Sana Nakata
Biographic Data
| ID | 475403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sana Nakata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sana |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakata |
| SIGNATURE | NAKATA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6344-0554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mobile relations and temporal politics: Navigating the case for Indigenous nationhood and the ethos of the open society
Recent years have witnessed growing interest in Indigenous philosophies focused on deep ontological and epistemological relationships between Indigenous peoples and their lands, seas, and environments. These relationships transcend traditional temporal orderings—linear sequencing of past, present and future—and challenge possessive notions of ownership that characterize the logic of the modern state. Such statist assumptions of fixity and possess…
Thinking with Children: Climate Change and the Democratic Politics of Renewal and Risk
Climate change poses serious political challenges to liberal democracies arising from the problem of short-termism and the priority accorded to the vested interests of present adults over the vulnerabilities of children and future generations. This article aims to analyse the justifications, benefits, and policy implications of centring children in climate change politics in order to overcome these problems. The central argument is that ‘thinking…
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are integrated into child protection and out-of-home care (OOHC) systems via the connection element of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP). This article focuses on cultural connection in Australian child protection and OOHC systems over time, from its inception to its contemporary use to improve health and wellbeing and ameliorate cultural disconnection. An e…
Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Indigenous family life in Australia: A history of difference and deficit
Indigenous family life has been a key target of family and child policies in Australia since colonisation. In this paper, we identify four main policy eras that have shaped the national and state policy frameworks that have impacted Indigenous families: the protectionism, assimilation, self‐determination and neoliberalism eras. Our analysis of these national and state policy frameworks reveals an enduring and negative conceptualisation of Indigen…
The figure of the child in democratic politics
New collaborations in old institutional spaces: Setting a new research agenda to transform Indigenous-settler relations
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people navigate the social and political order of the Australian settler state in ways that seek to increase their personal freedoms and political autonomy. For some groups this means seeking a firmer place within the social, political and economic life of Australia, and for others it means navigating away, towards a more distant relationship based in the resurgence of Indigenous nationhood. This navigation i…
The Re‐Making of Nation and Indigenous Australian Children
Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy: The politics of becoming adult
Debates about children’s rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and political status of the child within it. This book examines children’s rights and citizenship in the USA, UK and Australia and analyses the policy, law and sociology that govern the transition from childhood to adulthood. By examining existing debates on childhood citizen…
Elizabeth Eckford's Appearance at Little Rock: The Possibility of Children's Political Agency
In 1957, Hannah Arendt argued against the legally enforced desegregation of public schools in the American South. She argued that African Americans had mistaken schools and education for a site of political debate, when they properly belonged to a social realm instead. This article disagrees and reconsiders Arendt's separation between the social and political realms. Arendt also took exception to the role Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old, played …
Friends in Life and Death
Elizabeth Eckford's Appearance at Little Rock: The Possibility of Children's Political Agency
In 1957, Hannah Arendt argued against the legally enforced desegregation of public schools in the American South. She argued that African Americans had mistaken schools and education for a site of political debate, when they properly belonged to a social realm instead. This article disagrees and reconsiders Arendt's separation between the social and political realms. Arendt also took exception to the role Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old, played …
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are integrated into child protection and out-of-home care (OOHC) systems via the connection element of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP). This article focuses on cultural connection in Australian child protection and OOHC systems over time, from its inception to its contemporary use to improve health and wellbeing and ameliorate cultural disconnection. An e…
New collaborations in old institutional spaces: Setting a new research agenda to transform Indigenous-settler relations
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people navigate the social and political order of the Australian settler state in ways that seek to increase their personal freedoms and political autonomy. For some groups this means seeking a firmer place within the social, political and economic life of Australia, and for others it means navigating away, towards a more distant relationship based in the resurgence of Indigenous nationhood. This navigation i…
The figure of the child in democratic politics
Indigenous family life in Australia: A history of difference and deficit
Indigenous family life has been a key target of family and child policies in Australia since colonisation. In this paper, we identify four main policy eras that have shaped the national and state policy frameworks that have impacted Indigenous families: the protectionism, assimilation, self‐determination and neoliberalism eras. Our analysis of these national and state policy frameworks reveals an enduring and negative conceptualisation of Indigen…
The Re‐Making of Nation and Indigenous Australian Children
Friends in Life and Death
Elizabeth Eckford's Appearance at Little Rock: The Possibility of Children's Political Agency
In 1957, Hannah Arendt argued against the legally enforced desegregation of public schools in the American South. She argued that African Americans had mistaken schools and education for a site of political debate, when they properly belonged to a social realm instead. This article disagrees and reconsiders Arendt's separation between the social and political realms. Arendt also took exception to the role Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old, played …
Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy: The politics of becoming adult
Debates about children’s rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and political status of the child within it. This book examines children’s rights and citizenship in the USA, UK and Australia and analyses the policy, law and sociology that govern the transition from childhood to adulthood. By examining existing debates on childhood citizen…
The Re‐Making of Nation and Indigenous Australian Children
New collaborations in old institutional spaces: Setting a new research agenda to transform Indigenous-settler relations
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people navigate the social and political order of the Australian settler state in ways that seek to increase their personal freedoms and political autonomy. For some groups this means seeking a firmer place within the social, political and economic life of Australia, and for others it means navigating away, towards a more distant relationship based in the resurgence of Indigenous nationhood. This navigation i…
Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Indigenous family life in Australia: A history of difference and deficit
Indigenous family life has been a key target of family and child policies in Australia since colonisation. In this paper, we identify four main policy eras that have shaped the national and state policy frameworks that have impacted Indigenous families: the protectionism, assimilation, self‐determination and neoliberalism eras. Our analysis of these national and state policy frameworks reveals an enduring and negative conceptualisation of Indigen…
The figure of the child in democratic politics
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are integrated into child protection and out-of-home care (OOHC) systems via the connection element of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP). This article focuses on cultural connection in Australian child protection and OOHC systems over time, from its inception to its contemporary use to improve health and wellbeing and ameliorate cultural disconnection. An e…
Thinking with Children: Climate Change and the Democratic Politics of Renewal and Risk
Climate change poses serious political challenges to liberal democracies arising from the problem of short-termism and the priority accorded to the vested interests of present adults over the vulnerabilities of children and future generations. This article aims to analyse the justifications, benefits, and policy implications of centring children in climate change politics in order to overcome these problems. The central argument is that ‘thinking…
Mobile relations and temporal politics: Navigating the case for Indigenous nationhood and the ethos of the open society
Recent years have witnessed growing interest in Indigenous philosophies focused on deep ontological and epistemological relationships between Indigenous peoples and their lands, seas, and environments. These relationships transcend traditional temporal orderings—linear sequencing of past, present and future—and challenge possessive notions of ownership that characterize the logic of the modern state. Such statist assumptions of fixity and possess…
Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)