Professor Gregory Noble

Professor Gregory Noble

Professor,
Institute for Culture & Society

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Macquarie University
  • BA Macquarie University
  • DipEd Macquarie University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Institute for Culture & Society

Contact

Email:G.Noble@uws.edu.au
Extension:
9635
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Location:EM.1.07
Parramatta
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Publications

Books

  • Tabar, P., Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (2010), 'On Being Lebanese in Australia: Identity, Racism and the Ethnic Field', : Lebanese American University Press 9789953461120.
  • Tabar, P., Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Collins, J. (2005), 'Al-Mouhajiroun al-Lubnaniyoun Fi 'Australia: shabab, hawiyya wa `ounsouriyya [Lebanese Migrants in Australia: youth, identity and racism]', : Mokhtarat 9953416419.
  • Poynting, S., Noble, G., Tabar, P. and Collins, J. (2004), 'Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other', : The Sydney Institute of Criminology 0975196707.

Chapters in Books

  • Noble, G. (2012), 'Home objects', International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier 9780080471631.
  • Noble, G. (2012), 'Where's the moral in moral panic? : Islam, evil and moral turbulence', Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
  • Noble, G. (2011), 'Belonging in Bennelong: Ironic Inclusion and Cosmopolitan Joy in John Howard's (Former) Electorate', Ocean to Outback: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia, UWA Publishing 9781921401565.
  • Seidler, K. and Noble, G. (2010), ''I just lost it': Offenders' Rationalisations for Criminal Violence', Crime, Culture and Violence: Understanding how masculinity and identity shapes offending, Australian Academic Press 9781921513565.
  • Watkins, M. and Noble, G. (2010), 'The productivity of stillness: composure and the scholarly habitus', Stillness in a Mobile World, Routledge 9780415572620.
  • Noble, G. (2009), 'Where the bloody hell are we? Multicultural Manners in a world of hyperdiversity', Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging, Sydney Institute of Criminology Press 9780975196786.
  • Noble, G. (2009), 'Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community', Everyday Multiculturalism, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230210370.
  • Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. (2009), 'Looking for Respect: Lebanese Young Men in Australia', Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience, Routledge 9780415994859.
  • Noble, G. (2008), 'Living with things: Consumption, material culture and everyday life', Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice, Oxford 9780195562453.
  • Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (2008), 'Neither Relaxed nor Comfortable: The Uncivil Regulation of the Muslim Other', Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life, Ashgate 9780754649663.
  • Cahir, J. and Noble, G. (2007), ''It's a security thing': Mobile phones and moral regulation', Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Publishing 9781875326596.
  • Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (2007), 'Muslims and Arabs in the Australian Media since 9/11', How The World's News Media Reacted To 9/11: Essays from Around the Globe, Marquette Books .
  • Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (2006), 'The daily frustrations you have to live with: everyday racism and the social exclusion of Arab and Muslim Australians since Spetember 11, 2001', Terrorism, Media, Society, Adam Marszalek 9788374415613.
  • Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. (2005), 'Representations of youth in Sydney: a critique of liberal rhetoric about young Lebanese immigrants', Lebanese Diaspora: History, Racism and Belonging Beirut, Lebanese American University Press 9953461007.
  • Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2004), 'Middle Eastern Appearances: 'Ethnic Gangs', Moral Panic and Media Framing', Gangs, Aldershot 0754624102.
  • Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2003), 'Protest Masculinity and Lebanese youth in Western Sydney: A ethnographic study', Male Trouble: Looking at Australian masculinities, Pluto Press Australia 1864031212.
  • Noble, G. (2003), 'Everyday Work', Interpreting Everyday Culture, Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd 0340808527.
  • Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2002), 'On Being Lebanese-Australian: hybridity, essentialism and strategy among Arabic-Speaking Youth', Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging, Melbourne University Press 0522849792.

Journal Articles

  • Watkins, M. and Noble, G. (2011), 'Losing touch: Pedagogies of incorporation and the ability to write', Social Semiotics, 14.
  • Noble, G. (2011), ''Bumping into Alterity': Transacting Cultural Complexities', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 14.
  • Noble, G. (2010), 'Shifty Insecurities', Ethnopolitics, 5.
  • Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (2010), 'White Lines: The Intercultural Politics of Everyday Movement in Social Spaces', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 17.
  • Noble, G. and Watkins, M. (2009), 'On the Arts of Stillness: Towards a Pedagogy of Composure', Media / Culture, .
  • Noble, G. (2009), ''Countless acts of recognition': Young men, ethnicity and the messiness of identities in everyday life', Social and Cultural Geography, 17.
  • Noble, G. (2009), 'How do you teach Cultural Studies? Or, The Uses of Textbooks', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 8.
  • Tabar, P., Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Collins, J. (2008), 'The Lebanese community in Sydney: a socioeconomic and cultural reading [in Arabic]', Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology, 35.
  • Noble, G. (2008), 'The Face of Evil: Demonising the Arab Other in Contemporary Australia', Cultural Studies Review, 20.
  • Noble, G. (2007), 'Respect and Respectability amongst Second-generation Arab and Muslim Australian Men', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 14.
  • Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (2006), 'Muslims and Arabs in the Australian Media since 9/11 September 2001', Global Media Journal, 14.
  • Noble, G. (2005), 'The Discomfort of Strangers: Racism, Incivility and Ontological Security in a Relaxed and Comfortable Nation', Journal of Intercultural STudies, 14.
  • Noble, G. (2004), 'Accumulating Being', International Journal of Cultural Studies, 24.
  • Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. (2003), 'Lost between cultures or resisting racism', Palma Journal, 22.
  • Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (2003), 'Acts of War: Military metaphors in representation of Lebanese youth gangs', Media International Australia, 14.
  • Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (2003), 'Dog whistle journalism and Muslim Australians since 2001', Media International Australia, 9.
  • Watkins, M. and Noble, G. (2003), 'So, how did Bourdieu Learn to Play Tennis? Habitus, Consciousness and Habituation', Cultural Studies, 19.
  • Tabar, P., Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (2003), 'The rise and falter of the field of ethnic politics in Australia', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 21.
  • Lupton, D. and Noble, G. (2002), 'Mine/Not Mine: Appropriating Personal Computers in the Academic Workplace', Journal of Sociology, 19.
  • Noble, G. (2002), 'Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the Home and Nation', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 14.
  • Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2001), 'Middle Eastern Appearances: 'Ethnic Gangs', Moral Panic and Media Framing', The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 24.
  • Noble, G. and Baldwin, R. (2001), 'Sly chicks and troublemakers: car stickers, nonsense and the allure of strangeness', Social Semiotics, 15.

