Greg Noble
Biographic Data
| ID | 76612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Noble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Noble |
| SIGNATURE | NOBLE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8565-5222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 684 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Settling matters: Classed capacities and the logics of settling practice
Situating masculinity in the city: A response to City of Men
The Quest for Educational Equity in Schools in Multicultural Australia
Australia's migration history has produced one of the most ethnically diverse nations in the world, but this has presented challenges for educational equity. The introduction of multiculturalism in the 1970s coincided with an increasing focus on structural inequities in education. In this essay, we examine the context of changing educational policies and programs over the last half century, arguing that there has not been a steady process of refo…
Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA
Reconstituting teachers’ professional knowledge: Using Cultural Studies to rethink multicultural education
This article examines the utility of drawing on Cultural Studies to aid teachers in reassessing understandings and approaches to multicultural education; how engaging with notions of cultural complexity, hybridity and essentialism offers a critical tool box around issues of cultural difference that ultimately provides a better understanding of school communities in a global context. We revisit teachers involved in the Rethinking Multiculturalism,…
Moving on, Looking Back: Letters from Australia
Assembling and Governing Habits
Fields, Capitals, Habitus: Australian Culture, Inequalities and Social Divisions
Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia. Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relati…
Cosmopolitics in the Syrian Australian Diaspora
This paper, framed by debates around diasporic nationalisms, examines how the war in Syria is reconfiguring political orientations and affiliations within and beyond migrant Syrian-Australian communities. Focusing on activists involved in the Hands Off Syria movement, a response to Western involvement in conflict in the Middle East, it considers the relational and situated nature of these reconfigurations. This paper the entanglement of age, reli…
Lazy multiculturalism: Cultural essentialism and the persistence of the Multicultural Day in Australian schools
Multicultural Days are a regular event in Australian schools. While they are viewed as a vehicle for cultural inclusion and strengthening community, they have long been critiqued for their avoidance of a more critical engagement with deeper issues around cultural complexity. The intent of this paper is not simply to add to this critique but to understand why such forms of lazy multiculturalism persist in schools. Taking an ethnographic orientatio…
Ethnicity and cultural consumption in Australia
This paper explores the consequences of increasing ethnic diversity for practices of cultural consumption and the distribution of taste in Australia. Changing migration patterns and generational changes have produced a diversification of goods, sites and audiences, and an increasing transnationalization of practices and relations over several decades. Drawing on survey data from the Australian Cultural Fields project examining knowledge, taste an…
After Cronulla: Where the Bloody Hell Are We Now
After Cronulla: ‘where the bloody hell are we now?’
Asian fails' and the problem of bad Korean boys: Multiculturalism and the Construction of an Educational 'Problem
With the current preoccupation with the ‘Asian success’, much less attention has been given to considering the experiences of other migrant groups from East Asia in Australia. This paper focuses on a case study of a school addressing the problem of a group of Korean-background boys and their educational underachievement, truancy and misbehaviour. The paper argues that these processes entail particular discourses around the Asian learner and the ‘…
Wounded Detachments: Cronulla, Social Memory and the Injuries of Racism
More than a decade since the Cronulla Riots, it could be argued that we are none the wiser about what they meant. Frequently evoked in public discourse, ‘Cronulla’ has become a benchmark for the worst of Australian society (whether that is seen as racism or multiculturalism). This paper reflects upon the representation of the Riots to explore three key ideas. First, we need to think about Cronulla through an exploration of the situated processes …
Thinking beyond recognition: Multiculturalism, cultural intelligence, and the professional capacities of teachers
Multiculturalism as public policy has provided a set of programs which frame how individuals view and respond to the cultural diversity found in Australia’s cities and towns. This is nowhere more e
Afterword: From anxiety to hope
As I write this, yet another panic has erupted in Australia over a proposed mosque, one of many that seem to erupt on a regular basis, feeding social anxieties about a range of social ‘problems’ th
Transforming cultures? From Creative Nation to Creative Australia
This article introduces the Special Issue, 'Transforming Cultures? From Creative Nation to Creative Australia'. Taking its historical reference point from the 1994 national cultural policy Creative Nation, it outlines the issue's theoretical foundation in the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu, while also signalling field theory's limitations in relation to transnationalism, ethnic heterogeneity and Indigeneity. This introduction addresses the speci…
Convivialities: An Orientation
KEYWORDS: Convivialityeveryday multiculturalismsuperdiversityurban studiesdiversityintercultural encounter
Multicultural education: The state of play from an Australian perspective
