Adrian Franklin
Adrian Franklin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Kent University of Bristol |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social anthropology, sociology, cultural studies |
| Institutions | University of South Australia University of Tasmania University of Oslo University of Bristol |
Adrian S. Franklin is a British social anthropologist and writer. He worked at various institutions in England and Europe before moving to Australia, first at the University of Tasmania and then, from 2017, at the University of South Australia. He is also known for appearing as a panellist on the ABC Television series Collectors.
Early life and education
Adrian S. Franklin[1] was born in Canterbury, England. His family frequently visited Calais, France, when he was growing up.[2]
He holds a Master of Arts in social anthropology from the University of Kent, and was awarded his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1989 for his thesis "Privatism, the Home and Working Class Culture".[3][4]
Career
Franklin was a professor at Bristol University and at the University of Oslo's[5] the Institute for Social Anthropology in Vienna, Austria,[6][7] before moving to Tasmania, attracted by its reputation for good fly fishing. There, he became professor of anthropologist at the University of Tasmania.[2][8]
He was appointed professor at the University of South Australia (UniSA)[7] in 2017.[6]
Around 2019, Franklin moved back to Tasmania to lead the Australian Research Council-funded project "Creating the Bilbao Effect: MONA and the Social and Cultural Coordinates of Urban Regeneration Through Art Tourism".[7] As part of this, he published an article in 2019 "Where 'Art Meets Life': Assessing the Impact of Dark Mofo, A New Mid-Winter Festival in Australia".[6]
As of 2024 he was adjunct research professor of creative industries at UniSA[9][10] (now part of Adelaide University).
His research interests include "the ethnographic analysis of festivals, rituals, travels and 'events'; art museums and art publics; art tourism; culture-led urban regeneration, urban anthropology and human-animal studies".[7]
Other activities
Franklin was a panellist on the ABC Television series Collectors[8][11] which ended in 2011.
Recognition
In 2009, Franklin was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.[5]
Books
- Squatting in England, 1969–79: A Case Study of Social Conflict in Advanced Industrial Capitalism (Working Paper 37, School for Advanced Urban Studies, University of Bristol, 1984)
- Experts, Landlords and Tenants: The Private Rented Sector in Bristol (Policy Press 1992)
- New homes for home owners. London: HMSO. 1993. (with Forrest, RS., Murie, A., Gordon, D., Burton, PA., Doogan, KJ) (147pp).1993
- Home from Home - Refugees in Tasmania. Canberra: Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, AGPS. 1997. (with Roberta Julian and Bruce Felmingham)
- Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human–Animal Relations in Modernity (Sage 1999)
- Nature and Social Theory (Sage, 2002)
- Tourism (Sage, 2003)
- Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia (University of New South Wales Press, 2007)
- A Collectors Year (New South 2008)
- Collecting the 20th Century (University of New South Wales Press/Powerhouse Museum, 2009)
- City Life (Sage, 2010)
- Retro: A Guide to the Mid-Twentieth Century Design Revival (Bloomsbury, 2013)
- The Making of MONA (Penguin, 2014)
- Tom Moore - Abundant Wonder. Wakefield Press (about glass artist Tom Moore; with Lisa Slade and Mark Thomson, 2020)
- Anti-museum (Routledge, 2020)
- The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies (editor; 2024)[9]
References
- ^ "On Loneliness" (library catalogue entry). University of Adelaide library catalogue. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
- ^ a b Power, Liza (23 December 2011). "Lunch with Adrian Franklin". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ "Privatism, the home and working class culture : a life history approach". EThOS. British Library. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ Franklin, Adrian. ""Privatism, the Home and Working Class Culture"". ResearchGate. Retrieved 13 February 2026. (Available on request)
- ^ a b "Adrian Franklin". Penguin Books Australia. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
- ^ a b c Franklin, Adrian (13 May 2019). "Where "Art Meets Life"". Journal of Festive Studies. 1 (1). H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online: 106–127. doi:10.33823/jfs.2019.1.1.27. ISSN 2641-9939.
- ^ a b c d Franklin, Adrian (2018). "Art tourism: A new field for tourist studies". Tourist Studies. 18 (4): 399–416. doi:10.1177/1468797618815025. ISSN 1468-7976. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
- ^ a b "A Collector's Year". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
Posted 5 Dec 2008; updated 16 Aug 2016
- ^ a b "The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
- ^ "University of South Australia". Search. 19 December 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
- ^ Blundell, Graeme (2 September 2011). "Hoarding objects a soothing escape". The Australian. Retrieved 29 August 2021.