Dr Jean Duruz

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow UniSA Creative

email Jean.Duruz@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Cultural Studies
Human Geography
Communication and Media Studies
Sociology
Urban and Regional Planning

Highlights

Jean Duruz’s work focuses on issues of cosmopolitan citizenship and multiculturalism in Australia, as well as in a number of other societies, including those of Singapore, Malaysia, Britain, the United States and Mexico. It addresses questions of reciprocal human relationships and cultural exchanges in cosmopolitan societies - ways that these relationships and exchanges can enhance social sustainability. A major strand of her work uses food as a window for analysing relations of class, gender, religion and ethnicity and for understanding issues of inclusion, integration and citizenship in a changing society. Her work has implications for issues of social justice and inclusion, cultural integration, urban and regional planning, tourism and ...

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2015	Duruz, JM & Khoo, G 2015, Eating together: food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, UK.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Duruz, J 2023, ''My life is on those shelves ...' ingesting culinary cultures in a Mediterranean Port City', in ID Mihalache & E Zanoni (eds), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures, Bloomsbury Academic, UK, ch. 7, pp. 117-138. Open access
2023	Khoo, GC & Duruz, J 2023, 'A whiff of Southeast Asia: tasting durian and kopi', in H Gould & G McClelland (eds), Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats, Pennsylvania State University Press, US, ch. 4, pp. 87-113. Open access
2019	Duruz, J 2019, 'Geographies of fusion: re-imagining Singaporean and Malaysian food in cities of the West', in C Leong-Salobir (ed.), Routledge handbook of food in Asia, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 13-28. Open access 1
2019	Duruz, J 2019, 'Imagining culinary nomadism: food exchanges shaped by global mixed race, diasporic belongings, and cosmopolitan sensibilities', in JP Williot & I Bianquis (eds), Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies around the World, Rowman & Littlefield, US, ch. 9, pp. 124-147.
2019	Duruz, J 2019, 'Laksa Nation: tales of "Asian" belonging, borrowed and reimagined', in MT King (ed.), Culinary nationalism in Asia, Bloomsbury Academic, UK, ch. 12, pp. 231-250.
2018	Duruz, J 2018, 'Trucking in tastes and smells: Adelaide's street food and the politics of urban 'vibrancy'', in KEY Low & D Kalekin-Fishman (eds), Senses in cities: experiences of urban settings, Routledge, UK, ch. 11, pp. 169-184. Open access
2016	Duruz, J 2016, 'Ras el hanout and preserved lemons: memories, markets and the scent of borrowed traditions', in I Banerjee-Dubeed (ed.), Cooking cultures: convergent histories of food and feeling, Cambridge University Press, Delhi, ch. 10, pp. 201-223. Open access
2015	Duruz, J 2015, 'The taste of retro: nostalgia, sensory landscapes and cosmopolitanism in Singapore', in L Kong & V Sinha (eds), Food, Foodways and Foodscapes: Culture, Community and Consumption in Post-Colonial Singapore, World Scientific, Singapore, ch. 6, pp. 133-158. 7
2015	Duruz, J 2015, 'The travels of Kitty's love cake: a tale of spices, "Asian" flavors, and cuisine sans frontières?', in J Farrer (ed.), The globalization of Asian cuisines : transnational networks and culinary contact zones, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, US, ch. 3, pp. 37-56.
2014	MacFarlane, K & Duruz, JM 2014, 'Technologies of Nostalgia: Vegetarians and Vegans at Addis Ababa Cafe', in JH Choi, M Foth & G Hearn (eds), Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Press), Massachusetts, ch. 2, pp. 33-49. 6
2011	Duruz, JM 2011, 'Four dances of the sea: cooking "Asian" as embedded cosmopolitanism', in Tan Chee-Beng (ed.), Chinese food and foodways in Southeast Asia and beyond, NUS Press, Singapore, ch. 9, pp. 192-217.
2008	Bishop, PR, Mayne, A & Duruz, JM 2008, 'In the middle of nowhere: journeys with The Ghan', in Alan Mayne, Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 25-56.
2008	Duruz, JM 2008, 'Table Talk: Doing-Ethnography in the Kitchen', in Nicole Anderson & Katrina Schlunke, Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Australia, pp. 237-247.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Duruz, J & Manganas, N 2024, 'Introduction to sticky memories: the emotional landscape of food', Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 19, no. 1-2, pp. 1-8. Open access 1
2023	Duruz, J, Giovanangeli, A, Loda, A & Manganas, N 2023, 'Emotional scapes in Mediterranean port cities: Walking Barcelona, Marseille and Genova', European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 572-597. Open access 1 1
2022	Duruz, J 2022, 'Kampong French: a tale of doubtful authenticity', Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 18, no. 1/2, pp. 1-19. Open access
2016	Duruz, J 2016, 'Love in a hot climate: foodscapes of trade, travel, war, and intimacy', Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 16-27. Open access
2013	De Solier, I & Duruz, J 2013, 'Food Cultures: Introduction', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 4-8. Open access
2013	Duruz, J 2013, 'Tastes of the 'mongrel' city: geographies of memory, spice, hospitality and forgiveness', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 73-98. Open access
2011	Duruz, J 2011, 'At the table with hungry ghosts: intimate borderwork in Mexico City', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 198-218. Open access
2011	Duruz, J 2011, 'Tastes of hybrid belonging: following the laksa trail in Katong, Singapore', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 605-618. 21 19
2011	Duruz, J, Luckman, S & Bishop, P 2011, 'Bazaar encounters: food, markets, belonging and citizenship in the cosmopolitan city', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 599-604. Open access 24 17
2011	Duruz, JM 2011, 'Quesadillas with Chinese black bean puree: eating together in 'ethnic' neighbourhoods', New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, no. 74, pp. 46-64.
2010	Cook, I, Hobson, K, Hallett, L IV, Guthman, J, Duruz, J & Henderson, H and 20 other authors 2010, 'Geographies of food: 'afters'', Progress in Human Geography: An International Review of Geographical Work in the Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 104-120. 42 38
2010	Duruz, J 2010, 'Floating food: eating 'Asia' in kitchens of the diaspora', Emotion, Space and Society, pp. 45-49. 36

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Boise State University	UNITED STATES
University of California	UNITED STATES
University of Exeter	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Nottingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Nottingham Malaysia	MALAYSIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Technology Sydney	AUSTRALIA
Western Michigan University	UNITED STATES

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Living Buddhism: negotiating practice, meaning and identity in contemporary Australia	Completed
Sensemaking and sensegiving in communicating business sustainability	Completed
Talking about family photographs and the Australian Baby Boomers' legacy. Opening the shoeboxes: snapshots, memories and narratives	Completed
The loom as a stage for performing the social and cultural meanings of craft and making	Completed
The unsettling of home: power, dwelling and everyday life for older women in Australia	Completed
Unfolding stories of belonging: pathways and practices of skilled mobile settlers	Completed

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