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Books
2014, Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future, UNSW Press, Sydney, https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/curating-the-city/
,2012, Practical Aesthetics: Events, Affects and Art After 9/11, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/practical-aesthetics-9781780761459/
,2012, Living in the Anthropocene/Leben im Anthropozän (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts/100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken #053), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, http://www.hatjecantz.de/documenta13/en/notebooks/index.html?book=2902
,2011, The Watch Man/Balnakiel: Shona Illingworth, Film and Video Umbrella Publishers, London
,2008, T_Visionarium: A User's Guide, University of New South Wales Press/ZKM, Sydney/Karlsruhe
,2005, Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art, Stanford University Press, Stanford, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=7523
,2004, Dennis Del Favero: Fantasmi, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney
,2001, (dis)LOCATIONS, Del Favero D; Shaw J; Bennett J, (eds.), ZKM Publications, Karlsruhe, Germany
,1998, Telling Tales, Bennett J; Dunn J, (ed.), University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Psychosocial design and engagement at The Big Anxiety festivals', in Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Routledge, pp. 97 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003318262-9
,2023, 'The work of the audience: visual matrix methodology in museums', in Audience Data and Research, Routledge, pp. 82 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032632452-7
,2022, 'Cultivating empathy through VR engagements with lived experience', in Clarke L; Kelomees R (ed.), [re|dis]connection Interactive Storytelling Art, ETC Press, Pittsburgh, pp. 91 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1184/R1/21565380.v1
,2022, 'Edge of the present: Mixed reality, suicidality and future thinking', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 28 - 37, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2022, 'Designing reparations: Creative process as reparative practice', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 153 - 165, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2022, 'Facilitating environments: An arts-based psychosocial design approach', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 93 - 111, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2022, 'Radical creativity: Breaking the cycles of trauma', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 55 - 65, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2022, 'The politics of experience: And the function of art in the expanded field of mental health', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 3 - 14, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2022, 'The Visit: A collaborative confabulation', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 80 - 89, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2022, 'Why do art therapies work?', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 17 - 27, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2022, 'EmbodiMap I: Trauma survival and refugee experience', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Publishing, London & New York, pp. 166 - 177, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
,2021, 'An immersive art-based approach to engaging with the embodied, sensory and affective experience of living with dementia', in Dementia Lab 2021: Supporting ability through design, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 95 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70293-9_8
,2020, 'Can practical aesthetics change lives?', in Herzogenrath B (ed.), Practical Aesthetics, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 227 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350116139.0025
,2019, 'Aesthetic intelligence', in Bennett J; Zournazi M (ed.), Thinking in the World: A Reader, Bloomsbury Academic, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/thinking-in-the-world-9781350069213/
,2019, 'Revolutions in thinking', in Zournazi M; Bennett J (ed.), Thinking in the World, Bloomsbury Academic, London, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4eKcxwEACAAJ&pg=PA29&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
,2019, 'Thinking in the world', in Bennett J; Zournazi M (ed.), Thinking in the world: A Reader, Bloomsbury Academic, London, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4eKcxwEACAAJ&pg=PA29&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
,2019, 'Thinking love and politics in the world', in Bennett J; Zournazi M (ed.), Thinking in the World, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4eKcxwEACAAJ&pg=PA29&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
,2019, 'Visual episodic memory and the neurophenomenology of digital photography', in Durden M; Tormey J (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory, Routledge, London, pp. 140 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315727998
