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ItemAustralia’s ‘Asian Century’: Time, Space and Public Culture(Japan Focus, 2015-02-10)In this essay we consider ongoing public-cultural discussions about Australia’s situation in ‘the Asian century’ as symptomatic of a conjunctural moment in Australian social life: a historical phase that is given distinctive shape by the convergence of the discourses of paranoid nationalism and free-market (inter)nationalism. We argue that the co-existence of these two (deeply contradictory) imaginaries as the dominant available rubrics for configuring ‘Australia’ and ‘Asia’ in relation to each other results in a profoundly impoverished understanding of current conditions. We propose that an account of some very differently configured relationships between ‘Asia’ and ‘Australia,’ drawn from people’s material experiences of everyday cultural life, can provide resources for those interested in thinking beyond the hyperbole of economic opportunism and the paralysis of paranoid nationalism. We begin by briefly considering ostensibly progressive innovations in governmental and public-cultural framings of the Asia-Australia relationship since the late twentieth century–– ‘Asia as market’ and ‘Asia literacy’––before turning to some stories that we argue offer much richer resources. These stories include our remembered experiences of late 20th-century Australian children’s media––always-already infused with a certain Japanese flavor. We also consider the contemporary translocal experiences of Asian Australians, Chinese international students in Australian cities, and Asian-Australian media and research collaborations. Such phenomena, we argue, constitute Australian social life as translocal and inter-cultural, thereby fundamentally challenging the presumed radical separateness of ‘Australia’ from ‘Asia’ on which currently dominant framings of Australia’s situation in the ‘Asian century’ are founded.
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ItemNew Media in Singapore’s Creative Economy: The Regulation of Illiberal Pragmatism(Routledge, 2016-01-05)This Handbook addresses the historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, artistic and economic dimensions of the region’s new media.
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ItemInvestigating Wellbeing Outcomes: The Melbourne Recital Centre(The University of Melbourne, 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableChinese & Indian Australians: queer, here and in need of Safe Schools(O L Society Limited, 2016)
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ItemArts and Cultural Precincts in the Age of Participation(Asian Urban Lab, 2016)
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ItemMulticulturalism and Governance: Evaluating Arts Policies and Engaging Cultural Citizenship: 4 Year Project Report(Research Unit for Public Cultures, The University of Melbourne, 2015)
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ItemConnecting Audiences: A Manual for Large Screens(The Research Unit in Public Cultures, The University of Melbourne in association with Federation Square, Art Center Nabi & Australia Council, 2015-06)
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ItemRegulating Queer Domesticity in the Neoliberal Diaspora(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2015)
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ItemAdvertising and sustainability(Routledge, 2015-05-01)Moving away from negative portrayals of sustainability, this book identifies the factors that motivate people to aspire towards sustainable living.
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ItemNew Approaches to Cultural Measurement: On Cultural Value, Cultural Participation and Cultural Diversity(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-09-30)But how useful are all these measures? Are they helping us to keep track of what matters? What opportunities exist to contest, refine or democratise these systems of measurement?