Institute for Culture and Society

2018-19 Institute for Culture and Society ANNUAL REVIEW 2018-19 ANNUAL REVIEW

Compiled and edited by: Abhishek Kashyap Contributors: Danielle Aiken, Elise Blight, Tulika Dubey, Terence Fairclough, Michelle Kelly, Lilly Moody, Yinghua Yu and Flora Zhong © 2020 Western Sydney University ISBN 978-1-74108-407-8 This Annual Review is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISBN: 978-1-74108-471-9 DOI: 10.4225/35/5b289b2dbbf7e http://doi.org/10.4225/35/5b289b2dbbf7e

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION Director’s Foreword 5 Manifesto 8 Strategic Initiatives 10 Research Programs 11

FOUNDATIONAL ESSAY Researching Algorithmic Institutions 14

RESEARCH Research Director’s Report 23 Research Staff Activity 25 Research Projects 44 Publications 47 Books by Institute Authors 54

ENGAGEMENT Engagement Director’s Report 59

RESEARCH TRAINING HDR Director’s Report 62 HDR 2018 Graduates 63 HDR Candidates and Dissertation Topics 64 HDR Workshop Program 66 HDR Stepping Stone Series Program 67

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ICS Director’s Foreword

The Institute for Culture and The Institute has for a number of years has become increasingly rationalised. now, addressed the question of knowledge This can be a positive process. However, Society (ICS) is one of those rare as one of a number of core concerns. This by being increasingly enacted through research bodies that has taken is named in our manifesto (see below). one-dimensional techniques of abstract questions concerning knowledge But there, complex and abiding issues are accounting, from measuring risk to setting up as foundational to its work. We condensed into one simple sentence: ‘A key calibrated mechanisms for assessing research are interested in changes in concern for the Institute is to address the performance, it has come to dominate why increasingly problematic and uncertain status we do things. Like all research institutes, knowledge formation, production, of knowledge in the contemporary world as a we now tentatively welcome performativity communication, translation, consequence of the increasing complexity of measures, especially when they tell us that and governance — in summary, culture and society, including the rise of digital we are getting ‘better’ at what we do. The in understanding how changes technologies.’ Given its consequence, it is Institute for Culture and Society has moved in knowledge practices affect worth elaborating this a little. from half of our core fields of research in 2015 — cultural studies, human geography, social life. Here, the interwoven Our concern with knowledge-practices is part sociology, and communications — registering concepts of ‘knowledge as of a larger emphasis on what we call ‘engaged as ‘above world standard’ to all of our core practice’ and ‘culture as the research’. For research to make an engaged fields now being in this category. ICS research domain of meaning’ are knitted difference, we suggest that the integrity of teams were the basis of two out of the three into the fabric of our work. It knowledge practices needs to be addressed projects that registered at the highest level for directly and in a principled way,1 rather Western Sydney University in the latest ARC names our annual Knowledge/ than either treated as a taken-for-granted Engagement and Impact Assessment round. Culture conference series, background feature of intellectual work or We celebrate these ‘performance outcomes’. for example. relegated to acts of occasional ethics process But at the same time, they need to be treated compliance. In earlier times, it was possible with careful reservation. to carry on regardless — just doing good thinking, writing, analysing, and criticising. Related to this, the publishing industry Now, the assault on the integrity of research has — in tandem with universities — had to and the meaning of knowledge has reached rationalise its own knowledge-production such an intensity as to require a more reflexive techniques and industrial relations in order response, particularly in the context of ‘post- to survive in an extraordinarily competitive truth’ debates over the future of the planet. marketplace. Open-access publishers, both rapacious ‘pirate’ and benevolent ‘respected’, The issues are compounding and long- exist alongside those whose primary concern term. And there are no easy responses. The is intellectual debate, — with all increasingly first trend is that knowledge production

1 See Foundational Essay 1: Engaged Research on our website: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/about/foundational_essays Foundational essays are our attempt to write about what is important to our work and how we go about it.

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status-oriented. This relates to the second Adobe Creative Cloud Education. And we in assumptions used to alternatively build the major trend, commodification. The reach of the universities have to make decisions about algorithms or sound bites. abstracted commodified value has intensified how best to respond. To be clear, universities in every area of social life — and academic are no longer the predominant producers Added to these trends, there is a sixth trend. research and scholarly publishing are no of cutting-edge knowledge, and they have It is the most perplexing of all. Knowledge exception. Now, because of these first two not been so for decades. This is a shocking production is becoming increasingly trends, where we publish sometimes becomes fact, but given our capacity for producing relativised. This process was in place long a vexatious issue. Why and where we choose independent work, it potentially makes our before Donald Trump began to use the to publish is always an issue, but now the critical research all the more important. concept of ‘post-truth’. Just as evidence- questions are compounded. based policy became skewed to providing Fourth, knowledge production has become evidence for what a policy-maker believes With these two processes, even our long increasingly mediated by technological is electorally advantageous and fits their beloved concept of ‘engaged research’ is, apparatuses and techniques. More and more philosophy of social life, truth became in some quarters, being reduced to the stuff is handled by computerized mediation increasingly a matter of perspective. ‘Truth’ act of working as a consultant to industry systems. This relates to a fifth trend, increasingly depends upon where one and government. Consultancy can be a technological extension as a dimension of stands. The late-nineteenth century phrase, perfectly honourable profession; it can also the more general process of globalization. ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’, now seems be a templated way of making money. But Through techniques and technologies quaintly out of date in a world where we positively engaged research involves so of extension such as computerized no longer know what truth means. All of much more. Simultaneously, the aligned communication, the production of knowledge this means that researchers — we — face concept of ‘evidence-based policy’ has taken has been linked across the world in a way manifold complexities with new levels of a battering as consultants are increasingly that is as revolutionary in our time as the complexity. Realizing sensitive cultural employed to either derive the ‘right answers’ distribution of the printed word was in intelligence will become more than just or to legitimate self-evident conclusions. the period after Gutenberg. New forms of dealing with translation issues across divides Consultancy has become big business. association and connection emerge, with their of understanding or cultural difference. It will The NSW Auditor General recently found consequent impact upon self-fashioning and be central to our work for the coming period. that, over a period of five years, the NSW corporate or collective identity formation. government spent at least $1.4 billion Such configurations are producing radically Paul James (nobody actually knows exactly how much) different social practices and modes of being Director on the top 20 advisory services, with $1.2 that confound common sense comprehension billion of that going to the biggest six about what should be done or how we consultancy corporations. should live. Should schools use iPhones as pedagogical devices or ban them from the Third, knowledge production has become classroom? How will automation, including increasingly codified.Computers have machine-based production of knowledge, facilitated a change that goes much deeper transform the world of work that young than simply making information quicker to people are entering? This is the planet with communicate or easier to access. Just as the which different teams in ICS, from our Digital technologies of computerised information Life Program to our Young and Resilient storage have become simultaneously taken Strategic Research Initiative, are grappling. for granted or deferred to meteorological metaphors — the cloud — the dominant All of these trends require us as researchers to understanding of knowledge has shrivelled act in the world — paradoxically, competing to what has been proclaimed as ‘useful in and against the ‘marketplace of ideas’ while information’. As Liam Magee and Ned working critically and independently with Rossiter describe in their Foundational Essay communities, governments, and businesses in this Annual Review, our social world is — not just thinking, writing, analysing, and becoming algorithmically driven. Algorithmic criticising that world. The problem is not the governance is already with us. It is already metrics or even the deployment of algorithms framing the front-lines of the production of as tools — they are often useful. The issue knowledge and is remaking economies. It is rather is that we face a coming automaticity affecting nation-states, corporations, and of ‘analysis’. This expresses itself as a shrewdly even the increasingly humble university. In voiced timidness in speaking truth to power, this world, the giants of Amazon, Google, and an increasing deferment of human and Facebook meet the Times Higher interpretation to both the framing of the Education World University Rankings and machine and the uninterrogated ideological

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Manifesto

The Institute for Culture The Institute’s engaged research is committed ABOUT US to making a positive difference in the world. The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) and Society researches It is engaged ethically and reciprocally with is the largest dedicated concentration of transformations in culture others. Our aim is to carry out innovative socio-cultural research in Australia. Located in and society in the context of interdisciplinary research into continuities and Parramatta at Western Sydney University, the transformations in culture and society in a way contemporary global change. It Institute is renowned for its evidence-based that contributes to understanding and shaping champions collaborative engaged interdisciplinary research into culture and contemporary local and global life. This society in a transforming world. We champion research in the humanities and approach involves being reflexively engaged collaborative engaged research in the critical social sciences critically responding both with the world and in understanding humanities and social sciences, attuned to the to a globalising digital age. the conditions and limits of its own power of digital technologies, the importance knowledge practices. of changing economies and the impact of ecological crisis. Our research distinguishes The world today is undergoing change at an itself by a recognition of the social complexity unprecedented scale and speed. Major global of the local and global challenges faced by trends include global civilisational tensions, organisations and communities. We aim to technological transformations, environmental offer ways to navigate this complexity and crises, economic instabilities, geopolitical provide the cultural intelligence needed shifts, unprecedented transnational mobilities, to generate public engagement processes and rampant urbanisation. These trends pose that can create positive change towards massive challenges for culture and society. democracy and sustainability. They affect our ways of life and require far- reaching cultural action at local, national and Institute members work in a broad range of global levels. fields including cultural studies, sociology, media and communication studies, human The Institute’s research program speaks geography, anthropology, history, museum to these multidimensional problems and studies, heritage studies, and urban studies. challenges. A key concern for the Institute The Institute’s senior staff members comprise is to address the increasingly problematic a unique group of renowned scholars and uncertain status of knowledge in the including Ien Ang, Tony Bennett, Gay Hawkins contemporary world as a consequence of the Greg Noble and Megan Watkins (cultural increasing complexity of culture and society, studies and cultural theory), Kay Anderson, including the rise of digital technologies.

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Katherine Gibson, Donald McNeill, Jamie ABOUT OUR PRINCIPLES OF Principle 4. Engaged research works Peck, and Deborah Stevenson (human ENGAGED RESEARCH critically to understand the human condition, geography and urban studies), Bob Hodge, but it does so by working across the Engaged research is an orientation to others, Paul James, Brett Neilson and Manfred Steger intersection of the social and the natural. including those with whom we are researching (social theory and global studies), and Ned and those who are involved in the area in Rossiter and David Rowe (media and digital Principle 5. Engaged research seeks to which we are researching. This means that studies). ICS also has many others members work through difference rather than dissolve such a research sensibility carries all the at earlier stages in their research careers. All that difference. weight of overlapping networks and groups these scholars work with and across these of human relations. It also carries the weight disciplinary boundaries on questions of Principle 6. Engaged research recognises of engagement with beings and entities cultural and social change. that knowledge and enquiry is bound up with beyond the human, including ecologies and power and practice. Our overall goal is to generate engaged objects in the world. If, as we are so often research, characterised by excellence, reminded, we are now living in the period Principle 7. Engaged research is sensitive to capacity-building and long-term positive of the Anthropocene when humans began the issue that methodological decisions have impact in the world. to change the nature of nature, then these ethical and practical consequences, both for relationships matter a great deal, as one part understanding and practicing in the world. Our regular Knowledge/Culture conference of our engagement with the world. series is organized with partners globally: These principles are orientations for practice Sydney (2014) Hanoi (2015), Santiago (2017), Principle 1. Engaged research is developed rather than inflexible injunctions. Meeting and Lüneburg (2018). Keynote addresses have through relations of reciprocity. the terms of these principles does not mean been given by scholars as diverse as Marisol that every project in our engaged research Principle 2. Engaged research is long-term de la Cadena, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Arturo portfolio is characterised by all of the and future-oriented, even as it begins with the Escobar, Eduardo Gudynas, Penny Harvey, principles. It means rather that the researchers present and takes seriously the constitutive Bruno Latour, Timothy Mitchell, Aihwa Ong, who are working with such an orientation importance of the past. Nikolas Rose, and Erik Swyngedouw. attend to these principles as a broad sensibility of research, and that each of their Principle 3. Engaged research is conducted projects is treated as part of a larger whole. in relation to lived places, recognising that places are stretched across various extensions of spatiality from the local to the global.

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Strategic Initiatives

CIRCLES OF SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNITY ECONOMIES YOUNG AND RESILIENT How can we rethink questions of What is enabled when the economy The Young and Resilient Research Centre sustainability in such a way that enables is represented as a heterogeneous studies how to harness technology to explore positive, practical and integrated change series of lived practices — as opposed the resilience of young people and their in cities, communities and organisations? to a singularly capitalist, space? communities. Through collaborations with young people, government, private enterprise The Circles of Sustainability initiative seeks to The Community Economies Initiative works and the not-for-profit sector, the Centre connect a rich and generalising theorisation with a representation of a diverse (rather than aims to generate evidence and co-design of social sustainability to a series of practical a capitalist) economy and fosters economic technology-based strategies that can benefit engagements and projects. It responds to the experimentation premised on shared the whole community. The Centre comprises emergence of the concept of ‘sustainability’ values, ethical practices and acknowledged a team of experts in a range of innovative as a keyword of both academics and interdependencies. This initiative is part of an social, cultural and digital research methods. practitioners — which instantly means it is international Community Economies Research It involves young people in peer research one of the most elusive terms in the public Network (CERN) of over 210 members and youth participatory action research, and lexicon. At its base level, sustainability across 23 countries. It is co-ordinated by the translate research into policy and practice at can be interpreted as the objective of Community Economies Collective, initially the local, national and global level. minimising our ecological footprint while founded by J.K. Gibson-Graham in the 1990s. otherwise perpetuating current ways of Research engagements include reappraising At the heart of Young and Resilient is the life. Our approach instead takes on a much the resilience of community-based economic Intergener8 Living Lab, which underpins our greater challenge. It asks, how can we think practices in South East Asia that have the research programs. Through this innovation dynamically, dialectically, and practically potential to contribute to present-day climate- hub, we collaborate with our partners, young about social practice in the context of the change adaptation; studying the capitalist people and other researchers to co-design our contradictory complications facing our and non-capitalist enterprise diversity of programs and engage in novel, experimental social life today? The social is thus treated the Australian manufacturing sector as a and creative projects. Our youth-centred as a complex series of relations that operate contribution to highlighting production approach facilitates research and translation through four integrated domains of ecology, cultures with expressed social commitments, in fields where young people are regularly economy, culture and the political. Originally including to economic equity and ecological excluded, and our co-research methods work developed in response to the reductive use sustainability; exploring how diverse tenure with and leverage diversity. of the Triple Bottom Line, more recently we systems and forms of co-operation can have begun to connect with other conceptual be used to address the housing crisis in Our impact reverberates around the globe. frameworks, such as Amartya Sen and Martha metropolitan Australia and in Aboriginal Since 2010, we have conducted research Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, and David and Torres Strait Islander communities. in more than 60 countries, and our team Harvey’s theories of the cosmopolitan. This in Community economies research is driving the has collaborated with 100+ organisations, turn has helped us to develop more precise theorisation of ‘commoning’ as an everyday covering 2,500+ young people . In addition, statements, methods and instruments as to act with potential to contribute to the kinds of we have conducted over 50 innovative how the framework can be operationalised social transformation called for in a climate- research projects. in practice. changing world.

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Research Programs

CITIES AND ECONOMIES DIGITAL LIFE How are cities and economies How are we to respond to the changing in response to global impacts of the many transformations pressures and innovations? affected by digital technologies? Global pressures are reshaping the relations Digital technologies are reshaping our social between cities and economies. The program and cultural lives with profound effects draws on urban, economic, geographic, for individuals, families, communities, political, and cultural theory to understand governments and institutions. Today it is how these relations are changing during no longer provocative to say that all life is a time of unprecedented environmental becoming digital. Disengagement from mobile and technological transformation. Our devices, surveillance cameras, databases, research seeks to identify opportunities global mapping systems, and algorithmic for meeting the needs of cities and their operations is barely, if at all, an option. The governing bodies by rethinking the idea of Digital Life program investigates how digital economies — in particular the way in which technologies mediate our relations with one the capitalist economy tends to crowd another and change the means by which out other economic practices that exist knowledge is created and circulated in the outside the field described by conventional contemporary world. The program seeks economics. We are developing experimental to understand how digital technologies can and participatory approaches to enable become a capacity-enhancing dimension organisational, cultural, and municipal of social and institutional life rather than governance to respond to multiple challenges: being left to remake all before them. We climate change adaptation, wellbeing in aging have a special interest in developing digital societies, cultural policy, and effective use of methods for social and cultural research. Our technology in urban governance. End-users of work informs questions of city design, digital our research include Parramatta City Council, economy, infrastructure provision, mapping Sydney City Council, City of Port Phillip, SEMZ digital capacities and the socio-cultural Property Group, and Urban Growth NSW. aspects of young people’s technology use. We work with partners from all sectors, including not for profit organisations, academic institutions and companies such as Google and Ericsson.

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DIVERSITY AND HERITAGE AND GLOBALISATION ENVIRONMENT How can positive diversity flourish How can humanity remake its relationship locally and globally under conditions with the material world so as to exist of uneven globalisation? sustainably in the Anthropocene? Intensifying globalisation has had a Human actions have for the first time profound impact upon current practices become a determining cause of Earth-system of multiculturalism. Where people once change, the most obvious manifestation thought of themselves as related to a single of which is global warming. While the ethnicity within a national frame, many 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change people now relate to more hybrid identities. provides a strategy for winding back carbon Experiences of diversity are shifting with emissions, we believe that the onset of intergenerational change, cultural adaptation, the Anthropocene calls for a profound intermarriage, temporary migration, media rethinking of human material practices. flows and the widening cultural, linguistic and This includes the commercialisation and religious diversity of immigrants to Australia. privatisation of common resources such The program explores the impact of this as water, the unsustainable expansion of ‘diversification of diversity’, investigating human habitat via coastal reclamation, and its implications for a range of issues such the escalating discard of human waste in as education, housing, Indigenous policy terrestrial and marine environments. Drawing and Australia’s changing position within the upon a unique convergence of skills and Asian region. Our research seeks to create experience in the environmental humanities, understandings around social order, identities anthropology, archaeology, heritage studies, and relations and to lead to the better and environmental education, the program is management of diversity and its impact on developing new conceptual tools and policy everyday life. One emerging issue in this area alternatives for living in the Anthropocene. concerns a tension between the need for data These include a study of ways and means collection on the contemporary complexity of strengthening the water commons by of diversity and the possibly reductive nature encouraging the drinking of tap water over of cultural descriptors. Advancing policy bottled water; and a study of the history and practice around diversity may therefore and social value of coastal reclamations require a reassessment of the categories in Australia and China, aimed at better that organisations employ and the forms of understanding adaptations to sea level rise. data they collect and use. We are currently The reality of anthropogenic climate change working on this problem with institutions and and heightening public consciousness of end-users such as Multicultural NSW, NSW its impacts are creating an unprecedented Department of Education, Settlement Services need for a radically improved capacity to International, NSW Rural Fire Services, NSW conceptualise the long-term consequences of State Emergency Service, NSW Department of human interventions in nature. Responding to Family and Community Services, Multicultural this need, the program pursues research with Health NSW, Western Sydney Local Health organisations such as Sydney Water, Bushfire District, Waverley Council, and Cultural and and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Indigenous Research Australia. Centre, the Australian Broadcasting Institute, the Chilean Antarctic Institute and Hobart City Council.

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Mexico City, students conducting a Circles of Sustainability profile of their city, 2019Juan Francisco Salazar in Santiago, Chile, where ICS co-hosted the ‘Knowledge/Culture’ conference on ecologies and material culture in 2017.

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Researching Algorithmic Institutions

RESEARCHING ALGORITHMIC governance produces an essentially harnessed to the pursuit of procedures experimental condition of institutionality. That and realization of rules. Experiments lend INSTITUTIONS which becomes available for ‘disruption’ or themselves to the goal-oriented world of Liam Magee and Ned Rossiter ‘innovation’ — both institutional encodings — algorithms. As such, the invention of new Like any research centre that today is equally prescribed within silicon test-beds institutional forms and practices would seem 3 investigates the media conditions of social that propose limits to political possibility. antithetical to experiments in algorithmic organization, the Institute for Culture and Experiments privilege the repeatability and governance. Yet what if we consider Society modulates functional institutional reproducibility of action. This is characteristic experience itself as conditioned and governance with what might be said to be, of algorithmic routines that accommodate made possible by experiments in operatively and with a certain conscientious variation only through the a priori of known algorithmic governance? attention to method, algorithmic experiments. statistical parameters. Innovation, in other Surely enough, the past few decades have In this essay we convolve these terms. words, is merely a variation of the known seen a steady transformation of many As governance moves beyond Weberian within the horizon of fault tolerance. institutional settings. There are many studies proceduralism toward its algorithmic Experiments in algorithmic governance that account for such change as coinciding automation, research life itself becomes are radically dissimilar from the experience with and often directly resulting from the ways subject to institutional experimentation. of politics and culture, which can be in which neoliberal agendas have variously Parametric adjustment generates sine wave- understood as the constitutive outside of impacted organizational values and practices. like ripple effects in the allocation of time, passion and affect that infiltrates models in Our focus is on the struggle of governance labour, thought and practice. Reflexivity, the process of designing parameters that immanent to the relation between experience long an imperative of social research, now inform the operational rules of algorithms. and experiment, algorithm and institution. demands attentiveness to how these entwined Once operationalized as algorithms, politics What, in short, are the propagating effects of forces of governance and experimentation is enacted as a procedural routine and algorithmic governance as a routine complex produce the research subject. culture is made accountable within metrics of institutional practices? Modes of governance within institutional of calculation. Both instances necessarily This essay examines computational conditions settings are increasingly shaped by externalize experience. Too often economics that organize the world and, increasingly, life. algorithmic architectures of organization. takes command. As an analytical mode, We ask how the operational logic of digital Algorithmic governance details not only the conversely, political economics does not take technology might furnish concepts of power application of computational procedures to command often enough. The contemporary able to describe and explain the empirical issues of operative management, control demarcation of politics and culture from the world. Specifically, the essay focuses on how and decision-making but it further describes economy itself exhibits a nostalgia for pure power is generated within and by digital the re-engineering of organizations to the power or an unpolluted aesthetics — affective infrastructures, systems, operations and demands of those procedures. In idealised modalities which, against a collective despair practices. The broader objective here — one terms, algorithmic governance begins with over the obdurate and thoroughly determined beyond the scope of this present essay — is to a problem that is first tested and formalized state of the economy, seem plausible escape establish empirical co-ordinates that provide within the parametric constraints of a model.2 routes, and which in mass-form return as an analytical basis for populating disciplines As Tarleton Gillespie explains, the problem devices for the securitization of in the humanities and social sciences with is first articulated through the model in institutional control. a conceptual vocabulary coextensive with mathematical terms, then operationalized as A tension continues to persist between contemporary technological conditions. a procedural task performed by an algorithm. experiment and experience in the generation For the purposes of this essay we consider As algorithms are amended, hacked, refined of new institutional forms immanent to the data centre — also known as server or substituted, the fidelity of the model to algorithmic modes of governance. If invention farms, colocation centres or the cloud — as a mathematical proceduralism divorced subsists and foments within the phenomenal the infrastructural core that governs the from environment signals how modes realm of experience, then experiment is akin production of space, time, subjectivity and of governance frequently collapse in the to laboratory life that verifies knowledge economy. Off-the-grid computing aside, wild. Needless to say, formalistic variability incrementally under controlled conditions.4 most data will at some point and time traffic does not contradict the core thesis that we Where experience is expansive and through a data centre. develop in this essay, namely that algorithmic contingent, experiments are necessarily

1 Thanks to Paul James for suggestions on phrasing and framing. 2 See Gillespie, T 2016, ‘Algorithm’, in B Peters (ed.), Digital keywords: a vocabulary of information society and culture, Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp. 19–20. 3 For an analysis and critique of ‘testing’ and ‘demoing’ of ‘solutions’ to address crises (urban, financial, health, and environmental, etc.), see Halpern, O, LeCavalier, J & Calvillo, N 2017, ‘Test-bed urbanism’, Public Culture, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 273–306. See also Halpern, O, Mitchell, R & Geoghegan, BD 2017, ‘The smartness mandate: notes toward a critique’, Grey Room, no. 68, pp. 106–29. 4 See Neilson, B & Rossiter, N 2006, ‘Towards a political anthropology of new institutional forms’, ephemera: theory & politics in organization, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 394, viewed 1 May 2019, http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/towards-political-anthropology-new-institutional-forms.

