Dr Luke Howie
Tel: +61 3 990 34465
Fax: +61 3 990 52410
Email: luke.howie@arts.monash.edu.au
Room H5.32 5th Floor,
Building H, Caulfield Campus
Mailing Address
Monash University
PO Box 197
Caulfield East VIC 3145
AUSTRALIA
Biography
Before taking up my position in Behavioural Studies at Monash, I had worked at Deakin University where I taught in the Management and Philosophy departments.
I am a member of the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC) that is housed in the School of Political and Social Inquiry and I hold the position of Research Associate at the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre (AHSRC) in Canberra.
I explore in my research the meanings and consequences of terrorism from behavioural, social, cultural and organisational perspectives.
Qualifications
2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Thesis title Terrorsex: Witnesses and the Reanimation of 9/11 as Image-event, Commodity and Pornography.
2002 Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) - First Class
Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University.
Research Interests
- Critical sociologies of terrorism
- Popular culture and cultural studies
- Technoscience and digital cultures
- Critical social theory
- Critical management and organisational studies
I am currently involved in the following research projects:
Digital Cultures: I am working on a project with colleagues from Behavioural Studies that seeks to understand the digital cultures and digital selfhoods and the role they play in human identity and behaviour.
9/11, Popular Culture and Pornography: In this project, I am exploring representations of 9/11 and terrorism in popular culture. Images of 9/11 and terrorism, I argue, hold an attraction that is akin to pornography and I seek in this project to better understand how terrorism is represented in cultural and pop-cultural spaces. These spaces include popular media and social networking websites, popular television (such as Friends, Sex and the City, and 24), popular film (such as The Happening, The Village and Cloverfield) and news media.
Single Issue Terrorism: With my colleagues in the Global Terrorism Research Centre (notably Pete Lentini, Greg Barton, and Bill Kelly) I have commenced a project exploring the much neglected area of single issue terrorism. Examples of the single issue terrorism phenomenon include environmental activist terrorism, animal rights terrorism, pro-choice terrorism, fringe political terrorism, celebrity terrorism and pyro-terrorism.
Selected publications
Howie, L. (forthcoming – 2009), Terrorism, the Worker and the City: Simulations and Security in a Time of Terror, Surrey: Ashgate/Gower.
Howie, L. (forthcoming – 2009), ‘Australia’s History of Terrorism: Institutionalized Discrimination and the Response of the Mob’, in S. Brawley (ed), Doomed to Repeat? Terrorism and the Lessons of History, New Academia Press, Washington D.C.
Howie, L. (forthcoming – 2009), ‘A Role for Business in the War on Terror’, Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 19(2).
Howie, L. (2007), ‘The Terrorism Threat and Managing Workplaces’, Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 16, Issue 1, pp. 70-78.
Howie, L. (2005), ‘The Threat of Terrorism and Social Change’, Human Rights Defender, December, pp. 22-23.