Associate Professor Peter Corrigan
Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
Ph.D. (Dublin)
Contact
| Email: | pcorriga@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) 139 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2179 (or +61 2 6773 2179 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
Peter Corrigan studied at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, obtaining both BA and PhD degrees in Sociology. He was a pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of the rue d'Ulm in Paris, and taught and researched at the Universities of Dublin, Tours, Stockholm, and Keele before coming to UNE in 1992.
He is currently working on two principal research projects. The Aesthetic Society is concerned with how notions of beauty and ugliness are articulated with the senses, and combines sociological with philosophical concerns. Cartographies of Death (with Margaret Gibson of Griffith University) explores various aspects of the representations of death, and includes studies of the relationships with deceased domestic pets and analyses of near death experiences. His research interests also include consumer practices and the media. His main publications include The Sociology of Consumption: An Introduction and The Dressed Society: Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World, both published by and available from Sage Publications. He is also a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Sociology. His work has been translated into Italian and Korean, and has featured on the reading lists of more than 50 units in universities across 20 countries.
He teaches the units SOCY332 Consumer Society and SOCY307 Media and Society, and is currently coordinating SOCY100 Introduction to Sociology. He served as Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the former Faculty of Arts for three years, and was Academic Manager of the Academic Program Renewal Project for 18 months.
Publications
Books:
Corrigan, P. The Dressed Society: Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World, London: Sage Publications, 2008.
Corrigan, P. et al. (eds), TASA 2003 Conference Proceedings, 2003.
Corrigan, P. Korean Translation of The Sociology of Consumption , Green Publishing Company, 2001.
Corrigan, P. La sociologia dei consumi , Milano: Franco Angeli, 1999.
Corrigan, P. The Sociology of Consumption. An Introduction , London : Sage Publications, 1997.
Monographs
Corrigan, P. and K. Ijaz. Rural Female Shopping Experiences. A Study of the Faisalabad Region , Faisalabad, Pakistan : Agricultural Social Sciences Research Centre, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture , 1997.
Corrigan, P. and K. Ijaz. Domestic Consumer Objects and Their Meanings. A Study of Female Commodity Worlds in Faisalabad , Faisalabad , Pakistan : Agricultural Social Sciences Research Centre, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture , 1997.
Book chapters
Goedegebuure, L. and Corrigan, P. "The Diploma Supplement: An Analysis of the Current European Situation", pp. 1-8 in Proposal for an Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement: Commissioned Studies, Final Report to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations: Development of a National Diploma Supplement Project, Commonwealth of Australia, 2008.
Corrigan, P. 'The Mass Media', pp. 277-304 in B. Furze et al., Sociology in Today's World, South Melbourne: Cengage, 2008.
Corrigan, P. "The Consumer Socialisation of Children", pp. 297-302 in Media and Communications in Australian Families 2007: Review of Research Literature, Australian Communications and Media Authority, 2007.
Corrigan, P. 'Imran Khan: The Road From Cricket to Politics', pp. 231-42 in David Andrews and Steven Jackson (eds), Sports Stars: Public Culture and the Politics of Representation , London : Routledge, 2001.
Corrigan, P. 'Gender and the Gift: The Case of the Family Clothing Economy', pp. 116-33 in Stevi Jackson and Shaun Moores (eds), The Politics of Domestic Consumption: Critical Readings , London : Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995.
Corrigan, P. 'Interpreted, Circulating, Interpreting: The Three Dimensions of the Clothing Object', pp. 435-49 in Stephen Harold Riggins (ed.), The Socialness of Things: Essays on the Semiotics of Objects , New York and Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
Corrigan, P. 'Answering Back: Power Struggles in Story and Speech', pp. 103-29 in Pertti Ahonen (ed.), Tracing the Semiotic Boundaries of Politics , Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
Refereed journal articles
Corrigan, P. 'Dressing in Imaginary Communities: Clothing, Gender, and the Body in Utopian Texts from Thomas More to Feminist Science Fiction', Body & Society 2 (3), 1996: 89-106.
Corrigan, P. 'The Clothes-Horse Rodeo, or, How the Sociology of Clothing and Fashion has Treated its (w)Reiters', Theory, Culture & Society 10 (4), November 1993: 143-55.
Corrigan, P. 'Gender and the Gift: The Case of the Family Clothing Economy', Sociology 23 (4), November 1989: 513-34.
Corrigan, P. 'Troublesome Bodies and Sartorial Dopes: Motherly Accounts of Teenage Daughter Dress Practices', Semiotica 77 (4), December 1989: 393-413.