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SOVEREIGN MEDIA, result in economic stress for many. For all the organization. The territoriality of data TERRITORIALITY AND THE transactional visibility of distributed public centres carves out new geographies of TRAFFIC OF DATA ledgers such as Bitcoin, the now frequent power, giving rise to forms of infrastructural security breaches and ‘disappearance’ of sovereignty that contest, intersect, multiply We occasionally have a sense that our the crypto-currency from exchanges should and depart from the modern sovereign quotidian decisions are governed by be sufficient enough of a prompt to caution power of the nation-state.8 But how do algorithmic architectures humming away against at least a first-order valorizing the we specify the operational logic of data in the background. Mostly, we are resigned merits of openness.6 centres? Our response is to return to an to machinic authority taking command of analysis of its computational architecture, the extraction of value and monetization of Digital infrastructures such as data centres which here are represented by parallel computational life generated from the surfeit are chief among the milieu of technological processing frameworks: obscure yet of data. Certainly, the last few years have forms in which transactions in data impact on indispensable parts that make possible, for brought greater attention to power exercised a world external to the operational logic of example, neural networks, machine learning by algorithms, without yet producing much signals, transmission, processing and storage. and artificial intelligence applications. by way of a counter-power that can refuse Hosting the servers that support the software We consider this intervention in part as or deflect the assertion of control. Whether and data analytics of ‘the cloud’, data centres constituting a genealogy of power tied it is social media routines, digital accounting can be considered as the invisible shadow of to computational architectures. And in systems, military operations in theatres of war institutional forms such as universities, banks, distilling an infrastructural object such as or governing populations and migration across social media companies, logistical firms, the data centre to computational operations geographic scales and sovereign spaces, there among many others. Indeed, data centres specific to parallel processing, we are also is a transactional logic that attends the traffic provide the operational core of institutional suggesting that there remains an unavoidable in data. Blockchain technologies manage practices dependent on the transactions in necessity to consider technological forces data transactions through a distributed public data. Similarly, the algorithmic procedures of determination. This genealogy takes us ledger. High-frequency trading, by contrast, that organize data in ways that make back to an operational core from which we buries millions of financial derivatives and action possible are central to the governance can begin to make sense of the structuring credit default swaps, resulting in the ‘social of institutions. of the world not reducible to black box 5 abstraction of risk’. Well-documented in a impenetrability. There is no tabula rasa upon scholarly literature, even in a mode of critique From the purview of algorithmic governance, which fantasies and fears may be projected. blockchains and HFT evoke a shared awe subjectivity and the presence of human and dread of the technological sublime. Less personnel are merely functionaries to be attended to are the enduring consequential managed. A peculiar form of technological THE LOGISTICS OF DATA IT banalities of administrative Excel formulas, unconscious also defines the relation Despite a tendency within business and JavaScript functions and database procedures between machine and subject. This is academic circles to think on ‘global’ scales, that calculate hourly rates, leave accruals and despite critiques of algorithmic governance digital operations are not as planetary, or as performance indicators. Alongside global that consider managers and gestures of totalizing, as critics like Benjamin Bratton blockchains, microwave data broadcasting leadership as indistinct from the parametric would have it. Indeed, the computational and neural networks, twenty-year-old horizon of algorithms. Without the distinct metaphor of the ‘stack’ is a tempting software architectures help administer activity of human labour expressed through but limited metaphor for the current organizations and run the world. computational systems the machine-as- reconfiguration of organizational life through institution is a soul depleted of the substance algorithmic governance. While not exclusive The non-representational architectures that 7 upon which its data operations depend. Yet to the digital, Bratton’s model of ‘The underscore many computational transactions this human vessel of unsubstantiated yearning Stack’ refers to planetary-scale technical unsettle a politics of intervention predicated may be just an interval that terminates infrastructures consisting of Earth, Cloud, on the visibility of things. Yet neither is there with social accommodation of the fully City, Address, Interface and User layers. a panacea to be found in making transactions automated organization. Bratton’s insistence on interoperability of data visible. The often moralistically across and between these sectional layers imbued calls for data transparency and Part media-infrastructure and part locus provides the conceptual schema needed accountability are no less vulnerable at of algorithmic decision-making, the data to then propose The Stack as a model of functional, operational levels to unforeseen centre indicates one possible form of such planetary computation, which he assumes as crashes, hacks or inexplicable events that may

5 See LiPuma, E & Lee, B 2004, Financial derivatives and the globalization of risk, Duke University Press, Durham. 6 For a critique of the celebration of openness, see Tkacz, N 2015, Wikipedia and the politics of openness, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 7 As Stefano Harney quips in an interview with Michael Schapira and Jesse Montgomery, ‘most managers have already been replaced by machines … We know they work not only within the parameters of an algorithm but with its predictions and prescriptions. They are only there to implement and call it leadership’. Schapira, M & Montgomery, J 2017, ‘Stefano Harney (Part 1)’, Full Stop Quarterly, 8 August, viewed 1 May 2019, http://www.full-stop.net/2017/08/08/interviews/michael-schapira-and-jesse-montgomery/stefano-harney-part-1/. 8 On the geography of data centres, see https://cloudscene.com/. westernsydney.edu.au/ics 15 2018-19 ANNUAL REVIEW

‘a coherent totality’.9 It is on the basis of this new operative fissures. Academia is of course within which, perversely, hum the machines of totality that Bratton then proposes The Stack not immune to the relentless detection of twenty-first century politics. as inaugurating a new political geography notworking in action, and, as it finds its new that multiplies sovereign power beyond the place as a junior partner to corporatism, has The stacks which operate here can indeed Westphalian state. ‘Platform sovereignty’ become increasingly adept at translating gaps be described as Bratton suggests: they and ‘infrastructural sovereignty’ are the two in the literature to gaps in the market. are layers of cabling, network protocols, primary modes of technical power resulting servers, operating systems, databases from The Stack. Analytically, algorithmic governance denotes and, in a gesture that would appear to the conjunction of models that limit just as reaffirm its privilege at the uppermost We don’t deny that sovereign power is much as they open up political possibilities, level of this architecture, the algorithm. multiplied beyond and not limited to modern a conjunction that, in turn, produces a Yet this characterization is limited in its state polities. The Stack is not required phantasmic situation of total control (Bratton) technical precision as much as in its political as a heuristic device or infrastructural or, through its failures, re-admits contingency terminology. Indeed, the stack can never condition to explain the transformations into a new, computationally mediated accomplish very much without a fine-grained to state sovereignty wrought by economic dialectic of determination and possibility. articulation of operations within and between and technological globalization. Sovereign Refusing the neoliberal characterizations its specific layers, and these operations power in any case is always contested. And of such a data politics as inherently open, turn out to be as or more significant, both this is the key point overlooked by Bratton, transparent and liberatory has become the in the determination and contingency whose predilection for totalization produces de facto means of strategic operation for its of governance, than the coarse-grained a significant analytical and political oversight. actors: the significant shifts over the past few organization of the entire data apparatus Namely, that interoperability between systems years have practically confirmed this point.12 itself. In short, alternate forms of algorithmic (layers) is never absolute. Protocological The rush to securitize data infrastructures governance must today intervene at the level conflicts, technological propensities, through physical borders and barricades, of parameters as much as at the level of the geological properties and institutional privacy regulation and appeals for Internet coal and rare-earth mines that disputes — to say nothing of social struggles regulation — amazingly, from the heart of power and produce the materials for — prevail across networks of relations that, Silicon Valley itself — makes no secret any algorithmic operations. frequently enough, are notworking.10 The more of a privatized and explicitly political re- failure of interoperability not only unsettles territorialisation of what, already, appears to Each of these layers contain their own the totalizing if contingent logic of sovereign us not as an object of a present or near-future, historical unfoldings. The ‘model/algorithm’ power Bratton attributes to The Stack but also but through the form of nostalgia — a digital distinction offers a nice point-in-time makes for a considerably more complicated public sphere.13 encapsulation, but does little to convey the operation of power and conceptualization historical reconfiguration over time of the of the political at the current conjuncture.11 At such junctures it is tempting to withdraw to algorithm itself. Today, precisely as terms Moreover, digital capitalism in some sense the inner salons of what György Lukács once like ‘algorithmic governance’ appear to depends upon this constitutive gap between described, in reference to the first generation register a certain new confluence of power/ fantasy of control and reality of breakdown. of the Frankfurt School, as the Grand Hotel knowledge, the algorithm is undergoing Such gaps ‘ask’, indeed, to be cleverly Abyss.14 Accommodation that today, precisely substantial reconfiguration.15 In machine exploited, to manufacture the customer through the affordances of digital social learning, algorithms are constituted by other ‘need’ and to introduce new disruptions media, is available to nearly everyone at algorithms, through a posteriori statistical and innovations in response. At a global Airbnb rack rates. We prefer to turn toward patterning rather than a priori models. In data scale, Tesla, one of the finest exponents of the resources afforded by the computational centres, the algorithm is turned inside out, need-production, exists precisely to bridge architectures themselves — less the salons defined and distributed according the physical present carbon and future renewable energy occupied by an erudite and déshabillé and logical arrangement of data rather than economies. Such bridging, in turn, produces commentariat, and rather the warehouses, by the model’s idealization. rack rooms and ‘non-places’ of cool alienation

9 Bratton, BH 2015, The stack: on software and sovereignty, MIT Press, Cambridge, p. 375. 10 See Lovink, G 2005, The principle of notworking: concepts in critical internet culture, public lecture, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 24 February. Available at http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/the-principle-of-notworking-geert-lovink/. 11 See Mezzadra, S & Neilson, B 2019, The politics of operations: excavating contemporary capitalism, Duke University Press, Durham. 12 An earlier draft of this paper was presented as Magee, L & Rossiter, N 2016, ‘Operationalising the data centre: algorithmic platforms and the distribution of computational labour’, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Sydney, 14–17 December, http://crossroads2016.org/. 13 See Zuckerberg, M 2019, The internet needs new rules: let’s start in these four areas, 31 March, https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10107013839885441. 14 See Jeffries, S 2016, Grand Hotel Abyss: the lives of the Frankfurt School, Verso, London. 15 See Rouvroy, A & Stiegler, B 2016, ‘The digital regime of truth: from the algorithmic governmentality to a new rule of law’, trans. A Nony & B Dillet, La Deleuziana, no. 3, pp. 6–29, viewed 1 May 2019, http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rouvroy-Stiegler_eng.pdf and Amoore, L & Raley, R 2017, ‘Securing with algorithms: knowledge, decision, sovereignty’, Security Dialogue, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 3–10.

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Algorithmic parallelization — running a processed increases, cloud computing EXPERIMENTS IN PARALLEL software implementation of an algorithm permits the algorithm’s operation to span COMPUTING concurrently on multiple processors multiple machines automatically. Increases In the world of parallel computing, the term or machines — is one example of this in computational power are paid for by the ‘pipeline’ is used to describe the conduits restructuring. Parallel processing can be hour or by other discrete quantities, and that link data sources, transformations and applied to tasks that are independent, where, without the intervention of human labour outputs. Like the UNIX pipe operator used in for instance, one task is not dependent upon to add machines, install software and terminal commands (‘|’), pipelines funnel data the results of another. Parallel processing configure networks. This commodification through input/output sequences (shown in encompasses processing systems for serving is facilitated through software frameworks, Table 1 below). Parallel computing frameworks web content, registering user clicks and or ‘middleware’, that mediate between the employ the metaphor of pipes and pipelines ‘likes’, tabulating and storage of smart city hardware facilities of the data centre and to describe the distribution the data sensor-generated data, image analysis of performance of the algorithm. Major cloud processing across multiple copies of a given photo streams and trend analysis of financial companies such as Amazon and Google have resource. These include the multiple cores of a transactions. These systems are widely produced such frameworks — one of which, central processing unit of a single machine, or deployed within the data infrastructures Apache Beam, we describe in detail below — the combined capacities of multiple machines that support what has been termed to simplify the process of redesign and ease on a network. Pipes funnel inputs across these ‘platform capitalism’: this includes data configuration of parallelized algorithms on resources and reassemble outputs produced centres operated by Google, Facebook and their cloud-computing platforms. Frameworks by their processing. independent business exchanges (or IBX) such as these make possible the parametric such as those run by Equinix in the inner-city adjustment of algorithms, producing the Such plumbing metaphors extend to the very 16 suburb of Alexandria in Sydney. Parallelized property of ‘elasticity’ famously associated naming of parallelisation frameworks. One pipeline architectures run on top of clusters of with cloud computing: that is, the ability example is DataFlow, a project developed machines housed within these data centres, to add or subtract computing resources by Google, and later contributed by the making it possible for these computational dynamically in response to demand, budget, company as an open-source project, now 19 resources to be used efficiently. dataset size and other constraints. renamed as Beam, to the Apache Foundation, a consortium that describes itself as ‘the Despite its affordances, enabling algorithms If our understanding of digital economy, world’s largest open-source foundation’.20 The to operate in a parallel rather than serial society and the production of subjectivity process of migrating software developed by fashion can be a complex, specialized and is to come to terms with this expansiveness companies for internal use to open source is expensive task.17 Strategies to do so typically and elasticity, a critique of data politics and common. It is a means for building corporate enlist an approach of ‘divide-and-conquer’, algorithmic institutions needs to register the goodwill in the wider software development redesigning or refactoring the software techniques, processes and operations special community and also for establishing de implementation of an algorithm to separate to media infrastructures. The technical, energy facto standards that help to realise other and process data inputs independently, and commercial constraints of parallelized organisational objectives. Apache’s projects, before joining or merging their outputs. The architectures articulate a data grammar of these members, licensing arrangements and its occasion of refactoring can substantially operations, a set of essential verbs of platform often-informal decision-making processes — alter the properties of the algorithm itself.18 capitalism: mapping, reducing, cutting, filtering, conducted on publicly accessible mailing lists Conventional use of parallelized algorithms partitioning, sequencing, transforming, flattening, — provide a glimpse into the confluences and also requires detailed knowledge of the merging and piping. Enumerating, rehearsing and complex relations of open-source software operating environment: the type of machines evaluating the elements of this grammar across and cloud computing companies. The projects the algorithms will run on, how datasets need hardware and software platforms establishes accepted by the Apache Foundation (Table to be partitioned and how the network is a baseline from which the determining force 1) map schematically the history of web configured to enable copies of the algorithm of data politics is made discernible, at least in computing over the past quarter century: they to communicate progress. preliminary ways. Operations and techniques range from content servers that deliver web such as these define the parameters within pages and images, to systems that enable big The arrival of cloud computing represents which action protrudes into the world. In the next data management, virtualization, security the commodification of the expertise and section, we transition to a more technical mode of and parallelization. resources required for managing enormous description, to pursue the algorithm through the circuits of data. As the volume of the data process of parallelization.

16 See Srnicek, N 2017, Platform capitalism, Polity, Cambridge. 17 See Blelloch, GE & Maggs, BM 1996, ‘Parallel algorithms’, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 51-54. 18 Blelloch & Maggs, ‘Parallel algorithms’. 19 See Herbst, N, Kounev, S & Reussner, R 2013, ‘Elasticity in cloud computing: what it is, and what it is not’, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2013), San Jose, CA, 24-28 June. 20 See http://apache.org/#.

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Beam operates like a virtual machine, same code, configuration and data executes Despite the promises of Google’s platform, our translating data-processing requests made identically on a laptop machine and on experiment still generated practical examples by software into instructions that can be Google’s Cloud Platform, on which we had of notworking: conflicting software libraries executed in diverse operating environments. established an account for testing purposes. and essential steps that are undocumented Algorithms on Beam can be tested on a single This is significant due to the quite different and are only discovered through educated computer, deployed to a localized distributed operations that are performed in each case. guesswork and trial-and-error. Rather than an computing environment or uploaded to a idealized path from model to execution, the cloud-computing platform, where computing On a single machine, the code executes on automation of scalable procedures requires time is purchased by the hour. Running a multiple processors, typically limited to two all-too-human qualities of literacy, persistence simple example algorithm that extracts word or four. On the cloud, multiple copies of the and faith in the telos of computational reason. frequencies from text, supplied as part of the code may instead run on many machines, In the spirit of Gmail’s decade-long beta Beam framework, showed several distinctive limited only by budget. The promise of Beam status, everything remains provisional. It features of parallelisation. First, the code for framework seems partly fulfilled so long as is stitched together not in a seamless web the algorithm requires a specific operational an algorithm conforms to the requirements of interoperability but through numerous logic: the text input is loaded from files; the of the framework, it is scaleable on multiple iterations copy-and-paste, trial-and-error, and word frequencies are calculated; the output processes and machines, and running searches through mailing lists and Q-and-A containing the frequencies is formatted; and, seamlessly between both personal and cloud forums. Equally, we note that once the code finally, the output is written or ‘piped’ to a computing environments. While ostensibly ran successfully, determining whether to run file. A conventional implementation of an an open-source project, Beam facilitates it on a local machine or on Google’s cloud algorithm might adopt this same procedure, developers to publish their software on is merely a case of changing parameters but would not be required to do so. The commercial services like Cloud Platform, and territorial scale — even modified code is second feature shows why this logic is advertised as helping applications to ‘grow automatically recompiled and uploaded to the necessary: when the parallel implementation from prototype to production to planet- cloud, making for what has been is executed on a laptop machine, it runs scale, without having to think about capacity, termed a ‘No-Ops’ (or no technical several concurrent copies of the software, reliability or performance’.21 In other words, operations) environment. each of which processes separate parts of Beam lays down the pipes that take the the data input. The third feature is that the entrepreneur from the garage to the globe.

Table 1: History of Major Apache Projects

YEAR(S) SELECTED APACHE PROJECTS WEB COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES

1995 Apache Web Server (Brian Behlendorf and others, 1995) Web Servers Data Centres largely local ISPs

~2000 Apache Tomcat (Sun Microsystems, 1999) Middleware, enterprise computing Apache Struts (Sun Microsystems, 2000) Dynamic web content Apache Xerces (IBM, 1999) XML Apache Lucene (2001) Text Indexing Apache Software Foundation Open-source software committees – including corporations as good tech citizens Apache Software License (2000) Open source (permitting commercial derivatives)

Mid-2000s Apache Web Services (formerly Apache SOAP, Axis) Web services Apache Hadoop (Google, Yahoo, 2006) Elastic computing, distributed algorithms

2010s Apache CloudStack (contributed by Citrix, 2011) Cloud computing Apache CouchDB (2008) Alternative (NoSQL) databases Apache Spark (2013) Machine learning, parallel processing Apache Kafka (2011) Stream processing

2015/6 Apache Beam (contributed by Google, 2016) Parallel stream processing

21 Google Cloud Platform, https://cloud.google.com/.

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Our wider interest here is to interrogate the How to re-engineer the black-box of critique and reorientation if society is to resist cloud-computational architecture that now algorithmic apparatuses? What does a total submission to algorithmic authority.25 mediates the abstract work of algorithms knowledge of computational rules and In a similar spirit, we suggest black boxes on data, and their spatial instantiation inside procedures tell us about the governance of are demystified and indeed made more the data centre. Critical inspection neither labour and life, economy and society? Notable knowable once their operations are rehearsed, ‘unboxes’ the ‘black box’ hypothetically research in the nascent field critical algorithm simulated, observed and replicated. common both to the algorithm and to the studies has identified the political economy of Virtualization, containers and parallelization data centre, nor seeks to reify it as a happily Google’s PageRank and its capture of living have become integral mediating technologies unknowable technical artefact. Rather, it labour to produce ‘network value’, crowd work between the abstraction of the algorithm rehearses aspects of the technical conditions on Amazon Mechanical Turk and the ‘crowd and the fortification of data centres. They under which machinic interoperability as fleecing’ of drivers that underscores the belong, in other words, to a new grammar of well as inoperability are performed. As the growth model for Uber.23 Despite the attention algorithmic governance. transfer of labour from human to the machine in these studies to algorithmic power, the continues, this amounts to a renovation of the actual architectures often remain elusive and kind of inquiry into conditions of work on the this is not just because computer scientists MULTIPLYING ALGORITHMIC factory floor that once preoccupied the social are not on the scene to lend a critical hand. INSTITUTIONS analysis of labour. As Trebor Scholz notes, ‘While people are The analysis above of Apache Beam registers powering the system, MTurk is meant to feel two key features of emergent algorithmic like a machine to its end-users: humans are institutions. First, it describes a shift in the ALGORITHMIC CRITIQUE seamlessly embedded in the algorithm. AMT’s operations of algorithms made possible by The exercises we conducted here are inspired clients are quick to forget that it is human parallel architectures adaptable to a range by the soporific use-cases of tutorials and beings and not algorithms that are toiling for of hardware and network configurations. training guides. Outputs are of course not the them — people with very real human needs Second, this seemingly banal feature point. Rather, the development of datasets, and desires’.24 illustrates the lack of totality and closure code examples and cloud configuration within a single operative environment. illustrates the purpose of otherwise obscure When humans become indistinguishable Driven by what appear to be solely technical investments by companies like Google from machines, what does this mean for a considerations — precisely, in other words, in parallel-processing frameworks. Such politics of operation? Does a critical dissection through a desire for mastery and control investments belong to a long history of of algorithms, for instance, provide a point — contingency is reintroduced to the strategic corporate contribution to open- of entry into organizing networks of digital algorithmic situation. The link from algorithmic source software, and today these serve to labour? For Scholz, the answer is ‘no’, at least parallelization to experimental modes of pave the way for the outsourcing of labour not in any exclusive sense. Instead, Scholz governance is one that is, of course, at best and infrastructural needs to data centres and advocates ‘platform cooperativism’ as a suggestive. Nonetheless, this parallelization cloud services that in turn support the rise consortium model that clones and adapts forms part of the ‘infrastructuring’ that has of large scale data accumulation, processing technologies of the sharing economy, making already realised WikiLeaks, BitCoin and and analysis. One predictable consequence use of web apps such as Loomio (Occupy, other digitally led forms of what political is the deterioration of in-house IT staff that Podemos) and blockchain technologies such scientists Cui Zhiyuan in dialogue with Charles defined the preceding eras of mainframe and as Backfeed, D-CENT and Consensys for the F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin have termed client-server computing. The incremental autonomy of labour organization and ‘experimental governance’.26 While a highly erasure of labour borne by the ongoing march social movements. conciliatory view of experimentation, with of industrial modernity is coupled with a elements of ‘Third Way’ exuberance retrieved Frank Pasquale is not as quick in letting go displacement of institutional autonomy by from a decade marked, not coincidentally, by of net-neutrality claims by internet giants. the sovereign media of platform capitalism dot-com mania, there is nonetheless some He maintains that algorithmic methods and the automation of organizational critical and conceptual purchase to be had of extracting value from data, devising routines. Alienation returns. Memory is further from considering algorithmic institutions as criteria for automated decision making and exteriorized to the machine.22 test-beds of computational modes governance, and calculating procedures for of governance. finance capital must be subject to systematic

22 See Stack Overflow, http://stackoverflow.com/. 23 See, respectively, Pasquinelli, M 2009, ‘Google’s PageRank algorithm: a diagram of cognitive capitalism and the rentier of the common intellect’, in K Becker & F Stalder (eds), Deep search: the politics of search beyond google, Studien Verlag, Innsbruck, pp. 152–62; Irani, L 2015, ‘Difference and dependence among digital workers: the case of Amazon Mechanical Turk’, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 225–34; and Scholz, T 2017, Uberworked and underpaid: how workers are disrupting the digital economy, Polity, Cambridge. 24 Scholz, Uberworked and underpaid, p. 20. See also Munn, L 2018, Ferocious logics: unmaking the algorithm, Meson Press, Lüneburg, https://meson.press/books/ferocious-logics/. 25 Pasquale, F 2015, The black box society: the secret algorithms that control money and information, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 26 See Sabel, CF & Zeitlin, J 2012, ‘Experimentalist governance’, in Oxford handbook of governance, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 169–83.

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Neither top-down autocracy, nor bottom-up dictum — to ‘move fast and break things’ — reintegration of markets through progressive anarchy, but ‘directly deliberative polyarchy’, have, often enough, motivated retreat towards regulation into a more dispersed but the emphasis on ‘recursion’ signals a form of even more forbidding levels of governance, comprehensive system of control. governance indebted to characteristics of performativity and risk management. the algorithm. Despite an idealised affinity This is not only a case of the state with the experimental culture of the start-up At an organizational level, such governance increasingly outsourcing a once sacrosanct or indeed the iterative cultural logic of ‘fail becomes exteriorized in the cloud, or, more responsibility to private service providers. fast’ typical of R&D for platform monopolies precisely, outsourced to the combined The multiple diffusions and aggregations of such as Google, Facebook and Amazon, we processing power of computers owned population data throughout a heterogeneous acknowledge the vastly different political and and operated by Big Tech corporations. Yet computational and institutional network historical context in which this discourse on this tendency toward homogenization and means that the ‘database’ is no longer experimental culture is situated in the case standardization contains, as it were, seeds physically or conceptually containable within of China and its laboratories in governance of its own demise. As organizations become the borders of a single institution. The era of across provincial cities and spaces. How to increasingly reliant on off-the-rack technical distributed computing, of virtualized clusters cultivate and instil aspects of democratic ‘solutions’, the qualities that distinguish one of machines and software that can co-operate politics within political systems and market organization from the next steadily disappear. to resolve queries over structured data on economies stemming from socialist and When organizational requirements become heterogeneous network and computational communist models of collective ownership retro-fitted to software capabilities with little topologies, have been paralleled by questions is an especially delicate and complex variation or minimal ‘customization’ from one of the sovereignty of singular guardians of challenge, one that is further complicated organization to the next, the prospect of a population data. Over the past fifteen years since the fall of Bo Xilai and demise of the crisis of legitimacy is waiting just around an array of new paradigms for arranging, ‘Chongqing experiment’.27 In the spirit of wilful the corner. connecting and querying data — the adaptation and the redesign of terms and Semantic Web, Linked Data, service-oriented ideas harnessed to experiments in modes Together, both technical operations and architectures (SOA) and software-as-a- of governance, we might endorse a certain organizational cultures make evident service (SaaS) — continue to bring into accelerationist logic that invites further the contours delineating the territory of question claims over institutional legitimacy.28 amplification of algorithmic transformation contemporary data politics. This combinatory of institutional practices as a force of model of data-and-institutional organization The increasing dependency by policy makers technical failure. extends to the governance of logistical on the generation of numbers by machines is populations. One key example can be symptomatic of the automation of decision Close to home, the cognitive jolt or shock found in the recent challenges faced by the making. Such is the institutional over-reliance that accompanies systemic breakdown Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which on the pure power of computation. No could be sufficient to question how, for in 2014 confronted a very public institutional matter how many manual double-checks instance, universities govern the production crisis of legitimacy based on a perception and regulatory procedures may comprise the of knowledge in ways not submissive to of computational failure. This crisis was repertoire of techniques deployed to guard the tyranny of metrics and calculation of precipitated by the multiplication of sites and against the sort of institutional risk exposed ‘performance’. Such endorsement comes points of data agglomeration: the ‘monopoly by the ABS debacle, the scale and distribution with its own political complications, as recent of knowledge’ (Innis) enjoyed by the ABS of computational calculation in the production histories of shock therapy, from Jeffrey Sachs’ for many years has now become rivalled by of knowledge will most likely result in an re-engineering of national economies to a diversity of institutional actors who also increasing jostling for legitimacy among Žižek’s endorsement of far-right ‘disruptive’ have considerable computational capacity institutional actors seeking government politics as a precursor to a revolutionary to produce knowledge that bears upon how contracts related to policy development. alternative, have been either ruinous or economies and populations are understood. Implicit in this jostling is a challenge to closed- irrelevant. Nothing yet in the history of the This has been accelerated by cutbacks in the world assumptions which accompany the Internet, which consists of an endless series operating budget of the ABS from successive traditional relational database form and, of shocks (from modem disconnection governments, which needs to be seen in the by association, the single institution that and browser incompatibility to Cambridge context of a two-fold move toward, first, manages such infrastructure.29 Analytica), suggests that ‘shock therapy’ the marketization of governance enabled by works. Academia’s version of Facebook’s computational processes, and second, the Rival claims, multiple perspectives and contradictory or indeterminate datasets

27 See Cui, Z 2011, ‘Partial intimations of the coming whole: the Chongqing experiment in light of the theories of Henry George, James Meade, and Antonio Gramsci’, Modern China, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 646–60. See also Frenkiel, E 2010, ‘From scholar to official: Cui Zhiyuan and Chongqing’s local experimental policy’, Books & Ideas, 6 December 2010, https://booksandideas.net/From-Scholar-to-Official.html. 28 See Magee, L & Rossiter, N 2015, ‘Service orientations: data, institutions, labour’, in I Kaldrack & M Leeker (eds), There is no software, there are just services, Meson Press, Lüneburg, pp. 73–89, http://meson.press/books/there-is-no-software-there-are-just-services/. 29 See Edwards, PN 1996, The closed world: computers and political discourse in cold war America, MIT Press, Cambridge.

