R Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 27350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5346-8115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Diversity, Credibility and Cultural Labour as ‘Skill’: Racialised Experiences of Young People in the Creative Industries
This article investigates how diversity agendas in the creative industries shape systems of value and credibility for racialised young workers. It asks whether the 21st century skills framework, which includes skills and competencies like ‘social and cultural awareness,’ can be leveraged to recognise the cultural labour and embodied knowledge of racialised youth. Using data from an action research study of non-white, migrant-background interns at…
State of play in Australian sustainable fashion research: Current and future directions
Australian fashion is emblematic of Global North countries with high levels of consumption and waste, dominated by high street fast fashion brands. It also has some unique characteristics as it is located in the Asia-Pacific region – the central production hub of garments – and is a leading producer of quality natural fibres such as cotton and wool. Despite this, Australia has a hollowed-out manufacturing sector that can provide minimal value add…
Youth arts as popular education: Cultural Studies at the edges of the creative industries
Youth arts is a form of education that operates primarily through affect and, perhaps because of this, has not received attention in terms of its capacity to develop young people’s employability. In this paper we identify and discuss the much vaunted and highly desirable ‘21st century skills’ learnt in youth arts settings. Drawing on arguments first advanced by Dick Hebdidge and Raymond Williams, we show that while 21st century skills are learnt …
Fashion in ‘crisis’: Consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown
The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated an ‘existential crisis’ in the global fashion industry. The effects of the crisis on the retail sector resulted in many brands deferring or cancelling orders from supplier factories without paying workers, which had an instant and calamitous impact on the lives of garment workers in the global South. While activist organizations were quick to launch campaigns demanding that fashion brands #PayUp and take respons…
Beyond empowerment and inspiration: Towards a critical program for multicultural youth leadership
This article examines the ways in which multicultural youth leadership programs reflect a model of participatory citizenship and individual empowerment that risks affirming white institutional worlds. Drawing on data from a national study of migrant and refugee youth in Australia, it suggests that while these activities offer useful forms of civic and vocational training for its participants, leadership programs can burden migrant youth with form…
Relocating sustainable fashion: Intercultural reciprocity in ‘more than local’ fashion-making
This article examines the relations of creativity, enterprise, and activism that define Aranya, a luxury fashion brand based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It argues that these relations disrupt existing theorizations of the local and global in fashion scholarship, and help to undo the knowledge practices which position the global North as fashion’s centre. The brand is instructive for understandings of ethical and sustainable fashion because it reveals t…
Pragmatic Belonging: Migrant Young People Making Claims on the Nation
Multicultural Youth Australia is a national ‘census’ of migrant youth in Australia aimed at tracking their social, cultural and economic status. The findings from this study highlight strong feelings of national belonging among migrant young people, despite significant experiences of racism. This article unpacks this paradox. It asks what migrant youth mean when they say they belong in the face of persistent racialised exclusion. In Hage's accoun…
‘Be creative’ in Bangladesh? Mobility, empowerment and precarity in ethical fashion enterprise
The rise of creative, ethical entrepreneurship within the global garment industry promises new kinds of empowerment and mobility for Asian workers. ‘Ethical fashion’ brings alternative ways of valuing cultural commodities by imagining South Asian textile workers as potentially creative, entrepreneurial, and empowered. However, ethical fashion enterprise also brings particular forms of instability and risk. Through an analysis of two ethical fashi…
Imagination and Reality: Psycho-Analytical Essays 1951—1961
A collection of essays, introduced by Masud Khan and J.D. Sutherland, on a variety of subjects including: observations on a case of vertigo; on idealization, illusion, and catastrophic disillusion; the nature and function of the analyst's communication to the patient; beyond the reality principle; and, the analysis of a detective story.
