Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology Annual Report 2012

Introduction

The Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology was formally established in 2001 and commenced activities in 2002. It is closely aligned with the international critical theory and historical sociology journal of the same title, published by Sage, London. The journal is now in its 30th year of operation. Initially known as the Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, the centre changed its name as of 17 December 2007. The broad horizon of cultural sociology is a more accurate indicator of what the Centre actually does in its operations. Critical theory is a major source and tradition for us, but cultural sociology is a more expansive description of what we do and where we are heading.

We are pleased to present the 10th Annual Report.

Peter Beilharz responding to Mexican artist, Cuauhtemoc Medina, at the Adelaide International Arts Festival, in March.

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Objectives

The Centre has nine main aims, as set out in its constitution: 1. To encourage the development and application of social and political theory throughout the world through publishing and presenting material in printed and electronic form and through delivering educational workshops, forums and conferences;

2. To facilitate international exchanges of internationally recognized scholars in the field of social and political theory;

3. To attract overseas students to enroll in the Faculty’s postgraduate programs in the field of social and political theory;

4. To encourage local postgraduate research culture and scholarly research in the field of social and political theory;

5. To promote Thesis Eleven as an international journal of social and political theory;

6. To significantly expand the opportunities for research in the field of social and political theory;

7. To promote the teaching and research activities of members of staff of the university in the field of social and political theory;

8. To promote the training of postgraduates in research in the field of social and political theory;

9. To do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above aims.

Membership

How the Centre works: The Centre focuses on organizing four kinds of events: 1. Annual and public lectures by leading and renowned intellectuals and scholars, both here and overseas;

2. Full day seminars on the work and thought of such intellectuals with them present and working in conversation with a range of local interlocutors and discussants of their work;

3. Half day seminars on particular themes with invited speakers;

4. Symposia and colloquia in other cities either connected to the work of the journal or to international social theory and social science conferences.

The Centre has four fields of operation:

- local Bundoora and City campuses;

regional especially Mildura Campus;

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national (Curtin, Murdoch and University of Western Australia in Perth; Flinders University in Adelaide); and

international (spanning four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and North America but also the island nation-state, New Zealand).

In all cases we are pro-active, working through our own international and national professional and intellectual networks, minimizing overheads and resources and maximizing local-global connections and networks, and ensuring intensive face-to-face encounters.

The co-ordinating editors of the journal, Thesis Eleven: Professor Peter Beilharz and Dr Trevor Hogan are the founding Director and Deputy Director of this Centre, respectively. As such, they are also Chair and Deputy Chair of the Board of Management.

Ordinary Members of the Centre who are also on the Board of Management, appointed by the Dean of the Faculty, include the Dean himself, Professor Tim Murray, as well as Professor John Carroll, Dr Stefan Auer, and Dr Anthony Moran.

Student Members are Darrell Bennetts, Christine Ellem, Edwin Wise, Julian Potter, Harry Paternoster, Andrew Gilbert, Joseph Salazar, Tim Andrews and Yanhang Cai.

Associate Members are Professor Simon Marginson (University of Melbourne), Professor Peter Murphy (James Cook University), Professor David Roberts (Monash), Dr. Eduardo de la Fuente (Flinders), Dr. Sian Supski (Monash), Dr. Tom Heenan (Monash), Professor Anthony Elliott (UniSA), Professor Terri-Ann White (UWA), Dr Suzi Adams (Flinders), Dr Priti Singh (Jawalharlal Nehru University, Delhi) and Professor Sambuddha Sen, Professor Sumanyu Satpathy, Dr Brinda Bose, Dr Ira Raja, and Dr Udaya Kumar (all of Delhi U); Dr Mark Davis (Leeds); Professor Peter Vale (Johannesburg); Professor Anders Michelson (Copenhagen), Dr Divya Anand (Boston).

Honorary Members are Professor Stuart McIntyre (Melbourne), Professor Jeffrey Alexander (Yale), Professor Joanna Bourke (London), Professor Craig Calhoun (LSE), Dr Luis David SJ (Ateneo de Manila), Professor Alastair Davidson, Professor Maria Pia Lara (Mexico City), Professor Emeritus George Markus (Sydney), Dr Maria Markus (Sydney), Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Canberra), Professor Peter Newman (Curtin, Fremantle), Professor George Ritzer (Maryland), Professor Emeritus Bernard Smith (Melbourne), Professor Keith Tester (Hull), Professor Philippa Mein-Smith (Christchurch), Professor George Steinmetz (Michigan), Professor Ron Jacobs (Albany, NY), Professor Eleanor Townsley (Mount Holyoke) and Dr Peter Thomas (Brunel).

