The Uncanny Stranger: Haunting the Australian Settler Imagination

is Co-Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England where he teaches courses on Sociological Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Psycho-Social Studies. His research interests include the interface between sociological and psychoanalytic theory; Kleinian and post Kleinian thinking, and the social application of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has published widely on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism and ethnic hatred and is the author of the book Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism.

is Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Theory, University of the West of England, and Australian Research Council Fellow in the Politics Programme at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His research interests include: psychoanalytic theory, and in particular the uses of Kleinian and post-Kleinian theory in the study of social phenomena; the politics and psychodynamics of settler/indigene relations; nationalism, racism, and ethnic conflict; globalization, modernity, postmodernity and contemporary transformations of politics and identity. He has published widely in these areas, and is currently preparing a book on globalization and Australia.