Robert van Krieken

Associate Professor Robert van Krieken Room 237 Transient Building +612 9036 7995 Website

Current position: Associate Professor

Research interests: Law and legal reasoning, childhood, family, social theory, and organisations.

Other offices held: President, ISA Research Committee 53, Sociology of Childhood

Curent Teaching:

• SCLG2605 Social Justice, Law and Society
• SCLG2615 Law and Social Theory
• SCLG3601 Contemporary Sociological Theory
• SCLG6903 New Debates in Social Theory

Doctoral Supervisions:
1997 K.C. Tang, Chinese Medicine
2002 Carlos Barrero, Indigenous Development in South America

Books

van Krieken, R. (1992), Children and the State. Allen & Unwin
van Krieken, R. (1998) Nobert Elias, Routledge
van Krieken, R., Habibis, D, Smith P., McDonald, K., Haralambos, M., Holborn, M. (2000) Sociology Themes and Perspectives, Pearson

Book Section/s

van Krieken, R (2008), 'Crime and Social Theory', The Critical Criminology Companion (London).

van Krieken, R (2008), 'Rethinking the sociology of childhood: conflict, competition and cooperation between children and adults in contemporary social life', New Handbook of International Sociology (London: Sage), 421-60.


Chapters in Books

van Krieken, R. (2005) "The socio-legal construction of the "best interests of the child': law's autonomy, sociology and family law", in MDA Freeman (ed.), Law and Sociology: Current Issues in Legal Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

van Krieken, R. (2005) "Frech oder schuldig. Wie das Recht über die Strafmündigkeit der Kinder denkt in England, Deutschland und Australien" in Die Macht der Unschuld' das Kind als Chiffre, edited by Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Oladen: Leske & Budrich

van Krieken, R. (2005) "Trust, liberal governance and civilization: the stolen generations" in Violation of trust: Institutional Abuse and Child Welfare in Australia, edited by Judith Bessant, Richard Hil and Rob Watts, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

van Krieken, R. (2005) "Assimilation and liberal government" in Contesting Assimilation: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Initiatives, edited by Tim Rowse, Perth: Australian Public Intellectual Network

van Krieken, R. (2003) "When is child welfare cultural genocide? On the politics of the organised 'improvement' of children's lives" pp, 87-112 in Heinz Sünker, Russell Farnen & György Szell (eds) Political Socialisation, Participation and Education: Change of Epoch - Processes of Democratisation, edited by Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

van Krieken, R. & Krygier. M. (2003) "The character of the nation" in Robert Manne (ed). Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Melbourne: Black Inc Books: 81-108.

van Krieken, R. (2001) "Liberalism and Civilization: between assimilation and cultural genocide" in Grenzgängerin: Bridges between disciplines. Eine Festschrift für Irmingard Staeubleedited by Christiane Alsop, Heidelberg: Asanger Verlag: 210-28.

van Krieken, R. (2001) "Norbert Elias" in Key Contemporary Social Theorists, edited by Anthony Elliott & Larry Ray, Oxford: Blackwell: 116-22.

van Krieken, R. (2001) "Norbert Elias and Process Sociology" in The Handbook of Social Theory, edited by George Ritzer & Barry Smart, London: Sage: 353-67.

van Krieken, R. (2000) "Governance, law and civilisation" in Civilising the State: Civil Society, Policy and State Transformation, edited by Susan Kenny, Robert van Krieken, Jehan Loza & Michael Muetzelfeldt, Geelong: Centre for Citizenship & Human Rights, Deakin University: 239-52.

van Krieken, R. (2000) "Democracy and citizenship in Germany" in Democracy and Citizenship in a Global Era, edited by Andrew Vandenberg, London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's Press: 123-37.

van Krieken, R. (2000) "Beyond the "Parsonian problem of order": Elias, Habitus and the two sociologies' in Zivilisationstheorie in der Bilanz: Beiträge zum 100. Geburtstag von Norbert Elias (1897-1990), edited by Annette Treibel, Helmut Kuzmics & Reinhard Blomert, Opladen: Leske & Budrich: 119-142.

van Krieken, R. (1998) "Een jongen en zijn staat", in Mensen Kijken, edited by Kees Bruin et al, Amsterdam: Walters-Nordhoff: 106-109.

van Krieken, R. (1992) "The poverty of social control", in State, Society and Politics in Australia, edited by Michael Muetzelfeldt, Melbourne: Pluto Press: 254-79.

Articles in Referred Journals

Bühler-Niederberger, D and van Krieken, R (2008), 'Persisting Inequalities: Childhood Between Global Influences and Local Traditions', Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 15, 147-55.

van Krieken, R (2008), 'Cultural genocide reconsidered', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 12 (Special Edition), 76-81.

van Krieken, R. (2005) "Chicken Little and the Modern Self", Meanjin.

van Krieken, R. (2005) "Law's Anatomy in Action:Anthropology and History in Court, 15(4) 574-590.

van Krieken, R. (2002) "The paradox of the "two sociologies'': Hobbes, Latour and the constitution of modern social theory", Journal of Sociology 38(3): 255-73

van Krieken, R. (2002) "Reshaping civilization: liberalism between assimilation and cultural genocide", in Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 29(2), 1-38.

van Krieken, R. (2001) "Is Assimilation Justiciable? Lorna Cubillo & Peter Gunner v Commonwealth", Sydney Law Review 23(2): 239-60.

van Krieken, R. (2001) "Legal informalism, power and liberal governance", Social & Legal Studies 10(1): 5-22.

van Krieken, R. (2000) "From Milirrpum to Mabo: the High Court, Terra Nullius and Moral Entrepreneurship", UNSW Law Journal 23(1): 63-77.

van Krieken, R. (1999) "The barbarism of civilization: cultural genocide and the "stolen generations' ", British Journal of Sociology 50(2): 295-313.

van Krieken, R. (1999) "The 'stolen generations': on the removal of Australian indigenous children from their families and its implications for the sociology of childhood" Childhood 6(3): 297-311.

van Krieken, R. (1998) "What does it mean to be Civilised" Norbert Elias on the Germans and Modern Barbarism' Communal/Plural 6(2): 225-33.

van Krieken, R. (1997) "Sociology and the reproductive self: demographic transitions and modernity" Sociology 31(3): 445-71.

van Krieken, R. (1996) "Proto-governmentalization and the historical formation of organizational subjectivity" Economy & Society 25(2): 195-221.

van Krieken, R. (1991) "The poverty of social control: on explanatory logic in the historical sociology of the welfare state" Sociological Review 38(1): 1-25.

van Krieken, R. (1989) "Violence, self-discipline and modernity: beyond the 'civilizing process'" Sociological Review 37(2): 193-218.

van Krieken, R. (1989) "Towards 'Good and Useful Men and Women': the state and childhood in Sydney, 1840-1890" Australian Historical Studies 93: 405-425.

van Krieken, R. (1989) "State bureaucracy and social science: child welfare in New South Wales, 1915-1940" Labour History 58: 17-35.

van Krieken, R. (1986) "Social theory and child welfare: beyond social control" Theory & Society 15: 401-29.

van Krieken, R. (1986) "Children and the State. Child Welfare in New South Wales, 1890-1915" Labour History 51: 33-53.

van Krieken, R. (1981) "Participation in welfare: democracy or self-regulation'" Australian Quarterly 53(1): 74-91.

van Krieken, R. (1980) "The capitalist state and the organisation of welfare: an introduction" Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology 16(3): 23-35. 2


van Krieken, R. (2005) "The 'best interests of the child' and parental separation: on the 'civilizing of parents'", Modern Law Review 68(1), forthcoming.

Conference Papers / Addresses

van Krieken, R. (2004), "Legal Reasoning as a field of knowledge production: Luhmann, Bourdieu and Law's autonomy", 2004 Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association.

van Krieken, R. (2004), " The socio-legal construction of the "best interests of the child': law's autonomy and family law", 8th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Current Legal Issues: Law and Sociology, University College London.

