Biography summary
Dr Vince Marotta is coordinator of Publishing and Mentorship at the Alfred Deakin Institue for Citizenship and Globalisation and is a Senior Lecturer (Sociology) in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University. His main research interests include social theory, urban sociology, multiculturalism, cultural identity, cosmopolitanism and theories of the stranger. He is also 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. His latest book is Theories of the Stranger: Debates on Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Cross-Cultural Encounters (Routledge 2017).
Research interests
Urban Sociology
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
Knowledge areas
Social theory, multiculturalism, cultural identity, intersubjectivity, cross-cultural knowledge, theories of the stranger, virtual communities and the digital self, virtual ethnicities
Professional activities
Managing Editor
Journal of Intercultural Studies (Routledge)
Coordinator (Publications and Mentorship)
Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Publications
The 'migrant experience': An analytical discussion
V Marotta
(2019), pp. 1-20, European Journal of Social Theory, London, Eng., C1
At the cutting edge of migration and refugee studies: a Festschrift for Prof Stephen Castles
D Özkul, V Marotta
(2018), Vol. 39, pp. 111-113, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., 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
Vince Marotta
(2014), pp. 90-102, Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century, 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, C1
Intercultural hermeneutics and the cross-cultural subject
V Marotta
(2009), Vol. 30, pp. 267-284, Journal of Intercultural Studies, C1
The hybrid self and the ambivalence of boundaries
V Marotta
(2008), Vol. 14, pp. 295-312, Social Identities, 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, 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, C1
The stranger and social theory
V Marotta
(2000), Vol. 62, pp. 121-134, Thesis eleven, London, Eng., C1-1
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
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
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