliness in Australia, and in particular how men are especially prone to protracted and serious episodes of loneliness. In 2017 the Director of Lifeline implicated loneliness as a significant factor in suicide among Australian men - currently three times the rate of suicide among women. Compared to women men also struggle to talk about…
Older men’s participation in community-based men’s sheds programmes: Older men’s participation
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the lived experience of older men taking part in community-based shed programmes. Five men, aged 65 and over, who attended two different community sheds participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews in 2007. Data were analysed thematically with six main themes emerging as follows: 'company of fellas'; 'everybody's got a story to tell'; 'still got some kick'; 'passing on your experienc…
Gender, embodiment and place: The gendering of skills shortages in the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries
This article examines skills shortages in the context of the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries. Drawing on Acker’s concept of inequality regimes, we examine gendered and classed bodies in relation to place. We argue that organizations are situated in place, and here, Australian rural places. We also argue that while specific industries are important to the rural economies, these economies are influenced by the gendered…
The Male Preserve of Martyrdom”: Representations of Palestinian female suicide bombers in Australian newsprint media
Suicide bombing occupies an uneasy place in relation to suicide in newsprint media. It is often described simultaneously as suicide, murder, and terrorist attack. It almost always involves the death of more than one person in a very public manner. When placed alongside cultural questions of gender in suicide, the uneasiness of suicide bombing intensifies, dominated by deeply biased and contradictory interpretations of gender. Guided by Debord's n…
Nowadays you don’t even see your neighbours’: Loneliness in the everyday lives of older Australians
Loneliness is a pressing social issue for older people globally. Despite this, there is a paucity of studies on how older people themselves perceive loneliness and how service providers can support them. This study sought to address the gap using in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 60 older people and eight focus groups with aged care service providers in Australia in 2007. A purposive sampling strategy was employed to incorporate maximu…
Elegantly wasted’: The celebrity deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates
The article discusses the issue of gender in suicide cases, specifically when handled by newsprint media sources. The author looks closely at the media representations of the deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates. The article notes that the coverage of these events did not necessarily draw a distinction between true and false due to the nature and celebrity of the deaths. The author suggests that truth claims represented in these deaths wer…
Suicide and gender: Reading suicide through butler's notion of performativity 1
(2003). Suicide and gender: Reading suicide through butler's notion of performativity1. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 27, Voicing Dissent, pp. 137-146
The author, agency and suicide
In the essay, ‘What is an Author?’, Michel Foucault contends that ‘the author does not precede the works’. If this is the case, then what happens when the notion of the author as never outside discourse is grafted to suicide? What happens when suicide – most commonly defined as a deliberate taking of one's life – is read through the idea that the one who is doing the taking does not precede it? Does this not obliterate agency in suicide: the key …
The Breath of Life and Death
In contemporary Western culture, death is often made separate from life. The dying body is rendered invisible, even though sociocultural performances of death foreshadow and signify death and dying. This article challenges this signifying by arguing that death and dying are constituted performatively through the inscriptive surfaces of living, dying, and dead bodies, rendered visible by breath and breathing. The article begins by reflecting on th…
Suicide and gender: Reading suicide through butler's notion of performativity 1
(2003). Suicide and gender: Reading suicide through butler's notion of performativity1. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 27, Voicing Dissent, pp. 137-146
Elegantly wasted’: The celebrity deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates
The article discusses the issue of gender in suicide cases, specifically when handled by newsprint media sources. The author looks closely at the media representations of the deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates. The article notes that the coverage of these events did not necessarily draw a distinction between true and false due to the nature and celebrity of the deaths. The author suggests that truth claims represented in these deaths wer…
The Male Preserve of Martyrdom”: Representations of Palestinian female suicide bombers in Australian newsprint media
Suicide bombing occupies an uneasy place in relation to suicide in newsprint media. It is often described simultaneously as suicide, murder, and terrorist attack. It almost always involves the death of more than one person in a very public manner. When placed alongside cultural questions of gender in suicide, the uneasiness of suicide bombing intensifies, dominated by deeply biased and contradictory interpretations of gender. Guided by Debord's n…
Nowadays you don’t even see your neighbours’: Loneliness in the everyday lives of older Australians
Loneliness is a pressing social issue for older people globally. Despite this, there is a paucity of studies on how older people themselves perceive loneliness and how service providers can support them. This study sought to address the gap using in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 60 older people and eight focus groups with aged care service providers in Australia in 2007. A purposive sampling strategy was employed to incorporate maximu…
