Associate Professor Brad West

Program Director: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (MHAR) UniSA Justice & Society

Magill Campus (C2-02)
tel +61 8 830 24545

email Brad.West@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Brad West is an award winning sociologist at the University of South Australia, having held previous academic posts at the University of Bristol, Flinders University, University of Newcastle and King's College London. He is currently the co-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociological Theory (2018-2023), a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and has previously held a Menzies Foundation Bicentennial Fellowship at King's College London and International Fellowship from the Turkish Academy of Science. His recent publications include the sole authored books Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History (Palgrave... Read more

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Research

Research focus

Sociology
Political Science
Tourism
Cultural Studies
Anthropology

Highlights

Media, Communication and Culture: media events, media intellectuals, political discourse, news reporting and crisis, collective memory and commemoration, distant suffering, travel and tourism discourses.,Social and Cultural Theory: public sphere and civil society, ritual and performance, narrative, consumption, nationalism and globalisation, postmodernity.,Conflict and Deviance: terrorism, war and violence, social control, moral panics, deviant subcultures.

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2017	West, B 2017, War Memory and Commemoration, Routledge, London.
2016	West, B & Aarons, H 2016, 'War memory, national attachment and generational identity in Australia', Journal of Sociology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 586-604. 4 2 2
2016	West, B & Matthewman, S 2016, 'Towards a strong program in the sociology of war, the military and civil society', Journal of Sociology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 482-499. Open access 1 3 4
2016	West, B & O'Reilly, R 2016, 'National humanitarianism and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami', Journal of Sociology, vol. 52, no.2, pp. 340-354. Open access 3 1 3
2015	West, B 2015, Re-enchanting nationalisms: rituals and remembrances in a postmodern age, Springer, New York. 12 1

Books

Year	Output
2022	West, B 2022, Finding Gallipoli: battlefield remembrance and the movement of Australian and Turkish history, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland. 4
2017	West, B 2017, War Memory and Commemoration, Routledge, London.
2015	West, B 2015, Re-enchanting nationalisms: rituals and remembrances in a postmodern age, Springer, New York. 12 1

Chapters

Year	Output
2021	West, B & Aktar, A 2021, 'Turkish Desecularisation and Reimagining the Warrior at Çanakkale (Gallipoli): A Social Performance Analysis of the 57th Regiment Re-Enactment March', in B West & T Crosbie (eds), Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior, Springer, Singapore, ch. 5, pp. 75-92.
2021	West, B & Crosbie, T 2021, 'Militarization and the paramilitarization of culture: accounting for new civil-military complexity', in B West & T Crosbie (eds), Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior, Springer, Singapore, ch. 1, pp. 1-14.
2021	West, B & Fewster, R 2021, 'Ritual and recovery outside of regiment: performing arts in a university-based adjunct wellbeing program for injured soldiers', in B West & T Crosbie (eds), Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior, Springer, Singapore, ch. 8, pp. 149-167.
2017	West, B 2017, 'War commemoration and the expansion of the past', in B West (ed.), War memory and commemoration, Routledge, UK, ch. 1, pp. 1-14. 1 14
2017	West, B 2017, 'Western tourism and dialogical remembering of the American war in Vietnam', in B West (ed.), War memory and commemoration, Routledge, UK, ch. 3, pp. 37-52. 1
2016	West, B 2016, 'Cultural memory', in D Inglis and A Almilia (eds),, The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Sage Publications, UK, ch. 33, pp. 455-462.
2014	Mckay, J & West, BD 2014, 'Gallipoli, tourism and Australian nationalism', in T Miller (ed.), The routledge companion to global popular culture, Routledge, UK, ch. 39, pp. 436-448. 3
2010	West, BD 2010, 'Cultural social theory', in A Elliott & D Mendelson (eds), The Routledge Companion to Social Theory, Routledge, US, ch. 12, pp. 188-202.
2008	Smith, P & West, BD 2008, 'Cultural Studies, Overview', in Lester Kurtz, Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, 2, Elsevier, Italy, pp. 528 - 540.
2008	Smith, P & West, BD 2008, 'Ritual and Symbolic Behaviour', in George Fink, Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster, Academic Press, USA, pp. 171-176.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2023	Madigan, T & West, B 2023, 'Western tourism at Cu Chi and the memory of war in Vietnam: dialogical effects of the carnivalesque', Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, vol. 174, no. 1, pp. 118-134. Open access 6
2022	Fewster, R & West, B 2022, 'Applied theatre for military personnel in recovery: creativity, agency, and re-imagining the self', Research in Drama Education, online, pp. 1-17.
2022	Wadham, B, Andrewartha, L, Takarangi, M, Harvey, A, West, B, Wyatt-Smith, M, Davis, J & Moeck, E 2022, 'Staying the Course: Strategies for Australian Student Veterans in Transition', Journal of Veterans Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 208-221. Open access
2022	West, B 2022, 'Militarizing politics of recognition through the Invictus Games: post-heroic exalting of the armed forces', American Journal of Cultural Sociology, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 596-619. Open access 1
2018	West, B 2018, 'The future of reserves: in search of a social research agenda for implementing the Total Workforce Model', Australian Army Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 109-119.
2016	West, B & Aarons, H 2016, 'War memory, national attachment and generational identity in Australia', Journal of Sociology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 586-604. 4 2 2
2016	West, B & Matthewman, S 2016, 'Towards a strong program in the sociology of war, the military and civil society', Journal of Sociology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 482-499. Open access 1 3 4
2016	West, B & O'Reilly, R 2016, 'National humanitarianism and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami', Journal of Sociology, vol. 52, no.2, pp. 340-354. Open access 3 1 3
2014	West, BD 2014, 'Historical re-enacting and affective authority : performing the American Civil War', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 161-179. Open access 11 8
2011	West, B, Pudsey, J & Dunk-West, P 2011, 'Pedagogy beyond the culture wars: de-differentiation and the use of technology and popular culture in undergraduate sociology teaching', Journal of Sociology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 198-214. 4 3
2010	West, BD 2010, 'Dialogical memorialization, international travel and the public sphere: A cultural sociology of commemoration and tourism at the first world war gallipoli battlefields ', Tourist Studies, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 209-225. 25
2008	De La Fuente, E & West, BD 2008, 'Cultural sociology in the Australian context ', Journal of Sociology, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 315-319. 4 2
2008	West, BD 2008, 'Collective memory and crisis: The 2002 Bali bombing, national heroic archetypes and the counter-narrative of cosmopolitan nationalism ', Journal of Sociology, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 337-353. 29 23
2008	West, BD 2008, 'Enchanting pasts: The role of international civil religious pilgrimage in reimagining national collective memory ', Sociological Theory, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 258-270. 44 38

