Associate Professor Baden Offord BA(Syd), BA(Hons), PhD(SCU) Baden Offord’s research is characterised by its interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to questions of identity, social justice, sexuality, human rights, pedagogy and culture. His research cuts across the fields of cultural studies, media studies, cultural geography, sociology, Asian studies, Australian Studies and education studies. He sees culture as the crucial fabric of political and social life.
Journal articles
A scholarly affair: activating cultural studies (with Robert Garbutt), The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (Special Double Issue) (2012)
This special issue is a product of the 2010 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual...
Australia - an unfinished western colonial project, Centre for Pacific and American Studies Newsletter (2011)
Village in the jungle: the eighth annual Doireann MacDermott lecture, Coolabah, (2011)
This paper is a slightly edited version of a keynote lecture, delivered at the Aula...
Androgynous ethical intervention and living history, Coolabah (2009)
This paper explores how narratives of Australian belonging are formed through a quilted matrix of...
Teaching Australia: investigating the ethics of cultural encounters (with Robert Kostevc), Australian Studies (2007)
Books
Activating human rights in education: exploration, innovation and transformation (with Christopher James Newell), School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2008)
‘... ‘Human rights can sometimes seem a somewhat removed topic in our professional and personal...
Landscapes of exile: once perilous, now safe (with Anna Haebich), School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2008)
Inspired by the international conference 'Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe' held in Australia...
Activating human rights (with Elisabeth J. Porter), School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2006)
This book is based on papers originally presented at the international conference 'Activating Human Rights...
Homosexual rights as human rights : activism in Indonesia, Singapore, and Australia, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2003)
This book examines homosexual rights as human rights in the light of recent insights of...
Book chapters
Queer(y)ing pedagogy and cultural studies: critical reflections on teaching sexuality (with She Hawke), Queerying paradigms II: interrogating agendas (2011)
The purpose of this chapter is to propose a new path for queer theory that...
Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia: arrested development!, The lesbian and gay movement and the state: comparative insights into a transformed relationship (2011)
Australian identity and belonging at a crossroads, Change, conflict and convergence: Austral-Asian scenarios (2010)
Cultural studies in action: principled socially inclusive pedagogy and higher education equity projects (with Soenke Biermann and Robert George Garbutt), Learning, teaching and social justice in higher education (2010)
The queer(y)ing of Australian public culture discourse: activism, rights discourse and survival strategies, Creative nation: Australian cinema and cultural studies reader (2009)
Creative Nation is the first Reader on Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies published in India...
Popular Press
Conference Publications
A scholarly affair: proceedings of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 2010 national conference (with Robert Garbutt), School of Arts and Social Sciences (2011)
Preface to the conference proceedings: walking the tightrope of being human, Activating Human Rights and Peace Conference (2008)
Community engagement: innovation through Higher Education Equity Support projects (with Robert George Garbutt), AUCEA Refereed Conference Proceedings (2007)