Professor Fiona Jenkins
Areas of expertise
- Hermeneutic And Critical Theory 220307
- Feminist Theory 220306
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Cultural Theory 200204
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
- Screen And Media Culture 200212
- Law And Society 180119
- Poststructuralism 220317
- Social Philosophy 220319
- Political Theory And Political Philosophy 160609
Biography
Fiona Jenkins is Professor in the School of Philosophy, RSSS, Australian National University. Her current research covers two projects, one on Judith Butler, which focuses on questions of political legitimacy, violence and non-violence, in post-national frameworks; the other on gender equity and ideas of ‘excellence’ in academic disciplines. She teaches on the Philosophy of Gender, on contemporary French philosophy, and on Nietzsche. She is the Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute.
Publications
- Jenkins, F 2022, 'What have our homes become? Metaphor and metamorphosis in the pandemic lockdown', Law Text Culture, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 188-214.
- Jenkins, F 2021, 'Whoever Are Histories For? Pluralization, Border Thinking and Potential Histories', History and Theory, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 100-117.
- Jenkins, F 2021, 'Care in the Time of Covid', Arena Quarterly, no. No 6 Winter 2021, pp. 39-41.
- Jenkins, F & Smith, J 2021, 'Work-from-home during COVID-19: Accounting for the care economy to build back better', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 22-38.
- Jenkins, F 2020, 'The Ethics of Care: Valuing or Essentialising Women's Work?', in M Sawer, F Jenkins & K Downing (ed.), How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 19-26.
- Sawer, M, Jenkins, F & Downing, K, eds, 2020, How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- Jenkins, F, Sawer, M & Downing, K 2020, 'Introduction: The Gender Lens and Innovation in the Social Sciences', in M Sawer, F Jenkins & K Downing (ed.), How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 3-15.
- Jenkins, F 2019, 'Gendered Innovation in the Social Sciences', in Marian Sawer & Kerryn Baker (ed.), Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge, Springer Nature, Switzerland, pp. 41-61pp.
- Jenkins, F, Keane, H & Donovan, C 2019, 'Introduction: Gendered innovations in the social sciences', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 72, p. 103.
- Jenkins, F, Keane, H & Donovan, C 2019, 'Work (still) in progress: Establishing the value of gendered innovations in the social sciences', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 72, pp. 104-108.
- Jenkins, F 2018, 'Judith Butler and Communication Studies', in Jon F Nussbaum (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford University Press, Online, pp. 1-26.
- Jenkins, F & Jolly, M 2018, '"Gender Trouble: Judith Butler and Anthropology" - The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 2573-2575.
- Jenkins, F 2018, 'Casablanca in Dark Times. The Ethos of Displacement', Arena Journal, Issue 50/51: pp. 71pp-91pp.
- Jenkins, F 2017, 'Discriminating Well: On Excellence in Philosophy and Ways of Seeing Disciplinary Space', Rivista di Estetica, vol. 64, no. 64, pp. 103-117pp..
- Jenkins, F 2015, 'Sensate Democracy and Grievable Life', in Moya Lloyd (ed.), Butler and Ethics, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 118-140.
- Jenkins, F 2015, 'Leadership and Gender: Women's Mandate to Lead', in Jacqueline Boaks and Michael Levine (ed.), Leadership and Ethics, Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, pp. 175-195.
- Jenkins, F & Keane, H 2014, 'Gender and Feminism in the Social Sciences: Equity, Excellence and Knowledge in the Disciplines', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 29, no. 80, pp. 107-114.
- Jenkins, F 2014, 'Epistemic Credibility and Women in Philosophy', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 29, no. 80, pp. 161-170.
- Jenkins, F 2014, 'Pledging allegiance: the strangers inside democracy and citizenship', in Fiona Jenkins, Mark Nolan, Kim Rubenstein (ed.), Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 169-191.
- Jenkins, F, Nolan, M & Rubenstein, K, eds, 2014, Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- Jenkins, F, Nolan, M & Rubenstein, K 2014, 'Introduction: allegiance and identity in a globalised world', in Fiona Jenkins, Mark Nolan, Kim Rubenstein (ed.), Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 1-27.
- Jenkins, F 2014, 'Gendered Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Prestige Factor: How Philosophy Survives Market Rationality', in M Thornton (ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 49-62.
- Jenkins, F 2013, 'Singing the Post-discrimination Blues: Note for a Critique of Academic Meritocracy', in Fiona Jenkins & Katrina Hutchison (ed.), Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 81-102.
