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Thaatchaayini Kananatu is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. Her research focuses on sociolegal studies, law-politics-society intersections, human rights, and criminal justice in the Global South. She holds a PhD from Monash University, an LLM from Oxford Brookes University, and an LLB (Hons) from Cardiff University.
- Education:
- PhD in Arts, Monash University
- LLM in International Law, Oxford Brookes University
- LLB (Hons), Cardiff University
Her research interests include death penalty politics, gender and sexuality justice, legal mobilization, and minority rights. Recent work examines death penalty abolition in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, with contributions to projects like 'Penal pandemic: strengthening future pandemic preparedness in Southeast Asian prisons.'
Her publications span edited volumes such as Minorities, rights and the law in Malaysia (Routledge, 2020) and articles analyzing intersections of law, gender, and socio-political dynamics. She co-edited Gender and sexuality justice in Asia (Springer, 2020) and contributes to Eleos Justice's critical research on capital punishment.
Awards include the 2024 Monash-Warwick Alliance Grant and 2023 Research Talent Accelerator Award. She has advised on projects like 'Drug offences and the death penalty in Malaysia' (2019) with the Monash Anti-Death Penalty Clinic.