Conferences

Year	Output
2012	West, B 2012, 'Historical re-enacting and affective authority: how living the American Civil War results in orthodox political activism', in A Broom & L Cheshire (eds), 2012 TASA Conference : Emerging and Enduring Inequalities, TASA - The Australian Sociological Association, pp. 1-12. Open access

Reports

Year	Output
2021	Wadham, B, Takarangi, M, Harvey, A, Andrewartha, L, West, B, Wyatt-Smith, M & Davis, J 2021, Australian universities and educational equity for student veterans, Curtin University, Australia. Open access
2020	West, B 2020, Improving the wellbeing of Australian military veterans: evaluating participant experiences of the MindRight program, Hospital Research Foundation Group, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Board Member, StoryRight Veteran Employment Initiative

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Australian Student Veterans Association (ASVA)	AUSTRALIA
Coventry University	UNITED KINGDOM
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Griffith University	AUSTRALIA
Istanbul Bilgi University	TURKEY
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Royal Danish Defence College	DENMARK
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Auckland	NEW ZEALAND
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UNITED STATES
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Advisory Board Member StoryRight	2018
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Cultural Sociology	2018
Editorial Board Member Tourist Studies	2018
Editorial Board Member Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies	2018
Editorial Board Member Turkish Yearbook of Gallipoli Studies	2018
Elected Board Member, Research Committee on Sociological Theory International Sociological Association	2018
Member RC16 Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association	2018
Member The Australian Sociological Association	2018
Editorial Board Member Tourist Studies	2017
Elected Board Member, Research Committee on Sociological Theory International Sociological Association	2017
International Scholar Research Fellowship The Scientific and Technological Research Council, Turkey	2017
Member RC16 Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association	2017
Member The Australian Sociological Association	2017
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Cultural Sociology	2016
Editorial Board Member Tourist Studies	2016
Editorial Board Member Turkish Yearbook of Gallipoli Studies	2016
Elected Board Member, Research Committee on Sociological Theory International Sociological Association	2016
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Cultural Sociology	2015
Editorial Board Member Tourist Studies	2015
Editorial Board Member Turkish Yearbook of Gallipoli Studies	2015
Elected Board Member, Research Committee on Sociological Theory International Sociological Association	2015
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Cultural Sociology	2014
Editorial Board Member Tourist Studies	2014
Editorial Board Member Turkish Yearbook of Gallipoli Studies	2014
Elected Board Member, Research Committee on Sociological Theory International Sociological Association	2014
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Cultural Sociology	2013
Editorial Board Member Tourist Studies	2013
Editorial Board Member Journal of Sociology	2013
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Cultural Sociology	2012
Editorial Board Member Tourist Studies	2012
Editorial Board Member Journal of Sociology	2012
Best Paper, Journal of Sociology 2008-2010 The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)	2011
Editorial Board Member Turkish Yearbook of Gallipoli Studies	2011
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Sociology	2011

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Discourses of health in the vegan movement	Current
Identity issues for Kazakh Christians converted from a Muslim background in Kazakhstan.	Current
Living in disorder place making beyond domestic space	Current
A nation changed? post-tsunami images / (re)presentations of national identity in Japanese television advertising	Completed
Anangu literacy practices unsettle northern models of literacy	Completed
Designer casuals: women's work and designer fashion boutiques - negotiating glamorous disadvantage	Completed
Hearing and heeding `the other side': (Re)-centring the southern multilingualisms and lived realities of South Sudanese women in Australia	Completed
Indigenous education policies in Malaysia and Australia: a study of the recognition of Indigenous rights and self-determination	Completed
Lifeline: making the personal experience theatrical	Completed
Maintaining male dominance in the workplace: firefighters in an Australian metropolitan fire service	Completed
Shaping narratives in transition: examining local memory initiatives prior to Colombia¿s 2016 peace agreement	Completed
Stories of Australian deserters in World War 1	Completed
Talking about family photographs and the Australian Baby Boomers' legacy. Opening the shoeboxes: snapshots, memories and narratives	Completed
The changing conceptions of time and memory in post-socialist Chinese cinema	Completed
The digital home: exploring the communicative experiences of contemporary mothers	Completed

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