Dr Stephen Turner

BA/MA University of Auckland, PhD Cornell University

Senior Lecturer

In: Media and Communication » Social Sciences » Faculty of Arts

Biography

Globalism raises questions of colonial Europe and peripheral proxies, other centres and constitutions, including the local challenge in Aotearoa New Zealand posed by First (Indigenous) Law to national governance. The colonial present of the global south is masked by more recent make-overs of Indigenous lands and peoples that utilise writing technologies. My critique of settler-indigenism and the bio-security of ‘new’ countries considers the work of geo-media, more broadly, in the organisation of place and peoples. In my teaching, research, art-based activities and activism I try to unpack the on-going settler programme of place-making in view of the long history and dynamic presence of Maori, and, through interrogation of self and origin, to contribute to de-colonisation.

I think of my work on writing, politics and place as a collaboration, informed and influenced by the overlapping projects of many others. My co-construction of writing and artwork has addressed public pedagogy, education design and university architecture. My current interest in the organisational work of writing extends to workplaces, their digitisation and the future of work itself.

Research | Current

Research interests:

Global colonialities and Indigeneity
Public pedagogy and art projects
Education design, tools and environments
Writing and digital technologies
Work and organization studies

Book projects:

White Settler, Maori Place
With Sean Sturm, The University and Dissent

Research projects:

With Anna Boswell and Helen Delaney [Digital organisation]
With Jenny Stuemer [Colonial Europe]

Teaching | Current

COMMS 305 Writing Technology and Digital Culture

COMMS 200 Writing in the Workplace

MEDIA 210/325 Settlement, Indigeneity and Media

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD:

Dominic Da Souza Correa, "Terra Instabilis: Colonisation on Shakey Ground in Aotearoa New Zealand" (co-supervisor, Anna Boswell)
Lorenz Poeschl, "Public Pedagogy of Identity" (co-supervisor Sean Sturm)
Geri D'Mello, "Teaching Fandom: Online Interpretative Communities"
Sristi Bhattarai, "Minor Travels: Rethinking Travel in Postcolonial Art and Literature" (co-supervisor, Jan Cronin)

Curent MA:

Amy Taylor, "Food Media in New Zealand"

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Sturm, S., & Turner, S. (2018). In the wake of the quake: Teaching the emergency. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (5), 519-527. 10.1080/00131857.2017.1384724
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sean Sturm
Turner, S., & Neale, T. (2015). First law and the force of water: law, water, entitlement. Settler Colonial Studies, 5 (4), 387-397. 10.1080/2201473X.2014.1000912
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27799
Turner, S. (2015). The parasitical historiography of Ann Shelton's photography. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 15 (1), 37-51. 10.1080/14434318.2015.1047815
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27805
Sturm, S., & Turner, S. (2013). The university beside itself. In T. A. C. Besley, M. A. Peters (Eds.) Re-imagining the creative university for the 21st century (pp. 49-59). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers. 10.1007/978-94-6209-458-1_3
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/22607
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sean Sturm
Turner, S. (2011). Settler dreaming. Memory Connection, 1 (1), 114-126.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/15497
Sturm, S., & Turner, S. (2011). Built pedagogy: The University of Auckland Business School as Crystal Palace. Interstices, 12 (Unsettled Containers: Aspects of Interiority), 23-34.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/18636
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sean Sturm
Sturm, S., & Turner, S. (2011). Knowledge waves: New Zealand as educational enterprise. Australian Journal of Communication, 38 (3), 153-177.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/22951
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sean Sturm
Turner, S. (2010). The truth of waters. Reading room: a journal of art and culture, 4 (10), 112-123.