Rate My Professor Sonia Tascon

Dr Sonia Tascon is a Lecturer in Communications in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, at Curtin University. She coordinates units such as COMS1003 Culture to Cultures, including in Semester 1 2023 and Semester 2 2025 at the Bentley Perth campus. Tascon is associated with the university's Centre for Human Rights Education, where she has presented seminars and participated in events, including a mini-symposium in 2015 on human rights storytelling and racial justice. Her professional email is s.tascon@curtin.edu.au.

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.