Dr Margaret Gibson

Margaret Gibson

B Arts (Hons), PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities

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Research expertise

  • Identity and embodiment
  • Cosmetic surgery and body modification
  • Death and material culture
  • Representations of death
  • Mourning and grief

Current teaching areas

  • First year Sociology
  • Sociology of Identity

Publications

  • Objects of the Dead:  Mourning and Memory in Everyday Life, Melbourne University Press, 2008.
  • 'Death and mourning in technologically mediated culture', special issue "Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century", Health Sociology Review, Vol.16, No.5, 2008: 415-424.
  • "Some thoughts on celebrity deaths: Steve Irwin and the issue of public mourning", Mortality, Vol. 12, No.1, February 2007.
  • "The Death Drive" in Roadside Memorials: a multi-disciplinary approach, pp.164-172, edited by Jennifer Clark, EMU Publishers, 2007.
  • "Memorialisation and Immortality: religion, community and the Internet" in Popular Spiritualities The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment, pp. 63-76, Kathleen McPhillips and Lynne Hume (Eds), Ashgate, 2006.
  • "Bodies Without Histories: cosmetic surgery and the undoing of time", Australian Feminist Studies, March, Vol. 21, No. 49, 2006: 51-63.
  • "Death in Advertising: the case of lynx metamorphosis", refereed paper of The Australian Sociological Association Annual conference, Hobart December 5-8, 2005.
  • "Melancholy Objects", Mortality. Issue 9, No. 4, 2004: 285-299.
  • Corrigan, P., M. Gibson et al. (eds.)(2003) New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Today and Tomorrow, The Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, University of New England Armidale.
  • "Death Scenes: ethics of the face and cinematic deaths", Mortality, Vol.6, No.3, November 2001: 306-320.
  • "The Truth Machine: polygraphs, popular culture and the confessing body", Social Semiotics, Vol.11, No.1, April 2001: 61-73.
  • "Guiltless credit and the moral economy of salvation", Journal of Social and Political Thought, Vol.1, No.3, 2001: 1-10.
  • "Menstrual Blood and the Scene of a Crime", Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 1998: 89-102.

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