Ben Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | BEN GREEN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3382-8707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Musicians’ Unions and Live Music: Historical and Contemporary Challenges in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Between “Harmonious Competition” and “Academic Capitalism: A Foreign Tenure-Track ( bianzhe ) Professor’s Autoethnographic Accounting of neijuan Within China’s Zhong Yong University Model
What if it rains? What if there are bushfires: Extreme weather, climate change and music festivals in Australia
Increasingly, music festivals in Australia are being cancelled, postponed or otherwise impacted by extreme weather events, including floods throughout 2022 and bushfires in 2018-2019. These and other forms of extreme weather, such as dangerous heat and drought, are predicted to increase in frequency and severity due to climate change. However, relative to the size of the problem, there is a lack of attention in both public discussion and scholarl…
Australia’s hidden musicians: Education and training in rural and regional areas
This article examines the fortunes of music education programs in rural and regional Australia. It argues that the two key national reports on music education across the nation undertaken in 2005 and 2019 have tended to focus on metropolitan and urban settings and formalised school education at the pre-tertiary level at the expense of music education programs in rural and regional areas. In this article, we argue that a more complete picture of m…
Ageing in DIY and alternative cultures: Exploring forms of masculinity and adult play in Jackass forever
This article explores ageing in alternative cultures and co-existing forms of hyper and alternative masculinity in the US film Jackass Forever released in 2022. The film is a continuation of the original Jackass show launched in 2000. Although a highly profitable franchise, we argue Jackass is part of an alternative culture through its playfulness and pranks that are also dangerous and revel in self-humiliation. Most of the stunts and skits also …
Postdigital Citizen Science and Humanities: A Theoretical Kaleidoscope
This collective article presents a theoretical kaleidoscope, the multiple lenses of which are used to examine and critique citizen science and humanities in postdigital contexts and from postdigital perspectives. It brings together 19 short theoretical and experiential contributions, organised into six loose groups which explore areas and perspectives including Indigenous and local knowledge, technology, and children and young people as citizen r…
Comparing Sino-Nordic systems of higher education: Ideology, institutional logics, subaltern governance, and emergent identities
It’s like a hug: Examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article presents findings from a cross-disciplinary, international project that seeks to understand the importance of music-making for young people (aged 18–35 years) as a source of well-being during the COVID-19 crisis. A key objective of the project is to evaluate whether music-making has contributed in palpable ways to young people’s individual well-being and their sense of connection with others. For the purposes of the project, well-bei…
Crisis, what’s a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture
This essay discusses a 2021 interview-based pilot project on the impact of COVID-19 on a cross-section of Southeast Queensland artists and cultural organisations. Though it engages with empirical data, it addresses conceptual concerns. Our interviews aimed at capturing the emotional as well as the objective costs of the pandemic on cultural practitioners. The essay considers the phrase ‘crisis of value’ and asks whether it should be used to descr…
Searching for “Australia’s Woodstock”: The Forgotten Australian Rock Festivals of 1970 – 1975
Between 1970 and 1975, at least 18 rock festivals took place in Australia, often near regional towns. These have gone largely undocumented. By focusing on these “forgotten” festivals, this article contributes to our understanding of the festival’s role in Australian music culture, mapping the Australian context over the international rock music trends of the time. These festivals highlight the contribution of regional and rural settings to the de…
Splendour XR: Place, Experience and Liveness at a Virtual Music Festival
A popular turn to online live music in response to the COVID-19 pandemic included the staging of so-called virtual music festivals, including Splendour XR, an ‘extended reality’ version of Australia’s largest ticketed music festival in 2021. Where the ‘liveness’ of online performance is now broadly accepted, a virtual music festival necessarily makes a more ambitious claim, as popular music festivals are valued for their construction of certain t…
‘Become what you are’: Subcultural identity and ‘insider teaching’ in youth studies
This article responds to a trend of people pursuing academic careers after, or alongside, participation in popular music scenes and subcultures, applying scholarly perspectives on how identity can inform teaching and recognising the pedagogical benefits of teachers drawing on their multifaceted lives. The authors reflect critically on their pedagogical approach in teaching a youth studies sociology course and consider how their respective musical…
Escaping the Impossibility of Fairness: From Formal to Substantive Algorithmic Fairness
Efforts to promote equitable public policy with algorithms appear to be fundamentally constrained by the “impossibility of fairness” (an incompatibility between mathematical definitions of fairness). This technical limitation raises a central question about algorithmic fairness: How can computer scientists and policymakers support equitable policy reforms with algorithms? In this article, I argue that promoting justice with algorithms requires re…
International education within Asean and the rise of Asian century
This collective writing paper brings together writers from Southeast Asia and the Western world to highlight challenges and opportunities for ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its education in the rising of the Asian Century. The inspiration for this project was started by Michael A. Peters’ conception of collective writing and the Asian Century. ASEAN is diverse in terms of economy and society; a look from different angles will …
After Brexit and Aukus’: Twitter-inspired collective writing on geopolitics of an emerging multipolar world
China’s rise, the Asian century and the clash of meta-civilizations
