Lucas Gillespie
Biographic Data
| ID | 907230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucas Gillespie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucas |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillespie |
| SIGNATURE | GILLESPIE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4785-1334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sovereign Citizen Gets Roasted’
Sovereign Citizens have gained mainstream attention by refusing to recognise law. This attention often entails ridicule, as illustrated by viral Sovereign Citizen arrest videos. This article critically examines both Sovereign Citizen ideology and the voyeuristic enjoyment of their humiliation. First, I propose that although Sovereign Citizen ideology is premised on rejecting law, it nevertheless paradoxically exhibits ‘nomophilia’, a love of law,…
Nationalist Soundscapes
Sound’s ability to impact the body and cross borders places it firmly within the remit of criminological concern. However, although sound continually emerges as a feature of far-right protests and riots—including through music, chants, singing, yelling and drumming—the role it fulfils for the far right has gone untheorized. To address this gap, this article introduces the concept of ‘nationalist soundscapes’, which describes the mechanisms throug…
Race still matters
The proliferation of conspiracy theories is seemingly on the rise. Among them, are many that are explicitly racist. Examples of this include Great Replacement Theory, White Genocide, QAnon, and Eurabia, which each convey the idea white people are being covertly attacked and replaced. In this article, we examine the structure of these conspiracy theories and argue that their proliferation in liberal-democratic societies is not a coincidence. Our a…
Conspiracy Theories, Racial Liberalism and Fantasies of Freedom
This article provides a reading of the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy, which emerged in response to Covid-19 related public health measures in 2022. It argues the movement invites an interrogation of the affective structures of modern liberal subjectivity. We first map the social and political configurations of the movement, highlighting its links with white supremacist conspiracy theories, such as QAnon and Great Replacement Theory. We argue these con…
The Language of Pain
Borders require subjects to give an account of themselves so they can be formally "recognised" by the State. This recognition determines whether the subject can cross the border, and any conditions placed upon crossing. By tying mobility – which is so often essential to life – to the capacity to get recognized in the "right" way, borders reveal what is at stake in what Judith Butler calls intelligibility. This article explores the problem of inte…
On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the 'mainstreaming' metaphor
These people are conning us’
This article examines the effect Australia’s ‘Medevac’ legislation had on the way refugees were depicted by the Liberal-National Coalition and Australian Labor Party in their debate about immigration detention and border security. I argue that by enabling medical evacuations for people detained offshore, Medevac shifted debate about refugees and border security into the realm of the biomedical. I maintain this resulted in the biopolitical product…
Strong Men, Strong Communities
This paper describes the revision of the in-person Strong Men, Strong Communities (SMSC) study to a remote protocol and highlights key successes, challenges, and critical lessons learned applicable to remote trial implementation. The SMSC study is the first randomized controlled trial to exclusively recruit American Indian and Alaska Native men into a diabetes prevention intervention. The five-year randomized controlled trial was in its 42nd mont…
The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism
The Body as Real—Nostalgia Without Memory
Ironic Indigeneity
Strong Men, Strong Communities
Type 2 diabetes is a serious global epidemic that disproportionately affects disadvantaged populations. American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIs/ANs) have the highest rates of diabetes in the nation with a prevalence of 14.7% in 2018, more than twice that of non-Hispanic Whites. AI/AN men have the highest prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes (14.5%) compared to non-Hispanic Black (11.4%), non-Hispanic Asian (10.0%), and non-Hispanic White (8.6…
Laws of Inclusion and Exclusion
The Imagined Immunities of Defense Nationalism
This article examines the narratives, imaginaries, and subjectivities that underpin the far‐right, ethnic nationalist “defense leagues” that have emerged in Australia (and across Europe) in the past decade. Referencing three, interrelated nationalist events in Australia—the Cronulla Riots, Cronulla Memorial Day, and the “race‐riot” that occurred in Melbourne on January 5, 2019—I argue that defense leagues resist conceptualization through existing…
Conspiracy Theories, Racial Liberalism and Fantasies of Freedom
This article provides a reading of the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy, which emerged in response to Covid-19 related public health measures in 2022. It argues the movement invites an interrogation of the affective structures of modern liberal subjectivity. We first map the social and political configurations of the movement, highlighting its links with white supremacist conspiracy theories, such as QAnon and Great Replacement Theory. We argue these con…
The Imagined Immunities of Defense Nationalism
