Professor Carol Johnson

Biography/ Background

Carol is a graduate of the Universities of Adelaide and Manchester. As well as having a long association with the Politics Discipline, she has also taught in Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney and was a Visiting Fellow in the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University for two years from 1997-1998. Her main teaching and research interests are in Australian politics, the politics of gender and sexuality and analyses of ideology and discourse. She has published numerous articles and chapters in these areas. She is also the author of two books, The Labor Legacy: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989) and Governing Change: From Keating to Howard (University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000, second edition 2007). Carol is a former President of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) and was elected to be a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia in 2005

Research Interests

• Australian politics and political discourse
• Australian Labor Governments
• Howard Government
• Theories of Ideology and Discourse
• Politics of Identity
• Politics of Sexuality
• Feminist Theory
• Comparative British/Australian Politics
• Socialist Theory

Publications

For a full listing of Carol Johnson's publications, please see attached document below.

Books

1. Governing Change: From Keating to Howard (University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000; 2nd edition, Network Books, Perth 2007).
2. The Labor Legacy: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989).

Edited Collections

1. Working It Out: All Her Labours, Vol. One (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1984), edited with Margaret Allen, Jean Blackburn, Margaret King and Alison Mackinnon.
2. Embroidering the Framework: All Her Labours , Vol. Two (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1984), edited with Margaret Allen, Jean Blackburn, Margaret King and Alison Mackinnon.

Chapters in Edited Collections

1. "The ideological context" in Marian Simms and John Warhurst eds, Mortgage the Nation? : The 2004 Australian Election (API Network, Nedlands, 2005).
2. with Steve Patten and Hans-Georg Betz, "Identarian Politics and Populism in Canada and the Antipodes" in Jens Rydgren (ed.). Movements of Exclusion, Radical Right-wing Populism in the Western World Hauppauge/N.Y, Nova Science, 2005), pp. 85-100. Also published as a journal article in Current Politics and Economics of Europe, Vol 13, No. 4 (2004), pp. 335-355.
3. "Anti-elitist discourse in Australia: International influences and comparisons" in Marian Sawer and Barry Hindess eds, Us and Them: Anti-Elitist Discourse in Australia (API Network, Nedlands, 2004), pp 117-136.

Journal Articles

1. "Narratives of identity: Denying empathy in conservative discourses on race, class and sexuality." Theory and Society, Vol. 34, No. 1 (February 2005), pp. 37-61.
2. Mark Latham and the Ideology of the ALP." The Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 39, No. 3, November 2004, pp. 535-553.
3. with Hans-Georg Betz, "Against the current - stemming the tide: the nostalgic ideology of the contemporary radical populist right", Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (October 2004), pp.311-327.
4. "Heteronormative Citizenship and the Politics of Passing", Sexualities, Vol 5, No. 3 (August 2002), pp. 316-336.

Publications in refereed conference proceedings

1. "Heteronormativity and the Symbolic Order: Gay and Lesbian Issues as a Politics of Signs." Refereed paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide, 29 Sept.-1 Oct. 2004, http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/papers/

2. “Kevin Rudd and the Labor Tradition:  Economy, Technology and Social Diversity”,  Refereed paper, Australasian Political Studies Conference, Brisbane, 6-9 July 2008.  http://www.polsis.uq.edu.au/apsa2008/Refereed-papers/Johnson.pdf

3. "From the Suburbs: Mark Latham and the ideology of the ALP". Refereed paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart 29 September - 1 October 2003
   http://www.utas.edu.au/government/APSA/CJohnsonfinal.pdf

Files

• Carol Johnson Key Publications - CarolJohnsonPublications.doc [51.0K] (application/msword)

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Politics and government, History
Expertise	Federal Australian politics, especially Liberal Party, Labor Party including Kevin Rudd, past Labor governments, women and politics, republic debate. Gay and lesbian issues at both federal and state level.

Entry last updated: Sunday, 15 Nov 2009