Staff profile

Dr Trevor Hogan

Senior Lecturer, Director - Philippines-Australia Studies Centre.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

MB 482, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons- Murdoch); BD (Hons-Melbourne); PhD (La Trobe).

Membership of professional associations

Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, La Trobe University. Philippines-Australia Studies Centre, La Trobe University. 2003

Area of study

Asian Studies
Australian Studies
International Development
Planning
Sociology

Brief profile

Trevor Hogan works in social theory and urban studies and in both fields promotes research about our region visa via the Asia-Pacific, especially through collaborative and exchange projects in the Philippines and India. In his work for the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology he is developing international collaboration with five international centres for social theory and cultural sociology, including two from Asia. Trevor teaches first year introductory sociology about 'Australia and beyond' and with Raelene Wilding, co-convenes the fourth year honours program. With his colleagues in Planning, Trevor Budge and Andrew Butt, he has developed cross-campus teamwork to teaching urban sociology in a multi-disciplinary setting at 2nd and 3rd year level, with a new postgraduate course in urban social theory to commence. With Ramon Spaaij, he is starting up a new subject on sport. Trevor supervises 17 doctoral candidates (8 principal and 9 co-supervisions). Trevor is also the Deputy Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology.

Research interests

Asian History

- The Philippines

Religion and Society

- Religion

Social and Cultural Anthropology

- Comparative and historical sociology

Urban Sociology and Community Studies

- Cities

- Social theory

Teaching units

  • SOC1AAB: Australia and beyond: introduction to sociology
  • SOC2/3APC: Asia Pacific Cities (with Andrew Butt)
  • SOC2/3ACR: Australian Cities and Regions (with Andrew Butt)
  • SOC2/3SCS: Sport, Culture and Society (with Ramon Spaaij)
  • SOC4HONS: co-convene with Raelene Wilding Sociology and Anthropology Honours Program
  • SOC4/5UST: Urban Social Theory

Recent publications

  • Hogan, T. and Bunnell, T., Pow, CP, Permanasari, E, and Sirat, M. 2010 ‘Asian Urbanisms and the Privatization of Cities: between regional synthesis and the serial replication of  case studies’ Cities
  • Hogan, T., Anand, D. and Henderson, K. 2010,  ‘Environment and Culture’ in John R. Hall et al. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, London: Routledge.
  • Hogan, T 2009, 'Quests for Camelot: Re-thinking the terms of Sociology as Vocation: Looking back to Jean Martin's presidential address to SAANZ Conference 1971', TASA 2009 Conference Proceedings: The Future of Sociology, Australian National University, Canberra, December 2009.
  • Newman, P and Hogan, T 2007, 'George Seddon: Pioneer of Regional Environmentalism', Westerly, 52: 10-23.
  • Hogan, T 2007, 'British Pluralism', in G Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp 3423-3424.
  • Hogan, T 2006, 'In but not of Asia: Reflections on Philippine Nationalism as Project, Discourse, and Evaluation', Thesis Eleven, 84: 115-132.
  • Beilharz, P and Hogan, T (eds), 2006, Sociology: Place, Time, Division, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 473 pp.
  • Hogan, T 2006, 'Australian Cities', in TL Hogan and P Beilharz (eds), Sociology: Place, Time, Division, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
  • Hogan, T. 2006, ‘Romanticism’; ‘Vitalism’, ‘World-View’ in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory edited by Michael Harrington, Barbara  L.Marshall, and Hans-Peter Müller. London: Routledge.
  • Hogan, T 2005, 'The Uses of Failure: Christian Socialism as a Nomadic City of the Gift Economy', Thesis Eleven, 80: 74-93.
  • Hogan, T and Beilharz, P 2004, 'The State of the Social Sciences in Australia', Social Science Research Council, New York.
  • Hogan, T and Beilharz, P (eds), 2002, Social Self, Global Culture: An Introduction to Sociological Ideas, 2nd Edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Research projects

My key project is to write on Cities, Civitas and Civilizations: From Anti-Urbanism to Hyper-Urbanism in an epoch of Global urbanization. I recently completed three months as Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asian Urbanisms Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

In his work as Director of the Philippines-Australia Studies Centre he is promoting two projects: 1. a public sector linkage project (involving environmental scientists, social scientists, miners, and Indigenous communities) on land restoration projects after mining that promote sustainable development; and 2. an inter-disciplinary visual arts-exchange project between La Trobe and Ateneo de Manila University.

With Peter Beilharz, Hogan is working on ways to think of Australia as antipodes (one project on history of Australian social sciences and another on developing new approaches to doing sociology in Australia in teaching and research) and to encourage cultural sociology of popular culture such as music and sport that combines critical traditions of the sociology of power with performative appreciation of creativity in everyday life.