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Tony Bennett (sociologist)

Tony Bennett (sociologist)

British sociologist

Tony Bennett (born 1947) is a British sociologist who has held academic positions in the United Kingdom and Australia. His work focusses on cultural studies and cultural history.

Early life and education

Bennett was born in Manchester[1] and earned a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University in 1968 and a PhD in sociology at Sussex University in 1972.[2]

Career

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Bennett taught sociology at the Open University in the United Kingdom, as a staff tutor and then as chair of the Popular Culture course.[3]

He then moved to Griffith University in Brisbane, where he was Professor of Cultural Studies, Dean of Humanities, and director of the ARC Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy until 1998.[1][2][3]

In 1998 he returned to the Open University, where he was Professor of Sociology and a founding director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC).[1][2][3]

In 2009 he returned to Australia as research professor in Social and Cultural Theory at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University,[2] while remaining a Visiting research professor at the Open University and an associate member of CRESC.[3] He has also been a visiting professor at universities in the United States, China, and Canada.[2][3]

His work has been important in literary and popular culture studies, especially as a founder of the Australian school of cultural policy studies.[2][4][5][6][7] He is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[2][3]

Publications

Bennett's 1992 essay, "Putting Policy into Cultural Studies", was seminal.[4][6][7]

His books include:

  • Formalism and Marxism (1979), on Marxist literary criticism[8][9]
  • Outside Literature (1990)[10][11]
  • The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (1995), a study of the origins and cultural function of the modern museum[1][12][13]
  • Culture: A Reformer's Science (1998), a reexamination of cultural policy studies[1][14][15]
  • Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics, Programs (ed., with David Carter, 2001)[1][16]
  • Understanding Everyday Life (ed., with Diane Watson, 2002), textbook for their Open University core course in sociology[17]
  • Pasts Beyond Memories: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (2004)[2]
  • Making Culture, Changing Society (2013)[2]
  • Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays (2018)[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Profile - Asia in Transition: Representation and Identity: The Japan Foundation 30th Anniversary International Symposium 2002", retrieved 4 October 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Professor Tony Bennett", Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, retrieved 4 October 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Prof Tony Bennett: Visiting Research Professor, Sociology", The Open University, archived from the original on 23 June 2011.
  4. [4]
    Ian Robert Lamond, "Putting policy at the centre of cultural policy studies", conference paper, ICCPR 2010, University of Jyväskylä, July 2010.
  5. [5]
    Jonathan Sterne, "Cultural Policy Studies and the Problem of Political Representation", The Communication Review 5 (2002) 59–89, doi:10.1080/10714420212351.
  6. [6]
    George Yúdice, "Introduction", Social Text 59 (Summer 1999) 1–4.
  7. [7]
    Brandon Woolf, "Putting Policy into Performance Studies?", Performance Research 20.4 (2015) 104–11, doi:10.1080/13528165.2015.1071047.
  8. [8]
    Barbara Foley, "Review, Formalism and Marxism. Tony Bennett", Modern Philology 80.4 (May 1983) 443–, doi:10.1086/391261.
  9. [9]
    Graham Pechey, "Formalism and Marxism. Review: The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics by P.N. Medvedev, M.M. Bakhtin; Formalism and Marxism by Tony Bennett", Oxford Literary Review 4.2 (1980) 72–81.
  10. [10]
    William E. Cain, "Review: Outside Literature, by Tony Bennett", Philosophy and Literature 15.2 (October 1991) 343–44, doi:10.1353/phl.1991.0043.
  11. [11]
    David Simpson, "Review: Outside Literature. By Tony Bennett", Comparative Literature Studies 30.3 (1993) 315–21.
  12. [12]
    Thomas Prasch, "Review: The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics, by Tony Bennett", Victorian Studies 40.3 (Spring 1997) 509–11.
  13. [13]
    Thomas F. Soapes, "Review: The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. By Tony Bennett", The Library Quarterly 67.1 (January 1997) 78–,doi:10.1086/629913.
  14. [14]
    Liz Jacka, "Review: Bennett, Tony, Culture: A Reformer's Science", Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, 89.1 (November 1998) 138–40, doi:10.1177/1329878X9808900114.
  15. [15]
    Lisanne Gibson, "Review essay: Tony Bennett, Culture: a reformer's science", International Journal of Cultural Policy 16.1 (2010) 29–31, doi:10.1080/10286630902785631.
  16. [16]
    Tom Burvill, "Review of Culture in Australia – Policies, Publics, and Programs, edited by Tony Bennett and David Carter", Australian Humanities Review 25, March 2002.
  17. [17]
    Maria Desougi, "Review: Understanding Everyday Life, Bennett, Tony and Diane Watson (Editors)", Sociological Research Online, October 2003.
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