This article reports on the first comprehensive survey of public school teachers in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) around issues of multicultural and English as Second Language (ESL) education. While there is substantial literature on multicultural education – what it should and shouldn’t be – there is much that is left unexplored in research in the area, not least of which is the characteristics of the teaching labour force. In th…
Antipodean fields: Working with Bourdieu
The papers collected in this special issue of the Journal of Sociology seek both to develop a sense of the cumulative impact of Bourdieu’s work on Australasian (‘antipodean’) debates, and to get a sense of how these debates might raise questions regarding the portability of Bourdieu’s categories. We discuss the distinctive disciplinary orientations of the uptake of Bourdieu’s work both here and internationally, and propose some explanations of th…
Strange familiarities: A response to Ash Amin's Land of Strangers
Ash Amin's Land of Strangers captures succinctly the way the multiplicities of urban life have reshaped our thinking about intercultural relations beyond reified characterisations of ethnicity. Amin draws together an analysis of the ensemble of relations between humans, between humans and the non-human, between work and leisure, and between temporal and spatial relations, to explore our ‘society of strangers’. The book provides a productive frame…
Habit and Habituation: Governance and the Social
This article examines the issues that are at stake in the current resurgence of interest in the subject of habit. We focus on the role that habit has played in conceptions of the relations between body and society, and the respects in which such conceptions have been implicated in processes of governance. We argue that habit has typically constituted a point of leverage for regulatory practices that seek to effect some realignment of the relation…
Cosmopolitan Habits: The Capacities and Habitats of Intercultural Conviviality
Public debate around cultural diversity has been dominated by a focus on 'panicked multiculturalism' - those spaces which have been subject to social anxieties because of perceived conflicts around ethnicity. This article attempts to address the habitual ways cultural differences are transacted and reconciled in the daily conduct of people in culturally diverse settings. Although habit has been a central category for understanding racial prejudic…
It is home but it is not home: Habitus, Field and the Migrant
This article explores the utility of Bourdieu's notions of habitus and field in examining the experience of migrant resettlement. It draws on a speech spoken in two languages at a community organisation event to suggest that resettlement entails the transformation of the embodied capacities of migrants and the formation of a new set of bodily capacities which never quite become the dispositions of the citizen who 'belongs' unconditionally. It arg…
Transforming a ‘White Australia: Issues of Racism and Immigration
Laksiri Jayasuriya, TRANSFORMING A ‘WHITE AUSTRALIA’: ISSUES OF RACISM AND IMMIGRATION, New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2012, xiv + 180 pp., US $25.00, AUS $39.95 (paper) This is a reprint of a 1999 b
Masculinities in place: Situated Identities, Relations and Intersectionality
So, How Did Bourdieu Learn to Play Tennis? Habitus, Consciousness and Habituation
Bourdieu's development of the notion of 'habitus' has proved a rich vein for cultural theory. Habitus has been useful, with the growing interest in processes of embodiment, in countering the cognitive and representational bias in much cultural analysis, and in providing a basis for avoiding the dualisms - of mind and body, structure and agency - that trouble social theory. However, in stressing the unconscious nature of embodiment, and refusing t…
The Discomfort of Strangers: Racism, Incivility and Ontological Security in a Relaxed and Comfortable Nation
This paper explores the increasing experience of discomfort amongst migrant Australians and their children, drawing on two sets of empirical data—one about a sense of home amongst migrants and the other about incidents of racism towards Arabs and Muslims since 2001. The idea of comfort captures what Giddens calls ontological security, or the trust we have in our surroundings, both human and non-human. This sense of security, built on mutual recog…
Convivialities: An Orientation
KEYWORDS: Convivialityeveryday multiculturalismsuperdiversityurban studiesdiversityintercultural encounter
Countless acts of recognition: Young Men, Ethnicity and the Messiness of Identities in Everyday Life
This paper engages with the 'politics of recognition' that inform much of our understanding of cultural diversity and young men's subjectivities. Drawing on data from several research projects on young people, gender and ethnicity, it explores issues around the nature of identity in everyday life. It argues that an emphasis on the primacy of ethnic or gender identity often embedded in the 'politics of recognition' fails to capture the complex nat…
Cosmopolitan Habits: The Capacities and Habitats of Intercultural Conviviality
Public debate around cultural diversity has been dominated by a focus on 'panicked multiculturalism' - those spaces which have been subject to social anxieties because of perceived conflicts around ethnicity. This article attempts to address the habitual ways cultural differences are transacted and reconciled in the daily conduct of people in culturally diverse settings. Although habit has been a central category for understanding racial prejudic…
White Lines: The Intercultural Politics of Everyday Movement in Social Spaces
This article draws on research into racist vilification experienced by young Arab and Muslim Australians especially since 11 September 2001, to explore the links between public space, movement and national belonging, and the spatial regulation of cultural difference that functions in Australia. The authors analyse the way that the capacity to experience forms of national belonging and cultural citizenship is shaped by inclusion within or exclusio…
Accumulating Being
