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Dr Katrina Jaworski

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About me

Dr Katrina Jaworski

I'm a social philosopher. My research moves between cultural studies, continental philosophy, gender studies and sociology. I'm deeply passionate about researching the agency of suicide, with a focus on the body, gender, sexuality and/or ethics. My research extends to the philosophy of death and dying bodies, as well as Rwandan genocide, violent extremism, older men and urban private sheds, cultural politics of thinking, women in higher education, and pop-up economies. When not in my current position as an Associate Head of School: Research, I am a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. I love teaching cultural studies because I see the discipline as applied philosophy.

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About me

I'm a social philosopher. My research moves between cultural studies, continental philosophy, gender studies and sociology. I'm deeply passionate about researching the agency of suicide, with a focus on the body, gender, sexuality and/or ethics. My research extends to the philosophy of death and dying bodies, as well as Rwandan genocide, violent extremism, older men and urban private sheds, cultural politics of thinking, women in higher education, and pop-up economies. When not in my current position as an Associate Head of School: Research, I am a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. I love teaching cultural studies because I see the discipline as applied philosophy.

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Professional Associations

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia,Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy,The Australian Sociological Association,Interdisciplinary Network, Inc. University of Oxford, UK
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Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia

  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of South Australia

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Research

Research focus

  • Cultural Studies
  • Public Health and Health Services
  • Social Work
  • Business and Management
  • Communication and Media Studies

Highlights

Suicide and gender,Philosophy of death and dying,Queer youth suicide,Performativity,Feminist philosophies, post-structuralist and postmodernist theories,Visual culture,Cultural politics of violence,Postcolonial thought
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Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

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Books

Year Output
2015

Bryant, L & Jaworski, K 2015, Women supervising and writing doctoral theses: walking on the grass, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, US.

2014

Jaworski, K 2014, The gender of suicide: knowledge production, theory and suicidology, Ashgate, UK.

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Chapters

Year Output
2017

Jaworski, K 2017, '100 days of butchering: (re)presenting the Rwandan genocide 20 years on', in B West (ed.), War memory and commemoration, Routledge, UK, ch. 7, pp. 107-128.

2016

Jaworski, K & Scott, DG 2016, 'Understanding the unfathomable in suicide: poetry, absence, and the corporeal body', in J White et al. (eds), Critical suicidology: transforming suicide research and prevention for the 21st century, University of British Columbia Press, Canada, ch. 11, pp. 209-228.

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2015

Beasley, C & Jaworski, K 2015, 'Passionate activism as academic labor: the emotional body of pedagogical politics', in L Bryant & K Jaworski (eds), Women supervising and writing doctoral theses: walking on the grass, Lexington Books, US, ch. 3, pp. 35-52.

2015

Jaworski, K & Bryant, L 2015, 'Conclusion: walking on the grass 84 years later', in L Bryant & K Jaworski (eds), Women supervising and writing doctoral theses : walking on the grass, Lexington Books, US, ch. 9, pp. 121-135.

2015

Jaworski, K & Bryant, L 2015, 'Introduction: daring to walk on the grass', in L Bryant & K Jaworski (eds), Women supervising and writing doctoral theses : walking on the grass, Lexington Books, US, ch. 1, pp. 1-8.

2015

Jaworski, K 2015, 'Stuck between two languages: the ethics of writing a doctoral dissertation in the English language', in L Bryant & K Jaworski (eds), Women supervising and writing doctoral theses : walking on the grass, Lexington Books, US, ch. 5, pp. 71-84.

2015

Jaworski, K 2015, 'Suicide, agency and the limits of power', in L Broz & D Munster (eds), Suicide and agency: Anthropological perspectives on self-destruction, personhood and power, Ashgate, US, ch. 10 , pp. 183 - 201.

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2013

Jaworski, K & Broz, L 2013, 'Reframing the self and agency in suicide: a composite theoretical approach', in M Kulp, N Korteling & K McKay (eds), Searching for the words: How can we tell our stories of suicide?, Inter-Disciplinary Press, UK, ch. 10, pp. 1-10.

2013

Jaworski, K & Scott, D 2013, 'Understanding the unfathomable in suicide: poetry, absence and the corporeal body', in M Kulp, N Korteling & K McKay (eds), Searching for the words: how can we tell our stories of suicide?, Inter-Disciplinary Press, UK, ch. 13.

2013

Jaworski, K 2013, 'Reframing the mad intentions of those who suicide', in G Araoz, F Alves & K Jaworski (eds), Rethinking madness: interdisciplinary and multicultural reflections, Inter-Disciplinary Press, UK, ch. 6, pp. 111-127.

2013

Jaworski, K 2013, 'Standing at the edge of the abyss: ethics of vulnerability, love and forgiveness', in H Goodman, BV Russo & J Zózimo (eds), Beyond These Walls: Confronting Madness in Society, Literature and Art, 2, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, UK, ch. 18, pp. 189-196.

2012

Alves, F, Jaworski, K & Butler, S 2012, 'Introduction: madness in plural contexts', in F Alves, K Jaworski & S Butler (eds), Madness in plural contexts: crossing borders, linking knowledge, Inter-Disciplinary Press, UK, pp. vii-xi.

2012

Jaworski, K 2012, ''What it means to see': reading gender in medical examinations of suicide', in T Rudge & D Holmes (eds), Abjectly boundless: boundaries, bodies and health work, Taylor & Francis, UK, ch. 3, pp. 50-65.

