Eduardo de la Fuente

Dr Eduardo de la Fuente

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences


Peri-metropolitan writer and researcher specialising in culture, economy, space and place, and the ‘textures’ of everyday life. In addition to his role as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Justice and Society, Eduardo is a Fellow of the Institute for Place Management (Manchester Metropolitan) and  a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology. In 2020, he and Ariella Van Luyn (UNE) published the co-edited volume Regional Cultures, Economies and Creativity: Innovating through Place in Australia and Beyond. Current writing projects include a monograph on texture as a guiding metaphor in the social sciences; and empirical projects on landscape and place, spatial and sensory atmospheres, and novel forms of entrepreneurship emerging in outer-urban, rural and regional Australia.

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2025 Scott, M., Szili, G., & de la Fuente, E. (2025). Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion. Journal of Consumer Culture, 24(1), 65-82.
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2022 de la Fuente, E., & Walsh, M. J. (2022). The sonic framing of place: microsociology, urban atmospheres and quiet hour shopping. Thesis Eleven, 172(1), 131-149.
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2022 de la Fuente, E., Gibson, M., Walsh, M. J., & Szypielewicz, M. (2022). Introduction to thinking place: materiality, atmospheres and spaces of belonging. Thesis Eleven, 172(1), 3-15.
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2021 de la Fuente, E., & Walsh, M. J. (2021). Framing Atmospheres: Goffman, Space, and Music in Everyday Life. Symbolic Interaction, 44(1), 211-234.
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2020 Walsh, M. J., & de la Fuente, E. (2020). Sonic Havens: Towards a Goffmanesque Account of Homely Listening. Housing Theory and Society, 37(5), 615-631.
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2019 de la Fuente, E. (2019). After the cultural turn: For a textural sociology. Sociological Review, 67(3), 552-567.
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2019 de la Fuente, E. (2019). BOTH-AND: On the need for a ‘textural’ sociology of art. Caderno Crh, 32(87), 475-490.
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2019 de la Fuente, E. (2019). Place management for nonrepresentationalists: Using landscape theory to rethink creativity, economy and place. Axon, 9(2), 1-12.
2014 De la Fuente, E. (2014). Why aesthetic patterns matter: Art and a "qualitative" social theory. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 44(2), 168-185.
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2014 Murphy, P., & de la Fuente, E. (2014). Introduction: Aesthetic Capitalism. Social and Critical Theory, 15, 1-9.
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2013 de la Fuente, E. (2013). ‘Profane’ rather than ‘secular’: Daniel Bell as cultural sociologist and critic of modern culture. Thesis Eleven, 118(1), 105-115.
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2012 de la Fuente, E., Budarick, J., & Walsh, M. (2012). Altered states: an essay on communication and movement. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 26(1), 39-49.
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2010 de la Fuente, E. (2010). The Artwork Made Me Do It: Introduction to the New Sociology of Art. Thesis Eleven, 103(1), 3-9.
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2010 de la Fuente, E. (2010). In defence of theoretical and methodological pluralism in the sociology of art: A critique of georgina born's programmatic essay. Cultural Sociology, 4(2), 217-230.
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2009 de la Fuente, E. (2009). Exemplary stories: On the uses of biography in recent sociology. Thesis Eleven, 97(1), 115-129.
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2008 De, L. F. E., & West, B. D. (2008). Cultural sociology in the Australian context. Journal of sociology, 44(4), 315-319.
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2008 De La Fuente, E. (2008). The art of social forms and the social forms of art: The sociology-aesthetics nexus in Georg Simmel's thought. Sociological Theory, 26(4), 344-362.
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2007 De La Fuente, E. (2007). The place of culture in sociology: Romanticism and debates about the 'cultural turn'. Journal of Sociology, 43(2), 115-130.
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2007 de la Fuente, E. (2007). The 'new sociology of art': Putting art back into social science approaches to the arts. Cultural Sociology, 1(3), 409-425.
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2004 de la Fuente, E. (2004). Max Weber and Charles Ives: The Puritan as Cultural Modernist. Journal of Classical Sociology, 4(2), 191-214.
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2001 De La Fuente, E. (2001). La filosofia weberiana del profeta e il compositore d'avanguardia. Rassegna Italiana Di Sociologia, 42(4), 513-540.
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2000 de la Fuente, E. (2000). Sociology and Aesthetics. European Journal of Social Theory, 3(2), 235-247.
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2017 De la Fuente, E. (2017). Cosmopolitan and non-cosmopolitan surfaces. In Cosmopolitanism Markets and Consumption A Critical Global Perspective (pp. 157-181). Springer International Publishing.
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2015 de la Fuente, E. (2015). THINKING CONTRADICTORY THOUGHTS: On the Convergence of Aesthetic and Social Factors in Recent Sociologies of Art. In Routledge Companion to Art and Politics (pp. 53-66). Routledge.
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2014 de la Fuente, E. (2014). Neo-Modernism: Architecture in the Age of Aesthetic Capitalism. In Social and Critical Theory (Vol. 15, pp. 128-148). BRILL.
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2010 De La Fuente, E. (2010). Prophet and priest, ascetic and mystic: Towards a cultural sociology of the twentieth century composer. In Social and Critical Theory (Vol. 8, pp. 87-105).
2010 De La Fuente, E., & Murphy, P. (2010). Introduction: Philosophical and cultural theories of music. In Social and Critical Theory (Vol. 8, pp. 1-11).
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