Kane Race (BA (Hons.), LLB, PhD, FAHA) is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. His work approaches drugs and the transformations drugs are taken to induce as significant elements in the crafting of effective histories. He has particular interest in drug practices that have emerged in response to HIV/AIDS, from the repurposing of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV transmission, to subcultural uses of stimulants to re-create certain sexual sociabilities. Among his books are Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The queer politics of drugs (Duke University Press, 2009),The Gay Science: Intimate experiments with HIV (Routledge, 2018), and The Year’s Work in Showgirls Studies (Indiana University Press, 2024) which he co-edited with Melissa Hardie and Meaghan Morris.

Research interests

I am generally interested in questions of sexuality, gender, embodiment, technology, stigma, materialization and creativity. I am especially interested in how concepts of agency, personhood, experimentation and politics are enacted in and by drug discourses. In terms of intellectual coordinates, my work engages queer theory, Science and Technology Studies, affect theory, cultural studies, process philosophy and Foucauldian thinking.

Teaching and supervision

I am interested in supervising conceptually driven, empirically and politically engaged projects in the areas of sexuality; gender; health; medicine; consumption; drug use; HIV/AIDS; online culture and Science and Technology Studies. I am particularly interested in working with students who wish to conduct insider ethnographies of cultures in which they are situated and who want to draw on the power of critical concepts to produce new enactments of those cultures

GCST2607 Bodies, Sexualities & Identities

GCST3635 Bodies & Social Worlds

Current projects

With colleagues Dr Kieran Pienaar, Dr Dean Murphy and Dr Toby Lea, I am continuing to develop research outputs from their ARC Discovery project, Chemical Practices: Enhancement and Experimentation, which investigated the drug and self-medication practices of LGBTQ people in Australia.

More recently, I have begun devising a book project with the working title Tentative Agency. This work will draw on insights from queer theory, cultural studies and STS to examine popular and professional narratives of addiction and recovery, using these to newly conceptualize agency in a manner that engages and thinks with the lives and worlds of people who use drugs and alcohol (or whose lives have been marked by such). I believe critical approaches to drugtaking lives require new ways of conceptualising agency in the face of disciplinary discourses of addiction and recovery, which typically evacuate such lives, worlds and self-practices of form and meaning.

Awards and honours

Editorial Advisory Boards

Sexualities
International Journal of Drug Policy
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Culture, Health and Sexuality
Contemporary Drug Problems
Biosocieties
Somatosphere

Awards and Honours

Visiting Fellow, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, 2023
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 2020)
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College, 2019
Visiting Fellow, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines-Paris Tech, 2015
Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV – Board Member 2012-2015
Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU, 2011
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 2007

PhD and master's project opportunities

Cultural studies, queer theory and Science and Technology Studies

Selected publications

The Year's Work in 'Showgirls' Studies

(Indiana University Press, 2024)

The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV

(Routledge, 2018)

Plastic water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water

(MIT Press, 2015)

Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs

(Duke University Press, 2009)

Publications

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Books

Race, K. (2018). The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Hawkins, G., Potter, E., Race, K. (2015). Plastic water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. [More Information]
Race, K. (2009). Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs. Durham, NC, United States of America: Duke University Press.

Edited Books

Hardie, M., Morris, M., Race, K. (2024). The Year's Work in 'Showgirls' Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Hardie, M., Morris, M., Race, K. (2024). Introduction. In M. Hardie, M. Morris and K. Race (Eds.), The Year's Work in "Showgirls" Studies, (pp. 1-13). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [More Information]
Race, K. (2024). Self-Shattering in "Showgirls" and "Black Swan". In M. Hardie, M. Morris and K. Race (Eds.), The Year's Work in "Showgirls" Studies, (pp. 36-59). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Race, K. (2023). Reluctant Objects: HiV Prevention and the Problem of Sexual Pleasure. In Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier (Eds.), A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in the Age of Pharmaceuticals, (pp. 47-64). United States: Rutgers University Press.
Race, K., Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Lea, T. (2022). 'Uninhibited Play': The Political and Pragmatic Dimensions of Intoxication Within Queer Cultures. In Geoffrey Hunt, Tamar Antin, Vibeke Asmussen Frank (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication. United Kingdom: Routledge. [More Information]
Race, K. (2021). A lifetime of drugs. In S Herring and L Wallace (Eds.), Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment, (pp. 89-116). Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]
Davies, C., Robinson, K., Metcalf, A., Ivory, K., Mooney-Somers, J., Race, K., Skinner, R. (2021). Australians of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. In Tinashe Dune, Kim McLeod, Robyn Williams (Eds.), Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia, (pp. 213-231). Australia: Routledge. [More Information]
Race, K. (2021). The Beatification of the Clinic: Biomedical Prevention 'From Below'. In Sarah Bernays, Adam Bourne, Susan Kippax, Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker (Eds.), Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century: The Promise of TasP, U=U and PrEP, (pp. 91-104). Cham: Springer. [More Information]
Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Race, K., Lea, T. (2020). Sexualities and Intoxication: "To Be Intoxicated Is to Still Be Me, Just a Little Blurry" - Drugs, Enhancement and Transformation in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Cultures. In Fiona Hutton (Eds.), Cultures of Intoxication: Key Issues and Debates, (pp. 139-163). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Race, K. (2020). What possibilities would a queer ANT generate? In Anders Blok, Ignacio Farias and Celia Roberts (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory, (pp. 168-180). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Race, K. (2018). Mobilizing the biopolitical category: Problems, devices, and designs in the construction of the Gay Sexual Marketplace. In Zizi Papacharissi (Eds.), A Networked Self and Love, (pp. 156-172). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Race, K., Brown, R. (2017). Cultural Studies Approaches to Drugs and Alcohol. In Torsten Kolind, Geoffrey Hunt, Betsy Thom (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Drug and Alcohol Studies, (pp. 100-116). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Race, K. (2017). Embodiments of Safety. In Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin and Angela Willey (Eds.), Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader, (pp. 207-220). Seattle, USA: University of Washington Press.
Race, K. (2015). Biomedical discourses and sexuality. In Patricia Whelehan, Anne Bolin (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, (pp. 136-143). Malden, USA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [More Information]
Race, K. (2014). Looking to play? Les technologies de drague en ligne dans la vie gay. In Nelly Quemener and Florian Voros (Eds.), Poli Politique de la image, Numero 9 (octobre 2014): Sexe en Public, (pp. 50-61). France: Poli Editions.
Hawkins, G., Race, K. (2011). Bottled Water Practices: Reconfiguring Drinking in Bangkok Households. In Not known (Eds.), Material Geographies of Household Sustainability, (pp. 113-124). TBC. [More Information]
Race, K. (2011). Party Animals: The significance of drug practices in the materialization of urban gay identity. In Suzanne Fraser and David Moore (Eds.), The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society, (pp. 35-56). Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Race, K., Caceres, C. (2010). Knowledge, power and HIV/AIDS: research and the global response. In Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights, (pp. 175-183). USA and Canada: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Race, K. (2009). Queer Substances and Normative Substantiations: Of Drugs, Dogs and other Piggy Practices. In Not known (Eds.), Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies, (pp. 225-243). TBC. [More Information]
Race, K. (2007). Engaging in a culture of barebacking: Gay men and the risk of HIV prevention. In Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Pat O'Malley (Eds.), Gendered Risks, (pp. 99-126). Abingdon, UK: Cavendish Publishing Limited. [More Information]

