Centre for Post-colonial and Globalisation Studies people
Professor Pal Ahluwalia
Director
Pal Ahluwalia is the Director of the Centre for
Post-Colonial Studies and also the Pro Vice Chancellor of the Division of
Education, Arts and Social Sciences.
His main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of African studies
and social and cultural theory, in particular post-colonial theory and the
processes of diaspora, exile, migration, and the complexities of identity
formation. His work is internationally renowned for breaking down
disciplinary boundaries and challenging orthodoxy. He is currently working
on a book titled Out of Africa: post-structuralism's colonial roots, to be
published by Routledge in 2009. He is the editor of three Routledge
journals: Social Identities, African Identities and Sikh Formations. He is a
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor
Elspeth Probyn
Director
Elspeth Probyn is a newly appointed Research SA Chair at the University of
South Australia, where she is co-director of the Centre for Post-Colonial
and Globalisation Studies in the Hawke Research Institute. She has taught
media and cultural studies as well as sociology, literature and gender
studies in the USA and Canada. She is the editor of Emotion, Society &
Space and has published widely on questions of identity, belonging,
emotions and place. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of
Humanities and has held several prestigious appointments including the
Mellon Distinguished Scholar.
Professor Alan Mayne
Deputy Director
Alan Mayne has a Research SA Chair at the University of South
Australia, and is Professor of Social History and Social Policy in the
Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. He also
holds a Visiting Professorial Fellowship in the Centre for the Study of Law
and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His core interests revolve
around sustainable communities in urban and rural society. His publications
include Fever, squalor and vice (Brisbane, 1982), The imagined
slum (Leicester, 1993), The archaeology of urban landscapes (with
Tim Murray, Cambridge, 2001), Hill End: an historic Australian goldfields
landscape (Melbourne, 2003), Eureka: reappraising an Australian
legend (Perth, 2006), Beyond the black stump: histories of outback
Australia (Adelaide, 2008), and Building the village: a history of
Australia's Bendigo Bank (Adelaide, 2008).
Dr Gilbert Caluya
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Gilbert recently submitted his PhD, Terror's Territories: Fear, politics and everyday space with the Gender and Cultural Studies Department, University of Sydney where he has taught postcolonialism and critical race theory, feminism and queer studies and cultural theory. He has several published journal articles on race, sexuality, affect and space. His current research interests include everyday fear, the politics of intimacy and online gaming.
Dr Lisa McDonald
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Lisa McDonald joins the Centre for Post-colonial Studies after recent lecturing
appointments in the Discipline of Media and the Centre for Learning and
Professional Development at the University of Adelaide. She has an enduring
association with UniSA, having spent a number of years teaching in the
School of Communication in the areas of communication studies and cultural
studies, with recent experience in the school's offshore program. Her
doctorate explored the cultural life of fertility science, an idea which has
segued into a broader interest in relations between the humanities and the
biological sciences. Current research considers recent advances in 'emergent
science', such as in the area of regenerative skin technologies, and what
these could extend in philosophies of the body. In the Centre for
Post-colonial Studies she has been engaged to consider the interplay of
multiple views and voices of ethnic communities 'online', working amid the
generative chaos of electronic infusions in everyday life. Her art practice
is situated within photo arts and digital media areas, but spillage is good.
Robert Lee
Research Associate
Dr Ian Goodwin-Smith
Affiliate
Ian Goodwin-Smith comes to the Centre for Post-colonial Studies with a
long-standing belief in the utility of postcolonial theory as a political
tool. For Ian, post-colonial theory
offers a chance for a meaningful and progressive engagement and agency that
reclaims the important political referents of structure and identity. It is through post-colonial theory that Ian thinks on the progressive
Left side of the ideas debate, and it is through a progressive Left
orientation that Ian thinks through post-colonial theory. Overall that thought process is one of charting new theoretical
directions for progressive politics and social policy. But that's not an abstract process: as Ian says, 'if you're not
talking to policy, you might as well pack up and go home'.
Dr David McInerney
Affiliate
David is currently a lecturer in UniSA's Foundation Studies program while
completing his book on James Mill for publication later this year. David has
also been an editor (and later, associate editor) of borderlands e-journal
since 2003, and he has recently joined the advisory board of the new
e-journal Sextures. David's interests include the relations between debates
on 'Oriental despotism' and political struggles in Britain and France in the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and he has also been involved in
the resurgence in interest in the work of Louis Althusser in the
English-speaking world over the last decade, including editing a special
issue of borderlands e-journal on Althusser. David is currently organizing a
panel commemorating 50 years since the publication of Althusser's first book
for the seventh triennial Rethinking Marxism gala conference at the
University of Massachusetts this November.
Dr Ben Golder
Affiliate
Ben Golder is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of NSW, with an interest in legal theory and post-structuralist philosophy. He has written several articles on Foucault and is, with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick, the author and editor, respectively, of Foucault's Law (Routledge 2009) and Foucault and Law (Forthcoming 2010). b.golder@unsw.edu.au
Dr Katrina Jaworski
Affiliate
Katrina Jaworski is a Research Fellow at the School of Health Sciences. Katrina was awarded a PhD for her thesis The gender of suicide which received the Ian Davey Research Thesis Prize for the most outstanding thesis in 2007. The dissertation questions how knowledge about suicide becomes knowledge through the lens of gender. Race and sexuality were also examined as further conditions for understanding gender in suicide. Katrina's research interests are diverse, working with researchers at Health Sciences as well as Hawke Research Institute. Such work often includes crossing disciplinary boundaries. Her research interests revolve around death and dying, and suicide in particular, gender and bodies as well as issues related to health, space and visual culture.