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Professor Greg Noble
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.
Qualifications
BA (Hons 1st) Diploma of Education, 1983, English/History, Macquarie University, Australia
PhD, 1993, History, Macquarie University, Australia
Selected Publications
Books
Tabar, P., Noble, G. and Poynting, S. 2010, On Being Lebanese in Australia: Identity, Racism and the Ethnic Field, Beirut: Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University Press.
Noble, G. (ed.) 2009, Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging (opens in a new window), Sydney: Institute of Criminology Press.
Tabar, P., Poynting, S., Noble, G. and 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. and Collins, J. 2004, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (opens in a new window), Sydney: Federation Press/Institute of Criminology.
Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. 2000, Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Ethnicity, Youth and Crime (opens in a new window), Sydney: Pluto Press.
Book Chapters
Noble, G. 2012, 'Where’s the Moral in Moral Panic? Islam, Evil and Moral Turbulence', in, Morgan, G. and Poynting, S. (eds) 2012, 'Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West' (opens in a new window), Aldershot: Ashgate.
Noble, G. and Watkins, M. 2011, 'The Productivity of Stillness: Compsure and the Scholarly Habitus', in, Bissell, D. and Fuller, G. (eds), Stillness in a Mobile World (opens in a new window), London and New York: Routledge, pp 107-124.
Noble, G. and Seidler, K. 2010, ''I just lost it': Offenders' Rationalisations for Criminal Violence', in, Seidler, K. (ed.), Crime, Culture and Violence: Understanding How Masculinity and Identity Shapes Offending (opens in a new window), Bowen Hills, QLD: Australian Academic Press.
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 (opens in a new window), Sydney: Institute of Criminology Press.
Noble, G. 2009, 'Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community', in, Wise, A. and Velayutham, S. (eds), Everyday Multiculturalism (opens in a new window), Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 46-65.
Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. 2009. 'Looking for Respect', in, Donaldson, M., Hibbins, R., Howson, R. and Pease, B. (eds), Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience (opens in a new window), New York and Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp 135-153.
Noble, G. and Poynting, S. 2008, ‘Neither Relaxed nor Comfortable: The Uncivil Regulation of the Muslim Other’, in, Pain, R. and Smith, S. (eds), Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life (opens in a new window), Aldershot: Ashgate, pp 129-138.
Noble, G. 2008, ‘Living with Things: Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life’, in, Anderson, N. and Schlunke, K. (eds), Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice (opens in a new window), South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 98-113.
Noble, G. and 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 Toruñ, Poland: Collegium Civitas Press and Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, pp 253-264.
Poynting, S. and Noble, G. 2006, ‘Muslims and Arabs in Australian Media since 9/11’, in, Pludowski, T. (ed.), How the World's News Media Reacted to 9/11: Essays from Around the Globe (opens in a new window), Spokane, WA: Marquette Books.
Cahir, J. and Noble, G. 2007, ‘“It's a Security Thing”: Mobile Phones and Moral Regulation’, in, Poynting, S. and Morgan, G. (eds), Outrageous: Moral Panics in Australia, Hobart: ACYS, pp 137-147.
Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. 2004, ‘Middle Eastern Appearances: ‘Ethnic Gangs’ and Media Panic’, in, Schneider, J. and Tilley, N. (eds), Gangs (opens in a new window), Aldershot: Ashgate, pp 171-196.
Noble, G. 2004, ‘Everyday Work’, in, Martin, F. (ed.), Interpreting Everyday Culture (opens in a new window), New York: Hodder Arnold, pp 87-102.
Noble, G. and Tabar, P. 2002, ‘On Being Lebanese-Australian: Hybridity, Essentialism, Strategy’, in, Hage, G. (ed.), Arab Australians Today (opens in a new window), Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp 128-144.
Noble, G. and Poynting, S. 2000, ‘Multicultural Education and Intercultural Understanding: Ethnicity, Culture and Schooling’, in, Dinham, S. and Scott, C. (eds), Teaching in Context, Camberwell: Australian Council for Educational Research, pp 56-81.
Journal Articles
Noble, G. and Poynting, S. 2010, 'White Lines: The Intercultural Politics of Everyday Movement in Social Spaces' (opens in a new window), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 31(5): 489-505.
Noble, G. 2010, 'Shifty Insecurities' (opens in a new window), Ethnopolitics, 9(2): 263-267.
Noble, G. 2009, ''Countless Acts of Recognition': Young Men, Ethnicity and the Messiness of Identities in Everyday Life' (opens in a new window), Social and Cultural Geography, 10(8): 875-891.
Hopkins, P. and Noble G. 2009, 'Masculinities in Place: Situated Identities, Relations and Intersectionality' (opens in a new window), Social and Cultural Geography, 10(8): 811-819.
Noble, G. 2009, ‘How do you teach Cultural Studies? Or, The Uses of Textbooks’ (opens in a new window), Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 23(3): 401-408.
Noble, G. and Watkins, M. 2009, 'On the Arts of Stillness: For a Pedagogy of Composure' (opens in a new window), 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’ (opens in a new window), 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’ (opens in a new window), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26(1-2): 107-120.
Noble, G. 2004, ‘Accumulating Being’ (opens in a new window), International Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(2): 233-256.
Noble, G. and Watkins, M. 2003, ‘So, How did Bourdieu Learn to Play Tennis?: Habitus, Consciousness and Habituation’ (opens in a new window), Cultural Studies, 17(3-4): 520-538.
Noble, G. and Poynting, S. 2003, ‘Acts of War: The Military Metaphor in Representations of Youth Gangs’ (opens in a new window), Media International Australia, 106: 110-123.
Noble, G. 2002, ‘Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the Home and Nation’ (opens in a new window), 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. and Tabar, P. 1999, ‘Youth, Ethnicity and the Mapping of Identities: Strategic Essentialism and Strategic Hybridity among Male Arabic-speaking Youth in South-Western Sydney’ (opens in a new window), Communal/Plural, 7(1): 29-44.
Noble, G. and Lupton, D. 1998, ‘Consuming Work: Computers, Subjectivity and Appropriation in the University Workplace’ (opens in a new window), The Sociological Review, 46(4): 803-27.
Reports
Watkins, M. and Noble, G. 2008, Cultural Practices and Learning: Diversity, Discipline and Dispositions in Schooling (opens in a new window), 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 (opens in a new window), Parramatta, Sydney: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.
Ang, I., Brand, J., Noble, G. and Sternberg, J. 2006, Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia, Sydney: Special Broadcasting Services Corporation.
Poynting, S. and Noble, G. 2004, Living with Racism: The Experience and Reporting by Arab and Muslim Australians of Discrimination, Abuse and Violence Since September 11 2001 (opens in a new window), Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Ang, I., Brand, J., Noble, G. and Wilding, D. 2002, Living Diversity: Australia's Multicultural Future, Sydney: Special Broadcasting Service Corporation.
