Kane started following the work of Cristyn Davies.
Kane started following the work of Guy Davidson, University of Wollongong, School of English Literatures and Philosophy.
Kane started following the work of Agata Pacho, Goldsmiths, University of London, Sociology.
Kane is on the verge of writing a chapter on the history of hydration, and feeling excited about it, if i could just clear my desk of admin for like, one minute
Faculty Member, Gender and Cultural Studies
Senior Lecturer
About
Kane Race is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published widely in the areas of HIV, sexuality, gay culture, and drug use. His PhD investigated the symbolism of the drug user in contemporary projections of consumer citizenship – an analysis juxtaposed with case studies of ‘counterpublic health’ taken from gay responses to HIV/AIDS. The thesis won the UNSW Faculty of Arts prize for Best Thesis and became the book Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs, published by Duke University Press in 2009.
Kane has recently begun work on a new research project, funded by the ARC Discovery Program, entitled 'Changing Spaces of HIV Prevention: a cultural analysis of transformations in sexual sociability among gay and homosexually active men'. The project investigates how new infrastructures of sexual encounter (primarily online meeting sites) are participating in the transformation of sexual, social and HIV risk subjectivities. He is also engaged in ongoing research on how HIV antiretroviral therapies are enacted, with specific attention to the emergence of the 'Treatment as Prevention Revolution'.
Kane currently runs a blog on the materialisation of gay lives in the context of new communication and biomedical technologies called homotectonic. He is also completing a book project, with Gay Hawkins and Emily Potter, on the commodification of water, called Plastic Water. The book is based on research for the ARC Discovery Project, From the Tap to the Bottle: an international study of the social and material life of bottled water.
Kane was co-convenor of the Sexuality & Space Working Group, based at the University of Sydney, and is a founding member of the international Association for Social Science and Humanities in HIV. He is an associate of the Sydney Institute of Criminology, the National Centre in HIV Social Research, UNSW and the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College, UK.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/gender_cultural_studie |
