Steve Redhead (January 1952 in

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– 8 March 2018) was the Professor of Jurisprudence and Head of Law in the Faculty of Arts at

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. He was also an adjunct professor at York University (Toronto) and was visiting

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of Accelerated Culture at the University of Bolton.

Career

Redhead held professorships in Canada and the United Kingdom, and a Visiting Professorship at

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in Australia. While his later scholarship focused on

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and theories of accelerated

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, he was known for his research on post-youth culture, law,

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, and popular culture and

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. He held an LLB and LLM from

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, and a PhD from the

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. Combining law and cultural studies, his scholarship focused on theories of deviance in both football fandom and dance cultures, along with current interests in speed, terrorism, football memoirs, war and theories of social change. Redhead was known for a series of scholarly innovations, in theories of deviance, (post) youth culture and accelerated modernity. While currently working in Bathurst in regional New South Wales, Australia, most of his career was spent at

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where he was Co-Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture with Derek Wynne. He also was the head of the Creative Industries Taskforce for the Geoff Gallop Government in

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. He was married to

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, Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University. A well-known media commentator, he appeared on the

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programme, '' Dance Britannia''. He was also an active podcaster and developed a series of microinterviews with Tara Brabazon. His best-known books include ''Rave Off'', ''End of the Century Party'', ''Repetitive Beat Generation'' and ''Sing When You're Winning''. His book on

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, The ''Jean Baudrillard Reader'', was published simultaneously by both

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and

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in 2008. Edinburgh University Press published ''The Paul Virilio Reader'' and ''Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture'' in 2004. ''We have never been postmodern'', was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2011, and ''Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life'' was published by Routledge in 2015. Steve Redhead died on 8 March 2018.

References

External links

Steve Redhead: MANC — Mobile Accelerated Nonpostmodern Culture
(archived 2014)

at Rock's Back Pages * https://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/files/hic/McRae%20and%20the%20Redhead%20Review.pdf - "The Redhead Review" by Leanne McRae * https://archive.org/search.php?query=Steve%20Redhead - Open Access audio interviews with Steve Redhead {{DEFAULTSORT:Redhead, Steve 1952 births 2018 deaths Academics of the University of Brighton Academic staff of Charles Sturt University