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DR SEAN SCALMER



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Organization: Historical Studies
Position: SENIOR LECTURER/ASSOC PROF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
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Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Political History Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
PhD in Politics University of Sydney 31-Dec-1997
Honours Bachelor of Economics (Social Science) University of Sydney 31-Dec-1993

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
THE CIRCULATION OF NONVIOLENCE: GANDHI AND THE HISTORY OF GLOBAL POLITICS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 31/01/2007
REMAKING AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: ELECTIONEERING FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE 21ST Chief Investigator MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009

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

  • Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual and the Diffusion of Nonviolent Direct Action
    Year: 2008
    Book: Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance
    Publisher: Berghahn Books(New York)
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  • What do workers want from industrial relations? Insights from Australia at Work
    Year: 2008
    Book: Remaking Australian Industrial Relations
    Publisher: CCH Asia Pacific
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Journal Articles

  • A Postscript, A Prospect
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 191
    Page numbers: 27-33
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Edward Said and the Sociology of Intellectuals
    Year: 2007
    Book: Edward Said: The Legacy of A Public Intellectual
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Electoral Democracy in New South Wales: Parties, the Press and Popular Participation, 1856-2003
    Year: 2007
    Book: Writing Party History: Papers from a Seminar held at Parliament House, Sydney, May 2006
    Publisher: N.S.W. Parliament(Sydney)
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  • Gandhi in Circulation: Translation, Reinvention, Application, Transformation
    Year: 2007
    Book: Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives
    Publisher: Routledge
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Journal Articles

  • Cricket, Imperialism and Class Domination
    Year: 2007
    Journal: WorkingUSA
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 431-442
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Major Reference Works

  • Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:Political Sociology
    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:Social Movements
    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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  • The Little History of Australian Unions
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Vulgar Press(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • Introduction


    Year: 2006
    Book: What if? Australian history as it might have been
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • What if the assassination attempt on Arthur Calwell had been successful?
    Year: 2006
    Book: What if? Australian history as it might have been
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Globalising Gandhi: translation, reinvention, application, transformation


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Borderlands e-journal
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 3
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  • Labour Intellectuals in Australia: Modes, Traditions, Generations, Transformations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Review of Social History
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-26
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  • Searching for the Aspirationals
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: spring
    Issue: 180
    Page numbers: 5-9
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Elites Constructing Elites: News Limited's Newspapers, 1996-2002


    Year: 2004
    Book: Us and them: anti-elitism in australia
    Publisher: API Network(Perth)
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Journal Articles

  • Political Chronicle: New South Wales, July to December 2003
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 257-64
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Making the future: Activism and hope
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: summer
    Issue: 173
    Page numbers: 30-35
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  • Political Chronicle: New South Wales, January to June 2003
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 567-572
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  • Political Chronicle: New South Wales, July to December 2002
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 253-258
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Dissent Events: Protest, the Media, and the Political Gimmick in Australia
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • "A co-fraternity -not merely a few sheets of famine prices paper": Reading as a Labour Movement Community Practice
    Year: 2001
    Book: Labour and community: historical essays
    Publisher: University of Wollongong Press(Wollongong)
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  • Crisis to crisis: 1950-66


    Year: 2001
    Book: True Believers: The story of the federal parliamentary labor party
    Publisher: Allen & Unwin(Sydney)
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  • Carnival at Crown Casino: S11 as party and protest
    Year: 2001
    Book: FreeNRG: notes from the edge of the dancefloor
    Publisher: Common Ground Publishing(Altona)
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