A/Prof Sarah Maddison

Overview

Associate Professor Sarah Maddison BA (Hons) UTS, PhD Sydney, is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow based in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies. Previously Associate Professor Maddison was the Research Director in the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit in the Social Policy Research Centre, and prior to that was Senior Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her areas of research expertise include Indigenous political culture, Australian democracy and democratic participation, gender politics, social movements, public policy, and democratic dialogue. She is a joint chief investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant with Patrick Dodson and Ilan Katz on understanding the use of evidence in Indigenous policy and has recently completed two current ARC Discovery grants. In 2009 Sarah was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to examine international models of Indigenous representation, including questions of representational legitimacy and methods of conflict resolution, through a study of the National Congress of American Indians and Canada's Assembly of First Nations. In 2011 Sarah published two new books: Beyond White Guilt (Allen & Unwin) and Unsettling the Settler State (Federation Press, co-edited with Morgan Brigg, UQ).

Publications

BOOKS

Maddion, S. (2011), Beyond white guilt: Rethinking race relations in Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. xiii + 245.

Maddison, S. and Brigg, M. (eds) (2011) (contributing editor) Unsettling the settler state: Creativity and resistance in Indigenous settler-state governance, Federation Press, Sydney, xviii + 236.

Maddison, S. (2009), Black politics: Inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

Maddison, S. (2009) Black politics: Inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. xlii + 294.

Maddison, S. and Denniss, R. (2009) Introduction to Australian public policy: Theory and practice, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. xiv + 281.

Maddison, S. (2008) Collective identity and Australian feminist activism: Conceptualising a third wave, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Berlin, pp. vi + 259.

Hamilton, C. and Maddison, S. (2007) (contributing editor), Silencing Dissent: How the Australian government is controlling public opinion and stifling debate, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 300.

Maddison, S. and Scalmer, S. (2006), Activist Wisdom: practical knowledge and creative tension in social movements, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. xiv + 284.

BOOK CHAPTERS



Maddison, S., and Brigg, M. (2011). “Unsettling governance: From Bark Petition to YouTube”, in Maddison, S. and Brigg, M. (eds) Unsettling the settler state: Creativity and resistance in Indigenous settler-state governance, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 1-14.

Maddison, S., Jeffries, S., and Menham, G. (2011). “Murdi Paaki: Challenge, continuity and change”, in Maddison, S. and Brigg, M. (eds) Unsettling the settler state: Creativity and resistance in Indigenous settler-state governance, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 116-130.

Maddison, S., Johnson, C. and Partridge, E. (forthcoming September 2011), “Australia: Parties, federalism and rights agendas”, in Tremblay, M. Johnson, C. and Paternotte, D. (eds), The lesbian and gay movement and the state: Comparative insights into a transformed relationship, Ashgate, UK.

Maddison, S. and Shaw, F. (forthcoming 2011), “Feminist perspectives on social movement research,” in Hesse-Biber, S. (ed), Feminist Research Methods, Second edition, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA (accepted July 2010).

Maddison, S. (2010), “Social movements” in Jackson, R. et al (eds) Encyclopaedia of Identity, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 755-759.

Maddison, S. and Manning, B. (2009), “Commodification and the New Academic: Australia’s Pyrrhic Struggle”, in Giberson, T and Giberson, G. (eds), Knowledge Economy: The Commodification of Knowledge and Information in the Academic System, Hampton Press, New Jersey, pp. 151-164.

Maddison, S. and Jung, K. (2008) “Autonomy and engagement: Women’s movements in Australia and South Korea”, in Sawer, M. and Grey, S. (eds) Women’s movements: Flourishing or in abeyance? Routledge, UK, pp. 33-48.

Maddison, S. and Edgar, G. (2008) “Into the lion’s den: Challenges for NFPs in their relationships with government”, in Barraket, J. (ed) Strategic issues in the not for profit sector, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 188-211.

Maddison, S. (2007) “Lobbying government: Social organisations and NGOs,” in Young, S. (ed), Government Communication in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 255-269.

Maddison, S. (2007), “Redefining democracy”, in Hamilton, C. and Maddison, S. (eds), Silencing Dissent, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 24-40.

Hamilton, C. and Maddison, S. (2007), “Dissent in Australia”, in Hamilton, C. and Maddison, S. (eds), Silencing Dissent, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 1-23.

Maddison, S. and Hamilton, C. (2007), “Silencing NGOs”, in Hamilton, C. and Maddison, S. (eds), Silencing Dissent, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 78-100.

Maddison, S. (2006) “Feminist perspectives on social movement research,” in Hesse-Biber, S. (ed), Feminist Research Methods, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 391–407.

Maddison, S. (2006) “Outsiders among outsiders: young women in NSW politics,” in Brennan, D. and Chappell, L. (eds), Women in NSW Politics, UNSW Press, Sydney pp. 225–45.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

(2006-2010)

Maddison, S. (2010), “White parliament, black politics: The dilemmas of Indigenous parliamentary representation”, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 663-680.

Maddison, S. and Martin, G. (2010) (contributing editors), Surviving neoliberalism: The persistence of Australian social movements, special issue of the international journal Social Movement Studies, published as Vol. 9, No. 2 2010.

Maddison, S. and Martin, G. (2010), “Australian social movements under neoliberalism”, Social Movement Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 101-120.

Andrew, S. and Maddison, S. (2010), “Damaged but determined: The Australian women’s movement 1996-2007”, Social Movement Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 171-185.

Maddison, S. and Grey, R. (2010), “New feminist generations: The intergenerational conversation continues”, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 25, No. 66, pp. 485-492.

Maddison, S. (2009), “Lessons to be learned: Reviving advocacy organisations after the neo-con men”, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 18-29.

Maddison, S. (2008), “Indigenous autonomy matters: What’s wrong with the Australian Government’s ‘intervention’ in Aboriginal communities”, Australian Journal of Human Rights, Vol 14, No. 1, pp. 41-61.

Maddison, S. (2007), “NSW Political Chronicle, June to December 2006,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 289-294.

Maddison, S. (2006), “A decade of lost opportunities: the Howard government and Indigenous policy”, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Volume 9, Nos. 2-3, pp 5-26.

Maddison, S. (2006), “Ideas from ‘across the ditch’? Wedge politics in the 2005 New Zealand election”, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 427–35.

Maddison, S. (2006), “NSW Political Chronicle, January to June 2006,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 645-650.

Maddison S. and Franzway, S. (2006), “Reconsidering Staking a Claim: An intergenerational conversation”, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 50, pp 139-149.

Maddison, S. (2006), “NSW Political Chronicle, July to December 2005,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp 292-298.