[Auto] Biography
WHO.AM.I?
I am a writer and researcher, based in Melbourne, Australia.
So far, my career has involved work in the music/arts industries and the education sector. Over the past decade I have written for a range of magazines and publications in Australia and the UK. I have also worked in several positions as an English/Literacy specialist, working closely with young people in disadvantaged urban spaces.
Of late, my focus has shifted toward full-time academic research. I am currently on a William & Kate Herschell Scholarship as a PhD researcher at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. My current project is exploring 'the imagination' as a site for the governance of youth subjectivities, which extends my MEd thesis on the role of popular-corporate culture discourses in the formation young people's subjectivities.
At present, I am working closely with the theories of Michel Foucault, Nikolas Rose, Arjun Appadurai and Doreen Massey. I have a particular interest in debates around governmentality, popular-corporate culture, globalisation, local space, the imaginary and so-called 'global cosmopolitanism'. I am also interested broadly in critiques around the ever problematic realm of 'democratic education', 'critical literacy' and 'critical pedagogy'.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS.
- Savage, G. (2008). Silencing the everyday experiences of youth? Deconstructing issues of subjectivity and popular/corporate culture in the English classroom. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Vol. 29, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 51-68
- Savage, G. (2008). Problematising ‘Public Pedagogy’ in Educational Research. Paper presented at AARE Conference. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD. 4th December 2008.
- Savage, G. (2008). Exploring local spaces in ‘global times’. Paper presented at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Graduate Research Conference 2008, The University of Melbourne, 6th December 2008.
ABOUT:THIS "BLOG"
This is not a blog in any sense, except design, nor is it designed [unlike many dogmatic web spaces] to proliferate half-baked political rhetoric. Excessive blogging makes the eyes haze over. Too much ill-considered information is a curse.
This web space does, however, feature a selection of articles and papers I have written for indie and mainstream press over the past few years, as well as other minor excursions of thought and links to academic work I have completed.
Think of this more as a living/breathing 'portfolio'.
email - gcsavage@unimelb.edu.au
'OTHER' SPACES I LIKE.
www.greenpeace.org
www.planetark.com.au
www.alternet.org
www.mediamonitors.com.au
www.peta.com
www.goveg.com
www.banksy.co.uk
www.mediaed.org