Administration

The Centre is a small operation with big ambitions. It runs on the entrepreneurial imaginations of its Directors and their colleagues in the journal. It depends on the support of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the goodwill of academic and general staff in the Sociology and Anthropology program in the School

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of Social Sciences. In particular we record our thanks to the initiative, drive and support of Val Jorgandzijoski and Trish King (who administer the Centre’s account) and both the School’s team of administrative staff Bronwyn Bardsley, Amanda Dunn and Lisa Hunter; as well as the Faculty’s administrative staff Deb Hewitt, Jane Schleiger, Alex Yang and Stella Pecova.

The Centre depends on the goodwill and work of both the Faculty of Humanities and the School of Social Sciences. It also piggybacks on the resources of the journal and in particular of the work of the four Production Assistants during this period, Suzi Adams (January–August 2002) and Karl Smith (September 2002–July 2007), and Christine Ellem (July 2007–2011), Andrew Gilbert (2012) and Julian Potter (2012–). The Directors of the Centre report regularly to the Editors’ meetings of the journal and we are particularly grateful to our colleagues on the editorial team who are always imaginative, good humoured, generous-spirited and hard working.

This year is the third year of the Centre affiliated to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with its own budget. We give thanks to the generous support of Tim Brown, Deputy Vice Chancellor-Research, and Tim Murray, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Many of the following Centre activities were financially supported by the Dean’s budget allocation. We are grateful for Professor Murray’s ongoing support and enthusiasm.

We also wish to take this opportunity to express and record our appreciation and thanks for the enthusiasm and support of Professor John Dewar, the Vice Chancellor, and Professor Judith Brett, Head of the School of Social Sciences, respectively. We thank both the Faculty and the School for their consistent administrative, financial, and intellectual support and interest.

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2012: The Year in Review

Bundoora:

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr Ira Raja, Department of English, Delhi University

See below for list of 2012 publications. 

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2 April

Masterclass with Professor Charles Lemert and Professor Anthony Elliott:

Disposable Lives: Explorations In New IndividualismThis Seminar is about a central animating feature of the global electronic economy - the items thrown away, products designated as junk, and the disposal of things once valued and now assessed as worthless, by denizens of our new individualist age. In a world of short-term contracts, endless downsizings, just-in-time deliveries, global electronic offshorings and mutliple careers, it is not just goods and services however that go the way of a disposability logic. Disposability, so Elliott and Lemert contend, goes all the way down into the very fabric of lived experience and personal identity today. The Seminar traces the twists and turns of disposability according to the principal themes of Elliott and Lemert's new individualist thesis - which places self-reinvention, instant change, social acceleration and short-termism at the centre of social analysis. A faith in discarding, dismantling and disposability, Elliott and Lemert argue, brings with it a strenuously self-affirmative identity in the short-term but is one that carries immense emotional and environmental costs in the longer term.

5 April

Thesis Eleven Workshop: 

Michael Hubbard: Blues Guitar, From The Delta To Chicago And BeyondBlues music was transformed by electricity, by the process of the Great Migration from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago. Individuals like McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) personified this transformation; from acoustic to resonator to Telecaster and Stratocaster, a Gibson or Guild along the way. For this special Thesis Eleven Centre Event Michael Hubbard will play and demonstrate styles and techniques from across this period and further, in conversation with Peter Beilharz (who in an earlier life played with Michael’s father, David, later of Captain Matchbox).

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18 July

Thesis Eleven Symposium:

State Formation in the Antipodes – South Africa, Australia, New ZealandThis day seminar brings together scholars working on different aspects of state formation across the antipodes and South Africa. Speakers will be presenting work-in-progress. We will be looking to identify the specific differences as well as similarities across these different but related times and places. How do these particular experiences play out, and what is the role of cultural traffic between these actors and institutions?

