Articles

2022

Mulcahy S, Seear K, Fraser S, Farrugia A, Kagan D, Lenton E, Elphick L, Holas N (2022) ‘Insurance discrimination and hepatitis C: Recent developments and the need for reforms’, Insurance Law Journal 32(2): 179-195. Opal link 

Mulcahy S, Seear K (2022) ‘On tables, doors and listening spaces: Parliamentary human rights scrutiny processes and engagement of others’, Australian Journal of Human Rights 28(2): 1-22 DOI: 10.1080/1323238x.2022.2135677

Mulcahy S, Seear K (2022) ‘Playing to the gallery: The invocation of human rights, legal actors, and outside audiences in debates on roadside drug testing in the Australian Capital Territory’, Griffith Law Review 31(2):240-265 DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2022.2082697

Seear K, Fraser S, Mulcahy S, Kagan D, Lenton E, Farrugia A, valentine K (2022) ‘Echoes and antibodies: Legal veridiction and the emergence of the perpetual hepatitis C subject, Social and Legal Studies 32(2) DOI: 10.1177/09646639221115698

Seear K. Mulcahy S (2002) ‘Enacting Safety and Omitting Gender: Australian Human Rights Scrutiny Processes Concerning Alcohol and Other Drug Laws’ Contemporary Drug Problems 49(3): 258-277 DOI: 10.1177/00914509211065141

Seear K, valentine k (2022) ‘Fault/Lines: New Directions in Critical Drug Scholarship Inspired by the Work of David Moore and Colleagues’, Contemporary Drug Problems 49(3): 251-257. DOI: 10.1177/00914509221112730

Seear K, Fraser S (2022) ‘Making Australian institutions in newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement: exceptionalism, co-production and agency’, Feminist Media Studies DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.2010788

 

 

2021

Seear K, Lenton E (2021) ‘Becoming posthuman: Hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject’, Health Sociology Review DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1971102

Seear K, Fraser S, Boyd S (2021) ‘A highly charged field: Mapping energies, currents and desires for reform in Canadian expert responses to drug law’, International Journal of Drug Policy 91 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102936

Pennay A, Savic M, Seear K, Volpe I, Manning V, Room R (2021) ‘Decriminalising public drunkenness: Accountability and monitoring needed in the ongoing and evolving management of public intoxication’, Drug and Alcohol Review 40(2) DOI: 10.1111/dar.13169

Seear K, Fraser S, Farrugia A, valentine K (2021) ‘Beyond a “post-cure” world: Sketches for a new futurology of hepatitis C’, International Journal of Drug Policy 94 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103042

Seear K, Fraser S, Madden A (2021) ‘The problem of the subject: The politics of post-mortem rights in the aftermath of drug-related deaths’, Australian Feminist Law Journal DOI: 10.1080/13200968.2021.1885201

Lenton E, Johnson J, Brown G (2021) ‘Upscaling HIV and hepatitis C testing in primary healthcare settings: Stigma-sensitive practice’, Australian Journal of Primary Health 27(4) DOI: 10.1071/PY20176

2020

Seear K (2020) ‘Drug policy’s past, present and future: Where should Australia head now?’ Alternative Law Journal 45(4) DOI: 10.1177/1037969X20938488

valentine k, Seear K (2020) ‘Commentary on Alex Stevens’ (2020) Critical realism and the “ontological politics of drug policy”’, International Journal of Drug Policy 84 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102879

Moore D, Hart A, Fraser S, Seear K (2020) ‘Masculinities, practices and meanings: A critical analysis of recent literature on the use of performance- and image-enhancing drugs among men’, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 24(6) DOI: 10.1177/1363459319838595

Walker S, Seear K, Higgs P, Stoové M, Wilson M (2020) ‘“A spray bottle and a lollipop stick”: An examination of policy prohibiting sterile injecting equipment in prison and effects on young men with injecting drug use histories’, International Journal of Drug Policy 80 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.07.027

