Dr Jean Duruz |
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| Position: | Senior Lecturer | |
| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences | |
| School/Unit: | School of Communication | |
| Campus: | Magill Campus | |
| Office: | B2-06 | |
| Telephone: | +61 8 830 24492 | |
| Fax: | +61 8 830 24723 | |
| Email: | Jean_dot_Duruz_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/Jean.Duruz | |
Research Degree Supervisor
Areas of research expertise include cultural and feminist theory in relation to memory, identity and urban life, and ethnographic approaches to documenting everyday 'lived' cultures. Current research stresses the connections of food, place, identity and memory in contemporary western cultures especially as these represent engagements with meanings of 'Asia', globalisation and cosmopolitanism.Current Projects:
Eating 'Asia': Asian Kitchens and Identities in Negotiation
| This research examines everyday intercultural interactions through food as ways of problematising ‘Asian’ and ‘Australian’ identity negotiations. Focusing on foodscapes in Adelaide and Singapore and on differently-positioned users, the research is documenting a range of material (photographs, sound recordings, ethnographic observations, interview narratives) for each site. Through analysis of this material, the project is engaging with recent debates on Australian multiculturalism as ‘ethnic enrichment’, and on ‘eating Asian’ as forms of consumer cannibalism. Finally, the project speculates on more complex understandings of ‘Asian’ and ‘Australian’ within a milieu of global cosmopolitanism and glocalised practices of place. |
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