Biography summary
Jana Norman is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education and the School of Communication and Creative Arts. Jana's interdisciplinary research traces the effects of nature-culture dualism in law and the humanities.
Jana is the author of Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene (Routledge), which won the Socio-Legal Studies Theory and History Book Prize in 2022 and the Chris Beasley Prize for Gender and Sexuality Theory in 2021. Jana is a senior editor for the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and a member of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia and the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture - Australia & New Zealand.
Research interests
posthumanism and new materialisms
socio-legal theory
cultural studies approaches to the environment, place and belonging
environmental humanities
extractivism and social imaginaries
critical ecological feminism
gender and the environment
Knowledge areas
environmental humanities; legal theory; the Anthropocene in law and the humanities; critical ecological feminism; posthumanism and new materialisms
Professional activities
Research groups
Research for Rural and Regional Change
Projects
Alfred Deakin Postodoctoral Fellowship: 'Mapping Shadows of the Bight': New methodologies for collaborative futures (with Professor Emily Potter).
Publications
You'll Want to Live Here: An intersectional analysis from someone who doesn't
Jana Norman
(2023), pp. 1-7, The Saltbush Review, Adelaide, S.Aust., JO3
Saltfish: Ecologies of Creative Practice
Stephen Muecke, Stephen Muecke, Jennifer Eadie, Jennifer Eadie, Alessandro Antonello, Alessandro Antonello, Tully Barnett, Tully Barnett, Jana Norman, Jana Norman, Amy Matthews, Amy Matthews, Stephen Zagala, Stephen Zagala
(2022), pp. 1-1, Sydney Review of Books, Sydney, N.S.W., JO3
Posthuman legal subjectivity: Reimagining the human in the anthropocene
J Norman
(2021), London, Eng., A1
Still lives: A beautiful science
L Harrop, J Norman
(2021), Vol. 12, pp. 69-69, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Cheltenham, Eng., C1
J Norman
(2021), Vol. 12, pp. 77-99, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Cheltenham, Eng., C1-1
Emerging perspectives on the freedom to choose: two pathways out of individualism
Jana Norman
(2021), Vol. 8, pp. 85-99, Agathon: A Journal of Ethics and Value in the Modern World, Palermo, Italy, C1
Introducing the cosmic person: An ecocentric legal subject
J Norman
(2018), Vol. 43, pp. 126-130, Alternative Law Journal, London, Eng., C1
Public Nuisance Claims in Climate Change Litigation: How Useful Are They?
Jana Norman
(2018), Vol. 7, pp. 195-202, Property Law Review, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report