Fraser S, Fomiatti R, Moore D, Seear K, Aitken C (2020) ‘Is another relationship possible? Connoisseurship and the doctor–patient relationship for men who consume performance and image-enhancing drugs’, Social Science and Medicine 246 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112720

Seear K (2020) ‘Addressing alcohol and other drug stigma: Where to next?’ Drug and Alcohol Review 39(2) DOI: 10.1111/dar.13028

Fomiatti R, Lenton E, Latham J, Fraser S, Moore D, Seear K, Aitken C (2020) ‘Maintaining the healthy body: Blood management and hepatitis C prevention among men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs’, International Journal of Drug Policy 75 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.10.016

Seear K, Moore D, Fraser S, Fomiatti R, Aitken C (2020) ‘Consumption in contrast: The politics of comparison in healthcare practitioners’ accounts of men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs’, International Journal of Drug Policy 85 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102883

Gordon E, Henao SR, Duque AZ, Dolan-Evans E (2020) ‘Power, poverty and peace-building: The violence that sustains inequalities and undermines peace in Columbia Conflict, Security and Development’ 20(6) DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2020.1848119

2019

Latham JR, Fraser S, Fomiatti R, Moore D, Seear K, Aitken C (2019) ‘Men’s performance and image-enhancing drug use as self-transformation: Working out in makeover culture’, Australian Feminist Studies 34(100) DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2019.1644952

Fomiatti R, Latham JR, Fraser S, Moore D, Seear K, Aitken C (2019) A ‘messenger of sex’? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting’, Health Sociology Review 28(3) DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2019.1678398

Sarmiento E, Seear K, Fraser S (2019) ‘Enacting alcohol and other drug (testing)-related harms in an Australian drug court’, Contemporary Drug Problems 46(3) DOI: 10.1177/0091450919865299

Gardner J, Carter A, O’Brien K, Seear K (2019) ‘Psychedelic-assisted therapies: The past, and the need to move forward responsibly’, International Journal of Drug Policy 70 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.05.019

2018

Fraser S, valentine K, Seear K (2018) ‘Emergent publics of alcohol and other drug policymaking’, Critical Policy Studies 12(1) DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2016.1191365

Seear K, Fraser S (2018). ‘Euthanasia for what? Attending to the role of stigma in addiction-related “intractable suffering” and “incurability”, Addiction 113(7) DOI: 10.1111/add.14105

2017

Moore D, Fraser S, Keane H, Seear K, Valentine K (2017) ‘Missing masculinities: Gendering practices in Australian alcohol research and policy’, Australian Feminist Studies 32(93) DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2017.1407639

McNamara L, Quilter J, Seear K, Room R (2017) ‘Evidence of Intoxication in Australian Criminal Courts: A Complex Variable with Multiple Effects’, Monash University Law Review 43(1)

Seear K (2017) ‘The emerging role of lawyers as addiction “quasi-experts”’, International Journal of Drug Policy 44 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.008

Lancaster K, Seear K, Ritter A (2017) ‘Making medicine; producing pleasure: A critical examination of medicinal cannabis policy and law in Victoria’, Australia International Journal of Drug Policy 49 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.07.020

Seear K, Lancaster K, Ritter A (2017) ‘A new framework for evaluating the potential for drug law to produce stigma: insights from an Australian study’, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 45(4) DOI: 10.1177/1073110517750599

Barratt MJ, Seear K, Lancaster K (2017), ‘A critical examination of the definition of “psychoactive effect” in Australian drug legislation’, International Journal of Drug Policy 40 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.10.002

2016

Quilter J, McNamara L, Seear K, Room R (2016) ‘The definition and significance of “intoxication” in Australian criminal law: A case study of Queensland’s “safe night out” legislation’, Queensland University of Technology Law Review 16(2) DOI: 10.5204/qutlr.v16i2.654

Quilter J, McNamara L, Seear K, Room R (2016) ‘Criminal law and the effects of alcohol and other drugs: A national study of the significance of “intoxication” in Australian legislation’, University of New South Wales Law Journal 39(1)

