Professor Kevin Dunn

Professor Kevin Dunn

Professor, Geography and Urban Studies

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• Biography
• Qualifications 
• Areas of expertise
• Awards / Honours
• Grants / Current projects
• Selected publications
• Professional activities

Biography

Kevin Dunn is Professor in Human Geography and Urban Studies, and commenced this position at UWS in May 2008. He was formerly at the University of NSW (1995-2008), and the University of Newcastle (1991-1995). His areas of research include: immigration and settlement; Islam in Australia; the geographies of racism; and local government and multiculturalism. He teaches cultural and social geography, migration and urban studies. Recent books include Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World (2003) and Introducing Human Geography: Globalisation, Difference and Inequality (2000).

Qualifications

BA (W'gong); PhD (Newcastle); FNGS

Areas of Expertise

Human Geography; Urban Studies; Race and Ethnic Studies.

Awards / Honours

Elected a Fellow of the Geographical Society of New South Wales (2004) (FNGS).

Authored the lead article in the journal issue of Geodate (2003) which was awarded first prize in the AGTA Awards for ‘Geographic Publishing’ in 2004.

Human Geography text awarded first prize in the tertiary category for wholly Australian texts (the Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing, 2000).

Grants / Current projects

"Racism Data Collection Project" (NT, WA & Tasmania), Emerging Issues Funding, Living in Harmony Section , Department of Immigration and Citizenship, 2008

"Constructing regionally appropriate anti-racism strategies for Australia", Australian Research Council, Linkage Project, 2008-10

"Revising Face the Facts", Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australian; Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia, &; the Human Rights Commission (ACT), 2007-8

Survey of racist attitudes & awareness of anti-racism instruments, ACT and Sth Aust", Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australian; Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia, &; the Human Rights Commission (ACT), 2007

"Managing cultural diversity on Australian construction sites", Australian Research Council, Linkage Project, 2007-10

"Strangers in Our Midst? Intolerance and Discrimination Towards Minority Cultural Groups in Victoria", Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 2006-7

"Chinese transnationalism compared: Australia & France", Australian Research Council, Linkage Internatl, 2006

Comparing racism in Australia and Canada, Australian Research Council, Linkage International, 2005

"Transnationalism and citizenship: the Australian experience", Australian Research Council, Discovery Project, 2003-5

"Measuring and mapping the experience of racism in Australia", Australian Research Council, Discovery Project, 2003-5

Selected Publications

Book chapters

Dunn, K.M., 2009: "Public attitudes towards hijab-wearing in Australia", in Dreher, T. and Ho, C. (eds) Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion, (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press), 31-51 (Chapter 2), ISBN: 1-4438-0169-0, ISBN(13): 978-1-4438-0169-0

Dunn, Kevin M. & Forrest, J. 2008: "Contemporary manifestations on racism in Australia", in Gopalkrishnan N. and Hurriyet B. (Ed.) Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 95-106 (Chapter Seven), ISBN 1-84718-223-2

Refereed journal articles

Kenna T.E. and Dunn, K.M. 2009: “The virtuous discourses of private communities”, Geography Compass, 3, 10.1111.

Dunn K.M. & Ip D. 2008: “Putting Transnationalism in Context: comparing Hong Kong Chinese-Australians in Sydney and Brisbane”, The Australian Geographer, 39(1), 81-98.

Dunn K.M. 2008: “Guest Editorial – Comparative analyses of transnationalism: a geographic contribution to the field”, The Australian Geographer, 39(1), 1-7. 

Dunn, K.M., Klocker, N. & Salabay, T., 2007: “Contemporary racism and Islamaphobia in Australia: racialising religion”, Ethnicities, 7(4), 564-589.

Forrest, J. & Dunn, K.M., 2007: “Constructing racism in Sydney, Australia’s largest ethni city”, Urban Studies, 44(4), 699-721.

Perrin R-L & Dunn KM. 2007: “Tracking the settlement of North African immigrants: speculations on the social & cultural impacts of a newly arrived immigrant group”, The Australian Geographer, 38(2), 253-273.

Forrest, J. & Dunn, K.M., 2006: “Racism and intolerance in Eastern Australia: a geographic perspective”, The Australian Geographer, 37(2), 167-186.

Dunn, K.M., 2005: “A paradigm of transnationalism for migration studies”, New Zealand Population Review, 31(2), 15-31.

Dunn, K.M., 2005: “Australian public knowledge of Islam”, Studia Islamika, 12(1), 1-32.