Subjective experience has a continuity and a density - a depth and a breadth - that are rarely captured by contemporary theory and analysis. This article, based on research into material culture in the home, argues that as we accumulate objects, we accumulate being. The article develops notions of 'existential breadth' and 'ontogenetic depth' to explore the complexity and continuity of everyday life, grounded in the material objects and spaces of…
Habit and Habituation: Governance and the Social
This article examines the issues that are at stake in the current resurgence of interest in the subject of habit. We focus on the role that habit has played in conceptions of the relations between body and society, and the respects in which such conceptions have been implicated in processes of governance. We argue that habit has typically constituted a point of leverage for regulatory practices that seek to effect some realignment of the relation…
It is home but it is not home: Habitus, Field and the Migrant
This article explores the utility of Bourdieu's notions of habitus and field in examining the experience of migrant resettlement. It draws on a speech spoken in two languages at a community organisation event to suggest that resettlement entails the transformation of the embodied capacities of migrants and the formation of a new set of bodily capacities which never quite become the dispositions of the citizen who 'belongs' unconditionally. It arg…
Bumping into alterity’: Transacting cultural complexities
It is commonly recognized that the ethnic diversity that marks Australian society has become increasingly complex. This, however, is primarily seen in terms of the widening sources of Australia's immigration. But cultural complexity is more than this. It isn't just that people live hybrid lives, or live them in diverse neighbourhoods, but that a new cultural complexity exceeds the assumptions of multiculturalism. This is rarely captured in policy…
Lazy multiculturalism: Cultural essentialism and the persistence of the Multicultural Day in Australian schools
Multicultural Days are a regular event in Australian schools. While they are viewed as a vehicle for cultural inclusion and strengthening community, they have long been critiqued for their avoidance of a more critical engagement with deeper issues around cultural complexity. The intent of this paper is not simply to add to this critique but to understand why such forms of lazy multiculturalism persist in schools. Taking an ethnographic orientatio…
Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the home and nation
(2002). Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the home and nation. Continuum: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 53-66
Dog-Whistle' Journalism and Muslim Australians since 2001
Dog-whistle politics' was much discussed around the 2001 federal election campaign in which the Howard government used the ' Tampa crisis' and September 11 to appeal successfully to popular xenophobia and insecurities. The notion involves sending a sharp message which, like a dog whistle inaudible to humans, calls clearly to those intended, and goes unheard by others. This article argues that this sort of ideological manoeuvre has been abetted by…
Respect and Respectability amongst Second-Generation Arab and Muslim Australian Men
This paper explores contrasting dimensions of the politics of recognition for second-generation immigrants by tracing the shift from adolescence to adulthood experienced by a group of young men of Arabic-speaking background. These young men were first interviewed in the 1990s when, as teenagers, they belonged to a group of friends that styled themselves as a “gang” as a way of negotiating the complex dynamics of friendship, ethnicity and masculin…
Intersections’ of Masculinity and Ethnicity: A study of male Lebanese immigrant youth in western Sydney
This article reports on an ethnographic study of teenage male secondary school students of Arabic‐speaking background in a working‐class suburb of Sydney. Interviews with friendship groups of migrant young men explored their identity formation in terms of ethnicity and masculinity. Their ‘intersections’ of masculinity and ethnicity, along with class relations, exhibit ‘contradictory consciousness’ characteristic of the ‘common sense’ of the socia…
Thinking beyond recognition: Multiculturalism, cultural intelligence, and the professional capacities of teachers
Multiculturalism as public policy has provided a set of programs which frame how individuals view and respond to the cultural diversity found in Australia’s cities and towns. This is nowhere more e
Multicultural education: The state of play from an Australian perspective
This article reports on the first comprehensive survey of public school teachers in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) around issues of multicultural and English as Second Language (ESL) education. While there is substantial literature on multicultural education – what it should and shouldn’t be – there is much that is left unexplored in research in the area, not least of which is the characteristics of the teaching labour force. In th…
The rise and falter of the field of ethnic politics in Australia: The case of Lebanese community leadership
Since the advent of multiculturalism in Australia in the 1970s, ‘ethnicity’ has acquired not only cultural and social importance, but significant political consequences as groups mobilised around ‘ethnic communities’ and as the State increasingly structured social policy around cultural differences. The political patronage and funding central to Australian multiculturalism led to the development of organisations and leaders whose task was not onl…
Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia
Keith Jacobs, EXPERIENCE AND REPRESENTATION: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON MIGRATION IN AUSTRALIA, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, xi + 164 pp., £55 (hard) The study of migration has changed remarkably over
Just a Machine? Dehumanizing Strategies in Personal Computer Use
Settling matters: Classed capacities and the logics of settling practice
After Cronulla: Where the Bloody Hell Are We Now
After Cronulla: ‘where the bloody hell are we now?’
