Rate My Professor Sonia Tascon

Tascon's research focuses on human rights, film festivals, critical whiteness, representation ethics, and social work decolonisation. Her key publication is the book Human rights film festivals: Activism in context (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), detailed in her Curtin staff profile, which examines festival evolution from 1997 to 2014, addressing desaparecidos, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism through chapters on festival presences, history, politics, activism, and the gaze. She co-authored Human Rights and Critical Whiteness: Whose Humanity? with Jim Ife (2008), exploring whiteness in human rights frameworks. Tascon co-edited Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work with Jim Ife (Routledge, 2022), targeting white epistemologies for decolonisation in social work. Additional works include Considering Human Rights Films, Representation, and Ethics: Whose Face? (2012) and the chapter Precarity in a Time of Fire and Pandemic (2023) in Living with Precariousness. Previously Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, her scholarship impacts film spectatorship, refugee narratives, border politics, and activist media, fostering critical discourse in humanities and social inquiry.