Associate Professor Brett Neilson

Associate Professor Brett Neilson's research and writing aims to provide alternative ways of conceiving globalisation, with particular emphasis upon its cultural dimensions. Drawing on cutting edge cultural and social theory as well as on empirical and archival information, this research has derived original and provocative means for rethinking the significance of globalisation for a wide range of contemporary problems and predicaments, including the circulation of popular culture, the burgeoning of social movements, the ascendancy of global financial markets, the evolving concern for security, and the pressures of population ageing. Associate Professor Neilson also maintains a secondary line of research that applies the insights of global cultural studies to the interpretation of literary and visual texts. His writings have been translated into eight languages: Italian, French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Qualifications

PhD, 1994, English, Yale University, USA

MA, MPhil, 1990, English, Yale University, USA

BA, (Hons 1), 1987, English, University of Sydney

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Honours and Awards

1987-92 Fulbright Scholarship, Australian-American Educational Foundation

1992-93 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship

1989-92 William Lyons Phelps Prize Fellowship, Yale University

1987-89 Richard J. Franke Prize Fellowship, Yale University

1987 University Medal, English, University of Sydney

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Selected Publications

Books
Neilson, B 2004, Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle … and Other Tales of Counter-Globalization, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

Chapters
Neilson, B and Mitropoulos, A (forthcoming), ‘Exceptional Times, Non-governmental spacings, and Impolitical Movements,’ Nongovernmental Politics, Michel Feher (ed.) Zone Books, New York.

Journal Articles
Neilson, B 2006, 'The Market and the Police: Finance Capital in the Permanent Global War', Traces: A Multilingual Journal of Culture Theory and Translation 4 Special issue on ‘Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference’, Sakai, N and Solomon J (eds.).

Neilson, B and Rossiter, N 2005 'From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Life, Labour and Unstable Networks', fibreculture journal 5.

Neilson, B 2005 'Provincialising the Italian Effect', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 11, pp. 11-24. Goddard, M and Neilson, B (eds.) Special issue on ‘Italian Effects.’ 
 
Neilson, B 2005, ‘La politica dell’ immaginario: Appunti incompleti su affetto e potere,’ Studi culturali vol.2.1, pp. 3-22.

Neilson, B 2004, ‘Potenza Nuda? Capitalism, Biopolitics, Sovereignty,’ Contretemps vol. 5, pp. 63-78.

Neilson, B 2003, ‘Globalization and the Biopolitics of Aging’, CR: The New Centennial Review 2, pp. 161-186, Special issue on ‘Globalicities’.

Mezzadra, S and Neilson, B 2003, 'Né qui, né altrove: migration, detention, desertion', borderlands vol. 2.1.

Neilson, B 1999, 'Barbarism/Modernity: Notes on Barbarism.' Textual Practice vol. 13 (1), pp. 75-91.

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