By-Roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia
By-Roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia." Journal of Australian Studies, 41(3), pp. 398–399
The concept of minority for the study of culture
Critical tools are needed for navigating the concept of minority and its usefulness for the study of culture. This article reflects on the cultural and political purposes that are served when distinguishing between majorities and minorities, and the various historical and intellectual agendas that have shaped these social practices of classification. It begins by examining Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literature’ as an anti-sociologic…
Researchers, bureaucrats and the lifeworlds of cultural policy
This paper reflects on the value of cultural policy research, particularly when such research forms part of projects that seek to produce insights or ‘outcomes’ that are useful to non-university research partners. The paper draws from the author’s involvement in a project examining cultural diversity in the arts that was funded as part of the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Project scheme. It addresses Eleonora Belfiore’s provocation that t…
Andrew Gamble. Crisis Without End: The Unravelling of Western Prosperity
The world economy is in a state of flux; if current doomsayers are to be believed, we are on course to an imminent financial collapse with dire consequences for the global economic order. The manag
Art in Community: The Provisional Citizen
The arts are situated at the centre of policies and programs seeking to make communities more creative, cohesive or productive. This book highlights the governmental, aesthetic and economic contexts w
Making and remaking multicultural arts: Policy, cultural difference and the discourse of decline
Currently, a discourse of decline shadows multiculturalism, claiming it is 'no longer' viable as a governmental technique to manage present-day social complexity. This article revisits multiculturalism as an intervention in the discourse of decline, shifting the terms of the multiculturalism debate from the abstract struggle between competing political ideologies, to the minor material processes through which multiculturalism was enacted. Through…
Shaharyar M. Khan and Ali Khan. Cricket Cauldron: The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India
For all the change in India since independence, Gujarati Muslims continue to occupy a precarious position and find themselves caught in a most difficult stalemate. On the one hand they are viewed a
New Communities, New Attachments: Planning for Diversity in Melbourne's Outer-Suburbs
This article reflects on the cultural policy and planning challenges raised by the changing demography, particularly the increasing cultural diversity, of new, outer-suburban Australian communities. While there is much scholarly thinking about the forms of spatialised belonging that exists in urban, multicultural Australia, there is less discussion of Asian identities in more dispersed suburban communities that have a very different relationship …
Rethinking cultural capital and community-based arts
This article examines the contemporary field of Australian community-based arts in light of Bourdieu's work on cultural capital. It considers how questions of ethnicity have complicated the field of community-based arts and informed the experience of artists and participants. These questions have implications for what it is that these organisations seek to do; specifically, the sorts of 'capital' they impart to participants in their programs, and…
Developing a Local Cultural Indicator Framework in Australia: A Case Study of the City of Whittlesea
This paper critically examines the cultural planning agenda of the City of Whittlesea, a local government municipality in Australia, and considers its impact on the region‟s multicultural communities. Located on the metropolitan fringe, the City is geographically one of the largest and most diverse municipalities in greater Melbourne, with more than half of the residents from non-Anglo-Celtic backgrounds. First, the paper shows how sustainability…
P2-137 The association between quality of primary care, deprivation and coronary heart disease outcomes
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a financial incentive scheme for general practitioners in the UK. It was introduced in 2004 with the aim of improving the quality of primary care and reducing health inequalities in primary care delivery. There is relatively little evidence to support the hypothesis that practices with higher quality of care measured by the QOF score have better health outcomes. However some studies have shown that high…
Going ‘mainstream’: Evaluating the instrumentalisation of multicultural arts
This paper considers how debates over the instrumentalisation of the arts have informed the cultural production of an Australian arts organisation – Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV). In an effort to make multicultural arts more ‘mainstream’, MAV has increasingly adopted market‐based rationales for its work – particularly the use of ‘audience development’ policy frameworks. It is easy to evaluate this marketisation of multicultural arts negativel…
Child supervision practices for drowning prevention in rural Bangladesh: A pilot study of supervision tools: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Injuries are an increasing child health concern and have become a leading cause of child mortality in the 1-4 years age group in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. METHODS: Household observations during 9 months of a community-based pilot of two supervision tools-a door barrier and a playpen-designed to assess their community acceptability in rural Bangladesh are reported in this article. RESULTS: Statistical analysis of…
Reading Cultural Studies, Reading Foucault
Reading Cultural Studies, Reading Foucault Rimi Khan Abstract This article attempts to track the reception of Foucault within cultural studies and examines the difficulties involved in mobilizing Foucault’s ideas within the field as it exists in its current orthodoxies. The theoretical and methodological problems that arise when deploying Foucault’s ideas turn largely on cultural studies’ conceptualizations of power, subjectivity, and discourse, …