10 am – Darrell Bennetts, La Trobe University, ‘The Fragility of Middle Class Settlement – Reeves’ State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand’ 11 am – Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne, ‘Building Jerusalem in Australia’s Brown and Pleasant Land – Postwar Reconstruction as a New Order’ 12 pm – Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University, ‘Australian State Socialism and American Progressivism’ 1 pm – Lunch 2 pm – Peter Beilharz, Chris Ellem, Trevor Hogan, La Trobe University,  ‘Social Laboratories, State Experiments, Cities and Utopias’ (short papers) 3 pm – Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney, ‘The Racial Basis of Colonial State Formation in Australia’ 4 pm – Peter Vale, University of Johannesburg, ‘A View from South Africa’ Discussion and close

19-22 July

Mildura Writers’ Festival:

Antipodean Perspectives – Peter Vale, a prominent South African public intellectual and journalist, who held the Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics at Rhodes University, joins the Thesis Eleven Centre from La Trobe University in an innovative presentation on the patterns of everyday life. Peter Vale will be joined by Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan, Neil Fettling, Sian Supski and Christine Ellem in a wide-ranging and provocative look at the daily lives of Australians.

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27 July

Thesis Eleven Centre Annual Lecture: Dr Peter Thomas, Brunel UniversityHegemony and the Modern Prince: Gramsci and radical politics todayPeter Thomas teaches the History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London. He is the author of The Gramscian Moment. Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Brill/Haymarket, 2009), and has translated the work of Antonio Negri, Slavoj Zizek and Mario Tronti, among others. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, and co-editor of the Historical Materialism Book Series. He is currently working on a political and theoretical history of contemporary Western European Marxisms, from 1945 to the present.

Masterclass with Dr Peter Thomas

The Gramscian Moment

8 August

Launch of Antipodean Perspectives

Launch at the Co-op Bookshop by La Trobe University Vice Chancellor, Professor John Dewar.

12-13 October

Thesis Eleven Masterclass

Social and Political Theory Masterclass – Practising Theory:Practising theory: presentations by Sociology, Politics and GSD staff members, including Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan, Carol D’Cruz, Miriam Bankovsky: ‘What is

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Enlightenment?’ Classical and contemporary modern debates – Kant, Horkheimer, Foucault, Habermas, Derrida.

Presentations by postgraduates to follow. Conclusions and lessons to be drawn – a summary session led by La Trobe Teaching & Learning specialists. This was an extremely successful and well attended event, combining the energies of students, staff and T&L.

23 November

Round table session on social stratification and inequality in Japan and AustraliaThe School of Social Sciences and the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology hosted a visit of three distinguished social scientists based in the Global Center of Excellence for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/gcoewiki/en/wiki.cgi). The session consisted of a three-hour round table discussion session with visiting Professors Yoshimichi Sato (Global COE Director, sociology), Yuichi Akinaga (educational sociology) and Ichiro Numazaki (cultural anthropology).

Participants from La Trobe University included:

1. Ms Julie Andrews, Aboriginal Studies and Anthropology2. Mr Andrew Butt, Community Planning3. Dr Edgar Burns, Sociology4. Dr Andrew Harvey, Head, Access and Achievement Research Unit 5. Dr Xianbi Huang, Sociology6. Dr Anthony Moran, Sociology 7. Professor Kaori Okano, Japanese Studies and educational sociology8. Dr Ramon Spaaij, Senior Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences9. Dr Raelene Wilding, Sociology

Meeting Convenors:Professor Peter Beilharz, Sociology, and Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural SociologyDr Trevor Hogan, Sociology, and Deputy Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural SociologyProfessor Emeritus Yoshio Sugimoto, Sociology, La Trobe

30 November

Masterclass with Professor Loïc Wacquant:

Taking Bourdieu Down in the Hole: Social Theory Hits the StreetsLoïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the 2008 Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association, his research spans urban relegation, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, embodiment, and social theory and the politics of reason. His books are translated in 20 languages and include the trilogy Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008), Punishing the Poor: The

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Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of the Penal State (2013), as well as The Two Faces of the Ghetto (2013). For more information, see loicwacquant.net.

