Associate Professor Guy Redden
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Associate Professor Guy Redden

BA Lanc MA Cardiff PhD UQ
Associate Professor
Gender and Cultural Studies
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+61 2 9351 8495
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+61 2 9351 3918
Associate Professor Guy Redden

Associate Professor Guy Redden has an MA from Cardiff University and a PhD from the University of Queensland. He has previously lectured at the universities of Queensland, Lincoln (UK) and Prince of Songkla (Thailand).

Guy's research revolves around the relationships between culture and economy. Among his interests are commodification, alternative cultures, religion and the moralisation of consumption/lifestyle. He has done work about the New Age movement, lifestyle TV, binge drinking, the counter-globalisation movement, cross-cultural exchange, and alternative media on the Internet. He is also interested in the nature and scope of the discipline of cultural studies and the potential of online academic publishing, having previously been an editor of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture.

Culture and economy, consumer culture, alternative cultures (including online), religion, lifestyle television, intercultural studies, cultural theory.

Project titleResearch student
Mapping the burnerverse: exploring world-building related labour within the Australian regional Burning Man communityMila HENECK
Not yet decidedSoomin HONG
How Entertainment Female Celebrities and Influencers Shape the Gender Perceptions of Young Women in Northern Rural ChinaZhiyuan LI
Intimacy relationship self-help culture in contemporary China: process, contexts, and consequencesHan Lei YANG

Publications

Books

  • Redden, G. (2019). Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power. London: Sage Publications Ltd. [More Information]

Edited Books

  • Bailey, M., Redden, G. (2011). Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century. TBC. [More Information]
  • Redden, G., Meikle, G. (2011). News Online: Transformations and Continuities. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

  • Redden, G. (2022). Organizations and power: A critical evaluation of the rise of performance measurement. In M. Godwyn (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations, (pp. 329-346). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Redden, G., Phelan, S., Baker, C. (2020). Different Routes Up the Same Mountain? Neoliberalism in Australia and New Zealand. In Simon Dawes, Marc Lenormand (Eds.), Neoliberalism in Context Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge, (pp. 61-82). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2020). Religion, Discourse, and the Economy Question: Fraught Issues in Market Societies. In J. Johnston and K. von Stuckrad (Eds.), Discourse Research and Religion: Disciplinary Use and Interdisciplinary Dialogues, (pp. 145-168). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. [More Information]

Journals

  • Redden, G. (2021). Human capital at work: performance measurement, prospective valuation and labour inequality. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 23(1), 114-130. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2019). John Howard's Investor State: Neoliberalism and the Rise of Inequality in Australia. Critical Sociology, 45(4-5), 713-718. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2018). Is Reality TV Neoliberal? Television and New Media, 19(5), 399-414. [More Information]

2022

  • Redden, G. (2022). Organizations and power: A critical evaluation of the rise of performance measurement. In M. Godwyn (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations, (pp. 329-346). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.

2021

  • Redden, G. (2021). Human capital at work: performance measurement, prospective valuation and labour inequality. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 23(1), 114-130. [More Information]

2020

  • Redden, G., Phelan, S., Baker, C. (2020). Different Routes Up the Same Mountain? Neoliberalism in Australia and New Zealand. In Simon Dawes, Marc Lenormand (Eds.), Neoliberalism in Context Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge, (pp. 61-82). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2020). Religion, Discourse, and the Economy Question: Fraught Issues in Market Societies. In J. Johnston and K. von Stuckrad (Eds.), Discourse Research and Religion: Disciplinary Use and Interdisciplinary Dialogues, (pp. 145-168). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. [More Information]

2019

  • Redden, G. (2019). John Howard's Investor State: Neoliberalism and the Rise of Inequality in Australia. Critical Sociology, 45(4-5), 713-718. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2019). Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power. London: Sage Publications Ltd. [More Information]

2018

  • Redden, G. (2018). Is Reality TV Neoliberal? Television and New Media, 19(5), 399-414. [More Information]

2017

  • Herkes, E., Redden, G. (2017). Misterchef? Cooks, Chefs and Gender in MasterChef Australia. Open Cultural Studies, 1(1), 125-139. [More Information]

2016

  • Redden, G. (2016). Revisiting the spiritual supermarket: does the commodification of spirituality necessarily devalue it? Culture and Religion, 17(2), 231-249. [More Information]