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Journals

Race, K. (2023). Public orders: The Sex Crimes of Policing. Alternative Law Journal, 48(3), 225-229. [More Information]
Race, K. (2023). Technologies of Abjection: The Possessive Logics and Performative Sovereignty of Drug Dog Operations in New South Wales, Australia. The Sociological Review, 71(4), 839-859. [More Information]
Freestone, J., Prestage, G., Bourne, A., Ezard, N., Race, K., Nedanoski, A., Murray, J., Siefried, K. (2022). Controlling for pleasure and risk: The experiences of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB. International Journal of Drug Policy, 105, 1-7. [More Information]
Race, K., Hakim, J. (2022). The gay scientist: Kane Race on the unexpected possibilities of experimental intimacies. Sexualities. [More Information]
Race, K., Murphy, D., Pienaar, K., Lea, T. (2021). Injecting as a sexual practice: Cultural formations of 'slamsex'. Sexualities. [More Information]
Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Race, K., Lea, T. (2020). Drugs as technologies of the self: Enhancement and transformation in LGBTQ cultures. International Journal of Drug Policy, 78, 102673. [More Information]
Hawkins, G., Potter, E., Race, K. (2018). Bottled water (De l'eau mise en bouteille. Chapitre 1). Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances, 12(4), 699-725. [More Information]
Hawkins, G., Potter, E., Race, K. (2018). Bottled water. Markets, materiality and biopolitics [L'eau en bouteille: Marches, materialite et bio politiques. Introduction]. Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances, 12(4), 681-698. [More Information]
Aggleton, P., Bhana, D., Clarke, D., Crewe, M., Race, K., Yankah, E. (2018). HIV education: Reflections on the past, priorities for the future. AIDS Education and Prevention: an interdisciplinary journal, 30(3), 254-266. [More Information]
Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Race, K., Lea, T. (2018). Problematising LGBTIQ drug use, governing sexuality and gender: A critical analysis of LGBTIQ health policy in Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy, 55, 187-194. [More Information]
Race, K. (2018). Towards a pragmatics of sexual media/networking devices. Sexualities, 21(8), 1325-1330. [More Information]
Albury, K., Burgess, J., Light, B., Race, K., Wilken, R. (2017). Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research. Big Data & Society, 4(2). [More Information]
Race, K., Lea, T., Murphy, D., Pienaar, K. (2017). The future of drugs: recreational drug use and sexual health among gay and other men who have sex with men. Sexual Health, 14(1), 42-50. [More Information]
Race, K. (2017). Thinking with pleasure: Experimenting with drugs and drug research. International Journal of Drug Policy, 49, 144-149. [More Information]
Martinelli Goncalves, D., Kolstee, J., Ryan, D., Race, K. (2016). Harm Reduction in Process The ACON Rovers, GHB, and the Art of Paying Attention. Contemporary Drug Problems, 43(4), 314-330. [More Information]
Cairns, G., Race, K., Goicochea, P. (2016). PrEP: controversy, agency and ownership. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 19. [More Information]
Race, K. (2016). Reluctant Objects: Sexual Pleasure as a Problem for HIV Biomedical Prevention. GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, 22(1), 1-31. [More Information]
Race, K. (2016). The Sexuality of the Night: Violence and Transformation. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 28(1), 105-110.
Race, K. (2015). 'Party and Play': Online hook-up devices and the emergence of PNP practices among gay men. Sexualities, 18(3), 253-275. [More Information]
Race, K. (2015). Speculative pragmatism and intimate arrangements: online hook-up devices in gay life. Culture Health and Sexuality, 17(4), 496-511. [More Information]
Race, K. (2014). Complex Events: Drug effects and emergent causality. Contemporary Drug Problems, 41, 301-334. [More Information]
Race, K. (2014). The Difference Practice Makes: Evidence, Articulation, and Affect in HIV Prevention. AIDS Education and Prevention: an interdisciplinary journal, 26(3), 256-266. [More Information]
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]
Race, K. (2012). 'Frequent Sipping': Bottled Water, the Will to Health and the Subject of Hydration. Body and Society, 18(3-4), 72-98. [More Information]
Race, K. (2012). Framing Responsibility: HIV, Biomedical Prevention, and the Performativity of the Law. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9(3), 327-338. [More Information]
Race, K. (2012). Gender, sexuality and the extended relations of HIV responsiveness. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14(2), 223-225. [More Information]
Race, K. (2011). Drug effects, performativity and the law. International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(6), 410-412. [More Information]
Race, K. (2010). Click here for HIV status: Shifting templates of sexual negotiation. Emotion, Space and Society, 3(1), 7-14. [More Information]
Holt, M., Bernard, D., Race, K. (2010). Gay Men Vary in Their Beliefs About What Constitutes Sex. Sexual Health, 7(4), 500-501. [More Information]
Holt, M., Bernard, D., Race, K. (2010). Gay Men's Perceptions of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Their Experiences of Diagnosis: 'Part of the Way of Life' to Feeling 'Dirty and Ashamed'. Sexual Health, 7(4), 411-416. [More Information]
Diprose, R., Stephenson, N., Mills, C., Race, K., Hawkins, G. (2008). Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management. Security Dialogue, 39(2-3), 267-288. [More Information]
Race, K. (2008). Moving Science: Susan Kippax and the Politics of Knowledge. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(58), 543-548. [More Information]
Race, K. (2008). The use of pleasure in harm reduction: Perspectives from the history of sexuality. International Journal of Drug Policy, 19(5), 417-423. [More Information]
Race, K. (2005). Recreational States: Drugs and the Sovereignty of Consumption. Culture Machine, 7, 1-10.
Race, K. (2004). Drugs and Domesticity: Fencing the Nation. Cultural Studies Review, 10(2), 62-84.
Persson, A., Race, K., Wakeford, E. (2003). HIV Health in Context: Negotiating Medical Technology and Lived Experience. Health, 7(4), 397-415. [More Information]
Race, K. (2003). Revaluation of Risk among Gay Men. AIDS Education and Prevention: an interdisciplinary journal, 15(4), 369-381. [More Information]
Kippax, S., Race, K. (2003). Sustaining Safe Practice: Twenty Years On. Social Science and Medicine, 57(1), 1-12. [More Information]
Race, K. (2003). The Death of the Dance Party. Australian Humanities Review, 30 (October 2003), 1-13.