,2019, 'New Subjects and Subjectivities', in Robinson H; Buszek M (ed.), A Companion to Feminist Art, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, pp. 533 - 544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118929179
,2017, 'Migratory Aesthetics: Art and Politics Beyond Identity (Polish Translation)', in Sendyka R; Nycz R; Sapota T (ed.), Migracyjna pamięć, wspólnota, tożsamość, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN Wydawnictwo, Warsaw
,2015, 'To See and be Seen. Introduction to Michel Serres', in Zournazi M; Bennett J (ed.), Eyes, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 1 - 2
,2015, 'Art, Affect, and the “Bad Death”: Strategies for Communicating the Sense Memory of Loss', in Robinson H (ed.), Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 - 2014, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, pp. 471 - 476
,2014, 'Transdisciplinary Aesthetics', in Kelly M (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, pp. 175 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780199747108.001.0001
,2012, 'Atmospheric Affects', in Zarzycka M; Papenberg B (ed.), Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive imagery and feminist politics, I.B. Tauris, London, pp. 102 - 120, http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Society%20%20social%20sciences/Society%20%20culture%20general/Cultural%20studies/Carnal%20Aesthetics%20Transgressive%20Imagery%20and%20Feminist%20Politics.aspx
,2012, 'Living in the Anthropocene', in The Book of Books: Catalog 1/3, Hatje Cantz, Berlin
,2011, 'Atmospheric Affects', in The Watch Man/Balnakiel: Shona Illingworth, Film and Video Umbrella, London, pp. 158 - 169, http://www.fvu.co.uk/bookshop/details/the-watch-man-balnakiel/
,2011, 'Migratory Aesthetics: Art and Politics beyond Identity', in Bal M; Hernández-Navarro MÁ (ed.), Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture Conflict, Resistance, and Agency, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 109 - 126
,2010, 'Insides, Outsides: Trauma, Affect, And Art', in Jones A (ed.), The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Routledge, London, pp. 452 - 462
,2008, 'Aesthetics of Intermediality: Gesture, Means and Method in Visual Cultural Studies', in Cherry D (ed.), About Mieke Bal, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, pp. 132 - 150
,2008, 'A Feeling of Insincerity: Politics, Ventriloquoy, and the Dialectics of Gesture', in Alphen EV; Bal M; Smith C (ed.), The Rhetoric of Sincerity, Stanford University Press, Stanford, pp. 195 - 213
,2008, 'Havoc: Real and Unimaginable Events in Post-9/11 Art', in Favero DD; Frohne U; Weibel P (ed.), Un_imaginable, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, pp. 96 - 115
,2007, 'Material Encounters: Approaching the trauma of others through the visual arts', in Prosthesis: Catalogue for an exhibition of art works by Gavin Younge, The decade 1997-2007, La Noire Galerie, Paris, pp. 21 - 29
,2007, 'Migratory Aesthetics: Art and Politics After Identity', in North I (ed.), Visual Animals: Crossovers, Evolution and New Aesthetics, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, pp. 125 - 138, http://www.amazon.com/Art-Visibility-Migratory-Culture-Intersecting/dp/9042032634
,2006, 'Passengers on a Train: Community and Contemporary Art', in Green C (ed.), 2006: Contemporary Commonwealth, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, pp. 20 - 26
,2005, 'The Aesthetics of Sense Memory: Theorising Trauma through the Visual Arts', in Radstone S; Hodgkin K (ed.), Memory Cultures: Memory, Subjectivity and Recognition, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, pp. 26 - 39
,2004, 'Love & Irony: Gordon Bennett After 9/11', in Stanhope Z (ed.), Three Colours: Gordon Bennett & Peter Robinson, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, pp. 3 - 9
,2003, 'The aesthetics of sense-memory: theorising trauma through the visual arts', in Radstone S; Hodgkin K (ed.), Regimes of memory, Routledge, Abington, pp. 27 - 39
,2003, 'Tenebrae after September 11: Art, empathy and the global politics of belonging', in Bennett J; Kennedy R (ed.), World Memory: Personal trajectories in global time, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 177 - 194, http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781403901156#aboutBook
,2003, 'The limits of empathy and the global politics of belonging', in Greenberg J (ed.), Trauma at home: After 9/11, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, pp. 132 - 139
,2001, 'Pentimento: Notes on Memory, Narrative and New Media', in Bennett J; Best S; De Landa M (ed.), (dis)LOCATIONS, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, pp. 40 - 52
,2001, 'Dennis Del Favero and the Traumatophilia of Video Installation', in Getczy A; Genocchio B (ed.), What Is Installation?: An Anthology of Writings on Australian Installation Art, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 307 - 313
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