Associate Professor Craig Browne
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Associate Professor Craig Browne

Associate Professor
Coordinator Development Studies Program
Phone
+61 2 9351 2665
Address
A02 - Social Sciences Building
The University of Sydney
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Associate Professor Craig Browne

Craig Browne works in the area of critical social theory. He is currently finalising a book comparing influential contemporary social theories and extending his research into the relationship between recognition, symbolic power and social imaginaries. He has received funding for research comparing pragmatist notions of creative democracy with ideas of democratic creativity in contemporary French social and political thought. This research into creative democracy builds on his Ph.D. dissertation: Projects and Anticipations: a Comparative Analysis of Habermas’ and Giddens’ Conceptions of the Social.

His research interests include social change, processes of global transformation, subjectivity, intersubjectivity and sociological perspectives on democracy.

Current Teaching:

  • SCLG2601 Sociological Theory (Semester 1)
  • SCLG2612 Self and Society (Semester 2)
  • SCLG2616 Global Transformations (Semester 2)
  • SCLG2618 Violence, Imaginaries and Symbolic Power (Semester 1)
  • SCLG3601 Contemporary Sociological Theory (Semester 2)
  • SCLG6903 New Debates in Social Theory (Semester 1)
  • SSCP6900 Critical Perspectives on Development A (Semester 1)

Supervisions

PhD Completions

Mark Gawne (Associate Supervisor with Melinda Cooper):Ontology, Composition and Affect: the political limits of postworkerist thought,2014

Rowan Savage: Genocidal Dehumanisation as a Discursive Strategy in the Modern Era, 2009

Andrew Lynch: Vatican II and the 1960s: Contesting Theories of Church Reform and the Impact of Modernity, 2010


Completed Postgraduate and Honours Supervisions

Jack Well: ‘Advertising and Experience’

Hatice Beyza Ozel, Recognition and Redistribution in the Context of Globalization

Nathalie Hudson, A Denial of Rights in Australia's Policies of Asylum

Marija Jovanovic: From Conflation to Constraint: A Critical Realist Critique of Anthony Giddens's Theory of Structuration

Aimee McBride: Deliberation and the Norm of Participation

Nikki Perry: Imagining the War on Terror

Co-Chair International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociological Theory, RC16 2018-2022

Coordinator European Sociological Association, Research Network on Social Theory, RN 29 2017-2019

Co-coordinator European Sociological Association, Research Network on Social Theory, RN 29 2015-2017

Co-Editor of Theory - Newsletter of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociological Theory (RC16) 2010-2014

Vice President (Australia and Asia Pacific) The International Sociological Association Research Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (RC35) 2010-

Executive Committee European Sociological Association, Research Network on Social Theory, RN 29 2013-

Convener (with Suzi Adams) The Australian Sociological Association Social Theory Thematic Group 2013-

Member of Board The International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociological Theory (RC16) 2014-

Consultancies

Allen and Unwin Publishers 2003
The University of Technology Sydney 2004

Project titleResearch student
Identity and Persuasion of Two Nations Theory – Towards the making of a Nation in India and PakistanArunav Choudhary CHOUDHARY
The Impact of Social Theory in Contemporary Times: A Focus on Class AnalysisKashing LIU
Navigating Ideological Control and Integration: A Study of Resource Allocation Biases in Mainland China and Hong Kong Universities Amidst National Education Policies ReformYiting LUO
Settler Colonialism and the Australian Environment: A Sociolegal Discourse Analysis of Decolonising Narratives Mobilised by First Nations Peoples in Modern Australian Environmental ConflictsCaitlin MORTON
Exploring Subjective Wellbeing Changes in Response to Hedonic ExperiencesChengze WANG

Selected publications

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Publications

Selected Grants

2009

  • Social Theory and Political Philosophy: Modernist Understandings and New Configurations, Browne C, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney/FARSS (Faculty of Arts Research Support Scheme)

2003

  • Creative democracy: dimension or model, Browne C, DVC Research/Research and Development Scheme: Newly Appointed Staff (NAS)