- Jenkins, F & Hutchison, K 2013, 'Introduction: Searching for Sofia: Gender and Philosophy in the 21st Century', in Fiona Jenkins & Katrina Hutchison (ed.), Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 1-20.
- Jenkins, F & Hutchison, K, eds, 2013, Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?, Oxford University Press, New York.
- Jenkins, F 2013, 'A sensate critique: Vulnerability and the image in Judith Butler's frames of war', Sub-Stance, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 105-126.
- Jenkins, F 2013, 'Strange Kinships: Embodiment and Belief in J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello', Australian Literary Studies (ALS), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 15-27.
- Ganguly, D & Jenkins, F 2011, 'Limits of the Human', Angelaki, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1-4.
- Jenkins, F 2011, 'SOULS AT THE LIMITS OF THE HUMAN beyond cosmopolitan vision', Angelaki, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 159-172.
- Jenkins, F 2010, 'Judith Butler; Disturbance, Provocation and the Ethics of Non-Violence', Humanities Research, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 23.
- Jenkins, F 2009, 'Queering Foetal Life: Between Butler and Berlant', The Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 30, no. June 2009, pp. 63-85.
- Jenkins, F 2009, 'On the Rationality of Disagreement and Feeling: Brethren, Bombers and the Construction of the Common', in Andrew Schaap (ed.), Law and Agonistic Politics, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, pp. 179-192.
- Jenkins, F 2009, 'Humorous Commitments and Non-Violent Politics: A Response to Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding', Critical Horizons: a journal of philosophy and social theory, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 257-271.
- Jenkins, F 2008, 'Giving an Account of Butler', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 45, pp. 141-148.
- Jenkins, F 2008, 'Forgiving, Given Over, Given Away: A Response to Judith Butler', in Bronwyn Davies (ed.), Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, USA and Abingdon, UK, pp. 39-53.
- Jenkins, F 2007, 'Toward a Nonviolent Ethics: Response to Catherine Mills', Differences, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 157-179.
- Jenkins, F 2007, 'Grief's Testimony: On Almodovar's All About My Mother', Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-7.
- Jenkins, F & Sinnerbrink, R, eds, 2007, Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture vol 4(2): 'Film as Philosophy', 4.2.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Vulnerability and the Imaginary Domain: On Drucilla Cornell's Liberalism and the Philosophy of the Limit', Women's Philosophy Review, no. 33, pp. 8-40.
- Mills, C & Jenkins, F 2004, 'Unassumable Responsibility: New Perspectives on Freedom, Justice and Obligation', Borderlands e-journal, vol. 3, no. 1.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Dialogue in the Aftermath: On good, evil and responsibility after September 11', Borderlands e-journal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-11.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Addressing the Crisis of Meaning: Towards a 'psychotheological' reading of the unconscious', Practical Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 36-44.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Bare-life: asylum-seekers, Australian politics and Agamben's critique of violence', Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 79-95.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Supposing Truth to be a Woman: Nietzsches Liars', in Livio Dobrez, Jan Lloyd Jones, Patricia Dobrez (ed.), An ABC of Lying: Taking Stock in Interesting Times, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 93-107.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Rhetoric, Judgment, and the Art of Surprise in Nietzsches Genealogy', in Paul Bishop (ed.), Nietzsche and Antiquity His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House, New York, USA and Suffolk, UK, pp. 295-309.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Nietzsche', in Jack Reynolds and Jonathan Roffe (ed.), Understanding Derrida, Continuum Publishing Company, London, UK and New York, USA, pp. 142-151.
- Jenkins, F 2004, 'Undecidable Identities and the Power of Decision: A Reply to Janice Richardson', Women's Philosophy Review, vol. 33, pp. 51-56.
- Jenkins, F 2002, 'Plurality, Dialogue and Response: Addressing Vulnerability', Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, vol. 3, pp. 85-97.
- Jenkins, F 2002, 'Philosophical Counselling as Care of the Self: Notes on Foucaults Genealogy of Ethics', in Henning Herrestad, Anders Holt and Helge Svare (ed.), Philosophy in Society, Unipub Forlag, Oslo, Norway, pp. 287-296.
- Jenkins, F 2002, 'Gestures Beyond Tolerance Generosity, Fatality and the Logic of the State', Angelaki, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 119-129.
- Jenkins, F 2001, 'The Heeding of Differences: On Foreclosure and Openness in a Politics of the Performative', Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 364-375.
- Jenkins, F 2001, 'Therapies of Desire and Aesthetics of Existence: On Foucault's Relevance for Philosophical Counselling', Practical Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 15-23.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences (Primary Investigator)
