Research Projects
Between Us
Bernhard Resch, University of Sydney We have developed a workshop programme where people engage with their natural perceptual differences – hearing, smelling, touching; our interoception – as a collaborative resource. We explore how our own qualities that seem ordinary and mundane to ourselves…
Networked Organisation: The Far Right in Australia
Jordan McSwiney, University of Sydney This project analyses the social media networks and content of four Australian parties, assessing their relationship to the far right at the time of the 2019 Australian federal election. Using social network analysis, it maps their relationship to a broader…
Motivated prejudice behind the 'perpetual foreigner syndrome'
Michael Thai, University of Queensland Asian Australians (and other members of Asian diaspora communities in Western nations) are chronically perceived and treated as though they are foreigners, and their loyalty to Australia is routinely questioned. The extant literature demonstrates, quite…
Racial discrimination against and by Immobile Temporary Migrants
Yu Tao, University of Western Australia Racial discrimination – actual and perceived – is a profound factor that hampers cross-cultural communications and mutual understanding between new migrants and existing residents in host countries. The racial discrimination targeted at international…
Towards Hetero-optimism
Felicity Joseph, Christina Kenny and Jennifer Hamilton, University of New England This research project is a six-episode podcast series exploring the cultural logic of Asa Seresin’s concept "heteropessimism". We are carefully and critically exploring how to build alternative visions for…
From ‘Dagoes’ to ‘Wogs’: a transnational history of racial slurs
Andonis Piperoglou, Griffith University From ‘Dagoes’ to ‘Wogs’: a transnational history of racial slurs, brings together transnational and historical whiteness studies approaches to assist research into how non-Anglo migrants responded, resisted, and reworked racial slurs in Australia and…