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A/PROF ADRIAN LITTLE



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Political Sciences
Position: HEAD OF SCHOOL
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Homepage: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/little.html
Work: 83446209
Fax: 83447906
Room: 509
Level: 05
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Contemporary political and social theory; History of political thought; Northern Irish politics; British politics; Political economy. England, Northern Ireland

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) Institution not known 31-Dec-1990
Doctor of Philosophy Queen's University of Belfast 31-Dec-1993

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australasian Political Studies Association Member 01-Apr-2004
Member Political Studies Association of the UK Member 01-Jan-1996
Member Political Studies Association of Ireland Member 01-Apr-2002

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) (FHEA) 01-Jan-2003

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
Islamic movements in secular societies: grammars of experience Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Chief Investigator (with Kevin McDonald) on ARC Discovery Project DP0772653: 'Islamic Movements in Secular Societies: Grammars of Experience', 2007-2009.

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 2009

Books

  • The Politics of Radical Democracy
    Year: 2009
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press(Edinburgh)
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Book Chapters

  • Introduction


    Year: 2009
    Book: The Politics of Readical Democracy
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press(Edinburgh)
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  • The Complex Agon


    Year: 2009
    Book: Law and Agnostic Politics
    Publisher: Ashgate
    Authors(s):
  • The Northern Ireland Paradox


    Year: 2009
    Book: The Politics of Radical Democracy
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press(Edinburgh)
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • Democratic Piety: Complexity, Conflict and Violence
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press(Edinburgh)
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Book Chapters

  • A state of exception: the concept of the political in Northern Ireland


    Year: 2008
    Book: Irish Political Studies Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Reconciliation, Ideology and Identity in Northern Ireland


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Australasian Political Science Association Conference (APSA)
    Conference Publication: Australasian Political Science Association Conference (APSA)
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Between disagreement and consensus: unravelling the democratic paradox
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Political Science
    Volume: 42
    Issue: No. 1, March 2007
    Page numbers: 143-159
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Major Reference Works

  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:

    Community


    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:

    Democracy


    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:

    Third way


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

  • Disagreeable democracy: Deliberation, conflict and communication in contemporary democratic practice.


    Year: 2007
    Event name: Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA)
    Conference Publication: Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA)
    Page numbers: 1-25
    Publisher: Monash University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Theorizing Democracy and Violence – The Case of Northern Ireland
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Theoria
    Volume: 11
    Issue: December 2006
    Page numbers: 62-86
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Community
    Year: 2005
    Book: Political Concepts
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press(Edinburgh)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Northern Ireland Paradox: the Retreat from Democracy Since the Belfast Agreement
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Workshops in Political Theory
    Conference Publication: Manchester School
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 11-23
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
    Author(s):
  • Theories of Democracy and Violence: the Case of Northern Ireland
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference
    Conference Publication: Australian Journal of Political Science
    Page numbers: 23-45
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Democracy and Northern Ireland: beyond the liberal paradigm?
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Liberal democracy, ethics and the politics of disagreement
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004
    Page numbers: 1-36
    Publisher: Australasian Political Studies Association(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • The Problems of Antagonism: Applying Liberal Political Theory in Northern Ireland
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 373-392
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • The Politics of Community: Theory and Practice
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press(Edinburgh)
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Book Chapters

  • Working Time Reductions
    Year: 2002
    Book: Environment and Welfare
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Journal Articles

  • Community and Radical Democracy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Political Ideologies
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 369-382
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  • Feminism and the Politics of Difference in Northern Ireland
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Political Ideologies
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 163-177
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