Mr Peter Phipps

Position

Lecturer

School / Work Unit

Global Studies, Social Science &Planning

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 2039

peter.phipps@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 37
Level: 5
Room: 20

City Campus

Portfolio

Design & Social Context

"Peter Phipps"

Key activities

Peter Phipps is a researcher and lecturer in Global Studies and manager of the Globalization and Culture research project (2007-9, Global Cities Institute, www.rmit.edu.au/rd/global-cities). His research interests include the cultural politics of postcolonialism in the culture and history wars of the USA and Australia; Indigenous-settler relations in Australia; the history of theory in anthropology; and the cultures of global tourist and religious movements. Peter is Honours Program Co-ordinator and a lecturer in the BA International Studies Program, responsible for co-ordination and delivery of four courses and research supervision.

Qualifications

BA (Hons), PhD Melb

Professional interests/links to industry

Professional memberships:

  • Institute of Postcolonial Studies
  • National Tertiary Education Union

Industry links:

  • Telstra Foundation
  • City of Melbourne
  • Victorian Multicultural Commission
  • The Reputation Group
  • PNG Department for Community Development
  • Yothu Yindi Foundation
  • Philanthropy Australia

Editorial Boards:

  • Local-Global: Studies in Community Sustainability, RMIT, Melbourne
  • Editorial Advisory Board and Associate Editor, International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne

Research/Scholarship

Peter Phipps is a core researcher and founding member of the Globalism Research Centre where he was Deputy Director for three years (2004-06). He is Chief Investigator in a project on Indigenous cultural festivals in Australia and the Asia Pacific, Globalizing Indigeneity(2008-10, ARC with Telstra Foundation) and another on Cultural Precincts in Melbourne (2009, City of Melbourne and Victorian Multicultural Commission). He has coordinated twelve local and international conferences and forums including the annual Garma Forum of Indigenous Knowledge in Arnhem Land (Northern Territory, Australia 2002-05).

Situated broadly in Global Studies, his research is essentially interdisciplinary in character, drawing on training in Social Theory (Melbourne) and Cultural Anthropology (University of California, Berkeley). His PhD thesis, The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Theory also engaged the fields of Cultural Studies and Postcolonial theory.

Selected publications:

Book Chapters

‘Indigenous Cultural Festivals as a Globalizing Method for Decolonization: Garma and Beyond,’ in Ganesh Devy, Geoffrey Davis and K.K. Chakravarty (eds) Indigeneity: Culture and Interpretation, Orient Black Swan (previously Longman), Delhi, 2009, ISBN 9788125036647, pp. 368-77.

‘Michel Leiris: Master of Ethnographic Failure’ in Hutnyk and Rao (eds) Celebrating Transgression as Method in Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Klaus Peter Köpping, Berghahn, Berlin, 2006.

‘Tourism and Terrorism: An Intimate Equivalence’ in Gmelch (ed) Tourists and Tourism: A Reader, Waveland Press, Illinois, 2004, pp. 71-90. (2006)

with Jonathan Wearne, ‘Print, Publishing and Indigenous Australia’ in Bill Cope and Rod Brown (eds), Value Chain Clustering in Regional Publishing Service Markets, Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Refereed Articles

‘The Cultural Politics of Universities in the U.S. Culture Wars’, Journal of the World Universities Forum, vol. 1, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne, 2008, pp. 129-37. (ISSN: 1835-2030)

‘Hybrid Identities and Cosmopolitan Community in an Age of Intensified Globalization’, International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, vol. 1, Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2006, pp. 1159-1169. (ISSN 1447-9532)

‘Sustaining Community Research: Reflections on Multi-site Fieldwork,’ in International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, vol. 1, Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2005, pp. 27-34. (ISSN 1832-2077)

‘Community Sustainability Research: The Challenge of Reciprocity’, in Local-Global Studies in Community Sustainability: Hamilton –Community Life in the Regions, Melbourne, 2005 (ISSN 1832-6919)

(with Des Cahill), ‘After September 11th: Religion, Diversity and Social Cohesion Under Globalization’, in Australian Religious Studies Review vol. 16, no. 2, 2003, pp. 8-18.

Non-commercial Monographs and Anthologies

The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Theory, Unpublished PhD manuscript, Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Enquiry, University of Melbourne, 2009.

