Craig Browne

Room 166 RC Mills Building +612 9351 2665

Current Position: Lecturer in Sociology.
Coordinator Development Studies Program

Research interests: Craig Browne works in the area of critical social theory. His research interests include social change, processes of global transformation, subjectivity, intersubjectivity and sociological perspectives on democracy. He is currently finalising a book comparing influential contemporary social theories and extending his research into the relationship between recognition, symbolic power and social imaginaries. He has received funding for research comparing pragmatist notions of creative democracy with ideas of democratic creativity in contemporary French social and political thought. This research into creative democracy builds on his Ph.D. dissertation: Projects and Anticipations: a Comparative Analysis of Habermas’ and Giddens’ Conceptions of the Social.

Other offices held:
Associate Board Member The Research Committee on Sociological Theory (RC16)
The International Sociological Association
2006-2010

Current Teaching:

• SCLG2601 Sociological Theory (Semester 1)
• SCLG2612 Self and Society (Semester 2)
• SCLG2616 Global Transformations (Semester 2)
• SCLG2618 Violence, Imaginaries and Symbolic Power (Semester 1)
• SCLG3601 Contemporary Sociological Theory (Semester 2)
• SCLG6903 New Debates in Social Theory (Semester 1)
• SSCP6900 Critical Perspectives on Development A (Semester 1)

2007
Craig Browne
RIHSS Writing Fellowship Support Grant
Second Semester 2007
Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
The University of Sydney
($8400)

Craig Browne and Justine McGill
‘Violence and the Postcolonial World’
Special Development Funds
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney
($7500)

2006
Craig Browne
‘System Integration and Social Disintegration”
Research Seed Funding
Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney
($2000)

Craig Browne and Neil Maclean
Special Development Funds for Development Studies
($2980)

2004
Creative Democracy: Dimension or Model
SESQUI, The University of Sydney
($15000)

with Jim Martin, Gaynor McDonald, Ghassan Hage, Paolo Bartoloni, Paul Dwyer, Neil Maclean, Phillip Mar
Social Hope as an Analytical Category and an Object of Research
Sesqui Research, The University of Sydney
($25000)

"Creative Democracy and Democratic Creativity"
Research Seed Funding
Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney
($1500)

"Creative Democracy and Democratic Creativity"
Project Funding, School of Society, Culture and Performance,
The University of Sydney
($3000)

with Neil Maclean
"Development Studies Initiative"
Project Funding, School of Society, Culture and Performance,
The University of Sydney
($11000)

2003
Start-Up Research Grant
Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney
($5000)

Allen and Unwin Publishers 2003
The University of Technology Sydney 2004

Postgraduate supervisions
Rowan Savage: Dehumanising Language and Genocide
Doctor of Philosophy Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney

Stephanie Baker: Emotions and Collective Fusion
Doctor of Philosophy Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney

Mai Hansford: Activist Publics
Doctor of Philosophy Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney

Completed Postgraduate and Honours Supervisions
Hatice Beyza Ozel, Recognition and Redistribution in the Context of Globalization

Nathalie Hudson, A Denial of Rights in Australia's Policies of Asylum

Marija Jovanovic: From Conflation to Constraint: A Critical Realist Critique of Anthony Giddens's Theory of Structuration

Books
Browne, C., Edwards, K., Watson, V. & van Krieken, R. (eds) TASA 2001 Conference The University of Sydney

Chapters in Books
Browne, C (2007) ‘Civil Solidarity and Social Struggles’ in W. Ommundsen, M. Leach and A. Vandenburg (eds) Cultural Citizenship and Globalisation Hampton Press (in press)

Browne, C, (2006) ‘Hope, Critique and Utopia’ in R. Sinnerbrink, J. P. Deranty, N. A. Smith and P. Schmiedgen (eds.) Critique Today Leiden: Brill pp. 63-86

Articles in Referred Journals

Browne, C. (2007) ‘The End of Immanent Critique?’ European Journal of Social Theory Volume 10, (In press)

