Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien

Adjunct Associate Professor UniSA Creative

Magill Campus ()
tel +61 8 830 24756

email Gerry.Bloustien@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien has changed her status at the University to be an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Hawke Research Institute from January 1st 2010 in order to focus on her research, publications and her doctoral students. Former Deputy Director and Research Fellow of the Hawke Institute, she is a key reseacher in the Institute. She teaches and supervises Hons and PhD students across cross-disciplinary boundaries of media theory and practice. Her research areas include youth studies, video production, theories and practices in documentary film, television and film theories, ethnographic methodologies, gender and representation and popular music and culture to contemporary theories and practices of healing. Her...

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Research

Research focus

Cultural Studies
Studies in Human Society
Anthropology
Sociology
Communication

Highlights

Cultural identities and representation;Popular music and youth cultures; Health literacy and complementary/ traditional health practices; Film and Media Studies,2005 ATN network challenge (with partners in all 5 Australian University of Technology Networks). Community networks communication as a source of sustainability in global Australia. $50,000,2004 ARC The Cultural Research Network, RN0459928, $500,000,2003-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP0345917, Playing for Life: the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as strategic pathways to agency, employment and socio-economic inclusion. $370,000,,2004-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, International Linkage Fellowship, LX0560412 Fellowship for ...

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2011	Bloustien, G & Peters, M 2011, Youth, music and creative cultures: playing for life, Palgrave Macmillan, UK. 28 8
2009	Bloustien, G, Comber, B & Mackinnon, A 2009, The Hawke legacy, Wakefield Press, Australia.
2008	Bloustien, G, Peters, M & Luckman, S 2008, Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity, Ashgate Publishing, UK.

Chapters

Year	Output
2016	Bloustien, G 2016, '"God is a DJ": girls, music, performance, and negotiating space', in C Mitchell & C Rentschler (eds), Girlhood and the politics of place, Berghahn Books, US, ch. 13, pp. 228-243. Open access 1
2012	Bloustien, G 2012, 'Play, affect and participatory video as a reflexive research strategy', in EJ Milne, C Mitchell & N de Lange (eds), Handbook of participatory video, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ch. 7, pp. 115-130.
2010	Bloustien, GF 2010, 'And the rest is silence: silence and death as motifs in Buffy the vampire slayer', in P Attinello (ed.), Music, sound, and silence in Buffy the vampire slayer, Ashgate, UK, ch. 6, pp. 91-110. 1
2010	Bloustien, GF 2010, 'Music and the creative knowledge economy', in D Scott (ed.), The Ashgate research companion to popular musicology, Ashgate Publishing, UK, ch. 24, pp. 449-466. 1
2009	Bloustien, G, Mackinnon, A & Comber, B 2009, 'Introduction - The Hawke legacy', in G Bloustien, B Combe & A Mackinnon (eds), The Hawke legacy, Wakefield Press, Australia, pp. viii-xvii.
2009	Bloustien, GF 2009, 'Legitimacy, governance and consensus: a candid conversation with Graham Freudenberg', in G Bloustien, B Comber & A MacKinnon (eds), The Hawke legacy, Wakefield Press, Australia, pp. 30-44.
2008	Bloustien, G 2008, 'Creating agency: Introduction to part 3', in G Bloustien, M Peters & S Luckman (eds), Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity, Ashgate Publishing, UK, pp. 141-143.
2008	Bloustien, G, Luckman, S & Peters, M 2008, 'Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises: reflections on the synergies of music in the creative knowledge economy', Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity, Ashgate Publishing, UK, pp. xxi-xxviii.
2008	Bloustien, GF 2008, 'Reflections of a Jewish childhood during christmas', in Sheila Whiteley, Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture, Edinburgh University Press, UK, pp. 188-195.
2008	Bloustien, GF 2008, 'Up the Down Staircase: Grassroots Entrepreneurship in Young People's Music Practices', in G Bloustien, M Peters & S Luckman, Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2016	Bloustien, G & Wood, D 2016, 'Visualising disability and activism in Second Life', Current Sociology, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 101-121. 12 8
2013	Bloustien, GF & Wood, D 2013, 'Face, authenticity, transformations and aesthetics in Second Life', Body and Society, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 52-81. 14 12
2010	Christie, E & Bloustien, G 2010, 'I-cyborg : disability, affect and public pedagogy', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 483-498. 37 29
2008	Bloustien, GF, Green, L & Balnaves, M 2008, ''We are Next!: Listening to Jewish voices in a multicultural country'', M/C Journal, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1-8. Open access

Other

Year	Output
2009	Bloustien, GF 2009, The History and Future of Social Innovation Conference Proceedings.
2009	Bloustien, GF 2009, The history and future of social innovation conference.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Ayurvedic Government Medical College	INDIA
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
Curtin University	AUSTRALIA
Edith Cowan University	AUSTRALIA
Griffith University	AUSTRALIA
Humboldt State University	UNITED STATES
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Murdoch University	AUSTRALIA
Queensland University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
The University of Wollongong	AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of Sheffield	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Surrey	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Technology Sydney	AUSTRALIA
Western Sydney University	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Cultural criticism ,flexible delivery of subjects ,Ethnographic texts,Popular music,Gender and representation ,media production,film and television theory

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Playing at being other: the self-less process of artistic co-creation	Current
Adelaide dance music culture: late 1980s to early 1990s	Completed
Mothering in Australian network society 2006-2013: a longitudinal critical systems inquiry	Completed
The changing conceptions of time and memory in post-socialist Chinese cinema	Completed
Trading travellers' tales: shifting narratives of contemporary backpacker identities	Completed

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Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien

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