Dr. Peter Phipps
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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peter.phipps@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-5664-0996
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Peter Phipps is a senior lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. He is also Director of the Honours program and a founding member and on the executive of the Centre for Global Research.
Peter undertook postgraduate training in cultural anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, and completed a PhD on the cultural politics of postcolonial theory in the School of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Enquiry at the University of Melbourne.
Peter has published a number of book chapters, industry reports, policy recommendations and articles on Indigenous festivals, tourism and the politics of cultural globalisation. He has consulted to a number of organisations and government bodies, including the PNG Department for Community Development, ATSIC, ATSIAB (Australia Council), UNDP (Sarajevo) and the Yothu Yindi Foundation. Most recently he wrote on ethnic cultural precincts for the City of Melbourne and Victorian Multicultural Commission, and a project at Warlayirti Art Centre in the West Australian desert.
Peter undertook postgraduate training in cultural anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, and completed a PhD on the cultural politics of postcolonial theory in the School of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Enquiry at the University of Melbourne.
Peter has published a number of book chapters, industry reports, policy recommendations and articles on Indigenous festivals, tourism and the politics of cultural globalisation. He has consulted to a number of organisations and government bodies, including the PNG Department for Community Development, ATSIC, ATSIAB (Australia Council), UNDP (Sarajevo) and the Yothu Yindi Foundation. Most recently he wrote on ethnic cultural precincts for the City of Melbourne and Victorian Multicultural Commission, and a project at Warlayirti Art Centre in the West Australian desert.
Supervisor projects
- US-China arms race in space, implication on South Asia
- 1 Mar 2023
- The President and the Bomb: Ideas and Influence on Nuclear Thought 1945-1974
- 4 Aug 2020
- Dehumanising War? Security challenges of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)
- 23 Jul 2020
- Missing People, Missing Stories in the Aftermath of Genocide and “Ethnic Cleansing” in Srebrenica and Prijedor
- 25 Jul 2018
- China in the Caribbean Community: The Impact of Beijing's Foreign-Policy from the Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago Perspective (2011-2016)
- 29 Feb 2016
- Misrecognition: Australia's Constitution and Continuing Colonisation of First Peoples
- 20 Jul 2015
- Diasporic Belonging, Masculine Identity and Sports: How rugby league affects the perceptions and practices of Pasifika peoples in Australia
- 2 Mar 2015
- Africa through Blair's Commission and the Eritrean Story: Development beyond Neoliberal Deadlock and the Embattled Postcolonial-State
- 1 Sep 2014
- Indigenous women and gender roles: migrant Orang Asli women in the Klang Valley, Malaysia
- 4 Mar 2013
Teaching interests
Supervisor interests
• Postcolonialism
• Global cultural studies
• National identities and modernity
• Indigenous relations & festivals
• Cultural politics
• Urban ethnic precincts
• Anthropology of tourism
• Australia
• PNG
• Hawaii
• Balkans
• USA
• Tibetan diaspora
• Asia-Pacific.
• Postcolonialism
• Global cultural studies
• National identities and modernity
• Indigenous relations & festivals
• Cultural politics
• Urban ethnic precincts
• Anthropology of tourism
• Australia
• PNG
• Hawaii
• Balkans
• USA
• Tibetan diaspora
• Asia-Pacific.