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Reference Works

Race, K. (2015). Sex and drugs. In Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. (pp. 1135-1137). United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

Research Reports

Bernard, D., Holt, M., Race, K. (2008). Accounts of contemporary gay life in Sydney: Summary of findings of the QUICKIE study, 2007, (pp. 1 - 33). Sydney, Australia: National Centre in HIV Social Research.

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2024

Hardie, M., Morris, M., Race, K. (2024). Introduction. In M. Hardie, M. Morris and K. Race (Eds.), The Year's Work in "Showgirls" Studies, (pp. 1-13). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [More Information]
Race, K. (2024). Self-Shattering in "Showgirls" and "Black Swan". In M. Hardie, M. Morris and K. Race (Eds.), The Year's Work in "Showgirls" Studies, (pp. 36-59). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Hardie, M., Morris, M., Race, K. (2024). The Year's Work in 'Showgirls' Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [More Information]

2023

Race, K. (2023). Public orders: The Sex Crimes of Policing. Alternative Law Journal, 48(3), 225-229. [More Information]
Race, K. (2023). Reluctant Objects: HiV Prevention and the Problem of Sexual Pleasure. In Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier (Eds.), A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in the Age of Pharmaceuticals, (pp. 47-64). United States: Rutgers University Press.
Race, K. (2023). Technologies of Abjection: The Possessive Logics and Performative Sovereignty of Drug Dog Operations in New South Wales, Australia. The Sociological Review, 71(4), 839-859. [More Information]

2022

Race, K., Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Lea, T. (2022). 'Uninhibited Play': The Political and Pragmatic Dimensions of Intoxication Within Queer Cultures. In Geoffrey Hunt, Tamar Antin, Vibeke Asmussen Frank (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication. United Kingdom: Routledge. [More Information]
Freestone, J., Prestage, G., Bourne, A., Ezard, N., Race, K., Nedanoski, A., Murray, J., Siefried, K. (2022). Controlling for pleasure and risk: The experiences of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB. International Journal of Drug Policy, 105, 1-7. [More Information]
Race, K., Hakim, J. (2022). The gay scientist: Kane Race on the unexpected possibilities of experimental intimacies. Sexualities. [More Information]

