Gilbert Caluya
Biographic Data
| ID | 640555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert Caluya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Caluya |
| SIGNATURE | CALUYA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8508-6602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond risk
Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with social issues and citizenship practices. Diaspora youth are further stigmatised, being defined as ‘at-risk’ of greater harm from digital environments, which frames them as victims or non-agentic. This article draws on qualitative research with diaspora youth…
Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians
Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around racism and anti‐racism. This article seeks to retrieve some of the history of this contestation by ex…
It's not relevant because you already know all of it
Young people are often assumed to be competent users of digital platforms; however, today's online environment is flooded with challenges, one of which is misinformation. We examine the social media practices of 14 Australian diaspora youth - a cohort often believed to be more at risk from digital risks and harms - and how they navigated online misinformation during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We find that while participants received some digital and…
Unbelonging
Unbelonging: Anti-Asian racism in Australia’s gay community
Intimate borders
This article contends that the rhetoric and logics of intimacy in Australia’s border security regime are central to dividing desirable from undesirable mobility, by distinguishing ‘deserving’ from ‘undeserving’ refugees in a politics of differential compassion. Insofar as intimacy is tied to senses of closeness and identification as well as ideas of morality and love, it is deployed by anti-refugee and pro-refugee advocates to cultivate certain a…
The Right to Maim
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
Pride and paranoia
This article traces the emergence of home security systems within the context of housing desegregation and suburbanization in post-war America. It aims to analyse the physical materiality of home security systems within the context of racialized material inequality, drawing on advertisements and newspaper articles at the time. It argues that the growing obsession with home security that accompanied post-war domestic material cultures paralleled t…
Sexual geopolitics
This article explores the recent occlusion of economic deprivation by sexual frustration as the hegemonic model for understanding international terrorism. In particular, it focuses on, what it dubs, ‘the blue balls theory of terrorism’, which asserts that terrorism is caused by the sexual frustration of non-western men. The first section traces the emergence of this theory across western media and academic writing and provides a brief critique of…
The post-panoptic society? Reassessing Foucault in surveillance studies
Foucault's panopticon has become the leading scholarly model or metaphor for analysing surveillance. Surveillance studies scholars have recently turned away from Foucault in an attempt to understand contemporary social and technological developments in surveillance and society. This article argues against this trend in surveillance studies by returning to Foucault's writing, interviews and lectures on the panopticon. It begins by reviewing the su…
Culture, Sex and Sexualities
The Rice Steamer’
While for some Sydney's gay scene is a space of sexual liberation, for Asian-Australians it's also a space of racial segregation. Drawing on ethnographic research in gay venues in Sydney and employing Deleuze and Guattari's notions of ‘striated space’ and ‘territorialisation’, this paper explores the ways that racialised sexual desires constitute spatial formations and practices that literally confine gay Asian males into ghettos within gay space…
The Aesthetics of Simplicity
Through an aesthetically-grounded reading of William Yang's Sadness, this essay attempts to explore the ways in which Sadness intervenes in the ethics and politics of grief as an art work. Rather than interpreting Yang's work as autobiography, I attempt to reframe this in terms of loss. Drawing on the work of photography theorists such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, I analyse Sadness in terms of what I call an aesthetics of simplicity, which…
The Rice Steamer’
While for some Sydney's gay scene is a space of sexual liberation, for Asian-Australians it's also a space of racial segregation. Drawing on ethnographic research in gay venues in Sydney and employing Deleuze and Guattari's notions of ‘striated space’ and ‘territorialisation’, this paper explores the ways that racialised sexual desires constitute spatial formations and practices that literally confine gay Asian males into ghettos within gay space…
The post-panoptic society? Reassessing Foucault in surveillance studies
Foucault's panopticon has become the leading scholarly model or metaphor for analysing surveillance. Surveillance studies scholars have recently turned away from Foucault in an attempt to understand contemporary social and technological developments in surveillance and society. This article argues against this trend in surveillance studies by returning to Foucault's writing, interviews and lectures on the panopticon. It begins by reviewing the su…
Sexual geopolitics
This article explores the recent occlusion of economic deprivation by sexual frustration as the hegemonic model for understanding international terrorism. In particular, it focuses on, what it dubs, ‘the blue balls theory of terrorism’, which asserts that terrorism is caused by the sexual frustration of non-western men. The first section traces the emergence of this theory across western media and academic writing and provides a brief critique of…
The Aesthetics of Simplicity
Through an aesthetically-grounded reading of William Yang's Sadness, this essay attempts to explore the ways in which Sadness intervenes in the ethics and politics of grief as an art work. Rather than interpreting Yang's work as autobiography, I attempt to reframe this in terms of loss. Drawing on the work of photography theorists such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, I analyse Sadness in terms of what I call an aesthetics of simplicity, which…
Culture, Sex and Sexualities
The Rice Steamer’
While for some Sydney's gay scene is a space of sexual liberation, for Asian-Australians it's also a space of racial segregation. Drawing on ethnographic research in gay venues in Sydney and employing Deleuze and Guattari's notions of ‘striated space’ and ‘territorialisation’, this paper explores the ways that racialised sexual desires constitute spatial formations and practices that literally confine gay Asian males into ghettos within gay space…
The post-panoptic society? Reassessing Foucault in surveillance studies
Foucault's panopticon has become the leading scholarly model or metaphor for analysing surveillance. Surveillance studies scholars have recently turned away from Foucault in an attempt to understand contemporary social and technological developments in surveillance and society. This article argues against this trend in surveillance studies by returning to Foucault's writing, interviews and lectures on the panopticon. It begins by reviewing the su…
Sexual geopolitics
This article explores the recent occlusion of economic deprivation by sexual frustration as the hegemonic model for understanding international terrorism. In particular, it focuses on, what it dubs, ‘the blue balls theory of terrorism’, which asserts that terrorism is caused by the sexual frustration of non-western men. The first section traces the emergence of this theory across western media and academic writing and provides a brief critique of…
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
Pride and paranoia
This article traces the emergence of home security systems within the context of housing desegregation and suburbanization in post-war America. It aims to analyse the physical materiality of home security systems within the context of racialized material inequality, drawing on advertisements and newspaper articles at the time. It argues that the growing obsession with home security that accompanied post-war domestic material cultures paralleled t…
Intimate borders
This article contends that the rhetoric and logics of intimacy in Australia’s border security regime are central to dividing desirable from undesirable mobility, by distinguishing ‘deserving’ from ‘undeserving’ refugees in a politics of differential compassion. Insofar as intimacy is tied to senses of closeness and identification as well as ideas of morality and love, it is deployed by anti-refugee and pro-refugee advocates to cultivate certain a…
The Right to Maim
Unbelonging
Unbelonging: Anti-Asian racism in Australia’s gay community
Beyond risk
Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with social issues and citizenship practices. Diaspora youth are further stigmatised, being defined as ‘at-risk’ of greater harm from digital environments, which frames them as victims or non-agentic. This article draws on qualitative research with diaspora youth…
Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians
Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around racism and anti‐racism. This article seeks to retrieve some of the history of this contestation by ex…
It's not relevant because you already know all of it
Young people are often assumed to be competent users of digital platforms; however, today's online environment is flooded with challenges, one of which is misinformation. We examine the social media practices of 14 Australian diaspora youth - a cohort often believed to be more at risk from digital risks and harms - and how they navigated online misinformation during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We find that while participants received some digital and…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)