Bangla Desh. A Struggle for Nationhood
The concept of minority for the study of culture
Critical tools are needed for navigating the concept of minority and its usefulness for the study of culture. This article reflects on the cultural and political purposes that are served when distinguishing between majorities and minorities, and the various historical and intellectual agendas that have shaped these social practices of classification. It begins by examining Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literature’ as an anti-sociologic…
Making and remaking multicultural arts: Policy, cultural difference and the discourse of decline
Currently, a discourse of decline shadows multiculturalism, claiming it is 'no longer' viable as a governmental technique to manage present-day social complexity. This article revisits multiculturalism as an intervention in the discourse of decline, shifting the terms of the multiculturalism debate from the abstract struggle between competing political ideologies, to the minor material processes through which multiculturalism was enacted. Through…
Going ‘mainstream’: Evaluating the instrumentalisation of multicultural arts
This paper considers how debates over the instrumentalisation of the arts have informed the cultural production of an Australian arts organisation – Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV). In an effort to make multicultural arts more ‘mainstream’, MAV has increasingly adopted market‐based rationales for its work – particularly the use of ‘audience development’ policy frameworks. It is easy to evaluate this marketisation of multicultural arts negativel…
Relocating sustainable fashion: Intercultural reciprocity in ‘more than local’ fashion-making
This article examines the relations of creativity, enterprise, and activism that define Aranya, a luxury fashion brand based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It argues that these relations disrupt existing theorizations of the local and global in fashion scholarship, and help to undo the knowledge practices which position the global North as fashion’s centre. The brand is instructive for understandings of ethical and sustainable fashion because it reveals t…
Rethinking cultural capital and community-based arts
This article examines the contemporary field of Australian community-based arts in light of Bourdieu's work on cultural capital. It considers how questions of ethnicity have complicated the field of community-based arts and informed the experience of artists and participants. These questions have implications for what it is that these organisations seek to do; specifically, the sorts of 'capital' they impart to participants in their programs, and…
Pragmatic Belonging: Migrant Young People Making Claims on the Nation
Multicultural Youth Australia is a national ‘census’ of migrant youth in Australia aimed at tracking their social, cultural and economic status. The findings from this study highlight strong feelings of national belonging among migrant young people, despite significant experiences of racism. This article unpacks this paradox. It asks what migrant youth mean when they say they belong in the face of persistent racialised exclusion. In Hage's accoun…
Child supervision practices for drowning prevention in rural Bangladesh: A pilot study of supervision tools: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Injuries are an increasing child health concern and have become a leading cause of child mortality in the 1-4 years age group in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. METHODS: Household observations during 9 months of a community-based pilot of two supervision tools-a door barrier and a playpen-designed to assess their community acceptability in rural Bangladesh are reported in this article. RESULTS: Statistical analysis of…
State of play in Australian sustainable fashion research: Current and future directions
Australian fashion is emblematic of Global North countries with high levels of consumption and waste, dominated by high street fast fashion brands. It also has some unique characteristics as it is located in the Asia-Pacific region – the central production hub of garments – and is a leading producer of quality natural fibres such as cotton and wool. Despite this, Australia has a hollowed-out manufacturing sector that can provide minimal value add…
Youth arts as popular education: Cultural Studies at the edges of the creative industries
Youth arts is a form of education that operates primarily through affect and, perhaps because of this, has not received attention in terms of its capacity to develop young people’s employability. In this paper we identify and discuss the much vaunted and highly desirable ‘21st century skills’ learnt in youth arts settings. Drawing on arguments first advanced by Dick Hebdidge and Raymond Williams, we show that while 21st century skills are learnt …
Beyond empowerment and inspiration: Towards a critical program for multicultural youth leadership
This article examines the ways in which multicultural youth leadership programs reflect a model of participatory citizenship and individual empowerment that risks affirming white institutional worlds. Drawing on data from a national study of migrant and refugee youth in Australia, it suggests that while these activities offer useful forms of civic and vocational training for its participants, leadership programs can burden migrant youth with form…
Researchers, bureaucrats and the lifeworlds of cultural policy
This paper reflects on the value of cultural policy research, particularly when such research forms part of projects that seek to produce insights or ‘outcomes’ that are useful to non-university research partners. The paper draws from the author’s involvement in a project examining cultural diversity in the arts that was funded as part of the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Project scheme. It addresses Eleonora Belfiore’s provocation that t…
Bangla Desh. A Struggle for Nationhood
Reading Cultural Studies, Reading Foucault
Reading Cultural Studies, Reading Foucault Rimi Khan Abstract This article attempts to track the reception of Foucault within cultural studies and examines the difficulties involved in mobilizing Foucault’s ideas within the field as it exists in its current orthodoxies. The theoretical and methodological problems that arise when deploying Foucault’s ideas turn largely on cultural studies’ conceptualizations of power, subjectivity, and discourse, …
