Dr Greg Noble
School of Humanities, University of Western Sydney
Current ARC Projects
2003 'Transforming Drivers: Driving as Social, Cultural and Gendered Practice' with Z Sofoulis and S Redshaw
Publications
Books
Poynting, S. Noble, G., Tabar, P. and Collins, J. (forthcoming March, 2004) Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other Sydney: Federation Press/Institute of Criminology.
Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2000) Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Ethnicity, Youth and Crime Sydney: Pluto Press.
Chapters in Books
Noble, G. (2003) 'Everyday Work', in F. Martin (ed) Interpreting Everyday Culture, Arnold: London: 87-102.
Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P (2003) 'Protest Masculinity and Lebanese-Australian youth in Western Sydney: An ethnographic study', in M. Donaldson and S. Tomsen (eds) Male Trouble: Looking at Australian Masculinities. Sydney: Pluto Press:132-155.
Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2002) 'On Being Lebanese-Australian: Hybridity, Essentialism, Strategy', in G. Hage (ed) Arab Australians Today Melbourne: Melbourne University Press: 128-144.
Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (2000), 'Multicultural Education and Intercultural Understanding: Ethnicity, Culture and Schooling', in S. Dinham and C. Scott (eds) Teaching in Context Camberwell: Australian Council for Educational Research: 56-81.
Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (1999) 'Lebanese Youth and Social Identity', in R. White (ed) Australian Youth Subcultures: On the Margins and In the Mainstream Hobart: Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: 130-137.
Refereed Articles
Noble, G. (forthcoming) 'Accumulating Being', International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (2003) 'Dog-whistle Journalism and Muslim Australians since 2001' Media International Australia,107: 41-49.
Noble, G. and Watkins, M. (2003) 'So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis?', Cultural Studies 17,3/4:520-538.
Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. (2003) 'Lost between Cultures or Resisting Racism? Second generation Lebanese immigrant young men in Sydney', Palma Journal 8, 2.
Tabar, P., Noble, G. and Poynting, S., (2003) 'The Rise and Falter of the Field of Ethnic Politics in Australia: the case of Lebanese community leadership', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 24, 3:275-295.
Noble, G. and Poynting, S., (2003) 'Acts of War: the military metaphor in representations of youth gangs', Media International Australia 106:110-123.
Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (2003) ''Rape menace from the melting pot": Racialisation and the moral panic over "ethnic gang rape" in Sydney, 2001-2002'. Refereed conference Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, University of New England, Armidale, 4-6 December.
Noble, G. (2002) 'Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the Home and Nation', Continuum, 16,1: 53-66.
Lupton, D. and Noble, G. (2002) 'Mine/Not-Mine: Appropriating the Computer in the Workplace', Journal of Sociology 38, 1: 5-23.
Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. (2001) 'Middle Eastern Appearances: "Ethnic Gangs" and Media Panic', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 34,1: 67-90.
Noble, G. and Baldwin, R. (2001) 'Sly Chicks and Troublemakers: Car Stickers, Nonsense and the Allure of Strangeness', Social Semiotics, 11,1: 75-89.
Noble, G., Lally, E. and Chalmers, S. (2000) 'Introduction', special issue of 'Synthetics' issue of Continuum, 14,3: 261-264 (guest editors).
Noble, G. (1999) 'Domesticating Technology: Learning To Live With Your Computer', Australian Journal of Communication, 26,2: 55-74.
Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (1999) 'Youth, Ethnicity and the Mapping of Identities: Strategic Essentialism and Strategic Hybridity among Male Arabic-speaking Youth in South-western Sydney', Communal/Plural 7, 1: 29-44. (60%)
Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (1999) 'Intersections of Masculinity and Ethnicity: A study of Male Lebanese Immigrant Youth in Western Sydney', Race, Ethnicity and Education 2, 1: 59-77.
Monographs and research reports
Ang, I., Brand, J., Noble, G. and Wilding, D. (2002) Living Diversity: Australia's Multicultural Future Special Broadcasting Service Corporation, Artarmon, ISBN 0-9750116-0 (75pp)
Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2002) 'Gangs, Crime and Community Safety: Perceptions and Experiences in Multicultural Sydney'. A Report on the Youth, Ethnicity and Crime in Sydney Project. Sydney: Centre for Transforming Cultures, University of Technology, Sydney. ISBN 1-86365-703-7 (78pp)
Current Research Interests
youth
ethnicity and crime
multiculturalism and multicultural education
consumption, embodiment and everyday life
cultural analysis of material culture and technology