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A/PROF KEVIN MCDONALD



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Political Sciences
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/mcdonald.html
Work: 61 3 8344 6586
Mobile: 0408 877 833
Fax: 61 3 8344 7906
Room: 423
Level: 04
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Construction of identity and social relationship among drug users; Exploring types of moral language emerging in new social conflicts. Experience of contemporary social problems: poverty and urban dislocation; New forms of commitment and identity in social movements. Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) La Trobe University
Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales 31-Dec-1983
Doctorat de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales 31-Dec-1992

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
Young injecting drug users, embodied identities and social worlds: an ethnographic study Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Hepatitis C & Initiation into Injecting Drug Use in a Rural Setting Chief Investigator DEPT OF HEALTH & AGEING Innovative Grants 10/09/2003
Islamic movements in secular societies: grammars of experience Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 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 2006

Books

  • Global Movements: Action and Culture
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Oneself as another: from social movement to experience movement
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Current Sociology
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 575-593
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • After collective identity: movements as music
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The Australian Sociological Association 2004 Conference
    Conference Publication: The Australian Sociological Association 2004 Conference proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: The University of Sydney/The Australian Sociological Association(Sydney)
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Reports

  • Unspoken but everpresent: hepatitis C in a regional setting
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Department of Human Services (Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • De la solidarité à la fluidarité
    Year: 2003
    Book: Un autre monde
    Publisher: Editions Balland(Paris)
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  • Marginal youth, personal identity, and the contemporary gang: reconstructing the social world?
    Year: 2003
    Book: Gangs and society: alternative perspectives
    Publisher: Columbia University Press(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Alain Touraine
    Year: 2002
    Book: Key contemporary social theorists
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Abingdon)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • From s11 to September 11 - implications for sociology
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Sociology
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 229-236
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • From solidarity to fluidarity
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Social Movement Studies
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 109-128
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing
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  • L'Intervention sociologique after twenty-five years: can it translate into English?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Qualitative Sociology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 247-260
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(Philadelphia)
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Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Identity processes and globalisation conflicts
    Year: 2001
    Event name: The Australian Sociological Association 2001 Conference
    Conference Publication: TASA 2001 Conference
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: The University of Sydney/The Australian Sociological Association(Sydney)
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