Professor Kay Anderson

Professor Kay Anderson

PROFESSSOR,
Institute for Culture & Society

Personal

Qualifications

  • BA University of Adelaide
  • PhD University of British Columbia

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Institute for Culture & Society

Contact

Email:K.Anderson@uws.edu.au
Extension:9825
Mobile:
Location:EM.1.08
Parramatta
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Publications

Books

  • Anderson, K. and Braun, B. (2008), 'Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography', : Ashgate 9780754627050.
  • Anderson, K. (2006), 'Race and the Crisis of Humanism', : Routledge (Taylor & Francis Ltd) 1844721523.
  • Anderson, K., Domosh, M., Thrift, N. and Pile, S. (2003), 'Handbook of Cultural Geography', : Sage Publications 9780761969259.

Chapters in Books

  • Ang, I., Lally, E., Anderson, K., Mar, P., Kelly, M. and Kelly, M. (2011), 'Introduction: What is the Art of Engagement?', The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation, UWA Publishing 9781742582870.
  • Anderson, K. (2011), 'Theorising Arts-Led Collaboration as 'Assemblage'', The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation, UWA Publishing 9781742582870.
  • Anderson, K., Ang, I. and Lally, E. (2011), 'Conclusion', The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation, UWA Publishing 9781742582870.
  • Anderson, K. (2011), 'Race ? Part I', The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405189897.
  • Anderson, K. (2011), 'Extremity: Theorizing from the Margins', Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada, UBC Press 9780774820134.
  • Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. (2011), 'Thinking with the Head: Race, Craniometry, Humanism', Assembling Culture, Routledge 9780415614436.
  • Bushell, R. and Anderson, K. (2010), 'A Clash of Cultures or Definitions? Complexity and backpacker Tourism in residential communities', Beyond Backpacker Tourism: Mobilities and Experiences, Channel View Publications 9781845411305.
  • Anderson, K. (2008), 'Cultural Geography: an account', Handbook of Cultural Analysis, Sage 9780761942290.
  • Anderson, K. and Braun, B. (2008), 'Introduction', Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography, Ashgate 9780754627050.
  • Anderson, K. (2004), 'Zoos', Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture, Reaktion Books 1861891814.
  • Anderson, K. (2001), 'The nature of race', Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics, Blackwell 0631215670.

Journal Articles

  • Anderson, K. (2012), 'Rethinking 'the human' in memory of Fay Gale (AO)', Geographical Research, 12.
  • Mar, P. and Anderson, K. (2012), 'Urban curating : the "interspaces" of art collaboration in Western Sydney', Space and Culture, 14.
  • Anderson, K. (2011), 'Rethinking 'the Human': In Memory of Fay Gale (AO)', Dialogue, 10.
  • Mar, P. and Anderson, K. (2010), 'The Creative Assemblage: theorising contemporary forms of arts-based collaboration', Journal of Cultural Economy, 17.
  • Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. (2009), 'Thinking with the Head: Race, Craniometry and humanism', Journal of Cultural Economy, 16.
  • Anderson, K. (2008), 'Race in post-universalist perspective', Cultural Geographies, 17.
  • Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. (2008), 'How race became everything: Australia and polygenism', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 29.
  • Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. (2008), 'Beyond savagery: the limits of 'Aboriginalism'', Cultural Studies Review, 23.
  • Anderson, K. (2008), 'Gwendonline Fay Gale, AO, obituary', Geographical Review, 3.
  • Allon, F., Anderson, K. and Bushell, R. (2008), 'Mutant Mobilities: Backpacker tourism in Global Sydney', Mobilities, 22.
  • Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. (2007), ''The miserablest people in the world': Race, Humanism and the Australian Aborigine', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 22.
  • Anderson, K. (2005), 'Griffith Taylor Lecture, Geographical Society of NSW, 2004: Australia and the 'State of Nature/Native'', Australian Geographer, 16.
  • Anderson, K. and Taylor, A. (2005), 'Exclusionary Politics and the Question of National Belonging: Australian Ethnicities in 'Multiscalar' Focus', Ethnicities, 26.
  • Anderson, K. (2003), 'White natures: Sydney's Royal Agricultural Show in post-humanist perspective', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 20.
  • Anderson, K. (2001), 'Emotional geographies', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 4.

Conference Papers

  • Anderson, K. (2006), 'After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney', Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation Conference, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta.
  • Allon, F. and Anderson, K. (2004), 'Sentient Sydney', The Passionate City: An International Symposium, .

Research

Current Projects

Title:Decolonising the Human: Towards a Postcolonial Ecology
Years:2011-01-01 - 2013-12-31
ID:P00018288
UWS Researchers:Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Sydney's Chinatown in the Asian Century: from ethnic enclave to global hub
Years:2012-10-01 - 2015-09-30
ID:P00020645
UWS Researchers:Ien Ang, Donald Mcneill and Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • The Council of the City of Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:The Humanities beyond Humanism: Race, nature and the human in Australia from enlightenment to Federation (DP0557783)
Years:2005-01-18 - 2008-06-30
ID:P0009766
UWS Researchers:Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Backpacker cultures, residential communities, and the construction of tourist spaces and landscapes: A regional study of changing tourism dynamics in Sydney
Years:2005-03-08 - 2008-06-30
ID:P0012620
UWS Researchers:Kay Anderson, Robyn Bushell and Fiona Allon
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Randwick City Council
  • Waverley Council
  • The Council of the City of Sydney
  • Manly Council
  • North Sydney Council
  • Woollahra Municipal Council
Title:Homebuyer preferences and developer contributions
Years:2006-02-07 - 2007-02-22
ID:P0014929
UWS Researchers:Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Urban Development Institute of Australia
Title:AHURI Scholarship - Anne Hurni - Urban development, transport and child health: the case of Western Sydney
Years:2006-03-31 - 2010-12-31
ID:P0015189
UWS Researchers:Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (ACRG)
Title:Law and the City: The Parramatta Justice Precinct as Civic Culture
Years:2007-03-09 - 2008-03-31
ID:P0015403
UWS Researchers:Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • NSW Attorney Generals Department
  • Parramatta City Council
Title:The Art of Engagement: Exploring a contemporary arts - business collaboration
Years:2006-05-29 - 2009-07-13
ID:P0014734
UWS Researchers:Elaine Lally, Ien Ang and Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Penrith City Council
  • Liverpool City Council
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Limited
Title:Cultural dimensions of urban and community engagement
Years:2004-06-01 - 2005-05-31
ID:P0011404
UWS Researchers:Elaine Lally and Kay Anderson
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Open Cities: Urban Citizenship in Sydney and Berlin
Years:2006-05-11 - 2009-06-30
ID:P0014946
UWS Researchers:Fiona Allon, Kay Anderson and Ien Ang
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
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
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
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: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)

Supervision

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

Current Supervision

Title:A Study of the Accelerated Urbanization of Perth, Western Australia, Focused on Complexity Produced by Temporal Variables
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