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Dr Graham St John  | | | | UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Graham is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in contemporary youth cultures, techno culture, counter cultures and performance. Graham has published widely in the fields of anthropology, cultural, youth, and religious studies. His current projects include: 'Performing the Country', a study of contemporary performative contexts for the (re)production of 'Australianness' in the wake of recent historical and ecological re-evaluations; 'Dance Tribalism and the Global Party', which explores the local character and international flows of rave and post-rave dance music culture; and 'Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance', which critically investigates the relevance of the theory and approach of Victor Turner in the study of contemporary cultural performance.
He has two forthcoming books: Technomad: Global Pathways of Post-Rave Counterculture, and Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (ed.), both to be published by Berghahn. He recently edited Rave Culture and Religion (London/New York: Routledge, 2004), and FreeNRG: notes from the edge of the dance floor (Altona: Common Ground, 2001).
He is an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, as coordinator for Religions, Nature and Culture in Oceania. His PhD thesis, 'Alternative Cultural Heterotopia: ConFest as Australia's Marginal Centre', has a virtual presence (in weblinks).
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