Associate Professor Greg Noble

Associate Professor Greg Noble researches  and writes in the intersecting areas of:

• youth, ethnicity and identity 
• multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism
• material culture and technology
• consumption and subjectivity
• cultural analysis of education. 

His current research includes being co-Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage project, 'Cultural Practices and Learning' (with the NSW Department of Education and Training as the project industry partner). This project examines the links between ethnicity, socio-cultural background and the embodied dispositions and education capital necessary for successful participation in the Australian educational system.

Other recently completed projects which have included successful collaborations with industry and community partnerships are:

• Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia, a report commissioned by SBS
• Transforming Drivers: Driving as Social, Cultural and Gendered Practice, an ARC Linkage project with the NRMA as industry partner
• Reporting Racism after September 11, a report commissioned by HREOC
• 'Everyday Experiences of Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity among Young People in South-Western and Southern Sydney' - a UWS Partnerships Scheme involving several government and community organisations.

Associate Professor Noble is co-author of the books, Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime (Pluto Press, 2000) and Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Institute of Criminology, 2004).

Qualifications

1983 BA (Hons 1st) Diploma of Education, English/History, Macquarie University, Australia

1993 PhD, History, Macquarie University, Australia

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Selected Publications

Books

Noble, G. 2009, Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging, Sydney: Institute of Criminology Press.

Tabar, P., Poynting, S., Noble, G. & Collins, J. 2004, Al Lubnanyoun fi Oustralia, Kiraa fil Hawiyah wal Ounsouryah fi zaman Al Awlamah [trans: The Lebanese in Australia: A Reading in Identity and Racism in the Age of Globalisation], Mokhtarat: Beirut.

Poynting, S., Noble, G., Tabar, P. & Collins, J. 2004, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other, Sydney: Federation Press/Institute of Criminology. 

Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. & Tabar, P. 2000, Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Ethnicity, Youth and Crime, Sydney: Pluto Press.

Book Chapters

Noble, G. 2009, 'Where the bloody hell are we? Multicultural Manners in a World of Hyperdiversity', in, Noble, G. (ed.), Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots and the Limits of Australian Multiculturalism, Sydney: Institute of Criminology Press.

Noble, G. 2009, 'Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community', in, Wise, A. & Velayutham, S. (eds), Everyday Multiculturalism, London: Palgrave.

Poynting, S., Tabar, P. & Noble, G. 2009. 'Looking for Respect', in, Donaldson, M., Hibbins, R., Howson, R. & Pease, B. (eds), Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience, London: Routledge.

Noble, G. & Poynting, S. 2008, ‘Neither Relaxed nor Comfortable: The Uncivil Regulation of the Muslim Other’, in, Pain, R. & Smith, S. (eds), Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp 129-138.

Noble, G. 2008, ‘Living with Things: Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life’, in, Anderson, N. & Schlunke, K. (eds), Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice, South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 98-113. 

Noble, G. & Poynting, S. 2007, ‘“The daily frustrations you have to live with”: Everyday Racism and the Social Exclusion of Arab and Muslim Australians since September 11’, in, Pludowski, T. (ed.), Terrorism, Media, Society, Warsaw and Toruń, Poland: Collegium Civitas Press and Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, pp 253-264.

Poynting, S. & Noble, G. 2006, ‘Muslims and Arabs in the Australian Media since 11 September 2001’, in, Pludowski, T. (ed.), Global Media Reactions to September 11: Media Coverage of the Attack and its Aftermath in Europe, Asia, Australia and the US, Spokane, WA: Marquette Books.

Cahir, J. & Noble, G. 2007, ‘“It's a Security Thing”: Mobile Phones and Moral Regulation’, in Poynting, S. & Morgan, G. (eds), Outrageous: Moral Panics in Australia, Hobart: ACYS, pp 137-147. 

Poynting, S., Noble, G. & Tabar, P. 2004, ‘Middle Eastern Appearances: ‘Ethnic Gangs’ and Media Panic’, in, Schneider, J. & Tilley, N. (eds), Gangs, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp 171-196. 

Noble, G. 2004, ‘Everyday Work’, in, Martin, F. (ed.), Interpreting Everyday Culture, New York: Hodder Arnold, pp 87-102. 

Noble, G. & Tabar, P. 2002, ‘On Being Lebanese-Australian: Hybridity, Essentialism, Strategy’, in, Hage, G. (ed.), Arab Australians Today, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp 128-144.

Noble, G. & Poynting, S. 2000, ‘Multicultural Education and Intercultural Understanding: Ethnicity, Culture and Schooling’, in, Dinham, S. & Scott, C. (eds), Teaching in Context, Camberwell: Australian Council for Educational Research, pp 56-81.

Journal Articles

Noble, G. 2009, 'Countless Acts of Recognition', Social and Cultural Geography, 10(8): 875-891.

Hopkins, P. & Noble G. 2009, 'Masculinities in Place: Situated Identities, Relations and Intersectionality', Social and Cultural Geography, 10(8): 811-819.

Noble, G. 2009, 'How Do You Teach Cultural Studies?', [review essay], Continuum, 23(3): 401-408.

Noble, G. & Watkins, M. 2009, 'On the Arts of Stillness: For a Pedagogy of Composure', M/C Journal, 12(1).

Noble, G. 2008, ‘The Face of Evil: Demonising the Arab Other in Contemporary Australia’, Cultural Studies Review, 14(2): 14-33.

Noble, G. 2007, ‘Respect and Respectability amongst Second Generation Arab and Muslim Australian Men’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 28(3): 331-344.

Noble, G. 2005, ‘The Discomfort of Strangers: Racism, Incivility and Ontological Security in a Relaxed and Comfortable Nation’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26(1-2):107-120.

Noble, G. 2004, ‘Accumulating Being’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(2): 233-256.

Noble, G. & Watkins, M. 2003, ‘So, How did Bourdieu Learn to Play Tennis?: Habitus, Consciousness and Habituation’, Cultural Studies, 17(3-4): 520-538.

Noble, G. & Poynting, S. 2003, ‘Acts of War: The Military Metaphor in Representations of Youth Gangs’, Media International Australia, 106: 110-123.

Noble, G. 2002, ‘Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the Home and Nation’, Continuum, 16(1): 53-66.

Noble, G. 1999, ‘Domesticating Technology: Learning To Live With Your Computer’, Australian Journal of Communication, 26(2): 55-74.

Noble, G., Poynting, S. & 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.

Noble, G. & Lupton, D. 1998, ‘Consuming Work: Computers, Subjectivity and Appropriation in the University Workplace’, The Sociological Review, 46(4): 803-27.

Reports

Watkins, M. and Noble, G. 2008, Cultural Practices and Learning: Diversity, Discipline and Dispositions in Schooling, Parramatta, Sydney: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.

Cardona, B., Noble, G. and Di Biase, B. 2008, Community Languages Matter! Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Community Languages Program in New South Wales, Parramatta, Sydney: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.

Ang, I., Brand, J., Noble, G. & Sternberg, J. 2006, Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia, Sydney: Special Broadcasting Services Corporation.

Poynting, S. & Noble, G. 2004, Living with Racism: The Experience and Reporting by Arab and Muslim Australians of Discrimination, Abuse and Violence Since September 11 2001, Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

Ang, I., Brand, J., Noble, G. & Wilding, D. 2002, Living Diversity: Australia's Multicultural Future, Sydney: Special Broadcasting Service Corporation.

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