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Associate Professor Zane Goebel

Associate Professor in Indonesian

School of Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
z.goebel@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52094

Overview

Research Interests

  • Linguistic anthropological inquiries into the idea and nature of development and nation-building practices in Indonesia
    I work on how everyday language practice are shaped by and shape everyday cultural practices in Indonesia. I have worked on community development in Semarang (e.g., Goebel, 2010. Language, Migration and Identity: Neighbourhood Talk in Indonesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), leadership and governance in Semarang (e.g., Goebel, 2020. Global Leadership Talk: Constructing Good Governance in Indonesia. New York: Oxford University Press), ethnic relations in Indonesia (e.g., Goebel, 2015. Language and Superdiversity: Indonesians Knowledging at Home and Abroad. New York: Oxford University Press), decentralization in Indonesia (e.g., Goebel et al eds. 2020. Contact Talk: The Discursive Organization of Contact and Boundaries. New York: Routledge), ethnographic interviewing (Goebel, 2021. Reimagining Rapport. New York: Oxford University Press.), and I am currently collaborating with BINUS university on a project that seeks to understand everyday experiences of climate adaptation, especially in relation to tidal flooding in Kendal on Java’s north coast.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Education), C.Darwin

Publications

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Supervision

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Available Projects

  • Flooding futures: everyday experiences of climate change adaptation in Kendal

    I am currently seeking PhD students with the potential of gaining LPDP funding to collaborate on a project that seeks to understand everyday experiences of climate adaptation, especially in relation to tidal flooding in Kendal on Java’s north coast.

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • 3 Unity, diversity and the market: Television representations of multilingual diversity in Jakarta

    Goebel, Zane (2023). 3 Unity, diversity and the market: Television representations of multilingual diversity in Jakarta. Multilingualism and Pluricentricity. (pp. 81-98) De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781501511974-004

  • Alignment and affiliation

    Goebel, Zane (2021). Alignment and affiliation. The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology. (pp. 1-6) edited by Jamese Stanlaw. New York, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0009

  • Coda: Reimagining rapport theoretically, metamethodologically, and methodologically

    Goebel, Zane (2021). Coda: Reimagining rapport theoretically, metamethodologically, and methodologically. Reimagining Rapport. (pp. 180-183) edited by Goebel, Zane. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0010

  • Language change

    Goebel, Zane (2021). Language change. The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology. (pp. 1-10) edited by James Stanlaw. New York, United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0213

  • Rapport in the anthropological imagination

    Goebel, Zane (2021). Rapport in the anthropological imagination. Reimagining rapport. (pp. 19-42) edited by Goebel, Zane. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0002

  • Reimagining rapport

    Goebe, Zane (2021). Reimagining rapport. Reimagining rapport. (pp. 1-18) edited by Goebel, Zane. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0001

  • Coda

    Goebel, Zane (2020). Coda. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 195-201) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-12

  • Indonesia and Indonesian

    Manns, Howard, Cole, Deborah and Goebel, Zane (2020). Indonesia and Indonesian. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 29-39) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Modelling contact talk on television

    Goebel, Zane (2020). Modelling contact talk on television. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 126-139) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-8

  • Revaluing Papuan Malay

    Morin, Izak and Goebel, Zane (2020). Revaluing Papuan Malay. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 160-176) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-6

  • Theorizing the semiotic complexity of contact talk: contact registers and scalar shifters

    Goebel, Zane, Cole, Deborah and Manns, Howard (2020). Theorizing the semiotic complexity of contact talk: contact registers and scalar shifters. Contact talk: the discursive organization of contact and boundaries. (pp. 1-28) edited by Zane Goebel, Deborah Cole and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429427848-1

  • The mass mediation of chronotopic identity in a changing Indonesia

    Goebel, Zane (2019). The mass mediation of chronotopic identity in a changing Indonesia. Chronotopic identity work: sociolinguistic analyses of cultural and linguistic phenomena in time and space. (pp. 67-85) edited by Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg. Blue Ridge Summit, PA, United States: Multilingual Matters. doi: 10.21832/9781788926621-006

  • Rapport and the discursive co-construction of social relations in fieldwork settings

    Goebel, Zane (2019). Rapport and the discursive co-construction of social relations in fieldwork settings. Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters. (pp. 1-16) edited by Zane Goebel. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781501507830-001