Strange familiarities: A response to Ash Amin's Land of Strangers
Ash Amin's Land of Strangers captures succinctly the way the multiplicities of urban life have reshaped our thinking about intercultural relations beyond reified characterisations of ethnicity. Amin draws together an analysis of the ensemble of relations between humans, between humans and the non-human, between work and leisure, and between temporal and spatial relations, to explore our ‘society of strangers’. The book provides a productive frame…
Mine/not mine: Appropriating Personal Computers in the Academic Workplace
Contemporary theoretical perspectives seek to represent consumption as a processual phenomenon, in which there is a mutually constitutive relationship between humans and material artefacts. Strategies of appropriation – the incorporation of an initially ‘alien’ object into subjectivity via everyday use – have been identified as important to these processes. This article addresses the ways in which consumers appropriate a specific mass-produced co…
Aspirations, Reality Shock and Entry into Teaching
Disposed to Acts
A review of Bernard Lahire, The Plural Actor (Polity 2010
The Face of Evil: Demonising the Arab Other in Contemporary Australia
The 'face of evil' has become a recurring image in recent years in accounts of international terrorism. Yet it has also become a frequent figure in debates around 'ethnic crime' and 'race rape'. It is a motif that demonstrates the ethnicisation of a moralised discourse of good and evil, particularly in the face of religious fundamentalism and moral panic around men of Arabic or Muslim background. The physicality of evil is often obscured in abstr…
Just a Machine? Dehumanizing Strategies in Personal Computer Use
Consuming Work: Computers, Subjectivity and Appropriation in the University Workplace
The introduction of technologies has long been a central issue in the sociology of work. This has, however, largely been analysed in terms of worker displacement, deskilling and management control, while little empirical work has focused on questions concerning subjectivity. Current interest in Foucauldian approaches to questions of work and identity has remained primarily theoretical in nature and similarly lacks a sustained discussion of agency…
Weird Science' and 'Common Sense: The Discursive Construction of Accelerative Learning
(1998). ’Weird Science’ and ‘Common Sense’: the discursive construction of accelerative learning. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 141-156
Intersections’ of Masculinity and Ethnicity: A study of male Lebanese immigrant youth in western Sydney
This article reports on an ethnographic study of teenage male secondary school students of Arabic‐speaking background in a working‐class suburb of Sydney. Interviews with friendship groups of migrant young men explored their identity formation in terms of ethnicity and masculinity. Their ‘intersections’ of masculinity and ethnicity, along with class relations, exhibit ‘contradictory consciousness’ characteristic of the ‘common sense’ of the socia…
Sly Chicks and Troublemakers: Car Stickers, Nonsense and the Allure of Strangeness
This paper examines the use of personalised car stickers as forms of appropriation that textualise the car. The use of such objects raises the question of how we make sense of other people's appropriations. Rather than see these as texts to be decoded, however, this paper argues that the significance of an increasing number of these stickers lies in their resistance to interpretation. As tactics of nonsense, they threaten the coherence of systems…
Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the home and nation
(2002). Comfortable and Relaxed: Furnishing the home and nation. Continuum: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 53-66
Mine/not mine: Appropriating Personal Computers in the Academic Workplace
Contemporary theoretical perspectives seek to represent consumption as a processual phenomenon, in which there is a mutually constitutive relationship between humans and material artefacts. Strategies of appropriation – the incorporation of an initially ‘alien’ object into subjectivity via everyday use – have been identified as important to these processes. This article addresses the ways in which consumers appropriate a specific mass-produced co…
Acts of War: Military Metaphors in Representations of Lebanese Youth Gangs
The media representations of the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the United States and their aftermath bear strong similarities to the media coverage of 'Lebanese youth gangs' over the last few years - both rely significantly on the metaphor of war. This paper explores two media narratives about Lebanese youth gangs which draw on this metaphor - the first deploys a simple us/them structure which, like the dominant Western reportage of the te…
Dog-Whistle' Journalism and Muslim Australians since 2001
Dog-whistle politics' was much discussed around the 2001 federal election campaign in which the Howard government used the ' Tampa crisis' and September 11 to appeal successfully to popular xenophobia and insecurities. The notion involves sending a sharp message which, like a dog whistle inaudible to humans, calls clearly to those intended, and goes unheard by others. This article argues that this sort of ideological manoeuvre has been abetted by…
