Kirsty Duncanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsty Duncanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsty |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncanson |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCANSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6523-3222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Emotional Labour to Affectual Bodies: Moving Towards an ‘Affective Ethnography’ of the Criminal Court Space
Participation in, and attendance at, court often positions people amid a charged emotional environment, where the evidence frequently involves distressing accounts and the stakes of decision-making are high. Research has explored the impact of this environment on various court protagonists. What this research has failed to consider in detail, however, are the ways in which such vectors of emotional reaction, containment and contagion interact and…
Design and ideology: Innovation and the magistrates’ court
In this article, we examine the convergence of design, ideology and practice in three contemporary Australian magistrates’ courts. Using the formative analytical work of Pat Carlen and Doreen McBarnet, we juxtapose the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in Melbourne against Magistrates’ Courts in Brisbane and Perth. Our findings demonstrate the continued centrality of the ‘ideology of triviality’ and the continued reality of the ‘theatre of the absurd’…
The space of justice: Courtrooms, innovation and practice
Narrative, Theatre, and the Disruptive Potential of Jury Directions in Rape Trials
Native” Landscapes, “Cultivated” Gardens and the Erasure of Indigenous Sovereignty in Two Recent Instances of Australian Cinematic Jurisprudence
Although cinema is now commonly recognized as a significant source of knowledge about law, in this article I argue that it is also a space in which law is questioned, rethought and reimagined. Outside the traditional realms of legal philosophy, cinema is a pre-eminent site of jurisprudence. To illustrate this, I examine the recent films The Proposition (2005) and Australia (2009) as they each critique and justify the sovereignty of a specific leg…
The Scene of the Crime: The Uneasy Figuring of Anglo-Australian Sovereignty in the Landscape of Lantana
Throughout European occupation of the Australian landmass there has been a regular figuring across literature, cinema and news media of the landscape as the scene of crime. Women and children disappear into bush, deserts and mysterious rock formations, and men die, ostensibly killed by nothing but the unremitting landscape. These representations parallel the doctrine of terra nullius found in the practices of Anglo-Australian law. The doctrine as…
Embodiments of the English Constitution in the Romanticised Narratives of the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and Four Weddings and a Funeral
(2008). Embodiments of the English Constitution in the Romanticised Narratives of the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 121-147
Entanglement and the Modern Australian Rhythm Method: Lantana’s Lessons in Policing Sexuality and Gender
Film in Australia, as with many other nations, is often seen as an important cultural medium where national stories about belonging and identity can be (re)produced in pleasurable and, at times, complicated ways. One such film is Ray Lawrence’s Lantana. Although striking a chord in Australia as a good film about ‘ basically good people’, people that rang ‘brilliantly’ true (Lantana DVD 2002), this paper argues that, at the same time as it produce…
Entanglement and the Modern Australian Rhythm Method: Lantana’s Lessons in Policing Sexuality and Gender
Film in Australia, as with many other nations, is often seen as an important cultural medium where national stories about belonging and identity can be (re)produced in pleasurable and, at times, complicated ways. One such film is Ray Lawrence’s Lantana. Although striking a chord in Australia as a good film about ‘ basically good people’, people that rang ‘brilliantly’ true (Lantana DVD 2002), this paper argues that, at the same time as it produce…
Embodiments of the English Constitution in the Romanticised Narratives of the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and Four Weddings and a Funeral
(2008). Embodiments of the English Constitution in the Romanticised Narratives of the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 121-147
The Scene of the Crime: The Uneasy Figuring of Anglo-Australian Sovereignty in the Landscape of Lantana
Throughout European occupation of the Australian landmass there has been a regular figuring across literature, cinema and news media of the landscape as the scene of crime. Women and children disappear into bush, deserts and mysterious rock formations, and men die, ostensibly killed by nothing but the unremitting landscape. These representations parallel the doctrine of terra nullius found in the practices of Anglo-Australian law. The doctrine as…
Native” Landscapes, “Cultivated” Gardens and the Erasure of Indigenous Sovereignty in Two Recent Instances of Australian Cinematic Jurisprudence
Although cinema is now commonly recognized as a significant source of knowledge about law, in this article I argue that it is also a space in which law is questioned, rethought and reimagined. Outside the traditional realms of legal philosophy, cinema is a pre-eminent site of jurisprudence. To illustrate this, I examine the recent films The Proposition (2005) and Australia (2009) as they each critique and justify the sovereignty of a specific leg…
Narrative, Theatre, and the Disruptive Potential of Jury Directions in Rape Trials
Design and ideology: Innovation and the magistrates’ court
In this article, we examine the convergence of design, ideology and practice in three contemporary Australian magistrates’ courts. Using the formative analytical work of Pat Carlen and Doreen McBarnet, we juxtapose the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in Melbourne against Magistrates’ Courts in Brisbane and Perth. Our findings demonstrate the continued centrality of the ‘ideology of triviality’ and the continued reality of the ‘theatre of the absurd’…
The space of justice: Courtrooms, innovation and practice
From Emotional Labour to Affectual Bodies: Moving Towards an ‘Affective Ethnography’ of the Criminal Court Space
Participation in, and attendance at, court often positions people amid a charged emotional environment, where the evidence frequently involves distressing accounts and the stakes of decision-making are high. Research has explored the impact of this environment on various court protagonists. What this research has failed to consider in detail, however, are the ways in which such vectors of emotional reaction, containment and contagion interact and…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law in Society and Culture (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Politics (3 works)