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Dr David Giles

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Senior Lecturer

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Hum & Social Science

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Contact

d.giles@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 924 68382

Publications

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2022

Big Data won't feed the world: global agribusiness, digital imperialism, and the contested promises of a new Green Revolution

D Giles, V Stead

(2022), Vol. 46, pp. 37-53, Dialectical Anthropology, C1

journal article
2021

A mass conspiracy to feed people : food not bombs and the world-class waste of global cities

David Giles

(2021), Durham, N.C., A1

book

Fear of a Free Lunch: Markets, publics, and the would-be gift

David Giles

(2021), Vol. 55, pp. 126-146, Shifting States New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect, London, Eng., B1

book chapter
2020

After Market: Capital, surplus, and the social afterlives of food waste

David Giles

(2020), pp. 23-36, Routledge Handbook of Food Waste, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

Anthropology and #MeToo: Reimagining fieldwork

T King, D Boarder Giles, M Meher, H Gould

(2020), Vol. 31, pp. 274-287, Australian Journal of Anthropology, London, Eng., C1

journal article
2019

On missing people in the field

David Giles

(2019), pp. 102-112, Vulnerable witness: the politics of grief in the field, Oakland, Calif., B1

book chapter
2018

Abject economies, illiberal embodiment, and the politics of waste

D Giles

(2018), Vol. 39, pp. 113-130, Relational poverty politics: forms, struggles, possibilities, Athens, Georgia, B1

book chapter

Sketches for a theory of abject economies

David Giles

(2018), pp. 207-232, Arena journal, Fitzroy, Vic., C1

journal article
2017

Neutralizing homelessness, 2015: the story to date

D Giles

(2017), Vol. 38, pp. 332-340, Urban geography, Abingdon, Eng., C1

journal article
2016

The work of waste-making: biopolitical labour and the myth of the global city

D Giles

(2016), pp. 81-95, Environmental change and the world's futures: ecologies, ontologies and mythologies, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Food security: ethnographic perspectives on food environments, urban food systems and principles for action in post-quake Christchurch

D Giles

(2016), pp. 273-287, Social policy for social work and human services in Aotearoa New Zealand: diverse perspectives, Christchurch, N.Z., B1-1

book chapter

Distributions of wealth, distributions of waste: abject capital and accumulation by disposal

D Giles

(2016), pp. 198-218, Anthropologies of Value, London, Eng., B1-1

book chapter
2014

The anatomy of a dumpster: abject capital and the looking glass of value

D Giles

(2014), Vol. 32, pp. 93-113, Social text, Durham, N.C., C1-1

journal article
2013

"Welcome to the hellmouth": harnessing the power of fandom in the classroom

A Peloff, D Giles

(2013), pp. 74-82, Buffy the vampire slayer, Fishponds, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Funded Projects at Deakin

Industry and Other Funding

The Everyday Life of Fascism: Theory, Method, Ethics

Dr David Giles

Wenner-Gren Foundation

  • 2024: $30,868

Supervisions

Associate Supervisor
2024

Elizabeth Nicole Lara

Thesis entitled: Ambiguous Enclosures: Gardening at the Interfaces of California¿s Carceral and Abolition Geographies

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

2023

Christina Semasingha

Thesis entitled: Investigating Community Attitudes to Alternative Water Sources

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

2021

David Brown

Thesis entitled: Digital government: ideology and new forms of power

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences