Eduardo de la Fuente
Casual Academic
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
place
Bedford Park
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia
Eduardo was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but has resided in Australia since the 16th of January, 1974. Before coming to Flinders in 2011, he held positions at the University of Tasmania, Macquarie and Monash. His first passion was economics but the bulk of his academic career has been in sociology with an emphasis on culture, communication, everyday life and theoretical ideas about society/culture. He is something of a 'contrarian' in his view of academic sociology (i.e., he believes academics shouldn't have default positions on questions of politics and ideology). You can read further about his research and teaching interests below.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Economics (USyd)
Bachelor of Arts Honours (UNSW)
PhD in Sociology and Cultural Studies (Griffith)
Flinders Foundations of University Teaching
Honours, awards and grants
Eduardo is currently Secretary and Acting President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of the Arts of the International Sociological Association (ISA RC 37); Co-convenor (with Suzi Adams and Craig Browne) of the Social Theory Thematic Group of the Australian Sociological Association; a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology; and a member of the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities.
Key responsibilities
Was Sociology Honours Convenor 2012-13 and is currently a member of the School of Social and Policy Studies Work-Integrated Learning and Education Committees.
Supervisory interests
Arts and arts management
Communication and media theory
Culture and cultural policy
Economics, management and marketing as cultural phenomena
Liberal and conservative perspectives in the social sciences
Religion and spirituality as cultural phenomena
Tourism and leisure studies
Visual, sound and material cultures
Professional engagement
Eduardo has published opinion pieces and been interviewed on various aspects of society, culture, art, and social and cultural thought in (amongst other places) The Australian, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Australian Review of Books, Quadrant, ABC Radio Nationaland ABC 891 Adelaide.
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Arts
Communication and interpersonal skills
Humour
Media
Metaphysics
Music
Social theory
Sociology
South America
Spirituality
Universities
Urban planning
Values
Culture; history of ideas; everyday life; search for meaning
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- Arts
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Humour
- Media
- Metaphysics
- Music
- Social theory
- Sociology
- South America
- Spirituality
- Universities
- Urban planning
- Values
Interests
- Culture; history of ideas; everyday life; search for meaning
Further information
His intellectual motto (with full apologies to Blake) is something like: 'Sociologists should strive to find the entire cosmos in the most mundane, minute or esoteric aspects of life'. If his ideas come to nought, or are not taken up by the academic world at large, he would gladly devote the rest of his life to gardening, flyfishing, studying Medieval mystical theology, or simply doing nothing.
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