Department of Sociology & Social Policy
The University of Sydney
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Recent Publications in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Craig Browne

 
  • (forthcoming 2007) ‘The End of Immanent Critique?’ European Journal of Social Theory Volume 10.
  • (forthcoming 2007) ‘Civil Solidarity and Social Struggles’ in W. Ommundsen, M. Leach and A. Vandenburg (eds) Cultural Citizenship and Globalisation Hampton Press.
  • (2006) ‘A Moral Order of Mutual Benefit’ Thesis Eleven 86: 114-125.

Fran Collyer

 
  • Collyer, F.M. (2006) (ed) So We Write Star Authors: Another Anthology of the Society of Women Writers South Australia 2006 The Society of Women Writers South Australia, Cove Print: Somerton Park, South Australia. ISBN 0646466968.

Catriona Elder

 
  • (2007) Being Australian: Cultures, Identities and the Australian Nation, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards.
  • (2007) with Angela Pratt and Cath Ellis, ‘Running Race: Reconciliation, Nationalism and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games’ International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 41(2): 181-200.
  • (2007) ‘Reconciling a New Australia: Cinematic Representations of Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations in Post Reconciliation Australia’ Les Cahiers du CICLaS, 11:135-148.
  • (2006) with Angela Pratt and Cath Ellis, ‘Unity in Diversity: Indigenous Spaces in the Parliamentary Zone’ in Gus Worby Lester-Irabinna Rigney (eds) Sharing Spaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Policy, API Network/INASA, Perth, pp.399-417.

Amanda Elliot

 
  • (2006) ‘The best friend Medicare ever had? Policy narratives and changes in Coalition Health Policy’, Health Sociology Review, 15(2): 132-143.
  • (2005) ‘The Mirror of Erised: Health Care Reform and John Howard’s Heart’s Desire’, The Australian Sociological Association annual conference 5-8th December, Refereed Proceedings.
  • Elliot, A. & Goodwin, S. (2006) ‘Young people on welfare: young Australians and social provision’, The 39th Social Policy Association Conference: The State of Welfare: Past, Present and Future, An International Social Policy Conference, University of Birmingham 18th-20th July, Proceedings.

Deirdre Howard-Wagner

 
  • (Forthcoming 2007) 'How the economic reshapes the social: neo-liberalism and the abolition of ATSIC', Journal of Sociology, Special Issue Economic Sociology.
  • (2006) ‘Who are the real ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’: the print media’s role in constructing the ‘public liability crisis’ as a ‘moral panic drama’, The Newcastle Law Review, Volume 9.

Michael Humphrey

 
  • (2007) 'Culturalising the Abject: Islam, Law and Moral Panic in the West', Australian Journal of Social Issues 42(1): 9-25.
  • (2007) ‘From Diaspora Islam to Globalised Islam: Changing Islamic religiosity and identity in the West’, in Shahram Akbarzadeh & Fethi Mansouri (eds) Islam and Political Violence: Muslim Diaspora and Radicalism in the West, London: I B Tauris.
  • (forthcoming 2007) ‘Suffering, human rights, and the state: reconciliation under neo-liberal governmentality’, European Journal of Social Theory.
  • (forthcoming 2007) ‘The New Wars: Postmodern Violence and the Therapeutic State’ in Damian Grenfell and Paul James (eds) Savage Globalization? Rethinking Security and Violence beyond the War on Terror, Routledge.
  • Humphrey, M. & Valverde, E. (forthcoming 2007) ‘Human Rights, Victimhood and Impunity: An Anthropology of Democracy in Argentina’ Social Analysis.

Karl Maton

 
  • (2007) 'Knowledge-knower structures in intellectual and educational fields', in Christie, F. & Martin, J. (Eds.) Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional linguistic and sociological perspectives. London, Continuum, 87-108.
  • Maton, K. & Muller, J. (2007) 'A sociology for the transmission of knowledges', in Christie, F. & Martin, J. (Eds.) Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional linguistic and sociological perspectives. London, Continuum, 14-33.
  • Christie, F., Martin, J., Maton, K. & Muller, J. (2007) 'Taking stock: Future directions in research in knowledge structure', in Christie, F. & Martin, J. (Ed.) Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional linguistic and sociological perspectives. London, Continuum, 237-258.
  • Maton, K. & Shipway, B. (2007) ‘Studies of education’, in Hartwig, M. (Ed.) Dictionary of Critical Realism. London, Routledge.
  • (2006) 'On knowledge structures and knower structures', in Moore, R., Arnot, M., Beck, J. & Daniels, H. (Eds.) Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform: Applying the sociology of Basil Bernstein. London, Routledge.

Robert van Krieken

 
  • (2006) 'The ethics of corporate legal personality', in Stewart Clegg & Carl Rhodes (eds) Management Ethics: Contemporary Contexts, London: Routledge, pp. 77-96.
  • (2006) 'The legal construction of the 'best interests of the child': law's autonomy, sociology and family law', in Michael Freeman (ed.) Law and Sociology: Current Legal Issues Vol 8, 2005, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 437-58.
  • (2006) 'Law's autonomy in action: anthropology and history in court', Social & Legal Studies 15(4), 577-593.

Catherine Waldby

 

Books

  • Salter, B., Waldby, C. and Gottweiss H. (2007) The global politics of human embryonic stem cell research, Palgrave (forthcoming).
  • Waldby, C. and M., R. (2006) Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism Duke University Press ISBN 0-8223-3757-6

Edited Collections

  • Waldby, C., Wakeford, N. and Green, N. (eds) (2006) ‘The Future of Feminist Science Studies’, Science Studies (special issue), Vol. 19 (2).
  • Waldby, C. and Cooper, M. (eds) (2007) Globalisation, Biotechnology and Biopolitics, Special Issue of Biosocieties: An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences (Forthcoming Vol. 2 (3)

Papers in Refereed Journals

  • (submitted) ‘Oöcyte markets: women’s reproductive labour in embryonic stem cell research’ : New Genetics and Society.
  • Waldby, C. & Cooper, M. (2007) ‘The Biopolitics of Reproduction: Post-Fordist Biotechnology and Women’s Clinical Labour’ in Australian Feminist Studies. 22(54), .special issue The Two Cultures (in press).
  • Waldby, C., Wakeford, N. and Green, N. (2006) ‘Feminist Technoscience: Intimacy, Embodiment and Abjection in Science Studies’ Science Studies, 19(2): 3-5. (editorial)
  • (2006) ‘Umbilical Cord Blood: from Social Gift to Venture Capital’ BioSocieties 1(1): 55-70.

Chapters in Books

  • (2007) ‘Stem Cell Research, Biopolitics and Globalization’ in Herbert Gottweis and Kathryn Braun (eds.) Mapping Biopolitics: Medical-Scientific Transformations and the Rise of New Forms of Governance, Routledge (in press).
  • (2007) ‘The Virtual Corpse’, in Howarth, Glennys (ed.) Modern Death. London: Reaktion Books (in press).

Jennifer Wilkinson

 
  • (2006) ‘From the Bedroom to the Streets:Intimacy and the New Public Order”, disclosure: a journal of social theory, no. 15 pp 9-27.
  • (2006) ‘Bosses Friends and Colleagues: Intimacy in Professional Settings' APROS 11: Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies 11th International Colloquium, 4 - 7 December 2005, Refereed Proceedings.

    (2006) Wilkinson, J. and Mar, P. ‘Volunteering Among Migrants : Personal or Civil Redemption ’ (Research Symposium, pp.131-143) Australian Journal on Volunteering,vol 11, no. 2
  • (2007 submitted) ‘The two Faces of Eve: Privacy and Rights on the far side’
  • (2007 submitted) ‘Private Lives in Public Places: Friends at work’
  • (2007 submitted) ‘Migrant Narratives of Volunteering and Redemption’

Tim Winter

 
  • Winter, T. Teo, P. and Chang, T.C. eds From Host to Guest: the rise of the Asian Tourist - Currently under review with Routledge Curzon Press.
  • (2007) Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism; culture, politics and development at Angkor, London: Routledge
  • (2007) 'Landscapes in the Living Memory; new year festivities at Angkor, Cambodia' in Whelan, Y. & Moore, N., (eds) Heritage, Memory And The Politics Of Identity: new perspectives on the cultural landscape, Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • (2007) 'Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia', Annals of Tourism Research, 34(1)
  • Winter, T and Ollier, L (2006) Expressions of Cambodia: the politics of tradition, identity and change, London Routledge.

Recent and Upcoming Conference Papers and Presentations

Craig Browne

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Date: 29 April, 2007
    Paper: 'System Integration and Social Disintegration'
    Seminar: Department of Sociology Macquarie University
    Location: Macquarie University
  • Date: 30th November – 1st December, 2006
    Paper: 'Radical Democracy Today: From Pragmatism to Critical Theory', Keynote Address: Critical Theory in Crisis
    Conference: Critical Theory in Crisis
    Location; Conference Centre for Social Inclusion, Macquarie University.

Fran Collyer

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Collyer, F.M. (2007) ‘Origins and Canons: Revisiting the History of Sociology’ paper presented at Department Research Day, University of Sydney 9th March, Sydney.

Amanda Elliot

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Date: 27th- 29th September 2006
    Paper: Elliot, Amanda and Goodwin, Susan ‘Growing up neo-liberal: young people’s orientations to social provision’, (invited panelists)
    Conference: Young people and Politics panel at the Australasian Political Science Association Annual Conference
  • Date: 2006
    Paper: ‘Reforming the narrative: Australian health policy since 1996’
    Seminar: Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of New South Wales.
    Location: UNSW
  • Date: 18th-20th July, 2006
    Paper: Elliot, Amanda and Goodwin, Susan ‘Young people on welfare: young Australians and social provision’.
    Conference: 39th Social Policy Association Conference, The State of Welfare: Past, Present and Future, An International Social Policy Conference.
    Location: University of Birmingham

Deirdre Howard-Wagner

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Date: December 2006
    Paper: ‘Practices of Inclusiveness’ in Newcastle: protocols of whiteness, Indigenous protocols and power relations.
    Conference: Australian Sociological Association Conference
  • Date: December ‘Legislating away Indigenous rights: an examination of Federal
    Paper: ‘Indigenous law reform since 1996’.
    Conference: the Australian and New Zealand Law and Society Conference
    Location;
  • Date: 2006
    Paper: ‘Neo-liberal rationalities and the end of Indigenous rights in Australia’
    Conference: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2006
    Location: Baltimore, Maryland USA
  • Upcoming:
    Date: 25-28th July 2007
    Paper 1: 'The market is the only thing that is universal: the containing and remapping of Indigenous rights' International'.
    Paper 2: 'Society must be defended from the new enemies of the state’ The restructuring of human rights through political and legislative reform in Western Nation States'
    Conference: Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association (LSA) and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL of ISA)
    Location: Humboldt University, Berlin.

Michael Humphrey

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Date: 19-20 March, 2007
    Paper: ‘From Diaspora to Globalised Islam’ (invited)
    Conference: Hyperdiversity, Diaspora and Media Symposium
    Location: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta. (Sponsored by the Cultural Research Network).
  • Date: 15th November, 2006.
    Paper: ‘Globalised Islam in Australia’ (invited)
    Conference: Research Papers Series
    Location: Christen Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway
  • Date: 14th November, 2006
    Paper: ‘Contemporary Human Rights Politics in Argentina’ (invited)
    Conference: Anthropology Seminar Series
    Location: Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen,
  • Date: 2nd October 2006
    Paper: ‘Islam in Australia’ (Invited by Vice Chancellor)
    Conference: Invited Public Lecture
    Location: Brunei University
  • Upcoming:
    Date: 23 June, 2007
    Paper: ‘Sociological Perspectives on Trauma’
    Seminar: Ideas in Action seminar series
    Location: University of Technology, Broadway
  • Date: 18-20 July 2007
    Paper: ‘Rights consciousness and suffering in contemporary popular justice: Argentina and South Africa’
    Conference: II Congreso Socio-Jur'dico de Oñati: Las formas del derecho en Latinoamérica: Democracia, Desarrollo, Liberación
    Location: Oñati, Spain
  • Date: 1-3rd August 2007.
    Paper: ‘Issues of Social Inclusion and Muslims in Australia’
    Conference: Fulbright Symposium on Muslim Citizens in the West: Promoting Social Inclusion
    Location: Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia

Karl Maton

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Date: December 2006.
    Paper:: ‘Questioning the net generation: A collaborative project in Australian higher education’(with G. Kennedy, K. Krause, K. Gray, T. Judd, S. Bennett, B. Dalgarno, & A. Bishop). Refereed conference publication, accepted Sept 2006.
    Conference: ASCILITE annual conference.
    Location: University of Sydney
  • Upcoming:
    Date: May-June 2007
    Paper: ‘Segmented Learning and Semantic Gravity: The problem of building knowledge and creating knowers in contemporary education’
    Conference: Enjeux Sociaux, Savoirs, Langage, Pedagogie: Actualité et fécondité de l’oeuvre de Basil Bernstein (Social Stakes, Knowledges, Language, Pedagogy)
    Location: INRP (National Institute of Education Research), University of Lyon, France.
    This is an international symposium on the work of the sociologist Basil Bernstein, comprising leading scholars in the sociology of education and knowledge from the UK, across Europe, South Africa, and South America. It is organised by a leading French research centre (INRP). Speakers are by invitation only and papers are being simultaneously translated into French.
  • Date: May 2007
    Paper: ‘Redesigning a pedagogy for senior English: an Australian case study’. Three paper symposium with F. Christie and M. Macken- Horarik. These three papers are the result of collaborative work with systemic functional linguists into the ways school English shape the educational experiences and achievements of students.
    Symposium: ‘Redesigning Pedagogy: Culture, knowledge and understanding’
    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Robert van Krieken

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Date: 6-9th July 2006.
    Paper: 'The Global Civilization of Divorce? On the spread of transnational
    norms in family law'
    Conference: Law & Society Association Meeting
    Location: Baltimore
  • Upcoming
    Date: 4-5 2007
    Paper: 'Family law and the civilization of parents'
    Conference: Civilizing Children and Youth: Missions and Sites of Transformation, research workshop.
    Location: Danish University of Education, Copenhagen
  • Date: 25-28th July 2007
    Paper 1: 'The Civilizing of Parenthood and the legal regulation of
    Post-Separation custody: towards a comparative analysis'
    Paper 2: 'The concepts ‘culture’ and ‘civilization’ in comparative studies of
    law and society'
    Conference: Law & Society Association Meeting.
    Location: Berlin.
  • Date: 26-27 October 2007.
    Paper: 'Norbert Elias on Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes'.
    Conference: Security, State and Subject Formation, International Research Workshop.
    Location: University of Alberta,

Catherine Waldby

 
  • Recent conference presentations
    Date: 26-28th April 2007.
    Paper: ‘Blood archives: Biobanking and the life of populations’ (Keynote speaker)
    Conference: Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality in the Archive Centre for the History of European Discourses
    Location: University of Queensland
  • Date: 19th June 2006.
    Paper: ‘Biobaks, citizens and markets’
    Conference: ‘Biobank Governance in comparative Perspective’
    Location: University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Date: 13-16 June, 2006.
    Paper: ‘Oöcyte markets: global tissue economies and reproductive biopolitics’
    Conference: Biopolitics, Biotechnology and Globalisation Panel (Convenor Catherine Waldby), Society for Science, Literature and Art Conference.
    Location: Amsterdam,
  • Date: 27-28 April 2006.
    Paper: ‘Reproductive Tissue Economies: donor recruitment and biovalue’
    Conference: Mapping the Bioeconomy: The Knowledge-Based Economy and the Biosciences.
    Location: Lancaster University
  • Date: 19-20th April 2006.
    Paper: ‘Stem Cells and the Global Human Tissue Economy’
    Conference: Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering And Regenerative Medicine Conference Location: Robinson College, Cambridge UK
  • Date: 7th February, 2006.
    Paper: ‘Global Tissue Economies: stem cell lines and reproductive tissue markets’
    Conference: Cesagen Seminar.
    Location: Cardiff University, UK

Jennifer Wilkinson

 
  • Upcoming conference papers
    Date: 27 - 29 June, 2007
    Paper: ‘Personal Communities: another fall for public [man]’?
    Extending and Extended Families
    Centre for Research on Families and Personal Relationships
    University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Date: 19 July, 2007
    Desperately seeking happiness: what is social science missing?
    ‘Happiness and Public Policy’
    Public Policy Development Office, Bangkok
  • Recent conference papers
    Date: 26th – 28th November , 2006
    Paper: ‘Volunteering as a lifestyle option : community by another name?
    Conference: Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research
    Eighth Biennial Conference : Navigating New Waters
    Location; University of South Australia, Adelaide
  • Date: 23-29 July , 2006
    Paper: ‘Friendship at Work:the challenges of studying Sociability’
    Conference: International Sociological Association 16th World Congress of Sociology: The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World Eighth Biennial Conference
    Location: Durban, South Africa
  • Date: 19 July, 2007
    Desperately seeking happiness: what is social science missing?
    ‘Happiness and Public Policy’
    Public Policy Development Office, Bangkok

Tim Winter

 
  • Recent Conference Papers
    Date: 7-9 September, 2006
    Paper: “Of Asian Destination”: Rethinking Material Culture in Contemporary Asia’
    Conference: ‘Of Asian Origin’: Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia
    Location: Singapore
  • Date: 9 September 2006
    Paper: ‘The future of Asian Tourism’
    Conference: ‘Of Asian Origin’: Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia
    Location: Singapore
  • Conference Convenor
    Date: 7-9 September, 2006
    Conference: ‘Of Asian Origin’: Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia
    Location: Singapore
  • Workshop Convenor:
    Date: 05-06 Sept 2006
    Workshop: ‘Questions of Methodology; Researching Tourism in Asia’, International Graduate Workshop, Co-organised with Uni. Of Otago
    Location: Singapore
  • Upcoming
    Date: 18-21 April, 2007.
    Paper: ‘Horizons of Reconstruction: post-conflict Angkor and heritage tourism’. (Getty Foundation Invited Keynote speaker for Opening Public Lecture)
    Conference: Balancing Culture, Conservation, and Economic Development: Heritage Tourism in and around the Pacific Rim, US ICOMOS Conference
    Location: San Francisco
  • Date: 18-21 April, 2007,
    Conference: Balancing Culture, Conservation, and Economic Development: Heritage Tourism in and around the Pacific Rim, US ICOMOS Conference
    (Invited speaker)
    Location: San Francisco Paper: New questions, new Interpretations: the rise of the Asian tourist

Recent and Upcoming Professional Activity

Fran Collyer

 
  • Editor in Chief, Health Sociology Review

Robert van Krieken

 
  • President of the International Sociological Association's (ISA) Research
    Committee 53, Sociology of Childhood 2002-2006, and Past-President for
    2006-2010.
  • Vice-President of ISA Research Committee 17, Sociology of Organizations
    for 2006-2010
  • Member of the ISA Executive Committee, 2006-2010.

Karl Maton

 
  • March 2007 became General Secretary of the Australasian Association for Critical Realism and is organising a monthly series of seminars.

Tim Winter

 
  • Production Editor Historic Environment, ICOMOS Australia, Refereed Journal.

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