Corrigan, P. 'Researching Family Clothing: On the Breakdown of a Field Relationship', Critical Social Research, 2 (1), 1986: 32-47.
Corrigan, P. 'The Sally O'Brien Phenomenon', Crane Bag , 7 (2), 1983: 197-201.
Articles and Conference Papers
(a) Published
Corrigan, P. 'The Mass Media', pp. 277-304 in B. Furze et al., Sociology in Today's World, South Melbourne: Cengage, 2008.
Corrigan, P. 'Towards New Socio-Semiotic Directions in Clothing', pp. 1127-31 in Michel Balat and Janice Deledalle-Rhodes (eds.), Signs of Humanity. Volume II. Proceedings of the IVth International Congress, International Association for Semiotic Studies , Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
(b) Presented
Corrigan, P. 'Dead Dogs in Cyberspace: Time, Emotion and the Memorializing of Domestic Pets', Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK, 9 October 2008.
Corrigan, P. , 'Degree Structures and Credit Transfer', DEST National Conference on Bologna, ANU, Canberra, 7 September 2006.
Corrigan, P. 'Constructing the Teenage Consumer: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Teen Magazines', World Sociology Congress , Research Committee: RC 14 Communication, Culture, Knowledge, Brisbane , July 2002.
Corrigan, P. « Les solidarités dans le cyberespace », 2001 Bogues: Globalisme et Pluralisme , Montréal, 19-22 septembre 2001.
Corrigan, P. 'Fashion in Cyberspace: A Study of a Virtual Community', Sociological Sites/Sights, Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, Flinders University, Adelaide, 6-8 December 2000.
Corrigan, P. 'Rural Female Shopping Experiences. A Study of the Faisalabad Region', Commodification: Theories, Practices, Histories and Representations, University of Wollongong , 19-20 February 1998
Corrigan, P. 'Domestic Consumer Objects and Their Meanings: A Study of Female Commodity Worlds in Faisalabad, Pakistan', Objects of Belonging Conference, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 10-11 October 1997 and at Social Knowledge: Heritage, Challenges, Perspectives, 14th World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Montréal, Canada, 26 July - 1 August 1998.
Corrigan, P. 'Ancient Stone, Modern Flesh: The Dress-(D)(R)eformed Body of the Nineteenth Century', Confluences: Fashioning Intercultural Perspectives, International Textiles and Apparel Association and Université de la Mode, Lyon, France, 10-12 July 1997.
Corrigan, P. 'Time Materialized: The Case of Clothing', Time and Value, Centre for the Study of Cultural Values, Lancaster University , UK , 10-13 April 1997.
Corrigan, P. 'Dressing in Imaginary Communities: Clothing Theories and Practices in Utopian Texts From Thomas More to Feminist Science Fiction', Culture and Identity: City/Nation/World - 2nd Theory, Culture & Society Conference Berlin , 10-14 August 1995.
Corrigan, P. 'Stitched in Time: Theory, Temporalities and Dress', XIIIth World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld , Germany , 18-23 July 1994.
Corrigan, P. 'Constructing the Consuming Subject: The Australian Women's Weekly Places its Readers', Communication in the Workplace: Culture, Language and Organisational Change, Sydney Hilton International, 1-4 September 1993.
Corrigan, P. 'Acting One's Age: Conflict Over Appropriate Behaviour Among Mothers and Their Teenage Daughters', Conference of The Australian Sociological Association Materialism, Sexualities and Cultures, University of South Australia , 10-13 December 1992.
Corrigan, P. 'Clothing, Self and Others: The Three Dimensions of the Clothing Object', Colloquium on The Socio-Semiotics of Objects: The Role of Artifacts in Social Symbolic Processes, part of Twelfth International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 22-24 June 1990.
Corrigan, P. 'New Directions in the Sociology of Clothing', IV Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies Humanity and its Signs, Barcelona, Spain and Perpignan, France, March-April 1989.
Corrigan, P. 'Mutual Control Through Age: The Case of Mothers and Teenage Daughters', Research Committee in Sociolinguistics / International Sociological Association Conference Conversation, Discourse, Conflict, Dublin, Ireland, March 1989; Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Galway, Ireland, May 1989.
Corrigan, P. 'Troublesome Bodies and Sartorial Dopes: Motherly Accounts of Teenage Daughter Dress Practices', 3rd. International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Dublin, Ireland, June 1987; British Sociological Association Theory Group Conference Sociology and the Body, North Staffs Polytechnic, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, September 1987.