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Associate Professor Chris Barker

Location:19:2020
Email: cbarker@uow.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 4221 3671

His work is in the tradition of Cultural Studies and has interests in the globalisation of television, cultural theory, identity, gender and emotion. He has an interest in developing a mixture of theoretical and practical research interests centred on culture, language and identity that is interdisciplinary in character and engages with sociology, political economy, text analysis, cultural studies, discourse analysis, philosophy and psychology. The main strands of his work to date are:

• The globalization of television with a particular interest in the questions of cultural identity.
• A concern with cultural theory and the tradition of cultural studies
• The cultural construction of subjectivity and the identity. This includes ethnographic research and discourse analysis of the generation of identity and of masculinity in particular.
• The character of emotion as both a biological and cultural moment with particular reference to men and gender relations.

Current projects include the writing of a book on the emotional lives of men based on ethnographic/qualitative research with one hundred men. This is provisionally titled "The Secret Life of Us: identity and the emotional lives of men". The second is a collaborative project with Professor Dariusz Galasinski (University of Wolverhampton, UK) that uses discourse analysis to explore men's experience and construction of depression. Third, is an embryonic project on the character of 'emotional democracy' in families and its implications for the public sphere.

Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

Books

Barker, C (1997) Global Television: an introduction Oxford : Blackwell

Barker, (1999) Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities. Buckingham: Open University Press

Barker, C (2000) Cultural Studies: theory and practice. London & Thousand Oaks : Sage

Barker, C and Galasinski, D (2001) Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis: a dialogue on language and identity. London & Thousand Oaks : Sage.

Barker, C. (2002) Making Sense of Cultural Studies: Central Problems and Critical Debates London & Thousand Oaks : Sage.

Barker, C (2004) The Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies . London & Thousand Oaks : Sage

Barker, C (1997) 'Gender, Ethnicity, Identity: soap talk amongst British Asian girls' in K. Drotner and K. Klitgaard Povlsen (eds) Television, New Media and Youth. Copenhagen : Borgen.

Barker, C (2000) 'Global Television' in H. Benyon and A. Dunkerly (eds.) The Globalization Reader. London : Athelone Press

Barker, C (2001) 'Television in the Era of Globalization' in A. Hepp and M. Loffelholz (eds.) Transcultural Communication. Universitätsverlag Konstanz" (UVK).

Barker, C. (2002) 'Kaleidoscopic Cultural Studies: issues of politics and method' in A. Hepp & W. Carsten (eds) (ed.) Cultural Studies Kontroverse. Lüneburg: Zu Klampen Verlag.

Barker, C (in press) 'In The Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and National Identities in the Era of Globalization' in J. Howard and M. Romero (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities. Oxford : Blackwell.

Barker, C (in press) 'Praxis: Cultural Studies and the Leisure Industries' in Rojek, C (ed) The Handbook of Leisure Studies. London : Palgrave

Barker, C and Andre, J. (1996) 'Did You See? Soaps, Teenage Talk and Gendered Identity', Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research. Vol. 4 No. 4.

Barker, C. (1997) 'Television and the Reflexive project of the Self: Soaps, Teenage Talk and Hybrid Identities. British Journal of Sociology. Vol. 44 No.4.

Barker, C. (1998) "Cindy's a Slut": Moral Identities and Moral responsibility in the 'soap talk' of British Asian girls' Sociology Vol. 32. No 1.