Doctor George Morgan

Doctor George Morgan

SENIOR LECTURER,
Arts (SoHCA)

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Macquarie University
  • BA The Australian National University
  • MPhil University of Birmingham (UK)

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Arts (SoHCA)

Contact

Email:george.morgan@uws.edu.au
Extension:6529
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Mobile:0414958726
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Publications

Books

  • Morgan, G. (2006), 'Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urbanisation in New South Wales', : Wakefield Press 9781862547360.
  • Morgan, G., Poynting, S. and Rocha, C. (2004), 'Culture and Cultivation: Backyards in Fairfield', : Fairfield City Museum and Gallery 0958541094.

Chapters in Books

  • Al-Natour, R. and Morgan, G. (2012), 'Local Islamophobia: The Islamic School Controversy in Camden, New South Wales', Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Local Islamophobia. The Islamic School Controversy in Camden, New South Wales', Global Islamophobia : Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Introduction: The Transnational Folk Devil', Global Islamophobia Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Housing', Aboriginal Studies, Nelson 9780170196284.
  • Morgan, G. and Nelligan, P. (2012), 'Taking the bait: minority youth in Australia, creative skills and precarious work', Mappa Della Precarieta Vol.II Knowledge Workers, creativita, saperi e disposivitivi di soggettivazione, I Libri Di Emil 9788866800453.
  • Morgan, G. and Poynting, S. (2012), 'Introduction : the transnational folk devil', Global Islamophobia : Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Housing. Part 1, A history of Aboriginal housing', Aboriginal Studies, Nelson 9780170196284.
  • Morgan, G. and Nelligan, P. (2012), 'Taking the bait : minority youth in Australia, creative skills and precarious work', Mappa Della Precarieta. Vol. II, Knowledge Workers, Creativita, Saperi e Disposivitivi di Soggettivazione, I Libri di Emil 9788866800453.
  • Al-Natour, R. and Morgan, G. (2012), 'Local Islamophobia : the Islamic school controversy in Camden, New South Wales', Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
  • Morgan, G. (2007), 'Not Waving, Drowning: The Cronulla Riots and the Decline of Cosmopolitanism', Framing Globalization: Visual Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1847183735.
  • Morgan, G. (2007), 'Curfews, Children, Class and Colonialism', Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Publishing 9781875326596.
  • Poynting, S. and Morgan, G. (2007), 'Introduction', Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Publishing 9781875326596.
  • Morgan, G. (2006), 'Aboriginal Politics, Self Determination and the Rhetoric of Community', Returning (to) Communities. Theory, Culture and Political Practice of the Communal, Rodopi 9789042018983.

Journal Articles

  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Urban Transitions - Aboriginal men, education and work in Redfern Waterloo', Postcolonial Studies, 15.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Urban Renewal and the Creative Underclass: Aboriginal Youth Subcultures in Sydney's Redfern Waterloo', Journal of Urban Affairs, 16.
  • Morgan, G. and Idriss, S. (2012), '"Corsages on their parents' jackets": employment and aspiration among Arabic-speaking youth in Western Sydney', Journal of Youth Studies, 15.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Urban renewal and the creative underclass : Aboriginal youth subcultures in Sydney's Redfern-Waterloo', Journal of Urban Affairs, 16.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'Urban transitions : Aboriginal men, education and work in Redfern Waterloo', Postcolonial Studies, 15.
  • Morgan, G. and Idriss, S. (2012), ''Corsages on their parents' jackets' : employment and aspiration among Arabic-speaking youth in Western Sydney', Journal of Youth Studies, 15.
  • Morgan, G. (2012), 'The creative underclass : culture, subculture and urban renewal', Journal of Urban Affairs, 4.
  • Morgan, G. and Warren, A. (2011), 'Aboriginal Youth, hip hop and the politics of identification', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23.
  • Morgan, G., Dagistanli, S. and Martin, G. (2010), 'Global Fears, Local Anxiety: Policing, Counterterrorism and Moral Panic Over 'Bikie Gang Wars' in New South Wales', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 20.
  • Morgan, G. (2008), 'Ostalgia: Vera Drake, Community and Critical Spectatorship', Rising East, .
  • Morgan, G. (2008), 'Aboriginal migration to Sydney since World War II', Sydney Journal, 8.
  • Morgan, G. (2006), 'Memory and Marginalisation - Aboriginality and Education in the Assimilation Era', Australian Journal of Education, 10.
  • Morgan, G. (2006), 'Work in Progress: Narratives of Aspiration from the New Economy', Journal of Education and Work, 11.
  • Morgan, G., Rocha, C. and Poynting, S. (2005), 'Grafting Cultures: Longing and Belonging in Immigrants' Gardens in Fairfield', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 13.
  • Morgan, G. (2003), 'Autochthonous Australian Syncretism', Current Sociology, 19.
  • Morgan, G. (2003), 'Curfews, Moral Panics and Aboriginal Children', Journal of the Aboriginal Studies Association, 5.
  • Morgan, G. (2003), 'Decolonising the Archives. Who owns the documents', Comma. International Journal on Archives., 6.
  • Morgan, G. (2003), 'Aboriginal Protest and the Sydney Olympic Games', Olympika, 16.
  • Morgan, G. (2002), 'The Reconciliation Movement in Australia', Journal of Aboriginal Studies, 6.
  • Morgan, G. (2002), 'Backyard narratives', Oral History Association of Australia Journal - Viuces of a 20th cebtury Nation, 4.

Conference Papers

  • Morgan, G. (2008), 'The Just in Time Self? Work, Aspiration and the Limits of Flexibility', Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association 2008, Melbourne.
  • Morgan, G. (2006), 'A City of Two Tales: Distinction, Dispersal and Dissociation in Western Sydney', Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation Conference, Parramatta.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Non-Religion amongst Australian Aboriginal Peoples
Years:2012-11-13 - 2013-11-12
ID:P00021174
UWS Researchers:Adam Possamai and George Morgan
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:Cataloguing of Housing Commission Special Tenancy Files
Years:2000-07-01 - 2001-06-30
ID:P0012286
UWS Researchers:George Morgan
Funding:
  • NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs
Title:Culture and Cultivation - Fairfield Migration Narratives
Years:2003-06-21 - 2004-09-30
ID:P0012440
UWS Researchers:George Morgan and Scott Poynting
Funding:
  • Fairfield City Council
Title:Doing the Knowledge: Youth in Transition in Marrickville
Years:2005-05-23 - 2005-12-23
ID:P0014726
UWS Researchers:George Morgan
Funding:
  • Marrickville Community History Group
Title:The Just-in-Time Self: Young Men, Skill and Narratives of Aspiration in the New Economy
Years:2009-01-01 - 2011-12-31
ID:P0016042
UWS Researchers:George Morgan and Gregory Noble
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Urban Cultural Economics: Landscapes and Life in Sydney and New York
Years:2006-11-24 - 2007-11-23
ID:P0015333
UWS Researchers:George Morgan and Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • City University of New York
Title:Doing the Knowledge
Years:2006-01-18 - 2008-05-02
ID:P0014764
UWS Researchers:George Morgan, Bronwyn Davies and Phillip Toner
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • West Syd Regional Organisation of Councils Ltd (old)
Title:Young Aboriginal Men, Informed Learning and the New Economy in Redfern Waterloo
Years:2008-08-01 - 2011-02-28
ID:P00016264
UWS Researchers:George Morgan
Funding:
  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Supervision

Doctor Morgan is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:The 'Race' for Camden. The Camden Islamic School Controversy.
Field of Research:

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