Associate Professor Gay Hawkins
School of Media and Communications, University of New South Wales
Current ARC Projects
2004-2006 'The Special Broadcasting Service and Australian Cultural Democracy: Evolution, Uses and Innovation' (with Ien Ang and Julie Eisenberg, Head, SBS Policy)
Publications
Books
The Ethics of Waste (contracted to Rowman and Littlefield)
2002 (co-edited with Stephen Muecke) Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Rowman & Littlefield, Boulder US.
Chapters in Books
2001 'The ABC and Rhetorics of Choice' in T Bennett and D Carter (eds) Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics, Programs Cambridge University Press, pp 176-192.
2000 (with J Sinclair, A Yue, Kookong and J Fox) 'Chinese Cosmopolitanism and Media Use' in S. Cunningham and J Sinclair (eds) Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas University of Queensland Press, pp35-90 (this book was reprinted in the US by Rowman & Littlefield in 2001).
2000 'SBS: Choice, Value and Chineseness' in Alter/Asians, edited by Ien Ang, Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas, Pluto Press, Sydney, pp 322-243.
1999 'Public Service Broadcasting in Australia: Value and Difference' in A Calabrese and J. Burgelman (eds) Communication, Citizenship and Social Policy: Re-thinking the limits of the Welfare State Rowman & Littlefield, USA. Pp 173-187.
Refereed Articles
2002 'Documentary Affect: Filming Rubbish' Australian Humanities Review, www.lib.Latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/issue-september-2002/hawkins.html
2001 'Down the Drain: Shit and the Politics of Disturbance' UTS Review Vol 7 No 2, pp 32-42.
2001 'The Ethics of Television' International Journal of Cultural Studies Vol 4 No 4, pp 412-426.
2001 'Plastic Bags: Living With Rubbish' International Journal of Cultural Studies Vol 4 No 1, pp 5-24.
2000 (with A Yue) 'Going South' New Formations special issue on Culture/China No 40 Spring, pp 49-63. 1998 'TV Rules'UTS Review Vol 4 No 1, May, pp 123-139.
Current Research Interests
waste and micropolitics of the self
ecohumanities and the ethics/politics relation
poststructuralist political theory
new television formats
social marketing
habits and everyday life