Guy Redden
Biographic Data
| ID | 85622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Redden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Redden |
| SIGNATURE | REDDEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3088-0881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Indie interdependence
This article examines how small to medium-sized craft breweries build connections with local independent musicians through multiple forms of collaboration. Such connections are forged through symbolic practices that coproduce meanings of music and beer, and through the creation of spaces where they can be authenticated experientially. The collaboration counts as marketing activity, but also shows how small cultural-sector enterprises engage in di…
Figuring out Trump
Contesting electric vehicles
Human capital at work
The proximate roots of performance measurement lie in a 1980s shift in management accountancy away from lagging and financial indicators towards leading ones that indicate potential for future value creation, especially regarding intangible assets and functions. This paper proposes that such innovations in accountancy are not merely technical but are driven by contextual economic imperatives. It shows how PM articulates with capital owner demand …
Questioning Performance Measurement
John Howard's Investor State
Recent work has acknowledged the variegated forms neoliberalism takes in different contexts while recognizing the elements that connect them. Neoliberalization has proven a flexible, adaptive and renewable pattern of reform. At the same time, there is increasing evidence for Harvey's contention that its principal socio-economic outcome is inequality. Accordingly, this article proposes that contextualized understandings of neoliberal formations ma…
Misterchef? Cooks, Chefs and Gender in MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia is the most popular television series in Australian history. It gives a wide range of ordinary people the chance to show they can master culinary arts to a professional standard. Through content and textual analysis of seven seasons of the show this article examines gendered patterns in its representation of participants and culinary professionals. Women are often depicted as home cooks by inclination while the figure of the …
Is Reality TV Neoliberal
Reality TV is a distinctive mode of television programming that has developed exclusively in the last twenty years, raising the question of how it is of its times. Reality shows have often been described as “neoliberal” in their logic. They typically present participants as self-responsible enterprising authors of their own lives in ways consistent with the valorization of market relations by neoliberal theorists. I argue for and expand on this i…
Revisiting the spiritual supermarket
The New Age is often depicted as the quintessential spiritual marketplace in which seekers freely choose from an array of religious options. Empirically it is correct to point out that the movement has formed largely around consumption of goods and services offered for sale. Yet its commercial aspect is often conceptualised in relatively superficial terms. The notion that it is a 'spiritual supermarket' has been used to suggest that New Age consu…
Approaching the Underground
This article aims to shed light on how and why the underground urban metal scene in Bangladesh came into existence, and why it takes the forms it takes in this post-colonial country. Consistent with much recent work about alternative rock, it is argued that the concept of scene is helpful in this task because it allows a framework through which to understand how multiple elements come together but never fully cohere into a unified subcultural who…
Religions as Brands
Religions as Brands is an interdisciplinary volume, edited by Jean Claude Usunier and Jorg Stolz, that aims to extend work on the commercialisation of religion by bringing together scholars in the
Ideas about the Thing, Not the Thing Itself
In this essay, Guy Redden sets out to â examine the discourses sponsoring quantification in research evaluation, the mechanisms and effects of it, and the relations between themâ (15)
My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking
On January 28, 2010 the Federal Government of Australia introduced a much-vaunted website designed to give parents and policy makers information about the educational performance of Australian scho
The Secret, Cultural Property and the Construction of the Spiritual Commodity
A randomised survey in Texas found that 22 per cent of the public identified themselves as consumers of New Age media. Despite widespread recognition of the 'spiritual supermarket' there has been little sustained analysis of the production of spiritual commodities and related issues of cultural property. This article presents a case study of the bestselling spiritual self-help book and DVD The Secret, which features various teachers and sacred wi…
The Global Financial Crisis and the Culture of Continual Growth
The proximate causes of the global financial crisis (GFC) have been widely attributed to ‘financialisation’. However, we argue that the global financial crisis had cultural conditions of possibility that were imbricated with economic factors in complex ways. The idea that the crisis was the function of independent financial forces that spread through society fails to consider cultural rationalities that constituted the citizen as someone enjoined…
