Professor Brett Neilson
RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE & SOCIETY,
Institute for Culture & Society
PROFESSOR,
Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD Yale University Graduate School
- BA University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Institute for Culture & Society
- Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Contact
| Email: | B.Neilson@uws.edu.au |
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| Location: | EM.G.36 Parramatta |
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Publications
Books
- Neilson, B. (2004), 'Free trade in the Bermuda Triangle ... and Other Tales of Counterglobalization', : University of Minnesota Press 0816638713.
Chapters in Books
- Neilson, B. (2013), 'On Expo 2010's hinterlands, 'extrastatecraft' and migrant workers', Shanghai Expo : an International Forum on the Future of Cities, Routledge 9780415524629.
- Neilson, B. (2012), 'Fracking', Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies, Institute of Network Cultures 9789081857512.
- Mezzadra, S., Mezzadra, S. and Neilson, B. (2011), 'Borderscapes of Differential Inclusion: Subjectivity and Struggles on the Threshold of Justice's Excess', The Borders of Justice, Temple University Press 9781439906873.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2010), 'Still Waiting, Still Moving: On Migration, Logistics and Maritime Industries', Stillness in a Mobile World, Routledge 9780415572620.
- Neilson, B. (2009), 'Waiting', 2008 Taipei Biennal Feature: Dictionary of War, Taipei Fine Arts Museum 9789860179101.
- Neilson, B. (2008), 'Anticipazioni del globale. Soggettivita dopo il Sessantotto mondiale', La Rivoluzione Dietro di Noi: Filosofia e politica prima e dopo il '68, Manifestolibri 9788872855492.
- Mezzadra, S. and Neilson, B. (2008), 'Il confine come metodo della moltiplicazione del lavoro', Universita Globale: Il Nuovo Mercato Del Sapere, manifestolibri 9788872855614.
- Mezzadra, S. and Neilson, B. (2008), 'Die Grenze als Methode, oder die Vervielfaltigung der Arbeit', Borders, Nations, Translations: Ubersetzung in Einer Globalisierten Welt, Verlag Turia + Kant 9783851325454.
- Neilson, B. (2007), 'At the frontiers of metaphysics: time and history in T.S. Eliot and Walter Benjamine', T.S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition, Cambridge University Press 9780521880022.
- Neilson, B. and Mitropoulos, A. (2007), 'Exceptional Times, Nongovernmental Spacings, and Impolitical Movements', Nongovernmental Politics, Zone Books 9781890951.
- Neilson, B. (2006), 'Wyndham Lewis in Morocco: Spatial Philosophy and the Politics of Race', Anglo-American Modernity in the Mediterranean, Cisalpino 8832360624.
- Neilson, B. (2006), 'The Market and the Police: Finance Capital in the Permanent Global War', Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, Hong Kong University Press 962209774X.
- Neilson, B. (2006), 'Cultural Studies and Giorgio Agamben', New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, Edinburgh University Press 0748622098.
- Neilson, B. (2004), 'Hardy, Barbarism, and the Transformations of Modernity', Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 0333994450.
- Neilson, B. (2002), 'Ford's Biopolitics: 'Great Trade Route' and the Philosophy of the Kitchen Garden', Ford Madox Ford and 'The Republic of Letters', Cooperativa Libraria Universitatia Editrice Bologna 8849119283.
Journal Articles
- Mezzadra, S. and Neilson, B. (2012), 'Between inclusion and exclusion : on the topology of global space and borders', Theory, Culture and Society, 18.
- Neilson, B. (2012), 'Five theses on understanding logistics as power', Distinktion, 18.
- Neilson, B. (2012), 'Ageing, experience, biopolitics : life's unfolding', Body and Society, 28.
- Cardona, B. and Neilson, B. (2011), 'The Logics of Human Growth Hormone and the Predicaments of Old Age', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 15.
- Neilson, B. and Dibley, B. (2010), 'Climate Crisis and the Actuarial Imaginary: The War on Global Warming', New Formations, 16.
- Neilson, B. (2010), 'Politics without Action, Economy without Labour', Theory and Event, .
- Mezzadra, S. and Neilson, B. (2010), 'Frontieres et inclusion differentielle', Rue Descartes, 7.