2021

Race, K. (2021). A lifetime of drugs. In S Herring and L Wallace (Eds.), Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment, (pp. 89-116). Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]
Davies, C., Robinson, K., Metcalf, A., Ivory, K., Mooney-Somers, J., Race, K., Skinner, R. (2021). Australians of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. In Tinashe Dune, Kim McLeod, Robyn Williams (Eds.), Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia, (pp. 213-231). Australia: Routledge. [More Information]
Race, K., Murphy, D., Pienaar, K., Lea, T. (2021). Injecting as a sexual practice: Cultural formations of 'slamsex'. Sexualities. [More Information]
Race, K. (2021). The Beatification of the Clinic: Biomedical Prevention 'From Below'. In Sarah Bernays, Adam Bourne, Susan Kippax, Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker (Eds.), Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century: The Promise of TasP, U=U and PrEP, (pp. 91-104). Cham: Springer. [More Information]

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2020

Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Race, K., Lea, T. (2020). Drugs as technologies of the self: Enhancement and transformation in LGBTQ cultures. International Journal of Drug Policy, 78, 102673. [More Information]
Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Race, K., Lea, T. (2020). Sexualities and Intoxication: "To Be Intoxicated Is to Still Be Me, Just a Little Blurry" - Drugs, Enhancement and Transformation in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Cultures. In Fiona Hutton (Eds.), Cultures of Intoxication: Key Issues and Debates, (pp. 139-163). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Race, K. (2020). What possibilities would a queer ANT generate? In Anders Blok, Ignacio Farias and Celia Roberts (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory, (pp. 168-180). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]

2018

Hawkins, G., Potter, E., Race, K. (2018). Bottled water (De l'eau mise en bouteille. Chapitre 1). Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances, 12(4), 699-725. [More Information]
Hawkins, G., Potter, E., Race, K. (2018). Bottled water. Markets, materiality and biopolitics [L'eau en bouteille: Marches, materialite et bio politiques. Introduction]. Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances, 12(4), 681-698. [More Information]
Aggleton, P., Bhana, D., Clarke, D., Crewe, M., Race, K., Yankah, E. (2018). HIV education: Reflections on the past, priorities for the future. AIDS Education and Prevention: an interdisciplinary journal, 30(3), 254-266. [More Information]
Race, K. (2018). Mobilizing the biopolitical category: Problems, devices, and designs in the construction of the Gay Sexual Marketplace. In Zizi Papacharissi (Eds.), A Networked Self and Love, (pp. 156-172). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Pienaar, K., Murphy, D., Race, K., Lea, T. (2018). Problematising LGBTIQ drug use, governing sexuality and gender: A critical analysis of LGBTIQ health policy in Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy, 55, 187-194. [More Information]
Race, K. (2018). The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Race, K. (2018). Towards a pragmatics of sexual media/networking devices. Sexualities, 21(8), 1325-1330. [More Information]

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2017

Race, K., Brown, R. (2017). Cultural Studies Approaches to Drugs and Alcohol. In Torsten Kolind, Geoffrey Hunt, Betsy Thom (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Drug and Alcohol Studies, (pp. 100-116). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Albury, K., Burgess, J., Light, B., Race, K., Wilken, R. (2017). Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research. Big Data & Society, 4(2). [More Information]
Race, K. (2017). Embodiments of Safety. In Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin and Angela Willey (Eds.), Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader, (pp. 207-220). Seattle, USA: University of Washington Press.
Race, K., Lea, T., Murphy, D., Pienaar, K. (2017). The future of drugs: recreational drug use and sexual health among gay and other men who have sex with men. Sexual Health, 14(1), 42-50. [More Information]
Race, K. (2017). Thinking with pleasure: Experimenting with drugs and drug research. International Journal of Drug Policy, 49, 144-149. [More Information]

