Joanne Faulkner
| Joanne Faulkner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 April 1972 |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental |
Main interests |
philosophy of sexuality innocence political philosophy |
Joanne Faulkner (born 14 April 1972) is an Australian writer, philosopher and lecturer in Philosophy and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of New South Wales. She is known for her research on Nietzsche's thought and the ethics of innocence.
Biography
Faulkner received her Ph.D. in philosophy from La Trobe University in 2006.[1]
Faulkner is the chair of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy[2] and the vice-president of UNSW Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).[3] In NTEU, she has spoke out against current Australian politics, calling a 2014 budget on that has the "aim to 'keep people in their place.'"[4] She is also a member of the project Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada.[5]
Faulkner's Dead Letters to Nietzsche, Or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy (2010) was reviewed in Parrhesia where the reviewer, Matthew Sharpe, called the book "highly commended."[6]
In her 2011 book, The Importance of Being Innocent, she discusses the concept of innocence in regards to children and feels that it "does not serve their interests well" because the idea of losing innocence is not a real problem.[7] A review by Gender and Education called her book "a thought provoking and wide-ranging consideration of philosophical perspectives on contemporary assumptions about childhood" in the Westernised world, especially in Australia.[8] In The Importance of Being Innocent, Faulkner addresses why she feels that innocence is not a problem: it is because it's a culturally constructed fiction that is used as a "commodity" and a concept that "holds children within constant victimhood."[8] She has also written that attempts to keep children innocent "marginalises middle-class children by separating them from information, from adults other than parents and from a public life to which they might contribute," which she argues is wrong.[9] Faulkner has stated that her interest in exploring innocence came from "the expectations we put on them through being a parent," but that she also is interested in innocence as it applies to political thought and political justifications.[10]
She is an instructor in Krav Maga.
Bibliography
- Faulkner J, 2016, Young and Free: [Post]Colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory, and History in Australia, Rowman and Littlefield.
- Faulkner J; Zolkos, M, 2016, Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity, Lexington Books, London.
- Faulkner J, 2011, The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About Children, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne
- Faulkner J, 2010, Dead Letters to Nietzsche; or, the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy, 1, Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio
- Sharpe M; Faulkner J, 2008, Understanding Psychoanalysis, Acumen, Stocksfield
- Faulkner, J, 2003, "The Body as Text In the Writings of Nietzsche and Freud," Minerva 7:94-124
References
- ↑ "Joanne Faulkner". The Conversation. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ↑ Executive Committee
- ↑ Knobel, Adam (2 May 2014). "Why I'm Involved in My Branch Committee: Joanne Faulkner, UNSW". National Tertiary Education Union. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ↑ Hinman, Pip (28 June 2014). "Union Activists Urge Industrial Action to Beat the Budget". Green Left Weekly. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ↑ "Eugenics Archives". Eugenics Archives. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ↑ Sharpe, Matthew (2011). "Joanne Faulkner, Dead Letters to Nietzsche, Or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy, Ohio University Press, 2010" (PDF). Parrhesia (13): 190–198. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ↑ O'Brien, Susie (14 December 2010). "Author Joanne Faulkner Says Parents Should Get Real on Santa Instead of Lying to Kids". Herald Sun. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- 1 2 Lyttleton-Smith, Jennifer (2012-05-01). "The importance of being innocent: why we worry about children". Gender and Education. 24 (3): 345–346. doi:10.1080/09540253.2012.670393. ISSN 0954-0253. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Faulkner, Joanne (3 January 2011). "Childhood is No Innocent Fixation". The Australian. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ↑ Saunders, Alan (19 March 2011). "The Age of Innocence". The Philosopher's Zone. Archived from the original on 3 February 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2015.