Research

Professor Greg Noble researches across the intersecting areas of: youth, ethnicity and identity, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, material culture and subjectivity, and the cultural analysis of education. His current research includes the ARC Linkage project, 'Rethinking Multiculturalism, Reassessing Multicultural Education' (with Dr Megan Watkins, Prof. Kevin Dunn, the NSW Department of Education and Communities and the NSW Institute for Teachers) and the ARC Discovery project, 'The Just-in-time Self: Young Men, Skill and Narratives of Aspiration in the New Economy' (with Dr George Morgan). Greg has published five books - including the edited collection, Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging (2009) - and many journal articles, book chapters and reports. He is also one of the editors of the journal Continuum.

This information has been contributed by Professor Noble.

Current Projects

Title:Rethinking Multiculturalism/Reassessing Multicultural Education
Years:2011-03-21 - 2015-03-20
ID:P00017819
UWS Researchers:Megan Watkins, Gregory Noble and Kevin Dunn
Funding:
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
  • NSW Institute of Teachers
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:Discipline and Diversity: Cultural Practices and Dispositions of Learning
Years:2005-11-30 - 2008-06-30
ID:P0014558
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble and Megan Watkins
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
Title:The Cultural Research Network [via UQLD]
Years:2005-07-21 - 2010-07-21
ID:P0014826
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble, Zoe Sofoulis, Kay Anderson and Ien Ang
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Informal Pathways to Wellbeing: Cultural forms of belonging, inclusion and engagement for young people in Western Sydney
Years:2006-12-28 - 2010-12-30
ID:P0014867
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble and Cameron Mcauliffe
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:A Pilot Study of the NSW Community Languages Schools Program - an extension of the empirical base
Years:2007-03-12 - 2007-04-30
ID:P0015604
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble and Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • NSW Federation of Community Language Schools
Title:A Pilot Study of the NSW Community Languages Schools Program
Years:2006-06-20 - 2006-09-20
ID:P0015227
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble and Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
Title:Transforming Drivers: Driving as Social, cultural and Gendered Practice
Years:2003-02-04 - 2006-02-03
ID:P0012592
UWS Researchers:Zoe Sofoulis, Gregory Noble and Sarah Redshaw
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • National Roads and Motorists Association Ltd
Title:She Be Faz'i (Something to fear): Lebanese Australian young men from teenages to adults during 'ethnic gang' panics in western Sydney
Years:2003-01-04 - 2004-01-31
ID:P0011718
UWS Researchers:Scott Poynting and Gregory Noble
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Driving Messages: Meanings and Counter Meanings
Years:2002-01-01 - 2002-12-31
ID:P0011554
UWS Researchers:Zoe Sofoulis, Gregory Noble and Sarah Redshaw
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Multiculturalism Research Project (Living Diversity 2)
Years:2005-07-19 - 2011-12-31
ID:P0014909
UWS Researchers:Ien Ang and Gregory Noble
Funding:
  • Special Broadcasting Service Corporation
Title:The Middle East from the Outer West: International News and Arab Diasporas
Years:2006-06-08 - 2007-06-07
ID:P0015167
UWS Researchers:Ien Ang, Gregory Noble and David Rowe
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:SBS and Trends in Multiculturalism
Years:2001-12-06 - 2002-07-31
ID:P0013034
UWS Researchers:Ien Ang and Gregory Noble
Funding:
  • Special Broadcasting Service Corporation
Title:Everyday experiences of gender, sexuality and ethnicity among young people in south-western and southern Sydney
Years:2003-04-08 - 2004-12-31
ID:P0010748
UWS Researchers:Scott Poynting and Gregory Noble
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Lebanese Communities Council
  • FPA Health
  • Lebanese Muslim Association
  • Sutherland Shire Council
  • Australian Multicultural Foundation
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:Reassessing Multicultural Education Pilot Project
Years:2008-06-12 - 2011-12-31
ID:P00016217
UWS Researchers:Megan Watkins and Gregory Noble
Funding:
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
Title:Studying Transnationality: Masterclass, seminar and grant proposal with Professor John Eade
Years:2010-01-14 - 2010-02-01
ID:P00017671
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble
Funding:
  • Australian Academy of the Humanities

Supervision

Professor Noble is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:On the Outskirts: An Investigation of 'Roller Culture' in the Women's Sport of Roller Derby
Field of Research:
Title:The 'Race' for Camden. The Camden Islamic School Controversy.
Field of Research:
Title:Commercialising National Identity: A Critical Examination of NZ's America's Cup Campaigns of 1987, 1992 and 1995
Field of Research:

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