Professor Gay Hawkins
Professor,
Institute for Culture and Society
Professor,
Institute for Culture and Society
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Macquarie University
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Institute for Culture and Society
- Institute for Culture and Society
Contact
| Email: | G.Hawkins@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 9609 |
| Mobile: | 0424295031 |
| Location: | EM.G.27 Parramatta |
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Publications
Books
- Hawkins, G. and Rossiter, N. (2021), 'Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data', : Open Humanities Press 9781785421181.
- Bennett, T., Dibley, B., Hawkins, G. and Noble, G. (2021), 'Assembling and Governing Habits', : Routledge 9780367607937.
- Hawkins, G., Potter, E. and Race, K. (2015), 'Plastic Water: the Social and Material Life of Bottled Water', : MIT Press 9780262029414.
- Ang, I., Hawkins, G. and Dabboussy, L. (2008), 'The SBS Story: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity', : UNSW Press 9780868408392.
Chapters in Books
- Bennett, T., Dibley, B., Hawkins, G. and Noble, G. (2021), 'Disassembling and reassembling habits in a pandemic', Assembling and Governing Habits, Routledge 9780367607937.
- Hawkins, G. (2021), 'Governing litter : habits, infrastructures, atmospheres', Assembling and Governing Habits, Routledge 9780367607937.
- Bennett, T., Dibley, B., Hawkins, G. and Noble, G. (2021), 'Introduction : Engaging habits : theory and practice', Assembling and Governing Habits, Routledge 9780367607937.
- Hawkins, G. and Rossiter, N. (2021), 'Introducing contagion design', Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data, Open Humanities Press 9781785421181.
- Hawkins, G. (2019), 'Mobile drinking : bottled water practices and ontological politics', Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans: Nature, Materials and Technologies, Palgrave Macmillan 9783319921884.
- Hawkins, G. (2017), 'Plastics', Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment, Fordham University Press 9780823273904.
- Hawkins, G. (2017), 'Ethical blindness : plastics, disposability and the art of not caring', Living Ethics in a More-than-human World, University of Lapland 9789523370463.
- Hawkins, G. and Duong, M. (2016), 'Plastic in Hanoi : the changing material textures of consumption and waste in Vietnam', Globalization, Modernity and Urban Change in Asian Cities, Knowledge Publishing House 9786049433924.
- Hawkins, G. (2013), 'The performativity of food packaging : market devices, waste crisis and recycling ', Waste Matters: New Perspectives of Food and Society, Wiley-Blackwell 9781118394311.
- Hawkins, G. (2013), 'Made to be wasted : PET and topologies of disposability', Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, Routledge 9780415625821.
- Gabrys, J., Hawkins, G. and Michael, M. (2013), 'Introduction : from materiality to plasticity', Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, Routledge 9780415625821.
- Hawkins, G. (2011), 'The politics of bottled water : assembling bottled water as brand, waste and oil', Assembling Culture, Routledge 9780415614436.
- Hawkins, G. and Race, K. (2011), 'Bottled water practices : reconfiguring drinking in Bangkok households', Material Geographies of Household Sustainability, Ashgate 9781409408154.
- Hawkins, G. (2010), 'Plastic materialities', Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life, University of Minnesota Press 9780816670888.
- Hawkins, G. (2010), 'Public service media in Australia : governing diversity', Reinventing Public Service Communication: European Broadcasters and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230229679.
- Hawkins, G. (2009), 'History in things : Sebald and Benjamin on transience and detritus', W.G. Sebald: Schreiben Ex Patria / Expatriate Writing, Rodopi 9789042027817.
Journal Articles
- Hawkins, G. and Dibley, B. (2021), 'Provoking animal realities on TV : exploring the affinities between STS and screen studies', Science, Technology and Human Values, vol 46, no 4 , pp 695 - 718.
- Hawkins, G. (2021), 'Detaching from plastic packaging : reconfiguring material responsibilities', Consumption Markets and Culture, vol 24, no 4 , pp 405 - 418.
- Dibley, B. and Hawkins, G. (2019), 'Making animals public : early wildlife television and the emergence of environmental nationalism on the ABC', Continuum, vol 33, no 6 , pp 744 - 758.
- Hawkins, G. (2018), 'The skin of commerce : governing through plastic food packaging', Journal of Cultural Economy, vol 11, no 5 , pp 386 - 403.
- Hawkins, G. (2018), 'Plastic and presentism : the time of disposability', Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, vol 5, no 1 , pp 91 - 102.
- Hawkins, G. (2017), 'The Impacts of bottled water : an analysis of bottled water markets and their interactions with tap water provision', WIREs Water, vol 4, no 3 .
- Hawkins, G. (2013), 'Resilience : the resurgence of public things', Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, vol 1, no 1 .
- Hawkins, G. (2013), 'Det mobila drickandets logistik : flaskor och dricksvattenfontaner', Kulturella Perspektiv, vol 2013, no 3-4 , pp 33 - 41.
- Burns, M. and Hawkins, G. (2013), 'Investigating public service media as hybrid arrangements', Media International Australia, vol 146 , pp 79 - 81.
- Hawkins, G. (2013), 'Enacting public value on the ABC's Q&A : from normative to performative approaches', Media International Australia, vol 146, no 1 , pp 82 - 92.
- Hawkins, G. (2013), 'The performativity of food packaging : market devices, waste crisis and recycling', The Sociological Review, vol 60, no Supplement 2 , pp 66 - 83.
- Hawkins, G. (2011), 'The role of media in multicultural Australia : pluralizing national identity', Journal of Australian Studies, vol 24 .
- Hawkins, G. (2011), 'Packaging water : plastic bottles as market and public devices', Economy and Society, vol 40, no 4 , pp 534 - 552.
- Hawkins, G. (2010), 'Multiculturalism on screen : subtitling and the translation of cultural differences', Otemon Journal of Australian Studies, vol 36 , pp 97 - 109.
- Hawkins, G. (2009), 'The politics of bottled water : assembling bottled water as brand, waste and oil', Journal of Cultural Economy, vol 2, no 1-2 , pp 183 - 195.
- Hawkins, G. (2009), 'More-than-human politics : the case of plastic bags', Australian Humanities Review, vol 46 , pp 43 - 55.
Current Projects
| Title: | Investigating Innovative Waste Economies: redrawing the circular economy |
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| Western Researchers: | Gay Hawkins, Stephen Healy and Abby Mellick Lopes |
| Years: | 2021-03-15 - 2024-03-15 |
| ID: | P00026561 |
Previous Projects
| Title: | The skin of commerce: the role of plastic packaging in the construction of food security, waste and consumer activism in Australia |
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| Western Researchers: | Gay Hawkins |
| Years: | 2015-02-15 - 2017-03-31 |
| ID: | P00022473 |
| Title: | Making animals public: the changing role of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in building public value and interest in wildlife documentary |
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| Western Researchers: | Gay Hawkins |
| Years: | 2015-01-05 - 2017-12-22 |
| ID: | P00022474 |
| Title: | Assembling and Governing Habits |
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| Western Researchers: | Tony Bennett, Gay Hawkins and Gregory Noble |
| Years: | 2017-06-30 - 2021-12-31 |
| ID: | P00023217 |
| Title: | Understanding the Drivers of Public Trust in Sydney Water - Stage 1 |
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| Western Researchers: | Abby Mellick Lopes, Zoe Sofoulis, Ben Dibley and Gay Hawkins |
| Years: | 2017-02-24 - 2017-10-31 |
| ID: | P00024311 |