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 much needed survey…Inevitably, a survey as ambitious as this is bound to find itself spilling over the edges in these 14 accounts which give the Repetitive Beat Generation its fascination and, indirectly, its best qualification to stand as an accurate group portrait. You feel that the individual writers, even when united by friendship or by the experience of reading tours, are only glancingly interested in any notion of a collective sensibility. With regard to writers in general, that is pretty much business as usual.
Redhead’s book examines what he calls soccer fandom as pop culture. He argues that mellowness not violence now reigns on the terraces. I believe he is right.
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.