It’s Turned Me from a Professional to a “Bedroom DJ” Once Again’: Covid-19 and New Forms of Inequality for Young Music-Makers
Given the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly uncertain socio-economic conditions, cultural practice remains a stable canvas upon which young people draw the most agency and exercise a sense of freedom. This article reports on an international research collaboration, drawing on the voices of 77 young musicians from three countries—Australia, England and Portugal—who were interviewed about their music-making pract…
Retracted Article: International education in the Asian Century: Decline of Anglophone dominance
Researching Regional and Rural Music Scenes: Toward a Critical Understanding of an Under-theorized Issue
Research on regional and rural popular music scenes focuses on a number of issues and challenges confronting such scenes. These include venues, work and employment, regional sensitivity to boom-and-bust scenarios in local heavy industries, tourism and leisure, and out-migration. To date, however, there has been very little critical examination of what precisely is meant by the terms “regional” or “rural” in relation to music scenes. This article …
Emancipation, revolutionary nationalism, and “everything under the sun”: Chinese internationalism, higher education and the search for alternative modernity
(2021). Emancipation, revolutionary nationalism, and “everything under the sun”: Chinese internationalism, higher education and the search for alternative modernity. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 563-567
Education in and for the Belt and Road Initiative: The Pedagogy of Collective Writing
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters’ students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandri c, and a mix of senior Chinese and Western scholars. To successfully complete the course, the students were required to produce a …
Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus
This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of philosophy of education in a new key developed by Michael Peters and the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). The paper is collectively written by 15 authors who responded to the question: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Their answers are classified into four main themes and corresponding sections. The first section,…
Cryptocurrencies, China's sovereign digital currency (DCEP) and the US dollar system
The Central Bank of China is testing its Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) in the cities of Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xunan with the involvement of four large state-owned banks in the
The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politics
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been subjected to serious criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 virus, specifically that it failed to act decisively to stop the global outbreak and tha
US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading account
In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i
Skateboarding and the 'Tired Generation: Ageing in Youth Cultures and Lifestyle Sports
This article extends current discussions of ageing through a study of the continuing involvement in skateboarding of individuals who are no longer young adults. We qualitatively examine The Tired Video which features older and mostly middle-aged male skaters as our case study. This is done in light of discourses of ageing and a lack of studies examining how older participants remain involved in lifestyle sports typically associated with youth and…
I Always Remember That Moment: Peak Music Experiences as Epiphanies
The sociological study of music consumption has tended to focus on general and typical experience instead of discrete or extraordinary experiences, consistently with a wider lack of biographical analysis. However, a popular topic among music fans is the phenomenon of peak music experiences: specific experiences involving music that are especially memorable, influential and even pivotal for the individuals involved. Drawing on the results of a pil…
It’s Turned Me from a Professional to a “Bedroom DJ” Once Again’: Covid-19 and New Forms of Inequality for Young Music-Makers
Given the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly uncertain socio-economic conditions, cultural practice remains a stable canvas upon which young people draw the most agency and exercise a sense of freedom. This article reports on an international research collaboration, drawing on the voices of 77 young musicians from three countries—Australia, England and Portugal—who were interviewed about their music-making pract…
Splendour XR: Place, Experience and Liveness at a Virtual Music Festival
A popular turn to online live music in response to the COVID-19 pandemic included the staging of so-called virtual music festivals, including Splendour XR, an ‘extended reality’ version of Australia’s largest ticketed music festival in 2021. Where the ‘liveness’ of online performance is now broadly accepted, a virtual music festival necessarily makes a more ambitious claim, as popular music festivals are valued for their construction of certain t…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus
This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of philosophy of education in a new key developed by Michael Peters and the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). The paper is collectively written by 15 authors who responded to the question: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Their answers are classified into four main themes and corresponding sections. The first section,…
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
As illustrated by many of the chapters in this volume, the sites and strategies now available for the preservation of popular music history and heritage are manifold. Indeed, if the steps being taken to acknowledge the importance of popular music, and in particular more contemporaneous versions of popular music and their corresponding eras of emergence and innovation, as a bonafide form of cultural heritage are in themselves significant, then equ…
The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politics
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been subjected to serious criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 virus, specifically that it failed to act decisively to stop the global outbreak and tha