Browne, C (2006) ‘A Moral Order of Mutual Benefit’ Thesis Eleven 86: 114-125

Browne, C. (2006) ‘Democratic Paradigms and the Horizons of Democratisation’ Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy 6 January 2006: 43-58

Browne, C. (2005) ‘Castoriadis on the Capitalist Imaginary’
Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 13: 282-298

Browne, C (2005) ‘Hope, Critique and Utopia’ Critical Horizons Vol. 6, No. 1: 63-86

Other Publications
Browne, C (2006) ‘A Personal Memoir of the ISA World Congress’ Theory, The Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociological Theory of the International Sociological Association Fall/Winter 2006 pp. 3-5

Browne, C. and Mar, P. (2006) ‘The French Riots: Events and Circumstances’, Australian Mosaic Issue 13, 2006/1 ‘Multicultural Mosaic’ pp. 27-29

Browne, C. (2003) 'A New Nexus of Social Change?'
Social and Political Thought Graduate/Faculty Seminar Web Publication, The University of Sussex.

Browne, C. (1996) Review of Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash, Reflexive Modernization: Politics,Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order and Philip Cassell (ed.) The Giddens Reader, Thesis Eleven, No. 45, pp. 131-137

Refereed Conference Proceedings
Browne, C. (2003) 'The Shifting Parameters of Democratic Models'
J. Leydon (ed.) Social Change in the 21st Century 2003 Conference Proceedings, Brisbane

Browne, C. (2003) 'On Social Hope: Reconciling Normative Principles and Temporal Practices' In P. Corrigan, M. Gibson, G. Hawkes, E. Livingstone, S. Thiele and G. Carpenter (eds) New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow, The Australian Sociological Association 2003 Refereeed Conference Proceedings University of New England, Armidale

Browne, C. (2002) 'A New Nexus of Social Change?' in B.E. Hanna, E. J. Woodley, E.L. Buys, J.A. Summerville (eds) Social Change in the 21st Century, Conference Proceedings Brisbane, 2002

Browne, C. (2002) 'Deliberative Democracy and Late Modernity' APSA 50
Australian Political Studies Association 2002 Jubilee Refereed Conference Proceedings Canberra, 2002

Browne, C. (2001) 'An Unrealised Project: Remarks on Giddens? Alternatives to Habermas? Social Theory', in Browne, C., Edwards, K., Watson, V. & van Krieken, R. (eds) TASA 2001 Conference The Australian Sociological Association, 2001

Conference Papers
System Integration and Social Disintegration
29.3.2007
Department of Sociology
Macquarie University

Radical Democracy Today: From Pragmatism to Critical Theory
Keynote Address Critical Theory in Crisis Conference
30.11.2006-1.12.2006
Critical Theory in Crisis Conference
Centre for Social Inclusion
Macquarie University

Hope, Critique and Utopia
August 14 2006
Department of Sociology and Social Policy Seminar
The University of Sydney

Parables of Hope in the New Capitalist Theology
August 5 2006
Social Hope Colloquium
The University of Sydney

From Social Utopia to Social Hope: Australian Collective Symbolism and the Good Life
29. 7. 2006
Culture, Marginality and Collective Symbolism Research Committee on Communication, Knowledge and Culture RC 14
International Sociological Association World Congress, Durban, South Africa

‘Craig Browne - After PhD, In Job Doing What?’
12. 5. 2006
School of Sociology and Anthropology Postgraduate Seminar
University of New South Wales

A Moral Order of Mutual Benefit
11. 5. 2006
Department of Anthropology Seminar
The University of Sydney

A Critical Appreciation of John Lechte’s book Fifty Key Thinkers
November 2005
‘From Melbourne a Post-Structuralist Came’
Presentation to Inauguration Celebration of Professor John Lechte
Department of Sociology
Macquarie University

Pragmatism and Radical Democracy
10.10.2005
National Colloquium on Chicago School Sociology
Monash University October 10, 2005

Positive Liberty and Social Justice
September 2005
European Sociology Association
Poland

Intersubjectivity, Identity and Social Theory
July 2005
International Institute for Sociology Conference
Stockholm

The Shifting Parameters of Democratic Models
July 2005
International Institute for Sociology Conference
Stockholm

