Dr Cary Bennett

Qualifications

PhD and BA (Hons), University of Newcastle, NSW; Ass/Dip Jazz Studies, NSW State Conservatorium of Music

Research Interests

Dr Cary Bennett's research and teaching interests include drugs and drug use in society, health and illness, mental health, music and performance and visual culture. Working from a Foucauldian perspective, Cary is interested in exploring how different understandings of drugs, criminality, health and illness are constituted and function through exclusionary social discourses and practices. He has conducted research and published in the areas of recreational drug use and trafficking, drug treatment and education, HIV/AIDS, global development and popular music and performance. He is currently working on a research project that seeks to identify the barriers and facilitators to live music in Armidale.

Publications

Bennett, C. (2020) “Challenges facing regional live music venues: A case study of venues in Armidale, NSW”, Popular Music, 39/3-4: 600-618. DOI: 10.1017/S0261143020000483

Wardle, S. and Bennett, C. (2020) “Spiritual inclusiveness at end-of-life for Punjabi Indians: experience with Regional Residential Aged Care Facilities”, Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2020.1843589

Rahn A, Bennett C, Jones T, Lykins A. (2020) “Happily partnered older adults’ relationship - Enhancing behaviours”, Australasian Journal of Ageing, 39 (Suppl. 1): 30–39.

Rahn A, Jones T, Bennett C, Lykins A. (2020) “Baby boomers’ attitudes to maintaining sexual and intimate relationships in long-term care”, Australasian Journal of Ageing, 39 (Suppl. 1): 49–58.

Bennett, C. (2017) “Drugs, Moral Panics and the Dispositive”, Journal of Sociology, 54 (4): 538-556 DOI: 10.1177/1440783317727877

Rahn, A., Bennett, C., Jones, T., & Lykins, A. (2017) “Couples’ Privacy in Residential Aged Care”. In Digging for gold: Building success in ageing research: 16th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing Program & Proceedings (pp. 49-51). Perth, Australia: Curtin University.

Rahn, A., Jones, T., Bennett, C. and Lykins, A. (2016) “Conflicting Agendas: The Politics of Sex in Aged Care”, Elder Law Review 10: 1-24.

Bennett, C. (2016) ‘Assessment rubrics: Thinking inside the boxes’, Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 9 (1): 50-72.

Bennett, C. (2014) 'School-based Drug Education: The Shaping of subjectivities', History of Education Review, 43 (1): 95-115.

Bennett, C. (2012) 'Supporting the Posts in Development Discourse: Under-development, Over-development, Post-development', Sociology Compass, 6 (12): 974-986.

Bennett, C. (2011) 'Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Disciplining the "Addict."' Health and History, 13 (2): 130–157.

Bennett, C. (2010) 'Drug Law Enforcement: A Study in the Interplay of Power and Resistance.' Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 22 (1): 117–136.

Bennett, C., & Donovan, R. (2009) 'Governing at a Distance: Mainstreaming of Australian HIV/AIDS Treatments and Services 1989–1996 Reconsidered.' Health and History, 11 (2): 92–115.

Bennett, C. (2008) 'The Emergence of Australia's National Campaign Against Drug Abuse: A Case-Study in the Politics of Drug Control.' Journal of Australian Studies, 32 (3): 309–321.

Bennett, Cary (2005) 'Review of The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz improvisation and Communities in Dialogue by D. Fischlin and A. Heble (eds)'. Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, 7 (3): 67-8.

Bennett, Cary (1996) 'Minds, Bodies and Masturbation', Querelle: A Nationwide Queer Anthology. Southern Cross University: Lismore.

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