Research Supervisor Connect
Kane Race is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. The primary focus of his research is the variable articulation and elaboration of agency within drug discourses, which he explores drawing on approaches and insights from cultural studies, queer theory and Science and Technology Studies. He is internationally recognised for the original contributions he has made to the fields of HIV social research, critical drug studies, and studies of digital sex, where his conceptualisation of ‘counterpublic health’ has influenced a generation of critical health and sexuality scholars committed to articulating the political dynamics, stakes and cultural processes entailed in attending to the health and wellbeing of minoritized groups. His work has produced new understandings and approaches to care practices in the context of biomedical, digital and other transformations with demonstrated impacts on policy as well as critical scholarship across the humanities and social sciences.
Associate Professor Kane Race.
Gender and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities (SOH)
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.
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
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3143