Dr Jean Duruz

School of Communication, Media and Journalism

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Jean Duruz’s work focuses on issues of cosmopolitan citizenship and multiculturalism in Australia, as well as in a number of other societies, including those of Singapore, Malaysia, Britain, the United States and Mexico. It addresses questions of reciprocal human relationships and cultural exchanges in cosmopolitan societies - ways that these relationships and exchanges can enhance social sustainability. A major strand of her work uses food as a window for analysing relations of class, gender, religion and ethnicity and for understanding issues of inclusion, integration and citizenship in a changing society. Her work has implications for issues of social justice and inclusion, cultural integration, urban and regional planning, tourism and the social and cultural role of small business.She is the co-author (with Gaik Cheng Khoo) of Eating Together: Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham and London, 2015).

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2024 Duruz, J., & Manganas, N. (2024). Introduction to sticky memories: the emotional landscape of food. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 19(1-2), 1-8.
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2023 Duruz, J., Giovanangeli, A., Loda, A., & Manganas, N. (2023). Emotional scapes in Mediterranean port cities: Walking Barcelona, Marseille and Genova. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(4), 572-597.
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2022 Duruz, J. (2022). Kampong French: a tale of doubtful authenticity. Portal, 18(1), 1-19.
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2016 Duruz, J. (2016). Love in a hot climate: foodscapes of trade, travel, war, and intimacy. Gastronomica: the journal of food and culture, 16(1), 16-27.
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2013 Duruz, J. (2013). Tastes of the 'mongrel' city: geographies of memory, spice, hospitality and forgiveness. Cultural studies review, 19(1), 73-98.
2013 De Solier, I., & Duruz, J. (2013). Food Cultures: Introduction. Cultural studies review, 19(1), 4-8.
2011 Duruz, J. M. (2011). Quesadillas with Chinese black bean puree: eating together in 'ethnic' neighbourhoods. New formations, 74(74), 46-64.
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2011 Duruz, J. (2011). Tastes of hybrid belonging: following the laksa trail in Katong, Singapore. Continuum, 25(5), 605-618.
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2011 Duruz, J. (2011). At the table with hungry ghosts: intimate borderwork in Mexico City. Cultural studies review, 17(2), 198-218.
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2011 Duruz, J., Luckman, S., & Bishop, P. (2011). Bazaar encounters: food, markets, belonging and citizenship in the cosmopolitan city. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 25(5), 599-604.
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2010 Cook, I., Hobson, K., Hallett, L. I. V., Guthman, J., Duruz, J., & Henderson, H. (2010). Geographies of food: 'afters'. Progress in human geography, 35(1), 104-120.
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2010 Duruz, J. (2010). Floating food: eating 'Asia' in kitchens of the diaspora. Emotion, space and society, 3(1), 45-49.
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2007 Duruz, J. M. (2007). Rich pickings: Cultures and histories of taste: The taste culture reader: experiencing food and drink, by Carolyn Korsmeyer (ed.); Taste: A literary history, by Denise Gigante. The Senses and Society, 2(3), 377-383.
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2006 Duruz, J. M. (2006). Living in Singapore, travelling to Hong Kong, remembering Australia : intersections of food and place. Journal of Australian studies - culinary distinction, 30(87), 101-115.
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2006 Duruz, J. M. (2006). Rich Pickings. Cultural Studies Review, 120(1638), 72.
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2005 Duruz, J. M. (2005). Eating at the borders : culinary journeys. Environment and Planning D : Society and Space.
2004 Duruz, J. M. (2004). Adventuring and belonging: an appetite for markets. Space and Culture: The Journal.
2004 Duruz, J. M. (2004). Haunted kitchens : cooking and remembering. Gastronomica, 4(1), 57-68.
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2002 Duruz, J. M. (2002). Rewriting the village : geographies of food and belongings in Clovelly, Australia. Cultural geographies, 9(4), 373-388.
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2001 Duruz, J. M. (2001). Home cooking, nostalgia and the purchase of tradition. Traditional dwellings and settlements review, 23(1), 51-69.
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2000 Duruz, J. M. (2000). A nice baked dinner ... or two roast ducks from Chinatown? Identity Grazing.. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies.
1999 Duruz, J. M. (1999). The streets of Clovelly: food, difference and place-making. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies.
1999 Duruz, J. M. (1999). Food as nostalgia: Eating the fifties and sixties. Australian historical studies.
1999 Duruz, J. M. (1999). Cuisine Nostalgia? Tourism's romance with 'the rural'. Communal - Plural: Journal of Transnational and Crosscultural Studies.

