Dr James Arvanitakis
Dr James Arvanitakis researches in the transdisciplinary areas of globalisation, citizenship, young people, security and the cultural commons - incorporating issues around hope, trust, safety and intellect. Having held various positions within human rights-based organisations including AID/WATCH and Oxfam Hong Kong, his research seeks to maintain a particular focus on issues of social justice. He has also worked with playwrights and artists to document stories of injustice such as the production of Maralinga which records the stories of nuclear veterans.
He is the author of Contemporary Society: A Sociological Analysis of Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Qualifications
2006, PhD, History and Philosophy and Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia
2000, Graduate Diploma (Environmental Policy), University of New South Wales, Australia
1999, Graduate Diploma (Course Work - Social Movement Theory and Economics), University of New South Wales, Australia
1995, Certificate in Financial Markets, Securities Institute of Australia
1990, PhD, BA (Hons) Applied Economic Geography, University of New South Wales, Australia
Honours and Awards
ARC Cultural Research Network CRN Award 2006 - received for paper delivered at the 2006 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference in Canberra around the theme of UnAustralia: Border Protection between Australia and Un-Australia (Or why I am an internally displaced person).
Selected Publications
Books
Arvanitakis, J. 2009, Contemporary Society: A Sociological Analysis of Everyday Life, London: Oxford University Press.
Arvanitakis, J. 2007, The Cultural Commons of Hope: The Attempt to Commodify the Final Frontier of the Human Experience, Berlin: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.
Book Chapters
Arvanitakis, J. 2008, ‘I pirati erano pieni di risorse, come ninja, e impararono a usare il loro ambiente’, in, edu-factory collective (eds), L’università globale: Il nuovo mercato del sapere, Roma: Manifestolibri, pp 157-159.
Arvanitakis, J. 2000, ‘The Role of the World Bank in East Timor's Agricultural Reconstruction’, in Taudevin, L. and Lee, J. (eds), East Timor: Making Amends? Sydney: Otford Press.
Journal Articles
Arvanitakis, J. and Boydell, S. 2010, 'The Miner and the Activist: A Parable for our Carbon Constrained World', Journal of Political Ecology, 17: 59-67.
Arvanitakis, J. 2009, ‘Staging Maralinga and Desiring Community: (Or why there is no such thing as a 'natural' community)’, Community Development Journal, 39(3): 213-223.
Arvanitakis, J. 2009, 'Solidarity, Community and the Political Economy of Hurt', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, 1(2): 86-95.
Arvanitakis, J. 2009, 'Surviving Neo-Liberalism: NGOs Under the Howard Years', Nebula, 6(3): 53-69.
Arvanitakis, J. 2008, ‘The Heterogenous Citizen: How Many of Us Care about Don Bradman's Average’, Media / Culture, 11(1): 213-223.
Arvanitakis, J. 2008, ‘Staging Maralinga and Looking for Community (Or why we must desire community before we can find it)’, Research in Drama Education, 13(3): 295-306.
Arvanitakis, J. & Wadiwal, D. 2008, ‘Racists like us...’, Darkmatter: In the Ruins of Imperial Culture, vol 2.
Arvanitakis, J. 2007, 'The Commodification and Re-claiming of Trust: "Does Anyone Care About Anything but the Price of Oil?"', International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2(3): 41-50.
Arvanitakis, J. 2006, 'The Commons: Opening and Enclosing of Non-Commodified Space', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 3(1).
Arvanitakis, J. 2004, '"I have a patent lawyer on retainer!": Intellect v Intellectual Property - A Battle over the Cultural Commons?', Pacific Journalism Review, 10(1): 76-88.
Conference Papers
Arvanitakis, J. (2006) 'Border Protection between Australia and UnAustralia: (Or, why I am an internally displaced person)' in, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference Proceedings, Canberra: University of Canberra.
Arvanitakis, J. 2006, 'Staging Maralinga and Desiring Community (Or, why there's no such thing a 'natural' community), Fallout Symposium - Convergence of Politics and Theatre, UNSW.
Other Articles and Reports
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'How we think about water is a classic progress trap', The Punch, 18 October.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Debate suffers when pollies think we're too dumb to get it', The Punch, 15 September.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Why Independents Should Dig the Mining Tax', The Punch, 27 August.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Supporting the Stiumulus Package: They Got It Right', Centre for Policy Development, 19 August.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Population: Size Doesn't Matter', The Punch, 11 August.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'This campaign is enough to turn off even political junkies', The Punch, 28 July.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'How to learn from history while letting go of the past', The Punch, 9 July.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Fear, Change and the Rise of the Right as the World Shrinks', The Punch, 28 June.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Without Hope, There Will Be No Change', New Mathilda Online Journal, 2 June.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Anti-Environment Budget Draws Fire', New Mathilda Online Journal, 13 May.
Arvanitakis, J. and Rhiannon, L. 2010, 'Golden Goose has Eggs Enough for All', ABC Online, 5 May.
Arvanitakis, J. and Boydell, S. 2010, 'How Intellectual Property is Making Us Dumb', New Mathilda Online Journal, 3 May.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'It's Time for Lazy Kids to Get Off the Dole', New Mathilda Online Journal, 22 April.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Climate Deniers with Clout', New Mathilda Online Journal, 8 April.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'So Gay Is The New Black, Right?', New Mathilda Online Journal, 2 March.
Arvanitakis, J. 2010, 'Right Room, Wrong Elephant', New Mathilda Online Journal, 11 February.
Arvanitakis, J. and Marren, S. 2009, Putting the politics back into Politics: Young People and Democracy in Australia - Discussion Paper, Parramatta: Whitlam Insitute, University of Western Sydney.
Arvanitakis, J. 2006, 'Maralinga 50 Years on: Ignoring the Lessons of History', New Matilda Policy Online Journal.
Arvanitakis, J. 2006, 'Reclaiming the Australian Commons', New Matilda Policy Online Journal.
Arvanitakis, J. 2002, 'We're on the street because billions of poor are voiceless', Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November, p.16.
Arvanitakis, J. 2001, 'The Role of International Financial Institutions and Global Governance', The Diplomacy Training Centre Manual, Sydney: Diplomacy Training Centre, UNSW.
Arvanitakis, J. (ed.) 2004, Highly Affected, Rarely Considered: The Impacts of Globalisation on Young People, Youth Commission Report into Globalisation, Oxfam International Youth Partnerships.
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