Introduction
Conclusion
Religion, cultural studies and New Age sacralization of everyday life
Through an interpretation of New Age spirituality, this article is concerned with how cultural studies – as a discipline that emerged in the shadow of secularization theory – can be involved in the reappraisal of religion. At once part consumer culture and part counterculture, the New Age is something of a conundrum that raises alluring questions about social and cultural change. In the name of re-enchantment and taking back control of one’s life…
From bingeing booze bird to gilded cage
One genre of reality television constructs working-class youth as the dysfunctional antithesis of the aspirational middle-class consumer who normally features in lifestyle media. Sent to boot camps, unruly youths undergo makeover by education into ways of living deemed to accrue superior cultural capital. This article analyses how one lifestyle show, Ladette to Lady (UK), pathologises binge-drinking, working-class girls who are didactically instr…
News Online
News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing - content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are ado…
Learning to Labour on the Reality Talent Show
From Idol and So You Think You Can Dance to the Got Talent franchise, light entertainment has returned to screens in a form that is globally popular. This article examines this new genre (which is, of course, a revival of an old one) in the light of recent hybridisations of television programs, and proposes that the particular configurations in which the new shows present singing, dancing and specialty acts are indicative of broader interrelated …
Economy and reflexivity in makeover television
The New Age
The problem of how the New Age may be defined is widely acknowledged among commentators. It is hard to delineate and does not fit easily into existing analytical categories. This paper will review how scholars have conceptualised the movement. It will discuss the problems inherent in attempting to specify its constituents, fix its limits, and characterise its organisational forms. The later sections advances the argument that some of its most dis…
Read the Whole Thing
This paper examines a particular form of online activity - weblogging - and how it has allowed for specific new forms of popular political communication in the context of the Second Gulf War. After describing the basics of weblogging, the paper discusses Western media coverage of the war and then shows how 'warbloggers' positioned themselves vis-à-vis media coverage and propaganda, creating commentaries that frequently combined media and politica…
The New Agents
The New Age is a broad milieu which allows participants to undertake a range of activities in pursuit of self-improvement. Often characterized as a form of religious consumerism in the popular media, it does not easily fit into received church-sect models of the sociology of religion. This article argues that the movement's market-type organizational logic, in which individuals typically choose from a range of belief options rather than commit to…
The New Age
The problem of how the New Age may be defined is widely acknowledged among commentators. It is hard to delineate and does not fit easily into existing analytical categories. This paper will review how scholars have conceptualised the movement. It will discuss the problems inherent in attempting to specify its constituents, fix its limits, and characterise its organisational forms. The later sections advances the argument that some of its most dis…
The New Agents
The New Age is a broad milieu which allows participants to undertake a range of activities in pursuit of self-improvement. Often characterized as a form of religious consumerism in the popular media, it does not easily fit into received church-sect models of the sociology of religion. This article argues that the movement's market-type organizational logic, in which individuals typically choose from a range of belief options rather than commit to…
Revisiting the spiritual supermarket
The New Age is often depicted as the quintessential spiritual marketplace in which seekers freely choose from an array of religious options. Empirically it is correct to point out that the movement has formed largely around consumption of goods and services offered for sale. Yet its commercial aspect is often conceptualised in relatively superficial terms. The notion that it is a 'spiritual supermarket' has been used to suggest that New Age consu…
News Online
News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing - content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are ado…
The Global Financial Crisis and the Culture of Continual Growth
The proximate causes of the global financial crisis (GFC) have been widely attributed to ‘financialisation’. However, we argue that the global financial crisis had cultural conditions of possibility that were imbricated with economic factors in complex ways. The idea that the crisis was the function of independent financial forces that spread through society fails to consider cultural rationalities that constituted the citizen as someone enjoined…
Religion, cultural studies and New Age sacralization of everyday life
Through an interpretation of New Age spirituality, this article is concerned with how cultural studies – as a discipline that emerged in the shadow of secularization theory – can be involved in the reappraisal of religion. At once part consumer culture and part counterculture, the New Age is something of a conundrum that raises alluring questions about social and cultural change. In the name of re-enchantment and taking back control of one’s life…
