Robert van Krieken
Research, writing, teaching, translation
Books
-
2009 [with Patricia
Loughlan and Barbara McDonald]
The Law of Celebrity,
Sydney: Federation Press.
- 2005 [with P. Smith, D. Habibis, B. Hutchins, M. Haralambos,
M. Holborn]
Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, 3rd Australian
edition, Sydney: Pearson Education.
- 2002 Norbert Elias (translated into Danish by Tom
Havemann) Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
- 2000 [with P Smith, D Habibis, K McDonald, M Haralambos, M.
Holborn] Sociology: Themes and Perspectives 2nd
Australian ed. Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.
- 1998
Norbert Elias London: Routledge.
- 1996 [with M. Haralambos, P. Smith, M. Holborn, A. Davis &
D. Habibis] Sociology: Themes and Perspectives
1st
Australian ed. Melbourne: Addison-Wesley-Longman.
- 1992
Children and the State: Social Control and the Formation of
Australian Child Welfare Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Articles
-
2009
‘Kumarangk (Hindmarsh
Island) and the politics
of natural justice under settler-colonialism’,
Law & Social Inquiry, forthcoming.
-
2008
‘Cultural genocide reconsidered’,
Australian Indigenous Law
Review, 12, Special Edition: 76-81.
-
2008
‘Childhood in Australian sociology and society’,
Current Sociology,
forthcoming.
-
2008 [with Doris Bühler-Niederberger] ‘Persisting Inequalities:
Childhood between global influences and local traditions’
Childhood 15(2):147-155.
- 2006 'Law's autonomy in action: anthropology and history in
court' Social & Legal Studies 15(4), 577-593.
- 2005
Occidental self-understanding and the Elias-Duerr dispute:
‘thick' versus ‘thin' conceptions of human subjectivity and
civilization', Modern Greek Studies 13: 273-81.
- 2005 'The "best interests of the child" and parental
separation: on the "civilizing of parents"', Modern Law
Review 68(1): 25-48.
- 2004 'Rethinking cultural genocide: indigenous child removal
and settler-colonial state-formation', Oceania 75(2):
125-51.
- 2004
'Decline and fall', Meanjin 63(4): 53-8.
- 2002 'The paradox of the ‘two sociologies'': Hobbes, Latour
and the constitution of modern social theory', Journal of
Sociology 38(3): 255-73
- 2002
‘Reshaping civilization: liberalism between
assimilation and cultural genocide', Amsterdams Sociologisch
Tijdschrift 29(2): 1-38.
- 2001
'Is assimilation justiciable? Lorna Cubillo & Peter Gunner v
Commonwealth' Sydney Law Review 23(2) 23-60.
- 2001
'Legal informalism, power and liberal governance' Social
& Legal Studies 10(1): 5-22.
- 2000
'From Milirrpum to Mabo: the High Court, Terra
Nullius and Moral Entrepreneurship' UNSW Law Journal
23(1): 63-77.
- 1999
'The barbarism of civilization: cultural genocide and the
'stolen generations'', British Journal of Sociology
50(2): 295-313.
- 1999
'The "stolen generations": on the removal of Australian
indigenous children from their families and its implications for
the sociology of childhood' Childhood 6(3):
297-311.
-
1998
'What does it mean to be Civilised? Norbert Elias on the Germans
and Modern Barbarism' Communal/Plural 6(2): 225-33.
-
1997 [with Eric Dunning]
'Translators' introduction to Norbert Elias's 'Towards a theory
of social processes' British Journal of Sociology
48(3): 353-4.
-
1997
'Sociology and the reproductive self: demographic transitions
and modernity' Sociology 31(3): 445-71.
Translated into German
as: 'Kindheit, Schule und der tendenzielle Fall der Geburtenrate'
Widersprüche 15(58) 1995: 19-29;
and
Dutch,
as: 'De sociologie en het reproduktieve zelf' Amsterdams
Sociologisch Tijdschrift 22(3) 1995: 457-87.
-
1996
'Proto-governmentalization and the historical formation of
organizational subjectivity' Economy & Society
25(2): 1996, 195-221.
- 1992 'La formación de los sistemas de bienestar infantil
entre 1890 y 1940' Annuario de Psicología 53: 5-25.
-
1991
'The poverty of social control: on explanatory logic in the
historical sociology of the welfare state' Sociological
Review 38(1): 1-25. Translated into German
as: 'Soziale Kontrolle im Abseits: zur Erklärungskraft der
historischen Soziologie des Wohlfahrtsstaates'
Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur Rundschau 21, 1990:
57-72.
- 1990
'Social discipline and state formation: Weber and Oestreich on
the historical sociology of subjectivity' Amsterdams
Sociologisch Tijdschrift 17(1): 3-28.
- 1990
'The organisation of the soul: Elias and Foucault on discipline
and the self' Archives Europeénes de Sociologie
31(2): 353-71. Translated into German as:
'Elias und Foucault über Disziplin und das Selbst' Prokla
21(4) 1991: 602-19. and Portugese, as: 'A
Organização da Alma: Elias e Foucault sobre a Disciplina e o Eu'
Plural 3(1) 1996: 153-80.
-
1989
'Violence, self-discipline and modernity: beyond the "civilizing
process"' Sociological Review 37(2): 193-218.
Translated into German
as: 'Gewalt, Selbst-Disziplin und Modernität: Jenseits des "Zivilisationsprozesses"'
Psychologie und Geschichte 2(4) 1991: 212-221.
-
1989 'Towards "Good and Useful Men and Women": the state and
childhood in Sydney, 1840-1890' Australian Historical
Studies 93: 405-425. Translated into Dutch
as: 'Om goede en bruikbare mannen en vrouwen: staat en kind in
Australie, 1840-1890' Comenius 39m 1990: 326-45.
-
1989 'State bureaucracy and social science: child welfare in New
South Wales, 1915-1940' Labour History 58: 17-35.
-
1986 'Children and the State. Child Welfare in New South Wales,
1890-1915' Labour History 51: 33-53.
-
1986 'Social theory and child welfare: beyond social control'
Theory & Society 15: 401-29.
-
1984 [with Gerhard Smid] 'Notes on Theory and practice in Social
Work: a comparative view' British Journal of Social Work
14(1): 11-22.
-
1981 'Participation in welfare: democracy or self-regulation?'
Australian Quarterly 53(1): 74-91.
-
1980 'The capitalist state and the organisation of welfare: an
introduction' Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology
16(3): 23-35.
-
1980
'Social Work and psychology: a critique of ego psychology'
Arena 56: 66-86.
Book Chapters
-
2009 ‘Reassembling
civilization: state-formation, subjectivity, security, power’,
in State, Security and Subject Formation,
edited by Anna Yeatman, Kamila Stullerova and Magdalena Zolkos,
New York: Continuum.
- 2008 ‘Cultural Genocide’, in
The Historiography of Genocide edited by Dan Stone, London: Palgrave Macmillan: 128-55.
- 2008 ‘Crime and Social Theory’,
in The Critical
Criminology Companion, edited by Thalia Anthony & Chris Cunneen,
Sydney: Hawkins Press: 68-79.
- 2008 [with Doris Bühler-Niederberger] ‘Rethinking the sociology of childhood: conflict, competition and
cooperation between children and adults in contemporary social
life’, in New Handbook of
International Sociology, edited by Ann Denis & Devorah
Kalekin-Fishman, London: Sage: 421-60.
- 2007
‘Liberal technologies of regulation’, in International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies,
edited
by Stewart Clegg & James R. Bailey (London:
Sage).
- 2007 'Civilizing processes' in
The Blackwell Encyclopedia
of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer,
Oxford: Blackwell, 529-33.
- 2006 'The ethics of corporate legal personality',
in Stewart Clegg & Carl Rhodes (eds) Management Ethics:
Contemporary Contexts, London: Routledge: 77-96.
