Professor Stephen Muecke
Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
Current ARC Projects
2002-7 Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean (with Devleena Ghosh and Michael Pearson)
International Linkages
Stephen Muecke is negotiating with the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore to co-convene a conference on "Cultural Research in the Indian Ocean" (in 2005) to bring together local (Indian Ocean rim) and international scholars whose work is concerned with the Indian Ocean and its cultural and commercial flows.
Publications
Books
with Adam Shoemaker, Les Aborigènes D'Australie, trans. Josée Bégaud, 128 pp. Paris, Gallimard (Découvertes series, No 428), 2002.
with Gay Hawkins, eds. Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Rowman and Littlefied, 2003. 0-7425-1981-3, 144pp.
with Koichi Iwabuchi and Mandy Thomas, eds. Intra-Asian Cultural Traffic, Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming 2004
Books Chapters
"Devastation," in (with Gay Hawkins, eds.) Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Rowman and Littlefied, 2002.
(with Gay Hawkins) "Introduction: Cultural Economies of Waste," in (with Gay Hawkins, eds.) Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Rowman and Littlefied, 2002.
"The Fall: Fictocritical Writing," in Brenda Walker, ed. The Writer's Reader (Sydney: Halstead Press, 2002, pp. 125-131).
"'Between the church and the stage': David Unaipon at the Hobart Carnival, 1910," in Bruce Bennett, ed. Australia In Between Cultures: Specialist Session Papers from the 1998 Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium, Canberra: The Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1999, pp. 23-31.
"Outback," in Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry eds Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan, UWA Press/CSAL, 1999, pp. 127-143.
"History and the Sacred," in Indigeneity: Construction and Re/Presentation, ed. James Brown and Patricia Sant, Nova Science, 1999, pp. 287-299.
"A Landscape of Variability," in Uncertain Ground, ed. Martin Thomas, Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, 1999, pp. 45-59.
"Cultural Activism, Indigenous Australia, 1972-1994" in Kuan-Hsing Chen, ed. Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 229-313.
Refereed Articles
"Contingency Theory: The Madagascan Experiment" Interventions, forthcoming
(trans.) "The Doctor and the Charlatan," Isabelle Stengers, Cultural Studies Review, 9:2, pp. 11-36,
"Choreomanias: Movements through our Body," in Performance Research, Volume 8/Issue 4 - December 2003, pp. 6-10.
"A Landscape of Variability," The Keynon Review, Summer/Fall 2003, Vol. XXV, No. 3/4. pp. 282-300
"The Fall: Fictocritical Writing," parallax, 25, October—December 2002, 108-112.
"Multiplying the Means for Indigenous Justice," (Review Article) Continuum, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2001, pp. 385-388.
"Being Centred," Performance Research, Volume 6/Issue 3 - 'On Navigation' December 2001, pp. 15-22.
"Over the land," Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes - Vol 21, Issue 1, 2001, Australian Gardens Issue, pp. 11-18.
(wth Devleena Ghosh) 'Editors' Introduction', UTS Review, Vol 6, No. 2, 2000, pp. 1-5.
(with Devleena Ghosh) "Indian Ocean Stories," UTS Review, Vol 6, No. 2, 2000, pp. 24-43.
(trans.) Daniella Police, "Mauritian Sega: The Trace of the Slave's Emancipatory Voice," UTS Review, Vol 6, No. 2, 2000, pp. 57-69.
(trans.) Philippe Reignier, "Saint Expedit," UTS Review, Vol 6, No. 2, 2000, pp. 70-77.
'Between the church and the stage': David Unaipon at the Hobart Carnival, 1910," UTS Review, 6:1, 2000, pp. 11-19.
"Moving Around," Interview with Chris Healy, Meanjin, 3/1999, pp. 175-191.
"The Archeology of Feeling," UTS Review, 5.1, 1999, pp. 1-5.
"The Sacred in History," in Humanities Research 1. 1999, pp. 27-37.
"Visiting Aboriginal Australia," in Postcolonial Studies 2.1, 1999, pp. 49-54.
translator), Michel Chion, "Silence in the Loudspeakers, or—why, with Dolby sound in films, it is the film which is listening to us," Framework: the Journal of Cinema and Media Vol. 40, April, 1999, pp. 106-110.
"Travelling the Subterranean River of Blood: Philosophy and Magic in Cultural Studies," Cultural Studies, 13: 1 1999, pp. 1-17.
"Better seats than they paid for," The Anthropological Journal of Australia, 9:3, December 1998, pp. 291-294.
"Joe in the Andamans: A Postcolonial Rite of Passage," Communal/Plural, 6: 1, 1998, pp. 51-70
"Aboriginal Art," entry in the Oxford Companion to Australian History, (1998).
Current Research Interests
cultural studies
Aboriginal studies
writing
textual studies
postcolonial studies
politics and culture in the Indian Ocean region