Going ‘mainstream’: Evaluating the instrumentalisation of multicultural arts
This paper considers how debates over the instrumentalisation of the arts have informed the cultural production of an Australian arts organisation – Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV). In an effort to make multicultural arts more ‘mainstream’, MAV has increasingly adopted market‐based rationales for its work – particularly the use of ‘audience development’ policy frameworks. It is easy to evaluate this marketisation of multicultural arts negativel…
Child supervision practices for drowning prevention in rural Bangladesh: A pilot study of supervision tools: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Injuries are an increasing child health concern and have become a leading cause of child mortality in the 1-4 years age group in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. METHODS: Household observations during 9 months of a community-based pilot of two supervision tools-a door barrier and a playpen-designed to assess their community acceptability in rural Bangladesh are reported in this article. RESULTS: Statistical analysis of…
Developing a Local Cultural Indicator Framework in Australia: A Case Study of the City of Whittlesea
This paper critically examines the cultural planning agenda of the City of Whittlesea, a local government municipality in Australia, and considers its impact on the region‟s multicultural communities. Located on the metropolitan fringe, the City is geographically one of the largest and most diverse municipalities in greater Melbourne, with more than half of the residents from non-Anglo-Celtic backgrounds. First, the paper shows how sustainability…
P2-137 The association between quality of primary care, deprivation and coronary heart disease outcomes
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a financial incentive scheme for general practitioners in the UK. It was introduced in 2004 with the aim of improving the quality of primary care and reducing health inequalities in primary care delivery. There is relatively little evidence to support the hypothesis that practices with higher quality of care measured by the QOF score have better health outcomes. However some studies have shown that high…
Rethinking cultural capital and community-based arts
This article examines the contemporary field of Australian community-based arts in light of Bourdieu's work on cultural capital. It considers how questions of ethnicity have complicated the field of community-based arts and informed the experience of artists and participants. These questions have implications for what it is that these organisations seek to do; specifically, the sorts of 'capital' they impart to participants in their programs, and…
Making and remaking multicultural arts: Policy, cultural difference and the discourse of decline
Currently, a discourse of decline shadows multiculturalism, claiming it is 'no longer' viable as a governmental technique to manage present-day social complexity. This article revisits multiculturalism as an intervention in the discourse of decline, shifting the terms of the multiculturalism debate from the abstract struggle between competing political ideologies, to the minor material processes through which multiculturalism was enacted. Through…
Shaharyar M. Khan and Ali Khan. Cricket Cauldron: The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India
For all the change in India since independence, Gujarati Muslims continue to occupy a precarious position and find themselves caught in a most difficult stalemate. On the one hand they are viewed a
New Communities, New Attachments: Planning for Diversity in Melbourne's Outer-Suburbs
This article reflects on the cultural policy and planning challenges raised by the changing demography, particularly the increasing cultural diversity, of new, outer-suburban Australian communities. While there is much scholarly thinking about the forms of spatialised belonging that exists in urban, multicultural Australia, there is less discussion of Asian identities in more dispersed suburban communities that have a very different relationship …
Art in Community: The Provisional Citizen
The arts are situated at the centre of policies and programs seeking to make communities more creative, cohesive or productive. This book highlights the governmental, aesthetic and economic contexts w
Andrew Gamble. Crisis Without End: The Unravelling of Western Prosperity
The world economy is in a state of flux; if current doomsayers are to be believed, we are on course to an imminent financial collapse with dire consequences for the global economic order. The manag
By-Roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia
By-Roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia." Journal of Australian Studies, 41(3), pp. 398–399
The concept of minority for the study of culture
Critical tools are needed for navigating the concept of minority and its usefulness for the study of culture. This article reflects on the cultural and political purposes that are served when distinguishing between majorities and minorities, and the various historical and intellectual agendas that have shaped these social practices of classification. It begins by examining Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literature’ as an anti-sociologic…
Researchers, bureaucrats and the lifeworlds of cultural policy
This paper reflects on the value of cultural policy research, particularly when such research forms part of projects that seek to produce insights or ‘outcomes’ that are useful to non-university research partners. The paper draws from the author’s involvement in a project examining cultural diversity in the arts that was funded as part of the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Project scheme. It addresses Eleonora Belfiore’s provocation that t…
Imagination and Reality: Psycho-Analytical Essays 1951—1961
A collection of essays, introduced by Masud Khan and J.D. Sutherland, on a variety of subjects including: observations on a case of vertigo; on idealization, illusion, and catastrophic disillusion; the nature and function of the analyst's communication to the patient; beyond the reality principle; and, the analysis of a detective story.
