Scott Brook
Biography
Scott Brook was educated at Swinburne Community School and the Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne.
Before joining the University of Canberra he taught cultural policy studies and creative writing at the University of Melbourne where he was also Project Manager for a cultural policy review for the City of Whittlesea. In 2003/04 he was a regular writer for Spinach7 magazine and in 2003 received an Australia Council grant to edit the collection West of the West: writing, images and sound from Melbourne’s west.
Research areas: cultural policy, creative labour, the history of creative arts education, governmentality studies, Pierre Bourdieu, Vietnamese Australian cultural production.
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MA, PhD Cultural Studies (University of Melbourne)
Current research
- Artists' careers and the labour market
- The use of cultural capital indicators
- Governing creativity: twentieth century discourses on creativity (with Dr Rimi Khan)
- The policy formation of Young and Emergent Writers in Australia (with Dr Tony Eaton).
Professional roles/activities
- Book Reviews Editor (Asian Diasporas), Asian Studies Review, Taylor and Francis
- Editorial Committee Axon
- Report for the City of Whittlesea (2010) ‘Negotiating Cultural Insecurity – Multiculturalism, Arts Policy,
Cultural Indicators and Cultural Citizenship’ (coauthored with A. Yue, R. Harindranath and R. Khan).
Parkville, VIC: School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne. (131 pp).
Funded by the Department for Community Cultural Development, City of Whittlesea, and the
School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
- Report on the ‘Accounting for Creative Writing’ student survey (2009). Australian Association of Writing
Programs (57 pp.). Funded by a Melbourne Research Scholarship, the University of Melbourne
http://www.aawp.org.au/publications-aawp
- Submission to ‘Arts Strategy Scoping Study’, Maribyrnong City Council, Victoria. This submission is
quoted (120 words) on pages and 7 of the subsequent report ‘Developing an Arts and Cultural
Strategic Plan for the City of Maribyrnong’ by Lisa Arnott, Office of Cultural Planning, Maribyrnong
City Council
- Founding member of FauxPho Arts (est. 2003), an artist run studio and performance space in
Footscray, Melbourne
- Referee for Cultural Studies Review, TEXT, Antithesis and Write4Children
Publications
Refereed articles
Brook, S. (Under consideration) ‘Social inertia and creativity’, Journal of Sociology. (Submitted October 2011).
Brook, S. (Under consideration) ‘Creative writing, cultural capital and the labour market’, Australian Humanities Review (Submitted June 2011).
Yue, A., R. Khan and S. Brook (2011) ‘Developing a Local Cultural Indicator Framework in Australia: A Case Study of the City of Whittlesea’, Journal of Culture and Local Governance 3:1-2; 133-49.
Brook, S. (2010) ‘Managing creativity: practice-led research and training the person’ TEXT, 8. http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue8/content.htm
Brook, S. and C. Nunn (2010) ‘Vietnamese Return Narratives in Australian Public Culture’, Amerasia Journal 36:2; 17-32.
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Brook, S. (2008) ‘The Art of Government: Khoa Do’s The Finished People and the policy reform of Community Cultural Development’, Studies in Australasian Cinema 2:2; 177-93.
Brook, S. (2008) ‘Cultural capital and cultural diversity: some problems in Ghassan Hage’s critique of cosmopolitan multiculturalism’ Journal of Australian Studies 32:4; 509-20.
Brook, S. (2006) ‘Touring the Phantom Agent: Recognition, Defacement and the Vietnamese-Australian War Memorial’, Journal of Intercultural Studies 27:1-2; 133-50.
Brook, S. (2002) ‘Does Anybody know what happened to Ficto(-)criticism? Toward a fractal genealogy of Australian fictocriticism’, Cultural Studies Review 8:2; 104-18.
Book chapters
Pham, H. and S. Brook (2010) ‘Generation V: the Search for Vietnamese Australia’, in A. Sarwal and S. Mycak (eds.) Australian Made: A Multicultural Reader (Sydney: University of Sydney Press); 241-60. (Reprinted. See below)
Pham, H. and S. Brook (2009) ‘Generation V: the Search for Vietnamese Australia’, in A. Sarwal and R. Sarwal (eds.) Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader (New Delhi: SSS Publications); 311-20
Brook, S. (2008) ‘Touring the Phantom Agent: Recognition, Defacement and the Vietnamese-Australian War Memorial’, in T. Khoo (ed.) Locating Asian-Australian Cultures (London and New York: Routledge); 133-50
Essays, reviews and interviews
Brook, S. (2007) ‘After the Eighties: the Documentary Photography of Thuy Vy’, Peril: The Asian-Australian arts and culture review, 3 Available at <www.asianaustralian.org>
Brook, S. (2007) ‘Paul Dawson’s Creative Writing and the New Humanities’, (book review) Antithesis 17
Brook, S. (2006) ‘Scamps and cigarettes: remembering dan choi’, Bao Nha Magazine (June)
Brook, S. & A. Douglas (2006) ’10,000 Views: Murray McKeich, Hoang Tran Nguyen & Thuy Vy ’, (art catalogue) FauxPho Artspace, Footscray, Melbourne, 1-25 February 2006.
Brook, S. (2005) ‘Western Culture: the Art of Melbourne’s West’ (interview with festival director Jason Cross)), Artwork, 62 (September)
Brook, S. (2004) ‘The Finished People’ (review) Spinach7, 5 (Spring)
Brook, S. (2004) ‘No Star Where: the Vietnamese news debate’ Spinach7, 3 (Summer)
Brook, S. (2003) ‘The Diafrix Massive’ (review) Spinach7, 2 (Spring)
Brook, S. & L. Low (2003) ‘Diasporic Disorientalism’ (review) Spinach7, 1 (Winter)
Brook, S. (2003) ’97.4 FM’ (interview with broadcaster Viet Quoc Tran) in S. Brook et al (eds.) West of the West (Altona: Common Ground)
Brook, S. (2003) ‘The pleasure of fish’ (interview with author David Greagg) in S. Brook et al (eds.) West of the West (Altona: Common Ground)
Short fiction
Brook, S. (2004) ‘Cry Wolf’, in R. Kenny (ed.) Richard Clements: Seeing the Sublime (Hamilton, Hamilton Art Gallery)
Brook, S. (2003) ‘City Limits’ in S. Brook et al (eds.) West of the West (Altona: Common Ground)
Brook, S. (2003) ‘Burrow’, The Other Side 4
Brook, S.(2003) ‘Tyre nests’, The Other Side 4
Brook, S.(2002) ‘Photographs 1933, 1916’, Salt 16
Brook, S. (2002) ‘Labertouche’, Salt 16
Brook, S. (2002) ‘Even for Miles’ in M. Campbell (ed.) Strange Cities (Carlton: Crooked Style Press)
Brook, S. (2001) ‘But Kerry…’ Antithesis 12
Brook, S. (1998) 'Camera obscura', Overland 153
Brook, S. (1997) 'Perspective Studies', Aedon 4
Brook, S. (1997) 'Butcher's Nightmare', Aedon 4
Brook, S. (1995) 'Isthmus', (poem) RePublica 3
Co-edited books
Brook, S et al (2003) West of the West; writing, image and sound from Melbourne’s west (Altona: Common Ground)
Co-edited journals
Brook, S. and P. Magee (2012) ‘Beyond Practice Led Research’, Special Issue of TEXT 16:2
Brook, S. et al. (2006) Antithesis 16