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. Her main teaching and research interests are in Australian politics, the politics of gender and sexuality, the politics of emotion and analyses of ideology and discourse. She has published numerous articles and chapters in these areas. She is also the author of  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 Australian Political Studies Association (APSA), the peak professional organisation of Australian political scientists.  She was elected to be a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia in 2005. She has served on the Academy Panel C Committee (which covers History, Philosophy, Law and Political Science) from 2007-11 and on the Academy's Workshop Committee from 2010. She is currently Chair of the Academy's Workshop Committee, as well as being a member of the Academy's Executive Committee.

Her applied research interests focus on how Governments govern social, economic and technological change. She has worked with the SA Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology to establish a research cluster across the three major SA universities, "Managing Diversity and Social Inclusion in a Time of Change", http://www.innovation.sa.gov.au/Government/constellation_sa/alliances/adaptation_to_social,_economic__and__environment_change/managing_diversity

Research Interests

• Australian politics and political discourse
• Australian Labor Governments from Curtin to Gillard 
• Howard Government and Tony Abbott
• Theories of Ideology and Discourse
• Politics of Identity
• Politics of Sexuality
• Politics of emotion
• Politics of social democracy
• Race/ethnicity and politics
• Gender and Politics
• Feminist Theory
• Comparative British/Australian Politics
• Socialist Theory

Publications

For a more detailed listing of Carol Johnson's publications, please see the attached file at the end of this list.

Books (sole authored)

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

Edited Collections

1. The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed relationship, edited with Manon Tremblay and David Paternotte (Ashgate, Farnham Surrey,  2011).
2. Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 45, No 1 (March 2010). Edited with Juanita Elias, Special Issue on Re-engaging Asia.
3.  Working It Out: All Her Labours, Vol. One (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1984), edited with Margaret Allen, Jean Blackburn, Margaret King and Alison Mackinnon.
4. 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 (Selected)

1. With Sarah Maddison and Emma Partridge, "The LGBT Movement and the State in Australia" in Manon Tremblay, David Paternotte and Carol Johnson eds, The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State (Ashgate,  2011), pp. 27-42.
2. "Radical Approaches" in R.A.W. Rhodes ed., The Australian Study of Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills Basingstoke, 2009), pp. 305-314.
3. "The ideological context" in Marian Simms and John Warhurst eds, Mortgage the Nation? : The 2004 Australian Election (API Network, Nedlands, 2005).
4. 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.
5. "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 (Selected)

 

1. "The Politics of Broadband: Labor and New Information technology from Hawke to Gillard", Australian Journal of Political Science,  Vol. 46,  No. 1 (2011), pp.  3-19.
2. "Gillard, Rudd and Labor Tradition", The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 57, No 4, 2011, 562-579.
3. "The Politics of Affective Citizenship: From Blair to Obama", Citizenship Studies, Vol. 14 , No. 5 (2010), pp. 495-509.
4. "Howard's values and Australian Identity", Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 2, No. 2 (June2007), pp. 195-210.
5. "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.
6. Mark Latham and the Ideology of the ALP." The Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 39, No. 3, November 2004, pp. 535-553.
7. "Heteronormative Citizenship and the Politics of Passing", Sexualities, Vol 5, No. 3 (August 2002), pp. 316-336.

Publications in Refereed Conference Proceedings (Selected)

1. “Politicians, Gender and Emotion", Refereed paper, Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Melbourne University,  September 2010. apsa2010.com.au/full-papers/pdf/APSA2010_0229.pdf
2. "The Politics of Signs: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Comparative perspective", Refereed paper. Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide, 29 Sept-1 Oct. 2004, http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/papers/ 

Files

• CAROL_JOHNSONPublications2011.doc [53.5K] (application/msword)

Expertise for Media Contact

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

Entry last updated: Thursday, 20 Sep 2012