The School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry Social Theory

Postgraduate Student Thesis Topics

 

Current Research in Social Theory:

 
 
Masters Candidates
Thesis Topic
 
 
 
 
Glenda Campbell
Distance and Space in the Social Imaginary of Australia and New Zealand  
 
 
 
Jennifer Duncan
New faces of Youth Institutions and Youth Culture: Implications of the "Contol Society" for Young People
 
 
 
 
Ariel Kay-Murphy
Incarcerated Women: Self Identification and Outlaw Culture
 
       
  Cira La Gioia Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: the Modernity of the Modernisation of Hysteria. A Study of the Signification of the Unexplained in Medicine  
 
 
 
Doctoral Candidates
Thesis Topic
 
       
  David Collins An Interpretation of Australian Public Culture Through the Lens of Psychoanalytic Theory  
       
  Jane Connell Freud and Marx: The Other Returns  
       
  Bryan Cooke TBA  
       
  Christine Deftereos Postcolonial Memoirs: Memory, Trauma and Redress in the Work of Ashis Nandy  
       
  Adam Driver A History of the Secret: Sinologues, Spooks and the Libidinal Theology of The China Field  
       
  Charles Livingstone An Imaginary Economy: Gambling, Consumption and Society  
       
  Louis Magee The 'Between' Philosophy and Psychanalysis - the Labyrnth Question, a Question of Life and Death  
       
  Sergio Mariscal An Ontology of the Political  
       
  Panayiota Romios Kuhns Later Philosophy of Science: An Inquiry Into His Metaphysical and Epistemological Dimensions  
       
  Stefan Siemsen Theories of Civilisation: Imaging the Social Primal Scene  
       
  Benjamin Smith Ideologies of Imagination: Crises of the Subject in Romantic and Post-Romantic Thought  
       
  Michael Warner The Mediating Forms of Globalisation and Networks of Affect in Everyday Life  
       
  Linda Williams The Other Body: Regimes of the Objectification and Subjectification of the Animal Body in Humanity  
       
       

 

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