This article examines the narratives, imaginaries, and subjectivities that underpin the far‐right, ethnic nationalist “defense leagues” that have emerged in Australia (and across Europe) in the past decade. Referencing three, interrelated nationalist events in Australia—the Cronulla Riots, Cronulla Memorial Day, and the “race‐riot” that occurred in Melbourne on January 5, 2019—I argue that defense leagues resist conceptualization through existing…
The Language of Pain
Borders require subjects to give an account of themselves so they can be formally "recognised" by the State. This recognition determines whether the subject can cross the border, and any conditions placed upon crossing. By tying mobility – which is so often essential to life – to the capacity to get recognized in the "right" way, borders reveal what is at stake in what Judith Butler calls intelligibility. This article explores the problem of inte…
On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the 'mainstreaming' metaphor
Laws of Inclusion and Exclusion
Strong Men, Strong Communities
Type 2 diabetes is a serious global epidemic that disproportionately affects disadvantaged populations. American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIs/ANs) have the highest rates of diabetes in the nation with a prevalence of 14.7% in 2018, more than twice that of non-Hispanic Whites. AI/AN men have the highest prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes (14.5%) compared to non-Hispanic Black (11.4%), non-Hispanic Asian (10.0%), and non-Hispanic White (8.6…
Laws of Inclusion and Exclusion
The Imagined Immunities of Defense Nationalism
This article examines the narratives, imaginaries, and subjectivities that underpin the far‐right, ethnic nationalist “defense leagues” that have emerged in Australia (and across Europe) in the past decade. Referencing three, interrelated nationalist events in Australia—the Cronulla Riots, Cronulla Memorial Day, and the “race‐riot” that occurred in Melbourne on January 5, 2019—I argue that defense leagues resist conceptualization through existing…
The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism
The Body as Real—Nostalgia Without Memory
Ironic Indigeneity
Strong Men, Strong Communities
This paper describes the revision of the in-person Strong Men, Strong Communities (SMSC) study to a remote protocol and highlights key successes, challenges, and critical lessons learned applicable to remote trial implementation. The SMSC study is the first randomized controlled trial to exclusively recruit American Indian and Alaska Native men into a diabetes prevention intervention. The five-year randomized controlled trial was in its 42nd mont…
These people are conning us’
This article examines the effect Australia’s ‘Medevac’ legislation had on the way refugees were depicted by the Liberal-National Coalition and Australian Labor Party in their debate about immigration detention and border security. I argue that by enabling medical evacuations for people detained offshore, Medevac shifted debate about refugees and border security into the realm of the biomedical. I maintain this resulted in the biopolitical product…
Conspiracy Theories, Racial Liberalism and Fantasies of Freedom
This article provides a reading of the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy, which emerged in response to Covid-19 related public health measures in 2022. It argues the movement invites an interrogation of the affective structures of modern liberal subjectivity. We first map the social and political configurations of the movement, highlighting its links with white supremacist conspiracy theories, such as QAnon and Great Replacement Theory. We argue these con…
The Language of Pain
Borders require subjects to give an account of themselves so they can be formally "recognised" by the State. This recognition determines whether the subject can cross the border, and any conditions placed upon crossing. By tying mobility – which is so often essential to life – to the capacity to get recognized in the "right" way, borders reveal what is at stake in what Judith Butler calls intelligibility. This article explores the problem of inte…
On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the 'mainstreaming' metaphor
Sovereign Citizen Gets Roasted’
Sovereign Citizens have gained mainstream attention by refusing to recognise law. This attention often entails ridicule, as illustrated by viral Sovereign Citizen arrest videos. This article critically examines both Sovereign Citizen ideology and the voyeuristic enjoyment of their humiliation. First, I propose that although Sovereign Citizen ideology is premised on rejecting law, it nevertheless paradoxically exhibits ‘nomophilia’, a love of law,…
Nationalist Soundscapes
Sound’s ability to impact the body and cross borders places it firmly within the remit of criminological concern. However, although sound continually emerges as a feature of far-right protests and riots—including through music, chants, singing, yelling and drumming—the role it fulfils for the far right has gone untheorized. To address this gap, this article introduces the concept of ‘nationalist soundscapes’, which describes the mechanisms throug…
Race still matters
The proliferation of conspiracy theories is seemingly on the rise. Among them, are many that are explicitly racist. Examples of this include Great Replacement Theory, White Genocide, QAnon, and Eurabia, which each convey the idea white people are being covertly attacked and replaced. In this article, we examine the structure of these conspiracy theories and argue that their proliferation in liberal-democratic societies is not a coincidence. Our a…
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