Dr Sean Scalmer
Senior Lecturer
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 5957
- Email:
- sscalmer@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 311
History, Arts West
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
Biography
Sean Scalmer studied politics, industrial relations and political economy at the University of Sydney in the early 1990s. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on intellectuals and class in the Australian labour movement. Sean worked as a research fellow in the Department of Politics at Macquarie University (1998-2004), and then as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology (2004-2006). He joined the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2007.
Research
Sean's research interests include the history of social movements of all kinds, globalisation, the sociology of work, democracy, non-violence, and historiography. Current projects include: The Circulation of Nonviolence, Democracy and Change in NSW, and Australians at Work.
Publications
Books
- S. Scalmer, The Little History of Australian Unionism, Melbourne: The Vulgar Press, 2006
- S. Scalmer and S. Maddison, Activism Wisdom: Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006
- S. Scalmer and S. Macintyre (eds.), What If? Counterfactual Essays in Australian History, Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2006
- S. Scalmer, Dissent Events: Protest, The Media and the Political Gimmick in Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002
Articles and Chapters
- S. Scalmer, 'Edward Said and the Sociology of Intellectuals', in Debjani Ganguly and Edward Curthoys (eds.), Edward Said: Legacies of a Public Intellectual, Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2008 (forthcoming)
- S. Scalmer, 'Globalising Gandhi: Processes, Transformations, Questions', in Debjani Ganguly and John Docker (eds.), Embodying Non-Violence in the World: Historicising Gandhi's Global Legacy, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007 (forthcoming)
- S. Scalmer, 'Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual, and the Diffusion of Nonviolent Direct Action', in Graham St. John (ed), Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Change, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007
- S. Scalmer and S. Macintyre, 'Introduction', in S. Scalmer and S. Macintyre (eds.), What If? Counterfactual Essays in Australian History, Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2006
- S. Scalmer, 'What If: The Assassination Attempt on Arthur Calwell Had Been Successful?', in S. Scalmer and S. Macintyre (eds.), What If? Counterfactual Essays in Australian History, Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2006
- S. Scalmer and T. Irving, 'Labour Intellectuals in Australia: Modes, Traditions, Generations, Transformations', International Review of Social History, vol. 50, no. 1, April 2005, pp.1-26
- S. Scalmer and Murray Goot, 'Elites Constructing Elites: News Limited's Newspapers, 1996-2002', in Barry Hindess and Marian Sawer (eds.), Us and Them: Anti-Elitism in Australia, Curtin: API Network, 2004, pp.137-159
- S. Scalmer, 'Searching for the Aspirationals', Overland, no 180, Spring 2005, pp.5-9
- S. Scalmer, 'Labour Intellectuals Today', Dialogue, vol. 24, no. 1, 2005, pp.49-53
- S. Scalmer, 'Political Chronicle: New South Wales, July to December 2003', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 50, no. 2, June 2004, pp.257-64
- S. Scalmer, 'Political Chronicle: New South Wales, January to June 2003', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 49, no. 4, December 2003, pp.567-572
- S. Scalmer and S. Maddison, 'Making the Future: Activism and Hope', Overland, no. 173, 2003, pp.30-35
- S. Scalmer, 'Political Chronicle: New South Wales, July to December 2002', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 49, no. 2, June 2003, pp.253-258
Teaching