Associate Professor Peter Bishop

In addition to my teaching, research and supervision interests that are detailed below, I am currently Program Director for BA Honours in the School of Communication. This program involves several specialisation strands including: Professional & Creative Communication; Communication, Media, Culture; Drama; Multimedia.

PhD University of Queensland (1989)

MA Flinders University of South Australia (1976)

BSc (Hons) University of Nottingham (UK) (1967)

• My overall research area is that of Communication & Cultural Studies and includes: media, transportation & new meanings of "place" (particularly in Australia and the UK); the western relationship to Tibet; western Buddhism; orientalism & postcolonialism; promotional culture and advertising; Depth Psychology and post-Jungian studies; travel writing; food, media & culture; environment, media and culture; reconciliation; utopian imagining and hope; imaginal and mythopoetic pedagogies. I have recently been part of several research teams. One has been researching "Reconciliation Pedagogy" in Australia and South Africa, and was funded by an ARC Discovery grant. It is hoped this research will extend into the field of religion, reconciliation and non-violence. Another team, funded by an ARC Linkage grant researched the perspectives of marginalised youth around Hope. I recently had a book published on bridges in modernity, from a communication & cultural studies perspective. This book situates bridges within many of the research interests listed above.

BOOKS:

The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing & The Western Creation Of Sacred Landscape, London: Athlone Press, 1989; and Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1990. (Also, re-issued in India as The Sacred Myth of Shangri-La , New Delhi: Adarsh Books, 2000).

The Greening of Psychology: the Vegetable World in Myth, Dream & Healing , Dallas: Spring Publications, 1991.

Dreams of Power: Tibetan Religion & The Western Imagination , London: Athlone Press; & New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1993.

An Archetypal Constable: National Identity & The Geography of Nostalgia , London: Athlone Press, 1995.

Bridge , London: Reaktion Books, 2008.

EDITED WORKS:

Hope, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, Eds. Simon Robb, Patrick O’Leary, Alison Mackinnon, Peter Bishop. (Expected publication 2009)

1995 Women, Computing & Culture , (Eds) P.Bishop, M.Dyer & P.Griffen, Research Centre For Gender Studies, University Of South Australia

1994 Art & Death: Facing Mortality, Art Link, 14 (4) guest editor).

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS OR CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

(forthcoming 2009)“Caring for Hope”, in Hope, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, Eds. Simon Robb, Patrick O’Leary, Alison Mackinnon, Peter Bishop.

2009 “To Witness and Remember: Mapping Reconciliation Travel”, in Empire, Form and Travel Writing, eds. Paul Smethurst & Julia Kuehn, London: Routledge.

2008 (co-authored: Peter Bishop, Alan Mayne and Jean Duruz) “In the middle of nowhere; the rail corridor”, in Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia, ed. Alan Mayne, API Network.

2008 “Reconciliation Travel & Writings of War”, in Writings of War, eds. C. Woods & J. Timoney, Lythrum Press.

2008 "The Shadow of Hope: Reconciliation & Imaginal Pedagogies", in Pedagogies of the Imagination: Mythopoetic Curriculum in Educational Practice, eds. Timothy Leonard & Peter Willis, Springer, pp. 31-52.

2004 "Pedagogies of Hope: Utopian Imagination & the Corporatising University", in Lifelong Learning & the Democratic Imagination: Revisioning Justice, Freedom & Community, eds. Peter Willis & Pam Carden, Flaxton, Qld: Post Pressed, pp. 29-46.

2003 "Tasting the salt: country, reconciliation and dream", in Changing Places: Re-imagining Australia, ed. J. Cameron, Double Bay, NSW: Longueville Books, pp. 98-106.

2001 “Not Only a Shangri-la: Images of Tibet in Western Literature”, in Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections, & Fantasies, ed. Thierry Dodin & Heinz Rather, Boston: Wisdom Publications, pp.201-222..

