Welcome to the website for Steve Redhead, Professor of Cultural Studies in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide in South Australia. Steve is a well known international author and Professor and has worked at numerous universities around the world. Steve lives in Adelaide in South Australia with his wife Professor Tara Brabazon. This website showcases Steve’s output to date – books, chapters in books, articles, podcasts, vodcasts, reviews, social media, all freely downloadable – and rolling reviews of all his eighteen books. It features a regular blog on what he has called ‘Theoretical Times’, his label for the contemporary post-crash cultural condition we live in today. Steve’s new book, also called Theoretical Times, is published in paperback by Emerald Publishing. It is distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Footprint Books. Steve is currently working on two new books: Three Coups, a socio-legal/criminology study of the JFK Assassination, Watergate and Trump Election victory, and New Realisms and New Materialisms, a critical look at how new realisms in methodology and philosophy complement the new materialisms in contemporary theory.
Reviews
a book which plots the parallel story of football, fashion and pop music. The book’s main theme is that football is not only a sport, consumer product and political issue but is also a lifestyle
Unpopular Cultures is a surprising book. It is the first attempt to articulate the intersection of law and popular culture…it is vibrant, subversive, erratic – exactly like the culture it maps – and reading it is an experience in itself..having now put the field on the map…we look forward to more in-depth studies from this high priest of legal pop.
The book tells a new, accessible story of the ‘disappearance’ of soccer hooliganism as a social problem into a burgeoning pop culture of accelerated youth styles, literature and post-fandom.
The changes in international football fan culture and the wider shifts in society that they mirror form the basis for this innovative book, mixing academic research with current happenings on and off the pitch