Public Lecture with Professor Loïc Wacquant:Marginality, Sovereignty and the Penal State Across Five Centuries

Shared by Thesis 11 and The University of Melbourne

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Activities of the Directors:

We are delighted that the emergent confederation or network of research centres in social theory, historical sociology, and cultural studies continued to develop. The links established are with Yale, Ateneo, Leeds, Copenhagen, Delhi, and Johannesburg. The proceedings of the Festival of Ideas (held in 2011) were published in the Thesis Eleven journal, issues 112 and 113. We have held events in South Africa, 2013 and will co-host a major event in Leeds in 2014. Journal issues will result from these events. The journal will now operate as a journal of centres, a world first.

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The Directors have also continued to collaborate on our research projects. This year we published with Clinton Walker a long two part article on the Australian recording industry in Thesis Eleven journal (see below for publication details).

We continue to work on our own chapters for the book on Jean Martin and the Social Sciences in Australia.

With Christine Ellem as Production Assistant we worked on the 2nd edition of our book Sociology: Place, Time and Division which we completed by the end of 2011. It was published in June, 2012. It has a new sub-title, Antipodean Perspectives, 35 new chapters with most of the rest of the retained chapters from the first edition also being revised, 4 new photo essays, and a range of new images, and the introduction and conclusion essays and the glossary have been re-written. It was launched by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Dewar. This book is now being used as a model for OUP Southern Africa text development.

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Peter Beilharz

2012 was another busy year, maintaining and developing intellectual and local links and keeping up the cultural traffic through La Trobe. In February Peter Beilharz met with Waldemar Bulira, Polish translator of Agnes Heller. In March he participated in the Adelaide Festival with Cuauhtemoc Medina and Nikos Papastergiardis. May took him to Canberra to launch Geoff Gray’s Scholars at War and to join in the ANU seminar on the theme. In June Peter visited the University of Canterbury at Christchurch to act as Program Reviewer for Sociology, and meet with Philippa Mein-Smith. In July he had planning meetings with Peter Vale (Johannesburg) and Peter Thomas (Brunel, Historical Materialism). August took Peter to the USA for the Annual Proceedings of the American Sociological Association in Denver. He convened a special session on utopia, and delivered a paper revisiting his 1992 book Labour’s Utopias. He met with George Ritzer, Gary Fine, Salvatore Babones, Jonathan VanAntwerpen and Chris Rojek. As part of his ongoing collaboration with Sage he contributed to two entries to the Sage Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Peter travelled on to New Haven for meetings with Jeff Alexander, and to Leeds for planning meetings and a Masterclass with the Bauman Institute, meeting with Keith Tester, Mark Davis and Zygmunt Bauman. In November he had a planning meeting with Simon Tormey from the University of Sydney, hosted Loïc Wacquant and met with Wacquant and Ghassan Hage. He met across the year with Trevor Hogan and Sheila Shaver to work on the Jean Martin biography project.

Trevor Hogan

After a year of intensive travel, event organising and hosting in 2011, my main energies in 2012 were directed to consolidating these achievements of the centre in 2011 to ensure publication outcomes. First, with Beilharz and Ellem, I worked on the publication the 2nd edition of Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives OUP, Melbourne in June, 2012. As implied by the new subtitle, the 2nd edition was a radical revision of the original book first published in 2006; it includes new introductory and concluding arguments by the editors and features 35 new authors and 22 new chapters with 4 new photographic essays as well - was launched by our Vice Chancellor, Professor John Dewar in August and put to work for the first time in our first year sociology subject, ‘Australia and Beyond’, 2nd semester, 2012. The book was also featured in our workshop on ‘Antipodean Perspectives’ at the annual Mildura Writers Festival, July, 2012. Peter Beilharz and I led the workshop and readings from the book were presented by Professor Peter Vale (University of Johannesburg, Dr Sian Supski, Monash University, and Christine Ellem, postgraduate, Sociology, La Trobe University and Thesis Eleven journal Editorial Assistant). I also edited the special themed issues of Thesis Eleven emanating from our Festival of Ideas on popular print and visual cultures hosted in June, 2011: 112 ‘Manila’s Urbanism and Philippine Visual Cultures’ (#112, October, 2012) and with co-editor, Dr Ira Raja, ‘Popular Media Cultures in India’ (#113, December, 2012).

2012 also witnessed the publication of several papers in Thesis Eleven (#109, April and # 110, June) on our Australian Rock music history project. Of particular significance for us are the 3 articles by the Centre Directors that we co-authored with Clinton Walker, the Centre’s Honorary Research Fellow, and Australia’s leading

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freelance popular cultural historian.

