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Dr Jamal Barnes

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

Current teaching

  • CRI3109 - International Human Rights
  • CRI3120 - Aboriginal Australians in the Criminal Justice System
  • CRI3301 - Criminology and Justice Practicum Placement

Background

Jamal is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Justice and the coordinator for the Criminology and Justice Practicum Program. He specialises in human rights and international relations, with a specific focus on torture and inhuman treatment, migration and refugee issues, and international human rights norms and laws. Jamal is the author of the book, A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo (Routledge), which traces a history of the torture taboo from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Research areas and interests

  • Human rights
  • Torture and Inhuman Treatment
  • Detention Conditions
  • Asylum seekers and refugees
  • Migration
  • International norms and law

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

2025

Journal Articles

2024

Book Chapters

  • Barnes, J., Aston, J., Naser, M., Afroz, T. (2024). UDHR and Modern Slavery: Exploring the Vulnerability Approach to Address Migrants’ Slavery-Like Situations. Human Rights after 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Reflections from the Global South (473–491). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004517967_024.

2023

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

2022

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. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/630.

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, 35(4), 1508-1529. 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.

2021

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.

2019

Journal Articles

2018

Journal Articles

  • 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.
  • 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.

2017

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.

2016

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

2013

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

Current Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Living with Multi-Stigma:The Role of Chosen Families in Supporting the Psychosocial Well-being and Sexual Health of Rainbow Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Australia

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Navigating Masculinity Construction Among the Fathers of the Nation: Applying Yin-Yang and Wen-Wu Chinese Masculinities to U.S. Presidential Leadership in Global Health Emergencies for Global Harmony

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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