Dunn, K.M., 2006: “A comparative genealogy on place: cultural geography and cultural studies”, Geographical Research, 44(4), 423-426.

Forrest, J. & Dunn, K.M., 2006: “‘Core’ culture hegemony and ethnic identity: perceptions of the privileged position of Australians with British backgrounds”, Ethnicities, 6(2), 237-264.

Hay, I., Dunn, K.M. & Street, A., 2005: “Making the most of your conference journey”, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 29(1), 159-171.

Dunn, K.M., 2005: “Repetitive and troubling discourses of nationalism in the local politics of mosque development in Sydney, Australia”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(1), 29-50.

Dunn, K.M., 2004: “Islam in Australia: contesting the discourse of absence”, The Australian Geographer, 35(3), 333-353.

Dunn, K.M., Forrest, J., Burnley, I. & McDonald, A., 2004: “Constructing racism in Australia”, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 39(4), 409-430.

Klocker, N. & Dunn, K.M., 2003: “Who’s driving the asylum debate? Newspaper and Government representations of asylum seekers”, Media International Australia, 109, 71-92.

Dunn, K.M., 2003: "Using cultural geography to engage contested constructions of ethnicity and citizenship in Sydney", Social and Cultural Geography, 4(2), 153-165.

Dunn, K.M., Hanna, B. & Thompson, S., 2001: “The local politics of difference: an examination of intercommunal relations policy in Australian local government”, Environment & Planning A, 33(9), 1577-1595.

Dunn, K.M., 2001: “Representations of Islam in the politics of mosque development in Sydney”, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 92(3), 291-308.

Dunn, K.M. & Mahtani, M., 2001: “Media representations of ethnic minorities”, Progress in Planning, 55(3), 163-72. ISSN 0305-9006 (60%).

Dunn, K.M. and McDonald, A., 2001: “The geography of racisms in NSW: A theoretical exploration and some preliminary findings”, Australian Geographer, 32(1), 29-44.

Hartig, K.V. & Dunn, K.M., 1998: "Roadside memorials: Interpreting new deathscapes in Newcastle, NSW", Australian Geographical Studies, 36(1), 5-20.

Dunn, K.M., 1998: "Rethinking ethnic concentration: the case of Cabramatta, Sydney", Urban Studies, 35(3), 503-27.

Costello, L.N. and Dunn, K.M., 1994: "Resident action groups in Sydney: people power or rat-bags?", Australian Geographer, 25(1), 61-76.

Dunn, K.M., 1993: "The Vietnamese concentration in Cabramatta: Site of avoidance and deprivation, or island of adjustment and participation? ", Australian Geographical Studies, 31(2), 228-45.

Refereed conference papers

Dunn, K.M., Kenna, T.E. & Burnley, I.H. (2007) “A holistic approach to studying social segregation in Australian cities”, State of Australian Cities 3rd National Conference (Adelaide University, Brisbane), 28 – 30 Nov.

Dunn, K.M., Forrest, J., Pe-Pua, R. & Smith, S. (2005) “Experiences of racism in the Australian body politics: extent, spheres, and cultural unevenness” in Khoo, T. (ed.), The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (Refereed Proceedings from the UQ Australian Studies Centre Conference, Brisbane, 24-26 November 2004), University of Queensland Australian Studies Centre and Monash University National Centre for Australian Studies.

Dunn, K.M., (2003): “New cultural geographies in Australia: identity, citizenship and space”, B. Garner (Ed.) Geography's New Frontiers Conference Proceedings, Conference Papers No. 17, The Geographical Society of New South Wales, Gladesville, 189-200.

Dunn, K.M., 2001: “Examining local inter-communal relations and place making”, K.M. Dunn (Ed.), Proceedings of the Civics and Citizenship in Geography Conference, Conference Papers No. 16, The Geographical Society of New South Wales, Gladesville, 35-38.

Reports

Thompson, S., Dunn, K.M., Burnley, I.H., Murphy, P. & Hanna B., 1998: Multiculturalism and Local Governance: A National Perspective (Sydney, New South Wales Department of Local Government, Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales and University of New South Wales), pp. 110.

Professional Activities

Director, WESTIR Ltd, 2008-

Representative to Heads of Geography Program meetings (in 2002 and 2003)

Member of the Academy of Sciences, National Committee for Geography (1999 and 2004)

Councillor of the Geographical Society of New South Wales (1995-)

President of the Geographical Society of New South Wales (2008-)

Editorial Board Geographical Research (2006-), and Geography Compass (2006-)