Associate Professor Brett Neilson

Associate Professor Brett Neilson's research and writing aims to provide alternative ways of conceiving globalisation, with particular emphasis upon its cultural dimensions. Drawing on cutting edge cultural and social theory as well as on empirical and archival information, this research has derived original and provocative means for rethinking the significance of globalisation for a wide range of contemporary problems and predicaments, including the circulation of popular culture, the burgeoning of social movements, the ascendancy of global financial markets, the evolving concern for security, and the pressures of population ageing. Associate Professor Neilson also maintains a secondary line of research that applies the insights of global cultural studies to the interpretation of literary and visual texts. His writings have been translated into eight languages: Italian, French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Qualifications

PhD, 1994, English, Yale University, USA

MA, MPhil, 1990, English, Yale University, USA

BA, (Hons 1), 1987, English, University of Sydney

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Honours and Awards

1987-92 Fulbright Scholarship, Australian-American Educational Foundation

1992-93 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship

1989-92 William Lyons Phelps Prize Fellowship, Yale University

1987-89 Richard J. Franke Prize Fellowship, Yale University

1987 University Medal, English, University of Sydney

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Selected Publications

Books
Neilson, B. 2004, Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle … and Other Tales of Counter-Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Edited Volumes

Neilson, B. & Bamyeh, M. (guest eds) 2009, Cultural Critique [Special Issue: ‘Drugs in Motion: Mind and Body Altering Substances in the World’s Cultural Economy’], 71(Winter).

Edufactory Collective (ed.) 2008, L’universita’ globale: Il nuovo mercato del sapere, Roma, Italia: Manifesto Libri.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. (guest eds) 2006, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization [Special Issue: Experience, Movement and the Creation of New Political Forms], 6(4). 

Anderson, K., Dobson, R., Allon, F. & Neilson, B. (eds) 2006, After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney. E-Proceedings of the ‘Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation’ Conference, 22-23 November 2005, Sydney: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. 

Goddard, M. & Neilson, B. (guest eds) 2005, Cultural Studies Review [Special Issue: Italian Effects], 11(2).

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, R. (guest eds) 2005, Fibreculture Journal [Special Issue: Multitudes, Creative Organisation, and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour], 5.

Watson, I., Allon, F., Nicholl, F. & Neilson, B. (eds) 2002, Borderlands [Special Issue: On What Grounds? Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Indigenous Rights], 1(2).

Book Chapters

Mezzadra, S. & Neilson, B. 2008, ‘Die Grenze als Methode, oder die Vervielfältigung der Arbeit’, in translate/eipcp (ed.), Borders, Nations, Translations: Ûbersetzung in einer globalisierten Welt, Wien: Turia + Kant, pp113-128.

Neilson, B. & Mitropoulos, A. 2007, ‘Exceptional Times, Non-Governmental Spacings, and Impolitical Movements’, in, Feher, M. (ed.), Nongovernmental Politics, New York: Zone Books, pp 469-481.

Neilson, B. 2006, ‘Giorgio Agamben and Cultural Studies’, in Hall, G. & Burchill, C. (eds), New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp 128-145.

Neilson, B. 2006, ‘The Market and the Police: Finance Capital in Permanent Global War’, in Sakai, N. & Solomon, J. (eds), Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, Traces: A Multilingual Series of Culture Theory and Translation, no. 4, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp 157-174.

Neilson, B. 2001, ‘How to Launder Money: Finance Capital, Value, and Biopower’, in, Brown, H., Lovink, G., Merrick, H., Rossiter, N., The, D. & Wilson, M. (eds), Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory, Melbourne: Fibreculture Publications, pp 39-46.

Journal Articles

Neilson, B. & Bamyeh, M. 2009, ‘Drugs in Motion: Toward a Materialist Tracking of Global Mobilities’, Cultural Critique, 71(Winter): 1-12.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. 2008, ‘Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception’, Theory, Culture & Society, 25(7-8): 51-72.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. 2006, ‘Towards a Political Anthropology of New Institutional Forms’, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 6(4): 393-410.

Neilson, B. 2006, ‘Anti-Ageing Cultures, Biopolitics and Globalisation’, Cultural Studies Review, 12(2): 149-164.

Mitropolous, A. & Neilson, B. 2006, ‘Cutting Democracy’s Knot’, Culture Machine, 8.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. 2005, 'From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Life, Labour and Unstable Networks', Fibreculture Journal, 5.

Neilson, B. 2005, 'Provincialising the Italian Effect', Cultural Studies Review, 11(2): 11-24.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. 2005, ‘Action without Reaction: A Mongolian Border Intervention’, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 5(X): 744-749.
 
Neilson, B. 2005, ‘La politica dell’ immaginario: Appunti incompleti su affetto e potere’, Studi culturali, 2(1): 3-22.

Neilson, B. 2004, ‘Potenza Nuda? Capitalism, Biopolitics, Sovereignty’, Contretemps, 5: 63-78.

Neilson, B. 2003, ‘Globalization and the Biopolitics of Aging,’ CR: The New Centennial Review, 3(2): 161-186.

Mezzadra, S. & Neilson, B. 2003, 'Né qui, né altrove: migration, detention, desertion', Borderlands, 2(1).

Neilson, B. 2002, ‘Bodies of Protest: Performing Citizenship at the 2000 Olympic Games’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 16(1): 13-25.

Neilson, B. 1999, 'Barbarism/Modernity: Notes on Barbarism', Textual Practice, 13(1): 75-91.

Neilson, B. 1999, ‘On the New Cosmopolitanism’, Communal/Plural: Journal of Transnational and Cross-Cultural Studies, 7(1): 111-124.

Neilson, B. 1997, ‘Institution, Time-lag, Globality’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 21(2): 23-34.

Neilson, B. 1996, ‘Threshold Procedures: Boat People in Western Australia and South Florida’, Critical Arts: Journal of Cultural Studies, 10(2): 21-40.

Video

Neilson, B. 2008, Waiting, Dictionary of War, Taipei: Biennale Edition.

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