Sarah Maddison
CF is an Australian author and political scientist.
Education
Maddison has a
PhD in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the
University of Sydney
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Career
She is a former Director of GetUp!
GetUp! is an independent Progressivism, progressive Australian political activism, political activist group. It was launched in August 2005 to encourage Internet activism in Australia, though it has increasingly engaged in Community organizing, ...
and the 2018–19 president of the Australian Political Studies Association. She was awarded a very large grant from the SEROS Foundation which was withdrawn under unclear circumstances.
Maddison has also co-authored two editions of a textbook for students of Australian public policy.
She has been an ARC Discovery Project grant recipient for three completed projects, one considering new possibilities for Indigenous representation (DP0877157), and another considering the evolution of social movements through a study of the Australian women’s movement (DP0878688 with Professor Marian Sawer, ANU), which produced the edited collection ''The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective''. The third project 2014, undertaken with colleagues in Melbourne and Canada, explored non-Indigenous attitudes to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, through focus group research around the country.
In 2010 Maddison was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to undertake a four-year, four-country comparative study of reconciliation and conflict transformation in Australia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and Guatemala. A book analysing the results from this research was published in 2015.
Recognition
She was awarded the 2005 Jean Martin Award by The Australian Sociological Association
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) organisation of Sociology, sociologists throughout Australia. TASA was founded in 1963 as the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (SAANZ). In 1988 with the New Zealand branch splittin ...
for her PhD thesis, ''Collective identity and Australian Feminist Activism: conceptualising a third wave,'' which examined the role of young women in contemporary Australian women's movements.[Maddison scoops sociological award]
. UNSW News. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
In 2009 she was joint winner of the Australian Political Science Association Henry Mayer Award for her book ''Black Politics: Inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture''. In 2009 she was also part of the Sydney Leadership Program run by Social Leadership Australia at The Benevolent Society.
Maddison received a 2009 Churchill Fellowship
Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts (WCMT) are three independent but related living memorials to Sir Winston Churchill, based in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. They exist for the purpose of administering Churchill Fellowships, a ...
to study models of Indigenous representation in the United States and Canada in 2010.
Interests and current role
Maddison's research interests include Indigenous-settler relations, settler colonialism, reconciliation and conflict transformation, Indigenous politics, agonistic democracy
Agonism (from Greek ἀγών ''agon'', "struggle") is a political and social theory that emphasizes the potentially positive aspects of certain forms of conflict. It accepts a permanent place for such conflict in the political sphere, but seeks t ...
, dialogue, and Australian social movements, including research on the Indigenous rights
Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of the Indigenous peoples. This includes not only the most basic human rights of physical survival and integrity, but also the rights over their land (includ ...
movement and the women’s movement.
She is Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...
, where she also co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration.
Publications
*'' Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge And Creative Tension in Social Movements,'' with Sean Scalmer. UNSW Press, 2005.
*'' Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government Is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate,'' edited with Clive Hamilton
Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles ...
. Allen & Unwin, 2007.
*
Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture
'. Allen & Unwin Australia, 2009.
''An Introduction to Australian Public Policy,'' second edition
with Richard Denniss. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
*''Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous Settler-State Governance,'' edited with Morgan Brigg. Federation, 2011.
*'' Beyond White Guilt: The real challenge for Black-White relations in Australia''. Allen & Unwin, 2011.
*''The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective,'' edited with Marian Sawer, Routledge, 2013. *
*
Conflict transformation and reconciliation: Multi-level challenges in deeply divided societies
'' Routledge, 2015
''The limits of settler-colonial reconciliation''
edited with Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa, Springer, 2016.
''The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems''
Allen & Unwin, 2019.
References
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Living people
Australian non-fiction writers
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian political scientists
Women political scientists