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AProf Philip Moore

PhD (Anthropology), The University of Western Australia; MA (Anthropology), Simon Fraser University, Canada; BA (Anthropology and Sociology), Simon Fraser University, Canada.

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    • Role:
    • Associate Professor
    • Department:
    • Department of Social Sciences
    • Location:
    • Humanities 303
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 7483

Research Interests

As a social anthropologist, my research interests can be broadly grouped under the heading of “the politics of community.” Under this rubric I have been involved in studying sports (hockey in Canada and soccer in Australia), Aboriginal heritage (as a consultant in Western Australia), and work (building subcontracting in Western Australia). I currently identify my ongoing research interests as:

  1. the labour migration of elite male Australian professional athletes in soccer, cricket, football and basketball. This project has only recently begun and is in its initial stages;
  2. the politics of soccer in Western Australia. This project has been proceeding for a number of years. This research began with a couple of small grants (with Roy Jones, a human Geographer) and has continued to grow as I have collected more information and as I have published on it;
  3. the commodification of ice hockey in North America. The history of hockey in North America can be understood since the creation of the National Hockey League in 1917 as an ongoing commodification of the sport. The commodification has been uneven, sporadic and at times quite uncoordinated. This project has been a long term concern of mine and has only recently begun to pay dividends in terms of published results; and
  4. the social organisation of subcontracting in the Perth housing industry. This project stems from research done for my PhD. My concern in this work is to explore the ways in which work in the housing industry is organised and understood by subcontractors, in the industrial context that tends to emphasise working without a central authority or a perduring relationship with any single employer.

Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Moore, P. 2010. Soccer in the west: the world game in Australia's western periphery. In The Containment of Soccer in Australia: Fencing off the World Game, eds Chris Hallinan and John Hughson, 84-95. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Moore, P. 2000. Soccer and the Politics of culture in Western Australia. In Games Sports and Cultures, eds Noel Dyck, 117-134. Oxford and new York: Berg.
  • Moore, P. 1999. Anthropological Practice and Aboriginal Heritage (a Case Study from Western Australia),. In Applied Anthropology in Australasia, eds Toussaint, Sandy and Taylor, Jim, 229-254. Perth: University of Western Australia Press.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Moore, P. 2011. Appreciating the political ethnography of master narratives and counterstories. Cultural Studies of Science Education 6(4): 837-840.
  • Moore, P. 2009. Soccer in the West: the World game in Australia's western periphery. Soccer and Society 10(1): 84-95.
  • Moore, P, and Bennett, D. 2008. Careers and contingencies: Constructing careers in the music and building industries. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 3: 267-274.
  • Moore, P. 2006. Luck in the vocabulary of motives of professional ice hockey. Anthropological Notebooks 12(2): 23-34.
  • Moore, P. 2004. Scouting an Anthropology of Sport. Anthropologica Vol 46 No 1, 2004: 37-46.
  • Moore, P. 2002. Practical Nostalgia and the Critique of Commodification: On the 'Death of Hockey' and the National Hockey League. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 13:3: 309-322.
  • Straker, L, Gurr, K, and Moore, P. 1998. Cultural hazards in the transfer of ergonomics technology. Industrial Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 22((4-5)): 397-404.