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Dr Alex Gearin

Honorary Research Fellow
School of Social Science
a.gearin@uq.edu.au

Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (2)
Thesis (1)

Book Chapters

Gearin, Alex K. (2017). Good Mother Nature: ayahuasca neoshamanism as cultural critique in Australia. The world ayahuasca diaspora: reinventions and controversies. (pp. 123-141) edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar and Alex K. Gearin. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315551425-13
Labate, Beatriz Caiuby, Cavnar, Clancy and Gearin, Alex K. (2016). Introduction: The shifting journey of ayahuasca in diaspora. The World Ayahuasca Diaspora Reinventions and Controversies. (pp. 1-16) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Journal Articles

Gearin, Alex (2016). Dividual vision of the individual: Ayahuasca Neo-Shamanism in Australia and the new age individualism orthodoxy. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 7 (2), 199-220. doi: 10.1558/ijsnr.v7i2.31955
Gearin, Alex K. (2015). "Whatever you want to believe': kaleidoscopic individualism and ayahuasca healing in Australia. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 26 (3), 442-455. doi: 10.1111/taja.12143

Thesis

Gearin, Alexander K. (2015). An Amazonian shamanic brew in Australia: ayahuasca healing and individualism. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.1038
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