Dr Kane Race

Dr Kane Race
Senior Lecturer
A14 Quadrangle Building

Ph: 61 2 9351 3662

Dr Kane Race joined the department in 2007, after working at the National Centre in HIV Social Research at UNSW where he gained his PhD and later co-ordinated the postgraduate program in Health, Sexuality & Culture. His research interests include gender and sexuality, popular culture and consumption, sociology of health and biomedicine, Foucault’s ethics, biopolitics, citizenship, social policy, body technologies, and queer theory.

Kane has participated extensively in the social response to HIV/AIDS in Australia and has published widely on questions of risk, government and ethics in the context of HIV prevention, sexual practice and drug use. He maintains an interest in the principles and politics of harm reduction and, more generally, critical encounters between gender, sexuality and medicine. His forthcoming book, Pleasure Consuming Medicine (Duke University Press) approaches drugs as part of popular culture and considers social and political responses to this situation.

Books

• Race, K. (forthcoming 2008). Pleasure Consuming Medicine. Durham: Duke University Press

Book Chapters

• Race, K. (2007) Engaging in a culture of barebacking: gay men and the risk of HIV prevention. In K. Hannah-Moffat & O’Malley, P. (eds.) Gendered Risks. London: Glasshouse Press.
• Race, K. (2001) Incorporating clinical authority: a new test for people with HIV. In Watson, N., and Cunningham-Burley, S. (eds.) Reframing the Body. Palgrave: Hampshire and New York.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Race, K. (forthcoming) The use of pleasure in harm reduction: perspectives from the History of Sexuality. International Journal of Drug Policy
• Race, K. (2005) Recreational states: Drugs and the sovereignty of consumption. Culture Machine 7
• Race, K. (2004) Drugs and domesticity: fencing the nation. Cultural Studies Review. 10, 2: 62-84.
• Kippax, S. & Race, K. (2003). Sustaining safe practice: twenty years on. Social Science and Medicine. 57,1:1-12.
  
  Race, K. (2003) The death of the dance party. Australian Humanities Review. Issue 30, October.
• Race, K. (2003) Revaluation of risk among gay men. AIDS Education and Prevention. 15, 4: 369-81.
• Persson, A., Race, K., & Wakeford, E. (2003). HIV health in context: negotiating medical technology and lived experience. Health 7, 4:397-415
• Race, K. (2001) The undetectable crisis: changing technologies of risk. Sexualities 4, 2: 167-189.
• Race, K. & Wakeford, E. (2000) Dosing on time: developing adherent practice with Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy. Culture, Health and Sexuality 2, 2: 213-228.
• Race, K. (1997) The beast with two backs: bodies/selves/integrity. 9 Australian Feminist Law Journal 24-44.