Liam Grealy
Biographic Data
| ID | 192266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam Grealy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | Grealy |
| SIGNATURE | GREALY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6805-0579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The limits of community housing regulation
What is the purpose of community housing regulation and what can we hope it might achieve? This article examines the National Regulatory System for Community Housing (NRSCH) and its effective standardisation of non-government housing regulation across Australia. In particular, the article explores the relevance of the NRSCH to remote community housing in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT). As a unique context for which the NRSCH was not designed…
The Indigenous housing system in Australia
A framework for the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing in Australia
Towards a materialist housing policy
Remote communities in central and northern Australia are hot and getting hotter. Housing is crowded and not fit for purpose. Residents face increasing temperatures under the climate crisis while investment in housing supply is insufficient to address crowding or improve infrastructure to national minimum standards. Mechanical air conditioning is one obvious technical intervention to address the poor thermal performance of housing, but it is incon…
Housing harms and the promise of preventive maintenance
Despite community expectations that housing provides shelter and safety to its inhabitants, inadequate housing is also a significant social determinant of death. This article examines reports by the Northern Territory Coroner in terms of the systemic and individual factors contributing to deaths caused by housing. These reports highlight the maintenance work instigated by preventable deaths and the need for greater investment in preventive housin…
Mould cultures
Why does mould persist in low‐income housing despite decades of public health research, building science advances and advocacy efforts? This article applies a policy ecology approach to examine the dispersed regulatory landscape governing household mould in New Orleans, Louisiana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2020, the analysis traces how building codes, remediation industries and tenancy law interact to reproduce …
Healthy Homes
This article examines Healthy Homes, a program intended to initiate a new approach to housing repairs and maintenance in remote communities in the Northern Territory of Australia. It argues that while the evidence for associations between poor housing and poor health outcomes is clear, greater attention should be paid to the implementation of health-focused housing interventions. Healthy Homes was examined through interviews with public servants,…
Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is…
Intermittent urgency and states of deferral—Or, how many houses for a mine
This paper traces the temporal tactics of continually renewed coloniality—where some impasses are made to appear insurmountable while others demand swift solutions—in relation to housing and mining at Borroloola in Australia's Northern Territory. Distinct policy and regulatory regimes encourage analyses that set housing and mining apart. Yet together they signal the settler state's simultaneous remedial and extractive orientations to remote Abori…
Transforming Boys Studies
The Energies of Boyhood
Washing and White Goods
On the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, an environmental health worker salvages discarded washing machines to reinstall in remote community homes. Tracking the fate of washing machines and householder well-being, this essay traces the militarized genealogies running contemporary settler colonial occupation in Australia. We are particularly interested in how the colonizing project decants militarized …
Permeable Housing
This article explores how water acts on permeable housing and the documentary infrastructures that mitigate its impact and enable its flows. It does so through consideration of ongoing litigation brought by public housing tenants at the remote communities of Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) and Laramba in the Northern Territory of Australia for incomplete repairs and unsafe drinking water. I offer a distinction between pragmatist and functionalist …
Governing disassembly in Indigenous housing
Without proper attention, houses disassemble. In public housing, property management regimes are charged with performing the repairs and maintenance necessary to combat this entropic tendency. This article argues that such governance regimes can accelerate housing’s disassembly, through rules that restrict housing interventions, bureaucratic technologies that misrecognize housing failure, and processes that defer and delay necessary fixwork. It a…
Enforced commensuration and the bureaucratic invention of household energy insecurity
Power doesn't come for free, but who should pay the cost? On the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, Aṉangu households have not historically been billed for domestic energy consumption. The state government has recently introduced a prepayment regime, ostensibly to curb supply costs. Yet extending the norms of customer payment for domestic energy requires significant administrative labour, with limited …
Slow withdrawal as managed retreat
A history of age-based film classification in Japan
This article provides a detailed history of film classification, or age ratings, in Japan. It describes historical precedents for Eirin, the agency responsible for film classification in Japan, and key moments in Eirin’s organisational formation and reform. Drawing on multi-sited archival research and interviews with Eirin staff, the article recognises the importance of the US Production Code Authority as a model for Eirin’s formation during the …
One for the boys
There is no shortage of attention paid to boys. Nor is there any lack of privilege afforded them collectively as boys. Yet, for obvious reasons, boys have not been a major focus of either gender st
Stranger Things
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as ‘toxic masculinity’, positioning boys as the default inheritors of a ‘patriarchal dividend’. Media narratives might be expected to favour such agonistic oppositions, but the dominant forms of scholarship on boys also often take this line, or position boys as subjects at risk of harm done by either the contempor…
Sensing the State in Hot Houses
Liam Grealy and Tess Lea examine the sensory effects of sweltering heat in Australian Indigenous housing as the outcome of both climate catastrophe and the infrastructural neglect of settler colonial geographies
Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis
Securing supply
This article considers the spatial and material implications of drinking water regulation in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia. Responding to water contamination and scarcity events in remote NT communities, we argue that the politico-bureaucratic edifice of uniform drinking water governance and service provision across the NT is a state-curated fiction. The article outlines the available legislative protections for drinking water supply i…
In the name of the nation
This article examines the relationship between exceptionalism and nationhood in media classification. The history of age-ratings is an international one, and the present challenges associated with digital media circulation are similarly international. We argue that the nation nevertheless provides an appropriate frame for understanding age-rating by attending to the ways national agencies have struggled to articulate the specificity of their work…
Paperless Arrests as Preventive Detention
The ‘paperless arrest’ scheme is a detention regime in which motion and documentation are central to crime control and community protection. This article interrogates paperlessness as a political fantasy for policing alongside the routine documentary practices of police administration, including their effects on the movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Operative since 2014 in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT), the paperless…
Philosophy for Youth
A review of Alain Badiou. 2017. 'The True Life', trans. Susan Spitzer, Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press
Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis
Academic life and labour in the new university
One for the boys
There is no shortage of attention paid to boys. Nor is there any lack of privilege afforded them collectively as boys. Yet, for obvious reasons, boys have not been a major focus of either gender st
Stranger Things
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as ‘toxic masculinity’, positioning boys as the default inheritors of a ‘patriarchal dividend’. Media narratives might be expected to favour such agonistic oppositions, but the dominant forms of scholarship on boys also often take this line, or position boys as subjects at risk of harm done by either the contempor…
Slow withdrawal as managed retreat
Negotiating cultural authenticity in hip-hop
Reorienting the Henson debate
The saga surrounding Bill Henson's production and dissemination of an image of a naked 12-year-old girl, ‘N.’, has been well documented. It was a public debate narrowly staged between child protection and artistic freedom. The question of consent relates to each of these foci. In this paper, I explore consent and the age of consent in relation to the Henson saga, identifying two crises of consent regarding adolescence and child pornography law in…
The Energies of Boyhood
Permeable Housing
This article explores how water acts on permeable housing and the documentary infrastructures that mitigate its impact and enable its flows. It does so through consideration of ongoing litigation brought by public housing tenants at the remote communities of Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) and Laramba in the Northern Territory of Australia for incomplete repairs and unsafe drinking water. I offer a distinction between pragmatist and functionalist …
In the name of the nation
This article examines the relationship between exceptionalism and nationhood in media classification. The history of age-ratings is an international one, and the present challenges associated with digital media circulation are similarly international. We argue that the nation nevertheless provides an appropriate frame for understanding age-rating by attending to the ways national agencies have struggled to articulate the specificity of their work…
Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is…
Governing disassembly in Indigenous housing
Without proper attention, houses disassemble. In public housing, property management regimes are charged with performing the repairs and maintenance necessary to combat this entropic tendency. This article argues that such governance regimes can accelerate housing’s disassembly, through rules that restrict housing interventions, bureaucratic technologies that misrecognize housing failure, and processes that defer and delay necessary fixwork. It a…
Enforced commensuration and the bureaucratic invention of household energy insecurity
Power doesn't come for free, but who should pay the cost? On the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, Aṉangu households have not historically been billed for domestic energy consumption. The state government has recently introduced a prepayment regime, ostensibly to curb supply costs. Yet extending the norms of customer payment for domestic energy requires significant administrative labour, with limited …
Sensing the State in Hot Houses
Liam Grealy and Tess Lea examine the sensory effects of sweltering heat in Australian Indigenous housing as the outcome of both climate catastrophe and the infrastructural neglect of settler colonial geographies
Securing supply
This article considers the spatial and material implications of drinking water regulation in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia. Responding to water contamination and scarcity events in remote NT communities, we argue that the politico-bureaucratic edifice of uniform drinking water governance and service provision across the NT is a state-curated fiction. The article outlines the available legislative protections for drinking water supply i…
Negotiating cultural authenticity in hip-hop
Inappropriate Powers under the Housing Amendment (Registrable Persons) Act 2009 (NSW)
The Housing Amendment (Registrable Persons) Act 2009 (NSW) (‘2009 Act’) was passed by the Rees Government in response to community protests and in order to allow that Government to evict Dennis Ferguson from his public housing home. The 2009 Act provides for the immediate termination of a public housing lease, without notice and with no avenue of appeal. This Comment argues that this Act is problematic for its rushed passing, the potential it est…
Reorienting the Henson debate
The saga surrounding Bill Henson's production and dissemination of an image of a naked 12-year-old girl, ‘N.’, has been well documented. It was a public debate narrowly staged between child protection and artistic freedom. The question of consent relates to each of these foci. In this paper, I explore consent and the age of consent in relation to the Henson saga, identifying two crises of consent regarding adolescence and child pornography law in…
Menacing Dennis