The rise and falter of the field of ethnic politics in Australia: The case of Lebanese community leadership
Since the advent of multiculturalism in Australia in the 1970s, ‘ethnicity’ has acquired not only cultural and social importance, but significant political consequences as groups mobilised around ‘ethnic communities’ and as the State increasingly structured social policy around cultural differences. The political patronage and funding central to Australian multiculturalism led to the development of organisations and leaders whose task was not onl…
So, How Did Bourdieu Learn to Play Tennis? Habitus, Consciousness and Habituation
Bourdieu's development of the notion of 'habitus' has proved a rich vein for cultural theory. Habitus has been useful, with the growing interest in processes of embodiment, in countering the cognitive and representational bias in much cultural analysis, and in providing a basis for avoiding the dualisms - of mind and body, structure and agency - that trouble social theory. However, in stressing the unconscious nature of embodiment, and refusing t…
Accumulating Being
Subjective experience has a continuity and a density - a depth and a breadth - that are rarely captured by contemporary theory and analysis. This article, based on research into material culture in the home, argues that as we accumulate objects, we accumulate being. The article develops notions of 'existential breadth' and 'ontogenetic depth' to explore the complexity and continuity of everyday life, grounded in the material objects and spaces of…
The Discomfort of Strangers: Racism, Incivility and Ontological Security in a Relaxed and Comfortable Nation
This paper explores the increasing experience of discomfort amongst migrant Australians and their children, drawing on two sets of empirical data—one about a sense of home amongst migrants and the other about incidents of racism towards Arabs and Muslims since 2001. The idea of comfort captures what Giddens calls ontological security, or the trust we have in our surroundings, both human and non-human. This sense of security, built on mutual recog…
Respect and Respectability amongst Second-Generation Arab and Muslim Australian Men
This paper explores contrasting dimensions of the politics of recognition for second-generation immigrants by tracing the shift from adolescence to adulthood experienced by a group of young men of Arabic-speaking background. These young men were first interviewed in the 1990s when, as teenagers, they belonged to a group of friends that styled themselves as a “gang” as a way of negotiating the complex dynamics of friendship, ethnicity and masculin…
Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community
The oft-proclaimed ‘crisis of multiculturalism’ has entailed a raft of both theoretical and political criticisms. Theoretically, the identity focus of multiculturalism is seen to be incapable of capturing the cultural complexity of contemporary societies. Politically, as a set of policies and programmes, it is seen to be inadequate for servicing that complexity, or addressing concerns around cultural division and the desire for social cohesion. I…
How do you teach cultural studies? Or, the uses of textbooks
Measuring media oriented terrorism
Countless acts of recognition: Young Men, Ethnicity and the Messiness of Identities in Everyday Life
This paper engages with the 'politics of recognition' that inform much of our understanding of cultural diversity and young men's subjectivities. Drawing on data from several research projects on young people, gender and ethnicity, it explores issues around the nature of identity in everyday life. It argues that an emphasis on the primacy of ethnic or gender identity often embedded in the 'politics of recognition' fails to capture the complex nat…
Masculinities in place: Situated Identities, Relations and Intersectionality
Shifty Insecurities
White Lines: The Intercultural Politics of Everyday Movement in Social Spaces
This article draws on research into racist vilification experienced by young Arab and Muslim Australians especially since 11 September 2001, to explore the links between public space, movement and national belonging, and the spatial regulation of cultural difference that functions in Australia. The authors analyse the way that the capacity to experience forms of national belonging and cultural citizenship is shaped by inclusion within or exclusio…
Losing touch: Pedagogies of incorporation and the ability to write
The idea of "touch" is often used to point to the exemplary performance of skilful actions. While such a notion seemingly references the sensuous nature of that skill, it tends to mask the embodied acquisition of that capacity, implying intuitive ability rather than technique perfected through practice. Ironically, it also masks the significance of tactility in the process of developing this "touch". In the context of a child learning to write, t…
Sociology (42 works) · Political science (29 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Social science (16 works) · Anthropology (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Aesthetics (12 works)