Graham St John's Publications
Books
Global Trance Culture: Technology, Religion and Psytrance. London: Blackwell. (forthcoming).
2009. Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures. New York: Bergahan (in production).
2008. (ed.) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. New York: Berghahn.
2004. (ed.) Rave Culture and Religion. London: Routledge.
2001. (ed.) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor. Melbourne: Common Ground. (The link is a free ebook download at undergrowth.org)
Chapters in Books
Making a Noise—Making a Difference: Techno-Punk and Terra-ism, in Alan O’Connor (ed), After the Clash: Punk and Hardcore After 1977. University of New Mexico Press. (forthcoming)
2008. Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction. In Graham St John (ed) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, pp. 1-37. New York: Berghahn.
2008. Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Trance Dance Culture, in Graham St John (ed) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, pp. 149-173. New York: Berghahn.
2006. Reclaiming the Future: Going Feral and Becoming Native at Goolengook. In Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillips (eds) Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment, pp. 187-196. Aldershot: Ashgate.
2004. The Difference Engine: Liberation and the Rave Imaginary, pp. 19-45. In Graham St John (ed.) Rave Culture and Religion, London: Routledge. 2004.
2004. Techno Millennium: Dance, Ecology and Future Primitives, pp. 213-235. In Graham St John (ed.) Rave Culture and Religion, London: Routledge.
2003. Post-Rave Technotribalism and the Carnival of Protest, pp. 65-82. In David Muggleton and Rupert Weinzierl (eds) The Post-Subcultures Reader. London: Berg.
2001. Doof! Australian Post Rave Culture. In Graham St John (ed.) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, pp. 9-36. Melbourne: Common Ground.
2001. Techno Terra-ism: Feral Systems and Sound Futures. In Graham St John (ed.) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, pp. 109-137. Melbourne: Common Ground.
2000. ConFest: Edgecentral and the Feraliens. In Alan Dearling and M Hanley (eds). Alternative Australia: Celebrating Cultural Diversity, pp. 83-88. Enabler Publications.
Refereed Articles
2008. Protestival: Global Days of Action and Carnivalized Politics in the Present. Social Movement Studies. 7(2) (forthcoming).
2006. Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion: An Overview. Culture and Religion. 7(1):1-26.
2005. Outback Vibes: Sound Systems on the Road to Legitimacy. Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, 8(3): 321-336.
2005. Off Road Show: Techno, Protest and ‘Feral Theatre'. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19(1): 7-22.
2004. Counter Tribes, Global Protests and Carnivals of Reclamation. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 16(4): 421-428.
2001. Australian (Alter)natives: Cultural Drama and Indigeneity. Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 45(1): 122-140.
2001. Alternative Cultural Heterotopia and the Liminoid Body: Beyond Turner at ConFest. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 12(1): 47-66.
2001. 'Heal thy Self - thy Planet': ConFest, Eco-Spirituality and the Self/Earth Nexus. Australian Religion Studies Review, 14 (1): 97-112.
2001. The Battle of the Bands: ConFest Musics and the Politics of Authenticity. Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, 5(2): 69-90.
2000. Ferals: Terra-ism and Radical Ecologism in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 64: 208-216.
1999. Ferality: A Life of Grime. The UTS Review - Cultural Studies and New Writing, 5(2): 101-13. [download]
1997. Going Feral: Authentica on the Edge of Australian Culture. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 8(2): 167-189.
Special Editions
2006 Culture and Religion 7(1). Special Edition, Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion.
Reference Books
Entries entitled: Australia , Landscape and Religion (overview) (3000 words); Ferality (1000 words); Raves, Spirituality and Nature (1500 words); Keepers of Lake Eyre (750 words); in B. Taylor, and J. Kaplan (eds) The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. (2005) Continuum Publications.
Reviews
2005 Tim Lawrence’s Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2003, in Media International Australia 117: 160-161.
2001. John Patterson's People of the Land: A Pacific Philosophy, Dunmoore Press, in Worldviews : Environment, Culture, Religion (2001) 5(2): 242-44.
Burning Time: Begoggled in the Mega-Vibe @ Burning Man. Undergrowth.net (November 2007).
Dionysus Now: The Island of Fire and the Immortal Present. At Undergrowth.net (July 2007).
Dancing in the Realm: Life, Fusion, Boom Festivals. At Undergrowth.net (September 2006).
Soulclipse: Chasing the Progression. At Undergrowth.net (April 2006).
Land of the Long White Sock. In Undergrowth Magazine Issue 2: Terra Poetica (2004).
Global "Protestival": Reclaiming the Streets and the Future. M/C Reviews ‘Objection or Obstruction: The Culture of Protest in the 21st Century' (November 2004).
Earthdreaming for a Nuclear Free Future. Arena Magazine (2001) 53, pp. 41-44.
The Story of ConFest. Green Connections (1998/99), 21, pp. 24-5.
Virtual PhD Thesis
Alternative Cultural Heterotopia: ConFest as Australia 's Marginal Centre