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2016

Martinelli Goncalves, D., Kolstee, J., Ryan, D., Race, K. (2016). Harm Reduction in Process The ACON Rovers, GHB, and the Art of Paying Attention. Contemporary Drug Problems, 43(4), 314-330. [More Information]
Cairns, G., Race, K., Goicochea, P. (2016). PrEP: controversy, agency and ownership. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 19. [More Information]
Race, K. (2016). Reluctant Objects: Sexual Pleasure as a Problem for HIV Biomedical Prevention. GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, 22(1), 1-31. [More Information]
Race, K. (2016). The Sexuality of the Night: Violence and Transformation. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 28(1), 105-110.

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2015

Race, K. (2015). 'Party and Play': Online hook-up devices and the emergence of PNP practices among gay men. Sexualities, 18(3), 253-275. [More Information]
Race, K. (2015). Biomedical discourses and sexuality. In Patricia Whelehan, Anne Bolin (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, (pp. 136-143). Malden, USA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [More Information]
Hawkins, G., Potter, E., Race, K. (2015). Plastic water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. [More Information]
Race, K. (2015). Sex and drugs. In Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. (pp. 1135-1137). United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Race, K. (2015). Speculative pragmatism and intimate arrangements: online hook-up devices in gay life. Culture Health and Sexuality, 17(4), 496-511. [More Information]

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2014

Race, K. (2014). Complex Events: Drug effects and emergent causality. Contemporary Drug Problems, 41, 301-334. [More Information]
Race, K. (2014). Looking to play? Les technologies de drague en ligne dans la vie gay. In Nelly Quemener and Florian Voros (Eds.), Poli Politique de la image, Numero 9 (octobre 2014): Sexe en Public, (pp. 50-61). France: Poli Editions.
Race, K. (2014). The Difference Practice Makes: Evidence, Articulation, and Affect in HIV Prevention. AIDS Education and Prevention: an interdisciplinary journal, 26(3), 256-266. [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

Race, K. (2012). 'Frequent Sipping': Bottled Water, the Will to Health and the Subject of Hydration. Body and Society, 18(3-4), 72-98. [More Information]
Race, K. (2012). Framing Responsibility: HIV, Biomedical Prevention, and the Performativity of the Law. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9(3), 327-338. [More Information]
Race, K. (2012). Gender, sexuality and the extended relations of HIV responsiveness. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14(2), 223-225. [More Information]

2011

Hawkins, G., Race, K. (2011). Bottled Water Practices: Reconfiguring Drinking in Bangkok Households. In Not known (Eds.), Material Geographies of Household Sustainability, (pp. 113-124). TBC. [More Information]
Race, K. (2011). Drug effects, performativity and the law. International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(6), 410-412. [More Information]
Race, K. (2011). Party Animals: The significance of drug practices in the materialization of urban gay identity. In Suzanne Fraser and David Moore (Eds.), The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society, (pp. 35-56). Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

2010

Race, K. (2010). Click here for HIV status: Shifting templates of sexual negotiation. Emotion, Space and Society, 3(1), 7-14. [More Information]
Holt, M., Bernard, D., Race, K. (2010). Gay Men Vary in Their Beliefs About What Constitutes Sex. Sexual Health, 7(4), 500-501. [More Information]
Holt, M., Bernard, D., Race, K. (2010). Gay Men's Perceptions of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Their Experiences of Diagnosis: 'Part of the Way of Life' to Feeling 'Dirty and Ashamed'. Sexual Health, 7(4), 411-416. [More Information]
Race, K., Caceres, C. (2010). Knowledge, power and HIV/AIDS: research and the global response. In Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights, (pp. 175-183). USA and Canada: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]