van Krieken, R. (2003) "Beyond the "Parsonian Problem of Order": Elias, Habit and Contemporary Sociology or Hobbes was right" invited paper delivered at the "How is Society Possible'" Workshop Department of Sociology and Centre for Research in Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, 30 June 2003

van Krieken, R. (2003) "Rethinking Cultural Genocide: Settler-colonial State Formation and Indigenous Child Removal", Genocide and Colonialism, University of Sydney, 18-20 July 2003

van Krieken, R. (2002) "Naughty or bad? How the law thinks about children's criminal responsibility", XVth World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane 7-13 July 2002.

van Krieken, R. (2001) "Rethinking cultural genocide" The Genocide Effect: New Perspectives on Modern Cultures of Destruction University of Sydney, 4-5 July 2001.

van Krieken, R. (2001) 'When is child welfare cultural genocide? On the politics of the organised "improvement" of children's lives" (Paper prepared for Political Socialization, Participation and Education: Perspectives on the New Millennium, Joint conference of ISA RC10 Participation & Self-Management and IPSA RC on Political Socialization & Education, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 21-24 June 2001)

van Krieken, R. (2000) "Assimilation and liberal government" Assimilation: Then and Now, University of Sydney, 30 November-1 December 2000.

van Krieken, R. (2000) "Governmentality and organizations: using Foucault in organizational analysis, from discipline to government and beyond", Organizing Knowledge Economies & Societies, APROS 2000, University of Technology, Sydney, 14-17 December 2000.

van Krieken, R. & Watson, V. (2000) "From miscegnation to assimilation: rationalities of child removal in Australian colonial administration", Sociological Sites/Sights TASA 2000, Flinders University, 6-8 December 2000.

van Krieken, R. (1999) "Governance, law and civilization"', Civilising the State: Civil Society, Policy and State Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, 5-6 December 1999.

van Krieken, R. (1998) "Civilizing processes and the tensions between continuity and change: how different are we really?", 14th World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, 26 July-1 August

van Krieken, R. (1998) "The 'Stolen Generations': on the removal of Australian indigenous children from their families and its implications for the sociology of childhood", 14th World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, 26 July-1 August

van Krieken, R. (1997) "Figurations, habitus and interdependence in the sociology of Norbert Elias", Elias Foundation Centenary Conference, Bielefeld, 20-22 June 1997.

van Krieken, R. (1997) "The barbarism of civilization: cultural genocide and the "stolen generations" Organized Violence: The Formation and Breakdown of Monopolies of Violence - Conditions and Consequences, Amsterdam Elias Centenary Conference, 18-20 December 1997.

van Krieken, R. (1996) "Sociology and the reproductive self", The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Tasmania, 4-6 December 1996.

van Krieken, R. (1996) "Norbert Elias and the problem of order in sociological theory", The Australian Sociological Association Conference University of Tasmania, 4-6 December 1996.

van Krieken, R. (1995) "The machine in the ghost: identity, power and embodiment in cyberspace", The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Newcastle, 4-8 December 1995.

van Krieken, R. (1992) "The uses of sociological knowledge, between policy and practice" The Good Society: Applying Social Science (ISA RC 26 "Sociotechnics - Sociological Practice" & WG 6 "Social Indicators') Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 25-27 June 1992.

van Krieken, R. (1992) "State intervention, welfare and the social construction of girlhood in Australian history" First International Conference on Girls and Girlhood: Transitions and Dilemmas Free University, Amsterdam, 16-19 June 1992.

van Krieken, R. (1991) "Der Einfluß des Staatsbildungsprozesses auf die Zivilisierungsgeschichte", Gedenktagung für Norbert Elias, Essen, 16-19 October 1991

van Krieken, R. (1990) "The state and childhood: on the formation of child welfare systems 1890-1940", 12th World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, 9-13 July, 1990.

van Krieken, R. (1990) "The poverty of social control: on explanatory logic in the historical sociology of the welfare state", 12th World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, 9-13 July, 1990.

van Krieken, R. (1990) "Self-Management or the management of selves - social discipline and the problem of autonomy", 12th World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, 9-13 July, 1990.

van Krieken, R. (1988) "Control or compromise: social work and family life', International Federation of Social Workers" 10th International Symposium, Stockholm, 26-30 July, 1988.

van Krieken, R. (1988) "The poverty of social control: problems in sociological understandings of the welfare state", The Sociological Association of Australian & New Zealand Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 28 Nov - 2 Dec 1988.