Is Reality TV Neoliberal
Reality TV is a distinctive mode of television programming that has developed exclusively in the last twenty years, raising the question of how it is of its times. Reality shows have often been described as “neoliberal” in their logic. They typically present participants as self-responsible enterprising authors of their own lives in ways consistent with the valorization of market relations by neoliberal theorists. I argue for and expand on this i…
Economy and reflexivity in makeover television
My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking
On January 28, 2010 the Federal Government of Australia introduced a much-vaunted website designed to give parents and policy makers information about the educational performance of Australian scho
From bingeing booze bird to gilded cage
One genre of reality television constructs working-class youth as the dysfunctional antithesis of the aspirational middle-class consumer who normally features in lifestyle media. Sent to boot camps, unruly youths undergo makeover by education into ways of living deemed to accrue superior cultural capital. This article analyses how one lifestyle show, Ladette to Lady (UK), pathologises binge-drinking, working-class girls who are didactically instr…
Questioning Performance Measurement
John Howard's Investor State
Recent work has acknowledged the variegated forms neoliberalism takes in different contexts while recognizing the elements that connect them. Neoliberalization has proven a flexible, adaptive and renewable pattern of reform. At the same time, there is increasing evidence for Harvey's contention that its principal socio-economic outcome is inequality. Accordingly, this article proposes that contextualized understandings of neoliberal formations ma…
Religions as Brands
Religions as Brands is an interdisciplinary volume, edited by Jean Claude Usunier and Jorg Stolz, that aims to extend work on the commercialisation of religion by bringing together scholars in the
The Secret, Cultural Property and the Construction of the Spiritual Commodity
A randomised survey in Texas found that 22 per cent of the public identified themselves as consumers of New Age media. Despite widespread recognition of the 'spiritual supermarket' there has been little sustained analysis of the production of spiritual commodities and related issues of cultural property. This article presents a case study of the bestselling spiritual self-help book and DVD The Secret, which features various teachers and sacred wi…
Magic happens
(1999). Magic happens: A new age metaphysical mystery tour. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 23, Country and Calling, pp. 101-104
Magic happens
(1999). Magic happens: A new age metaphysical mystery tour. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 23, Country and Calling, pp. 101-104
The New Agents
The New Age is a broad milieu which allows participants to undertake a range of activities in pursuit of self-improvement. Often characterized as a form of religious consumerism in the popular media, it does not easily fit into received church-sect models of the sociology of religion. This article argues that the movement's market-type organizational logic, in which individuals typically choose from a range of belief options rather than commit to…
Read the Whole Thing
This paper examines a particular form of online activity - weblogging - and how it has allowed for specific new forms of popular political communication in the context of the Second Gulf War. After describing the basics of weblogging, the paper discusses Western media coverage of the war and then shows how 'warbloggers' positioned themselves vis-à-vis media coverage and propaganda, creating commentaries that frequently combined media and politica…
The New Age
The problem of how the New Age may be defined is widely acknowledged among commentators. It is hard to delineate and does not fit easily into existing analytical categories. This paper will review how scholars have conceptualised the movement. It will discuss the problems inherent in attempting to specify its constituents, fix its limits, and characterise its organisational forms. The later sections advances the argument that some of its most dis…
Economy and reflexivity in makeover television
From bingeing booze bird to gilded cage
One genre of reality television constructs working-class youth as the dysfunctional antithesis of the aspirational middle-class consumer who normally features in lifestyle media. Sent to boot camps, unruly youths undergo makeover by education into ways of living deemed to accrue superior cultural capital. This article analyses how one lifestyle show, Ladette to Lady (UK), pathologises binge-drinking, working-class girls who are didactically instr…
News Online
News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing - content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are ado…
Learning to Labour on the Reality Talent Show
From Idol and So You Think You Can Dance to the Got Talent franchise, light entertainment has returned to screens in a form that is globally popular. This article examines this new genre (which is, of course, a revival of an old one) in the light of recent hybridisations of television programs, and proposes that the particular configurations in which the new shows present singing, dancing and specialty acts are indicative of broader interrelated …
