Biography
David Farrugia is an ARC Future Fellow and a specialist in the areas of youth, citizenship, labour and employment, and rural and regional youth. His research is interdisciplinary spanning the areas of sociology, education, politics and labour studies, exploring the role of youth identity in economic processes, and the position of young workers in contemporary public life.
Read more on David's profileTeaching interests
I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in researching youth from a critical and socially embedded perspective.
Knowledge areas
Youth identities; work and employment; citizenship; rural and regional youth; service employment.
Projects
"Young Workers and the Future of Service Employment." This ARC Future Fellowship examines the micro-politics of service employment for young workers, and how precarious work impacts on young people's capacity for social and political participation.
"Youth, Labour and Value in the service Economy." Funded by an ARC Discovery Project, this project explores the role of youth identity in the creation of value in the hospitality industry.
Publications
Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour
David Farrugia, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, Lisa Adkins, Ros Gill, Megan Sharp, Julia Cook
(2023), Vol. 71, pp. 47-64, The Sociological Review, London, Eng, C1-1
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing
J Coffey, K Senior, A Haro, D Farrugia, S Threadgold, J Cook, K Davies, B Shannon
(2023), Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1-1
Femininity work: The gendered politics of women managing violence in bar work
J Coffey, D Farrugia, R Gill, S Threadgold, M Sharp, L Adkins
(2023), pp. 1-15, Gender, Work and Organization, London, Eng., C1
Buy now pay later services as a way to pay: credit consumption and the depoliticization of debt
J Cook, K Davies, D Farrugia, S Threadgold, J Coffey, K Senior, A Haro, B Shannon
(2023), Vol. 26, pp. 245-257, Consumption, Markets and Culture, London, Eng., C1
Youth and the consumption of credit
D Farrugia, J Cook, K Senior, S Threadgold, J Coffey, K Davies, A Haro, B Shannon
(2022), Current Sociology, C1-1
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults' plans
J Cook, D Farrugia, S Threadgold, J Coffey
(2022), Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1-1
Queer subjectivities in hospitality labor
Megan Sharp, David Farrugia, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, Lisa Adkins, Rosalind Gill
(2022), Vol. 29, pp. 1511-1525, Gender, Work & Organization, London, Eng., C1-1
Youth Beyond the City Thinking from the Margins
David Farrugia, Signe Ravn
(2022), Bristol, Eng., A7
Challenging the structure/agency binary: Youthful culture, labour and embodiments
S Threadgold, D Farrugia, J Coffey
(2021), pp. 15-29, Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives: Theory, Methods and Agendas, London, Eng., B1
Affective labour and class distinction in the night-time economy
S Threadgold, D Farrugia, J Coffey
(2021), Vol. 69, pp. 1013-1028, Sociological Review, London, Eng., C1-1
Youth, work and global capitalism: new directions
David Farrugia
(2021), Vol. 24, pp. 372-387, Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1-1
Youth, Precarious Work and the Pandemic
J Cook, S Threadgold, D Farrugia, J Coffey
(2021), Vol. 29, pp. 331-348, Young, London, Eng., C1-1
Youth, Work and 'Career' as a Way of Talking about the Self
David Farrugia
(2021), Vol. 35, pp. 856-871, Work, Employment and Society, London, Eng., C1-1
Intersecting marginalities: International students' struggles for "survival" in COVID-19
J Coffey, J Cook, D Farrugia, S Threadgold, P Burke
(2021), Vol. 28, pp. 1337-1351, Gender, Work and Organization, London, Eng., C1-1
Class, affective labour and exploitation: Unemployment and the creation of work on the margins
J Gerrard, D Farrugia
(2021), Vol. 69, pp. 240-255, Sociological Review, London, Eng., C1-1
Coloniality, Racialization, and Epistemicide in African Youth Mobilities
Joshua Kalemba, David Farrugia
(2020), pp. 217-225, The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies, Oxford, Eng., B1
David Farrugia
(2020), Vol. 23, pp. 237-251, Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1-1
Doing research in organisations: Implications of the different definitions of youth
Joel McGregor, David Farrugia
(2019), pp. 33-45, Complexities of Researching with Young People, London, Eng., B1
D Farrugia
(2019), Vol. 67, pp. 47-63, Current Sociology, London, Eng., C1-1
David Farrugia
(2019), Vol. 67, pp. 1086-1101, The Sociological Review, London, Eng., C1-1
How youth become workers: Identity, inequality and the post-Fordist self
David Farrugia
(2019), Vol. 55, pp. 708-723, Journal of Sociology, London, Eng., C1-1
D Farrugia, J Hanley, M Sherval, H Askland, M Askew, J Coffey, S Threadgold
