Professor Kay Anderson
Professor of Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
Current ARC Projects
2004 'Backpacker Cultures and the construction of tourist spaces and landscapes: a multi-scalar study of changing tourism dynamics in Sydney'.
Publications
Books
Anderson, K (in submission) At the limit of the human: rethinking race from Australia and in posthumanist perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edited Books
Anderson, K. and Gale, F. eds. 1999. Cultural Geographies (Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman)
Anderson, K; Domosh, M; Pile, S. and Thrift, N eds. 2002 Handbook of Cultural Geography. Sage, London
Chapters in Books
Anderson, K. 1999. "Reflections on Redfern." In E. Stratford ed. Australian Cultural Geography: A Reader (Melbourne: Oxford University Press), pp. 67-84.
Anderson, K. 1999. "Urbanity and savagery" in P. Read ed. A History of Aboriginal Housing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) , pp. 130-144.
Anderson, K. 2000. "The nature of race" in N. Castree and B.Braun's eds. Social Nature, ( Blackwell: Oxford), pp.64-83.
Fincher, R. Jacobs, J. and Anderson, K., 2002. "Rescripting Cities with Difference" in Eade, J. and C. Mele eds. Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives (Oxford: Blackwells), 27-48.
Anderson, K. (in press) 'Sensory enclosures'. In Pile, S and Thrift, N. eds. Patterned Ground: CultureNature Ecologies Reaktion Press, London.
Refereed Articles
Anderson, K. 2002. "The Racialisation of Difference: Enlarging the Story Field" The Professional Geographer, 54, 1, 25-31.
Anderson, K. and Domosh, M. 2002. "North American Spaces/Postcolonial Stories" Introduction to jointly edited special issue of Cultural Geographies 9, 125-129.
Anderson, K. 2003. 'White natures: Sydney's Royal Agricultural Show in post-humanist perspective'. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 422-441.
Anderson, K and Taylor, A (submitted) Whiteness in Australian and English perspective, Ethnicities
Anderson, K and Smith, S. 2001. "Emotional geographies" Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 26, 1, 7-10.
Current Research Interests
cultural geography
race, nation and the cultural politics of difference
colonial discourses of 'the human' and the genealogy of race
cultures of urban natures
urban enclaves