Seear K, Fraser S (2016) ‘Addiction veridiction: Gendering agency in legal mobilisations of addiction discourse’, Griffith Law Review 25(1) DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2016.1164654

Sifris R, Seear K, Grant G (2016) ‘Gender, health and the law: Opportunities and challenges for reform’, Griffith Law Review 25(1) DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2016.1212468

Lenton E, Fraser S (2016) ‘Hepatitis C health promotion and the anomalous sexual subject’, Social Theory and Health 14(1) DOI: 10.1057/sth.2015.6

2015

Seear K, Fraser S, Moore D, Murphy D (2015) ‘Understanding and responding to anabolic steroid injecting and hepatitis C risk in Australia: A research agenda’, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 22(5) DOI: 10.3109/09687637.2015.1061975

Lancaster K, Seear K, Treloar C (2015) ‘Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia: a critical analysis of their effects’, International Journal of Drug Policy 26(12) 10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.05.014

Seear K (2015) ‘Making addiction, making gender: A feminist performativity analysis of Kakavas v Crown Melbourne Limited’, Australian Feminist Law Journal 41(1) DOI: 10.1080/13200968.2015.1031932

Kagan D (2015) ‘“Re-crisis”: Barebacking, sex panic and the logic of epidemic, Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society 18(7) DOI: 10.1177/1363460714557663

2014

Seear K (2014) ‘Habitus and drug using environments: Health, place and lived-experience’, Drug and Alcohol Review 33(6) DOI: 10.1111/dar.12178

Seear K, Fraser S (2014) ‘Beyond criminal law: The multiple constitution of addiction in Australian legislation’, Addiction Research and Theory 22(5) DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2014.910511

Seear K, Fraser S (2014) ‘The addict as victim: Producing the “problem” of addiction in Australian victims of crime compensation laws’, International Journal of Drug Policy 25(5) DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.02.016

Seear K, Moore D (2014) ‘Complexity: Researching alcohol and other drugs in a multiple world Contemporary Drug Problems’ 41(3) DOI: 10.1177/009145091404100302

Kagan D (2014) ‘Possessions and dispossession: Homo economicus and neoliberal sociality in The Line of BeautyContinuum’ 28(6) DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2014.966407

2013

Seear K (2013) ‘What do we really know about doping “effects”? An argument for doping effects as co-constituted “phenomena”, Performance Enhancement and Health 2(4) DOI: 10.1016/j.peh.2014.04.002

Seear K (2013) ‘Beyond the Boundary: Drugs, the body and sport’, Contemporary Drug Problems 40(2) DOI: 10.1177/009145091304000204

Lenton E, White B, Aitken C, Hellard M, Higgs P (2013) ‘Preventing hepatitis C virus transmission among young people in the justice system’, Children and Youth Services Review 35(5) DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.02.005

Seear K, Gray R, Fraser S, Treloar C, Bryant J, Brener L (2012) ‘Rethinking safety and fidelity: The role of love and intimacy in hepatitis C transmission and prevention’, Health Sociology Review 21(3) DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2012.21.3.272

Lenton E, Fraser S, Moore D, Treloar C (2011) ‘Hepatitis C, love and intimacy: Beyond the “anomalous body”’ Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 18(3) DOI: 10.3109/09687637.2010.485939

Seear K, Fraser S (2010) ‘Ben cousins and the “double life”: Exploring citizenship and the voluntarity /compulsivity binary through the experiences of a “drug addicted” elite athlete’, Critical Public Health 20(4) DOI: 10.1080/09581591003653132

Seear K, Fraser S, Lenton E (2010) ‘Guilty or angry? The politics of emotion in accounts of hepatitis C transmission’, Contemporary Drug Problems 37(4) DOI: 10.1177/009145091003700406

Seear K, Fraser S (2010) ‘The “sorry addict”: Ben Cousins and the construction of drug use and addiction in elite sport’, Health Sociology Review 19(2) DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2010.19.2.176