Recent Submissions

• Sojourner intimacies: Chinese international students negotiating dating in Sydney 

  Chen, Xi

  Published 2018-01-01

  Despite being a large community of sojourners making up 30% of the total international student population in Australia (End of Year Summary of International Student Enrolment Data, 2017), Chinese international students’ ...

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• Towards new future terrains: Reorienting Asiatic femininities in the speculative imagination 

  Zhou, Amelia

  Published 2018-05-24

  This thesis investigates Asian feminist imaginations of the future through the lens of speculative fiction. It aims to revise binary techno-orientalist understandings of Asia and its subjectivities predominant in Western ...

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• True Black Metal: Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Transgression in the Black Metal Scene 

  Skadiang, Joel

  Published 2018-05-24

  Black metal as a distinct genre of popular music is characterized by a general yearning for authenticity. This authenticity can be expressed through production values, musical techniques adopted, and style of dress and ...

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• Awkward Sex: Revisiting Rosalind Gill’s Sex Advice Repertoires in the Context of New Media Listicles 

  Wilson, Jes

  Published 2018-05-24

  This thesis revisits Rosalind Gill’s 2009 influential study of sex-advice columns in Glamour (UK) magazine in order to test her arguments about mediated intimacy within the new media genre of the listicle. This is achieved ...

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• ‘Hey, mate!’: Intervening the masculinity crisis in ABC’s Man Up 

  Masters, Jamaya

  Published 2018-05-24

  This thesis explores the complex entanglements between governmentality, masculinity, health, and mateship in the television series Man Up (2016). Man Up was a three-part documentary series broadcast by the ABC in 2016 that ...

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