Ian Buchanan is Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He researches in the areas of cultural studies, critical theory and human geography, and his main research interest focuses on practical and theoretical issues in cultural studies, especially the work of Deleuze and Guattari. His work explores the concept of the assemblage and particularly its application to understanding urban spaces. In recent years he has worked on a project that looks at low cycling rates in Australia with Gordon Waitt, Tess Lea and Glen Fuller. He founded the Deleuze and Guattari Studies journal and remains its editor, and convened the first Deleuze Camp in 2007. He has published a number of books, including Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a post-postcolonial multiplicity, Assemblage Theory and Method, A Dictionary of Critical Theory, and Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art. He is Research Director in the Institute for Social Transformation Research.
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