Peer-Reviewed Publications

Applying social shaping of technology, this paper elucidates how imaginaries influence popular perceptions of cybersecurity careers and shape collective understandings of cybersecurity itself.

Foley, M., & Basu, S. (2024). Decoding the gendered imaginary of cybersecurity careers: a social shaping of technology perspective. Information, Communication & Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2391818

Book Reviews & Essays

True safety emerges not from paternalistic protection but a more fundamental dismantling of structures that seek to harm First Nations youth while also supporting their right to thrive in culturally and politically sustaining spaces, both online and offline.

Whose Safety? Digital Bans in a Settler Colony

Sulagna Basu, ANTAR, Feb 2025

https://antar.org.au/blog/whose-safety-digital-bans-in-a-settler-colony/

Insisting on themes of Indigenous survivance and the subversion of colonial space-time, Saunders’s narratives collapse the past, present and future into a multidimensional cosmos where the borders between real/fantasy and mythic/mundane are endlessly permeable.

Sovereign Words, Sovereign Worlds

Sulagna Basu, Meanjin, 15 May 2024

https://meanjin.com.au/latest/sovereign-words-sovereign-worlds/

Throughout, Sutherland exposes the enduring objectification and commodification of Black bodies by tracing the disturbing continuities between historical visual records of anti-Blackness and contemporary digital circulations that re-inscribe and reproduce this trauma. The argument is even more pertinent in the present context of digital technologies making images of war and everyday violence observable at speed and in real time.

Basu, S. (2024, February 6). Resurrecting the Black Body by Tonia Sutherland [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine.

https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.ouyn7054

Research Reports

This report analyses how women on the Central Coast experience work now, and what they aspire to in their working futures. The research was completed as part of a collaboration between the then, Greater Cities Commission Central Coast and the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work at the University of Sydney. It was co-designed to support planning for workforce sustainability and gender equality on the Central Coast.

Hill, E., Cooper, R., Seetahul, S., Basu, S. and Kent, J. (2025)

Building Good Jobs for Women on The Central Coast, Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work.

https://doi.org/10.25910/cffm-z314

Since COVID-19, workers have turned to more informal and comfortable fashion alternatives, including leggings, trackpants, t- shirts, jumpers, slippers, and sneakers. Even when working from home, clothes can produce gendered and aged subjectivities with gender roles being transferred to bodies in constrictive ways.

Lipton, Briony, and Sulagna Basu. "Covid Casual: Refashioning Professional Work Attire in the Age of Remote Work." (2022).

https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/29209#