Professor Bob Hodge

• Qualifications
• Honours and Awards
• Selected Publications
• Contact
  

Professor Bob Hodge has many active research interests: in analytic and conceptual tookits for social and cultural research (critical linguistics, discourse analysis, social semiotics); in major theoretical traditions in humanities and social sciences (Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, post-modernism, critical management studies, chaos theory); in radical transdisciplinarity (including science in the mix) and engaged research; and in specific areas of study (globalisation, cyberculture, Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Mexico and Latin America, Chinese language and culture, education, popular culture, literature (classical, early modern, contemporary). He has published in all these areas, and has supervised doctoral studies on all of them and more.

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Qualifications

PhD, 1972, Intellectual History, Cambridge, UKB

A Hons, 1967, English, Cambridge, UK

Dip Ed, 1963, Physics and Maths, UWA, Australia

BA Hons, 1961, English and Greek, UWA, Australia

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Honours and Awards

Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2002

Centenary Medal, 2003

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Selected Publications

Books

Hodge, B. and O'Carroll, J. (2006) Borderwork in Multicultural Australia, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Hodge, B. and Coronado, G. (2004) El Hipertexto Multicultural en México Posmoderno, Mexico: Porrua-CIESAS.

Hodge, B. and Dimitrov, V. (2002) Social Fuzziology: Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity, Germany: Springer Verlag.

Hodge, B. and Louie, K. (1998) The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture: The Art of Reading Dragons, London & New York: Routledge.

Hodge, B. and Kress, G. (1993) Language as Ideology, Rev. ed., London & New York: Routledge.

Hodge, B. and Mishra, V. (1991) Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Hodge, B. and Kress, G. (1988) Social Semiotics, London: Polity Press.

Hodge, B., Fiske, J. and Turner, G. (1987) Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular Culture, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Hodge, B. and Tripp, D. (1986) Children and Television, London: Polity Press, London. Spanish Trans. by Valverde, G. (1988) Barcelona: Editorial Planeta.

Book Chapters

Hodge, B. 2008, ‘From Other to Self and Back: The Curious History of Ethnography’, in, Anderson, N. & Schlunke, K. (eds), Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 228-236.

Hodge, B. 2006, ‘The Goddess Tour’, in, Hume, L. & McPhillips, K. (eds), Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp 27-40.

Hodge, B. 2002, ‘Dialog profundo’, in, Hodge, B., Lema, R. & Saettele, H. (eds), Discurso, Sociedad y Lenguaje: Una Anamofósis en el Nuevo Milenio, Spain: Lincom Europa, pp 30-54.

Hodge, B., Lema, R. & Saettele, H. 2002, ‘Tareas teoricas para mexico en el Nuevo milenio’, Hodge, B., Lema, R. & Saettele, H. (eds), Discurso, Sociedad y Lenguaje: Una Anamofósis en el Nuevo Milenio, Spain: Lincom Europa, pp 5-28.

Dimitrov, V. & Hodge, R. 2002, ‘Why does Fuzzy Logic need the Challenge of Social Complexity’, in, Dimitrov, V. & Korotkitch, V. (eds), Fuzzy Logic: A Framework for the New Millennium, Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg/New York, pp 27-44.

Hodge, B. & Coronado, G. 2002, ‘Fuzzy and Amorphic Boundaries in Intercultural Space: The case of Mexico and the USA’, in, Dimitrov, V. & Korotkitch, V. (eds), Fuzzy Logic: A Framework for the New Millennium, Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg/New York, pp 63-78.

Journal Articles

Hodge, B. & Coronado, G. 2007, ‘Understanding Change in Organizations in a far-from-equilibrium World’, Emergence: Complexity & Organisation, 9(3): 3-15. 

Hodge, B. 2007, ‘The Complexity Revolution’, Media/Culture Journal, 10(3): 4-11.

Hodge, B. 2007, ‘Life, Chaos, and Transdisciplinarity: A Personal Journey’, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, 63(3-4): 209-222.

Duarte, F. & Hodge, B. 2007, ‘Crossing Paradigms: A Meta-Autoethnography of a Fieldwork Trip to Brazil’, Cultures and Organizations, 13(3): 191-203.

Hodge, B. & Coronado, G. 2006, ‘Mexico Inc.? Discourse Analysis and the Triumph of Managerialism’, Organization. The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, 13(4): 529-547.

Hodge, B. & Lally, E. 2006, ‘Cultural Planning and Chaos Theory in Cyberspace: Some Notes on a Digital Cultural Atlas Project for Western Sydney’, Fibreculture Journal: Internet Theory Criticism Research, 9.

Hodge, B. & Coronado, G. 2005, ‘Speculations on a Marxist Theory of the Virtual Revolution’, Fibreculture Journal: Internet Theory, Critisism, Research, 5.

Hodge, B. 2005, ‘Ute Culture and What's Left of Theory: An Australian Theorist goes to Mexico’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19(1): 117-126.

Hodge, B. & Caballero, L. 2005, ‘Biology, Semiotics, Complexity: An Experiment in Interdisciplinarity’, Semiotica, 157(1-4): 477-496. 

Mishra, V. & Hodge, B. 2005, ‘What was Postcolonialism’, New Literary History, 36: 375-402.

Hodge, B. & Coronado, G. 2004, ‘Semiotica y poder en un mundo caotico’, Version, 13: 17-47.

Hodge, B. 2003, ‘Towards a Postmodern Science of Language’, Social Semiotics, 13(3): 241-262.

Hodge, B. 2003, ‘Culture/Communication/Theory in Australia’, AUMLA, 100: 88-98.

Hodge, B. 2003, ‘How the Medium is the Message in the Unconscious of America Online’, Visual Communication, 2(3): 341-354.

Hodge, B. 2003, ‘Chaos Theory: An Introduction for TESOL Practitioners’, English Australia, 21(1): 8-16.

Dimitrov, V. & Hodge, B. 2003, ‘Corruption and Abuse of the Fuzziness of Human Understanding’, Journal of Social Complexity, 1(3): 18-23.

Hodge, B. 2002, ‘Feral Archaeology and the Atlantis Problem: The 'Hoax' Trick as Discursive Pathology’, Cultural Studies, 16(3): 351-364.

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