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form the new territory of informational nonetheless remained a peculiar continuum accounts of an automated world accompanied contestation. The case of the ABS offers an of relative institutional stability or at least by a shift in the global axis of power. optic into the emergence of such struggles. semblance of coherence across the modern Our claim is that this is less a story about epoch.30 Church, state, union, factory, firm. A more mundane, less ‘measurable’ decentralization and privatization of These were chief organizational forms that adjustment is also at work in the process of government within a neoliberal paradigm comprised the institutional rhythms of daily computational systems integrating with social (although these are without doubt key life and economy. The current conjuncture life and economy. The cognitive tendencies forces), and more an instance of the of institutional disaggregation and of the brain and psycho-physiognomic technical logic of databases and distributed computational geopolitics is in some ways a composition of subjectivity and its body of computing resulting in an unsettling of logical — even digital — ‘output’ stemming flesh are also steadily, even quite rapidly, modern institutional authority. What are the from the modern experience of a transformed undergoing change. A data politics of implications for public institutions as they world. As algorithmic modes of organizing the present is defined not only by battles relate to the supply of knowledge on national decision-making and practices of governance of proprietary platforms, by extractivist populations when the technologies of insight increasingly remake modern institutional economies and by claims of legitimacy over have become distributed and increasingly settings while simultaneously giving rise the right to govern.31 Data politics within social unaccountable across a range of actors? to ‘platform’ organizations and largely life, engineered by parametric designs and And what affordances does this present for non-governable apparatuses such as high- managed by forms of nonconscious cognition, the disruption of parametric politics, or the frequency trading systems, a corresponding is also about the invention of autonomy establishment, at the very least, of alternative redefinition of authority, expertise, severed from terms of agreement. Data parameters though which political life can subjectivity (manifest especially as a crisis politics insists on disagreement as a condition be constituted? of masculine identity) and indeed political- of computational cultures. economic hegemony is currently underway. Despite the extensive literary, artistic and This institutional transformation holds not musical expressions on the maelstrom of only political-economic and geopolitical modernity, and without questioning the implications, the details of which we can barbarism of war and colonial violence, there observe on a daily basis in the innumerable

30 The classic text here remains Berman, M 1983, All that is solid melts into air: the experience of modernity, Verso, London. 31 For a collection of essays that address these issues, see Bigo, D, Isin, E & Ruppert, E (eds), 2019, Data politics: worlds, subjects, rights, Routledge, London.

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Cordoba, Argentina, where ICS is workiong on urban renewal with a global team, including Antonio Salvador from Quito - 2019

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In a year when religious and extreme right- surpassing 40 million and the number of wing nationalism and populism were again refugees more than 22 million. on the rise, and when US President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris We started 2018 with a series of ambitious Agreement on climate change, Thunberg’s aims and priorities. These range from a impact was also felt across other political consolidation of our research strengths realms. Following her address to the UK across strategic Fields of Research (FoR), to Parliament in early 2019, the British Labour increasing our research capacity and output party moved a non-binding motion in aligned to University Research Themes, the House of Commons on 1 May, 2019, and ensuring our four research programs to declare ‘an environment and climate are responding to local and global grand emergency’, which was passed by members challenges. In 2018, the total external research of the Parliament across the floor. Later that income of the Institute across Categories month, the impact of her global campaign 1–4 met its target of two million dollars with was reflected in the increase of the Green around 43 per cent of this accounting as Party vote across Scandinavian countries collaborative funding with 18 external partners in the 2019 European elections. A crucial including government, private sector, NGO’s, message of 2018-2019 came from the largest civil society and international organizations. planetary health studies ever undertaken In 2018-2019, 17 new contract research and which concluded that all human societies, consultancy projects were funded, bringing particularly the poor in the Global South, our total external collaborative income to are under urgent threat from loss of Earth’s AU$822,864, which shows a steady trend If I were to be invited to select natural life support systems. within the last triennium. one single highlight of the year in review, I would pick the burst As one of the largest dedicated concentration During 2018-2019 we continued our into scene of Greta Thunberg, the of socio-cultural researchers in Australia, the collaborations with international organizations predicaments of the global ecological crisis, including UNICEF and UNESCO. We 16-year-old neurodiverse Swedish is one among many fields of intervention deepened our partnerships with a wide range activist who in August 2018 where the ICS is making a mark nationally of city councils including Berlin, Hobart, began sitting outside the Swedish and internationally. The year 2018 marked an Christchurch, and in Sydney, with Inner West Parliament every Friday, and important year for the national and global Council, Liverpool, Blacktown, Parramatta and started the #FridaysForFuture consolidation of the Institute, spearheading Canterbury-Bankstown City Councils. We also our model of engaged research in the continued our relationship with government protests that have galvanized critical humanities and social sciences, that through projects with Landcom, the NSW a generation of young people endeavours to better understand, interpret, Office of Environment and Heritage, the NSW around the world, who many anticipate and respond to the challenges of Department of Education and Create NSW. commentators had written off changing cultural and social landscapes. Our ICS membership continued to expand in as apolitical. wide-ranging research during 2018 covered from the economic futures that respond to 2018-2019 as we persisted in seeking new rapidly transforming work-landscapes and modes of collaborations with other Institutes, ecological challenges, to a critical inquiry Research Centres and Schools across the into the computational conditions that university. We co-hosted events with Schools organize the world, and from questions about of Law, Humanities and Communication how can positive diversity flourish locally Arts, Education and Social Sciences and and globally under conditions of uneven Psychology. The number of School-based globalisation, to providing tools and methods members of the Institute in 2018-2019 rose for guiding sustainable urban development, to 28, with ICS welcoming George Morgan engaging disenfranchised individuals and (Humanities and Communication Arts), communities, improving the educational Youqing Fan (School of Business), Bonnie outcomes of students from culturally diverse Pang (School of Science and Health) and backgrounds, and rethinking policies on Hayley Saul (Social Sciences and Psychology) migration and refugees. This last point is most and endorsing Waldo Garrido (SHCA) as a important when considering that in 2018 new school-based member to start in 2019. global displacement was at a record high, with ICS is a diverse interdisciplinary community the number of internally displaced people of world-class researchers and its novel

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approaches were recognised in important New Consumer Cultures in the Global South Over three years, it assessed the influence of ways in 2018. First, through the establishment led by Anna Pertierra (SHCA school based transnationalism, digitalisation, migration and of a new Young and Resilient Research member) to commence in 2019 with a value multiculturalism, and the distinctive presence Centre (Y&RRC), co-directed by ICS of $235,000; and one ARC Linkage Project, of Indigenous culture, on the relations researchers Amanda Third and Philippa Collin. Heritage Making among Recent Migrants in between culture, class, gender, ethnicity and Leveraging an established network of more Parramatta led by Denis Byrne and Emma nation in Australia. During 2018-2019, the ACF than 100 stakeholders, the new Y&RRC is a Waterton (SSSP school based member), attracted the interest of the ABC’s Class Act collaboration between six schools and two also to commence in 2019, with a value of radio series which included an interview with institutes at Western Sydney University, that $165,000 and in partnership with the Office of Tony Bennett on the relations between class, will map young people’s engagement with Environment and Heritage and The Heritage culture and inequality in Australia. The series digital technologies, identify how to support Council of NSW. was accompanied by a quiz, Good Taste, the resilience of marginalised young people Bad Taste? What Your Habits Reveal About using technology-based and intergenerational In 2018-2019, ICS researchers were again Social Class, derived from the project in which strategies, and refine ways of translating successful in a range of grants, including as participants compared the relations between high-quality evidence into policy and practice. part of research teams with other universities their cultural tastes and social characteristics Secondly, through the results from the first in the prestigious National Health Medical with selected findings from the ACF survey. It ARC Engagement and Impact Assessment Research Council (NHMRC) grants. One of was the top-ranked article on the ABC News which came to complement the excellent these was Understanding and Promoting the website by average time spent on page and results achieved in the Excellence Research Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Mental was liked 90k times on FB. Australia (ERA) 2018. Of the 23 impact Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander case studies and 21 engagement narratives LGBTIQ Young People, led by Karen Soldatic, This very short review does not make justice submitted by Western Sydney University, and another was CRE in Adolescent Health: to all the work that took place at ICS during four were projects led by ICS researchers and Making Health services Work for Adolescents 2018–2019. As Portuguese sociologist School-based ICS members. Of these, two in a Digital Age, led by Philippa Collin, with Boaventura de Sousa Santos says, we live in received maximum distinction across the three Amanda Third and Teresa Swist. Tanya Notley times of tough questions and weak answers. criteria, engagement, impact and approach to (SHCA school based member) was awarded By this he means that it is by asking tough impact. The Circles of Sustainability: Providing an important university research partnership questions that at the end we can address Practical Tools for Creating Sustainable grant, to undertake a collaborative project matters of concern. Matters that may Cities Project, led by Paul James, with Liam with the Museum of Australian Democracy ultimately shape the foundations and horizons Magee and Juan Salazar; and Young and and Google on Advancing the News Media of possibilities within which we may choose Resilient: Transforming Research, Policy Literacy of Young Australians, valued to act upon. This short review is a humble call and Practice to Maximise the Benefits of at $130,000. to continue to work collectively to develop a Digital Technologies for Young People, led generative vision for the Institute that spells by Amanda Third, with Philippa Collin and ICS researchers published and edited several out how we want to work together to tackle Teresa Swift. Two other projects also scored important monographs and collections in some of the most complex cultural, political, high distinctions in impact and approach to 2018, which are outlined in more detail in economic and ecological problems of our impact: Empowering Museums and Science subsequent sections of this Annual Review. time, a vision that also is forward-thinking, Centres as Change Agents in Global Climate One highlight of 2018-2019 was the publishing future-oriented and critically inventive. One Change Interventions, led by Fiona Cameron, of Making Culture: Commercialisation, that provides a platform for spearheading with Brett Neilson, Bob Hodge, Juan Salazar, Transnationalism, and the State of ‘Nationing’ collaboration, innovation, and, inter/trans- and Ben Dibley; and Aboriginal Community in Contemporary Australia, the first book to disciplinary work, and that capture the public’s Capacity Building: Facilitating Generational come out of the Australian Cultural Fields attention, interest and imagination in a range Knowledge Transfer through Engagement with (ACF), a Discovery Project (2014-2016) led of ways. the Strehlow Collection, led by Hart Cohen, by Tony Bennett which has been one of with Rachel Morley (SHCA), and Juan Salazar. the largest ever projects ever undertaken Professor Juan Francisco Salazar at the ICS, encompassing a stellar research ICS Research Director In terms of Australian Research Council team including Ien Ang, Michelle Kelly, Greg Sydney, May 2019 (ARC) Grants, 2018-2019 was again a positive Noble, Anna Pertierra, David Rowe, Tim year. ICS had one ARC Discovery project Rowse, Deborah Stevenson, and Emma commencing in 2018, UNESCO and the Making Waterton. Focusing on art, literature, media, of Global Cultural Policy, led by Deborah sport, music and heritage, the Australian Stevenson, with a total value of $435,599; Cultural Fields project examined the forces one ARC Discovery project awarded in 2018, changing contemporary Australian culture.

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ICS Research Staff Activity

KAY ANDERSON IEN ANG TONY BENNETT Professor Kay Anderson continued work In 2018, Professor Ien Ang published Professor Tony Bennett’s activities focused on the Australian Research Council Linkage (mostly in collaboration with others) two chiefly on his convening roles in relation Project ‘Sydney’s Chinatown in the Asian book chapters, two refereed journal articles, to two projects funded by the Australian Century: From Ethnic Enclave to Global one research report, and one article for Research Council. His work on the ‘Australian Hub’, publishing a sole author article titled The Conversation. Work continued as a Cultural Fields’ project concentrated on ‘Chinatown disoriented: shifting standpoints in Chief Investigator, with Denis Byrne on developing two edited collections, one the age of China’, drafting a team manuscript the ARC-funded project on the Australia- presenting the project’s findings regarding based on the project, and presenting an China Heritage Corridor. She presented the social distribution of cultural tastes and invited paper at the Foundation for Australian keynote addresses at the ‘Sinophone practices in contemporary Australia, and Studies in China (FASIC) conference in meets Francophone’ conference at the the second focused on current debates and Chengdu in November. She also co-authored Humboldt University, Berlin, and at the 6th controversies relating to the Australian art a journal article in Environmental Humanities Foundation for Australian Studies in China field. Both collections, co-edited with other from an earlier ARC Discovery grant. Professor (FASIC) conference in Chengdu, China. members of the research team, have been Anderson retired in December 2018. She collaborated with Deborah Stevenson, contracted by an international publisher David Rowe, Liam Magee and others in the for publication in 2020. His work for the development of the Cultural Infrastructures ‘Assembling and Governing Habits’ project research program for ICS, focusing on cultural consisted of his research toward a book on infrastructure needs and planning in greater the political history of habit, and convening an metropolitan Sydney and building on research international workshop on the governance of partnerships with the City of Sydney and the habits. Professor Bennett was also active in Inner West Council. She chaired an external the dissemination of his research, presenting review committee for the Department of an opening keynote address at a one-day Communication at the University of Macau symposium focused on the ‘Australian and has been appointed external examiner Cultural Fields’ project held at King’s College, of the Global Issues Area of Inquiry at the University of London, and convening a joint University of Hong Kong. Ien was on long- workshop on questions of culture and class service leave for four months of the year. with the London School of Economics where he also presented a public lecture. He also presented aspects of his ongoing research into museums as opening keynote addresses at conferences in Copenhagen and Seoul.

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DENIS BYRNE FIONA CAMERON PHILIPPA COLLIN Associate Professor Denis Byrne continued Dr Fiona Cameron’s research activities in Associate Professor Philippa Collin co-led researching links between the built 2018 included an appointment for six months with Amanda Third a successful application environments of the ‘home villages’ of people at Linköping University as an international for WSU Strategic Research Initiative who migrated to Australia from Zhongshan investigator on the Bank of Sweden grant, ‘In funds. This five-year grant will establish the (Guangdong) in the mid-nineteenth century Orbit: Distributed Curatorial Agency when creation of the Young and Resilient Research and their places of settlement in Australia. As Museum Objects and Knowledge go Online’, Centre, incorporating the Intergener8 Living Chief Investigator for the ARC-funded project, and a Research Fellowship at the Museum Lab. The Centre will undertake engaged ‘The China-Australia Heritage Corridor’, of Applied Arts and Sciences for the project, research on the role of technology for he carried out fieldwork in Zhongshan in Ecologizing Experimentations. She was a promoting the resilience of young people May and November 2018, along with other keynote speaker for the PhD masterclass, and their communities. Philippa also co-led members of the project team, recording ‘Online Collections and Cultural Institutions” a research stream in the Wellbeing, Health numerous buildings constructed or renovated held at Linköping University, and at the and Youth Centre of Research Excellence by Australian members of the Zhongshan international symposium on ‘Museums and and, with Teresa Swist and Amanda Third, diaspora. He convened a panel on the built Climate Change’ at Manchester Museum. commenced the CRE project: ‘Co-creating heritage of migration at the Association of She was Visiting Research Fellow at the KTH, an Ethics of Engagement’, incorporating an Critical Heritage Studies in Hangzhou, China, Environmental Laboratory, Stockholm, and an intergenerational strategic roundtable in in September 2018, and published chapters on International partner on the Research Council July 2018 with 50 people. Philippa led a co- migrant place-making in two edited volumes of Norway project ‘Lifetimes: A Natural research and design project on employment on the heritage of migration. He also pursued History of the Present’, lead by the University programs for young people who are recently his investigation of coastal reclamations and of Oslo. She negotiated a Memorandum arrived or refugee. Working with the Marina de seawalls as type fossils of the Anthropocene, of Understanding with the Museum of Valencia, Spain, she co-created a framework inspecting sites in the Pearl River Delta. Tomorrow, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, for research to support a Living Lab to underpin the He published an article in the journal of collaborations and grant applications on inclusive and innovative transformation of Contemporary Archaeology, and two chapters climate change and museums. She conducted public spaces. Philippa co-authored two book on aspects of this study. In September he research on a New Zealand Marsden grant, ‘Te chapters and a journal article. She sat on the presented papers at conferences at University Ao Hou: Transforming worlds in New Zealand Scientific Advisory Committee of the Raising College London and Tromso University, 1900-1950’, and she was appointed to the Children Network, the advisory board for Norway, which developed the case for coastal International Council of Museums committee the TopBlokes Foundation, the Smith Family reclamations to be regarded as legacy sites of on Sustainability and Climate Change, and Digital Futures Advisory Committee and the Anthropocene. completed the revised manuscript, The future the cross-sector Technology and Wellbeing of digital data and heritage for MIT Press. Roundtable. She was a judge for the Whitlam Institute’s ‘What Matters’ School Essay Competition.

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ANDREA CONNOR LOUISE CRABTREE BEN DIBLEY In 2018, Dr Andrea Connor continued her Dr Louise Crabtree secured funding from In 2018, Dr Ben Dibley continued research post-doctoral research for the Australian Landcom with Dr Neil Perry (School of on the ‘Governing and Assembling Habits’, Research Council Discovery Grant ‘Volumetric Business) and researchers from UTS and an Australian Research Council Discovery Urbanism’ with Professor Donald McNeill. She UNSW to undertake ‘Creating the City that project with Tony Bennett, Gay Hawkins, Greg conducted research interviews with built- We Want’, focusing on creating diverse and Noble and Nikolas Rose. He also continued environment professionals across a range affordable housing in Sydney. Louise also working on publications associated with, first, of disciplinary areas to gain insight into the secured funding from Common Equity NSW his role on the Australian Research Council vertical geographies of cities. She presented with Dr Emma Power, Dr Neil Perry, and Dr Discovery project, ‘Australian Cultural Fields’ preliminary research findings on innovation Sidsel Grimstad (University of Newcastle), led by Tony Bennett and, second, on those around tall buildings in a paper on ‘Vertical for a pilot study ‘Articulating Value in Co- associated with the ARC Linkage project, Villages’ at the American Association of operative Housing’. Louise gave two papers ‘Making Animals Public: The Changing Role Geographers Conference in New Orleans in at the ‘Routes to Sustainability’ symposium of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in April. She also presented her research into in Chile and spoke at numerous community Building Public Value and Interest in Wildlife the People Movement Industry and its work and sector events on affordable housing. Documentary’ led by Gay Hawkins. Over the in optimising people flow at the Institute of As the Institute’s Director of Engagement, year, in collaboration with Fiona Cameron, he Australian Geographers conference in New Louise provided input into the University’s was involved in research development for a Zealand. Andrea published two articles in response to the inaugural Engagement and project on museums and climate change. In The Conversation, one of which was Impact Assessment, and ran a workshop 2018 he published three peer-reviewed papers republished in The Conversation Yearbook, on impact for Geography HDR students and a chapter. 2018 top 50 articles. for the Geographical Society of NSW. She convened the Masters Unit ‘Developing Sustainable Places’, incorporating fieldwork for the Landcom ‘Cooling the Commons’ project as the basis of student presentations to the research team, including Landcom staff. Louise gave a guest lecture on urban sustainability to Year 8 students at James Ruse Agricultural High School based on their year’s project brief and liaised with Landcom, with selected students’ group projects displayed and presented at Landcom’s ‘Co. Lab’ conference.

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KATHERINE GIBSON GAY HAWKINS STEPHEN HEALY During 2018, Professor Katherine Gibson Professor Gay Hawkins continued research In 2018, four projects took up Dr Stephen along with Stephen Healy, Joanne McNeill on the collaborative ARC-funded project Healy’s time, each of which connected diverse and Jenny Cameron (University of Newcastle) ‘Assembling and Governing Habits’. She forms of economic practice to processes of conducted workshops with manufacturing focused on the history and governance of social transformation. The ARC Discovery companies in NSW as part of her ongoing urban littering and the idea of distributed project ‘Reconfiguring the Enterprise’ entered ARC DP ‘Reconfiguring the Enterprise: habits. A paper on this research was its second year. Operations-level actors in Shifting the Culture of Manufacturing in presented at the University of Sydney and in ten Australian Manufacturing enterprises Australia’. She presented the Roepke Lecture November an international workshop on the across a range of scales and organisational on this project at the Annual Meeting of the Habit Project was held at Western Sydney forms were interviewed, paying attention to Association of American Geographers where University. Other research activities focused how their substantive activities allow us to she was also awarded the 2018 Distinguished on the cultures and politics of plastics. In collectively envision a just and sustainable Scholarship Honors Award. She co-organized September she co-hosted an international future of manufacturing in Australia. A second a paper session at the joint conference of the workshop at the University of Toulouse on project with Landcom involved a large group Institute of Australian Geographer and the ‘Economies of Detachment’ which explored of ICS researcher in reimagining Sydney’s New Zealand geographical Society with Lisa how to conceptualize transitions from built environment in ways that create more Law (James Cook University) and Ann Hill unsustainable practices. The papers from convivial and comfortable environments. (University of Canberra) based on her other this workshop will be published in a special In October, the team presented preliminary ARC DP ‘Strengthening Resilience in Monsoon issue of Consumption, Markets and Culture. findings at Landcom’s day-long Collab event. Asia’, to which partner researchers from Professor Hawkins was also part of a plenary With another group of New Zealand-based the Philippines and Indonesia contributed. panel on ‘Plastic Futures’ at the Petrocultures researchers, the team had a final workshop Throughout the year she worked with Kelly conference in Glasgow and presented a with planners and designers to consider Dombroski (University of Canterbury, NZ) public lecture at the University of Otago, New the role what role commons might play in on the forthcoming Handbook of diverse Zealand, on ‘Making Animals Public: the ABC reimagining vulnerable urban environments economies editing and interacting with and Early Wildlife Programs’. Publications like Christchurch. Lastly, with co-researchers 50 topic chapter authors and conducted a included two book chapters and two journal Katherine Gibson and Jenny Cameron, the writing workshop with the framing chapter papers as well as editing a special issue of team had a culminating workshop in the authors. As part of the ‘Cooling the Commons’ the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology on ‘Re-drawing Economy’ project, in Barking research team she worked on a project funded ‘The Time of Materials’. Three chapters sole London attended by artists and activist from by Landcom on addressing urban heat in authored by Professor Hawkins from the book Colombia, Finland, Korea, Belgium and the Sydney residential areas. Plastic water were translated into French and Netherlands who had been involved in prior published in France. stages of the project.