- Neilson, B. (2010), 'Between governance and sovereignty: remaking the borderscape to Australia's north', Local-Global journal, 17.
- Neilson, B. (2010), 'On the ambiguity of ambidextrousness, or, what is an innovative action', CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, .
- Neilson, B. (2010), 'On the ambiguity of ambidextrousness, or, what is an innovative action', CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, .
- Neilson, B. (2009), 'Translating Signs, Producing Subjects', Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, .
- Neilson, B. (2009), 'Ageing and Globalisation in a Moment of So-Called Crisis', Health Sociology Review, 15.
- Neilson, B. (2009), 'The World Seen From a Taxi: Students-Migrants-Workers in the Global Multiplication of Labour', Subjectivity, 20.
- Neilson, B. (2009), 'Opening Translation', Transeuropeennes: Revue Internationale de Pensee Critique, .
- Neilson, B. and Bamyeh, M. (2009), 'Drugs in Motion: Towards a Materialist Tracking of Global Mobilites', Cultural Critique, 12.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2008), 'Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception', Theory, Culture & Society, 22.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2006), 'Towards a Political Anthropology of New Institutional Forms', Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 18.
- Neilson, B. (2006), 'Anti-ageing cultures, biopolitics and globalisation', Cultural Studies Review, 16.
- Neilson, B. and Mitropoulos, A. (2006), 'Cutting Democracy's Knot', Culture Machine, .
- Neilson, B. (2005), 'Provincialising the Italian Effect', Cultural Studies Review, 14.
- Neilson, B. (2005), 'La politica dell' immaginario: Appunti incompleti su affetti e potere', Studi culturali, 20.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2005), 'From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Life, Labour and Unstable Networks', Fibreculture Journal, .
- Neilson, B. and Mitropolous, A. (2005), 'Polemos, Universitas', Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities, .
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2005), 'Action without Reaction: A Mongolian Border Intervention', Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 6.
- Mitropoulos, A. and Neilson, B. (2005), 'Academia Inc. and the (culture) war', Overland, 5.
- Neilson, B. (2004), 'Potenza Nuda? Sovereignty, Biop0olitics, Capitalism', Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 16.
- Mezzadra, S. and Neilson, B. (2003), 'Ne qui, ne altrove: migration, detention, desertion', borderlands e-journal, .
- Neilson, B. (2003), 'Australia, panottico o terra nullius', DeriveApprodi, 6.
- Neilson, B. (2003), 'Globalization and the Biopolitics of Aging', CR: The New Centennial Review, 26.
- Neilson, B. (2003), 'I migranti, i nativi e le gabbie del nazionalismo: Il diritto di fuga del movimento australiano', DeriveApprodi, 5.
- Neilson, B. (2002), 'Bad Old Australia', Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, 16.
- Neilson, B. (2002), 'Bodies of Protest: performing citizenship at the 2000 Olympic Games', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 13.
Conference Papers
- Neilson, B. (2001), 'How to launder money: finance capital, value and biopower', Inaugural Fibreculture Conference, Melbourne.