(2019), Vol. 55, pp. 306-322, Journal of Sociology, London, Eng., C1-1
Gender, Sexuality, and Risk in the Practice of Affective Labour for Young Women in Bar Work
J Coffey, D Farrugia, L Adkins, S Threadgold
(2018), Vol. 23, pp. 728-743, Sociological Research Online, London, Eng., C1-1
Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: changing land use in Narrabri, NSW
S Threadgold, D Farrugia, H Askland, M Askew, J Hanley, M Sherval, J Coffey
(2018), Vol. 4, pp. 393-404, Environmental Sociology, London, Eng., C1-1
J Coffey, S Threadgold, D Farrugia, M Sherval, J Hanley, M Askew, H Askland
(2018), Vol. 58, pp. 665-683, Sociologia Ruralis, London, Eng., C1-1
Youthfulness and immaterial labour in the new economy
D Farrugia
(2018), Vol. 66, pp. 511-526, Sociological Review, London, Eng., C1-1
Farmers as modern-day stewards and the rise of new rural citizenship in the battle over land use
M Sherval, H Askland, M Askew, J Hanley, D Farrugia, S Threadgold, J Coffey
(2018), Vol. 23, pp. 100-116, Local Environment, London, Eng., C1-1
Young subjectivities and affective labour in the service economy
D Farrugia, S Threadgold, J Coffey
(2018), Vol. 21, pp. 272-287, Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1-1
Spaces of youth: Work, citizenship and culture in a global context
D Farrugia
(2017), London, Eng., A1
Youth Homelessness in Late Modernity: Reflexive Identities and Moral Worth
David Farrugia
(2016), Singapore, A1-1
Academic Knowledge and Contemporary Poverty: The Politics of Homelessness Research
D Farrugia, J Gerrard
(2016), Vol. 50, pp. 267-284, Sociology, London, Eng., C1-1
Moral distinctions and structural inequality: Homeless youth salvaging the self
D Farrugia, J Smyth, T Harrison
(2016), Vol. 64, pp. 238-255, Sociological Review, London, Eng., C1-1
Affective Topologies of Rural Youth Embodiment
D Farrugia, J Smyth, T Harrison
(2016), Vol. 56, pp. 116-132, Sociologia Ruralis, London, Eng., C1-1
D Farrugia
(2016), Vol. 19, pp. 836-851, Journal of Youth Studies, London, Eng., C1-1
'VULNERABLE', 'AT-RISK', 'DISENGAGED'
David Farrugia, John Smyth, Tim Harrison
(2015), Vol. 2, pp. 165-179, INTERROGATING CONCEPTIONS OF VULNERABLE YOUTH IN THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE, B1-1
Ultimate concerns in late modernity: Archer, Bourdieu and reflexivity
D Farrugia, D Woodman
(2015), Vol. 66, pp. 626-644, British Journal of Sociology, England, C1-1
Addressing the problem of reflexivity in theories of reflexive modernisation: Subjectivity and structural contradiction
D Farrugia
(2015), Vol. 51, pp. 872-886, Journal of Sociology, C1-1
The 'lamentable sight' of homelessness and the society of the spectacle
J Gerrard, D Farrugia
(2015), Vol. 52, pp. 2219-2233, Urban Studies, C1-1
Emplacing young people in an Australian rural community: an extraverted sense of place in times of change
D Farrugia, J Smyth, T Harrison
(2014), Vol. 17, pp. 1152-1167, Journal of Youth Studies, C1-1
Rural young people in late modernity: Place, globalisation and the spatial contours of identity
D Farrugia, J Smyth, T Harrison
(2014), Vol. 62, pp. 1036-1054, Current Sociology, C1-1
Towards a spatialised youth sociology: The rural and the urban in times of change
D Farrugia
(2014), Vol. 17, pp. 293-307, Journal of Youth Studies, C1-1
Unpacking the black box: The problem of agency in the sociology of youth
J Coffey, D Farrugia
(2014), Vol. 17, pp. 461-474, Journal of Youth Studies, C1-1
Young people and structural inequality: beyond the middle ground
D Farrugia
(2013), Vol. 16, pp. 679-693, Journal of Youth Studies, C1-1
The reflexive subject: Towards a theory of reflexivity as practical intelligibility
D Farrugia
(2013), Vol. 61, pp. 283-300, Current Sociology, C1-1
The Possibility of Symbolic Violence in Interviews With Young People Experiencing Homelessness
D Farrugia, D Farrugia
(2012), pp. 109-121, Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research, London, Eng., C1
Youth homelessness and individualised subjectivity
D Farrugia
(2011), Vol. 14, pp. 761-775, Journal of Youth Studies, C1-1
Homeless youth managing relationships: Reflexive intersubjectivity and inequality
D Farrugia
(2011), Vol. 19, pp. 357-373, Young, C1-1
The symbolic burden of homelessness: Towards a theory of youth homelessness as embodied subjectivity
D Farrugia
(2011), Vol. 47, pp. 71-87, Journal of Sociology, C1-1
Exploring stigma: Medical knowledge and the stigmatisation of parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
D Farrugia
(2009), Vol. 31, pp. 1011-1027, Sociology of Health and Illness, England, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Young Workers and the Future of Service Employment
Dr David Farrugia
ARC Fellowships - Future Fellowships
- 2023: $356,589
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report