Qualifications BA (Hons), MA (Politics), PhD (Adel) Research Interests 1. Governance and political discourse. Publications Books
[1992], (with Paul Nursey-Bray (Ed), & Robyn Williams), Anarchist Thinkers and Thought: An Annotated Bibliography, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press). Refereed Articles/Book Chapters [2008], forthcoming (with J. Juniper), “Foucault and Spinoza: Philosophies of Immanence and the Decentred Political Subject”, History of the Human Sciences, 21 (2), May. [2007], “Reframing the Governance Story”, Australian Journal of Political Science, 42 (3), pp. 455-70. [2007], “The ‘Sons of Tricky Dicky’ and the Soft-Soaping of History”, Journal of Australian Studies, 91, pp. 33-44. [2007], “Dealing with the Sexual Harassment of Teachers in the Classroom in the Early Twentieth Century” in Schools as Dangerous Places: A Historical Perspective, ed Anthony Potts & Tom O’Donoghue, New York, Cambria Press,, Ch. 5. (Reprinted from History of Education Review, 22 (2), 1993, pp. 44-56). [2005], 'From Principled Bastardry to Whatever It Takes' in Legitimacy and the State, Graham Young and Graham Maddox (eds), (Armidale: Kardoorair Press), pp. 109-25. [2005] (with J. Burgess), 'Working Nation: Context and Consequences', Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 9 (2), pp. 1-17. [2005] (with J. Burgess), 'Working Nation, the Ethos of Competition, and the Transformatin of Public Policy', Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 9 (2), pp. 19-33. [2005], '"Nowhere At Home", Not Even In Theory: Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Political Theory', Anarchist Studies, 13 (1). pp. 119-42. [2004], 'No More Like Pallas Athena: Displacing Patrilineal Accounts of Modern Feminist Political Theory', Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Fall, 19 (4). pp. 1-22. [2002], (with C.R. Doran), 'Globalization, the Patriarchal State and Women's Resistance in Singapore', Gender, Technology and Development, 6 (2), May-August. pp. 215-32. [2002], 'The Poverty of the University' in Jim Cameron, Greg Shaw, Allan Arnott, eds, Tertiary Teaching: Doing It Differently, Doing It Better, (Darwin: NTU Press and the Centre for Teaching & Learning in Diverse Educational Contexts), pp. 9-19. [2002], 'The Non-Politics of Unemployment in Australia, Japan, and the USA', Dissent, No. 8 Autumn/Winter. pp.18-22. [2001], 'The Social Purity Society' in The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, ed by Wilfrid Prest, (Adelaide: Wakefield Press). pp. 492-3. [2000], 'Contesting Patrilineal Descent in Political Theory: James Mill and Nineteenth Century Feminism', Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Winter, 15 (1). pp. 151-174. [1999], (with C.R. Doran), 'Riding the Tiger: International Challenges Facing Singapore', Internationalscope Review, 1 (2), online journal available at [1999], 'Drawing the Line: Sex Education and Homosexuality in South Australia 1985', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 45 (2) June. pp. 197-213. [1998], 'Imperial Rule and the Ordering of Intellectual Space: The Formation of the Straits Philosophical Society', Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 12 (2). pp. 23-54. [1998], 'Sex Education, the Family and the State in Early Twentieth Century South Australia', History of Education Review, 27(1). pp. 33-52. [1997], (with C.R. Doran), 'Maternity and Marginalisation in Singaporean Politics', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 27 (4). pp. 475-88. [1997], 'The Straits Philosophical Society: Imperial Rule and the Ordering of Intellectual Space in a British Colony' in Australasian Political Studies 1997: Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, ed George Crowder, Haydon Manning, David Scott Mathieson, Andrew Parkin & Leonard Seabrooke, Vol. II of three volumes, (Adelaide: Department of Politics, Flinders University of South Australia). pp. 433-52. [1997], (with C.R. Doran), 'Gender Rules: Women and Governance in Contemporary Singapore', Centre for Asia Pacific Studies Occasional Paper Series, No 4, Nottingham Trent University. 