It’s like a hug: Examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article presents findings from a cross-disciplinary, international project that seeks to understand the importance of music-making for young people (aged 18–35 years) as a source of well-being during the COVID-19 crisis. A key objective of the project is to evaluate whether music-making has contributed in palpable ways to young people’s individual well-being and their sense of connection with others. For the purposes of the project, well-bei…
Education in and for the Belt and Road Initiative: The Pedagogy of Collective Writing
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters’ students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandri c, and a mix of senior Chinese and Western scholars. To successfully complete the course, the students were required to produce a …
US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading account
In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i
What if it rains? What if there are bushfires: Extreme weather, climate change and music festivals in Australia
Increasingly, music festivals in Australia are being cancelled, postponed or otherwise impacted by extreme weather events, including floods throughout 2022 and bushfires in 2018-2019. These and other forms of extreme weather, such as dangerous heat and drought, are predicted to increase in frequency and severity due to climate change. However, relative to the size of the problem, there is a lack of attention in both public discussion and scholarl…
Searching for “Australia’s Woodstock”: The Forgotten Australian Rock Festivals of 1970 – 1975
Between 1970 and 1975, at least 18 rock festivals took place in Australia, often near regional towns. These have gone largely undocumented. By focusing on these “forgotten” festivals, this article contributes to our understanding of the festival’s role in Australian music culture, mapping the Australian context over the international rock music trends of the time. These festivals highlight the contribution of regional and rural settings to the de…
China’s rise, the Asian century and the clash of meta-civilizations
Researching Regional and Rural Music Scenes: Toward a Critical Understanding of an Under-theorized Issue
Research on regional and rural popular music scenes focuses on a number of issues and challenges confronting such scenes. These include venues, work and employment, regional sensitivity to boom-and-bust scenarios in local heavy industries, tourism and leisure, and out-migration. To date, however, there has been very little critical examination of what precisely is meant by the terms “regional” or “rural” in relation to music scenes. This article …
Cryptocurrencies, China's sovereign digital currency (DCEP) and the US dollar system
The Central Bank of China is testing its Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) in the cities of Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xunan with the involvement of four large state-owned banks in the
Whose riot? Collective memory of an iconic event in a local music scene
The application of memory studies to music scenes has so far had a material focus, favouring places and objects. This article critically examines the role of an iconic event in scene identity, through a case study of the 'Cybernana' music festival, hosted by Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZfm in 1996 and marked by what has been characterised, alternately, as an audience riot and a police riot. Based on ethnographic research and analysis of c…
Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr
I Always Remember That Moment: Peak Music Experiences as Epiphanies
The sociological study of music consumption has tended to focus on general and typical experience instead of discrete or extraordinary experiences, consistently with a wider lack of biographical analysis. However, a popular topic among music fans is the phenomenon of peak music experiences: specific experiences involving music that are especially memorable, influential and even pivotal for the individuals involved. Drawing on the results of a pil…
Having the sceptre: Wu-Tang Clan and the aura of music in the age of digital reproduction
Hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan sold only one, expensive copy of their album,Once Upon A Time in Shaolin. This exemplifies recent strategies by popular music artists to establish their work as art, with what Walter Benjamin calls 'aura', in response to the accessibility and dematerialisation enabled by digital technology as well as longstanding cultural condescension. Critics argue that popular music should not be restricted but shared, with digital t…
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
As illustrated by many of the chapters in this volume, the sites and strategies now available for the preservation of popular music history and heritage are manifold. Indeed, if the steps being taken to acknowledge the importance of popular music, and in particular more contemporaneous versions of popular music and their corresponding eras of emergence and innovation, as a bonafide form of cultural heritage are in themselves significant, then equ…
Gateways and corridors: Cultural and spatial challenges and opportunities for live music on Australia's Gold Coast
Whose riot? Collective memory of an iconic event in a local music scene
The application of memory studies to music scenes has so far had a material focus, favouring places and objects. This article critically examines the role of an iconic event in scene identity, through a case study of the 'Cybernana' music festival, hosted by Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZfm in 1996 and marked by what has been characterised, alternately, as an audience riot and a police riot. Based on ethnographic research and analysis of c…
Skateboarding and the 'Tired Generation: Ageing in Youth Cultures and Lifestyle Sports
This article extends current discussions of ageing through a study of the continuing involvement in skateboarding of individuals who are no longer young adults. We qualitatively examine The Tired Video which features older and mostly middle-aged male skaters as our case study. This is done in light of discourses of ageing and a lack of studies examining how older participants remain involved in lifestyle sports typically associated with youth and…
Researching Regional and Rural Music Scenes: Toward a Critical Understanding of an Under-theorized Issue
Research on regional and rural popular music scenes focuses on a number of issues and challenges confronting such scenes. These include venues, work and employment, regional sensitivity to boom-and-bust scenarios in local heavy industries, tourism and leisure, and out-migration. To date, however, there has been very little critical examination of what precisely is meant by the terms “regional” or “rural” in relation to music scenes. This article …
