Dr Kane Race
University of Sydney
Senior Lecturer
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/gender_cultural_studies/staff/profiles/krace.shtml
Research Interests
Kane Race is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He received his PhD in Health, Sexuality & Culture from the University of New South Wales in 2004, where he was based at the National Centre in HIV Social Research. His work has explored embodied engagements with medicine in several different contexts and cultures of consumption: HIV/AIDS among gay and homosexually active men; drug use (both licit and illicit); and more recently markets in bottled water. He is the author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs (Duke University Press, 2009), and Plastic Water (with Gay Hawkins and Emily Potter, under contract, MIT Press). Kane has published numerous articles exploring the impact of HIV antiretroviral therapies and other technologies on gay cultural, sexual and social scientific practices since 1996, and is currently investigating how responsibility for HIV transmission and drug effects are framed by legal, medical and cultural institutions.
Recent Publications
Race, K. 2011. Party Animals: The significance of drug practices in the materialization of urban gay identity. In S. Fraser & D. Moore (eds.) The Drug Effect: Health, Crime & Society. Cambridge University Press
Hawkins, G. & Race K. 2011. Bottled Water Practices: Reconfiguring drinking in Bangkok households. In R. Lane & A. Gorman-Murray (eds.) Material Geographies of Household Sustainability. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Race, K. 2010. Click here for HIV status: shifting templates of sexual negotiation. Emotion, Space & Society, 3, pp. 7-14.
Cáceres, C. and Race, K. 2010. Knowledge, power and HIV/AIDS: Research and the global response. In P. Aggleton and Parker, R. The International Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights. London: Routledge.
Race, K. 2009. Queer substances: Of drugs, dogs and other piggy practices. In S. Murray & N. Sullivan. (eds.) Somatechnics: Queering the technologisation of bodies. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Race, K. 2008. Moving science: Susan Kippax and the politics of knowledge. Australian Feminist Studies, (23)58, pp. 543-548.
Race, K. 2008. The use of pleasure in harm reduction: perspectives from The History of Sexuality. International Journal of Drug Policy 19(5), pp. 417-423.
Diprose, R., Stephenson, N., Mills, C., Race, K. & Hawkins, G. 2008. Governing the future: The paradigm of prudence in political technologies of risk management. Security Dialogue, 39(2-3), pp. 267-288.