Professor Deborah Stevenson

Professor Deborah Stevenson is Head of the School of Social Sciences and a member of the Centre for Cultural Research.  Her research activities and interests are focused in particular on arts and cultural policy, cities and urban life, and place and identity. Professor Stevenson’s work, which has been translated into Greek and Chinese, includes the books: Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller (co-authored, 2009); Cities and Urban Cultures (2003); Art and Organisation: Making Australian Cultural Policy (2000); and Agendas in Place: Urban and Cultural Planning for Cities and Regions (1998).  She is currently writing a book for the UK publisher Polity that examines the ways in which the interplay of ‘circulation and location’ shape the material and imagined forms of the city.  Professor Stevenson is an editorial board member of various journals, including the International Journal of Cultural Policy and her research program has been supported by external funding from a range of sources, including five grants from the ARC. Her current ARC-funded projects are 'The City after Dark: The Governance and Lived Experience of Urban Night-Time Culture' and 'Culture Circuits: Exploring the International Networks and Institutions Shaping Contemporary Cultural Policy'.  

Qualifications

1994: PhD, Sociology, University of Newcastle, Australia

1990: BA (Hons), Sociology, University of Newcastle, Australia

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Selected Publications

Books

Stevenson, D. (in progress) City, Cambridge, UK: Polity.

Wearing, S., Stevenson, D. & Young, T. (in press) Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller, London: Sage.

Stevenson, D. 2003, Cities and Urban Cultures, Buckingham, UK: Open University Press. [Chinese translation (2009), Beijing: Open University Press; Greek translation (2007) Athens: Kritiki Publishing Company].

Stevenson, D. 2000, Art and Organisation: Making Australian Cultural Policy, St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press.

Stevenson, D. 1998, Agendas in Place: Urban and Cultural Planning for Cities and Regions, Rockhampton: RESRC Central Queensland University Press.

Book Chapters

Stevenson, D. (in press) ‘Urban Culture’, in, Hutchison, R. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage.

Stevenson, D. 2006, ‘The Arts and Entertainment: Situating Leisure in the Creative Economy’, in, Rojek, C., Shaw, S. & Veal, A. J. (eds), The Handbook of Leisure Studies, London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Rowe, D. & Stevenson, D. 2006, ‘Sydney 2000: Sociality and Spatiality in Global Media Events’, in, Tomlinson, A. & Young, C. (eds), National Identity and Global Sports Events: Culture, Politics, and Spectacle in the Olympics and the Football World Cup, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp 197-214.

Stevenson, D. 2004, ‘Women, Sport and Globalisation’, in, Rowe, D. (ed.), Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media, Philadelphia and Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Journal Articles

Stevenson, D., McKay, K. & Rowe, D. (in press) ‘Tracing British Cultural Policy Domains: Contexts, Collaborations, and Constituencies’, International Journal of Cultural Policy

Everingham, C., Stevenson, D. & Warner-Smith, P. 2007, ‘“Things are Getting Better all the Time”? Challenging the Narrative of Women's Progress from a Generational Perspective’, Sociology, 41(3): 419-437.

Rowe, D., Markwell, K. & Stevenson, D. 2006, ‘Exploring Participants’ Experiences of the Gay Games: Intersections of Sport, Gender and Sexuality’, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2(2): 149-165.

Stevenson, D. 2005, ‘Cultural Planning in Australia: Texts and Contexts’, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 35(1): 36-49.

Stevenson, D., Rowe, D. & Markwell, K. 2005, ‘Explorations in “Event Ecology”: The Case of the International Gay Games’, Social Identities, 11(5): 85-106.

Markwell, K., Stevenson, D. & Rowe, D. 2004, ‘Footsteps and Memories: Interpreting Landscapes through Thematic Walking Tours’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 10(5): 457-473.

Stevenson, D. 2004, ‘“Civic Gold” Rush: Cultural Planning and the Politics of the Third Way’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 10(1): 119-131.

Stevenson, D. 2002, ‘Women, Sport and Globalisation: Competing Discourses of Sexuality and Nation’, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 26(2): 209-225.

Stevenson, D. 1999, ‘Reflections of a “Great Port City”: The Case of Newcastle, Australia’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17(1): 105-119.

Stevenson, D. 1997, ‘Olympic Arts: Sydney 2000 and the Cultural Olympiad’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 32(3): 227-238.

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