Social movements & social theories

• Areas of expertise
• Current research projects
• Selected recent publications
• Postgraduate research

Areas of expertise

• East-West sexuality
• Meanings of love, sex, marriage and families
• Social trends in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China
• Critical Black Studies
• The social and political implications of new technologies for society
• Mixed and Multiple Identities
• Notions of Otherness and intimacy
• Defamation law and public debate
• The construction of race, gender and nation in media coverage of sport,
• Action and identity in the world of young people
• The experience of groups living in poverty and urban dislocation
• New forms of commitment and identity in social movements.
• Tthe construction of identity and social relationship among drug users
• Types of moral language emerging in new social conflicts
• The effects of information and communication technologies on society

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Current research projects

Young injecting drug users, embodied identities and social worlds: an ethnographic study.
Investigators: Dr Kevin McDonald, Dr John Fitzgerald

Virtual Connections? Exploring Intimacies in Cyberspace.
Investigators: Dr Millsom Henry-Waring, Dr Jo Barraket

Social connectedness and policy development: modelling strategies and measures.
Investigators: Dr Jenny Lewis, Dr Mark Considine, Dr Jo Barraket

Hepatitis C and initiation into injecting drug use in a rural setting.
Investigators: Dr John Fitzgerald, Dr Kevin McDonald

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Selected recent publications

Books

Verity Burgmann, Power, Profit & Protest. Australian Social Movements and Globalisation, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003.

Brian Howe, P. Hughes (eds), Spirit of Australia II: religion in citizenship and national life, (Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum, 2003).

Book chapters

Verity Burgmann and Andrew Ure, ‘Resistance to Neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania’ in François Polet (ed.), Globalizing Resistance. The State of Struggle, Pluto Press, London, 2004, pp.52-67.

Kevin McDonald, “De la solidarité à la fluidarité" in Un autre monde (Paris: Editions Balland, 2003), pp.77-92.

Kevin McDonald, “Marginal youth, personal identity, and the contemporary gang: reconstructing the social world?” in Gangs and society: alternative perspectives, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), pp.62-74.

Journal articles

Nicole Asquith,"In terrorem 'with their tanks and their bombs, and their bombs and their guns, in your head'", Journal of Sociology, 40(4) 2004, pp. 400-416.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Archaeologies of Anti-Capitalist Utopianism’, Arena Journal, nos. 25/26, 2006, pp.99-112.

Verity Burgmann, ‘From Syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the Politics of Identity’, International Labor and Working-Class History, No.67, Spring 2005, pp.1-21.

Jui-shan Chang, "Refashioning womanhood in 1990s Taiwan: an analysis of the Taiwanese edition of Cosmopolitan magazine", Modern China, 30(3) 2004, pp. 361-387.

Karen Farquharson, Timothy Marjoribanks, “Transforming the Springboks: re-imagining the South African nation through sport”, Social Dynamics. 39 (2003), pp. 44-61.

B. Hamilton, E. Manias, P. Maude, Tim Marjoribanks, Kay Cook, "Perspectives of a nurse, a social worker and a psychiatrist regarding patient assessment in acute inpatient psychiatry settings: a case study approach", Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 11(6) 2004, pp. 683-689.

Jenny Lewis, Timothy Marjoribanks, “The impact of financial constraints and incentives on professional autonomy”, International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 18 (2003), pp. 49-61.

Jenny Lewis, Timothy Marjoribanks, M. Pirotta, “Changing professions: general practitioners' perceptions of autonomy on the frontline”, Journal of Sociology. 39 (2003), pp. 44-61.

Timothy Marjoribanks, Andrew Kenyon, “Negotiating news: journalistic practice and defamation law in Australia and the US”, Australian Journalism Review. 25 (2003), pp. 31-49.

Timothy Marjoribanks, Jenny Lewis, “Reform and autonomy: perceptions of the Australian general practice community”, Social Science & Medicine. 56 (2003), pp. 2229-2239.

Conference papers

Karen Farquharson, Timothy Marjoribanks, ”Representing Australia: race, gender and nation in Australian cricket”, Placing race and localising whiteness, (Flinders University, 2003).

Millsom Henry-Waring & Jo Barraket, "Exploring virtual connections? Sociological perspectives of intimacy in cyberspace", The Australian Sociological Association Conference, (University of Sydney/TASA, 2004).

Kevin McDonald, "After collective identity: movements as music", The Australian Sociological Association Conference, (University of Sydney/TASA, 2004).

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Postgraduate research

PhD

Kay Cook: Women, family, work and welfare: a critical analysis of social citizenship. (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks)

Peter Gibilisco: Social democracy, disability and social inclusion: a sociological analysis. (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks)

Eloise Leeson-Leahy: The utility and concept of 'peer' within drug discourse. (Supervisor: John Fitzgerald)

Fiona Martin: Young injecting drug users. (Supervisors: Kevin McDonald & John Fitzgerald)

Vyvyan Rose: Computers, culture and cyberspace. (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks)

Wendy Stone: Individualism and a 'new' poverty: an empirical analysis of social and economic vulnerabilities in Australia. (Supervisor: Kevin McDonald)

MA

Viviana Cohn: What measures are taken by psychiatric practitioners to avoid socio-demographic bias in their diagnostic and treatment decision making process of psychiatric patients who are deemed involuntary? (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks)

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