‘Be creative’ in Bangladesh? Mobility, empowerment and precarity in ethical fashion enterprise
The rise of creative, ethical entrepreneurship within the global garment industry promises new kinds of empowerment and mobility for Asian workers. ‘Ethical fashion’ brings alternative ways of valuing cultural commodities by imagining South Asian textile workers as potentially creative, entrepreneurial, and empowered. However, ethical fashion enterprise also brings particular forms of instability and risk. Through an analysis of two ethical fashi…
Fashion in ‘crisis’: Consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown
The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated an ‘existential crisis’ in the global fashion industry. The effects of the crisis on the retail sector resulted in many brands deferring or cancelling orders from supplier factories without paying workers, which had an instant and calamitous impact on the lives of garment workers in the global South. While activist organizations were quick to launch campaigns demanding that fashion brands #PayUp and take respons…
Beyond empowerment and inspiration: Towards a critical program for multicultural youth leadership
This article examines the ways in which multicultural youth leadership programs reflect a model of participatory citizenship and individual empowerment that risks affirming white institutional worlds. Drawing on data from a national study of migrant and refugee youth in Australia, it suggests that while these activities offer useful forms of civic and vocational training for its participants, leadership programs can burden migrant youth with form…
Relocating sustainable fashion: Intercultural reciprocity in ‘more than local’ fashion-making
This article examines the relations of creativity, enterprise, and activism that define Aranya, a luxury fashion brand based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It argues that these relations disrupt existing theorizations of the local and global in fashion scholarship, and help to undo the knowledge practices which position the global North as fashion’s centre. The brand is instructive for understandings of ethical and sustainable fashion because it reveals t…
Pragmatic Belonging: Migrant Young People Making Claims on the Nation
Multicultural Youth Australia is a national ‘census’ of migrant youth in Australia aimed at tracking their social, cultural and economic status. The findings from this study highlight strong feelings of national belonging among migrant young people, despite significant experiences of racism. This article unpacks this paradox. It asks what migrant youth mean when they say they belong in the face of persistent racialised exclusion. In Hage's accoun…
Youth arts as popular education: Cultural Studies at the edges of the creative industries
Youth arts is a form of education that operates primarily through affect and, perhaps because of this, has not received attention in terms of its capacity to develop young people’s employability. In this paper we identify and discuss the much vaunted and highly desirable ‘21st century skills’ learnt in youth arts settings. Drawing on arguments first advanced by Dick Hebdidge and Raymond Williams, we show that while 21st century skills are learnt …
State of play in Australian sustainable fashion research: Current and future directions
Australian fashion is emblematic of Global North countries with high levels of consumption and waste, dominated by high street fast fashion brands. It also has some unique characteristics as it is located in the Asia-Pacific region – the central production hub of garments – and is a leading producer of quality natural fibres such as cotton and wool. Despite this, Australia has a hollowed-out manufacturing sector that can provide minimal value add…
Diversity, Credibility and Cultural Labour as ‘Skill’: Racialised Experiences of Young People in the Creative Industries
This article investigates how diversity agendas in the creative industries shape systems of value and credibility for racialised young workers. It asks whether the 21st century skills framework, which includes skills and competencies like ‘social and cultural awareness,’ can be leveraged to recognise the cultural labour and embodied knowledge of racialised youth. Using data from an action research study of non-white, migrant-background interns at…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Multiculturalism (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social science (6 works)