{"id":3916,"date":"2020-01-21T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T04:44:25","slug":"welcome-qut-school-of-justice-dr-alissa-macoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2020\/01\/21\/welcome-qut-school-of-justice-dr-alissa-macoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome &#8211; QUT School of Justice &#8211; Dr Alissa Macoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2020\/01\/dr-alissa-macoun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3917\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2020\/01\/dr-alissa-macoun-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We welcome Dr Alissa Macoun as a Lecturer in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law.<\/p>\n<p>Alissa is interested in the politics of race and contemporary colonialism.\u00a0 Alissa\u2019s work in Australian Indigenous politics and policy explores ways race is used to legitimise colonial approaches, institutions and regimes. She is interested in policy logics, political structures, academic and social knowledge production practices, as well as the connections between these processes. Her work draws on scholarship from public policy, political theory, settler colonial studies, sociology, critical race and critical Indigenous studies.<\/p>\n<p>Alissa was a Lecturer at the School of Political Science and International Studies at University of Queensland from 2015-2019. Although non-Indigenous, she was a Research Fellow for the Australian Research Council\u2019s National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN) based at QUT from 2013 \u2013 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Alissa has a PhD (Political Studies) and BA (Honours, first class) from the University of Queensland. Her PhD thesis explored the political justification of the Commonwealth\u2019s 2007 Intervention in Northern Territory Indigenous communities and won the 2013 APSA PhD Prize.<\/p>\n<p>We have three new staff who have commenced with QUT School of Justice in 2020 and we will be profiling each of them this week.\u00a0 Keep an eye out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We welcome Dr Alissa Macoun as a Lecturer in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law. Alissa is interested in the politics of race and contemporary colonialism.\u00a0 Alissa\u2019s work in Australian Indigenous politics and policy explores ways race is used to legitimise colonial approaches, institutions and regimes. She is interested in policy logics, political structures,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9712],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-staff"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}