I gave a short paper ‘on new world capital cities’ at the all-day Thesis Eleven Centre research seminar on ‘State Formation in the Antipodes: South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,’ 18 July, that featured Professor Peter Vale, (Johannesburg University, South Africa); Professor Stuart MacIntyre (History, University of Melbourne), Professor Ann Curthoys (History, University of Sydney), and our own team of Darrell Bennetts, Peter Beilharz, and Christine Ellem. It was also a pleasure to witness the successes of two of our outstanding doctoral researchers, Joseph Salazar and Divya Anand. Salazar completed his doctorate in September (and graduated in May, 2013), before returning to Manila to re-commence his lectureship in the Department of Filipino Studies, Ateneo de Manila University. Anand, returned from her current home in Boston, USA to attend the FHUSS graduation ceremony, in October. I made brief visits to Singapore (January and June) and Manila (January).

Research

Publications:

Peter Beilharz

Books (Edited)Sociology – Antipodean Perspectives, edited with Trevor Hogan, OUP. Over a third of the book entirely new: 35 new authors; 22 new chapters.

Chapters2012 ‘Antipodean Mapping’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

2012, ‘The Sixties and Seventies’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

2012 (with Trevor Hogan) ‘The Peculiar Path of Australian Modernity’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

2012 (with Trevor Hogan) ‘The Australian Settlement in the New Century’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

Journal articles2012 ‘Bernard Smith 1916-2011. Marxism and Politics’, ArtMonthly, June: 68.

2012 ‘Rock Lobster – Lobby Loyde and the History of Rock Music in Australia’, Thesis Eleven, No 109, April: 64-70.

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2012 (with Clinton J. Walker and Peter Beilharz) Rock ‘n’ Labels: Tracking the Australian Recording Industry in ‘The Vinyl Age’. Part Two: 1970-1995, and After’ Thesis Eleven, 110, June: 112-131.

2012 (with Clinton J. Walker and Peter Beilharz) ‘Rock ‘n’ Labels: Tracking the Australian Recording Industry in ‘The Vinyl Age. Part One: 1945-1970’ Thesis Eleven, 109, April: 71-88.

Trevor Hogan

Books (Edited) 2012 Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition. Over a third of the book entirely new: 35 new authors; 22 new chapters.

Chapters in Books2012 ‘Australian Cities’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition. 2012 ‘Southeast Asian Cities’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

2012 (with Peter Beilharz) ‘The Peculiar Path of Australian Modernity’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

2012 (with Peter Beilharz) ‘The Australian Settlement in the New Century’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

2012 (with Christine Ellem) ‘Papua New Guinea and Australia’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

2012 (with Terri-Ann White) ‘Perth’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

Articles (refereed journals)2012 (with Ira Raja) ‘Media and Mediated Popular Cultures in India: new exploratory essays on visual and print cultures’ Thesis Eleven, 113, December: 3-10.2012 ‘Manila’s Urbanism and Philippine Visual Cultures’ Thesis Eleven, 112, October: 3-9.

2012 (with Peter Murphy) ‘Discordant Order: Manila’s Neo-Patrimonial Urbanism’ Thesis Eleven, 112, October: 10-34

2012 (with Caleb J. Hogan) ‘Gates and Borders: a photo essay of Manila’s privatising urbanism’ Thesis Eleven, 112, October: 35-50.

2012 (with Clinton J. Walker and Peter Beilharz) Rock ‘n’ Labels: Tracking the Australian Recording Industry in ‘The Vinyl Age’. Part Two: 1970-1995, and After’ Thesis Eleven, 110, June: 112-131.

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2012 (with Clinton J. Walker and Peter Beilharz) ‘Rock ‘n’ Labels: Tracking the Australian Recording Industry in ‘The Vinyl Age. Part One: 1945-1970’ Thesis Eleven, 109, April: 71-88.

2012 (with Tim Bunnell, C. P. Pow, Eka Permanasari, and Morshidi Sirat) ‘Asian Urbanisms and the Privatization of Cities: between regional synthesis and the serial replication of case studies’ Cities. 29:1, February: 59-63.

