Dr Greg Martin

BA (Hons) PhD (Exeter) PGCE (Keele) LLB (UWA) greg.martin@usyd.edu.au Room 149, RC Mills Building, A26 Tel. +61 2 9351 3319

Current Position
Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies

Biography

Greg Martin completed his degree and doctorate (both in Sociology) at the University of Exeter. Subsequently, he did a PGCE, taught in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Keele University, was a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, travelled the world, completed a law degree at the University of Western Australia, and worked in legal publishing. Prior to moving to the University of Sydney, Greg was a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Western Sydney.

Research Interests

Cultural criminology, political sociology, protest and public order policing, social movements, youth (sub)culture. Greg welcomes enquiries from potential postgraduate students and postdoctoral candidates to discuss research supervision in these and related areas.

Other Offices Held

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Social Movement Studies.
• Convenor of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Study Group for Protest and Social Movements (2000-3).

Current Teaching

1. SCLG2615 Law and Social Theory
2. SLSS1003 Law and Contemporary Society

Publications

Refereed journal articles

• Martin, G. (2009) ‘Subculture, Style, Chavs and Consumer Capitalism: Towards a Critical Cultural Criminology of Youth’ Crime, Media, Culture 5(2): 123-45.
• Martin, G. (2008) ‘“Anti-terrorism” Laws Upheld in High Court Challenge’ Criminal Law Journal 32(2): 114-119.
• Martin, G. (2002) ‘New Age Travellers: Uproarious or Uprooted?’ Sociology 36(3): 723-35.
• Martin, G. (2002) ‘Conceptualising Cultural Politics in Subcultural and Social Movements Studies’ Social Movement Studies 1(1): 73-88.
• Martin, G. (2001) ‘Social Movements, Welfare and Social Policy: A Critical Analysis’ Critical Social Policy 21(3): 361-83. (Reprinted in N. Deakin, C. Jones-Finer and B. Matthews (eds) Welfare and The State: Critical Concepts in Political Science, vol. IV (London: Routledge, 2003) 69-87.)
• Ellison, G. and Martin, G. (2000) ‘Policing, Collective Action and Social Movement Theory: The Case of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Campaign’ The British Journal of Sociology 51(4): 681-99.
• Martin, G. (1998) ‘Generational Differences Amongst New Age Travellers’ The Sociological Review 46(4): 735-56.

Other articles

• Martin, G. (2006) ‘Work Choices: Deregulation or Re-regulation?’ Onyx 15(3): 14-16/34-5.
• Martin, G. (2004) ‘Defence Disclosure: Should it be Accompanied by Legal Aid Reform?’ Brief 31(10): 14-16.
• Martin, G. (2002) ‘Social Movements and Social Welfare’ Network 82 (May): 21.
• Martin, G. (2000) ‘New Age Travellers’ Sociology Review 9(4): 2-5.

Books chapters

• Martin, G. (2004) ‘New Social Movements and Democracy’ in M. J. Todd and G. Taylor (eds) Democracy and Participation: Popular Protest and New Social Movements (London: Merlin Press) 29-54.

Refereed conference papers

• ‘Tough Luck! Reflections on Respect in the Lucky Country’, The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, December 2008.

Conference papers

• ‘Policing, Place, Space and Protest at APEC, Sydney 2007’, British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference, Cardiff City Hall, UK, April 2009.
• ‘Is “Subculture” Dead or can Cultural Criminology Come to the Rescue?’, 21st Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Conference, Canberra, Australia, November 2008.
• ‘Collective Interventions on the Terrain of Care and Intimacy’, World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002 (with Fiona Williams and Sasha Roseneil).
• ‘Social Movements, Organisation and Culture: Towards a Theory of Institutional Reflexivity’, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Canada, May 2002.
• ‘Conceptualising Cultural Politics in Subcultural Theory and Social Movement Studies’, British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, April 2001.
• ‘Policing, Collective Action and Social Movement Theory: The Case of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Campaign’, International Sociological Association Second Regional Conference on Social Movements and Change, University College Cork, Ireland, April 1999 (with Graham Ellison).