Dr George Morgan

Dr George Morgan researches the formation and dissolution of communal ties in urban areas, including occupational and residential communities of working people, networks based on ethnicity, and the reworking of ethnic traditions in suburban areas, especially among Aboriginal and NESB people.

His current research includes 'Doing the Knowledge', a UWS Research Partnerships project with industry partner, WSROC (Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils), which focuses on the impacts of education and training policies on the lives of three generations of people in Western Sydney.

Dr Morgan is the author of Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urbanisation in New South Wales (Wakefield Press, 2006).

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Qualifications

PhD, 2000, Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia

M.Phil, 1990, (degree by research/dissertation - Cultural Studies), Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

BA (Hons), 1984, History, Australian National University, Australia

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Honours and Awards

2001 National Trust Prize for Multicultural History for Marrickville Backyards (Bloomings, Melbourne 2001).

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Selected Publications

Books

Poynting, S and Morgan, G (eds) 2007, Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Press: Hobart.

Morgan, G 2006, Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urbanisation in New South Wales, Wakefield Press: Adelaide.

Book Chapters

Morgan, G. 2007, ‘Curfews, Children, Class and Colonialism’, in Poynting, S. & Morgan, G. (eds), Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, Hobart: ACYS Publishing, pp 11-19.

Morgan, G. 2007, 'Not Waving, Drowning: The Cronulla Riots and the Decline of Cosmopolitanism', in Faccioli, P. & Gibbons, J. (eds), Framing Globalization: Visual Perspectives, Newcastle UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 144-157.

Morgan, G. 2006, ‘Aboriginal Politics, Self-Determination and the Rhetoric of Community’, in Herbrechter, S. & Higgins, M. (eds), Returning (to) Communities: Theory, Culture and Political Practice of the Communal, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp 367-386. [Reprinted in Dialogue, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Journal, 25(1): 19-29].

Refereed Journal Articles 

Morgan, G. 2008, ‘Aboriginal Migration to Sydney since World War II’, Sydney Journal, 1(3): 75-82.

Morgan, G. 2008, ‘Ostalgia: Vera Drake, Community and Critical Spectatorship’, Rising East Online, 8(A).

Morgan, G. & Cohen, P. (guest eds) 2006, Journal of Education and Work [Special Issue: ‘Globalisation: Narratives of Education and Work’], 19(2): 141-152.

Morgan, G. 2006, ‘Work in Progress. Narratives of Aspiration from the New Economy’, Journal of Education and Work, 19(2): 141-152.

Morgan, G. 2006, ‘Memory and Marginalisation. Aboriginality and Education in the Assimilation Era’, Australian Journal of Education, 50(1): 40-49.

Morgan, G., Rocha, C. and Poynting, S. 2005, ‘Grafting Cultures: Longing and Belonging in Immigrants’ Gardens and Backyards in Fairfield’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26(1-2): 93-106.

Refereed Conference Papers

Morgan, G. 2008, 'The Just in Time Self? Work, Aspiration and the Limits of Flexibility', in Majoribanks, T., Barraket, J., Chang, J-S., Dawson, A., Guillemin M., Henry-Waring, M., Kenyon, A., Kokanovic, R., Lewis, J., Lusher, D., Nolan, D., Pyett, P., Robins, R., Warr, D. & Wyn, J. (eds), Re-Imagining Sociology: The Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, 2-5 December 2008, Melbourne: University of Melbourne.

Morgan, G. 2006, ‘A City of Two Tales: Distinction, Dispersal and Dissociation in Western Sydney’, in Anderson, K., Dobson, R., Allon, F. & Neilson, B. (eds) 2006, After-Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney: E-Proceedings of the ‘Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation’ Conference, 22-23 November 2005, Sydney: Centre for Cultural Research.

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