Biography summary
Dr Vince Marotta is an Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University. His main research interests include social theory, multiculturalism, cultural identity, cosmopolitanism, theories of the stranger and relationality. He is also co-managing Editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies (Routledge). His current work focuses on liminality and the Third under modernity and the relationship between silence, slowness, solitude and stillness. He has published a book on Theories of the Stranger: Debates on Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Cross-Cultural Encounters (Routledge 2017).
Research interests
Social Theory
Theories of relationality
Immigration
Multiculturalism and Cultural identity
Cosmopolitanism
Theories of the stranger
Units taught
ASC308 Social Theory Rewired: passion, politics and posthumanism
ASC233 International Migration and Multicultural Societies
ASC101 Introductory sociology
ASSC304 Deviance and Social Control
Knowledge areas
Social theory, multiculturalism, cultural identity, intersubjectivity, cross-cultural knowledge, theories of the stranger and relationality, virtual communities and the digital self, virtual ethnicities and animanl/human encounters.
Professional activities
Managing Editor
Journal of Intercultural Studies (Routledge)
Coordinator (Publications and Mentorship)
Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Publications
Migrant youth and the idea of the 'migrant experience'
V Marotta
(2023), Vol. 26, pp. 249-268, European Journal of Cultural Studies, London, Eng., C1
Relational theories of encounters and the relational subject
Rebecca Buys, Vince Marotta
(2021), Vol. 42, pp. 99-113, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Meeting again: reflections on strange encounters 20 years on
Vince Marotta
(2021), Vol. 42, pp. 1-7, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
The 'migrant experience': An analytical discussion
V Marotta
(2020), Vol. 23, pp. 591-610, European Journal of Social Theory, C1
Theories of the stranger: debates on cosmopolitanism, identity and cross-cultural encounters
V Marotta
(2017), Abingdon, Eng., A1
V Marotta, P Muraca
(2017), Vol. 21, pp. 235-254, Critical reflections on migration, ‘race’ and multiculturalism: Australia in a global context, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Marginality, racial politics and the sociology of knowledge: Robert Park and Critical Race Theory
V Marotta
(2017), pp. 181-200, The Anthem companion to Robert Park, London, Eng., B1
Critical global citizenship: contextualising citizenship and globalization
Fethi Mansouri, Amelia Johns, Vince Marotta
(2017), Vol. 1, pp. 1-9, Journal of citizenship and globalisation studies, Warsaw, Poland, C1
Critical reflections on migration, 'race' and multiculturalism Australia in a global context
V Marotta, M Boese
(2017), Critical reflections on migration, ‘race’ and multiculturalism Australia in a global context, Abingdon, Eng., A7
Travelling theory and Buddhist sociology
V Marotta
(2016), Vol. 29, pp. 242-264, Journal for the academic study of religion, Sheffield, Eng., C1
The multicultural, intercultural and the transcultural subject
V Marotta
(2014), pp. 90-102, Global perspectives on the politics of multiculturalism in the 21st century: a case study analysis, New York, B1
Georg Simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge
V Marotta
(2012), Vol. 33, pp. 675-689, Journal of intercultural studies, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Theories of strangers : introduction
V Marotta
(2012), Vol. 33, pp. 585-590, Journal of intercultural studies, London, England, C1
Intercultural relations in a global and transitional world
M Lobo, V Marotta, N Oke
(2011), pp. 1-10, Intercultural relations in a global world, Champaign, Ill., B1-1
The idea of the in-between subject in social and cultural thought
V Marotta
(2011), pp. 179-199, Intercultural Relations in a Global World, Champaign, Illinois, B1
Home, mobility, and the encounter with otherness
V Marotta
(2011), pp. 193-209, Migration, citizenship, and intercultural relations : looking through the lens of social inclusion, Aldershot , England, B1
New online ethnicities and the politics of representation
V Marotta
(2011), Vol. 32, pp. 539-553, Journal of intercultural studies, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Is the virtual ethnic subject real?
V Marotta
(2011), Vol. 32, pp. 459-464, Journal of intercultural studies, Melbourne, Vic., C1
V Marotta
(2010), pp. 105-120, Questioning cosmopolitanism, Dordrecht, New York, B1
M Vince
(2010), pp. 105-120, Questioning cosmopolitanism, Dordrecht , Germany, B1-1
Bauman, strangerhood and attitudes towards immigrants among the Australian population
J Pietsch, V Marotta
(2009), Vol. 45, pp. 187-200, Journal of sociology, Thousand Oaks, Calif., C1
lntercultural hermeneutics and the cross-cultural subject
V Marotta
(2009), Vol. 30, pp. 267-284, Journal of intercultural studies, Routledge, C1
The hybrid self and the ambivalence of boundaries
V Marotta
(2008), Vol. 14, pp. 295-312, Social Identities, Abingdon, England, C1
Multicultural places and the idea of home
V Marotta
(2008), pp. 1-13, TASA 2008 : Re-imagining sociology : the annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association 2008, 2-5 December 2008, The University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Victoria, E1
Multicultural and multiethnic cities in Australia
V Marotta
(2007), pp. 41-62, Ethnic landscapes in an urban world, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, B1
The 'Remix generation' and multiple identities
V Marotta
(2007), pp. 194-211, Public sociology: an introduction to Australian society, Crows Nest, N.S.W., B1
Civilisation, culture and the hybrid self in the work of Robert Ezra Park
V Marotta
(2006), Vol. 27, pp. 413-433, Journal of intercultural studies, Carlton, Vic., C1
Urban sociology and the stranger
V Marotta
(2005), pp. 1-10, TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, E1
Zygmunt Bauman : order, strangerhood and freedom
V Marotta
(2002), Vol. 70, pp. 36-54, Thesis eleven, Thousand Oaks, Calif., C1
The stranger and social theory
V Marotta
(2000), Vol. 62, pp. 121-134, Thesis eleven, London, Eng., C1-1
The hybrid subject & the Italian Australian identity
V Marotta
(2000), pp. 635-647, IN SEARCH OF THE ITALIAN AUSTRALIAN INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM, AUSTRALIA, MELBOURNE, E1-1
Reviews, Ann Game and Andrew Metcalfe, Passionate sociology (Sage, 1996)
V Marotta
(1998), Vol. 53, pp. 129-131, Thesis eleven, London, Eng., C1-1
Reviews: Zygmunt Bauman, Life in fragments: essays in postmodern morality (Blackwell, 1995)
V Marotta
(1997), Vol. 48, pp. 141-144, Thesis eleven, London, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Laura Janice Gobey
Thesis entitled: Constructions of Migrant Youth in Australian Youth Policies
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Xinyu Zhao
Thesis entitled: (Re)Making Boundaries: Chinese International Students in the Age of Social Media
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Alexia Maddox
Thesis entitled: The Community Experience of The Herpetological Interest Network: a mixed-methods study of social ecology
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Rebecca Buys
Thesis entitled: Temporal and relational entanglements: Exploring the Royal Commission into Family Violence
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Maria Irini Avgoulas
Thesis entitled: Health Beliefs and Practices in Three Generations of Greek Australian Women in Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Elizabeth Effeney
Thesis entitled: Democratically Grounded Cosmopolitanism: Iraqi Refugees in Australia Since 2003
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Rosemary Anne Lever
Thesis entitled: Economic and Social Opportunity: The Changing Lives of Aboriginal Victorians
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Robert Bensley
Thesis entitled: The Relationship Between Human Beings and Technological Systems
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society