1999 “Reading the Potala”, in Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places in Tibetan Culture, ed. T. Huber, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, pp. 376-385

1998 “Mobility/Text/Gaze", in Proceedings of 1997 Symposium: Image, Text,Persuasion, (ed). C.Woods, Centre for Professional and Public Communication, UniSA, pp.29-39.

1997 “A Landscape for Dying: the Bardo Thodol in Western Fantasy", in Constructing Tibetan Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, (ed.) Frank J. Korom. Quebec: World Heritage Press, pp.47-72.

1994 "Shangri-la Revisited” Landscape & Identity: Perspectives from Australia, Proceedings of the 1994 Conference, Centre For Children's Literature, University of South Australia (Blackwood: Auslib Press).

1992 "Jung, Eastern Religion & the Language of the Imagination", in D.Meckel & R.Moore (Eds.), Self and Liberation: the Jung/Buddhist Dialogue, New York: Paulist Press).

1991 "Wilderness as a Victim of Progress", in J. Abrams & C. Zweig (Ed.), Meeting The Shadow (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher)

1987 "Tibet in its Place", in R.Crotty (Ed.) The Charles Strong Lectures: 1972- 1984 (Leiden: E.J.Brill)

1986 "Jung, Buddhism and Imagination", in R.Hutch and P.Fenner (Ed.), Under the Shade of the Coolibah Tree: Australian Studies in Consciousness (New York: University Press of America).

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

2008 “Pathways of Difficult Hope”, Sustaining Cultures Online refereed proceedings (CSAA 2007 Annual Conference): http://unisa.edu.au/com/csaa/default.htm

2006 “Walking on and off line: Reconciliation, public protest, and media”, Australian Journal of Communication,33 (2,3), pp. 109-126.

2003 "Lost at Woomera: Rereading mainstream and alternative media", Media International Australia incorporating Culture & Policy, 109, pp.138-152.

2002 “Gathering the Land: the Alice Springs to Darwin Rail Corridor”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 20.

2001 “Letters to the Editor: Locals and Tourists Cross Over the Skye Bridge”, Studies in Travel Writing, 5, pp. 149-171.

2000 “Reporting the Rail: the Alice Springs to Darwin Rail”, Australian Journal of Communication, 27 (3), pp.49-66.

2000 “The Death of Shangri-la: The Utopian Imagination and the Dialectics of Hope”, A Journal of Social Ecology, 2, pp. 7-26

2000 “Caught in the Cross Fire: Tibet, Media and Popular Culture”, Media, Culture and Society, 22 (5), pp.645-664.

1999 “Litter: A Waste Paper”, A Journal of Social Ecology, 1, pp.161-172

1998 "Raising the Tibetan Flag? The Dalai Lama as News, Australian Journal of Communication, 25 (1), pp. 111-126.

1998 "Driving Around: The Unsettling of Australia", in Studies in Travel Writing, 2, pp.144-163.

1997 "Lhasa: The Metropolis of the Imagination", TAASA Review, 6,4, pp.20-22.

1997 "Glimpsing Tibet: A Landscape of Closure & Loss", Literature and History, 6 (2), pp.56-72.

1997 "Licking the Salt: Speed & Surface", in ALT-X Interzones (July) (http://www.altx.com/au2/

1996 "Memories are made of this: review article on R.Samuel, ‘Theatres of Memory’ and S.Schama ‘Landscape and Memory’", Journal of Historical Geography,22 (2), pp.214-220.

1996 "Off Road: Four Wheel Drive & The sense of Place", Environment & Planning D: Society & Space, 14, pp. 257-271

1995 "Between the Colon & the Semi-Colon", Parallel, 2, (http://www.camtech.com.au/parallel/)

1995 "Zen & Lacan", Parallel, 1, (http://www.camtech.com.au/parallel/)

1994 "Ficino's Pedestrian Imagination", Sphinx (A Journal of Archetypal Psychology & the Arts), 6.

1994 "Dialing Jung: Tibet, Vitamins & Telephones", Harvest (A Journal of Analytical Psychology), 40.

1994 "The Potala & Western Place-Making", The Tibet Journal, XIX (2).

1994 "Residence on Earth: Anima Mundi & the Sense of Geographical Belonging", Ecumene (A Journal of Environment, Culture, Meaning), 1(1).

1993 "Constable, Dew & the Poetics of Refraction", Sphinx (A Journal of Archetypal Psychology & the Arts), 5.

1992 "Memory, Rhetoric & Power: Depth Psychology & Postmodern Geography", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, pp.5-22.

1991 "Constable Country: Diet, Landscape & National Identity", Landscape Research, 16, (2).

1990 "Facing the World: Depth Psychology & Deep Ecology", Harvest (A Journal of Analytical Psychology), (London), 36.

1989 "Jung, Pure Land Buddhism, & Psychological Faith", The Eastern Buddhist, (Kyoto), XXII (2).

1989 "Habits", Sphinx (A Journal of Archetypal Psychology & Culture), 2.

1989 "Singing the Land: Australia in Search of its Soul", Spring 1989 (A Journal of Archetype & Culture)

1988 "The Vegetable Soul", Spring 1988 (A Journal of Archetype & Culture)

1988 "The Soul of the Bridge: A Study in Sacred Architecture", Sphinx (A Journal of Archetypal Psychology & the Arts), 1.

1987 "Post-Jungianism and the Place of Archetypal Psychology", Spring 1987 (A Journal of Archetype & Culture.)

1986 "The Shadows of the Holistic Earth", Spring 1986 (A Journal of Archetype & Culture).

1986 "The Mysticism of Immensity", Colloquium (The Australian & New Zealand Theological Review), 18 (2).

1985 "The Geography of Hope and Despair: Peter Matthiesson's ‘The Snow Leopard’ ", Critique (Studies in Modern Fiction), XXVI (4).

1984 "The Geography of Imagination: Tibet", Spring 1984 (A Journal of Archetype & Culture).

1984 "Jung, Eastern Religion, and the Language of the Imagination", The Eastern Buddhist (Kyoto) XVII (1).

1984 "Travellers in Imaginary Landscapes", Meridian, 3 (2).

1982 "Malouf and the Language of Exile", Australian Literary Studies, 10 (4).

1981 "The Karma-Kargyudpa Lineage Tree: A Contribution to Archetypal Topographies", Spring 1981 (A Journal of Archetype & Culture).

1974 "Values and Legitimations in Professionalism: The Primacy of Status", Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 9 (3).

BOOK REVIEWS:

2001 Review of “Voyages & Visions” by Jan Elsner & Joan-Pau Rubies (eds); “Pleasure & Guilt on the Grand Tour” by Chloe Chard, in Journal of Historical Geography, 27 (2), pp. 275-277.

2001 Review of “Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film” by Roslynn D. Haynes, in Journal of Historical Geography, 27 (1), pp. 124-126.

1997 Review of "Cosmos and Hearth" by Yi-Fu Tuan, in Ecumene, 4,3, pp.359-360.

1997 Review of "Transports" by C.Chard & H.Langdon (eds), in Journal of Historical Geography, 23,3, pp.376-378

1996 Review of "Political Landscape", by M Warnke, in Area, 28, 4, pp.536-37

1998 Review of "Oriental Enlightenment" by J.J.Clarke in Journal of Historical Geography, 24.

1994 Review of “Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalayas” by S. Stevens, Journal of Historical Geography, 20 (1).

CONTRIBUTIONS TO RADIO :

2000 Interviewed for ABC Radio National: The Comfort Zone, on “Walking”,

1998 Interviewed for ABC Radio National: The Comfort Zone, on "The Rail Journey", Aug 8

1997 Interviewed for Radio 5UV: Media, Culture and Politics, on Tibet, 13 Nov.

1997 Interviewed for ABC Radio National: The Comfort Zone, on "Wildspace", Oct 4.

1995 Interviewed on ABC Radio National: Arts Today, on “Bridges”, (in connection with the opening of Glebe Bridge, Sydney). Dec 1.