(with Hariz Halilovich, Ron Adams, Paul James and Steve Bakalis) ‘Pathways to Reconciliation’ in Local-Global Studies in Community Sustainability: Sarajevo– Pathways to Reconciliation, Melbourne, 2006, pp.4-10. (ISSN 1832-6919)

‘Lead Essay: Reflections on Community Sustainability’, in Globalism Institute Annual Report 2004-2005, RMIT, Melbourne, 2005.

(with Hariz Halilovich )‘Welcome to Sarajevo’, in Globalism Institute Annual Report 2004-2005, RMIT, Melbourne, 2005.

Garma Key Forum Report- Luku-nherranRomnhaDlkuma: Indigenous Livelihoods and Leadership, Yothu Yindi Foundation, Darwin, 2004.

Research Consultancies

Chief Investigator (with Martin Mulligan) Telling the Story of Melbourne’s Cultural Precincts Project, City of Melbourne and Victorian Multicultural Commission (2009), partner with The Reputation Group.

Chief Investigator (with James and Steger) and primary author of ARC Linkage Project Globalizing Indigeneity: Indigenous Cultural Festivals and Wellbeing in Australia and the AsiaPacific, Partner Organisation Telstra Foundation, 2008-2010.

Research Project Manager Globalization and Culture in the RMIT Global Cities Institute, 2007-2009.

Grant recipient and Research Project Manager, Indigenous Cultural Festivals: Evaluating Impact on Community Health and Wellbeing, funded by Telstra Foundation, 2007.

Consultant, researcher and Project Manager to PNG Department for Community Development Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Livelihoods Project (also called the ‘Employment Oriented Skills Development Project’), Port Moresby, (to September 2006).

Project Manager,Pathways to Reconciliation and Global Human RightsConference, Sarajevo, 2005, with UNDP Sarajevo.

Accomplishments/achievements

  • RMIT Research and Development Innovation Award, 2007
  • RMIT Certificate of Achievement for ‘Innovation in Curricula, Learning and Teaching’, Indigenous Studies, 2007
  • RMIT Research and Development Innovation Award for Regional Partnerships (International) Awarded to Community Sustainability International research team, 2005.
  • RMIT Research and Development Innovation Award for Best Research Team, Awarded to Globalism Institute researchers, 2002 and 2003.

Media experience

Media Comment, Public and Invited Talks

  • Invited speaker, ‘Indigenous Festivals: opportunities for philanthropic engagement and partnerships’ Philanthropy Australia, Sydney, August 2008.
  • Invited respondent to keynote address, ‘Solidarity and Sustainability,’ Food and Thought Mela, Hamilton, Victoria, June 2008.
  • Interview on global Tibetan demonstrations, ABC Victoria Regional Radio, Drive, 17 March 2008.
  • Interview on global Tibetan demonstrations, 3CR Radio, current affairs breakfast program, 21 March 2008.
  • Interview on Australian Indigenous issues, Slovenia Radio 1, January 2008.
  • Interview on Australian Indigenous issues, Slovenia Music TV, January 2008.
  • Interview on Australian Indigenous issues, Mag(current affairs insert in daily national paper Delo), Slovenia, 23-02-2008.
  • ‘Australian Aboriginal Cultural Politics Today: “You gotta listen to your tribal voice”', and ‘Australian Indigenous Cultural Festivals: Garma and beyond’, two Public Lectures at SlovenskiEtnografskiMuzej (Slovenian Ethnographic Museum), January- February 2008.
  • ‘Globalization and Culture: an Australian Perspective’, Invited Lecture in Globalization course, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 2008.
  • ‘Indigenous Festivals and Community Wellbeing in Australia’, invited address to Telstra Foundation Board, December 2007
  • Opening address, Land is Life Exhibition, Melbourne, September 2006.
  • SBS Radio (Vietnamese Program) International Vietnamese Cultural Conference interview, Melbourne, October 2006.
  • Invited respondent, ‘Conference Summary,’ Diversity Conference, Beijing, June 2005.
  • Lecture at School of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College London, ‘Postcolonialism Undone: Reflections on Indigenous Settler relations in Australia’, 2004.
  • TV interview for influential morning current affairs show on plans for Globalism Institute conference in Sarajevo, HAYAT National TV, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2004.
  • ABC Radio National, Short interview on Asia Pacific, comment on Timor Gap boundary negotiations, Oct 2003.