Other Publications
- 2010, ''What is a Research Platform?', in Transit-Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
- 2010, ''From Flows of Culture to the Circuits of Logistics: Borders, Regions, Labour in Transit', Transit-Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
- 2010, 'Guijing Migrant Village, Transit-Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
- 2011, 'The Logistical City, in Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Logistics as Global Governance: Labour, Software and Infrastructure along the New Silk Road |
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| Years: | 2013-06-30 - 2016-06-29 |
| ID: | P00020849 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | Anti-Ageing Devices: On the cultural politics of staying young in a globalised world (DP0559830) |
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| Years: | 2005-06-30 - 2009-07-30 |
| ID: | P0009950 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson |
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| Title: | Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies (RCIS) |
| Years: | 1999-01-01 - 1999-12-30 |
| ID: | P0013150 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson |
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| Title: | Performing Citizenship: Western Sydney, Globalisation and Media Representations of Protest Groups at the 2000 Olympic Games |
| Years: | 2000-01-01 - 2000-12-31 |
| ID: | P0011226 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson |
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| Title: | Counterworlds |
| Years: | 2000-09-04 - 2000-12-31 |
| ID: | P0011364 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson |
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| Title: | Culture in Transition: Creative Labour and Social Mobilities in the Asian Century |
| Years: | 2009-06-30 - 2012-09-30 |
| ID: | P0016038 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson, Ien Ang and Ned Rossiter |
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| Title: | Advancing Cultural Research in Australian and European Contexts: citizenship, migration and globalisation |
| Years: | 2006-05-26 - 2010-05-25 |
| ID: | P0015156 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson, Kay Anderson and Fiona Allon |
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| Title: | Dr Nick Couldry as International Visiting Fellow at CCR, to develop 'Media consumption and the future of public connection' project, and give postgraduate masterclass |
| Years: | 2004-03-31 - 2005-03-30 |
| ID: | P0013758 |
| UWS Researchers: | Ien Ang and Brett Neilson |
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| Title: | Diverse Strategies for Diverse Carers: The Cultural Context of Family Carers in NSW |
| Years: | 2005-01-04 - 2005-06-30 |
| ID: | P0014569 |
| UWS Researchers: | Sharon Chalmers and Brett Neilson |
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| Title: | Global Citizenship and the Agency of the Museum Sector in Climate Change Interventions |
| Years: | 2008-01-29 - 2012-12-31 |
| ID: | P0015673 |
| UWS Researchers: | Fiona R Cameron, Bob Hodge, Brett Neilson, Juan Francisco Salazar and Jann Conroy |
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Supervision
Professor Neilson is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Astrology Today: Cultural Contexts of the New Meaning of Tradition |
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| Field of Research: | SOCIETY AND CULTURE |
| Title: | Analysis of Cultural Dynamics in Regional Integration Processes |
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| Title: | Korea in Conflict: Globalisation, a Stifler of Inter-Korean Relations |
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| Title: | Young Chinese Knowledge Workers Employed by Transnational Companies |
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| Title: | Neo-Liberalism and Space |
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| Title: | A Study of the Accelerated Urbanization of Perth, Western Australia, Focused on Complexity Produced by Temporal Variables |
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| Title: | Viral Content in Chinese Internet |
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| Title: | State and the Working Class in the Making of the Global Metropolis of Delhi |
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| Title: | Analysis of Cultural Dynamics in Regional Integration Processes |
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Previous Supervision
| Title: | HATRED: A PSYCHO-POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE |
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| Field of Research: | STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY |
| Thesis: | HATRED: A PSYCHO-POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE |
| Title: | 'The Most Cosmopolitan Island under the Sun'? Negotiating Ethnicity and Nationhood in Everyday Mauritius |
| Field of Research: | SOCIETY AND CULTURE |
| Thesis: | 'The Most Cosmopolitan Island under the Sun'? Negotiating Ethnicity and Nationhood in Everyday Mauritius |
| Title: | Sites of Identity: An inquiry into articulation of diasporic identity through electronic mediation |
| Field of Research: | STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY |
| Thesis: | LIVING ROOM SEMINARIES - NEGOTIATING RELIGIOUS NETWORKS, GENDERED SELVES AND INTERCOMMUNAL RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE PAKISTANI DIASPORA |
| Title: | Light as Surface and Intensity |
| Field of Research: | THE ARTS |
| Thesis: | LIGHT AS SURFACE AND INTENSITY |
| Title: | Rethinking Fiji Coups: Corporate Domination and an Unseen Order |
| Field of Research: | OTHER SOCIETY AND CULTURE |
| Thesis: | Rethinking Fiji Coups: Corporate Domination and an Unseen Order |
| Title: | In the Shadow of a Rising China: China's Regionalism in South East Asia's Least Developed Countries |
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| Thesis: | In the Shadow of a Rising China: China's Regionalism in South East Asia's Least Developed Countries |
| Title: | The Story of Kiasu: Expressions of Identity and Status via Conspicuous Consumption: An Ethnographic Study of Singaporean Young Women in a Newly Adopted Culture |
| Field of Research: | SOCIETY AND CULTURE |
| Thesis: | The Story of Kiasu: Expressions of Identity and Status via Conspicuous Consumption: An Ethnographic Study of Singaporean Young Women in a Newly Adopted Culture |
Media
Media Contact Details
| Media Officer: | UWS Media Unit |
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| Phone: | (02) 9678 7083 |
| Email: | media@uws.edu.au |
