The politics of anti-politics: everydayness, virtual reality, media/new media

• Areas of expertise
• Current research projects
• Selected recent publications
• Postgraduate research

Areas of expertise

• The interaction of commercial and cultural processes in sport
• Technological innovation in media organizations
• The political implications of new technologies for society
• Political communication and culture
• Theory and history of the social sciences
• Network society
• Anthropology of the garden and landscape theory
• Rethinking "the international" with particular reference to the Third World
• Alternative political source materials, such as literature and the writing on spatiality.
• Contemporary social and cultural theory
• The politics of the gift
• The importance of everyday life and the politics that flow from it

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Current research projects

The Paichusuo (the Chinese police station): how governments construct private lives.
Chief Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Michael Dutton

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Selected recent publications

Book chapters

Timothy Marjoribanks & Ann Capling, "Transforming governance: football clubs in the AFL", in B. Stewart, R. Hess & M. Nicholson (eds.), Football fever: Grassroots (2004).

Timothy Marjoribanks, “Strategising technological innovation: the case of News Corporation" in Media organization and production (London: Sage, 2003), pp.59-75.

Journal articles

Bernice Bovenkerk, "Is smog democratic? Environmental justice in the risk society", Melbourne Journal of Politics, 29 (2004), pp. 24-39.

Peter Chen, “Advocating online censorship”, Australian Journal of Public Administration. 62 (2003), pp. 43-64.

Michael Crozier, “Simultanagnosia, sense of place and the garden idea”, Thesis Eleven. 74 (2003), pp. 76-89.

Phillip Darby, “Reconfiguring "the international": knowledge machines, boudnaries, and exclusions”, Alternatives. 28 (2003), pp. 141-166.

Michael Dutton, "Mango Mao: infections of the sacred", Public Culture, 16(2) 2004, pp. 161-188.

Michael Dutton, "The Mao® industry", Current History, 103(674) 2004, pp. 268-272.

Robyn Eckersley, "Ecocentric discourses: problems and future prospects for nature advocacy", Tamkang Review, 34(4) 2004, pp. 155-186.

Karen Farquharson, Timothy Marjoribanks, “Transforming the Springboks: re-imagining the South African nation through sport”, Social Dynamics. 39 (2003), pp. 44-61.

Winsome Roberts, “Reading the people’s stories: tales of trial and toil and Australia’s federal republic”, Journal of Australian Studies. 79 (2003), pp. 95-103.

Conference papers

Jo Barraket & Millsom Henry-Waring, "'Everybody's doing it': examining the impacts of online dating", The Australian Sociological Association Conference, (University of Sydney/TASA, 2004).

Michael Crozier, "Theatres of innovation: political communication and contemporary public policy", Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004, (APSA/University of Adelaide, 2004).

Karen Farquharson & Tim Marjoribanks, ”Representing Australia: race, gender and nation in Australian cricket”, Placing race and localising whiteness, (Flinders University, 2003).

Tim Marjoribanks & Andrew Kenyon, "Regulating news: standards and competence in contemporary media practice", The Australian Sociological Association Conference, (University of Sydney/TASA, 2004).

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Postgraduate research

PhD

Jacky Angus: Islam and the state in globalising Egypt: the case of Al-Ahram Weekly. (Supervisors: Michael Crozier, Tim Marjoribanks, Abdullah Saeed (MIALS))

Adam Berryman: Islam and immigration in Europe. (Supervisor: Philomena Murray)

Adam Driver: Colonialism in a land of semi-colonialism: the afterlife of Japanese Manchuria within northeast China as exception. (Supervisors: Michael Dutton, John Cash (Social Theory))

Ian Duncanson: Law, the English subject and the empire.(Supervisor: Phillip Darby)

Devika Goonewardene: International relations and postcolonialism in South Asia. (Supervisor: Phillip Darby)

Yue Li: Cultural/media transmission in China after the reform of economic system. (Supervisor: Michael Dutton)

Rheya Linden: Caring about bodies, caring about suffering: the emergence and role of a feminist caring ethic within the Australian animal liberation movement. (Supervisor: Sheila Jeffreys)

Ayalew Mergia: Indigenous African immigrants in Australia: an exploratory analysis of the impacts of class and race on their lived experiences and adaptation processes. (Supervisor: Verity Burgmann)

Simon Obendorf: Postcolonising "The International" re-reading, a statist discourse in global terms. (Supervisor: Phillip Darby)

Sandra Rudland: Literary and legal narratives of sovereign subjectivity. (Supervisor: Judith Grbich)

Craig Smith: Antimonies of emancipation: Political philosophy and psychoanalysis. (Supervisor: Michael Dutton)

Vicki Swinbank: A feminist analysis of cooking/food preparation and food production. (Supervisors: Verity Burgmann & Martha MacIntyre (Centre for Women's Health))

Che Tibby: The national cell: multiple identity and the (ostensibly) post-colonial state.(Supervisors: Robyn Eckersley & Paul James (RMIT))

Vicki Turner: The growth of religion and civil society in China. (Supervisor: Michael Dutton)

Dong Dong Wu: Culture and commodification: Antique collection in contemporary Chinese societies. (Supervisor: Michael Dutton)

Vyvyan Rose: Computers, culture and cyberspace. (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks)

MA

Matthew Belleghem: Microchip microstates: an analysis of sovereignty, information technology and data havens. (Supervisor: Peter Chen)

Jessica Brennan: Politics of democracy and sovereignity. (Supervisor: Michael Dutton)

Jeannette Granfar: Dissemination and semi-nation: commonplaces of nation and narrative frustration of friend and foe. (Supervisor: Michael Dutton)

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