Dr.
Peter ChambersProfile page
Senior Lecturer
School of GUSS
BIO
Pete asks: how do we live our lives, together, now? He writes about global anxiety and institutional involution, drawing on social theory to try and make sense of the surreal, stupid and destructive aspects of the world we're struggling to live in now. Pete is writing for a sense of hope and agency, against incoherence, confusion, destruction and nihilism. His book in progress examines the piped society: vast, invisible systems moving consumption around the world, and what our dependence on them is doing to our lives and our heads.
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, it focused on anxiety and conspiracy theories.
At RMIT, his own teaching work is interdisciplinary, and strives for open thinking on global crime and terrorism and society. He also teaches in to the criminology and justice program in a number of subjects.
He co-hosts Imperfect World with Chris Hobson, https://imperfectnotes.substack.com/podcast
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Sessional tutorUniversity of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia2007 - 2014
- Sessional lecturerUniversity of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia2007 - 2014
- Sessional lecturerRMIT University, Melbourne, Australia2012 - 2013
- Part-time lecturerRMIT University, Melbourne, Australia2014 - 2014
- LecturerDeakin University, Criminology, Australia2015 - 2017
- Senior lecturerRMIT University, Criminology and Justice, Melbourne, Australia2018 - present
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision