About

Benjamin Duester is a cultural sociologist working at the intersection of material culture, leisure and sustainability. Currently a postdoctoral NSTC-fellow at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, he holds a PhD from Griffith University. He is a co-founding member of the SSHRED research network that investigates skating, sustainability, health and environmental design. For SSHRED, he is developing a zine called Green Pressure as platform to raise awareness for projects repurposing skateboarding’s waste in creative ways.

Ben has published two books: Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (Bloomsbury, 2025) and Sound Knowledge and the Liminal: Oceanic Wellbeing in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2025).

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