My research is focussed on furthering understandings of representation in struggles over access to urban spaces. I am particularly interested in how affective investments in urban environmental objects operate in the production of identity, antagoni
...MoreMy research is focussed on furthering understandings of representation in struggles over access to urban spaces. I am particularly interested in how affective investments in urban environmental objects operate in the production of identity, antagonism and contingent unification of a social movement. Also, how are these identities and antagonisms negotiated as practices of institutional democracy and as practices approaching radical plural democracy? Besides undertaking research on green built environments, I am investigating the criminalization and entrapment of people exercising Aboriginal sovereignty in Perth, Western Australia. Units taught include Making Meanings; Fantasy and Cultural Representation; Senses of Place; and, Communications for Built Environment. Before entering academia, I was Managing Director of a Singapore-based construction media group and remain a Commissioner for its Indonesian subsidiary. Previously, I worked as a journalist and editor in The Hague, Jakarta and Melbourne.
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