Notes and Discussion (in refereed journal)2012 ‘Writing Oz Pop an insider’s account of Australian popular culture making and historiography: An interview with Clinton J Walker by Trevor Hogan and Peter Beilharz’ Thesis Eleven, 109, April: 89-114.

Ira Raja

Book Chapters‘Conrad’s Chinese: Orientalism, Eurocentrism, Racism’, co-authored with Terry Collits, Joseph Conrad and the Orient, ed. Amar Acheraiou and Nursel Icoz, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, vol.21 – East European Monographs, Boulder; Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, Lublin, 2012, pp. 239-262.

‘Australia and India’, co-authored with Phillip Darby, Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives, ed. Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan, South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 187-192.

Journal Articles ‘The Unruly City: Signboards, Streets and Democratic Spaces’, with Ken Botnick, Thesis Eleven: Cultural Theory and Historical Sociology 113 (2012): 94-111.

 ‘New Literatures: The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka’, The Year’s Work in English Studies, 91.1 (2012): 1025-1034.

Guest Edited Special Journal Issues‘Editorial: Media and Mediated Popular Cultures in India’, special issue of Thesis Eleven: Cultural Theory and Historical Sociology, 113 (2012): 3-11, co-edited with Trevor Hogan.

Reviews Review of Nandini Chatterjee’s The Making of a Secular India: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830–1960 in Contemporary South Asia 20.2 (2012): 276-277.

Conference Presentations6 Nov 2012 ‘Narrating Age, Narrating Nation: A Reading of K.B. Vaid’s ‘Our Old Woman’, American Theater Research Association conference, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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Publications by other Centre Associates:

Book ChaptersWalker, Clinton. 2012 ‘Before the Big Bang: What was the first Australian rock'n'roll record?’ in Meanjin anthology, Sally Heath (ed.) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Walker, Clinton. 2012 ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Music’ in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives. Edited with Peter Beilharz. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition.

Supski, Sian. 2012, ‘Kitchens’, in Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press. (Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan, eds.).

Articles (refereed journal)Walker, Clinton. 2012 (with Trevor Hogan and Peter Beilharz) Rock ‘n’ Labels: Tracking the Australian Recording Industry in ‘The Vinyl Age’. Part Two: 1970-1995, and After’ Thesis Eleven, 110, June: 112-131.

Walker, Clinton. 2012 (with Trevor Hogan and Peter Beilharz) ‘Rock ‘n’ Labels: Tracking the Australian Recording Industry in ‘The Vinyl Age. Part One: 1945-1970’ Thesis Eleven, 109, April: 71-88.

Occasional Paper:Walker, Clinton. 2012 Platform Paper #32: History is Made at NIght - LIve Music in Australia, Sydney: Currency House.

PhD Research (current)

Current Ph.D. supervisions: Peter Beilharz

Co-Supervisor (with Trevor Hogan):

Timothy Andrews ‘Theorising everyday life in late modernity’ (commenced June, 2011, due to submit December, 2014).

Darrell Bennetts ‘Public Intellectuals and Social Democracy in New Zealand’ (2005-; suspended, due to submit December, 2013)

Yanhang Cai ‘George Simmel as social theorist’ (commenced March, 2011)

Christine Ellem ‘Utopias in Australia and New Zealand’ (commenced February, 2007; suspended, due to submit December, 2014)

Harry Paternoster ‘Marxist theories of Social Class’ (commenced March, 2011).

Julian Potter ‘Faust and Technological Modernity’ (commenced January, 2011).

Joseph Salazar ‘'Rewriting Pigafetta's Feast: Nationalism, Class and Culture in Philippine Cuisine' (commenced July, 2009-2012; submitted, August, 2012)

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Edwin Wise: ‘Between Exposure and Fracture in Metro Manila: a historical and social inquiry into the built forms and urban experience of an archipelagic megacity’ (commenced February, 2007; suspended, February, 2011; second draft submitted, May, 2013)

Co-Supervisor (with John Carroll)

Mark Scillio ‘Work and Life’ (commenced 2009)

Co-Supervisor (with Anthony Moran)

Tim Hamilton ‘Race Relations in the antipodes’ (commenced 2010)

Mark Mallman ‘The Costs of Downward mobility’ (commenced 2011)

Co-Supervisor (with History)

Andrew Self ‘Social movements in Latin America’ (commenced 2009)

Co-Supervisor (with John Tebbutt and Trevor Hogan)

Estelle Ladrido: ‘Filipino Among Filipinos: Investigating How Transnational Television Participates In National Identity Construction’ (commenced June, 2010 -; first draft nearly completed, June, 2013)

Current Ph.D. supervisions: Trevor Hogan

Doctorate (Principal Supervisor):

Joseph Salazar ‘'Rewriting Pigafetta's Feast: Nationalism, Class and Culture in Philippine Cuisine' (commenced July, 2009-2012; submitted, August, 2012)

Andrew Butt ‘Place-making in regional Australian towns’ (commenced, January, 2012, due to submit December, 2014).

