Staff profile

Dr Peta Malins

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

MB 453, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA Hons, PhD (Melbourne).

Area of study

Legal Studies

Brief Profile

Drawing on insights from critical criminology, post-structural philosophy, cultural studies, gender studies and social geography, Peta’s research explores the ways in which contemporary social policies, practices and laws enact particular kinds of subjects, bodies, social relations and urban spaces. Her primary research experience is in the field of illicit drug use, where she has examined issues of identity and stigma, gender, pleasure and desire, city space, risk and health, overdose memorialisation, and heroin chic advertising imagery. She also has research experience and/or interest in areas including: graffiti and stencil art, policing and surveillance, consumption and advertising, capitalism, corporate responsibility, the environment, activism, animal ethics, human rights, the intersection of ethics and aesthetics, and the work of Deleuze and Guattari.

Research interests

Law and Society

- Drug and alcohol issues

- Graffiti, Surveillance and other urban space management issues

- Risk-taking and management

Teaching Units

  • LST2/3LJP - Law Justice Power (tutoring).
  • LST1CCR - Crime and Criminology.
  • LST2/3DLS - Drugs, Law and Social Justice.
  • Honours core subject – On Drugs: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Drug and Alcohol Issues.
  • Honours Thesis Workshops.

Recent Publications

  • Malins, P 2010, (forthcoming) 'Nomadic Inscriptions: Deleuze and Stencil Art in Melbourne', in Felicity Colman, Helene Frichot, and Jack Reynolds (eds), Global Arts, Local Knowledge (International Association for Philosophy and Literature - Textures: Philosophy / Literature / Culture Series), Lexington Press.
  • Malins, P 2010, (forthcoming) 'An Ethico-Aesthetics of Heroin Chic: Art, Cliché & Capitalism', in Laura Guillaume (ed.), Deleuze and the Body, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
  • Malins, P 2007, 'City Folds: Injecting Drug Use and Urban Space', in Anna Hickey-Moody & Peta Malins (eds), Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues, Palgrave MacMillan, London.
  • Hickey-Moody, A & Malins, P 2007, 'Introduction: Gilles Deleuze and Four Movements in Social Thought', in Anna Hickey-Moody & Peta Malins (eds), Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues, Palgrave MacMillan, London.
  • Hickey-Moody, A & Malins, P (eds), 2007, Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues, Palgrave MacMillan, London.
  • Malins, P, Fitzgerald, J & Threadgold, T 2006, 'Spatial "Folds": the Entwining of Bodies, Risks and City Spaces for Women Injecting Drug Users in Melbourne’s Central Business District', Gender, Place and Culture, 13(5): 509-527.
  • Malins, P 2004, 'Body-space Assemblages and Folds: Theorising the Relationship Between Injecting Drug User Bodies and Urban Space', Continuum, 18(4): 483-495.
  • Malins, P 2004, 'Machinic Assemblages: Deleuze, Guattari and an Ethico-Aesthetics of Drug Use', Janus Head, 7(1): 84-104.