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BOB HODGE PAUL JAMES ISAAC LYNE Emeritus Professor Bob Hodge’s main focus Professor Paul James served as Director In 2018, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr of activity for the year was on advances of the Institute for Culture and Society, Isaac Lyne was engaged with ‘Seed Box in social semiotics, an academic field in focussing on consolidating appointments, International Environmental Humanities which he has played a seminal role. In Social deepening global engagement and enhancing Collaboratory’ headquartered at Linköping semiotics for a complex world he published the intellectual culture of the Institute. His University in Sweden. He undertook a a new version of this theory. He gave an research focussed on thinking through the 3-month residency in Faculty of Development invited keynote lecture on ‘Social Sciences as contradictions of contemporary globalization, Studies in Cambodia at the Royal University of Semiotics’ for a conference hosted by Russia’s with an emphasis on what he and his co- Phnom Penh, where he gave a series of three Immanuel Kant Baltic Federation University author, Manfred Steger (University of Hawaii) lectures and launched fieldwork exploring the devoted to the anniversaries of two seminal describe as the Great Unsettling of the human role of a plastic bottled water service franchise works in social semiotics, Michael Halliday’s condition. This process they characterize as part of a partnership strategy for ensuring Language as social semiotic of 1978, whose as reaching across basic ontological clean drinking water for all in rural Cambodian 40th anniversary fell in 2018, and Bob Hodge categories such as the nature of time, space, communities. He presented research and Gunther Kress’s Social semiotics of 1988, embodiment and knowing — exemplified in papers at the New Zealand Geographical whose 30th anniversary fell in the same year. the reconstitution of nature with the splitting Society, Institute of Australian Geographers He gave a keynote lecture for a symposium of the atom, the abstraction of finance with Joint Conference in Auckland, and at the on ‘Multimodality’ at Odense University in the relativisation of futures markets, or ‘Researching Postcapitalist Possibilities’ Denmark, analysing the semiotics of taste in the basis unsettling of knowledge with the Conference held at Western Sydney the famous Copenhagen restaurant, Noma. postmodern relativisation of social meaning. University. In 2018, Dr Lyne published articles Russia and Scandinavia are two leading Most of his engagement time went into further in Journal of Enterprising Communities: People University systems in the world in extending developing the Circles of Social Life approach, and Places in the Global Economy and Asia social semiotics, so these two conferences both as Scientific Advisor to the Mayor of Pacific Viewpoint, in which he addressed the were exciting occasions. He also published Berlin and Director of the Sustainable Cities rural social economy in Northern Cambodia an article applying social semiotics to Mexico, Collaboratory. He gave 10 keynote or invited and contributed to the collation of keywords ‘The semiotics of corruption: ideological addresses globally, including in Ferrara for economic resilience in Monsoon Asia in complexes in Mexican politics’. His co-authors, (Italy), Leuphana and Berlin (Germany), partnership with scholars in from across the Eva Salgado and Frida Villavicencio, are the Johannesburg and Cape Town (South Asia Pacific and South Asia. Mexican members of a team which is applying Africa), and Guangzhou (China), as well as social semiotics to emerging issues in two in Australia. He continued to work as Mexican politics. a Publications Editor of Arena Journal and Convening Editor of Postcolonial Studies.

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LIAM MAGEE DONALD MCNEILL BRETT NEILSON Dr Liam Magee continued his leadership Professor Donald McNeill worked with Professor Brett Neilson completed with Ned Rossiter of the Digital Life Program, Andrea Connor and Simon Marvin on the work on an Australian Research Council through which they organised a series of second year of their ARC Discovery project, Discovery project entitled ‘Logistics as workshops and seminars on trends in artificial ‘Volumetric Urbanism’. Their Conversation Global Governance’. He also continued intelligence, automation and gender, and article on elevators and escalators achieved research for another Discovery called ‘Data post-digital conditions. With Paul James and over 73,000 reads, and was featured in Centres and the Governance of Labour and Karen Soldatic, he led a report co-authored the Conversation’s 2018 annual. He also Territory’ (with Ned Rossiter and Tanya with Western Sydney Migrant Resource collaborated with WSU’s Kylie Budge and Notley). In collaboration with research from Centre, Circles of social life, Liverpool: settling Chris Knapp on a Landcom project, ‘New Leuphana University, Professor Neilson strangers; supporting disability needs. He Generation Workspace’. As University Theme (with Ned Rossiter and Tsvetelina Hristova) conducted research on an ARC Linkage Champion in Urban Living, he co-led a also completed research on a project Project with Juan Salazar, Paul James, successful bid to establish a Clinical Academic funded by Universities Australia and the Elizabeth Leane and international partner Group within the Maridulu Budyari Gumal German Academic Exchange Service on investigators, ‘Antarctic Cities and the Global (SPHERE) health research alliance called logistics, migration and China’s Belt and Commons’, which included development of ‘Healthy Urban Environments’, in partnership Road Initiative. He delivered a keynote a game prototype and workshop in Hobart. with UNSW, UTS and two Local Health address at a conference in Kolkata, India, Together with Andrea Pollio, Ien Ang, David Districts. He was principal supervisor of three entitled ‘Infrastructures beyond Frontiers’, Rowe, Deborah Stevenson, Teresa Swist PhD candidates, Tayanah O’Donnell, Jack organised by Calcutta Research Group and Alex Wong, he developed two reports Parkin, and Andrea Pollio, who were awarded and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. He on cultural infrastructure for City of Sydney their doctorates in 2018. He was named on gave invited papers at Oxford University, and Inner West Council, ‘Cultural Creation the urban policy strand of the successful CRC National Chiao Tung University, the University and Production in the Inner West LGA: A bid in Future Food Systems, working with of Melbourne and the University of New Case-Study Needs Analysis and Planning WSU’s Hawkesbury Institute. He chaired the South Wales. Professor Neilson was also an Cultural Creation’ and ‘Production in Sydney: Landcom ‘Communities of Practice’ stream invited participant at a workshop entitled A Venue and Infrastructure Needs Analysis’. in Planning, Governance and Partnerships; ‘Infrastructure and Logistics’ organized by the He was a Committee Member of Digital his research formed part of the NSW editorial board of the journal Theory, Culture Cultures: Knowledge/Culture/Technology, and Government’s Innovation Precincts report. & Society. Additionally, he delivered an invited presented papers on his research in Sydney He completed his third year as member of the paper at the twentieth anniversary of the and Germany. Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Cultural and Communication Studies section Panel of the Australian Research Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. College of Experts. He also began his term as He published the edited volume Logistical Chair of the Urban Studies Foundation. Asia: the labour of making a world region (with Ned Rossiter and Ranabir Samaddar).

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GREG NOBLE EMMA POWER SHANTHI ROBERTSON Professor Greg Noble focused on several Dr Emma Power continued work on her In 2018 Dr Shanthi Robertson completed research projects during 2018. His main ARC DECRA Fellowship ‘Ageing, Home her ARC DECRA fellowship on ‘Temporality, research centred on the ‘Mapping the and Housing Security among Single, Asset- Mobility and Asian Temporary Migration to Educational Experiences of Refugee Students’ Poor Older Women’. The project is part of Australia’. She launched the project website project, (with Megan Watkins) funded by the a broader program of research examining and ran a two-day workshop on ‘Mobile Lives NSW Teachers Federation, which led to a the interconnection between housing “In-Between”: Rethinking Transnationalisms major report for the Federation. He continued governance and home-making cultures of the Middle’. The workshop featured keynote working on the ‘Assembling and Governing through analysis of the politics of care and addresses from Professor Pei-Chia Lan Habits’ project, with Tony Bennett, Gay housing security, ageing, home and housing from National Taiwan University and Dr Nick Hawkins, Nikolas Rose and Ben Dibley, as well security, and pets and urban cultures. Emma Osbaldiston from James Cook University. as developing publications from data from gave a keynote address at the ‘Cities of Other research highlights for the year the ‘Australian Cultural Fields: National and Care’ Symposium, Melbourne, and at ‘Make included a research visit and keynote address Transnational Dynamics’ project, led by Tony Renting Fair’, Parliament House, NSW, and at the ‘Borders and Boundaries’ conference Bennett. Greg also published an edited book, was an invited panellist discussing housing at Lancaster University, a keynote address two book chapters and a refereed journal as care infrastructure at the National Housing at The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship article. He gave several invited scholarly Conference, Melbourne. Emma also presented and Globalization Flagship Conference and presentations and keynotes during the year, at the Institute of Australian Geographers/ the publication of a Special Issue titled Mobile including at the University of Montreal, the New Zealand Geographical Society aspirations? youth im/mobilities in the Asia- Australian National University and Griffith conference in Auckland, the ‘Affordable Pacific in the Journal of Intercultural Studies. University, as well as several professional Living in Sustainable Cities’ World Congress, She also continued work on her ‘Youth addresses, at the NSW Teachers Federation Newcastle, the ‘Housing Theory’ Symposium, Mobilities, Aspiration and Pathways’ Discovery Centenary Conference and at Kogarah High Wollongong, and gave an invited seminar in project with colleagues at Deakin University School. Greg continued in his roles as Deputy the School of Environmental and Life Sciences and the University of Western Australia. HDR Director and Deputy Research Program Seminar Series, University of Newcastle. convenor. He also continued to supervise a Emma began work on a project evaluating large number of HDR students and to teach in the social value of co-operative housing with the Master of Research. Louise Crabtree and Neil Perry (School of Business), partnered with the Cooperative Housing Network in Australia. She also worked with Abby Mellick Lopes, Louise Crabtree, Stephen Healy, Katherine Gibson, Cameron Tonkinwise and Helen Armstrong on a ‘Cooling the Commons project’ funded by Landcom.

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NED ROSSITER DAVID ROWE TIM ROWSE Professor Ned Rossiter continued his Emeritus Professor David Rowe presented Emeritus Professor Tim Rowse’s research leadership with Liam Magee of the Digital Life his research at 15 academic events, including proceeded on two fronts: the sociology of Program, through which they organised a two he initiated at international sites. David contemporary Australia (‘Australian Cultural series of workshops and seminars on trends in spoke at the ‘Australian Cultural Fields: Fields’); and the history of Australia’s artificial intelligence, automation and gender, Trajectories of Taste and Policy’ (King’s colonisation of Indigenous Australians. and post-digital conditions. With Dr Armin College London) and ‘Cultural Capital and Within the ‘Cultural Fields’ project he worked Beverungen (Siegen/Leuphana), Rossiter Inequality in the 21st Century’ (London School on three pieces including editing a book was co-chair of ‘Digital Cultures: Knowledge/ of Economics) symposia. He delivered a to be published in 2019 as The difference Culture/Technology’, a conference co-hosted Korea Society for Media and Sport Keynote identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital with international strategic partner the Centre Address in Seoul and presented at (Trans) in Australian cultural fields. At the invitation for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University in National Cultural Fields, Linkoping University, of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Lüneburg, Germany. He conducted research Sweden and the International Communication he wrote a short piece on Professor C.A. on an ARC Discovery Project with Brett Association Conference, Prague. Other oral Gibb, based on his papers in the National Neilson, Tanya Notley and international research papers included at the International Library of Australia. As well, he wrote a partner investigators, ‘Data Centres and the Sociology of Sport Association World paper contextualising the ‘Gibb Report’ of Governance of Labour and Territory’. He Congress, Lausanne; at Kent and Cardiff 1972, an influential government report about published the book, Organization after social Universities, and in Loughborough University Aboriginal people on Northern Territory cattle media, co-authored with Geert Lovink. With London’s Prestige Lecture Series. David stations. Both pieces have been accepted for Brett Neilson and Ranabir Samaddar, he co- was awarded the Journal of Policy Research publication. In October 2018, he hosted (with edited a volume stemming from the Logistical in Tourism, Leisure & Events (Routledge) Dr Laura Rademaker) a workshop funded by Worlds ARC Discovery Project, ‘Logistical Best Policy Paper Prize at the Leisure the Academy of Social Sciences Australia on Asia: The Labor of Making a World Region’. Studies Association Conference, Bath. the theme ‘How shall we write the history of He also published a chapter, translated His Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and Indigenous self-determination?’. Editing these into German, on automated labour and the Futures (Bloomsbury) was an Outstanding papers for publication as a book commenced logistical state in Urban consequences of Book Selection of the National Academy shortly after the workshop. In December global logistics, and co-authored three other of Sciences, Republic of Korea, and at 2018, he participated, as an invited presenter book chapters. Rossiter continued his duties the Australian Sociological Association in a conference on the history of Indigenous in 2018 as a Member of the ARC’s College of Conference, Melbourne he received the people of Taiwan, hosted by Academia Sinica, Experts. He was invited to present keynote Distinguished Service to Sociology Award. on ‘Reserves for Indigenous People: Strategies addresses and papers on his research at David published one edited book, five book in the English-speaking New World’. conferences and workshops in China, Taiwan, chapters, four journal articles and two Germany and Sydney. research reports, and engaged in extensive public communication and discussion of his research through print, broadcast and online media.

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JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR KAREN SOLDATIC DEBORAH STEVENSON In 2018, Associate Professor Juan Francisco Throughout 2018 Dr. Karen Soldatic In 2018, Professor Deborah Stevenson Salazar completed his second year as worked with a range of organisations, civil commenced work on the ARC Discovery Research Director of the Institute, and as society and communities to disseminate the project ‘UNESCO and the Making of Global Research Theme Champion (Environment and findings of her long standing research in the Cultural Policy’, undertook activities Sustainability), Office of the DVC Research. area of disability rights, justice and social associated with the ‘Australian Cultural He continued work as Lead Chief Investigator inequality, with a particular focus on her ARC Fields’ Discovery Project, and was a member on the ‘Antarctic Cities’ Australian Research DECRA Project ‘Disability Income Reform of the team contracted to examine cultural Council Linkage Project, and published two and Regional Australia: The Indigenous infrastructure for Inner West Council. She journal articles. One was on the temporalities Experience’ and ‘Women with disabilities also led a major study of the social impact of ice and the politics of ice-coring practices in War effected areas of Sri Lanka’. This of the arts for Create NSW. In addition, she in Antarctica in the Journal of Contemporary resulted in numerous successful critical policy delivered the Department of Planning and Archaeology; and another on the political engagements in both Australia and Sri Lanka Environment Local Character Public Lecture, ontologies of soils for the journal Nature alongside a range of significant publications. and accepted invitations to speak at the and Culture (with Céline Granjou). Juan was In partnership with the Centre for Aboriginal University of Linköping, Sweden, the Menzies invited by Thomson Reuters Foundation to Economic Policy Research, Australian National Centre for Australian Studies, London, the ‘Uncovering Security’ Story Lab initiative University, Karen was awarded a new ARC the London School of Economics, and the in London. This was followed with seed Discovery Project (CI 3) for the 2018-2020 conference of the American Association funding to lead a three-day workshop on on ‘New Public Management, Aboriginal of Geographers. Edward Elgar contracted environmental memory in Colombia with local Organisations, and Indigenous Rights’. her to write the monograph Cultural policy grassroots organizations. He was awarded beyond the economy: work, value, and the an Ostrom Fellowship at Indiana University, social, she coedited the Routledge Companion which was followed by visiting professorships to urban media and communication, and at Temple University, and New York University. had papers published by the International He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Journal of Cultural Policy; Making culture: Humanities at Universidad Diego Portales commercialisation, transnationalism, and the in Chile. He joined Future Earth Australia’s state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary Australia national reference group on Sustainable (Routledge); Anthology of cultural policy Cities and Communities. He was awarded (Transcript); Handbook of feminisms in competitive funding from Screen Australia to sport, leisure and physical education complete the film The bamboo bridge made (Palgrave); and the Routledge companion in collaboration with Katherine Gibson and to urban media and communication. Also produced by Matadora Films. published was the Chinese translation of her Routledge monograph Cities of culture: a global perspective.

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MALINI SUR TERESA SWIST AMANDA THIRD Dr Malini Sur, Senior Research Fellow, Most of Dr Teresa Swist’s research related Associate Professor Amanda Third worked published on citizenship, displacement and to Living Lab activities associated with with Philippa Collin and a team of Western gendered identities in 2018. These drew the Wellbeing Health and Youth Centre researchers to make a successful bid for upon her fieldwork along the Bangladesh- of Research Excellence. This involved co- University funding for a Young and Resilient India borderlands and with South Asian research and co-design workshops with Strategic Research Initiative. Commencing asylum seekers in Europe. She co-led a young people, healthcare professionals, in 2019, this entity will conduct research widely attended roundtable and panel researchers, and representatives from youth on how to leverage technology to support on ‘Borders, States and Territories in the organisations. Two key outputs included an intergenerational resilience. Amanda’s Anthropological Imagination’ at the American ‘Ethics of Engagement Framework’, alongside scholarly work focused primarily on the Anthropological Congress. The Polis Project the foundation model for an Adolescent issue of children’s rights in the digital age, (New York) invited her to present her research Health Research Commission. With four contributing to the University’s efforts on India’s new citizenship register for their young people involved in the project, she to deliver on their commitment to the series on ‘Suddenly Stateless’. In addition, co-designed a workshop to present these Sustainable Development Goals. She she delivered papers at the Asian Studies insights at the Australian Association of worked on a series of grants, including Association of Australia Conference and at the Adolescent Health Youth Forum. During the to develop child-centred indicators for Society for Social Studies of Science Annual year, she shared her research at a number violence prevention; and to develop a Conference. She was also invited to present of international conferences: ‘Philosophy of General Comment on Children’s Rights in her borderlands research at anthropology Human-Technology Relations’, Netherlands: the Context of the Digital Environment. She colloquiums at the University of Sydney ‘Crossroads in Cultural Studies’, China; sat on the NSW Government Review into and Macquarie University. As a part of her and ‘Digital Culture: Knowledge/Culture/ the non-educational use of smartphones in commitment to public anthropology, Malini Technology’, Germany. In addition, she schools. Amanda gave keynote addresses holds advisory positions at Praajak and successfully led a team-submission which at the Adobe Experience Symposium and the Seagull Foundation, India. Her recently was awarded Urban Living Theme seed funds the Netsafe and eSafety Commissioner’s completed documentary film, Life cycle, for a project called ‘Library as Infrastructure’. conference, and an invited address at the exploring the relationship between bicycling This funded a workshop with researchers, OECD World Forum on Knowledge, Statistics and cities, was screened at ‘Displacements’, as well as public and academic library and Policy. She supervised five HDR students the Biennial Conference for the Society for representatives, to explore the diverse facets to completion. Amanda was appointed to sit Cultural Anthropology. and issues facing libraries (with insights on the Creative Arts and Humanities Panel for to inform a longer-term project). She also the inaugural ARC Engagement and Impact published two co-authored articles relating to Assessment. Alongside Prof. Virginia Schmied, her other research interests: creative actions Amanda continued in her role as Western to support more equitable forms of scholarly Sydney University’s Health and Wellbeing publishing, and inclusive cities. Research Theme Champion.

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EMMA WATERTON MEGAN WATKINS JESSICA WEIR Associate Professor Emma Waterton Professor Megan Watkins is an Institute Dr Jessica Weir, in her fractional capacity, divided her attention across four research Fellow and Higher Research Degrees Director continued to work on her Bushfire and Natural areas in 2018. Her major focus was with the in the Institute for Culture and Society. During Hazards CRC project ‘Hazards, Culture, and relationship between heritage, emotion and 2018, along with Professor Greg Noble and Indigenous Communities’. Her research affect, which found expression in a number Dr Alex Wong, she completed the data activities in 2018 include a case study research of book chapters focused on her research collection and analysis for the ‘Mapping the in the Canberra region, a knowledge exchange at the Pearl Harbor memorial complex. She Educational Experiences of Refugee Students’ trip with south-western Australia and hosted also continued to explore engagements project, commissioned research funded by by Ngadju, Nyungar/Noongar peoples, with heritage in contemporary Australia the New South Wales Teachers Federation and attending the National Indigenous through her work on the ARC-funded project (NSWTF). The report based on the project Fire Workshop. Dr. Weir co-authored a ‘Australian Cultural Fields: National and findings, It’s complex: working with students journal article and a industry report and Transnational Dynamics’, led by Professor of refugee Backgrounds and their Families gave research and industry conference Tony Bennett. Her collaborative work with in NSW Public Schools, was published by and workshop presentations. Dr Weir also Dr Hayley Saul developed through the the NSWTF in December, and will inform continues to extend the findings of her consolidation of research activities in rural professional learning materials for NSW BNHCRC project ‘Scientific Diversity, Scientific Nepal and the continuation of a project on teachers to be produced next year. Megan Uncertainty’ into the use of science by wildfire memory, heritage and landscape in Mongolia. also published an article related to Bourdieu’s and floodrisk practitioners, including reporting The latter two activities were undertaken work on pedagogy in the British Journal on results at a seminar hosted by the natural in conjunction with the NGO FIRE. Emma of Sociology of Education, together with hazard sector in Darwin, and providing a produced three co-edited collections in drawing on data from the ‘Australian Cultural synthesis report for the BNHCRC. 2018, all with Routledge: 1. Making culture: Fields’ project to write a chapter on cultural commercialization, transnationalism and the capital and the reproduction of educational state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary Australia; inequality to appear in a Routledge collection 2. Affective geographies of transformation, associated with the broader project. During exploration and adventure; and 3. the the year Megan gave a keynote at the Oceania Routledge companion to landscape studies Ethnography and Education Conference at (second edition). She continued to serve Deakin University and an invited paper at the on the editorial boards for the International Association of American Geographers Annual Journal of Heritage Studies, Sustainability and Conference in New Orleans. Megan also the Journal of Heritage Tourism, and in 2018 undertook various activities related to her role she transitioned into the role of Managing as ICS HDR Director. Editor for the journal, Landscape Research.

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ALEX WONG ANNA YEATMAN During 2018, Dr Alex Wong undertook four Professor Anna Yeatman’s research activity projects: a three-year ARC Discovery project was primarily centred on two projects: on ‘The China Australia Heritage Corridor’, firstly, the completion of the publication two consultancy projects on ‘Planning Culture’ process for The triumph of managerialism: and ‘Mapping the Educational Experiences new technologies of government and their of Refugee Students’, each commissioned by implications for value, published in September the City of Sydney and the NSW Teachers’ 2018. She was the lead co-editor, and did all Federation, respectively, and a baseline study the administrative work including working for the re-activation plan of with the copy-editor. Secondly, she engaged WSU’s campus in Lithgow — ‘Lithgow in several iterations of responding to the Sustainable Development’ . Uluru Statement and the final report of the Referendum Council, the first of which In 2018, Dr Wong published two book involved a symposium co-organised at the chapters, two journal articles and one Whitlam Institute in February 2018. In the commissioned consultancy report. She co- course of this work, she wrote three distinct authored with Prof Ien Ang a book entitled though related presentations on how non- Chinatown Unbounded: Trans-Asian Urbanism Indigenous Australia should understand the in the Age of China that is due to publish Uluru Statement (and Final Report) as a claim in January 2019. Her consultancy report, in public law. published in April for the City of Sydney received very positive feedback. Dr Wong co-authored an article on The Conversation in 2018 to disseminate the research results of the project and engage discussion with the public. Her consultancy report for the NSW Teachers’ Federation on refugee students is complete and due to release to public in January 2019. Dr Wong is currently working on the production of a website and preparation of two book chapters for the China Australia Heritage Corridor project.

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JAMES ARVANITAKIS BRETT BENNETT KYLIE BUDGE In 2018, Professor James Arvanitakis was Associate Professor Brett Bennett continued Dr Kylie Budge worked on a Landcom- appointed the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research ICS’s longstanding engagement with South funded project ‘Generation Workspace and Graduate Studies) at Western Sydney Africa by starting working in South Africa and Precinct Activation’ with scholars from University. Despite this administrative for half of the year with the University of Western Sydney University and University of position, Professor Arvanitakis continued Johannesburg. He started discussions about Sydney, and conducted a makerspace case his engaged research. He continued to work co-badged postgraduate degree options in study in Marrickville, Sydney. She began a on his ‘Citizen Scholar’ project as well as the humanities and social sciences between collaboration with the State Library of NSW researching citizenship, globalisation and the WSU and the University of Johannesburg. on a project called ‘#newselfwales’ exploring impact on young people. In 2018, Professor In 2018, he led two teaching trips to the how cultural audiences and social media Arvanitakis published a number of papers Kruger National Park for Western Sydney contribute to developing a sense of people including Ka collaboration with the University students, the 7th and 8th he has run in total. and place. Dr Budge published three journal of Technology, Sydney (UTS), looking at He published a co-authored (with Gregory articles focusing on museum visitor-generated ‘Civics and citizenship education: What have Barton, HCA) article ‘The enduring link content on Instagram. She co-authored an we learned and what does it mean for the between forest cover and rainfall : a historical article for the The Conversation on Instagram, future of Australian democracy?’ (published perspective on science and policy discussions’ art and audiences, which was amplified in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice). in the journal Forest Ecosystems, rated in the across mainstream media. Dr Budge taught He also established a research cluster within top tier for forestry by Scimago ratings. The in undergraduate units in the Bachelors the University focussing on ‘data ethics’ article was the result of a fully paid trip to of Communication and Design (Visual and sourced a grant from the Australian China by Beijing Forestry University in 2016. Communication), gave a guest lecture in the Communications Consumer Action Network The article was cited in a UN Report on forests Master of Digital Humanities and a session at (with Dr James Meese, UTS) to investigate and water and has been cited extensively in the Digital Humanities Down Under Summer the way corporations collect and use data. major science and geography journals. School. She presented at the annual meeting Professor Arvanitakis continued his strong of the American Association of Geographers media presence with regular segments in New Orleans, and was a panel member on ABCNews24. He continued his close on a remote presentation to the ‘Studying collaboration with the arts community and Instagram Beyond Selfies’ conference hosted curated exhibitions in Sydney, including by Middlesex University, London. She served fulfilling the role of Chairperson of Diversity on the board of the Australasian Consortium Arts Australia, on the Board of the Public of Humanities Research Centres and assisted Education Foundation, Academic in judging the State Library NSW Fellowships. Fellow at the Australia India Institute and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Policy Development.