2015

  • Redden, G. (2015). 'Ideas About the Thing, Not the Thing Itself: Impact and Other Abstractions and the Politics of Research Performance Measurement. Australian Literary Studies, 28(4), 13-30.
  • Quader, S., Redden, G. (2015). Approaching the Underground: The production of alternatives in the Bangladeshi metal scene. Cultural Studies, 29(3), 401-424. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2015). Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators. In Lachlan MacDowall, Marnie Badham, Emma Blomkamp, Kim Dunphy (Eds.), Making Culture Count: The Politics of Cultural Measurement, (pp. 27-41). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

2013

  • Black, P., Allon, F., Driscoll, C., Probyn, E., Race, K., Redden, G. (2013). Editorial Introduction. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14(3), 427-431. [More Information]

2012

  • Redden, G. (2012). 'The Secret', Cultural Property and the Construction of the Spiritual Commodity. Cultural Studies Review, 18(2), 52-73. [More Information]
  • Redden, G., Low, R. (2012). My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 34(1-2), 35-48. [More Information]
  • Allon, F., Redden, G. (2012). The Global Financial Crisis and the Culture of Continual Growth. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 375-390. [More Information]

2011

  • Redden, G., Meikle, G. (2011). Conclusion. In Graham Meikle, Guy Redden (Eds.), News Online: Transformations and Continuities, (pp. 210-217). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bailey, M., Redden, G. (2011). Editors' Introduction: Religion as Living Culture. In Not known (Eds.), Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century, (pp. 1-21). TBC. [More Information]
  • Meikle, G., Redden, G. (2011). Introduction: transformation and continuity. In Graham Meikle, Guy Redden (Eds.), News Online: Transformations and Continuities, (pp. 1-19). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

2010

  • Redden, G., Brown, R. (2010). From Bingeing Booze Bird to Gilded Cage: Teaching Girls Gender and Class on Ladette to Lady. Critical Studies in Education, 51(3), 237-249. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2010). Learning to Labour on the Reality Talent Show. Media International Australia, 134, 131-140. [More Information]

2008

  • Redden, G. (2008). Economy and reflexivity in makeover television. Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 22(4), 485-494. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2008). From RAE to ERA: research evaluation at work in the corporate university. Australian Humanities Review, 45, 7-26.
  • Redden, G. (2008). Making Over the Talent Show. In Not known (Eds.), Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal, (pp. 129-143). TBC. [More Information]

2007

  • Redden, G. (2007). Makeover Morality and Consumer Culture. In Dana Alice Heller (Eds.), Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled, (pp. 150-164). I.B. Tauris.
  • Redden, G. (2007). The Textuality of Tourism and the Ontology of Resource: An Amazing Thai Case Study. In Leigh Dale (Eds.), Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce, (pp. 93-104). Aldershot: Ashgate.

2005

  • Redden, G. (2005). Changing Times Again: Recent Writing on Globalization, Communications and the New Activism. Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest, 4(1), 99-103.
  • Redden, G. (2005). The New Age: Towards a Market Model. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 20(2), 231-246. [More Information]

2004

  • Redden, G. (2004). On the Popular and the Critical: Hop on Pop and the 'New Generation' of Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies Review, 10(1), 177-186.

2003

  • Redden, G. (2003). Read the Whole Thing: Journalism, Weblogs and the Re-mediation of the War in Iraq. Media International Australia, 109, 153-165.
  • Redden, G., Caldwell, N., Nguyen, A. (2003). Warblogging as Critical Social Practice. Southern Review: communication, politics and culture, 36(2), 68-79.

2002

  • Redden, G., Macdonald, L. (2002). Still Surviving Desert Islands: The Beach, Imperialism, and Cultural Value. Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power, 2.1, 1-18. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (2002). The New Agents: Personal transfiguration and radical privatization in New Age. Journal of Consumer Culture, 2(1), 33-52.

2001

  • Redden, G. (2001). Networking Dissent: The Internet and the Anti-Globalisation Movement. Mots Pluriels, 18. [More Information]
  • Redden, G., Luckman, S. (2001). The Sense of Translocal Community: Mediating S11. To the Quick, 4(21), 34.

2000

  • Redden, G. (2000). The Beach: A Tale of Two Freedoms. Social Alternatives, 19(1), 30-34.

1999

  • Redden, G. (1999). Magic Happens: A New Age Metaphysical Mystery Tour. Journal of Australian Studies, 23(62), 101-104. [More Information]
  • Redden, G. (1999). Packaging the Gifts of Nation. M/C Journal, 2(7), 1-18. [More Information]

Sydney eScholarship Repository

To obtain a copy of Guy’s selected publications please see the Sydney eScholarship Repository