1995 Interviewed on ABC Radio National: Meridian, on “Litter & urban waste”, May 28.

1993 Interview on ABC Radio National Late Night Live, about my book on John Constable and landscape, Oct 21.

1993 Collaboration on ABC Radio National programme: The Health Report, "She'll Be Right" about Women & Health.

1993 Collaboration on ABC Radio National programme: The Health Report, "Watch Out Sport", about the sporting body in Australia, June 14.

1993 Interview on ABC Radio National Late Night Live, about “the senses” and my book "The Greening of Psychology", June 1.

1992 Interviewed on ABC Radio National Books and Writing, about my book, "The Greening of Psychology". Nov.

1992 Collaboration on ABC Radio National programme: The Health Report, "Fed Up" about health & nutrition in Australia, Sept 21.

1992 Interview for ABC Radio National, Encounter, on Tibet & the West, July 26

1992 Interview on ABC Radio National Late Night Live, on Tibet & the West, May 7.

1992 Interview on ABC Radio Hobart, about the Dalai Lama's visit, May 5.

1992 Contribution to "Over the Lost Horizon", The Listening Room, ABC FM Radio, 4 May.

1992 Collaborated on ABC Radio National programme: The Health Report, "Below the Belt", on the Australian Male Body.

1991 Collaborated on ABC Radio National programme: The Health Report, on the Australian Body.

1989 Contribution to a programme on "Walking", for The Listening Room, ABC FM Radio.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

2007, ‘Narelle Autio: The Place in Between’, Wonderful World, Inaugural Samstag Exhibition at UniSA

2006‘Crystal accidents: different places/same site’, Bronia Ivanbrook's installation. GBK Gallery, Sydney.

2004‘Collaboration”, Match (Creative Disciplines Collaboration Tournament 2004, Catalogue), fusion.com.au

2003 “Tibet” in The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, Ed. Jennifer Speake, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 1178-1181.

1996 "Afterword", in Creosote, (Vegetable Poems) by David Greenslade, Reading, UK: Two Rivers Press.

1996 "Rubbing the Grid" On Edge, Vol.3, No.2:7-11

1996 "Behind the Front", in Salient: South Australian Visual Art 1992-96, ed. A. Cruickshank, Adelaide.

1996 "The Fly Paper", Catalogue essay (On Craige Andrae's work) in Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. The State Art Gallery of South Australia

1995 "Over the Back Fence: Adelaide/ADELAIDE”, Invisible Cities text/Installation Art Project, October.

1994 "Editorial: Art & Death: Facing Mortality", Art Link, 14,4

1994 "Reliquism & Betrayal: Four Rubbings of Lacan", Agenda (Australian Contemporary Art), 39/40 Nov. 1994 (Collaboration with the artist Anton Hart).

1994 "Dialogues with the Dead", 600,000 Hours (mortality), Catalogue for exhibitions and conference. Adelaide: Experimental Art Foundation.

1994 "Resouling the World", Review of N.Cobb, Archetypal Imagination, Resurgence, Issue 166. Sept/Oct

1994 "Notes From the Dispatch Office", catalogue essay for Ruby Haze, Adelaide Installations, Feb-March 1994.

1993 "Looking into Things", Review of "Miscellaneous Remarks/ the Refrain", by Craig Andrae at the CAC, Adelaide, 3 Sept-3 Oct. 1993, in Broadsheet, 22,4, pp.21-22.

1993 "Squeezing the Trigger", Image/Text for Detail, a project by Critical City.

1992/3 "Sense", Programme Notes for Performance SENSE by Open City Performance, The Performance Space, Sydney.

1989 "The Underworld of the Image", Catalogue Essay for P.Hewson and L-M.Walker, Perspecta, Sydney.

1989 "Flat Interiors", Catalogue Essay for P.Hewson and L-M.Walker, Perspecta Exhibition, Art Gallery of N.S.W.

1989 "It was a Slow Journey Back", (Review of Exhibition by P.Hewson and L-M.Walker, Artlink, 9,1, March-May.