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Dr Jamal Barnes

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5464
Email: j.barnes@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO4.205  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-8302

Jamal is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current teaching

  • CRI1107 The Criminal Justice Process
  • CRI3109 International Human Rights
  • CRI3120 Aboriginal Australians in the Criminal Justice System.

Background

Jamal received his PhD in Politics and International Studies from Murdoch University. He has taught at the University of Western Australia, Murdoch University and the University of Notre Dame.

Research areas and interests

Jamal’s research focuses on human rights, torture and detention, international security, counter-terrorism, and refugees/migration. He is the author of the book, A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo (Routledge 2017).

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University, 2014.
  • Bachelor of Arts in Security, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Murdoch University, 2010.
  • Bachelor of Legal Studies in Criminology, Murdoch University, 2009.
  • Bachelor of Arts in Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University, 2009.

Research Outputs

Book Chapters

  • Barnes, J. (2023). Diplomatic Assurances and Re-Writing the 'Rules of the Game'. Contesting Torture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (167-185). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343445-12.
  • Barnes, J. (2023). Love and Hospitality: Love, Refugees, and Challenging Indifference. Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? (27-38). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_3.

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

  • Barnes, J. (2022). Vulnerability and Resistance in Australian Immigration Detention. Migrant Australia: From Botany Bay to Manus Island (53-66). WVT scientific publishing house.

Journal Articles

  • Barnes, J. (2022). Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea. Review of International Studies, 48(3), 441-460. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210522000110.
  • Barnes, J. (2022). Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres. Journal of Refugee Studies, 2022(article in press), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feac041.
  • Barnes, J., Makinda, SM. (2022). Testing the limits of international society? Trust, AUKUS and Indo-Pacific security. International Affairs, 98(4), 1307–1325. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac111.

Journal Articles

  • Barnes, J., Makinda, S. (2021). A threat to cosmopolitan duties? How COVID-19 has been used as a tool to undermine refugee rights. International Affairs, 97(6), 1671-1689. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab156.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

  • Barnes, J., Baldino, D. (2018). A network maritime security approach to intelligence sharing in the IOR. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 14(3), 315-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2018.1519298.
  • Baldino, D., Barnes, J. (2018). Strange bedfellows: Australia, Iran and the dilemma of torture-tainted information sharing. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64(4), 608-623. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12515.

Books

Book Chapters

  • Barnes, J., Lucas, K. (2017). Interrupting Engagement with Online Extremist Content: Utilising ‘Noisy’ Foreign Fighters. Terrorists' Use of the Internet: Assessment and Response (279-289). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-765-8-279.

Book Chapters

  • Barnes, J., Baldino, D. (2016). Foreign policy: old alliances, new problems and the retreat of soft power. From Abbott to Turnbull a new direction?: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2013-2016 (173-195). Echo Books.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

Research Projects

  • Migrant and transnational identity-formation: German and Australian responses to migration and asylum seekers in the media and public discourse, Edith Cowan University, Australia-Germany JRC Scheme (UA-DAAD), 2018 ‑ 2020, $18,000.
  • Digital Preservation and Documentation of Australia's Migrant Cultural Heritage, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), 2018 ‑ 2019, $19,000.
  • International Collaboration with Swansea University in the Field of Cyberterrorism for Research Cooperation and Student Exchange, Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme – 2017 Round 2, 2018 ‑ 2019, $8,395.
  • Australian counter-terrorism cooperation with states that torture, Edith Cowan University, ECU Early Career Researcher Grant - 2018, 2018 ‑ 2019, $13,700.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Fathers of Nation: Masculinity Construction of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the Ebola Outbreak and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The War Machine and the Primitive Societies: The Role of Contemporary AfPak Pashtun Anglophone Writings in the Context of Genre, Memory and Narrative Empathy

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Everyday ethics and storytelling after terrorism: Collaborative ethnographies exploring intersubjective identities through anthropology, victim/survivor studies and communication and cultural studies
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