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Anna Yeatman
Anna Yeatman took up her appointment as Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney in mid-2008.
I work on contemporary citizenship—its conception and practice. I am especially interested in the loss of legitimacy for hierarchy in the organisation of modern relationships and in how this connects to both the individualisation of citizenship and the democratisation of social organisation. I offer a conception of the political that centres on how people engage with themselves and each other in a manner that responds to and values individual differences.
Freedom to be an individual, who knows what it is to live creatively, and to value and assist this in others, is both a joyous and difficult challenge. We evade the challenge when we choose the path of control (of self, others, and the world we share), and we meet the challenge when we intentionally invite organic processes of growth and development in our selves and the others to whom we are connected.
Area of expertise
- Feminist political theory
- Relational psychoanalytic theory
- Feldenkrais method of somatic awareness
- Individualised citizenship and welfare
- Hannah Arendt’s political theory
- Feminist political and social theorist
- Individualisation, Politics and Welfare
- Contemporary Citizenship Studies
- Feldenkrais practitioner
Noteworthy Publications
(Lead author with Gary Dowsett, Michael Fine, Di Gursansky and Joanna Penglase) Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2009.
Postmodern Revisionings of the Political, Routledge, New York & London, 1994.
Lead co-editor with Magdalena Zolkos State, Security and Subject Formation, Continuum, New York, 2010.
Selected Publications
Books
Bureaucrats, Femocrats, Technocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State, Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1990.
Edited Collections
Co-editor with Charles Barbour, Philip Hansen, and Magdalena Zolkos Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Arendt, Continuum, New York, forthcoming 2011.
Activism and the Policy Process, Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, 1998.
Co-editor with Glyn Davis and Barbara Sullivan A New Contractualism?, Macmillan Education Australia, 1997.
Co-editor with Margaret Wilson, Justice and Identity, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington and Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995.
Co-editor with Sneja Gunew, Feminism and the Politics of Difference, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993.
Journal Articles
'Beyond Anthropocentric Artifice?’, submitted to Australian Humanities Review
'Freedom and the Feldenkrais Method', The Feldenkrais Journal 21, 2008: 18-25.
'Freedom and the Feldenkrais Method', International Feldenkrais Federation Research Journal 3, 2007.
'The Subject of Citizenship', Invited submission for 10th Anniversary Issue of Citizenship Studies 11:1, February 2007: 105-166.
'The idea of the constitutional state and global society'(opens in a new window), Law/Text/Culture, Vol 8, 2004: 83-107. Permission to display this article has been granted from the UOW Legal Intersections Research Centre.
'Right, the State and the Conception of the Person', Citizenship Studies, 8:4, December 2004: 403-419.
'Social Policy, Freedom and Individuality', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 63: 3, September 2004: 1-11.
(first author, Joanna Penglase second author) 'Looking After Children: a case of individualised service delivery', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 39:3, August 2004: 233-248.
'Globality, State and Society', Citizenship Studies, 7:3, 2003: 275-291.
'Global Ethics, Australian Citizenship and the 'Boat People'', Journal of Sociology, 39:1, 2003, 15-22
'The New Contractualism and Individualised Personhood', Journal of Sociology, 2003, 38:1, 2002, 69-74.
(first author with Kathryn Owler) 'The Role of Contract in the Democratisation of Service Delivery', Law in Context, 18:2, 2001, 34-57.
'Social Democracy and the Challenges of Post-liberal Individualisation,' Southern Review, 2000, 33:2, 178-196.
'What can disability tell us about participation,' Law in Context, 17:2, 2000, 181-203.
'Who is the subject of human rights?' American Behavioral Scientist 43:9, 2000, 1498-1514.
'Trends and Opportunities in the Public Sector: a critical assessment', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 57:4, 1998, 138-148.
Chapters in Books
‘Individuality and Politics: thinking with and beyond Hannah Arendt’, in C. Barbour, P. Hansen, A. Yeatman and M. Zolkos eds. Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Arendt, New York: Continuum, forthcoming 2011.
'State, Security, and Subject Formation-an Introduction' in A. Yeatman and M. Zolkos, eds. State, Security and Subject Formation, Continuum, New York, 2010, 1-15.
'Self Preservation and the Idea of the State' in A. Yeatman and M. Zolkos, eds. State, Security and Subject Formation, Continuum, New York, 2010, 100-115.
'The Subject of Citizenship', in E. Isin, P. Nyers and B. Turner eds. Citizenship Between Past and Future, London and New York: Routledge, 2008, 102-113.
'Varieties of Individualism', in C. Howard ed. Contested Individualization: debates about contemporary personhood, Palgrave-Macmillan 2007, 45-61.
'Public and Private', entry in A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H-P Muller eds. Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, 481-483.
'Regional Cosmopolitanism and Post-Cold war Human Rights Agendas in the Asia-Pacific Region', in T. McGee and D. Edgington eds. Australian and Canadian Approaches to Asia in an Era of Unstable Globalization, University of British Columbia: Centre for Australasian Research, Institute of Asian Research, 2004: 29-49.
'Who is the subject of human rights?' in D. Meredyth and J. Minson eds. Citizenship and Cultural Policy: Statecraft, Markets and Community, London: Sage, 2001, 104-120.
'Feminism and Citizenship', in N. Stevenson ed. Cultural Citizenship, London: Sage, 2001, 138-153.
'Bureaucracy' in C. Kramarae and D. Spender eds. Routledge Encyclopedia of Women's Studies, New York and London: Routledge, 2000, Volume One, 129-131.
'The Politics of Post-Patrimonial Governance', in T. Seddon and L. Angus eds. Beyond Nostalgia: Reshaping Australian Education, Camberwell: ACER, 2000, 170-185.
'Mutual Obligation: what kind of contract is this?' in P. Saunders ed. Reforming the Australian Welfare State, Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2000, 140-161.
'Social Policy and the Global Economy', in I. O'Connor, P. Smyth and J. Warburton eds. Contemporary Perspectives on Social Work and the Human Services: Challenges and Change, Pearson Australia, 2000, 60-72.
'The Subject of Democratic Theory and the Challenge of Co-existence,' in A. Vandenberg ed. Democracy and Citizenship in a Global Era, London: Macmillan, 2000, 94-110.
