Eric Hsu

Dr Eric Hsu

Program Director: Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

School of Social Work and Social Care

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science

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

Available For Media Comment.

Dr Eric L Hsu is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Justice & Society Academic Unit at the University of South Australia, where he also serves as a Research Platform Leader at the UniSA Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. With Dr Louis Everuss, Dr Hsu hosts and produces the Sociology of Everything podcast. This podcast aims to stimulate interest in sociological ideas by offering a sideways and engaging look at the wonders of sociology. He is co-author most recently of Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures, published by Palgrave Macmillan. More information can be found on his website: www.ericlhsu.com

Sociology of sleep, Social acceleration theory, Disasters research, Sociology of time, Social theory, Sociology of food cultures, Globalization theory.

Year Citation
2020 Hsu, E. L., Elliott, A., Ishii, Y., Sawai, A., & Katagiri, M. (2020). The development of aged care robots in Japan as a varied process. Technology in Society, 63, 1-9.
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2020 Bissell, D., Birtchnell, T., Elliot, A., & Hsu, E. L. (2020). Autonomous automobilities: the social impacts of driverless vehicles. Current Sociology, 68(1), 116-134.
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2019 Hsu, E. L. (2019). Must disasters be rapidly occurring? The case for an expanded temporal typology of disasters. Time and Society, 28(3), 904-921.
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2017 Hsu, E. L. (2017). The sociological significance of non-human sleep. Sociology, 51(4), 865-879.
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2017 Hsu, E. L., & Salenius, B. M. (2017). Mobilizing minds in working life: a conversation between Eric L. Hsu and Bo-Magnus Salenius on corporate mobilities and organizational change in the 21st century. Applied Mobilities, 2(2), 215-222.
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2015 Hsu, E. L., & Elliott, A. (2015). Social acceleration theory and the self. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 45(4), 397-418.
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2015 Hsu, E. L. (2015). The slow food movement and time shortage: beyond the dichotomy of fast or slow. Journal of sociology, 51(3), 628-642.
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2013 Hsu, E. L. (2013). The sociology of sleep and the measure of social acceleration. Time and society, 23(2), 212-234.
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2024 Everuss, L., & Hsu, E. L. (2024). Modern bordering systems and digital identities: data doubles, enrolment exclusion and the creation of digital polities. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Source details - Title: The De Gruyter Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Identity and Technology Studies (pp. 211-232). Germany: De Gruyter.
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2021 Hsu, E. L. (2021). Technogenarians: ageing and robotic care 1. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI (pp. 266-280). UK: Routledge.
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2019 Hsu, E. L. (2019). Individualism, identity, and social acceleration. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Source details - Title: Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies: 2nd Edition (2 ed., pp. 147-165). UK: Routledge.
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2017 Everuss, L., & Hsu, E. (2017). Slow Food. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology (pp. 1-2). UK: John Wiley & Sons.
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2016 Hsu, E. L., & Elliott, A. (2016). Broadening horizons of disaster research. In A. Elliott, & E. L. Hsu (Eds.), Source details - Title: The consequences of global disasters (pp. 3-18). UK: Routledge.
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2016 Elliott, A., & Hsu, E. L. (2016). Accelerated identity: five theses on the self. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Source details - Title: Identity troubles: an introduction (pp. 111-130). US: Routledge.
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2014 Hsu, E. L. (2014). Globalization. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Source details - Title: Routledge handbook of social and cultural theory (pp. 192-206). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
2013 Hsu, E. L. (2013). Prelude 9 postmodern social theory. In A. Elliott, M. Katagiri, & A. Sawai (Eds.), Source details - Title: Routledge companion to contemporary Japanese social theory from individualization to globalization in Japan today (pp. 196-199). UK: Routledge.
2011 Hsu, E. L. (2011). New identities, new individualism. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Source details - Title: Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies (pp. 129-147). US: Taylor and Francis.
2010 Hsu, E. L. (2010). Social theory and globalization. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Companion to Social Theory (1 ed., pp. 203-218). London: Routledge.

  • Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Digital Transformations, Erasmus+ - Jean Monnet Projects, 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2028

  • UniSA Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Erasmus+ - Jean Monnet Projects, 01/07/2022 - 30/06/2025

  • Mobile Cultures of Disaster, The Japan Foundation, 01/06/2016 - 15/03/2017

Courses I teach

  • SOCU 1003 The Social World (2025)
  • LANG 4010 Honours Thesis 1 (2024)
  • LANG 4011 Honours Thesis 2 (2024)
  • SOCU 1002 Sociological Perspectives (2024)
  • SOCU 1003 The Social World (2024)
  • SOCU 2017 Understanding Globalisation (2024)
  • SOCU 4006 Research Methodologies and Methods (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Shupu Yan
2025 Principal Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Tingting Chen

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