Associate Professor George Morgan
George Morgan's research interests range from urban studies to Aboriginality and post-colonialism, to youth and precarious labour, to the politics of moral panics.
His current research considers how urban working class and minority (including Aboriginal and Middle Eastern) youth respond to the challenges of finding work and developing vocational aspirations in the 'creative industries'.
His books include (as sole author) Unsettled places: Aboriginal people and urbanisation in New South Wales (Wakefield Press, 2006); (with Pariece Nelligan) The creativity hoax (Anthem Press, forthcoming 2017); (as editor, both with Scott Poynting) Outrageous: moral panics in Australia (ACYS Press, 2007) and Global Islamophobia (Ashgate, 2012).
Qualifications
- PhD, 2000, Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia
- M.Phil, 1990, (degree by research/dissertation - Cultural Studies), Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
- BA (Hons), 1984, History, Australian National University, Australia
Selected Publications
Morgan, G. (2020). Meaning and Soul’: Co-working, Creative Career and Independent Co-work Spaces (opens in a new window). in Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (Eds.). (2020). Pathways into creative working lives. Springer International Publishing., pp. 139-158
Morgan, G., & Woodriff, J 2019, Herding cats: Co-work, creativity and precarity in inner Sydney (opens in a new window). In Gill, R., Pratt, A. C., & Virani, T. E. (Eds.). Creative hubs in question: Place, space and work in the creative economy. Springer.
Idriss, S., & Morgan, G 2018, The Inertia of Masculinity: Narratives of Creative Aspiration Among Arab-Australian Youth (opens in a new window). In C.Walker and S.Roberts (Eds) Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism (pp. 219-241). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Morgan, G & Nelligan, P 2018, The creativity hoax: precarious work and the gig economy (opens in a new window), Anthem Press, London.
Morgan, G 2016, Cannibalising the collegium: the plight of the humanities and social sciences in the managerial University (opens in a new window), in J Habjan, S Gupta & H Tutek (eds), Academia and the production of unemployment, Palgrave.
Morgan, G & Wood, J 2016, The "academic career" in the era of flexploitation (opens in a new window), in E Armano, A Bove & A Murgia (eds), Mapping precariousness, labour insecurity and uncertain livelihoods: subjectivities and resistance, Routledge, London.
Morgan, G 2015, Gangsta warrior bro: hip hop and urban Aboriginal youth (opens in a new window), in S Baker, B Robards & B Buttigieg (eds), Youth cultures and subcultures: Australian perspectives, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 161-72.
Morgan, G & Nelligan, P 2015, Labile labour – gender, flexibility and creative work (opens in a new window), Sociological Review, vol. 63, S1, pp. 66-83.
Morgan, G & Wood, J 2014, Creative accommodations: the fractured transitions and precarious lives of young musicians (opens in a new window), Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 64-78.
Wulfhorst, C, Rocha, C & Morgan G 2014, Intimate multiculturalism: transnationalism and belonging amongst capoeiristas in Australia (opens in a new window), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online.
