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Dr Fiona Allon

Research interests

  • Cultures of 'home' and everyday life
  • Space, place and identity
  • Suburban and urban cultures
  • Popular culture; mobility, travel and the cultural dimensions of globalisation.

Teaching areas

  • Gender, Communities and Difference
  • Sport, Media and Gendered Cultures
  • Cultural Theory
  • Place and Identity
  • Everyday Life.

Selected Publications

  • Allon, F forthcoming, Renovation Nation: Australia's Obsession with Home, UNSW Press, Sydney.
  • Anderson, K, Bushell, R and Allon, F forthcoming, 'Mutant Mobilities: Backpacker Tourism in "Global" Sydney', Mobilities
  • Allon, F 2006, 'Between Sydney and Hong Kong: Doing Cultural Research Without Guarantees', in Allon, F and Morris, M (eds), Engagements, Special Issue of Cultural Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2
  • Allon, F and Sofoulis, Z 2006, 'Everyday Water: Cultures in Transition', in Waitt, G, Head, L and Gill, N (eds), Applied Natures: Cultural Engagements with Australian Environmental Management, Special Issue of Australian Geographer, vol. 37, no. 1, pp 45-55
  • Allon, F 2006, 'Dams, Plants, Pipes and Flows: From Big Water to Everyday Water', in Coe, J S and Howard, W S (eds), Water: Resources and Discourses, Special Issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 6, no. 3
  • Allon, F 2006, 'Suburbs for Sale: Buying and Selling the Great Australian Dream', in Anderson, K, Dobson, R, Allon, F and Neilson, B (eds), After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney. E-Proceedings of 'Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation' Conference, UWS, Sydney.
  • Allon, F 2005, 'The Tyranny of Proximity: Australia in the Era of Globalisation', in West-Pavlov, R (ed.), Who's Australia?-Whose Australia?: Politics, Society and Culture in Contemporary Australia, WVT, Trier.
  • Allon, F 2004, ‘We will decide who comes to this country: Inclusion, Exclusion and the National Imaginary', Schwarz, A and West-Pavlov, R (eds.), Multicultural Societies and Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Australia and Germany, Rodopi, Amsterdam.
  • Allon, F 2004, 'An Ontology of Everyday Control', in Couldry, N and McCarthy, A (eds), Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age, Routledge, London and New York.
  • Allon, F 2004 ‘Backpacker Heaven: the Consumption and Construction of Tourist Spaces and Landscapes in Sydney’, Space and Culture vol. 7.1.
  • Allon, F 2004, 'Bali as Icon: Death, Tourism and the Pleasure Periphery', in Thomas, M and Ganguly, D (eds), Cultural Politics and Iconography, Special Issue of Humanities Research, vol. XI, no. 1
  • Allon, F 2004, 'From Visiting Cultures to Travelling Cultures', Tourism: an International Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 52, no. 1
  • Allon, F 2004, ‘An Ontology of Everyday Control: Flows, Mediation and Private Space’, Couldry, N and McCarthy, A (eds.) Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age, Routledge, London and New York.
  • Allon, F 2002, 'Boundary Anxieties: Between Borders and Belongings', in Watson, I, Allon, F, Nicholl, F and Neilson, B (eds), On What Grounds?: Sovereignties, Territorialities and Indigenous Rights Special Issue of Borderlands e-journal, vol. 1, no. 2
  • Allon, F 2002, ‘Translated Spaces/Translated Identities: the Production of Place, Culture and Memory in an Australian Suburb', Jumping the Queue University of Queensland Press, pp. 101-110.
  • Allon, F 2002, ’Altitude Anxiety: Acclimatising in Manang, a Traveller’s Tale’, Cultural Studies Review, November, pp. 85-103.
  • Allon, F 2001, ‘Living and Working in the "Smart House"’, Southern Review, vol. 34.3, pp. 8-21.
  • Allon, F 2000, ‘Nostalgia Unbound: Illegibility and the Synthetic Excess of Place’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 14, no.3, pp. 275-287.
  • Allon, F 1998, ‘Geographic Promiscuity: Mobility and the "Problem of Home"’, in C Houston et al. (eds.) Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space, La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, pp. 207-214.
  • Allon, F 1997, ‘Home as Cultural Translation: John Howard’s Earlwood’, Communal/Plural, no. 5, pp. 1-25.
  • Allon, F 1994, ‘The Nuclear Dream: Everyday Life in the Atomic Age’, Chris Healey et al. (eds.) Beasts of Suburbia: Reinterpreting Cultures in Australian Suburbs, Melbourne University Press, pp. 35-52.
  • Co-curator 2003, Flannelette: An Australian Story. Held at the Liverpool Regional Museum. April-June.