Dr Theresa Petray

Lecturer (Sociology)

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Room:	DA4-119, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Townsville Campus
Telephone:	+61 (07) 4781 6674
Fax:	+61 (07) 4781 4064
Email:	Theresa.petray@jcu.edu.au
Address:	School of Arts and Social Sciences James Cook University Townsville QLD 4811 AUSTRALIA

Qualifications, Memberships and Consultancies

BA (Hons), St. Lawrence University
PhD, James Cook University
TRANSOCEANIK : Interactive research, mapping, and creative agency in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. LAS, CNRS/EHESS/Collège de France and the Cairns Institute, JCU, Australia.
Fellow, Australian Anthropological Society
Secretary, The Australian Sociological Association
Co-Convenor, Sociology of Indigenous Issues Thematic Group

Currently Teaching

Social Survey Design and Analysis
Introduction to Sociology
Power & Protest in a Globalising World
Our Space: Networks, Narrative and the Making of Place

Research Interests

Race & inequalities
Social movements, activism and protest
Agency & social change
Aboriginal Australians

Selected Publications

Petray, TL (2012) Prefigurative Activism, State Engagement, and Agency in the Townsville Aboriginal Movement. In Cheshire, L., Broom, A., and Petray, T. (eds), Proceedings of the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association. Brisbane: TASA, November 2012.

Petray, T. and Halbert, K. (2012) Active Citizenship in a Digital World: Enhancing Engagement Online. In Cheshire, L., Broom, A., Harley, K. and Natalier, K. (eds), Proceedings of the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association. Brisbane: TASA, November 2012.

Page, A. and Petray, T. (2012) The Duality of Agency and the Australian Settler-State in the 21st Century: The Palm Island Riot of 2004 and the Aftermath. In Cheshire, L., Broom, A., and Petray, T. (eds), Proceedings of the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association. Brisbane: TASA, November 2012.

Petray, T. (2012) Can Theory Disempower? Making Space for Agency in Theories of Indigenous Issues. In Howard-Wagner, D., Habibis, D. and Petray, T. (eds), Theorising and Indigenous Sociology: Australian Perspectives. Sydney: Sydney University eScholarship Repository, July 2012, 6 pages.

Petray, TL (2012) A Walk in the Park: Political Emotions and Ethnographic Vacillation in Activist Research. Qualitative Research 12(5).

Petray, TL (2011) Protest 2.0: Online Interactions and Aboriginal Activists. Media, Culture & Society.33(6): pp. 923-940.

Osbaldiston, N. and Petray, T.L. (2011) The Role of Horror and Dread in the Sacred Experience. Tourist Studies 11(2): pp.175-190.

Petray, TL (2010) Support vs. Solidarity: White Involvement in Aboriginal Activism. Social Alternatives 29(4): pp.69-72.

Petray, TL (2010) ‘This isn’t a black issue’: Homophily and Diversity in Aboriginal Activism. Social Movement Studies 9(4): pp.411-424.

Petray, TL (2010) Push-Button Activism: The Use of Technology by Townsville Aboriginal Activists.The annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association.Sydney: TASA, 8 December 2010.

Osbaldiston, N. and Petray, T.L. (2009) Horror, Dread, Awe and Disgust: Revisiting Durkheim and Place. The annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association.Canberra: TASA, 3 December 2009.

Petray, TL (2009) Stir It Up: The Rastafarian Movement as an Anti-Systemic Movement.Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM.

Petray, T.L. (2008) Homophily and Diversity: The use and effects of bonding versus bridging networks by Townsville Aboriginal activists.Majoribanks, T. et al (eds), The annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association. Melbourne: TASA, 3 December 2008.