Year Citation
2023 Duruz, J. (2023). 'My life is on those shelves ...' ingesting culinary cultures in a Mediterranean Port City. In I. D. Mihalache, & E. Zanoni (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures (pp. 117-138). UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2023 Khoo, G. C., & Duruz, J. (2023). A whiff of Southeast Asia: tasting durian and kopi. In H. Gould, & G. McClelland (Eds.), Source details - Title: Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats (pp. 87-113). US: Pennsylvania State University Press.
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2019 Duruz, J. (2019). Geographies of fusion: re-imagining Singaporean and Malaysian food in cities of the West. In C. Leong-Salobir (Ed.), Source details - Title: Routledge handbook of food in Asia (pp. 13-28). UK: Routledge.
2019 Duruz, J. (2019). Imagining culinary nomadism: food exchanges shaped by global mixed race, diasporic belongings, and cosmopolitan sensibilities. In J. P. Williot, & I. Bianquis (Eds.), Source details - Title: Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies around the World (pp. 125-146). US: Rowman & Littlefield.
2019 Duruz, J. (2019). Laksa Nation: tales of "Asian" belonging, borrowed and reimagined. In M. T. King (Ed.), Source details - Title: Culinary nationalism in Asia (pp. 231-250). UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
2018 Duruz, J. (2018). Trucking in tastes and smells: Adelaide's street food and the politics of urban 'vibrancy'. In K. E. Y. Low, & D. Kalekin-Fishman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Senses in cities: experiences of urban settings (pp. 169-184). UK: Routledge.
2016 Duruz, J. (2016). Ras el hanout and preserved lemons: memories, markets and the scent of borrowed traditions. In I. Banerjee-Dubeed (Ed.), Source details - Title: Cooking cultures: convergent histories of food and feeling (pp. 201-223). Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
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2015 Duruz, J. (2015). The travels of Kitty's love cake: a tale of spices, "Asian" flavors, and cuisine sans frontières?. In J. Farrer (Ed.), Source details - Title: The globalization of Asian cuisines : transnational networks and culinary contact zones (pp. 37-56). New York, US: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2015 Duruz, J. (2015). The taste of retro: nostalgia, sensory landscapes and cosmopolitanism in Singapore. In L. Kong, & V. Sinha (Eds.), Source details - Title: Food, Foodways and Foodscapes: Culture, Community and Consumption in Post-Colonial Singapore (pp. 133-158). Singapore: World Scientific.
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2014 MacFarlane, K., & Duruz, J. M. (2014). Technologies of Nostalgia: Vegetarians and Vegans at Addis Ababa Cafe. In J. H. Choi, M. Foth, & G. Hearn (Eds.), Source details - Title: Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions (pp. 33-49). Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Press).
2011 Duruz, J. M. (2011). Four dances of the sea: cooking "Asian" as embedded cosmopolitanism. In T. Chee-Beng (Ed.), Source details - Title: Chinese food and foodways in Southeast Asia and beyond (pp. 192-217). Singapore: NUS Press.
2008 Bishop, P. R., Duruz, J. M., & Mayne, A. (2008). In the middle of nowhere: journeys with the Ghan. In A. Mayne (Ed.), Source details - Title: Beyond the black stump: histories of outback Australia (pp. 25-56). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2008 Duruz, J. M. (2008). Talk table: doing-ethnography in the kitchen. In Source details - Title: Cultural theory in everyday practice (pp. 237-247). South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
2007 Duruz, J. M. (2007). From Malacca to Adelaide ... : fragments towards a biography of cooking, yearning and laksa. In Source details - Title: Food and foodways in Asia : resource, tradition and cooking (pp. 275-291). UK: Routledge.
1999 Duruz, J. M., & Johnson, C. (1999). Mourning at a distance: Australians and the death of a British princess. In A. Kear, & D. Steinberg (Eds.), Source details - Title: Mourning Diana: Nation, culture and the performance of grief (pp. 142-154). London: Routledge.

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