Emancipation, revolutionary nationalism, and “everything under the sun”: Chinese internationalism, higher education and the search for alternative modernity
(2021). Emancipation, revolutionary nationalism, and “everything under the sun”: Chinese internationalism, higher education and the search for alternative modernity. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 563-567
Education in and for the Belt and Road Initiative: The Pedagogy of Collective Writing
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters’ students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandri c, and a mix of senior Chinese and Western scholars. To successfully complete the course, the students were required to produce a …
Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus
This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of philosophy of education in a new key developed by Michael Peters and the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). The paper is collectively written by 15 authors who responded to the question: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Their answers are classified into four main themes and corresponding sections. The first section,…
Cryptocurrencies, China's sovereign digital currency (DCEP) and the US dollar system
The Central Bank of China is testing its Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) in the cities of Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xunan with the involvement of four large state-owned banks in the
The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politics
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been subjected to serious criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 virus, specifically that it failed to act decisively to stop the global outbreak and tha
US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading account
In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i
It’s Turned Me from a Professional to a “Bedroom DJ” Once Again’: Covid-19 and New Forms of Inequality for Young Music-Makers
Given the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly uncertain socio-economic conditions, cultural practice remains a stable canvas upon which young people draw the most agency and exercise a sense of freedom. This article reports on an international research collaboration, drawing on the voices of 77 young musicians from three countries—Australia, England and Portugal—who were interviewed about their music-making pract…
Retracted Article: International education in the Asian Century: Decline of Anglophone dominance
‘Become what you are’: Subcultural identity and ‘insider teaching’ in youth studies
This article responds to a trend of people pursuing academic careers after, or alongside, participation in popular music scenes and subcultures, applying scholarly perspectives on how identity can inform teaching and recognising the pedagogical benefits of teachers drawing on their multifaceted lives. The authors reflect critically on their pedagogical approach in teaching a youth studies sociology course and consider how their respective musical…
Escaping the Impossibility of Fairness: From Formal to Substantive Algorithmic Fairness
Efforts to promote equitable public policy with algorithms appear to be fundamentally constrained by the “impossibility of fairness” (an incompatibility between mathematical definitions of fairness). This technical limitation raises a central question about algorithmic fairness: How can computer scientists and policymakers support equitable policy reforms with algorithms? In this article, I argue that promoting justice with algorithms requires re…
International education within Asean and the rise of Asian century
This collective writing paper brings together writers from Southeast Asia and the Western world to highlight challenges and opportunities for ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its education in the rising of the Asian Century. The inspiration for this project was started by Michael A. Peters’ conception of collective writing and the Asian Century. ASEAN is diverse in terms of economy and society; a look from different angles will …
After Brexit and Aukus’: Twitter-inspired collective writing on geopolitics of an emerging multipolar world
China’s rise, the Asian century and the clash of meta-civilizations
Crisis, what’s a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture
This essay discusses a 2021 interview-based pilot project on the impact of COVID-19 on a cross-section of Southeast Queensland artists and cultural organisations. Though it engages with empirical data, it addresses conceptual concerns. Our interviews aimed at capturing the emotional as well as the objective costs of the pandemic on cultural practitioners. The essay considers the phrase ‘crisis of value’ and asks whether it should be used to descr…
Searching for “Australia’s Woodstock”: The Forgotten Australian Rock Festivals of 1970 – 1975
Between 1970 and 1975, at least 18 rock festivals took place in Australia, often near regional towns. These have gone largely undocumented. By focusing on these “forgotten” festivals, this article contributes to our understanding of the festival’s role in Australian music culture, mapping the Australian context over the international rock music trends of the time. These festivals highlight the contribution of regional and rural settings to the de…
Splendour XR: Place, Experience and Liveness at a Virtual Music Festival
A popular turn to online live music in response to the COVID-19 pandemic included the staging of so-called virtual music festivals, including Splendour XR, an ‘extended reality’ version of Australia’s largest ticketed music festival in 2021. Where the ‘liveness’ of online performance is now broadly accepted, a virtual music festival necessarily makes a more ambitious claim, as popular music festivals are valued for their construction of certain t…
Australia’s hidden musicians: Education and training in rural and regional areas
This article examines the fortunes of music education programs in rural and regional Australia. It argues that the two key national reports on music education across the nation undertaken in 2005 and 2019 have tended to focus on metropolitan and urban settings and formalised school education at the pre-tertiary level at the expense of music education programs in rural and regional areas. In this article, we argue that a more complete picture of m…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Music History and Culture (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)