From 2003 until 2012 the Australian media closely followed child sex offender Dennis Ferguson as he appeared in and was expelled from numerous local communities. Unattractive, alone, and obstinately unwilling to acknowledge his crimes, Ferguson conformed to dominant representations elsewhere of the stranger paedophile that demands ongoing governmental intervention. This article closely examines media and political discourses in which Ferguson has…
Academic life and labour in the new university
Cliché, gossip, and anecdote as supervision training
As a PhD candidate some years ago I attended a seminar on career planning at a cultural studies conference. The speakers canvassed topics relevant to PhDs and early career researchers (ECRs) consid
Paperless Arrests as Preventive Detention
The ‘paperless arrest’ scheme is a detention regime in which motion and documentation are central to crime control and community protection. This article interrogates paperlessness as a political fantasy for policing alongside the routine documentary practices of police administration, including their effects on the movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Operative since 2014 in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT), the paperless…
Philosophy for Youth
A review of Alain Badiou. 2017. 'The True Life', trans. Susan Spitzer, Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press
In the name of the nation
This article examines the relationship between exceptionalism and nationhood in media classification. The history of age-ratings is an international one, and the present challenges associated with digital media circulation are similarly international. We argue that the nation nevertheless provides an appropriate frame for understanding age-rating by attending to the ways national agencies have struggled to articulate the specificity of their work…
Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis
Securing supply
This article considers the spatial and material implications of drinking water regulation in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia. Responding to water contamination and scarcity events in remote NT communities, we argue that the politico-bureaucratic edifice of uniform drinking water governance and service provision across the NT is a state-curated fiction. The article outlines the available legislative protections for drinking water supply i…
One for the boys
There is no shortage of attention paid to boys. Nor is there any lack of privilege afforded them collectively as boys. Yet, for obvious reasons, boys have not been a major focus of either gender st
Stranger Things
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as ‘toxic masculinity’, positioning boys as the default inheritors of a ‘patriarchal dividend’. Media narratives might be expected to favour such agonistic oppositions, but the dominant forms of scholarship on boys also often take this line, or position boys as subjects at risk of harm done by either the contempor…
Sensing the State in Hot Houses
Liam Grealy and Tess Lea examine the sensory effects of sweltering heat in Australian Indigenous housing as the outcome of both climate catastrophe and the infrastructural neglect of settler colonial geographies
Slow withdrawal as managed retreat
A history of age-based film classification in Japan
This article provides a detailed history of film classification, or age ratings, in Japan. It describes historical precedents for Eirin, the agency responsible for film classification in Japan, and key moments in Eirin’s organisational formation and reform. Drawing on multi-sited archival research and interviews with Eirin staff, the article recognises the importance of the US Production Code Authority as a model for Eirin’s formation during the …
Washing and White Goods
On the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, an environmental health worker salvages discarded washing machines to reinstall in remote community homes. Tracking the fate of washing machines and householder well-being, this essay traces the militarized genealogies running contemporary settler colonial occupation in Australia. We are particularly interested in how the colonizing project decants militarized …
Permeable Housing
This article explores how water acts on permeable housing and the documentary infrastructures that mitigate its impact and enable its flows. It does so through consideration of ongoing litigation brought by public housing tenants at the remote communities of Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) and Laramba in the Northern Territory of Australia for incomplete repairs and unsafe drinking water. I offer a distinction between pragmatist and functionalist …
Governing disassembly in Indigenous housing
Without proper attention, houses disassemble. In public housing, property management regimes are charged with performing the repairs and maintenance necessary to combat this entropic tendency. This article argues that such governance regimes can accelerate housing’s disassembly, through rules that restrict housing interventions, bureaucratic technologies that misrecognize housing failure, and processes that defer and delay necessary fixwork. It a…
Enforced commensuration and the bureaucratic invention of household energy insecurity
Power doesn't come for free, but who should pay the cost? On the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, Aṉangu households have not historically been billed for domestic energy consumption. The state government has recently introduced a prepayment regime, ostensibly to curb supply costs. Yet extending the norms of customer payment for domestic energy requires significant administrative labour, with limited …
Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is…
Intermittent urgency and states of deferral—Or, how many houses for a mine
This paper traces the temporal tactics of continually renewed coloniality—where some impasses are made to appear insurmountable while others demand swift solutions—in relation to housing and mining at Borroloola in Australia's Northern Territory. Distinct policy and regulatory regimes encourage analyses that set housing and mining apart. Yet together they signal the settler state's simultaneous remedial and extractive orientations to remote Abori…
Transforming Boys Studies
The Energies of Boyhood
Healthy Homes
This article examines Healthy Homes, a program intended to initiate a new approach to housing repairs and maintenance in remote communities in the Northern Territory of Australia. It argues that while the evidence for associations between poor housing and poor health outcomes is clear, greater attention should be paid to the implementation of health-focused housing interventions. Healthy Homes was examined through interviews with public servants,…
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