Introduction
Conclusion
Religion, cultural studies and New Age sacralization of everyday life
Through an interpretation of New Age spirituality, this article is concerned with how cultural studies – as a discipline that emerged in the shadow of secularization theory – can be involved in the reappraisal of religion. At once part consumer culture and part counterculture, the New Age is something of a conundrum that raises alluring questions about social and cultural change. In the name of re-enchantment and taking back control of one’s life…
My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking
On January 28, 2010 the Federal Government of Australia introduced a much-vaunted website designed to give parents and policy makers information about the educational performance of Australian scho
The Secret, Cultural Property and the Construction of the Spiritual Commodity
A randomised survey in Texas found that 22 per cent of the public identified themselves as consumers of New Age media. Despite widespread recognition of the 'spiritual supermarket' there has been little sustained analysis of the production of spiritual commodities and related issues of cultural property. This article presents a case study of the bestselling spiritual self-help book and DVD The Secret, which features various teachers and sacred wi…
The Global Financial Crisis and the Culture of Continual Growth
The proximate causes of the global financial crisis (GFC) have been widely attributed to ‘financialisation’. However, we argue that the global financial crisis had cultural conditions of possibility that were imbricated with economic factors in complex ways. The idea that the crisis was the function of independent financial forces that spread through society fails to consider cultural rationalities that constituted the citizen as someone enjoined…
Ideas about the Thing, Not the Thing Itself
In this essay, Guy Redden sets out to â examine the discourses sponsoring quantification in research evaluation, the mechanisms and effects of it, and the relations between themâ (15)
Approaching the Underground
This article aims to shed light on how and why the underground urban metal scene in Bangladesh came into existence, and why it takes the forms it takes in this post-colonial country. Consistent with much recent work about alternative rock, it is argued that the concept of scene is helpful in this task because it allows a framework through which to understand how multiple elements come together but never fully cohere into a unified subcultural who…
Religions as Brands
Religions as Brands is an interdisciplinary volume, edited by Jean Claude Usunier and Jorg Stolz, that aims to extend work on the commercialisation of religion by bringing together scholars in the
Revisiting the spiritual supermarket
The New Age is often depicted as the quintessential spiritual marketplace in which seekers freely choose from an array of religious options. Empirically it is correct to point out that the movement has formed largely around consumption of goods and services offered for sale. Yet its commercial aspect is often conceptualised in relatively superficial terms. The notion that it is a 'spiritual supermarket' has been used to suggest that New Age consu…
Misterchef? Cooks, Chefs and Gender in MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia is the most popular television series in Australian history. It gives a wide range of ordinary people the chance to show they can master culinary arts to a professional standard. Through content and textual analysis of seven seasons of the show this article examines gendered patterns in its representation of participants and culinary professionals. Women are often depicted as home cooks by inclination while the figure of the …
Is Reality TV Neoliberal
Reality TV is a distinctive mode of television programming that has developed exclusively in the last twenty years, raising the question of how it is of its times. Reality shows have often been described as “neoliberal” in their logic. They typically present participants as self-responsible enterprising authors of their own lives in ways consistent with the valorization of market relations by neoliberal theorists. I argue for and expand on this i…
Questioning Performance Measurement
John Howard's Investor State
Recent work has acknowledged the variegated forms neoliberalism takes in different contexts while recognizing the elements that connect them. Neoliberalization has proven a flexible, adaptive and renewable pattern of reform. At the same time, there is increasing evidence for Harvey's contention that its principal socio-economic outcome is inequality. Accordingly, this article proposes that contextualized understandings of neoliberal formations ma…
Human capital at work
The proximate roots of performance measurement lie in a 1980s shift in management accountancy away from lagging and financial indicators towards leading ones that indicate potential for future value creation, especially regarding intangible assets and functions. This paper proposes that such innovations in accountancy are not merely technical but are driven by contextual economic imperatives. It shows how PM articulates with capital owner demand …
Figuring out Trump
Contesting electric vehicles
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