System Integration and Social Disintegration: Modernities and Dynamics of Globalisation
June 2005
Alternative Modernities: 6th International Social Theory Consortium Conference
Singapore


'On the Politics of Creative Democracy and Democratic Creativity Critique Today'
10. 12. 2004
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2004 Conference Macquarie University, Sydney

'Can Critical Theory Sustain its Utopianism?' (Panel with Pauline Johnson and John Rundell)
8. 12. 2004
Critique Today, Australasian Continental Philosophy 2004 Conference,
Macquarie University, Sydney

Democracy and Social Creativity
1. 10. 2004
Australiasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004
University of Adelaide, Adelaide

The End of Immanent Critique?
18. 8. 2004
Workshop on Critical Theory. Centre for Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Sydney

Antinomies of Social Hope, Values and Beliefs. International Sociology Association,
1. 7. 2004
RC 11 Sociological Theory Research Committee) Interim Conference: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Democracy and Social Creativity
9. 6. 2004
Discords, 5th International Social Theory Consortium Conference
York University, Toronto, Canada

On Social Hope: Reconciling Normative Principles and Temporal Practices New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow.
6. 12. 2003
The Australian Sociological Association Conference. The University of New England, Armidale

The Shifting Parameters of Democratic Models
21. 11. 2003
Social Change in the 21st Century Conference, Centre for Social Change Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

Two Critiques of Identity: Adorno and Castoriadis on the Capitalist Imaginary.
20. 11. 2003
Imagination Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2003 Conference The University of Queensland, Brisbane

Social Justice and Positive Liberty
12. 11. 2003
Social Inequality Today
Research Centre for Social Inclusion
Macquarie University, Sydney

A New Nexus of Social Change?
23. 10. 03
Social and Political Thought
Graduate and Faculty Seminar
University of Sussex, England

The End of Immanent Critique?
23. 9. 2003
Aging Societies, New Sociology
The 6th European Sociological Association Conference
Murcia, Spain

Multiple Modernities and the Conflicts of Globalisation
24. 9. 2003
Aging Societies, New Sociology
The 6th European Sociological Association Conference
Murcia, Spain

The Globalisation of the Lifeworld
13. 9. 2003
Peripheralization and Fragmentation Research Cluster Conference
School of Society, Culture and Performance
The University of Sydney, Sydney

The End of Immanent Critique?
9. 9. 2003
Sociology Seminar
Department of Sociology, Macquarie University

Response to the papers of John Lechte, Joanne Finkelstein, Eduardo de la Fuente on Georg Simmel, Georges Bataille and Sociological Aesthetics
"How is Society Possible?"
30.6.2003
Social Theory Conference
Department of Sociology and Centre for Social Inclusion,
Macquarie University, Sydney

From Structuration to Structural Pluralism
5. 6. 2003
Department of Anthropology Seminar Series
The University of Sydney, Sydney

Jürgen Habermas
7. 5. 2003
Key Thinkers Series Public Lecture
Research Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences
The University of Sydney, Sydney

Civil Solidarity and Social Struggles
7. 12. 2002
Cultural Citizenship: Challenges of Globalisation Conference
Centre for Citizenship and Globalization Research
Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne

A New Nexus of Social Change?
22. 11. 2002
Social Change in the 21st Century Conference
Centre for Social Change Research
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

Two Critiques of Identity: Adorno and Castoriadis on the Capitalist Imaginary
10. 9. 2002
Macquarie Sociology Colloquium
Macquarie University, Sydney

Deliberative Democracy and Late Modernity
4. 10. 2002
Australasian Political Studies Association Conference
Australian National University, Canberra

Can Democratization lead to another form of Globalization? Habermas and Giddens on the discontinuity of late modernity. The Social World in the 21st Century: Ambivalent Legacies and Rising Challenges
10. 7. 2002
Social Practice and Social Transformation Research Committee
International Sociological Association World Congress, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

An Unrealised Project: Remarks on Giddens? Alternatives to Habermas? Social Theory
15. 12. 2001
The Australian Sociological Association, 2001Conference
The University of Sydney, Sydney