20pp. [1996], 'The White Cross League and Sex Education in SA State Schools 1916-1929', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, No. 25. pp. 46-57. [1995], 'Ontological Commitment and the Concepts of "Embodiment" and "Embodied Person": Some Problems for Feminist Theory', Women & Politics, 15 (1), pp. 19-36. [1994], (with C. Bacchi), 'Dealing With Sexual Harassment: Persuade, Discipline or Punish?', Australian Journal of Law & Society, 10. pp. 1-13. [1994], (with C. Bacchi), 'Historicising Sexual Harassment', Women?s History Review, 3 (2). pp. 263-70. [1993], (with C. Bacchi), 'Dealing With Sexual Harassment: Power and Sexuality in the Class-Room 1912', History of Education Review, 22 (2). pp. 44-59. [1992], 'Notes on Theorising the Individual', A-Gender: Journal of Feminist Thought,1 (1), February. pp. 36-42. [1991], 'The Politics of Le Guin's Narrative Shifts', Science-Fiction Studies, 18 (2), July. pp. 180-97. [1990], 'Legislating for Social Purity, 1883-1885: The Reverend Joseph Coles Kirby and the Social Purity Society', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, No. 18. pp. 119-34. Conference Papers [2007], (with T. Moore), ‘The Concept “Governance” within Parliamentary Discourse 1983-93’, Refereed Paper Presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Monash University conference Centre, Melbourne, 25-27 Sept. Available online at [2006], ‘Transformations in Sovereignty, Political Authority and Capacity in the Governance State’, Refereed Paper Presented to the Transformations in Governance: Capacity Building in Australia and the Asia/Pacific Region Conference, Australian national University, Canberra, 29 November – 1 December. Available on-line at [2006], ‘“Like Prussic Acid in a Bottle of Medicine”: Liberal Principles and Colonial Rule’, Refereed Paper Presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, 25-27 Sept. Available online at [2005], 'Government, Governance and the Democratic Ethos', Refereed Paper Presented at the Inaugural Governance and Social Responsibility Conference, Goodenough College, London, United Kingdom, 1 Nov. [2005], 'Considerations on the Meanings of Governance', Refereed Paper Presented at the Integrated Governance Conference, Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy, 27 Oct - 29 Oct. [2005], '(Con)Fusing Discourses: Foucault and Governance', Refereed Paper Presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 28 Sept - 30 Sept. [2005], (with James Juniper), 'Foucault and Spinoza: Philosophies of Immanence and the Decentred Political Subject', Refereed Paper Presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 28 Sept - 30 Sept. [2004], (with J. Burgess), 'From Green to White: Working Nation, Competition and the Third Way', Paper presented to the Working Nation: Ten Years On Workshop, University of Newcastle, 26 November. [2004], 'Exploring the Genealogy of "Governance" within Australian Political Discourse', Refereed Paper Presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 29 Sept - 1 Oct. Available electronically at [2004], 'The "Sons of Tricky-Dicky" and the Soft Soaping of History', Paper presented to the 12th Biennial National Conference of the Australian History Association, Newcastle, 5-9 July. [2004], 'From Principled Bastardry to Whatever It Takes: A Return to the A Heart of Darkness?', Paper presented to the Legitimation and the State Conference, University of New England, Armidale, 9-10 February. [2003], 'Revisioning the Logic of Industrialisation: Contesting the Common Sense of Our Time', The Full Employment Imperative, Refereed Proceedings of the 5th Path to Full Employment And 10th National Conference on Unemployment, ed Ellen Carson, Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, 10-12 December, pp. 97-109. [2003],'"Nowhere At Home": Not Even In Theory', Refereed Paper Presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 Sept - 1 Oct. Available electronically at [2002], (with V. Quirk),'Re-engineering and Managerialism: The Tabula Rasa Approach to Policy and Administration', Refereed Proceedings of the 4th Path to Full Employment and 9th National Conference on Unemployme nt, ed Ellen Carson, Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, 4-6 December, pp. 90-100. [2002], 'Developing Study Skills Online', in Learning For The Future: Proceedings of the Learning Conference 2001, ed Bill cope & Mary Kalantzis, Common Ground Publishing at [2001], '"Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie": Political Aspects of Unemployment in Australia, Japan and the USA', Paper presented to the workshop on Understanding Unemployment in Australia, Japan, and the USA: A Cross Country Analysis, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, 10 December. [2001], 'So They Were All Feminists Then? Radical Philosophers as Feminists in the Early Nineteenth Century', Refereed Paper Presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Parliament House, Queensland, 24-26 Sept. Available electronically at:
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