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ROBYN BUSHELL HART COHEN ANN DADICH Associate Professor Robyn Bushell is a Dr Ann Dadich published one book chapter, school-based member at ICS, located in the eight refereed articles, eight refereed School of Social Sciences and Psychology. In conference papers, and one research report. 2018, she continued heritage research and These outputs furthered scholarship on the fieldwork in South East Asia, collaborating in translation of knowledge to practice within different capacities with UNESCO, Vietnam health services. One of her co-authored World Heritage Office, Luang Prabang and articles involving ten clinicians, discussed Luang Prabang: Handle with Care. This what it takes to deliver brilliant palliative collaboration included completion of a project care. This article was published in a journal Improving the relationship between World of high impact and wide readership among Heritage, tourism and poverty reduction with managers and clinicians. This study attracted funding from the Australian ASEAN Council, considerable social media interest. Similarly, UNESCO and the Viet Nam Ministry of Culture, the ‘Mothers’ Day Letters’ project, a study led Sport and Tourism resulting in a report and by colleagues within the School of Nursing a meeting convened by the Prime Minister of and Midwifery, also received media interest Viet Nam to inform the review of the national in 2018, with reports communicated via regulations on heritage in Viet Nam. She the ABC and the Daily Telegraph. As part conducted a pilot assessment of the UNESCO of her contribution to the Australian and Visitor Management Assessment Tool in SE New Zealand Academy of Management, Dr Asia with funding from UNESCO and GIZ Dadich Co-Chaired the Health Management (German Aid). The report was workshopped and Organisation Conference Stream and with the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture Co-Convened the Health Management and Tourism and senior heritage officials. She and Organisation Special Interest Group, was a contributor to the IUCN Best Practices encouraging engagement and scholarship in Protected Areas Guidelines Series with between and within academe and industry. Tourism and visitor management in protected She continued to lead an externally funded areas: guidelines for sustainability (2018). project using an innovative methodology This has now been translated into French and to understand breast-feeding care. These Spanish and to be translated into Portuguese scholarly pursuits contributed to her teaching and Chinese. role within the School of Business, where she co-ordinated and delivered the final-year unit ‘Creating Change and Innovation’, as well as supervising doctoral scholars.

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WALDO GARRIDO In 2018, Dr Waldo Garrido worked on a multi-authored monograph entitled, Música de Chiloé: folklore, syncretism, and cultural development in a Chilean aquapelago. This volume analyses the development of the islands’ distinct culture with a particular focus on music and dance. Key topics include the relation of tradition and modernity, the impact of tourism on cultural practice, and the relationship between social activism and music culture. The authors complement this focus with a discussion of their own creative SHEREE GREGORY engagements with the region through KATE HUPPATZ the production of the music album Viaje a In 2018, Dr Sheree Gregory was appointed Chiloé (2018) and through the work of the Associate Professor Kate Huppatz continued to the NSW Innovation and Productivity audiovisual ensemble The Moviolas (2015– to work on two key strands of research Council’s ‘Talent Flows’ Project Subcommittee 2018). Dr Garrido published two entries in in 2018: gendered labour and mothering — an ongoing research advisory role into the Sage international encyclopaedia of music projects. She finalised the pilot study, 2019. She convened the ‘Australian Screen and culture. These chapters were included ‘What Next? Beyond the Broderick Review Industry Roundtable’ with colleagues from ‘Nuava Cancion’ and an overview on the music into Gender Equity in the Military’ (with Dr the ICS and School of Business at WSU, the South America Music. Dr Garrido worked on Dagistanli) and continued the internally School of Creative Industries at the University a creative project that looks at Syrian migrant funded ‘Mothers’ Day Letters’ and ‘Parenting of South Australia, and industry guests: SBS; musicians in Berlin, Germany. This project in Public’ research projects with colleagues Screen Australia; Create NSW; Australian involves interviews and documentation at the School of Nursing. Dr Huppatz won Film, Television and Radio School; Screen that will be part of a monograph on music seed funding to commence a project on Producers Association; Women in Film and and migration. Dr Garrido is a member of gender, family and skilled labour migration, in Television (WIFT) Australia; Film Fatales, and the Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise collaboration with Dr Sara Amin (University the South Australian Film Commission. Sheree and Training, Macquarie University. This centre of the South Pacific) in 2019. She continued completed two funded research projects: first, has funded part of this project. her term as joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal ‘A review of executive leadership succession of Sociology. Dr Huppatz published a book planning in the higher education sector and chapter and co-authored article and worked implications for gender equality’, based on NICHOLE GEORGEOU on her second sole-authored monograph, interviews with 15 executives of universities Gender work and social theory. across Australia. It was funded by the WSU Vice Chancellor’s Gender Equity fund. Second, she collaborated on a national survey of the experiences of carers and parents in the Australian Screen Industry, with UTS and WIFT Australia, funded by Create NSW. This project resulted in the publication of two reports and policy impact in the South Australian and NSW screen industries. She coordinated three units, teams and taught ‘Emerging Leaders’ for the Executive MBA program in the Sydney Graduate School of Management.

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KI-WAI CHU JORGE KNIJNIK ALANA LENTIN Dr Kiu-wai Chu is an institute-based member Associate Professor Jorge Knijnik was Associate Professor Alana Lentin continued of ICS and a research fellow of Australia- a keynote speaker at the 5th International to serve as President of the Australian Critical China Institute for Arts and Culture (ACIAC). Conference on Sport for Social Change in Sao Race and Whiteness Studies Association. In 2018, he published chapters in edited Paulo, Brazil, where he has also delivered two The association organised a symposium volumes including The handbook of Asian workshops on ethnographic methods in sport with support from the ICS and the School of cinema and Cli-fi: a companion,as well as a for education research. He has presented a HCA on ‘Thinking Relationally About Race, theatre review article in The Conversation. He paper and launched his new book The World Blackness and Indigeneity in Australia’. She has presented in five international Cup Chronicles: 31 days that rocked Brazil (Fair was invited to join the editorial committee conferences. He is working on a single- Play Publishing) at the International Football of Ethnic and Racial Studies. She published authored book, tentatively titled Shanshui in History Conference Held at the Manchester one book chapter, one journal article and the Anthropocene: comparative ecocriticism City Football Club. He has also conducted two book reviews. The book series she edits in Chinese visual culture. He is co-editing field work for two funded research projects: at Rowman and Littlefield International, two edited volumes on the study of Asian ‘Unveiling the multicultural pedagogies of ‘Challenging Migration Studies’, published ecocinema and Sinophone studies. He sport: a case-study of Football United’ and an edited volume. She was a visitor at the has been invited as a guest lecturer for a ‘Developing LGBT+ Inclusive Supporter National Institute of Demography in Paris MOOC on ‘Asian Environmental Humanities: Groups in the Big Bash Cricket League’. He in May and the European Research Council Landscapes in Transition’, developed by was part of the advisory panel of the Media funded research project, RACE Face ID at University of Zurich and Coursera. He has Centre for Educational Research Australia. the University of Amsterdam in September. joined the editorial advisory boards of two She gave three talks during her time at new journals, Media+Environment (University Amsterdam, and also spoke at the Minor of California Press) and the Journal of Cosmopolitanisms Summer School organised Environmental Media. by the University Potsdam at Macquarie University, the inaugural conference of the Data Justice Lab in Cardiff, Sydney Medical School, and Multiculturalism New South Wales. She contributed articles to The Guardian, The Conversation, Monitor-Global Research on Racism, and ABC Religion and Ethics. She was interviewed for Radio 3CR, Radio Busan (Korea), ABC Adelaide, Radio 2SER, and Radio Adelaide.

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ABBY MELLICK LOPES GEORGE MORGAN TANYA NOTLEY Dr Abby Mellick Lopes was first investigator In 2018 Associate Professor George In 2018 Dr Tanya Notley continued on the Landcom project ‘Cooling Common Morgan’s book The Creativity Hoax? researching and supporting young Australians’ Spaces in Densifying Urban Environments’, Precarious Work and the Gig Economy, media literacy. Tanya received new funding with Stephen Healy, Emma Power, Louise co-authored with Dr Pariece Nelligan, was from the Museum of Australian Democracy Crabtree, Katherine Gibson, Vanicka Arora, published by Anthem Press, as was his (MoAD), Google Australia and Western Cameron Tonkinwise (UTS) and Helen chapter ‘Herding Cats: Colonising Creativity Sydney University to respond to emerging Armstrong (QUT). She continued her in the Urban Social Factory’ in an anthology questions regarding the changing role of ‘Learning Partnership’ with Sydney Water, edited by R Gill, A Pratt and T Virani, Creative news in relation to citizenship and democracy. building on findings from the 2017 project Hubs in Question (Palgrave). He undertook Tanya will use this funding to support young led by Gay Hawkins, ‘Understanding the research with Dr Sheree Gregory on their Australian’s engagement with a major five- Drivers of Public Trust in Sydney Water’. With ‘Co-Working in the Creative City’ project, year exhibit at MoAD to be opened in late Vanicka Arora she co-taught an intensive funded by a School of Humanities and 2019. Tanya was invited to discuss news media in the Design program at UTS based on Communication Arts internal grant, which literacy at a number of industry and academic ‘Cooling the Commons’ research. Abby looks at the rise of co-working in Sydney events and was interviewed about this topic wrote a Conversation article ‘Materials that and the distribution of co-working in urban on ABC Life Matters during Media Literacy makes things worse for our kids demand a and suburban areas. Morgan was invited to week. She published two book chapters, three rethink by designers’ with Sebastian Pfautsch speak in June on a panel with Professors Kate journal articles and an App. These publications and Matthew Blick, and presented a public Oakley (University of Glasgow) and Mark focused on news media literacy, the politics lecture as part of Sydney Ideas event ‘Spatial Banks (Leicester University) at the ‘Cultural of digital memory storage, Australian digital Inequality and Australian Cities in a Warming Economy after Neo-Liberalism’ conference at capacities and emotion mapping. Tanya World’ at the Sydney Environment Institute, Monash University on the theme of ‘Key issues continued work on the Australian Research University of Sydney. Abby spoke at the for the Next Decade: Post-Growth Creative Council Discovery project, ‘Data Centres and launch of WSROC’s ‘Turn Down the Heat Economies’. Morgan organised the visit of the Governance of Labour and Territory’ (with Strategy and Action Plan’. With Alison Gill, Professor Susan Luckman (University of South Ned Rossiter and Brett Neilson). This included Abby secured Digital Humanities Research Australia) and Emeritus Professor Phil Cohen work on an interactive installation that will Group funding to develop a digital platform (University of East London) to a seminar at explore the politics of data storage. Tanya also building on the Environment and Heritage ICS at which they both spoke. supported a successful funding application to research theme funded Cultures of Repair City of Sydney (Art and About Sydney) by the report (Sidoti, 2017). Abby continued her Berlin-based human rights and technology collaboration on the Transdisciplinary not-for-profit Tactical Technology Collective Living Lab and organics recycling with UTS (Berlin). They will now bring their major colleagues Dena Fam and Alexandra Crosby. interactive exhibit, The Glass Room, to Sydney in early 2020 and Tanya will coordinate WSU’s engagement.

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BONNIE PANG KEITH PARRY ANNA CRISTINA PERTIERRA Dr Bonnie Pan is currently Marie Skłodowska- Dr Keith Parry joined ICS as a school-based Associate Professor Anna Cristina Curie Fellow at the Leeds Beckett University member in 2018. He published a number of Pertierra’s most recent book, Media working on a project about Chinese students’ book chapters on the topic of sport spectating anthropology for the digital age (Polity), was physical activity, leisure and health-related and health and produced research reports for launched in February 2018. Later in the year, experiences in the United Kingdom. In the Sydney Sixers and Football Federation Associate Professor Pertierra was awarded 2018, she published six journal articles and Australia — the latter looking at the use of an ARC Discovery Grant for the project ‘New three book chapters. She completed a WSU football as a tool to aid refugee settlement. He Consumer Cultures in the Global South’. This Women’s Fellowship Award Grant on Chinese also worked on an ongoing funded research project constitutes her major current research International students’ health experiences project titled ‘Developing LGBT+ Inclusive focus, examining the emergence of new in NSW. A co-authored book Interpreting Supporter Groups in the Big Bash Cricket mass consumers in large urban communities the Chinese Diaspora: Socialisation, Identity League’. He continued to write extensively in four countries: China, the Philippines, and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu for The Conversation website, covering topics Mexico and Brazil. The investigatory team was accepted in 2018 and published in 2019 such as cheating by the Australian men’s includes three other researchers from the with Routledge. Her ‘Rethinking Health cricket team, the cost of sport participation, Philippines, Brazil and China-Australia. Experience and Active Lifestyles: Chinese and the role of casual sport in social cohesion. Associate Professor Pertierra won the 2018 Communities’ research program, established This last piece was also highlighted via a short Australian Anthropological Society Article in 2017, continues to secure external funding television report on The Feed, SBS Viceland Prize, for her article ‘Televisual experiences from individual donors. She gave a public titled ‘Foul play: are clubs killing community of poverty and abundance: entertainment talk to ACON on ‘Chinese youths need more sport’. He won a prestigious UN Day Media television in the Philippines’, Australian Journal sexual health education-here is why and Award from the United Nations Association of Anthropology. In her ‘home’ School of how?’, and a talk to ICS HDR seminar series on of Australia for the category ‘Promoting Humanities and Communication Arts, she is ‘Ethnographic research methods’. She is now Sustainable Cities and Communities’ for the Director of International and continues her working on a book on Diversity, diifference this combined media dissemination. Keith teaching activities. and social justice in physical education: made regular media appearances, including challenges and strategies in a translocated televised broadcasts with international world, contributing to the Routledge Studies news channels. in Physical Education and Youth Sport series. She also received the FHEA and was a nominee for WSU citation for outstanding contributions to student learning.

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HAYLEY SAUL JESSICA WHYTE XIANG REN Dr Hayley Saul, Senior Lecturer in Heritage Dr Xiang Ren worked with scholars from and Tourism, continues to focus on the YOUQING FAN Australia, Germany, United States, United heritage and archaeology of the Himalayas, Kingdom and South Africa in the Open In 2018, Dr Youqing Fan conducted his investigating culinary archaeology and post- Knowledge Book Sprint in April, resulting in Academic Development Program in Australia disaster themes. In 2018, Hayley became a co-authored book titled Open knowledge and China, including visiting the Social Policy ‘Tourism and Heritage’ focal person for the institutions: reinventing universities. A journal Research Centre at UNSW and several Chinese International Centre for Integrated Mountain article on China’s open-access developments institutions in Beijing, Wuhan, Chengdu and Development. In this role she is part of an (with Lucy Montgomery) was also published Tianjin. Apart from that, he attended four international team on the Mount Kailash this year, which attempts to shift the focus academic conferences (namely, CESA 2018 Sacred Landscape project, exploring the of open knowledge from advocacy to the conference at UTS, ILERA World Congress archaeology of this far western Nepalese investigation of its complexity and diversity at Seoul, URAP conference at UNSW, and pilgrimage and trade route, and building in different contexts. In July, he co-convened ANZAM 2018 at Auckland), presenting his sustainable heritage tourism livelihood an international symposium on Chinese digital research to audience from various disciplines initiatives. In addition, Hayley spent 2018 publishing and reading (with Zhiqiang Zhang), and establishing critical linkages with key conducting fieldwork for her forthcoming which brought together a diverse and rich researchers in his field. He also submitted monograph about prehistoric cuisines across group of researchers and explored publishing several manuscripts to high-impact journals. Eurasia, informed by her researches in Nepal futures in China and beyond. His current Two of them have been published in leading and Europe (with a team from the University research looks at the emergent practices of journals Habitat International and Asian of York, UK). These investigations also took Chinese online writing and digital publishing, Business and Management. One is under her to Mongolia (with Emma Waterton) where particularly the influence of platforms review with International Journal of Human she identified a trade-route valley on the and the participation of young people. He Resource Management. His collaborative steppe that is rich in prehistoric monuments presented several papers on relevant topics work on how Sydney is divided by the ‘latte and ripe for further archaeological in international conferences and completed line’ and type of employment has also been investigation. These researches on the a book chapter with Terry Flew and Yi Wong published by The Conversation and has Mongolian steppe will complement emerging on China’s digital creative industries in A attracted wide media attention including an debates that Dr Saul has been formulating Research Agenda for Creative Industries in-depth coverage by the Sydney Morning in the Himalayas, about the reasons and (Edward Elgar). He also has three Chinese Herald. He supervised two PhD students to methods of food globalisations in prehistory. publications released this year including a completion, whilst supervising another four Dr Saul (alongside Emma Waterton), chapter on the Australian publishing towards completion. One of those students continues to undertake the participatory industry in the Australian volume of the has submitted a review article co-authored design of the Langtang Heritage Trail with a ‘Cultural Markets in the Belt-and-Road with Dr Fan to high-impact journal for review. community in central Nepal. Countries’ series.

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Research Projects

RESEARCH PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY ICS RESEARCHERS IN 2018

COOLING COMMON SPACES 3. Produce a draft Pattern Book of best NO LONGER POOR, NOT MIDDLE IN DENSIFYING URBAN practice, incorporating principles CLASS: NEW CONSUMER CULTURES ENVIRONMENTS: A REVIEW OF identified from our international review. IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Conduct site visit of Landcom BEST PRACTICE AND GUIDE FOR 4. Researchers: Anna Cristina Pertierra (WSU), WESTERN SYDNEY RENEWAL redevelopments to assess the problems Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu (Ateneo De and opportunities for designing coolth in Abby Mellick Lopes (WSU), Manila), Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (Ateneo Researchers: public spaces—movement spaces as well Stephen Healy (WSU), Louise Crabtree De Manila) as spaces of respite, recreation and care. (WSU), Katherine Gibson (WSU), Emma Power (WSU), Cameron Tonkinwise (UNSW) 5. Conduct 2 workshops with industry Funding: Australian Research Council professionals and residents to (Discovery Project) Funding: Landcom 6. Finalise the pattern book in light of site Period: 2019-2022 visits and workshops and produce a Period: 2018 workable document for wider use by Project Summary: This project will advance building design professionals Project Summary: The aim of this project is understandings of how globalised economic and planners. to interrogate studies that have documented growth is transforming lives among low best practices to achieve thermal comfort income urban communities of the Global in cities with similar climate conditions to UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING South. In emerging economies, the former Sydney. It will address the gap in knowledge of THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL poor have become mass consumers; this how people move between inside and outside, WELLBEING AND MENTAL economic shift has consequences not only especially vulnerable populations—young, old HEALTH OF ABORIGINAL AND for material wellbeing, but also for social and mobility-challenged. Of particular interest TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER status, identity formation and belonging. The will be those spaces and social practices that LGBTIQ YOUNG PEOPLE project’s interdisciplinary cultural approach connect the private space of home with the focuses on four urban case studies located Researchers: Ashleigh Lin (WSU), Karen footpaths, shops, schools, parks, workplaces, in Mexico, the Philippines, China and Brazil. Soldatic (WSU), Braden Hill (Murdoch), Bep and other spaces that we share in common. Academic publications, public reports and Uink (Murdoch), Yael Perry (Telethon), Linda The appropriate solutions to be explored are an interactive website offering new data on Briskman (WSU) connected to design but also the realm of the changed global experience of urban life, have the potential to reshape social theories social practice – how do people stay cool? Funding: National Health and Medical of poverty and improve development policies How does this coolness contribute to the Research Council vitality, sociability, and even commercial life across the Trans-Pacific region. of cities? What design features allow for both Period: 2018-2021 comfort and mobility in the city, and what social practices are these enabling? Working Project Summary: Currently, there is no SOCIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS with Landcom and other relevant agencies empirical knowledge base for the interstice OF NSW ARTS, SCREEN AND such as the Land and Housing Corporation, of being Indigenous, LGBTIQ and young, and CULTURE PROGRAMS this project will review literature and practice how this intersection of identities contributes Researchers: Deborah Stevenson (WSU), to develop a pattern book communicating to SEWB and mental health. In this study, the Sarah Barns (WSU), Jacqueline Clements core principles of design that can enable cool research team seeks to directly address the (WSU) urban commons and inform templates for dearth of research and knowledge in the area. community cooling plans. The principal objective of the study is to better Funding: Create NSW understand how the interstice of Indigenous, Key objectives: LGBTIQ and youth identities impacts the Period: 2018 1. Conduct a comprehensive review of SEWB and mental health of this group to Project Summary: Through a combination of international literature on coolth in the enable the development of interventions general literature review, review and synthesis public domain, strategies for cooling to effectively support these young people. of available evaluation documentation activity pathways at a neighbourhood The project seek to identify, examine and provided by Create NSW, interviews and case scale, and social practices and document the SEWB and mental health of studies, this project will make available a mix conventions that contribute to Indigenous LGBTIQ young people in three of hard data, qualitative research findings, and thermal comfort. centres across Australia – Darwin, Sydney and Perth (from where we will also extend to impactful, anecdotal evidence of the role of 2. Devise a typology of shared-space the arts in achieving positive social impact. thermal comfort practices and design regional WA). strategies, including both best and worst practice types

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SUSTAINABLE CITIES CLOUDED DATA: TECHNOLOGIES CREATING THE CITY WE WANT: COLLABORATORY (METROPOLIS) AND POLICIES FOR BALANCING TACKLING THE BARRIERS TO Researcher: Paul James (WSU) INFORMATION PRIVACY AND USE HOUSING DEVERSITY IN NSW Researchers: Liam Magee (WSU), Ned Researchers: Louise Crabtree (WSU), Neil Funding: City of Berlin Rossiter (WSU), Brett Neilson (WSU) Parry (SoB)

Period: 2018-2020 Funding: REDI (WSU) Funding: Landcom

Period: 2018 Period: 2018-2019 NEW GENERATION WORKSPACE AND PRECINCT ACTIVATION Project Summary: The project surveys Project Summary: This project will examine Researchers: Donald McNeil (WSU), Kylie technologies and policy frameworks spatial models of housing that can satisfy a Budge (WSU), Chris Knapp relating to securing and analysing data in diverse array of family structures, cultural the cloud. Examples of technologies include groups and aging, to ask what might the city Funding: Landom homomorphic encryption and blockchains, look like, what opportunities for living within while examples of frameworks include the EU’s that city are revealed, and what impacts might Period: 2018-2020 GDPR. For outputs, the project will prepare they have on affordability? Having described a joint-authored whitepaper on results and this new city at multiple scales the project will Project Summary: This project focuses any recommendations following the survey, ask how we might we understand the barriers on precinct manufacturing spaces, and a draft journal article for a venue such as to realizing this alternate city. This will include with an emphasis on understanding the “Information Technology & People”. examination of regulatory barriers and current integration of different sizes and scales of obstacles for diverse tenure forms. workplace, overall precinct cluster mixes, and placemaking principles, that cover the CLOSING THE LOOP - DELIVERING entire spectrum from art, architecture and A SUPERIOR CUSTOMER RECYCLING JUGAAD: BICYCLES design, to craft production, through to custom EXPERIENCE USING TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMAL WASTE manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and Researchers: Sarah Barns (WSU), Juan ECONOMIES IN INDIA advanced precision manufacturing. It looks Salazar (WSU), Abby Mellick Lopes (WSU), Malini Sur (WSU) at small-scale artisanal spaces to corporate Researcher: Paul James (WSU) supported makerspaces, such as Autodesk’s Funding: WSU Women Fellowship Build Space incubator Pier 9 in San Francisco, Funding: Smart City and Suburbs Programs and Boston, which supports innovation in Period: 2018-2019 the construction, engineering industries. In Period: 2018-2019 many cases, these are being collocated with Project Summary: This project investigates professional or service oriented co-working how bicycles and cycling cargo contribute to spaces, which typically offer flexible leases ADVANCING THE NEWS MEDIA informal waste economies in Kolkata, India. in shared or micro-offices, with café and LITERACY OF YOUNG AUSTRALIANS It suggests that the movement of waste via business development/social mixer programs Researchers: Tanya Notley (WSU), Michael second hand bicycles should be central to provided by a co-ordinating group. Dezuanni (QUT) the study of urban livelihoods and revaluing waste matter. Scholars use the lens of Funding: WSU and Google “jugaad” to understand low-end assembling CULTURAL CREATION AND and ‘makeshift’ innovations like carrying PRODUCTION - INNER WEST Period: 2018-2020 cargo as technologies of the poor. In showing Researchers: Liam Magee (WSU), David Rowe how actions of low caste cyclists, mechanics (WSU), Ien Ang (WSU), Deborah Stevenson Project Summary: This project responds to and vendors support city economies, the (WSU) changes in the production, experience and proposed project highlights that religion and consumption of news media by cultural practices are integral to “jugaad.” Funding: Inner West Council young Australians.