Older men’s participation in community-based men’s sheds programmes: Older men’s participation
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the lived experience of older men taking part in community-based shed programmes. Five men, aged 65 and over, who attended two different community sheds participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews in 2007. Data were analysed thematically with six main themes emerging as follows: 'company of fellas'; 'everybody's got a story to tell'; 'still got some kick'; 'passing on your experienc…
The Gender-Ing of Suicide
The author, agency and suicide
In the essay, ‘What is an Author?’, Michel Foucault contends that ‘the author does not precede the works’. If this is the case, then what happens when the notion of the author as never outside discourse is grafted to suicide? What happens when suicide – most commonly defined as a deliberate taking of one's life – is read through the idea that the one who is doing the taking does not precede it? Does this not obliterate agency in suicide: the key …
Gender, embodiment and place: The gendering of skills shortages in the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries
This article examines skills shortages in the context of the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries. Drawing on Acker’s concept of inequality regimes, we examine gendered and classed bodies in relation to place. We argue that organizations are situated in place, and here, Australian rural places. We also argue that while specific industries are important to the rural economies, these economies are influenced by the gendered…
The methodological crisis of theorising genocide in Africa: Thinking with Agamben and Butler
Theorising African genocide has reached a methodological crisis. This crisis is not only due to the poor understanding of contexts of genocide in Africa. Nor is it only caused by the continual theoretical reliance on Jewish Holocaust studies. This crisis is also due to the lack of analytical attention to how epistemological and theoretical frames might frame theorising African genocide. In response, I argue that it is essential to examine what fr…
The Breath of Life and Death
In contemporary Western culture, death is often made separate from life. The dying body is rendered invisible, even though sociocultural performances of death foreshadow and signify death and dying. This article challenges this signifying by arguing that death and dying are constituted performatively through the inscriptive surfaces of living, dying, and dead bodies, rendered visible by breath and breathing. The article begins by reflecting on th…
Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging
Recent quantitative investigations consistently single out considerable gender variations in the experience of loneliness in Australia, and in particular how men are especially prone to protracted and serious episodes of loneliness. In 2017 the Director of Lifeline implicated loneliness as a significant factor in suicide among Australian men - currently three times the rate of suicide among women. Compared to women men also struggle to talk about…
Towards Ethics of Wonder and Generosity in Critical Suicidology
More than ever before it is clear that suicidology requires a serious re-thinking of its approach to understanding and responding to suicide. This is not simply because disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry and psychology dominate what counts as valid knowledge about suicide. Rather, a serious re-thinking is required because the philosophical roots of suicidology remain taken for granted. This article addresses such a philosophical quandary by…
At the Limits of Suicide: The Bad Timing of the Gift
No matter how hard we try to grasp it fully, something about suicide always remains out of reach or outside of knowledge, unspoken, shrouded by the privacy and singularity of the moment in which someone suicided. How do we, the living, respond to this secret, to this bad timing so to speak? How do we give voice to the unspoken, which ironically is bespoken and embodied the moment it comes to be? In this paper we respond to the secret of suicide b…
Knowledge Is Made for Cutting – An Introduction
This special issue of Social Epistemology represents a departure point from the traditional field of suicidology. Unlike its predecessor, critical suicidology, or more recently, critical suicide studies, consider the scientific framework of research too narrow and argue against universalizing assumptions and applications of ideas about suicide, which often centre on Western notions of psychopathology, and individualist accounts of suicidal agency…
The ethics of facing the Other in suicide
Despite a plethora of existing literature on the topic of suicide, very little attention has been given to research ethics in practice in research on suicide. When suicide research does pay attention to the ethical issues researchers are likely to face, the focus is on the roles institutional human ethics review committees fulfil to ensure ethical conduct in all stages of research. In response to this problem, this article focuses on the philosop…
Reframing Suicide: The Development of Critical Suicide Studies
Culture in practice
Farming Women's Experience of Isolation: Creating Affective Connections Through Material Entanglements
This article contributes new insights into farming women's experiences of isolation and how they imagine and create socio‐spatial formations for affective connections in their socio‐cultural and material environments. We draw on in‐depth interviews with farming women and participatory co‐design research in a sparsely populated region of South Australia to explore gendered experience of isolation. We show that women experienced ‘the farm’ as gener…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Social science (5 works)