2012

Jaworski, K 2012, 'The 'Mad' intentions of those who suicide', in F Alves, K Jaworski & S Butler (eds), Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge, Inter-Disciplinary Press, UK, pp. 31-41.

2012

Jaworski, K 2012, 'The visibility of difference: gender and suicide in psy-knowledge', in G Araoz (ed.), Mad/sad/bad : philosophical, political, poetic and artistic reflections on the history of madness, 1, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 105-116.

2010

Jaworski, K 2010, 'What it means to see : reading gender in medical examinations of suicide', in T Rudge & D Holmes (ed.), Abjectly boundless : boundaries, bodies and health work, Ashgate, UK, ch. 3, pp. 49-65.

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Journal Articles

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2019

Franklin, A, Neves, BB, Hookway, N, Patulny, R, Tranter, B & Jaworski, K 2019, 'Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging', Journal of sociology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 124-143.

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2019

Hjelmeland, H, Jaworski, K, Knizek, BL & Marsh, I 2019, 'Problematic advice from suicide prevention experts', Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 79-85.

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2016

Deuter, K & Jaworski, K 2016, 'Assuming vulnerability: ethical considerations in a multiple-case study with older suicide attempters', Research Ethics, vol. 3, pp. 1-12.

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2016

Deuter, K, Procter, N, Evans, D & Jaworski, K 2016, 'Suicide in older people: revisioning new approaches', International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 144-150.

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2016

Jaworski, K 2016, 'Divorcing suicidology, ethically', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 18-25.

2014

Jaworski, K 2014, 'The breath of life and death', Cultural Critique, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 65-91.

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2012

Bryant, L & Jaworski, K 2012, 'Minding the gaps: examining skill shortages in Australian rural non-agricultural workplaces', Journal of Management and Organization, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 499-515.

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2012

Jaworski, K 2012, 'The methodological crisis of theorising African genocide : thinking with Agamben and Butler', African Identities, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 349-365.

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2011

Bryant, L & Jaworski, K 2011, 'Gender, embodiment and place: The gendering of skills shortages in the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries', Human Relations, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 1345-1367.

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2010

Jaworski, K 2010, 'The author, agency and suicide', Social Identities, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 675-687.

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2010

Jaworski, K 2010, 'The gender-ing of suicide', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 25, no. 63, pp. 47-61.

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Jaworski, K 2010, 'The male preserve of martyrdom', Feminist Media Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 119-133.

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2010

Ormsby, JL, Stanley, MJ & Jaworski, K 2010, 'Older men's participation in community-based men's sheds programmes', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 607-613.

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Stanley, M, Moyle, W, Ballantyne, A, Jaworski, K, Corlis, M, Oxlade, D, Stoll, A & Young, B 2010, 'Nowadays you don't even see your neighbours: loneliness in the everyday lives of older Australians', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 407-414.

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2008

Jaworski, K 2008, ''Don't you know how to speak English properly?': language and writing in the production of a doctoral dissertation', Journal of Educational Enquiry, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 38-50.

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2008

Jaworski, K 2008, ''Elegantly Wasted': The celebrity deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 777-791.

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Current research & highlights

Suicide and gender,Philosophy of death and dying,Queer youth suicide,Performativity,Feminist philosophies, post-structuralist and postmodernist theories,Visual culture,Cultural politics of violence,Postcolonial thought
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Collaborations

Organisation Country
Canterbury Christ Church University UNITED KINGDOM
Griffith University AUSTRALIA
Helping Hand Aged Care AUSTRALIA
Norwegian University of Science and Technology NORWAY
RSL Care AUSTRALIA
Southern Cross Care (SA) AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania AUSTRALIA
University of Victoria CANADA
University of Wollongong AUSTRALIA
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Engagement/recognition Year

Member

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

2017

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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy

2017

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The Australian Sociological Association

2017

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Interdisciplinary Network, Inc. University of Oxford, United Kingdom

2017

Member, Ethics Health Advisory Council

Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia (with SA Health)

2017

Member, Ethics Health Advisory Council

Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia (with SA Health)

2016

Member, Ethics Health Advisory Council

Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia (with SA Health)

2015

Member, Ethics Health Advisory Council

Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia (with SA Health)

2014
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Highlights

Cultural Studies,Cultural and Social Theory,Qualitative Research Methodologies,Cultural Geography,Cultural Politics
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Courses and programs

Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • HUMS 3048 Space, Place and Culture (2020)
  • HUMS 3048 Space, Place and Culture (2019)
  • HUMS 3048 Space, Place and Culture (2018)
  • HUMS 3050 Researching Culture (2020)
  • HUMS 3050 Researching Culture (2018)
  • HUMS 3049 Power and Resistance: 1900 - Present (2020)
  • HUMS 3049 Power and Resistance: 1900 - Present (2018)
  • HUMS 2037 Everyday Cultures Now and Then (2018)
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Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title Student status
Discourses of health in the vegan movement Current
Sound-pressure-intensities: creative and technical responses to the South Australian acoustic environment Current
The agency of waste Current
The matter of dead bodies: ineffability, grief and multimodal printed literature Current
The question of jihadism: a critique of Eurocentric reason Current
You're not one of those vegans, are you? veganism, identity and cultural belonging Current
Attempted suicide in older people: within and between the meaning of protection Completed
Smearing ash on the wall: the ineffable, violence and trauma in graphic narratives of war Completed
Spatial stories: mythologising Pacific young men in Australia’s print media Completed
The concealed debate: a feminist exploration of childhood sexual abuse and its perceived role in the aetiology and maintenance of eating disorders in women Completed
The framing of the agency of India's reproductive subjects Completed
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