Period: 2018-2019

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HOUSING AND HOUSING CHILD-CENTRED INDICATORS NSW GOVERNMENT REVIEW OF ASSISTANCE PATHWAYS FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION: SMARTPHONES IN SCHOOLS WITH COMPANION ANIMALS: A LIVING LAB Researcher: Amanda Third (WSU) RISKS, COSTS, BENEFITS Researchers: Amanda Third (WSU), Philippa AND OPPORTUNITIES Collin (WSU) Funding: NSW Department of Education Researcher: Emma Power (WSU) Funding: UNICEF Period: 2018 Funding: AHURI Period: 2018-2019 FUTURE FOOD SYSTEM CRC Period: 2018-2019 Project Summary: Drawing on UNICEF— Researcher: Donald McNeill (WSU) Innocenti’s Integrated Child-Centred BIG DATA AND THE SOCIAL Framework for Violence Prevention, the Funding: NSW Department of Education SCIENCES: NEW ISSUES IN DATA proposed project will pilot a Living Lab 2018 ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE process to bring children and other key Period: stakeholders together to develop child- Liam Magee (WSU), Ned Researchers: centred indicators of violence. Rossiter (WSU) MIGRANT WORKERS, GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND UNEQUAL Funding: WSU DVCR&I HERITAGE-MAKING AMONG CITIZENS IN CONTEMPORARY Period: 2018-2019 RECENT MIGRANTS IN GLOBAL CONTEXT PARRAMATTA Researchers: Brett Neilson (WSU), Shanthi Project Summary: The project examines Researchers: Denis Byrne (WSU), Emma Robertson (WSU), Malini Sur (WSU) data ethics and governance issues pertaining Waterton (WSU) to social research with Big Data, and Funding: Consoritum of Humanities Institutes specifically with data generated by the Mass Funding: Australian Research Council and Centres Observations project. To solicit a diversity (Linkage Project) of views and facilitate wider understanding, Period: 2018-2019 the project will organise one or several Period: 2018-2019 workshops with members of the Ethics Committee, researchers working on Big Data AUSTRALIA AS A SPACE-FARING sets, and experts in emerging techniques THE ICS CULTURAL NATION: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC of data analysis (machine learning etc). MAPPING INITIATIVE STUDY OF SOCIO-TECHNICAL The project will also seek to understand Researchers: Deborah Stevenson (WSU), Ien IMAGINARIES OF OUTER SPACE emerging practices of data governance in Ang (WSU), David Rowe (WSU), Liam Magee Researcher: Juan Salazar (WSU) other institutional settings (education, health). (WSU) Key reference documents include WSU’s Funding: Australian Research Council (Future recent Risk Appetite Statement, and Social Funding: WSU DVCR&I Fellowship) Science One, a Facebook-initiated consortium examining related questions. Outputs Period: 2018-2019 Period: 2018-2019 include: (1) an internal report containing draft considerations and recommendations, and a MAPPING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY risk assessment matrix; (2) guideline notes for ethics committees and researchers; and (3) 1-2 AND PLACE-BASED EMOTIONS draft journal articles targeting Q1 venues. Researchers: Paul James (WSU), Liam Magee (WSU), Louise Crabtree (WSU), Juan Salazr (WSU)

Funding: WSU DVCR&I

Period: 2018-2020

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Publications

KAY ANDERSON TONY BENNETT PHILIPPA COLLIN Refereed article: Book: Book chapters: ≥ Anderson K & Perrin C 2018, ‘”Removed ≥ Bennett, T 2018, Museums, Knowledge, ≥ Collin P, Lala G, & Fieldgrass L 2018, from nature’: the modern idea of human Power, Routledge, London. ‘Participation, empowerment and exceptionality’, Environmental Humanities, democracy: engaging with young people’s vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 447–72. Book chapters: views’ in P Alldred, F Cullen, K Edwards, D ≥ Anderson K 2018, ‘Chinatown dis-oriented: ≥ Bennett, T 2018, ‘Beyond nation, beyond Fusco (eds) Sage Handbook of Youth Work shifting standpoints in the age of China, art? the ‘rules of art’ in contemporary Practice, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks. Australian Geographer, vol. 49, no. 1, Australia’ in D Rowe, G Turner & E Waterton ≥ Collin P, Notley T, & Third A 2018, pp. 133–48. (eds), Making culture: commercialisation, ‘Cultivating (digital) capacities: a role for transnationalism, and the state of social living labs? in M Dezuanni, M Foth, K ‘nationing’ in contemporary Australia, Mallan, & H Hughes (eds), IEN ANG Routledge, London. Digital participation through social living Book chapters: ≥ Bennett, T & Gayo, M 2018, ‘For the love (or labs: valuing local knowledge, not) of art in Australia’, in M Quinn, D Beech, enhancing engagement, Chandos ≥ Ang, I & Noble, G 2018, ‘Making multiculture: M Lehnert, C Tulloch & S Wilson (eds), The Publishing, Cambridge. Australia and the ambivalent politics persistence of taste: art, museums and of diversity’, in D. Rowe, G. Turner & E. everyday life after Bourdieu, Waterton (eds), Making multiculture: Routledge, London. ANDREA CONNOR commercialisation, transnationalism, and Refereed article: the state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary Refereed articles: Australia, Routledge, London. ≥ Allatson, P & Connor, A 2018, ‘From god- ≥ Bennett, T, Gayo, M & Rowe, D 2018, head to bin chook Ibis in the Australian ≥ Wong, A & Ang, I 2018, ‘From Chinatown to ‘Television in Australia: capitals, China’s town? the newest Chinese diaspora cultural imagination’, Artlink, vol. 38, no. 1, tastes, practices and platforms’, Media pp. 66–71. and the transformation of Sydney’s International Australia, vol. 167, no. 1, 126–45. Chinatown’, in Yuk Wah Chan & Sin Yee Koh (eds), New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, ≥ Bennett, T, Dibley, B & Kelly, M 2018, Home and Aspirations, Routledge, London. ‘Marking differences: indigenous cultural LOUISE CRABTREE tastes and practices’, Continuum: Journal of Refereed articles: Refereed articles: Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 308–21. ≥ Crabtree, L, Davis, V, Foster, D & Klerck, ≥ Noble, G & Ang, I 2018, ‘Ethnicity and M 2018, ‘A tale of (at least) three reports: cultural consumption in Australia’, agency and discourse in the Alice Springs Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural DENIS BYRNE town camps’, Global Media Journal, vol. 12, Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 296–307. no. 1, published online without Refereed article: ≥ Ang I 2018, ‘Inhabiting the diasporic page numbers. habitus: on Stuart Hall’s familiar stranger: a ≥ Byrne, D 2018, ‘Time on the waterline: ≥ Crabtree, L 2018, ‘Self-organised housing life between two islands’, Identities: Global coastal reclamations and seawalls in Sydney in Australia: housing diversity in an age Studies in Culture and Power, vol. 25, no. 1, and Japan’, Journal of Contemporary of market heat’, International Journal of pp. 1–6. Archaeology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 53–65. Housing Policy, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 15–34.

Reports: ≥ Mellick Lopes, A, Healy, S, Power, FIONA CAMERON E, Crabtree, L. & Gibson, K 2018, ≥ Pollio, A, Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, ‘Infrastructures of care: opening up “home” & Magee, L 2018, Cultural creation and Book chapter: as commons in a hot city’, Human Ecology production in the Inner West LGA: a ≥ Cameron, FR 2018, Posthuman museum Review, vol. 24, no 2, pp. 41–59. case-study needs analysis, Inner West practices, in R Braidotti & M Hlavajova (eds), Council, Sydney. Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury, London. ≥ Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, Magee, L, Wong, A, Swist, T & Pollio, A 2018, Planning cultural creation and production in Sydney: a venue and infrastructure needs analysis, Institute for Culture and Society, Penrith.

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BEN DIBLEY ≥ Healy, S, McNeill, J, Cameron J, & Gibson, ≥ 2018 Healy, S., C. Borowiak, M. Pavlovskaya K 2018, ‘Pre-empting apocalypse? & M. Safri. “Commoning and the Politics Book chapter: postcapitalism as an everyday politics’, of Solidarity: Transformational Responses ≥ Dibley, B & G Turner, G 2018 ‘Indigeneity, Australian Quarterly, vol. 89, no. 2, to Poverty.” Geoforum. Published ahead cosmopolitanism and the nation: the project pp. 28–33. of print, 28 March 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j. of NITV’, in D Rowe, G Turner & E Waterton ≥ Gibson, Astuti, K, Carnegie, R, Chalernphon, geoforum.2018.03.015. (eds), Making culture: commercialisation, A, Dombroski, K, Haryani, AAR, Hill, ≥ 2018 Healy, S. “Corporate Enterprise as transnationalism, and the state of A, Kehi, B, Law, L, Lyne, I, McGregor, A, Commonwealth.” Journal of Law and ‘nationing’ in contemporary Australia, McKinnon, K, McWilliam, A, Miller, F, Ngin, Society 45(1): 46–63. DOI: 10.1111/jols.12078. Routledge, London. C, Occeña-Gutierrez, D, Palmer, L, Placino, ≥ 2018 Healy, S. “Beginning with Care, P, Rampengan, M, Than, WLL, Wianti, Refereed articles: Touching Feminist Materiality.” Journal NI, Wright, S, & the Seeds of Resilience of Cultural Economy 11(3): 265–67. DOI: Bennett, T, Dibley, B & Kelly, M 2018, ≥ Research Collective, 2018, ‘Community 10.1080/17530350.2018.1433706. ‘Marking differences: indigenous cultural economies in Monsoon Asia: keywords and tastes and practices’, Continuum: Journal of key reflections’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint vol. Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, 59, no. 1, pp. 3–16. PAUL JAMES pp. 308–21. ≥ Gibson-Graham, JK, Cameron J, & Healy, S Book: ≥ Dibley, B 2018 ‘The technofossil: a 2018, ‘La construction du commun comme memento mori’, Journal of Contemporary politique post-capitaliste’, Multitudes no. 70, ≥ Ames, S, Barns, I, Hinkson, J, James, P, Archaeology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 44–52. pp. 80–9. Preece, G & Sharp G 2018, Religion in a secular age: the struggle for meaning in an ≥ Dibley, B. & M. Gayo, 2018 ‘Favourite abstracted world, Arena Publications, North Sounds: The Australian Music Field’, Media Carlton. International Australia, vol. 167, no. 1, pp. STEPHEN HEALY 146–61. Book chapter: Book chapters: ≥ Dombroski, K, Healy, S & McKinnon, K ≥ James, P 2018 ‘Major figures in global KATHERINE GIBSON 2018, ‘A Postcapitalist Politics of Care’ In studies’, in M Juergensmeyer, S Sassen, C. Bauhardt & W. Harcourt, eds, Feminist MB Steger & V Faessel, eds, The Oxford Book chapters: Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: handbook of global studies, Oxford ≥ Gibson, K. 2018, ‘Introduction: food as urban In Search of Economic Alternatives, London: University Press, Oxford. Routledge. commons and community economies’, in ≥ James, P 2018 ‘Creating capacities for N Rose & A Gaynor (eds), Reclaiming the human flourishing: an alternative approach Refereed Articles: urban commons: the past, present and to human development’, in P Spinozzi & M future of food growing in Australian towns ≥ Healy, S 2018, ‘Basic Income and Massimiliano, eds, Cultures of sustainability and cities, University of Western Australia postcapitalist imaginaries: from surplus and wellbeing: theories, histories, policies, Publishing, Perth. humanity to humanity’s surplus’, Arena Routledge, London. ≥ Gibson, K, Hill, A. & Law, L, 2018, Journal, no. 51/52, pp. 130–52. ‘Community economies in Southeast ≥ Gibson-Graham, JK, Cameron J, & Healy, S Refereed article: Asia: a hidden economic geography”, 2018, ‘La construction du commun comme ≥ James, P & Grenfell, D 2018 ‘Why in A, Macgregor, L. Law & F. Miller (eds), politique post-capitaliste’, Multitudes no. 70, nationalism did not emerge earlier in Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian pp. 80–9. Timor-Leste: customary cultures confront development, Routledge, London. ≥ Mellick Lopes, A, Healy, S, Power, globalising modernism’, Postcolonial ≥ Petrescu, D & Gibson K, 2018 ‘Diverse E, Crabtree, L. & Gibson, K 2018, Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 391–413. economies, ecologies and practices of ‘Infrastructures of care: opening up “home” urban commoning’, in C Gabrielsson, H as commons in a hot city’, Human Ecology Report: Frichot & H Runting (eds), Architecture and Review, vol. 24, no 2, pp. 41–59. ≥ James, P, Magee, L, Mann, J, Partoredjo, S, feminisms, Routledge, London. ≥ 2018 Healy, S. “Commoning in the City: & Soldatic, K 2018 Circles of sustainability, Discerning a Post-Capitalist Politics Now Liverpool: settling strangers; supporting Refereed articles: and Here.” Review symposium on A. disability needs, Western Sydney Press, ≥ Mellick Lopes, A, Healy, S, Power, Huron (2018) Carving out the Commons. Liverpool. E, Crabtree, L. & Gibson, K 2018, Environment and Planning A. http:// ‘Infrastructures of care: opening up “home” societyandspace.org/2018/10/16/ as commons in a hot city’, Human Ecology commoning-in-the-city-discerning-a-post- Review, vol. 24, no 2, pp. 41–59. capitalist-politics-now-and-here/

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DONALD MCNEILL ≥ James, P, Magee, L, Mann, J, Partoredjo, S, GREG NOBLE & Soldatic, K 2018 Circles of sustainability, Book chapter: Liverpool: settling strangers; supporting Book: ≥ McNeill, D & Pollio A 2018, ‘Tracking global disability needs, Western Sydney Press, ≥ Wise, A & Noble, G (eds), 2018, urbanists’, in J. Harrison & M. Hoyler (eds), Liverpool. Convivialities: Possibility and Ambivalence in Doing global urban research, Routledge, ≥ Pollio, A, Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, Urban Multicultures, Routledge, Abingdon. London. & Magee, L 2018, Cultural Creation and Book chapters: Production in the Inner West LGA: A Case- Study Needs Analysis, Inner West Council, ≥ Wise, A & Noble, G 2018 ‘Convivialities: ISAAC LYNE Sydney. an orientation’, in A Wise & G Noble (eds), Refereed articles: Convivialities: Possibility and Ambivalence in Urban Multicultures, Routledge, Abingdon. ≥ Lyne, I, Ngin, C & Santoyo-Rio, E 2018, ‘Social Enterprise, Social Economy and BRETT NEILSON ≥ Ang, I & Noble, G 2018, ‘Making multiculture: Local Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Book: Australia and the ambivalent politics of diversity’, in D. Rowe, G. Turner & E. Cambodia’, Journal of Enterprising ≥ Neilson, B, Rossiter, N & Samaddar, R Waterton (eds), Making multiculture: Communities: People and Places in the (eds) 2018, Logistical Asia: the labour of commercialisation, transnationalism, and Global Economy, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 278–298. making a world region, Palgrave Macmillan, the state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary ≥ Gibson, K, Astuti, R, Carnegie, M, Singapore. Australia, Routledge, London. Chalernphon, A, Dombroski, K, Haryani, Book chapters: AR, Hill, A, Balthasar, K, Law, L, Lyne, I, Refereed article: McGregor, A, McKinnon, K, McWilliam, ≥ Neilson, B, Rossiter, N & Samaddar, R 2018, ≥ Noble, G & Ang, I 2018, ‘Ethnicity and A, Miller, F, Ngin, C, Occeña-Gutierrez, ‘Making logistical worlds’, in B Neilson, N cultural consumption in Australia’, D, Palmer, L, Placino, P, Rampengan, M, Rossiter & R Samaddar (eds), Logistical Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Than, WLL, Wianti, NI, Wright, S 2018, Asia: the labour of making a world region, Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 296–307. ‘Community Economies in Monsoon Asia: Palgrave, Singapore. Keywords and Key Reflections, Asia Pacific ≥ Neilson, B 2018, ‘Follow the software: Viewpoint, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 3–16. reflections on the logistical worlds project’, SHANTHI ROBERTSON in B Neilson, N Rossiter & R Samaddar Short Note: Refereed articles: (eds), Logistical Asia: the labour of making a ≥ Lyne, I & Ngin, C 2018, ‘Provas (sharing), world region, Palgrave, Singapore. ≥ Robertson, S 2018, ‘Status-making: Keywords of Community Economies rethinking migrant categorization’, Journal ≥ Mezzadra, S & Neilson, B 2018, in Asia’, published online: https:// of Sociology, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 219–33. ‘Lampedusa’, in R Braidotti & M Hlavajova, communityeconomiesasia.wordpress. (eds) Posthuman glossary, Bloomsbury, ≥ Robertson S, 2018, Friendship com/2018/03/07/provas-sharing/ London. networks and encounters in student- migrants’ negotiations of translocal LIAM MAGEE Refereed articles: subjectivity’, Urban Studies, vol. 55, no. 3, ≥ Neilson, B 2018, ‘Precarious in Piraeus: on pp 538–53. Refereed articles: the making of labour insecurity in a port ≥ Robertson, S, Harris, A & Baldassar, L 2018, ≥ Handmer, J, Ladds, M & Magee, L 2018, concession’, Globalizations, published on- ‘Mobile transitions: a conceptual framework ‘Updating the costs of disasters in line DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2018.1463755 for researching a generation on the Australia’, Australian Journal of Emergency ≥ Neilson, B 2018, ‘The currency of move’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 21, no. Management, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 40–6. migration’, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 117, 2, pp. 203-17. ≥ Magee, L. & Swist, T. 2018, ‘Listening no. 2, pp. 375–96. ≥ Tuxen, N & Robertson, S 2018, ‘Brokering in on Informal Smart Cities: Vernacular ≥ Mezzadra, S &Neilson, B 2018 ‘Entre international education and (re)producing Mapping in Mirpur, Dhaka’, Journal of Peer extraction et exploitation: des mutations en class in Mumbai’, International Migration, Production, no. 11, published online. cours dans l’organisation de la coopération vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 280–94. sociale’, Actuel Marx, vol. 63, pp. 97–113. Reports: ≥ Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, Magee, L, Wong, A, Swist, T & Pollio, A 2018, Planning cultural creation and production in Sydney: a venue and infrastructure needs analysis, Institute for Culture and Society, Sydney.

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NED ROSSITER ≥ Rowe, D 2018, ‘The sport field in Australia: ≥ Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, Magee, L, the market, the state, the nation and the Wong, A, Swist, T & Pollio, A 2018, Planning Books: world beyond in Pierre Bourdieu’s favourite Cultural Creation and Production in Sydney: ≥ Lovink, G & Rossiter, N 2018, Organization game’, in D Rowe, G Turner & E Waterton A Venue and Infrastructure Needs Analysis, after social media, Minor Compositions, (eds), Making culture: commercialisation, Institute for Culture and Society, Penrith. Colchester. transnationalism, and the state of ‘nationing’ ≥ Neilson, B, Rossiter, N, & Samaddar, R in contemporary Australia, Routledge, (eds), 2018, Logistical Asia: the labor of London. TIM ROWSE making a world region, Palgrave Macmillan, ≥ Rowe, D, Turner, G & Waterton, E 2018, Refereed article: Singapore. ‘Introduction: Making Culture’, in D Rowe, G ≥ Rowse, T 2018, ‘The moral world of the Turner & E Waterton (eds), Making culture: Native Mounted Police’ Law and History, Book chapters: commercialisation, transnationalism, and vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–23. ≥ Rossiter, Ned (2018) ‘BMW factory, the state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary automated labour and the logistical Australia, Routledge, London. state’, in J Schickendanz (ed.), Urban ≥ Parry, K, George, E, Hall, T, & Rowe, D 2018, JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR consequences of global logistics, Werkleitz ‘Healthy fandom: moving away from pies Referred article: Festival, Leipzig (translated into German). and beer’, in D Parnell & P. Krustrup (eds) ≥ Salazar, JF 2018, ‘Ice cores as temporal ≥ Neilson, B, Rossiter, N & Samaddar, R 2018 Sport and health, Routledge, London. probes’, Journal of Contemporary ‘Making logistical worlds’, in Neilson, B, ≥ Rowe, D 2018, ‘Competing allegiances, Archaeology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 32–43. Rossiter, N, & Samaddar, R (eds), Logistical divided loyalties: making sport Identities Asia: the labor of making a world region, in mobile societies’ in D. Hassan & C. Acton Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. (eds) Sport and contested Identities: KAREN SOLDATIC ≥ Lovink, G & Rossiter, N 2018 ‘Organized contemporary issues and debates, Book chapters: networks in the age of platform capitalism’, Routledge, London. in G Meikle (ed.), The Routledge Companion ≥ Soldatic, K 2018, ‘Indigenous mothering to Media and Activism, Routledge, Refereed articles: and disabled children in regional Australia: Abingdon. ≥ Rowe, D 2018 ‘The worlds that are a narrative study’, in S Shah & C Bradbury- Jones (eds), Disability, Gender and violence ≥ Lovink, Geert & Rossiter, Ned (2018) watching: media, politics, diplomacy and over the life course: global perspectives ‘Organization in Platform Capitalism’, in R the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics’, and human rights approaches, Routledge, Braidotti & M Hlavajova (eds), Posthuman Communication and Sport, vol. 7, no. 1, London. glossary, Bloomsbury, London. pp. 3–22. ≥ Bennett, T, Gayo, M, & Rowe, D 2018 ≥ Soldatic, K 2018, ‘Neoliberalising disability ‘Television in Australia: practices, tastes, income reform: what does this mean for DAVID ROWE platforms’, Media International Australia, Indigenous Australians living in regional areas?’, in D Howard-Wagner, M Bargh & I Book: vol. 167, no. 1, pp. 126–45. Altamirano-Jiménez (eds), The neoliberal ≥ Gayo, M & Rowe, D 2018 ‘The Australian ≥ Rowe, D, Turner, G & Waterton, E (eds), state, recognition and Indigenous rights, sport field: moving and watching’, Media 2018, Making culture: commercialisation, ANU Press, Canberra. transnationalism, and the state of ‘nationing’ International Australia, vol. 167, no. 1, ≥ Errington, H, Soldatic, K & Smith, L 2018, in contemporary Australia, Routledge, pp. 162–80. ‘Who’s disabled, babe? Carving out a good London. ≥ Rowe, D 2018 ‘Cultural citizenship, media life among the normal and everyday’, in G and sport in contemporary Australia’, Thomas & D Sakellariou (eds), Disability, Book chapters: International Review for the Sociology of normalcy and the everyday, Routledge, Sport, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 11–29. ≥ Rowe, D 2018, ‘Soccer, diplomacy and London. Australia in the Asian century’, in J S Rofe Reports: (ed.), Sport and diplomacy: games within Referred articles: games, Manchester University Press, ≥ Pollio, A, Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, ≥ Fitts, M & Soldatic, K 2018, ‘Disability Manchester. & Magee, L 2018, Cultural Creation and income reform and service innovation: Production in the Inner West LGA: A Case- Countering racial and regional Study Needs Analysis, Inner West Council, discrimination’, Global Media Journal, vol. 12, Sydney. no. 1. published online.

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≥ Kandasamy, N & Soldatic, K 2018, DEBORAH STEVENSON TERESA SWIST ‘Implications for practice : exploring the impacts of Government contracts on Book chapters: Refereed article: refugee settlement services in rural and ≥ Stevenson, D 2018, ‘The Australian art ≥ Magee, L. & Swist, T. 2018, ‘Listening in on urban Australia’, Australian Social Work, vol. field: fairs and markets’, in D Rowe, G informal smart cities: vernacular mapping in 71, no. 1 , pp. 111–19. Turner & E Waterton (eds) Making culture: Mirpur, Dhaka’, Journal of Peer Production, ≥ Soldatic, K 2018, ‘Disability poverty and commercialisation, transnationalism, and no. 11, published online. ageing in regional Australia: the impact of the state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary disability income reforms for Indigenous Australia, Routledge, London. Australians’, Australian Journal of Social ≥ Stevenson, D 2018, ‘Feminism and its AMANDA THIRD Issues, pp. 223–38. places: women, leisure and the night-time Book chapter: ≥ Soldatic, K & Gilroy, J 2018, ‘Editorial: economy’, in L Mansfield, J Caudwell, B ≥ Collin P, Notley T, & Third A, 2018, Intersecting Indigeneity, colonialisation and Watson & B Wheaton (eds) The handbook ‘Cultivating (digital) capacities: a role disability’, Disability and the Global South, of feminisms in sport, leisure and physical for social living labs? in M Dezuanni, M vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1,337–43. education, Palgrave Macmillan, London. Foth, K Mallan, & H Hughes (eds) Digital participation through social living labs: ≥ Soldatic, K, Melboe, L, Kermit, P & Somers Refereed article: K 2018, ‘Challenges in global indigenous– valuing local knowledge, enhancing Stevenson, D 2018, ‘The unfashionable disability comparative research, or, why ≥ engagement, Chandos Publishing, cultural worker: considering the nation-state political histories matter’, Cambridge. demography and practice of artists in Disability and the Global South, vol. 5, no. 2, Greater Western Sydney’, International pp. 1450–71. Refereed article: Journal of Cultural Policy published online. Deitz, M, Notley, T, Catanzaro, M, Third, A ≥ Soldatic, K 2018, ‘Policy mobilities of ≥ & Sandbach, K 2018, ‘Emotion mapping: exclusion: implications of Australian Reports: disability pension retraction for Indigenous using participatory media to support young ≥ Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, Magee, L, Australians’, Social Policy and Society, vol. people’s participation in urban design’, Wong, A, Swist, T & Pollio, A 2018, Planning 17, no. 1, pp. 151–67. Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 28, Cultural Creation and Production in Sydney: pp. 9–17. A Venue and Infrastructure Needs Analysis, Reports: Institute for Culture and Society, Sydney. Creative Work: ≥ Soldatic, K & Fitts, M 2018, ‘At what cost?’ Pollio, A, Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, Indigenous Australians’ experiences of ≥ ≥ Catanzaro, M, Notley, T, Sandbach K, & Third & Magee, L 2018, Cultural Creation and applying for disability income support A 2018 Invisible City: Emotion Mapping App. Production in the Inner West LGA: A Case- (Disability Support Pension), Western www.invisiblecity.org.au Study Needs Analysis, Inner West Council, Sydney University, Penrith, New South Sydney. Wales. EMMA WATERTON ≥ James, P, Magee, L, Mann, J, Partoredjo, S, & Soldatic, K 2018 Circles of sustainability, MALINI SUR Book: Liverpool: settling strangers; supporting ≥ Rowe, D, Turner, G & Waterton, E (eds) Book chapters: disability needs, Western Sydney Press, 2018, Making culture: commercialisation, Liverpool. ≥ Sur, M 2018, ‘Asia’s gendered borderlands’, transnationalism, and the state of ‘nationing’ in A Horstman, M Saxer & A Rippa (eds), ≥ Samararatne, D, Soldatic, K & Perera, B in contemporary Australia, Routledge, 2018, ‘Out of the shadows’: war-affected Routledge handbook of Asian borderlands, London. women with disabilities in Sri Lanka, Routledge, New York. Western Sydney University, Institute for ≥ Sur, M & van Meetren, M 2018, ‘Borders Book chapters: Culture and Society, Penrith. of integration: paperwork between ≥ Waterton, E 2018 ‘A history of heritage Bangladesh and Belgium’, in R Jones & policy in Australia: from hope to A Ferdous (eds), Borders and mobility philanthropy’, in D Rowe, G Turner, & E in South Asia and beyond, Amsterdam Waterton (eds) 2018, Making culture: University Press, Amsterdam. commercialisation, transnationalism, and the state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary Australia, Routledge, London.

