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PROF VERITY NANCY BURGMANN



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Political Sciences
Position: PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/burgmann.html
Work: 83447943
Fax: 83447906
Room: 441
Level: 04
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Labour movement politics and history; New social movements and protest movements; Anti-globalisation radicalism; Environmental protest. Australian race relations. Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
B.Sc (Econ) University of London 31-Dec-1975
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1980

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Reason in revolt: the role of intellectuals in Australian radicalism Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
IMAGINING THE GREAT SOUTHERN LAND: UTOPIA, SYSTOPIA AND SCIENCE FICTION IN AUSTRALIA Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Striking Back against Empire:  Working-Class responses to Globalisation


    Year: 2008
    Book: The Post-Colonial and the Global
    Publisher: University of Minnesota Press(Minneapolis)
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Journal Articles

  • 'A Greater Concentration of Purpose': The intellectual Legacy of Eric Fry and Robin Gollan


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Labour History
    Volume: 94
    Issue: May 2008
    Page numbers: 25-41
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  • Aspirational Authoritarianism: Howard Governments v. New Social Movements


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Social Alternatives
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 10-16
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  • The Green Bans Movement: Workers' Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal for the Study of Radicalism
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 63-90
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • The Green Bans Movement: Workers' Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal for the Study of Radicalism
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 63-90
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  • Australian Radical Intellectuals and the Imagining of Counter-Hegemonic Alternatives
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Alternatives
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 26-31
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  • Improving Well-being
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Humanist
    Volume: 87
    Issue: Spring 2007
    Page numbers: 5-7
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  • Labour and the New Social Movements: the Australian Story
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Ohara Insitute for Social Research
    Volume: 584
    Issue: July 2007
    Page numbers: 1-23
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  • The Green Bans Movement: Workers' Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal for the Study of Radicalism
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 63-89
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Major Reference Works

  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:

    Green bans


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:

    Syndicalism


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The IWW in International Perspective: comparing the North American and Australasian Wobblies
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Labour Traditions
    Conference Publication: Labour Traditions. Papers from the Tenth National Labour History Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 36-43
    Publisher: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History(Sydney)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Archaeologies of Anti-Capitalist Utopianism
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Arena Journal
    Volume: 25/26
    Page numbers: 99-112
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  • Contesting the Injuries of Class
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: 2006
    Issue: 89
    Page numbers: 91-104
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  • From Syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the Politics of Identity (Japanese Translation) - Part One
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Seikatsu Keizai Seisaku
    Volume: June 2006
    Issue: 113
    Page numbers: 22-33
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  • From Syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the Politics of Identity (Japanese Translation) - Part Two
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Seikatsu Keizai Seisaku
    Volume: July 2006
    Issue: 114
    Page numbers: 32-41
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Language and the Labour Tradition
    Year: 2005
    Book: A Passion for Politics. Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox
    Publisher: Pearson Education Australia(Frenchs Forest)
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Journal Articles

  • From Syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the Politics of Identity
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Labor and Working-Class History
    Volume: 67
    Issue: Spring 2005
    Page numbers: 1-21
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Frondes contre le gouvernement australien
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Le Monde diplomatique
    Volume: 84
    Issue: December 2005-Janvier 2006
    Page numbers: 92-93
    Publisher: Le Monde Diplomatique(Paris)
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  • Hard Times but No Hard Words: A Rejoinder
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Labor and Working-Class History
    Volume: 67
    Issue: Spring 2005
    Page numbers: 64-78
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Las Peculiaridades del Trabajo en Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Volume: VI
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 27-55
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Vanguards and avant-gardes: the 'Reason in Revolt' online project on political and cultural radicalism
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The Past is Before Us. The Ninth National Labour History Conference
    Conference Publication: The Past is Before Us. The Ninth National Labour History Conference
    Page numbers: 29-36
    Publisher: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History(Sydney)
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  • Vanguards and avant-gardes: the 'Reason in Revolt' online project on political and cultural relativism
    Year: 2005
    Event name: National Labour History Conference
    Conference Publication: National Labour History Conference: The Past is Before Us
    Page numbers: 29-36
    Publisher: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History(Sydney)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Active citizenship against marketisation: comunity resistance to neo-liberalism
    Year: 2004
    Book: The vocal citizen: Labor essays 2004
    Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Class in contemporary Australia
    Year: 2004
    Book: Ruling Australia: the power, privilege and politics of the new ruling class
    Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Moloch's little mate: the ruling class and the Australian Labor Party
    Year: 2004
    Book: Ruling Australia: the power, privilege and politics of the new ruling class
    Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Resistance to neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania
    Year: 2004
    Book: Globalizing resistance: the state of struggle
    Publisher: Pluto Press(London)
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Journal Articles

  • APSA presidential address 2003: the beginning of politics and the first human
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Political Science
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 197-204
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstoke)
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  • Latham's ladder
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Arena Magazine
    Volume: 69
    Page numbers: 28-30
    Publisher: Arena Printing and Publishing(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Striking back against empire: autonomist Marxism and globalization
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004
    Page numbers: 1-19
    Publisher: Australasian Political Studies Association(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Power, profit and protest. Australian social movements and globalisation
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Allen & Unwin(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • A sorry tale of exclusion: the Howard governments versus indigenous Australians 1996-2003
    Year: 2003
    Book: Social exclusion: an approach to the Australian case
    Publisher: Lang - Peter Lang(Frankfurt)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Labour/Le Travail and Canadian working-class history: a view from afar
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Labour - Le Travail
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 73-88
    Publisher: Canadian Committee Labour History
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The 'cancer stage of capitalism' and the politics of resistance
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Jubilee Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association
    Conference Publication: APSA 50: Jubilee Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association
    Page numbers: 1-21
    Publisher: Australian National University(Canberra)
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Reports

  • Unions and the environment
    Year: 2002
    Customer: Australian Conservation Foundation
    Publisher: Australian Conservation Foundation(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Critics of caucus
    Year: 2001
    Book: True believers: the story of the federal parliamentary Labor Party
    Publisher: Allen & Unwin(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Morality: a labour movement perspective
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Dialogue
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 30-36