Dr Sebastian Job

BA Hons (Sociology UNSW), PhD (Anthropology, University of Sydney)
Lecturer

Room 235
RC Mills Building
+61 2 9351 6678

• My PhD and post-PHD research focuses on the unconscious motivations of racist nationalists in contemporary Russia. Here the interpretative lens is part psychoanalytic, part neo-Hegelian. In the last few years I have also begun working on those progressive political forces from a large number of countries I call the “new spiritual internationalists”. In general I am interested in anthropology’s capacity to illuminate the current world situation and the existential cum political possibilities open to humanity in this situation. Specific areas of interest include Russian, Latin American and Australian cultural lifeworlds, especially with a focus on issues of political significance; sociology and anthropology of spirituality and religion; race and racism; nations and nationalism; the State and “globalisation”; social theory; cultural ontologies and epistemologies; philosophies of history.