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2009

Race, K. (2009). Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs. Durham, NC, United States of America: Duke University Press.
Race, K. (2009). Queer Substances and Normative Substantiations: Of Drugs, Dogs and other Piggy Practices. In Not known (Eds.), Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies, (pp. 225-243). TBC. [More Information]

2008

Bernard, D., Holt, M., Race, K. (2008). Accounts of contemporary gay life in Sydney: Summary of findings of the QUICKIE study, 2007, (pp. 1 - 33). Sydney, Australia: National Centre in HIV Social Research.
Diprose, R., Stephenson, N., Mills, C., Race, K., Hawkins, G. (2008). Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management. Security Dialogue, 39(2-3), 267-288. [More Information]
Race, K. (2008). Moving Science: Susan Kippax and the Politics of Knowledge. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(58), 543-548. [More Information]
Race, K. (2008). The use of pleasure in harm reduction: Perspectives from the history of sexuality. International Journal of Drug Policy, 19(5), 417-423. [More Information]

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2007

Race, K. (2007). Engaging in a culture of barebacking: Gay men and the risk of HIV prevention. In Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Pat O'Malley (Eds.), Gendered Risks, (pp. 99-126). Abingdon, UK: Cavendish Publishing Limited. [More Information]

2005

Race, K. (2005). Recreational States: Drugs and the Sovereignty of Consumption. Culture Machine, 7, 1-10.

2004

Race, K. (2004). Drugs and Domesticity: Fencing the Nation. Cultural Studies Review, 10(2), 62-84.

2003

Persson, A., Race, K., Wakeford, E. (2003). HIV Health in Context: Negotiating Medical Technology and Lived Experience. Health, 7(4), 397-415. [More Information]
Race, K. (2003). Revaluation of Risk among Gay Men. AIDS Education and Prevention: an interdisciplinary journal, 15(4), 369-381. [More Information]
Kippax, S., Race, K. (2003). Sustaining Safe Practice: Twenty Years On. Social Science and Medicine, 57(1), 1-12. [More Information]
Race, K. (2003). The Death of the Dance Party. Australian Humanities Review, 30 (October 2003), 1-13.

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Selected Grants

2018

Safety, risk and wellbeing on digital dating apps, Albury K, McCosker A, Race K, Botfield J, Lewis G, Kolstee J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)

2017

Chemical Practices: Enhancement and Experimentation, Race K, Lea T, Pienaar K, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2015

Global Ethics and Futures (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate), Miles R, Anderson W, Bleasel J, Haq I, Lea T, Griffiths P, Jou C, Poronnik P, Race K, Hickey-Moody A, Ross P, DVC Education/Large Educational Innovation Grant

2014

Everyday Social Media Network, Goggin G, Vromen A, Martin F, Bednarek M, Bollmer G, Brevini B, Calvo R, Chen P, Chesher C, Driscoll C, Dwyer T, Elliot A, Hutchinson J, Mann A, Martin G, Michael M, Navarria G, Race K, Rolph D, Tormey S, Weatherall K, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme

2013

NETWORK FOR ORGANS, BODIES AND TISSUES (NBOT), Stewart C, Anderson W, Cashman P, Cooper M, Griffiths P, Hooker L, Jordens C, Kerridge I, Lupton D, Magnusson R, Michael M, Pols H, Race K, Salkeld G, Savell K, Scott Bray R, Shewan L, Waldby C, DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS)

2012

Changing Spaces of HIV Prevention: A cultural analysis of transformations in sexual sociability among gay and homosexually-active men, Race K, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2009

The Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group, Marks P, O'Malley P, Martin G, Robertson S, Cleland K, Epstein C, Clancey G, Race K, Scott Bray R, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme
The Environmental Humanities Group, McCalman I, Bashford A, White S, McCreery C, Gibbs M, Schlosberg D, Celermajer D, Philp J, Robertson S, Fitzmaurice A, Giles P, Marks P, Hardie M, Smith V, Alt C, Race K, Allon F, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme

2007

From the tap to the bottle: an international study of the social and material life of bottled water, Hawkins G, Race K, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

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