Dr Phillip Ablett
BA(Hons) La Trobe, PhD La Trobe
Position: Lecturer, Sociology
Office: D1.33
Tel: +61 7 5459 4602
Email: pablett@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Introductory Sociology
- Critical Social Theory
- Sociology of Religion
Research areas
- Social structure and inequality
- Hermeneutics (mainly Heidegger and Gadamer) and its application to cultural and natural environments
- Key areas include social theory, political sociology, post-Marxism, Philippine studies, civilisational analysis and the sociology of religion
- Reconstructing the sociology of religion by utilising the work of Cornelius Castoriadis and his notion of social institutions and movements as creations of "collective imagination" in action
- Learning, teaching and applications of social theory in Australian universities
Profile
Dr Phillip Ablett completed his doctorate in sociology at La Trobe University in 2001, examining the participation of Christian Church people in movements for revolutionary social change in the Philippines. He has taught sociology and anthropology since 1994 at both La Trobe University and University of the Sunshine Coast in the areas of introductory sociology, cultural anthropology, social movements, social research, social theory and the social history of technology.
Dr Ablett was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Outstanding Teacher in 2007. He is currently converting his PhD thesis into a book for Ateneo University Press, Philippines. This book examines the question of why many Christian Church people in the Philippines became organised participants in a Communist-led revolutionary movement against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos from 1972 onwards.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Dr Phillip Ablett are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
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