Reading groups or circles can be a great thing. You can get together and share your thoughts, discuss meanings and figure out alternative ways to making sense of a text or theory. It is a great opportunity to explore ideas in collaboration with other great minds – you would be surprised how productive and rewarding […]
Kenneth Yates PhD Candidate, National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR, University of New South Wales) Vitellone’s (2003) work on the syringe as an object-in-use provides a useful framework for research about people who inject drugs and the equipment that they use. The notion of the object-in-use suggests that the needle and syringe might usefully be […]
Jed Horner PhD candidate, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales Borders, and practices of what Van Houtum et al. (2005) term ‘b/ordering’, whereby borders are seemingly rendered meaningful and concrete, remain a focus of political discourse(s) in Australia and are increasingly an object of analysis. In this paper, I respond […]
(Non)Medical Pain Problems? Participant Perspectives on Problematized Notions of Pain George Christopher Dertadian (Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Culture & Society, University of Western Sydney) Of the many contentious elements of the debate about pain, it would seem that the medical community agree on one thing; pain is a physical problem. Indeed it seems a commonsense assumption […]
Materialities: Economies, Empiricism, & Things Hosted by the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Sydney 4-6 December, 2012 Pre-fix conference 3 December
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