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≥ Rowe, D, Turner, G & Waterton, E 2018, ALEXANDRA WONG ANNA YEATMAN ‘Introduction: making culture’, in D Rowe, G Turner & E Waterton (eds), Making culture: Book chapters: Book: commercialisation, transnationalism, and ≥ Wong A 2018, ‘Transnational real estate ≥ Yeatman A & Costea B (eds) 2018, the state of ‘nationing’ in contemporary in Australia: new Chinese diaspora, media The triumph of managerialism? new Australia, Routledge, London. representation and urban transformation in technologies of government and their ≥ Waterton, E 2018, ‘The Negotiation of Sydney’s Chinatown’, in D Rogers & SY Koh Implications for value, Rowan & Littlefield, Identity and Belonging in Kakadu National (eds), The globalisation of real estate: the Lanham. Park, in G. Hooper (ed.) Heritage at the politics and practice of foreign real estate Book chapters: Interface, University Press of Florida, investment, Routledge. Gainesville. ≥ Wong, A & Ang, I 2018, ‘From Chinatown to ≥ Yeatman A, ‘Competition policy and the destruction of the welfare state,’ ≥ Waterton, E. 2018, Museums and memory China’s town? the newest Chinese diaspora in A Yeatman & B Costea (eds), 2018 experiences in C. Smith (ed.) Encyclopaedia and the transformation of Sydney’s The triumph of managerialism? new of global archaeology (2nd edition), Chinatown’, in Yuk Wah Chan & Sin Yee Koh technologies of government and their Springer, Cham. (eds), New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home and Aspirations, Routledge, London. Implications for value, Rowan & Littlefield, Refereed articles: Lanham. Referred articles: ≥ Waterton, T. & Gayo M 2018, For all ≥ Yeatman A, ‘Reclaiming professionalism Australians? an analysis of the heritage ≥ Rogers, D, Nelson, J & Wong A 2018, in the face of productivism,’ in A Yeatman field’, Continuum, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 269–81. ‘Geographies of hyper-commodified & B Costea (eds), 2018 The triumph of housing: foreign capital, market activity and managerialism? new technologies of ≥ Waterton, E 2018, ‘Curating affect: housing stress’, Geographical Research, vol. government and their Implications for value, exploring the historical geography–heritage 56, pp. 434–46. Rowan & Littlefield, Lanham. studies nexus at Sovereign Hill, Australian Geographer, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 219–35. ≥ Wong, A, Holmes, S & Schaper, MT ≥ Yeatman A 2018, ‘A conventional narrative: 2018, ‘How do small business owners the rhetorical shape of Martin Loughlin’s actually make their financial decisions? Foundations of Public Law,’ in M. Wilkinson MEGAN WATKINS Understanding SME financial behaviour & M. Dowdle (eds), Questioning the using a case-based approach’, Small foundations of public law, Bloomsbury, Referred Articles: Enterprise Research, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 36-51. Oxford 2018. ≥ Watkins, M 2018, ‘Little room for ≥ Yeatman A 2018, ‘Gender, social policy, and capacitation: rethinking Bourdieu on Report: the Idea of the welfare state’, in S Shaver pedagogy as symbolic violence’, British ≥ Ang, I, Rowe, D, Stevenson, D, Magee, L, (ed.), Gender and social policy, Edward Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 39, Wong, A, Swist, T & Pollio, A 2018, Planning Elgar, Cheltenham. no 1, pp. 47–60. cultural creation and production in Sydney: ≥ Watkins, M. (2018), ‘Time, space and the a venue and infrastructure needs analysis, scholarly habitus: thinking through the Institute for Culture and Society, Penrith. phenomenological dimensions of field’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 50, no. 13, pp. 1,240–48.

JESSICA WEIR Report: ≥ Smith, W, Weir, JK & Neale, T 2018, Southeast Australia Aboriginal fire forum: an independent research report, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, Melbourne, Vic.

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SHEREE GREGORY KAREN MALONE Refereed article: ≥ Mellick Lopes, A., Healy, S., Power, Reports: Books: E., Crabtree, L., Gibson, K. (2018), ≥ Verhoven, D, Riakos, M, Gregory, S, Jolly, E, ≥ Malone, K 2018, Children in the ‘Infrastructures of care: opening up “home” McHugh, M, & Storey, S 2018, Honey I hid Anthropocene: rethinking sustainability as commons in a hot city’, Human Ecology the kids? experiences of parents and carers and child friendliness in cities, Palgrave Review, vol. 24, no. 2, published online. in the Australian screen industry, Sydney, Macmillan, London. University of Technology Sydney. ≥ Cutter-Mackenzie, A, Malone, K, & Barratt ≥ Gregory, S, Smith, M, Luckman, S, Hacking, E (eds) 2018, Research handbook TANYA NOTLEY Stevenson, D, & Ang, I 2018, Summary on childhoodnature, Springer, Cham. Book Chapters report of strategies, opportunities and Reading, A & Notley, T 2018, ‘Digital barriers: mapping the new world of work, Book chapters: ≥ memory economies: exploring globital Parramatta, Western Sydney University. ≥ Malone, K 2018, ‘Uneasy assemblages of memory capital’, in A Hoskins (ed.), Digital childearthbodies’, in J Kroeger & C Meyers memory studies: media pasts in transition, (eds), Children, elders, earth, Routledge, Routledge, London. JORGE KNIJNIK London. ≥ Collin P, Notley T, & Third A, 2018, ‘Cultivating Book: ≥ Malone, K 2018, ‘Re-turning childhood (digital) capacities: a role for social living labs? nature: a diffractive account of the past ≥ Knijnik, J. 2018. The World Cup chronicles: 31 in M Dezuanni, M Foth, K Mallan, & H Hughes tracings of childhoodnature as a series of days that rocked Brazil, Fair Play Publishing, (eds) Digital participation through social living theoretical turns’, in A Cutter-Mackenzie, K Melbourne. labs: valuing local knowledge, enhancing Malone & E Barratt Hacking (eds), Research engagement, Chandos Publishing, Cambridge. Book chapters: handbook on childhoodnature, Springer, ≥ Knijnik, J. 2018, ‘On the tightrope: gender Cham. Journal Article: and human rights in sports education’, in L. ≥ Malone, K, Dunn, I & Tesar, M 2018, ‘Greedy ≥ Deitz, M, Notley, T, Catanzaro, M, Third, A Polito & J Remonte (eds), High performance bags of Childhoodnature Theories’, in A & Sandbach, K 2018, ‘Emotion mapping: sports and physical education in schools, Cutter-Mackenzie, K Malone& E Barratt using participatory media to support young Fontoura, São Paulo. Hacking (eds), Research handbook on people’s participation in urban design’, ≥ Peres F, Melo V & Knijnik J 2018, ‘Olympics, childhoodnature, Springer, Cham. Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 28, pp. 9–17. media and politics: the first Olympic ≥ Malone K 2018, ‘Children in the ideas in Brazilian society during the late Anthropocene: how are they implicated?’, in Creative work: nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’, in A Cutter-Mackenzie, K Malone, & E Barratt ≥ Catanzaro, M, Notley, T, Sandbach K, & Third Lu Zhouxiang & Fan Hong (eds), Olympics Hacking (eds), Research handbook on A 2018 Invisible City: Emotion Mapping App. in conflict: from the games of new emerging childhoodnature, Springer, Cham. www.invisiblecity.org.au forces to the Rio Olympics, Routledge, ≥ Malone, K 2018, ‘Co-mingling kin: London. exploring histories of uneasy human- animal relations as sites for ecological HAYLEY SAUL Refereed articles: posthumanist pedagogies’, in T Lloro- Book chapter: ≥ Knijnik, J. 2018, ‘Social agency and football Bidart & V Banschbach (eds), Animals in ≥ Heron, C. P. Saul, H., Hartz, & Fischer, A. fandom: the cultural pedagogies of the environmental education: interdisciplinary (2018) ‘Neustadt: dietary insights from dirty Western Sydney ultras’, Sport in Society: approaches to curriculum and pedagogy, cookware’, in A. Fischer & L. Pedersen (eds) Culture, Commerce, Politics, vol. 21, no. 6, Palgrave, London. Oceans of archaeology, Aarhus University pp. 946–59. Press, Aarhus. ≥ Knijnik, J. 2018, ‘Imagining a multicultural ABBY MELLICK LOPES community in an everydayfootball carnival: Book chapter: chants, identity and social resistance on YOUQING FAN Western Sydney terraces’, International ≥ Crosby A, Fam D, & Mellick Lopes A. Refereed article: 2018, ‘Transdisciplinarity and the “living Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 53, ≥ Fang, T., Ge, Y., & Fan, Y. (2018). Unions lab model”: food waste management no. 4, pp. 471–89. and the productivity performance of as a site for collaborative learning’, in ≥ Knijnik J, 2018, ‘Rosa versus azul : estigmas multinational enterprises: evidence from D Fam, L Neuhauser & P Gibbs (eds), de gênero no mundo esportivo, Remecs China. Asian Business & Management, 1–20. Transdisciplinary theory, practice and Magazine’, Multidisciplinary Journal of Scientific https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-018-00052-0 education: the art of collaborative research Studies in Health, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 27–30. and collective learning, Springer, Cham.

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Books by Institute Authors

This list of books includes those Pertierra, AC 2017, Media anthropology Cook, N, Davison, A & Crabtree, C (eds) 2016, for the digital age, Polity, Cambridge. Housing and home unbound: intersections written by researchers in the in economics, environment and politics Institute for Culture and Society Rowse, T 2017, Indigenous and in Australia, Routledge, London. since its formation in 2012, other Australians since 1901, New South Press, Sydney. Drozdzewski, D, De Nardi, S & Waterton, but it also goes back to 2001 in E (eds) 2016, Memory, place and identity: recognition of the Institute’s Fredriksson, M & Arvanitakis, J (eds) 2017, commemoration and remembrance of intellectual basis in its prior Property, place and piracy, Routledge, London. war and conflict, Routledge, Abingdon. manifestation — the Centre for Malone, K, Truong, S & Gray, T 2017, Hinkson, J, James, P, Caddick, A, Cooper, Cultural Research. Scholars Reimagining sustainability in precarious S, Hinkson, M & Tout, D (eds) 2016, Cold from that period continue times, Springer, Singapore. war to hot planet: fifty years of Arena, Arena Publications, Melbourne. to be central to the research Lean, G, Staiff, R & Waterton, E (eds) direction of the Institute today. 2017, Travel and representation, Hodge, B 2016, Social semiotics for a Berghahn, New York. complex world: analysing language and Bennett, T 2018, Museums, power, knowledge: social meaning, Polity, Cambridge. selected essays, Routledge, London. Tolia-Kelly, D, Waterton, E & Watson, S (eds) 2017, Heritage, affect and Huppatz, K, Hawkins, M & Matthews, Knijnik, J 2018, The World Cup chronicles emotion: politics, policies and A (eds) 2016, Identity and belonging, - 31 days that rocked Brazil, Fair Play infrastructures, Routledge, Abingdon. Palgrave Macmillan, Baasingstoke. Publishing, Balgowlah Heights. Coronado, G & Hodge, B 2017, Magee, L 2016, Interwoven cities, Lovink, G & Rossiter, N 2018, Organization after Metodologías semióticas para análisis de Palgrave Macmillan, London. social media, Minor Compositions, New York. la complejidad, ISBN 978-164007248-0. Minh, PQ, , NV, Ang I & Hawkins, Neilson, B & Rossiter, N 2017, Logistical Salazar, JF, Pink, S, Irving, A & Sjöberg, J G (eds), Globalization, modernity worlds: infrastructure, software, (eds) 2017, Anthropologies and futures: and urban change in Asian cities, labour. No. 2, Kolkata. pp. 7–14. researching emerging and uncertain Knowledge Publishing House, Hanoi. worlds, Bloomsbury, London. Neilson, B, Rossiter, N & Samaddar, R (eds) Neale, T & Turner, S (eds) 2016, Other people’s 2018, Logistical Asia: the labour of making Soldatic, K & Johnson, K (eds) 2017, country: law, water and entitlement in settler a world region, Springer, Singapore. Disability and rurality: identity, gender colonial sites, Routledge, Abingdon. and belonging, Routledge, London. Williams, M 2018, Returning home with glory: Reading, A 2016, Gender and memory in the Chinese villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to McNeill, D 2017, Global cities and global age, Palgrave Macmillan, London. 1949, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. urban theory, Sage, London. Rogers, D 2016, The geopolitics of real Bennett, T, Cameron, F, Dias, N, Dibley, Silverman, H, Waterton, E & Watson, S estate: reconfiguring property, capital and B, Harrison, R, Jacknis, I, & McCarthy, (eds) 2017, Heritage in action: making the rights, Rowman & Littlefield, London. C 2017, Collecting, ordering, governing: past in the present, Springer, Cham. anthropology, museums and liberal Rossiter, N 2016, Software, infrastructure, government, Duke University Press, Durham. Ang, I, Isar, YR & Mar, P (eds) 2016, labor: a media theory of logistical Cultural diplomacy: beyond the national nightmares, Routledge, Abingdon. Cohen, H 2017, The Strehlow interest?, Routledge, London. archive: explorations in old and new Silverman, H, Waterton, E & Watson, S media, Routledge, London. Arvanitakis, A 2016, From despair to (eds) 2016, Heritage in action: making the hope, Penguin Books, Australia. past in the present, Springer, Cham. Connor, A 2017, The political afterlife of sites of monumental destruction: reconstructing affect Arvanitakis, J & Hornsby, D (eds) Soldatic, K & Grech, S 2016, Disability and in Mostar and New York, Routledge, London. 2016, Universities, the citizen scholar colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious and the future of higher education, intersectionalities, Routledge, Abingdon. Beech, N, MacIntosh, R, Krust, P, Kannan, S & Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. Dadich, AM 2017, Managing change: enquiry Stubbs, J & Tomsen, S (eds) 2016, Australian and action, Cambridge University Press, violence: crime, criminal justice and Port Melbourne. beyond, Federation Press, Leichhardt.

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Arvanitakis, J 2015, Sociologic: Reading, A & Katriel, T (eds) 2015, Cultural Neale, T, McKinnon, C & Vincent, E 2014, analysing everyday life and culture, memories of nonviolent struggles: powerful History, power, text: cultural studies and Oxford University Press, London. times, Palgrave Macmillan, London. Indigenous studies, UTS ePress, Sydney.

Bennett, BM 2015, Plantations and Roelvink, G, St. Martin, K & Gibson–Graham, Stevenson, D 2014, Cities of culture: a global protected areas: a global history of forest JK (eds) 2015, Making other worlds possible: perspective, Routledge, Oxon & New York. management, The MIT Press, Cambridge. performing diverse economies, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. Third, A 2014, Gender and the political: Bennett, BM & Kruger, FJ 2015, Forestry and deconstructing the female terrorist, water conservation in South Africa: history, Steger, MB & James, P (eds) 2015, Palgrave Macmillan, New York. science, policy, ANU Press, Canberra. Globalization: the career of a concept, Routledge, Abingdon. Waterton, E & Watson, S 2014, The Cameron, F & Neilson, B (eds) semiotics of heritage tourism, Channel 2015, Climate change and museum Waterton, E & Watson, S (eds) 2015, The View Publications, Bristol. futures, Routledge, New York. Palgrave handbook of contemporary heritage research, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. Arvanitakis, J & Matthews, I (eds) Collin, P 2015, Young citizens and 2013, The citizen in the 21st century, political participation in a digital society: Watkins, M, Noble, G & Driscoll, C Inter–Disciplinary Press. addressing the democratic disconnect, 2015, Cultural pedagogies and human Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. conduct, Routledge, London. Bennett, T, 2013, Making culture, changing society, Routledge, London & New York. Dufty–Jones, R & Rogers, D (eds) Arvanitakis, J & Fredriksson, M (eds) 2015, Housing in twenty-first century 2014, Piracy: leakages from modernity, Bushell, R, Staiff, R & Watson, S (eds) 2013, Australia: people, practices and Litwin Books, Sacramento. Heritage and tourism: place, encounter, policies, Ashgate, Aldershot. engagement, Routledge, London. Byrne, D 2014, Counterheritage: critical Gibson, K, Rose, DB & Fincher, R (eds) 2015, perspectives on heritage conservation in Byrne, D, Brockwell, S & O’Connor, S (eds) Manifesto for living in the Anthropocene, Asia, Routledge, New York & London. 2013, Transcending the culture–nature Punctum Books, New York. divide in cultural heritage: views from the Habjan, J & Whyte, J (eds) 2014, (Mis) Asia-Pacific region, ANU Press, Canberra. Hawkins, G, Potter, E & Race, K 2015, readings of Marx in continental philosophy, Plastic water: the social and material Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. JK Gibson–Graham, Cameron, J & Healy, life of bottled water, The MIT Press, S 2013, Take back the economy: an ethical Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hund, WD & Lentin, A (eds) 2014, guide for transforming our communities, Racism and Sociology, Lit Verlag. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. Head, L, Atchison, J, Phillips, C & Buckingham, K (eds) 2015, Vegetal politics: belonging, James, P & Soguk, N (eds) 2014, Globalization Neilson, B & Mezzadra, S 2013, Border as practices, and places, Routledge, London. and politics, vol. 1: global political method, or the multiplication of labor, Duke governance, Sage Publications, London. University Press, Durham & London. Head, M, Mann, S & Matthews, I 2015, Law in perspective: ethics, critical James, P & van Seters, P (eds) 2014, Parry, K, Hynes, D & Kiernan, A (eds) thinking and research, 3rd edition, Globalization and politics, vol. 2: global 2013, Football and communities across UNSW Press, Kensington. social movements and global civil codes, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford. society, Sage Publications, London. James, P, with Magee, L, Scerri, A & Robertson, S 2013, Transnational Steger, M 2015, Urban sustainability James, P & Mittelman, JH (eds) 2014, student–migrants and the state: in theory and practice: circles of Globalization and politics, vol. 3: social theories the education–migration nexus, sustainability, Routledge, London. of the global, Sage Publications, London. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Knijnik, J & Adair, D (eds) 2015, James, P (ed.) 2014, Globalization and Rowe, D & Hutchins, B (eds) 2013, Digital Embodied masculinities in global sport, politics, vol. 4: political philosophies of media sport: technology, power and culture Fit Publishing, West Virginia. the global, Sage Publications, London. in the network society, Routledge, New York.

Pascoe, S, Rey, V & James, P (eds) 2015, Lean, G, Staiff, R & Waterton, E (eds) 2014, Rowe, D & Scherer, J (eds) 2013, Sport, Making modernity: from the Mashriq to the Travel and transformation, Ashgate, Aldershot. public broadcasting, and cultural citizenship: Maghreb, Arena Publications, Fitzroy. signal lost?, Routledge, New York.

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Stevenson, D & Young, G (eds) 2013, The Daly, P & Winter, T (eds) 2011, The Bennett, T, Savage, M, Silva, E, Warde, A, Ashgate research companion to planning Routledge handbook of heritage Gayo-Cal, M & Wright, D 2009, Culture, class, and culture, Ashgate, Aldershot. in Asia, Routledge, London. distinction, Routledge, London & New York.

Watkins, M & Noble, G 2013, Disposed to Lally, E, Ang, I & Anderson, K (eds) Bushell, R & Sheldon, P (eds) 2009, Wellness learn: schooling, ethnicity and the scholarly 2011, The art of engagement: culture, and tourism: mind, body, spirit, place, habitus, Bloomsbury, London & New York. collaboration, innovation, University Cognizant Communication Books, New York. of Western Australia Press, Perth. Weir, JK, Bauman, T & Strelein, LM (eds) Kitchin, R, Thrift, N, Castree, N, Crang, 2013, Living with native title: the experiences Rowe, D 2011, Global media sport: M, Domosh, M, Anderson, K, et al. (eds) of registered native title corporations, flows, forms and futures, Bloomsbury 2009, International encyclopedia of human AIATSIS Research Publications, Canberra. Academic, London & New York. geography, volumes I-XII, Elsevier, London.

Winter, T (ed.) 2013, Shanghai Expo: Thorpe, J 2011, Pan–Germanism and the Noble, G (ed.) 2009, Lines in the sand: an international forum on the future Austrofascist state, 1933-38, Manchester the Cronulla riots, multiculturalism of cities, Routledge, London. University Press, Manchester. and national belonging, Institute of Criminology Press, Sydney. Whyte, J 2013, Catastrophe and Cameron, F & Kelly, L (eds) 2010, Hot redemption: the political thought of topics, public culture, museums, Cambridge Tomsen, S 2009, Violence, prejudice and Giorgio Agamben, SUNY, New York. Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne. sexuality, Routledge, London & New York.

Carton, A 2012, Mixed–race and Hodge, B, Coronado, G, Duarte, F & Teal, Ang, I, Hawkins, G & Dabboussy, L 2008, modernity in colonial India: changing G 2010, Chaos theory and the Larrikin The SBS story: the challenge of cultural concepts of hybridity across empires, principle: working with organisations in a diversity, UNSW Press, Sydney. Routledge, London & New York. neo–liberal world, Liber, Copenhagen. Cohen, H, Salazar, JF & Barkat, I 2008, Hodge, B & Coronado, G 2012, Rocha, C & Barker, M 2010, Buddhism in Screen media arts: an introduction Mexico and its others. A chaos theory Australia: traditions in change, Routledge to concepts and practices, Oxford approach, Legas, Ottawa. Critical Studies in Buddhism series, London. University Press, South Melbourne.

Howard, P, Thompson, I & Waterton, E Tabar, P, Noble, G & Poynting, S 2010, Tomsen, S (ed.) 2008, Crime, criminal (eds) 2012, The Routledge companion to On being Lebanese in Australia: identity, justice and masculinities: a reader, landscape studies, Routledge, London. racism and the ethnic field, Institute for Ashgate Press, Aldershot. Migration Studies, Lebanese American Hutchins, B & Rowe, D 2012, Sport University Press, Lebanon. Young, G 2008, Reshaping planning beyond television: the internet, digital with culture, Ashgate, Aldershot. media and the rise of networked Van Wichelen, S 2010, Religion, politics, and media sport, Routledge, London. gender in Indonesia: disputing the Muslim Anderson, K 2007, Race and the crisis of body, Routledge, London & New York. humanism, Routledge, London & New York. Morgan, G & Poynting, S (eds) 2012, Global islamophobia: Muslims and moral Waterton, E 2010, Politics, policy Arvanitakis, J 2007, The cultural commons panic in the west, Ashgate, Aldershot. and the discourses of heritage in of hope: the attempt to commodify the Britain, Palgrave Macmillan, UK. final frontier of the human experience, Rowse, T 2012, Rethinking social Berlin, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. justice: from ‘peoples’ to ‘populations’, Waterton, E & Watson, S (eds) 2010, Heritage Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra. and community engagement: collaboration Bushell, R & Eagle, P (eds) 2007, Tourism and or contestation?, Routledge, London. protected areas: benefits beyond boundaries, Smith, L, Waterton, E & Watson, S Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford. (eds) 2012, The cultural moment in Wearing, S, Stevenson, D & Young, T 2010, tourism, Routledge, London. Tourist cultures: identity, place and the Cameron, F & Kenderdine, S (eds) 2007, traveller, Sage, London and Thousand Oaks. Theorizing digital cultural heritage: Stevenson, D 2012, The city, Polity, a critical discourse, The MIT Press, Cambridge & Malden. Anderson, K & Braun, B (eds) 2008, Cambridge, Mass. & London. Environment: critical essays in human Watkins, M 2012, Discipline and geography, Ashgate, London. Nightingale, V & Dwyer, T (eds) 2007, learn: bodies, pedagogy and writing, New media worlds? Challenges for Sense Publications, Rotterdam. Arvanitakis, J 2009, Contemporary society, convergence, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne. South Melbourne & Oxford.

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Peake, W 2007, Sydney’s pony Poynting, S & Noble, G, Tabar, P & racecourses: an alternative racing Collins, J 2004, Bin Laden in the suburbs: history, Walla Walla Press, Sydney. criminalising the Arab other, Federation Press/Institute of Criminology, Sydney. Poynting S & Morgan, G (eds) 2007, Outrageous! moral panics in Rossiter, N, Chun, A & Shoesmith, B (eds) Australia, ACYS Press, Hobart. 2004, Refashioning pop music in Asia: cosmopolitan flows, political tempos, and Rossiter, N & Lovink, G (eds) 2007, aesthetic industries, ConsumAsian Book MyCreativity reader: a critique of Series, Routledge, London & New York. creative industries, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. Snodgrass, J 2003, Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the west: orientalism, Rossiter, N 2006, Organized networks: occidentalism and the Columbian Exposition, media theory, creative labour, new University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. institutions, NAi Publications, Rotterdam. Chalmers, S 2002, Emerging lesbian Anderson, K 2006, Race and the crisis of voices from Japan, Routledge– humanism, Routledge, London & New York. Curzon, London & New York.

