Professor Barry Hindess

Academic Background
PhD (Sociology) Liverpool, UK 1975
MA  (Social Science) Liverpool, UK, 1964
BA (Mathematics) Oxford, UK, 1961

Career Highlights
Lecturer, Sociology Department, University of Leicester, UK
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor,Sociology Department,
University of Liverpool, UK
Professor, Sociology Department, Faculty of Arts, ANU
Professor, Political Science, RSSS, ANU

Visiting Positions at: Cambridge University, UK; Birkbeck College, London,
UK; Griffith University, Australia; University of Massachusets, Amherst,
USA; Carleton University, Canada; University of British Columbia, Canada.

Editorial Board: CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and
Political Philosophy); Southern Review.

Research Interests
Barry Hindess' research interests cover a variety of issues in social and
political theory and in contemporary politics.  At present he is working on
problems associated with influential conceptions of political community in
Western political discourse, with particular reference to such ideas as
democracy, equality, liberty, power, rationality and society. Current work
includes a series of papers on authoritarian aspects of liberal political
reason and a major ARC-funded study of the development of governmental and
social scientific understandings of 'society' in the course of European
colonial expansion, bth in Australia and more generally, and of the
continuing impact of those understandings in the post-colonial era.

Recent Publications
Books:
Discourses of Power: from Hobbes to Foucault, Oxford, Blackwell, 1995

Governing Australia, (Edited with Mitchell Dean), Melbourne, Cambridge
University Press, 1998

Journal Articles and Contributions to Books:
Divide and Rule: the international culture of modern citizenship. European
Journal of Social Theory, 1, 1 (1998)

Knowledge and Political Reason. Critical Review of International Social and
Political Philosophy. 1, 2 (1998).

Governing cultures. Southern Review 3, 1 (1998).

Politics and Liberation. In J. Moss (ed.) Foucault, Freedom and Politics:
critical perspectives on the later work of Michel Foucault.  London, Sage
(1998)

Neo-liberalism and the National Economy. In M. Dean, & B. Hindess (ed.),
Governing Australia, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. (1998)

Introduction: Government, Liberalism, Society.  In M. Dean, & B. Hindess
(ed.), Governing Australia, (with Mitchell Dean). Melbourne: Cambridge
University Press. (1998)

'Culture', 'society' and the figure of man. (with Christine Helliwell).
History of the Human Sciences. 12, 4 (1999).

Power.  In Steven Taylor (ed) Contemporary Sociology. (with Christine
Helliwell). Basingstoke: Macmillan.  (1999)

Citizenship in the international management of populations". American
Behavioural Scientist. 43, 9 (2000)

Divide and govern: governmental aspects of the modern states system. In R.
Ericson & N. Stehr (eds) Governing Modern Societies.  Toronto: University
of Toronto Press. (2000).

Representation Ingrafted upon Democracy. Democratization, 7, 2 (2000).

Democracy and the neo-liberal promotion of arbitrary power. Critical Review
of International Social and Political Philosophy. 3, 2 (2000)

'Multiculturalism and political representation'. In R. Axtmann (ed.)
Balancing Democracy. London: Continuum. (2001)

'Power and Politics'. In K. Nash & A. Scott (eds.) Blackwell Companion to
Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.(2001)

The Liberal Government of Unfreedom, to appear in Alternatives

Not at Home in the Empire, to appear in Social Identities

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