  • Reterritorialization and the construction of margins and centers through imitation in Indonesia

    Goebel, Zane (2019). Reterritorialization and the construction of margins and centers through imitation in Indonesia. Language and culture on the margins: global/local interactions. (pp. 27-52) edited by Sjaak Kroon and Jos Swanenberg. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351244350-3

  • Understanding rapport through scalar reflexivity

    Goebel, Zane (2019). Understanding rapport through scalar reflexivity. Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters. (pp. 53-72) edited by Zane Goebel. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781501507830-004

  • Language diversity and language change in Indonesia

    Goebel, Zane (2018). Language diversity and language change in Indonesia. Routledge handbook of contemporary Indonesia. (pp. 378-389) edited by Robert W. Hefner. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315628837-31

  • Superdiversity

    Goebel, Zane (2018). Superdiversity. Handbook of pragmatics. (pp. 221-238) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/hop.21.sup1

  • From neighborhood talk to talking for the neighborhood

    Goebel, Zane (2017). From neighborhood talk to talking for the neighborhood. The monologic imagination. (pp. 121-141) edited by Matt Tomlinson and Julian Millie. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190652807.003.0007

  • Superdiversity from within: the case of ethnicity in Indonesia

    Goebel, Zane (2017). Superdiversity from within: the case of ethnicity in Indonesia. Engaging superdiversity: recombining spaces, times and language practices. (pp. 251-276) edited by Karel Arnaut, Martha Sif Karrebæk, Massimiliano Spotti and Jan Blommaert. Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters.

  • Enregistering identity in Indonesian television serials

    Goebel, Zane (2011). Enregistering identity in Indonesian television serials. Multimodal studies: Exploring issues and domains. (pp. 95-114) edited by Kay O'Halloran and Bradley A. Smith. New York, New York, United States: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203828847

  • Language variation in Indonesia: a learner-centred multimedia exploration of the functions of Indonesian vis-à-vis regional languages

    Goebel, Zane and Black, Paul (2003). Language variation in Indonesia: a learner-centred multimedia exploration of the functions of Indonesian vis-à-vis regional languages. Sang Motivator yang Sejati: Kumpulan Karangan Persembahan untuk Professor Drs. Sudjati. (pp. 212-231) edited by Sudaryono. Semarang, Indonesia: Diponegoro University.

  • Learning to be polite in face-to-face inter-ethnic interactions in two multilingual communities of urban Semarang

    Goebel, Zane (2003). Learning to be polite in face-to-face inter-ethnic interactions in two multilingual communities of urban Semarang. Sang Pambayun, The Steel Magnolia as a Frontierswoman: Kumpulan Karya Ilmiah Para Pakar dalam Seminar Internasional Budaya, Bahasa dan Sastra. (pp. 231-281) edited by Sudaryono. Semarang, Indonesia: Diponegoro University.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Edited Outputs

  • Margins, hubs, and peripheries in a decentralizing Indonesia

    Goebel, Zane, Cole, Deborah and Manns, Howard eds. (2016). Margins, hubs, and peripheries in a decentralizing Indonesia. Sociolinguistics of Globalization, Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2015. Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies.

  • Proceedings: international seminar on language maintenance and shift IV (LAMAS IV)

    Zane Goebel, J. Herudjati Purwoko, Suharno, M. Suryadi and Yusuf Al Arief eds. (2014). Proceedings: international seminar on language maintenance and shift IV (LAMAS IV). International seminar on language maintenance and shift IV (LAMAS IV), Semarang, Indonesia, 18-19 November 2014. Semarang, Indonesia: Diponogoro University and Central Java Language Center.

  • Identity in text interpretation and everyday life

    Amano, Masachiyo, O’Toole, Michael, Goebel, Zane, Shigemi, S. and Song-Wei eds. (2008). Identity in text interpretation and everyday life. Identity in Text Interpretation and Everyday Life, Nagoya, Japan, 9-10 February 2008. Nagoya, Japan: Nagoya University.

Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Mixed Japanese youth in Australia and Japan: Negotiating a mixed identity under discourses of multiculturalism

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Flooding futures: everyday experiences of climate change adaptation in Kendal

    I am currently seeking PhD students with the potential of gaining LPDP funding to collaborate on a project that seeks to understand everyday experiences of climate adaptation, especially in relation to tidal flooding in Kendal on Java’s north coast.

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