STAFF PROFILE
Dr Peter Chambers
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399251038
Email:
peter.chambers@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Pete's scholarly work responds to basic questions about the worlds we live in now, sits within traditions of critical and social theory, and emphasises the importance of norms and values, especially conflicting visions of justice and the good society. It asks: how are we to live our lives, together, somehow, now?
In the 2010s, Pete's scholarly work focused on the emergence of border security, as well as sovereignty, securitisation, offshore, disruption, and logistics. Early 2020s work returned to and built on insights from classical sociology and the first generation of critical theory: in critical and theoretical criminology this was about incels and humiliation, in social theory, focusing on anxiety and conspiracy theories.
Pete's current fields of interest are broader and are bridging between sociological and psychosocial points of focus: containerisation and containment, separation and anxiety, drive and disintegration, control and powerlessness, love and ressentiment.
Pete co-hosts a podcast called Imperfect World.
Pete teaches Global Crime and Critical Criminology at RMIT Melbourne, where he is senior lecturer in Criminology and Justice.
- By appointment (email)
- PhD (Social Theory), 2008-12, University of Melbourne
- Sessional tutor, 2007-14, University of Melbourne
- Sessional lecturer and co-ordinator, 2007-14, University of Melbourne
- Sessional lecturer and co-ordinator, 2012-13, RMIT
- Part-time lecturer and co-ordinator, 2014, RMIT
- Lecturer, Criminology, 2015-17, Deakin University
- Senior lecturer, Criminology and Justice, 2018- , RMIT
- Thorburn, J.,Powell, A.,Chambers, P. (2023). A world alone: Masculinities, humiliation and aggrieved entitlement on an incel forum In: British Journal of Criminology, 63, 238 - 254
- Chambers, P. (2023). Fascist uses of conspiracy theories: alienation, anxiety, and false concreteness in the critical political theory of Franz Neumann In: Distinktion, , 1 - 27
- Chambers, P. (2022). Conspiracy theory, in theory: from history and knowledge in theory to the production of nonknowledge and structural amnesia in theoretical explanation In: Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, 6, 35 - 77
- Chambers, P. (2021). Return to the Far Side, Virtual. Or: what The Wire’s 2011 End of Year list can tell us about how values emerge from a culture that produces itself in its own imaginary web of self-reference, Surpllus, Melbourne, Australia
- Chambers, P. (2020). O Bike in Melbourne: A plea for more scepticism about disruption and capital, based on what we can know about one dockless bike scheme In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 140, 72 - 80
- Chambers, P. (2019). Walling Through Seas: the Indian Ocean, Australian border security, and the political present In: Urban Walls: Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces, Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom
- Chambers, P.,Andrews, T. (2019). Never mind the bollards: The politics of policing car attacks through the securitisation of crowded urban places In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37, 1025 - 1044
- Chambers, P.,Mann, M. (2019). Crimmigration in Border Security? Sorting Crossing through Biometric Identification at Australia’s International Airports In: Crimmigration in Australia: law, politics, and society, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore
- Chambers, P. (2018). Offshore is a form, not a place: paradoxes, global spaces and global classes in offshoring finance and detention In: Distinktion, 19, 1 - 27
- Chambers, P. (2018). Border security: shores of politics, horizons of justice, Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom