Humanities and Social Sciences

Philosophy Program

Staff Profiles

Background

Janna has recently completed a project on historical obligations and is presently doing research on intergenerational justice and global justice. She has written books on global justice, discourse ethics and historical obligations and many and has published articles on other subjects including feminism, environmental ethics and politics, philosophy of the social sciences, and the ethics of war. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Janna has been involved in environmental and other political organizations for many years and her interest and work in applied ethics arises from a conviction that it is important for philosophers to critically assess the values of their society and to participate in debates about important public issues.

Research Interests

• Environmental ethics
• Historical obligations
• Feminist political theory
• Global justice
• Intergenerational justice

Teaching

• environmental ethics
• feminism
• political philosophy

Recent Publications

Books
Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice, Cambridge : Polity, 2002.

Discourse and Knowledge: Defence of a Collectivist Ethics, London, New York : Routledge, 1998.

Justice and World Order: A Philosophical Inquiry, London, New York : Routledge 1992.

Articles and Chapters
'Terrorism, Morality and Right Authority', in Meggle, G., ed., Ethics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (Ontos, 2005), 151-160.

'Human Rights and the Protection of Borders', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 10/1 (2004), 1-14.

'Cultural property, restitution and universal values', Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (2003), 251-262.

'Reasoning about justice in global society', Global Change, Peace and Security '15/3, (2003), 231-244.

'Historical Injustice and Reparation: Justifying Claims of Descendants', Ethics 112 (2001), pp. 114-135.

'Environment As Cultural Heritage', Environmental Ethics 22 (2000), pp. 241-258.