- 2006 'The legal construction of the 'best interests of the
child': law's autonomy, sociology and family law', in
Michael Freeman (ed.) Law and Sociology: Current Legal Issues
Vol 8, 2005 Oxford: Oxford University Press: 437-58.
- 2005 ‘Stolen generations: Australian civilization,
citizenship and governance', in Violation of trust:
How Social and Welfare Institutions Fail Children and Young
People, edited by Judith Bessant, Richard Hil and Rob Watts,
Aldershot: Ashgate.: 29-50
- 2005 'Assimilation
and liberal government' in Contesting Assimilation, edited
by Tim Rowse, Perth: Australian Public Intellectual Network,
39-47.
- 2005 'Frech oder schuldig. Wie das Recht über die
Strafmündigkeit der Kinder denkt in England, Deutschland und
Australien' in Die Macht der Unschuld - das Kind als Chiffre,
edited by Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Wiesbaden: Verlag für
Sozialwissenschaften: 185-225.
- 2003 [with Martin Krygier] ‘The character of the nation' in Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of
Aboriginal History, edited by Robert Manne, Melbourne: Black
Inc Books: 81-108.
- 2003 ‘When is child welfare cultural genocide? On the
politics of the organised ‘improvement' of children's lives', in Political Socialisation, Participation and
Education: Change of Epoch - Processes of Democratisation,
edited by Heinz Sünker, Russel Farnen & György Szell New York:
Peter Lang: 87-112.
- 2001 ‘Liberalism and Civilization: between assimilation and
cultural genocide', in Grenzgängerin: Bridges between
disciplines. Eine Festschrift für Irmingard Staeuble edited by
Christiane Alsop, Asanger Verlag: 210-28.
- 2001
Norbert Elias
in Key Contemporary Social Theorists, edited by Anthony Elliott
& Larry Ray, Oxford: Blackwell: 116-22.
- 2001
'Norbert Elias and process sociology' in
The Handbook of
Social Theory, edited by George Ritzer & Barry Smart,
London: Sage: 353-67.
- 2000
'Beyond the Parsonian "problem of order": Elias, Habitus and the
Two Sociologies in Zivilisationstheorie in der Bilanz:
Beiträge zum 100. Geburtstag von Norbert Elias (1897-1990),
edited by Annette Treibel, Helmut Kuzmics & Reinhard Blomert,
Opladen: Leske & Budrich: 119-42.
- 2000
'Democracy and citizenship in Germany' in
Democracy and
Citizenship in a Global Era, edited by Andrew Vandenberg,
London: Macmillan: 123-37.
- 2000
‘Governance, law and civilisation' in Civilising the State:
Civil Society, Policy and State Transformation, edited by Susan
Kenny, Robert van Krieken, Jehan Loza & Michael Muetzelfeldt,
Geelong: Centre for Citizenship & Human Rights, Deakin
University: 239-52.
- 1998
'Een jongen en zijn staat', in
Mensen Kijken,
edited by Kees Bruin et al, Amsterdam: Walters-Nordhoff,
106-109. [English
version]
- 1992
'The
poverty of social control', in
State, Society and
Politics in Australia, edited by Michael Muetzelfeldt,
Melbourne: Pluto Press: 254-79.
Unpublished Papers
- 2006 [with Stewart Clegg] 'A
Post-Colonial Comment on Collins'
- 2000 [with Virginia Watson]
From
miscegenation to assimilation: rationalities of child removal in
Australian colonial administration, Sociological
Sites/Sights, 2000 TASA Conference, Flinders University, 6-8
December 2000
- 2003 'Beyond
the ‘Parsonian Problem of Order’: Elias, Habit and Contemporary
Sociology or Hobbes was Right', paper delivered at the ‘How
is Society Possible?’ – Workshop, Department of Sociology and
Centre for Research in Social Inclusion, Macquarie University,
30 June 2003
- 1992 'State
intervention, welfare and the social construction of girlhood in
Australian history', TASA '92 Sociology Conference, Flinders
University, Adelaide 10-13 December 1992