Rangsan Prathumwan ‘Contemporary Christianity and Consumerism’ (commenced March, 2011).

Angela Serrano: ‘The Sources of Solidarity in the Philippine Officer Corps, Philippine Defence Forces’, Manila, (commenced June, 2010, first draft submitted April, 2013)

Marby Villaceran ‘Philippine Women in the Australian Diaspora: Writing their own experiences and the art of creative storytelling’ (commenced July, 2010, due to submit, June, 2014)

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Trevor Wilson ‘Islamism and Modernity’ (commenced March, 2009; second draft submitted December, 2012)

Edwin Wise: ‘Between Exposure and Fracture in Metro Manila: a historical and social inquiry into the built forms and urban experience of an archipelagic megacity’ (commenced February, 2007; suspended, February, 2011; second draft submitted, May, 2013)

Co-Supervisor (with Peter Beilharz):

Timothy Andrews ‘Theorising everyday life in late modernity’ (commenced June, 2011, due to submit December, 2014).

Darrell Bennetts: “Public Intellectuals and Social Democracy in New Zealand” (2005-; suspended, due to submit December, 2013)

Yanhang Cai: ‘George Simmel as social theorist’ (commenced March, 2011)

Christine Ellem: ‘Utopias in Australia and New Zealand’ (commenced February, 2007; suspended, due to submit December, 2014)

Harry Paternoster: ‘Marxist theories of Social Class’ (commenced March, 2011).

Julian Potter ‘Faust and Technological Modernity’ (commenced January, 2011).

Co-Supervisor (with John Carroll)

Scott Doidge ‘The Bourgeois Ideal Type; German and American Middle class critique’ (commenced March, 2010).

Co-Supervisor (with Julie Rudner, Trevor Budge)

Rangajeewa Gungamuwage ‘Urban Crime and Violence and Planning for Safe Urban environments in South Asian Cities’ (commenced June, 2010).

Co-Supervisor (with Trevor Budge)

Medha Gunawardana ‘Climate-Change and Planning Regimes in Sri Lanka’ (commenced, October, 2011)

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Co-Supervisor (with Helen Lee)

Skilty Labastilla ‘Transition from Youth to Adulthood by Males in Informal Settlements in Davao City, Mindanao’. (February, 2008; suspended; due to submit, December, 2013 ).

Co-Supervisor (with Nonie Neumark)

Gary Devilles ‘Mapping contemporary urbanisms and urban plans in Manila and Mexico City’ (commenced February, 2012).

Co-Supervisor (with John Tebbutt and Peter Beilharz)

Estelle Ladrido: ‘Filipino Among Filipinos: Investigating How Transnational Television Participates In National Identity Construction’ (commenced June, 2010 -; first draft nearly completed, June, 2013)

Co-Supervisor (with Susan Martin):

Divya Anand: ‘Re-narrating De-natured Landscapes: an eco-critical comparison of contemporary Indian and Australian writings on nature and environmental politics’ (2006-;2009; 2010; submitted early 2012, awarded October, 2012)

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Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology Annual Lectures

2002 Bernard Smith

2003 Gyorgy Markus

2004 Tessa Morris-Suzuki

2005 Joanna Bourke

2006 Maria Pia Lara

2007 Stuart Macintyre

2008 Alastair Davidson

2009 Philippa Mein Smith

2010 George Steinmetz

2011 Ron Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley

2012 Peter Thomas

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Peter Beilharz, Director. Email: p.beilharz@latrobe.edu.au

Trevor Hogan, Deputy DirectorEmail: t.hogan@latrobe.edu.au

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Julian Potter, Production and Editorial AssistantEmail: j.potter@latrobe.edu.au

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