Hodge, B & O’Carroll, J 2006, Borderwork in Hodge, B & Dimitrov, V 2002, Social multicultural Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney. fuzziology, Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Morris, M 2006, Identity anecdotes: translate Lally, E 2002, At home with on and media culture, Sage, London. computers, Berg, Oxford.

Morgan, G 2006, Unsettled places: Aboriginal Ang, I 2001, On not speaking Chinese: people and urbanisation in New South living between Asia and the west, Wales, Wakefield Press, South Australia. Routledge, London & New York.

Peake, W 2006, Sydney’s pony Morgan, G, Wynne–Jones, M, Hamilton racecourses: an alternative racing MA & Gleeson, J 2001, Marrickville history, Walla Walla Press, Sydney. backywards, Bloomings, Melbourne.

Rocha, C 2006, Zen in Brazil: the Nicoll, F 2001, From diggers to drag– quest for cosmopolitan modernity, queens: configurations of Australian University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. national identity, Pluto Press, Sydney.

Morgan, G, Poynting, S, Rocha, C 2004, Webb, T 2001, The collaborative Culture and cultivation: backyards in Fairfield, games: the story behind the Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, Sydney. spectacle, Pluto Press, Sydney.

Neilson, B 2004, Free trade in the Bermuda Triangle... and other tales of counter–globalization, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

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Pamplona, University of Navarra Gallery features Cecilia Paredes on humans and nature - the home of the Spanish Institute of Culture and Society

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Engagement Director’s Report

≥ The fifth in the Knowledge/Culture to underpin, inform and guide the La Marina series of conferences initiated by Living Lab. This involved engaging with ICS was co-hosted with international a range of stakeholders, including young strategic partner the Centre for Digital people, Consorcio staff, local governments Cultures, Leuphana University in Lüneburg, and businesses, community groups and Germany from 19–22 September. With international experts. Project activities approximately 300 registrants and included co-facilitation and a keynote presentations by researchers from more presentation at a three-day co-creation than 100 institutions and 30 countries, workshop at la Marina with 50 professionals the Digital Cultures: Knowledge/Culture/ from Valencia, Europe, the USA, UK, Egypt Technology conference (KCT18) featured and Turkey. keynote talks and spotlight sessions by Jennifer Gabrys, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, ≥ The NHMRC Wellbeing, Health and Felix Stalder, Orit Halpern, Kara Keeling, Youth Centre of Research Excellence was Martina Tazzioli, Stephan Scheel, Nanna established in 2018 to engage young people Heidenreich, Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Konrad in research and design of health policies Becker, Nate Tkacz and artist Simon Denny. and services that benefit them. The ‘New ICS PhD students Ilia Antenucci, Helen Ethics of Engagement’ research stream, led Barcham, Tsvetelina Hristova, Jian by Philippa Collin, and involving Teresa Lin and Luke Munn chaired sessions, staged Swist and Amanda Third, held a number of engagement events with young people The Institute continued its critical interventions and participated in the Summer University prior to the in 2018. These events included multiple substantial engagement conference. Staff presenting their research workshops with young people in Sydney activities over 2018. Selected at KCT18 included Paul James, Liam and Queensland, led by Dr Teresa Swist, highlights include: Magee, Fiona Cameron, Teresa and a cross-sector roundtable with 42 Swist, Hart Cohen from ICS and Navin participants including students, youth and Doloswala form School of Humanities and health advocates, professionals and policy Communication Arts of Western Sydney makers. These activities have culminated University. Armin Beverungen (Siegen/ in a co-created Youth Engagement Leuphana) and Ned Rossiter performed Declaration and to guide health research various roles as co-chairs of the conference. and translation in the newly established Also at KCT18, Luke Munn launched his Centre, and a co-designed foundation book Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the model for an Adolescent Health Research Algorithm with open access publisher Commission focused on ensuring the Meson Press; the book is available on line as ongoing engagement with young people in well as in print form. adolescent health, service and policy.

≥ Together with School of Humanities and ≥ In November, Amanda Third travelled to Communication Arts and the Sydney the Philippines to meet with the Global Institute for the Environment at University Partnership to End Violence Against of Sydney, the University of New South Children (GPEVAC), UNICEF Country Wales, and Macquarie University, ICS was a Office and partners at the University of partner in the successful inaugural Sydney the Philippines, Save the Children and Environmental Humanities Lecture Series the Philippines Council for the Welfare at the Australian Museum. Nine renowned of Children to begin work on the ‘Child- international and Australian scholars Centred Indicators for Violence Prevention’ presented public lectures at the project. Using a living lab approach, this museum and gave HDR workshops at pilot project will develop a methodology participating institutions. to meaningfully engage children in action- oriented participation and analysis of ≥ In 2018, Philippa Collin, Amanda Third and the interventions designed to protect Dr Michelle Catanzaro (SoHCA) led a Marina them from violence, culminating in a set de Valencia Living Lab Activation Project. of child-centred indicators for violence Funded by Consorcio Valencia, they worked prevention, with the goal of expanding closely with la Marina staff to generate a the methodology to other GPEVAC conceptual framework, tools and initiatives member countries. During the visit, A/Prof

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participated in preliminary meetings with and design a sustainable ecovillage on GPEVAC and UNICEF, and visited children’s land immediately adjacent to their school. facilities coordinated by the partner Louise Crabtree gave a guest lecture to the organisations which will be potential students on core issues regarding urban sites for engaging children in the research sustainability and diverse housing; students in 2019. then presented their designs at an evening expo, and selected groups were asked to ≥ Amanda Third presented to an present their work at Landcom’s 2018 Co. international group of 150 practitioners Lab conference. on ‘Leveraging Digital in Strategies for Adolescent Engagement’ for UNICEF ≥ The partnership with Landcom also C4D’s Global Learning Course in India. She incorporated Cooling the Commons project was also an invited speaker at the Adobe work into the Masters unit Developing Experience International Conference Sustainable Places, coordinated and taught where she spoke on ‘Building an Innovative by Louise Crabtree. Students undertook a Organizational Culture’; Netsafe and the heat assessment of Landcom’s Macarthur Office of the eSafety Commissioner’s Heights site with regards to other urban eSafety at the Crossroads Conference on planning concerns such as walkability, child ‘Researching with Children in the Digital friendliness, and transport accessibility, and Age’; and at the OECD World Forum on presented their findings to Landcom staff Knowledge, Statistics and Policy in Incheon, and members of the Cooling the Commons South Korea, where she spoke about research team. Several Institute projects children’s perspectives on digitalisation and undertaken in partnership with Landcom the future of wellbeing. through the University Roundtable were also presented at Co.Lab, including: Cooling ≥ Amanda Third sat on the panel for the the Commons, presented by Abby Mellick 2018 NSW Review into the non-educational Lopes, Stephen Healy, Katherine Gibson, use of smartphones in NSW Schools, Emma Power, Louise Crabtree, Professor resulting in the NSW Department of Helen Armstong (University foQueensland) Education’s adoption of the Committee’s and Professor Cameron Toninwise (UTS); recommendations in early 2019. Creating the City that We Want, presented by Louise Crabtree with Dr Neil Perry ≥ Alongside her colleagues, Prof. Sonia (School of Business) and Professor Gerard Livingstone (London School of Economics) Reinmuth (UTS); and New Generation and Gerison Lansdown (independent child Workspaces by Donald McNeill, Kylie rights advocate), and with funding from the Budge and Chris Knapp. Donald McNeill 5Rights Foundation, Amanda Third began was also a member of the Roundtable and work on producing a General Comment chaired Landcom’s Governance, Planning on Children and the Digital Environment and Partnerships Community of Practice. to guide states’ and NGOs’ interpretation of the Convention on the Rights of the ≥ In late 2018 Louise Crabtree, Dr Neil Perry, Child. This process, which will unfold over Abby Mellick Lopes, Professor Jonathon the next two years, entails an in-depth Allen and Ms Jen Dollin secured funding review of the evidence, an international from the University’s Sustainability Theme expert consultation and a consultation with Champions to draft a white paper on how children in approx. 25 countries. A/Prof. the University might address the United Third will co-author the General Comment Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and she will lead a team at Western to (SDGs) through re-activating its Lithgow conduct the children’s consultation. site as a Just Transition Hub. The white paper will underpin a stakeholder workshop ≥ The ongoing partnership with James to determine future use and occupation of Ruse Agricultural High School broadened the building in line with the SDGs. to include Landcom. The school’s Year 8 project for 2018 was Facing the Future Dr Louise Crabtree - Sustainability and Urban Design and ICS Director of Engagement students worked in groups to conceptualise

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Guangzhou, an informal singing contribution for passersby in the street, 2018

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Higher Degree Research Director’s Report

During 2018 ICS offered a number of research interrogated key terms within socio-cultural training opportunities for HDRs. These theory and offered both serious reflection included 15 workshops that examined a range and a bit of light relief) of topics including: The third theme, Academic Words We Hate a. those dealing with various the Most, is now developing into a methodological approaches, for regular panel. example: Doing Global Research, Resilience Thinking: Research and Social In addition to these presentations, each Change, Doing Ethnographic Research session had student discussants providing and Participatory Visual Story-Telling feedback on papers which stimulated lively Methodology, debate. The day concluded with a Three b. aspects of sociocultural theory such as Minute Thesis competition with four students: Debates about the Nature of Historical Utsab Bhattarai, Hoang Ha, Pryor Placino, Knowledge and Using Bourdieu and and Sajal Roy. They provided mini-versions c. stages of a student’s candidature such of their thesis topics with Pryor then going as the Confirmation of Candidature and on to represent the ICS in the WSU 3MT final. Ethics processes. The conference as a whole demonstrated the exciting breadth of PhD research at ICS and These workshops were presented by ICS and the innovative and interdisciplinary nature of school-based researchers together with a research conducted at the Institute. 2018 was a particularly busy year number of visiting academics including Dr in the area of Higher Research Garth Stahl from the School of Education of While ICS is noted for its rigorous program Degrees (HDR) at the ICS University of South Australia and Professor of HDR training, continuous evaluation and characterised by an intensive Denise Spitzer from Institute for Feminist revision are imperative to ensure the program and Gender Studies at University of Ottawa. meets the needs of an ever-changing cohort program of research training, In addition to these workshops, the 2018 of domestic and international students various student-led initiatives ICS HDR Student Representative Francesca with diverse disciplinary and academic and a thorough evaluation of the Sidoti and Liaison Officer Alejandra Villanueva backgrounds and career trajectories. Towards support provided to students, organised six Stepping Stone Seminars in the the end of 2018 an evaluation was conducted which was the focus of the HDR year where students presented papers based to examine if students’ training needs were on their PhD research and received feedback. being met and what revision to the program Caucus held in October. in 2019 was needed. The evaluation involved Other student-led initiatives conducted in a survey of students with the results, The HDR cohort within the ICS continues 2018 include various reading groups such subsequently, fed back to students and to grow with 14 students commencing in as those on Bourdieu (in its second year), academics at the HDR Caucus held in October, 2018: 10 PhDs and 4 Masters of Research Migration and also Space and Place. Many of which then became the focus of group (M.Res.) students. Most of these students these HDR events were open to PhD students discussion with suggestions for improvement have secured either Research Training from across WSU, in particular, to students and refinement. Together with students Program or project-based scholarships. The from Humanities and Communication Arts, opting for a greater number of professional ICS also saw ten of its students graduate Social Sciences and Psychology, Education development workshops related to topics with PhD degree during the year. Together and Business. such as getting published and post-PhD with the ICS-based HDR candidates, the career options, students were keen to have Institute welcomed two visiting PhD students: As in previous years, one of the key ICS a lecture series devoted to key thinkers and Charlotte Sefton from University of Exeter HDR events of 2018 was the Mid-Year concepts within socio-cultural thoughts. The and Hamideh Farahbakhsh from University HDR Conference, where students gave result of this review will inform planning for of Tehran. Charlotte Sefton worked with Dr presentations with focus on the three themes: the 2019 HDR Training Program and allow ICS Shanthi Robertson and Professor Greg Noble, to maintain its high quality support for HDR while Hamideh Farahbakhsh worked with ≥ Working in the Gap (papers by Vanicka students, timely completions of the students’ Professor Megan Watkins. Another, Jian Lin, Arora, Anisah Madden and Vanessa research, and an intellectually stimulating joined to undertake a joint degree between Whittington) postgraduate research culture. the University of Amsterdam and WSU and ≥ Mobilities (papers by Gina Gatarin, Marina worked under the supervision of Professors Khan and Kate Naidu Associate Professor Megan Watkins Deborah Stevenson and Ned Rossiter during ICS HDR Director 2018. All these students were actively involved ≥ Academic Words We Hate the Most in various HDR events and contributed to the (presentations by Simon Chambers, broader ICS research culture. Alejandra Villanueva and Kelly Menzel who

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List of 2018 HDR Graduates

NAMES THESIS TITLE PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR

Mithilesh Kumar State and the Working Class in the Making of the Global Metropolis of Delhi. Brett Neilson

Hermann Ruiz Challenges and Possibilities of Transitional Justice Narrative Katherine Gibson

Sebastian Martin Valdez Communication Rights and Media Policies in Argentina: An Ethnographic Approach. Juan Francisco Salazar

Tayanah O’Donnell Exploring the Coastal Lawscape: Legal Geographies of Climate Change Adaptation Donald McNeill in Two New South Wales Localities.

Timothy Ström Mapping Google Maps: Critiquing an Ideological Vision of the World. Supervisors: Paul James

Cecelia Cmielewski Identity and Utopia: Arts Policy in the Co-production of Multicultural Australia. Greg Noble

Jack Parkin Money/Code/Space: The Cultural Economy of Bitcoin Donald McNeill

Harriette Richards Fashioning Melancholia: A Cultural History of Sartorial Representation in Aotearoa Amanda Third New Zealand.

Christiane Kuehling Photography and Tourism in Contemporary India. Denis Byrne

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Current ICS HDR Candidates and Dissertation Topics

≥ Nicholas Agafonoff, Do brands teach ≥ Karen Sy de Jesus, Quo Vadis, Chinese ≥ Jian Lin (joint award with University us things? An Ethnomethodology of Diaspora? Cultural Identities in the of Amsterdam), Creative Labour in the successful versus unsuccessful brand Transnational Social Field. Cultural Industries of China: Self-realisation, pedagogies. Supervisor: Megan Watkins, Supervisors: Ien Ang, Co-Supervisors: Governmentality and Subjectivity. Co-Supervisor: Gay Hawkins — PhD Shanthi Robertson — PhD Supervisor: Ned Rossiter, Co-Supervisor: Deborah Stevenson — PhD ≥ Ilia Antenucci, Capitalist Accumulation, ≥ Xuegang Fan, Alternative Food Networks in Neo-Colonialism and Global War: The Role China: New Peasantry and Reproduction of ≥ Anisah Madden, Nourishing Deep Pluralism: of Private Military and Security Companies Alternative Agricultural Space. Supervisors: How Community Food Sector Practices (PMSCs). Supervisor: Brett Neilson, Co- Katherine Gibson and Stephen Healy — PhD Build Rituals of Care and Connection Across Supervisor: Ned Rossiter — PhD Difference. Katherine Gibson and ≥ Kecia Fong, Challenging Conservation: Stephen Healy — PhD ≥ Vanicka Arora, Post-Disaster (Re) Negotiating Space, History, and Culture. Construction of Cultural Heritage: Negotiating Supervisor: Donald McNeill; ≥ Kelly Menzel, Exploring the Need to Value, Authenticity and Acceptable Change Co-Supervisors: Emma Waterton and Recruit Aboriginal Health Practitioners in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Supervisor: Deborah Stevenson — PhD in Mainstream Healthcare Settings. Hayley Seul, Co-Supervisors: Emma Supervisors: Louise Crabtree and Waterton, Denis Byrne — PhD ≥ Gina Gatarin, Moving in Managed Chaos: Karen Soldatic — DCR Social Movements changing Manila’s ≥ Emilie Baganz, Cities, Creative Production and Transport System. Supervisor: Paul James; ≥ Daniel Musil, ‘Co-Operating for a Just Innovation. Supervisor: Deborah Stevenson, Co-Supervisor: Anna Pertierra — PhD Transition’: Relationships to Economy, Work, Co-Supervisor: Kylie Budge — PhD Low-Carbon Transition and the Earthworker ≥ Mohammad Hanafi, Religious Values in Cooperative. Supervisor: Katherine Gibson ≥ Helen Barcham, Beyond the ‘Docile Civic Engagement in Indonesian Higher and Stephen Healy — PhD Subject’: Women’s Entanglements with Education. Supervisor: Greg Noble, Co- Therapy Culture as Ethical Self-Making. supervisors: Stephen Drakeley and Jan Ali ≥ Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath, Supervisor: Tanya Notley, Co-Supervisor: Conceptualisation of Discourse About Penny Rossiter — PhD ≥ Ha Hoang, Korean Popular Culture, Islam on a Secular Platform. Supervisor: Vietnamese Fan Practices and Shanthi Robertson; Co-Supervisors: Adam ≥ Utsab Bhattarai, Resilience Building: A Transculturalism. Supervisor: Ien Ang; Possamai, Jennifer Cheng — PhD Study of Livelihood Management Practices Co-supervisors: David Rowe and Anna of the Sherpa People in the Khumbu Cristina Pertierra — PhD ≥ Kate Naidu, Issues of ‘Interculturality’ in (Everest) Region, Nepal. Supervisor: Robyn Indonesian Language Teaching. Bushell, Co-Supervisors: Emma Waterton ≥ Tsvetelina Hristova, Transformation of Supervisor: Greg Noble; Co-supervisor: and Felicity Picken — PhD Professional Work Through Digital Mobility Megan Watkins — PhD of Labour: The Case of Teleradiology. ≥ Christopher Cheng, Translocal Built Supervisor: Brett Neilson; Co-Supervisor: ≥ Mauricio Novoa, Change in the Global Public Environment of Chinese Emigration Shanthi Robertson — PhD Sphere; Redefining Knowledge Ecology for from the Pearl River Delta to Australia. Industrial Design Artifact and Expertise in Supervisor: Denis Byrne, Co-Supervisors: ≥ Clinton Johnson, Complicating Nation? Education and Industry. Supervisor: Juan Ien Ang and Jocelyn Chey — PhD Examining Federally Funded Touring Salazar, Co-Supervisor- Bob Hodge — PhD Exhibition in an Assemblage Framework. ≥ Alexandra Coleman, Perspiring Dreams: Supervisors: Deborah Stevenson and ≥ Pryor Aldous Placino, Lively Stones: A the Experiences of Working-Class Students Emma Waterton — PhD Study of Informal Sand, Gravel and Rubble from Western Sydney at the University Mining in the Philippines. of Sydney and the University of Western ≥ Marina Khan, Technological Spaces and Supervisor: Katherine Gibson; Sydney. Supervisor: Penelope Rossiter; Network Governance: Transformations Co-Supervisor: Stephen Healy — PhD Co-Supervisor: George Morgan, Shanthi in the Australian Migration Industry. Robertson, Greg Noble — PhD. Supervisor: Shanthi Robertson; Co- ≥ Cali Prince, The Fourth Space: Cultivating Supervisor: Tanya Notley — PhD Collaborative Creativity in Praxis, at ≥ Matt Dalziel, What Role Does Socio- the Intersection of People and their economic Status Play in Determining the ≥ Amrita Limbu, Everyday Social Protection Communities, Artists and Institutions. Digital Information Seeking Behaviours of Transnational Families: Nepali Migration Supervisor: Philippa Collin; Co-Supervisors: Amongst Year 11 Students Considering Post- to Australia. Supervisor: Shanthi Robertson; Louise Crabtree, James Arvanitakis — PhD Secondary Career Options? Supervisor: Co-Supervisor: Brett Neilson — PhD Megan Watkins, Co-Supervisors: Shanthi Robertson, Teresa Swist — PhD

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≥ Billy Pringle, Is the Political ‘Moment’ of THESIS UNDER THESIS COMPLETED ‘Brexit’ and the Election of Donald Trump to the Office of US President Reshaping EXAMINATION WITH APPROVAL TO Australian Political Discourse, Particularly IN 2018 GRADUATE IN 2019 Discourses of Neoliberalism? ≥ Sera Harris, Social Workers and Technology: ≥ Michael Hartup, Young Musicians’ Supervisor: Stephen Healy; Co-Supervisor: Rethinking Relationships in Practice. Experiences of Vulnerability and Resilience Gay Hawkins— PhD Supervisor: Amanda Third, Co-Supervisors: within their Music-Making Practice. Brian Robert Stout and Bob Hodge — PhD Supervisor: Amanda Third; ≥ Sajal Roy, Long-term Effects of Extreme Co-Supervisor: Philippa Collin — PhD Weather Events on Rural Livelihoods ≥ Luke Munn, Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the and Gender Relations: A Case Study of Algorithmic. Supervisor: Ned Rossiter, Co- ≥ Luigi Di Martino, Digital Diplomacy: New the Cyclone Aila’s Impacts on the Shora supervisor: Juan Francisco Salazar — PhD Strategies for a Social Public Diplomacy. (Muslim) and Munda (Hindu) Sundarbans Supervisor: Ien Ang; Forest Communities of Bangladesh. Co-Supervisor: Greg Noble — PhD Supervisor: Liam Magee; Co-Supervisor: Penny Rossiter — PhD ≥ Nigel Eades, The Impact of Culture and Communication: Living in Immigration ≥ Oznur Sahin, City as Stage, City on Stage: Detention - Supervisor: Paul James; Governing the City Through Performances. Co-Supervisors: Bob Hodge — DCR Supervisor: Deborah Stevenson; Co- Supervisor: Donald McNeill — PhD ≥ Cecilia Hilder, Young People’s Digital Practices and Australian Youth-Led Activist ≥ Francesca Sidoti, Young Adults and the Groups. Supervisor: Philippa Collin; Disclosure of Choice. Co-Supervisors: Amanda Third and Supervisor: Greg Noble; Co-supervisor: Tanya Notley — PhD Penny Rossiter — PhD ≥ Sky Hugman, Cross-Sector Knowledge ≥ Ian Steep, An Inquiry Into the Lived Sharing. Supervisor: Amanda Third; Experiences of Nepalese Students Studying Co-Supervisor: Philippa Collin — PhD at Australian Third Party Providers of Higher Education Using Bourdieu’s Theory ≥ Andrea Pollio, The Startup of Solidarity: of Practice. Supervisor: Megan Watkins; Economic Experts, Social Enterprises and Co-Supervisor Tania Ferfolja — PhD the Reengineering of Humanitarianism in Cape Town. Supervisor: Donald McNeill, ≥ Alejandra Villanueva, Shaping Up Bodies: Co-Supervisor: Sarah Barns — PhD An Ethnography of Masculinities and Physical Training in Sydney. Supervisors: ≥ David Spillman, Exploring Collaborative Greg Noble and George Morgan — PhD Competence. Supervisor: Bob Hodge; Co-Supervisor: Louise Crabtree — DCR ≥ Vanessa Whittington, Landscape, Affect and the Role of Heritage Interpretation. Supervisors: Emma Waterton and Denis Byrne — PhD

≥ Yinghau Yu, Working with Whiteness: comparative studies about the neglected bamboo ceiling among Chinese middle- class female immigrants in Shanghai and Sydney. Supervisors: Greg Noble and Sheree Gregory — PhD

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Higher Degree Research Workshop Program 2018

Thursday 8 February and Tuesday 6 March Thursday 24 May Thursday 13 September Orientation 1 Debates about the Nature of Historical Resilience Thinking: Research and Social Associate Professor Megan Watkins Knowledge Change Emeritus Professor Tim Rowse Associate Professor Amanda Third Thursday 8 March -Thursday 7 June Rethinking Culture and Society GRS Unit Thursday 7 June Tuesday 9 October MRes and other beginning HDR students The Confirmation of Candidature Process Doing Ethnographic Research Associate Professor Megan Watkins Dr Bonnie Pang Tuesday 20 March Using Bourdieu Tuesday 17 July Tuesday 6 November Dr Garth Stahl, School of Education, The Ethics Process Participatory Visual Story-Telling Methodology University of South Australia Kimberley Ann Pangilinan Professor Denise Spitzer, Institute for Feminist Western Sydney University Human Research and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa Thursday 29 March Ethics Officer Getting Started with NVivo Dr Emma Power Wednesday 25 July Mid-Year ICS HDR Conference Tuesday 17 April Image, Text, and Movement: Composition Thursday 23 August Dr Malini Sur Doing Global Research Professor Brett Neilson Thursday 10 May Asking Questions in Seminars Professor Katherine Gibson

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Higher Degree Research Stepping Stone Series Program 2018

Thursday, 26 April Thursday, 21 June Thursday, 20 September Hoang Ha Xuegang Gam Jasbeer Mamalipurath Korean male idols’ androgyny and Alternative agro-food networks in China Sacred message and secular media Vietnamese fandom - the case of Big Bang’s fan community Thursday, 30 August Thursday, 18 October Sajal Roy Francesca Sidoti Thursday, 3 May Transforming gendered lives and livelihoods Nature and nostalgia in young adult Charlotte Sefton (UK) in the post-cyclone (Aila) context: a case experiences of place Loving as “mother”; loving whilst “other”: study of Shora community in the Bangladesh Sudanese women negotiating motherhood Sundarbans forest in the diaspora

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