Rate My Professor Eduardo De La Fuente

Dr Eduardo de la Fuente serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Justice and Society within the School of Society and Culture, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. He is a peri-metropolitan writer and researcher specializing in culture, economy, space and place, and the textures of everyday life. In addition to his academic role, he holds a Fellowship at the Institute for Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University, and serves as a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology. His work intersects social theory, cultural and economic sociology, place and space, and studies in everyday life. Prior to his current position, de la Fuente was Senior Lecturer in Creativity and Innovation at James Cook University, where he taught in the Creative Media and MBA programs. He has also taught social theory, sociology, communication, and media studies at Flinders University, Monash University, Macquarie University, and the University of Tasmania. His research explores social theorising as emplacement, sonic framing of place, microsociology, urban atmospheres, materiality, atmospheres, spaces of belonging, framing atmospheres, textural sociology, sociology of art, place management, landscape theory, creativity, economy and place, aesthetic patterns, qualitative social theory, aesthetic capitalism, cultural sociology, new sociology of art, theoretical and methodological pluralism, cultural sociology in the Australian context, sociology-aesthetics nexus, and philosophical and cultural theories of music.

De la Fuente has made significant contributions through his publications. In 2020, he co-edited with Ariella Van Luyn the volume Regional Cultures, Economies and Creativity: Innovating through Place in Australia and Beyond. Recent works include 'Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion' (2025, with M. Scott and G. Szili, Journal of Consumer Culture), 'Social theorising as emplacement: Encounters with Antipodean sociology and place materialities' (2025, Thesis Eleven), 'The sonic framing of place: microsociology, urban atmospheres and quiet hour shopping' (2022, with M. J. Walsh, Thesis Eleven), 'Introduction to thinking place: materiality, atmospheres and spaces of belonging' (2022, with M. Gibson, M. J. Walsh, and M. Szypielewicz, Thesis Eleven), 'Framing Atmospheres: Goffman, Space, and Music in Everyday Life' (2021, with M. J. Walsh, Symbolic Interaction), 'Sonic Havens: Towards a Goffmanesque Account of Homely Listening' (2020, with M. J. Walsh, Housing Theory and Society), 'After the cultural turn: For a textural sociology' (2019, Sociological Review), and 'Why aesthetic patterns matter: Art and a "qualitative" social theory' (2014, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour). His scholarship advances understandings of aesthetic and social factors in sociologies of art, neo-modernism, architecture in aesthetic capitalism, and the cultural turn in sociology.