Professor Paul James

Paul James is Director of the Global Cities Institute (RMIT), Academic Director of the Globalism Research Centre (RMIT), an editor of Arena Journal, and on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. He has received a number of awards including the Japan-Australia Foundation Fellowship, an Australian Research Council Fellowship, and the Crisp Medal by the Australasian Political Studies Association for the best book in the field of political studies. Invitations have been received to deliver addresses in twenty different countries including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel-Palestine, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Taiwan and the United States. He is author or editor of fourteen books including, Nation Formation: Towardsa Theory of Abstract Community (Sage, 1996). His book with Tom Nairn, Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terror, has just been published by Pluto Press, and Globalism, Nationalism Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In was published by Sage Publications in 2006.

Responsibilities

• Director of the Globalism Research Centre, RMIT (2002-2007)
• Academic Director of the Globalism Research Centre (2007-present)
• Director of the Global Cities Institute, RMIT (2006-present)
• Co-editor, Arena Journal (1986-present)
• Co-editor, International Journal of Organizations, Communities and Nations (2003-present)
• Member of the editorial boards of Globalizations (Routledge, London); the International Journal of the Humanities (Common Ground); Postcolonial Studies (Taylor and Francis); and Global Governance (Lynne Rienner, Boulder)
• Member of the International Steering Committee for the Globalization Studies Network: A Global Consortium of Research and Education Institutes (2003-present)
• Member of the International Advisory Group to the Global Reconciliation Network (2003-present)
• Member of the G20 Advisory Group to the Canadian Prime Minister (2004)
• Collaborating Advisor to the Minister for Community Development of Papua New Guinea (2004-present); including contributing to drafting the Minister’s New Policy Document, 2004 and the Corporate Plan for 2004-07 and 2005-07
• An invited contributor to the work of the Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor, CAVR (2004)
• Member of the Board of the International Management Committee, Sanjiang University, Jiangsu Province, China, (2004-present)
• Member of the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne (1996-present)
• Member of the External Advisory Board, Transforming Cultures Centre, University of Technology, Sydney (2003-present)
• Member of the International Advisory Board, Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University (2003-present)
• Member of the Advisory Committee for the School of International Studies, University of South Australia (2006-present)

Research Interests

Research areas:

• Globalism, nationalism and localism, including the changing nature of the nation-state and the effects of an emergent level of global integration
• Social theory with a concentration on theories of culture and social formation
• Contemporary politics with an emphasis on debates over social change

See the Globalism Research Centre websites for details of current research projects:
www.rmit.edu.au/globalism
www.communitysustainability.info
www.sourcesofinsecurity.org
www.borderknowledges.info
www.globalism-nationalism.org

Books

Globalism, Nationalism Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In, Sage Publications, London, 2006, xiv+369pp. (ISBN 0 7619 5513 hb 0 7619 5414 3 pb)

Globalization and Violence: Vol. 1, Globalizing Empires, Old and New (editor with Tom Nairn), Sage Publications, London, 2006, xlix+368pp. (ISBN 1 4129 1954 1)

Globalization and Violence: Vol. 2, Colonial and Postcolonial Globalizations (editor with Phillip Darby), Sage Publications, London, 2006, xxxi+453pp. (ISBN 1 4129 1954 1)

Globalization and Violence: Vol. 3, Globalizing War and Intervention (editor with Jonathan Friedman), Sage Publications, London, 2006, xxxii+359pp. (ISBN 1 4129 1954 1)

Globalization and Violence: Vol. 4, Transnational Conflict (editor with R.R. Sharma), Sage Publications, London, 2006, xxxiv+456pp. (ISBN 1 4129 1954 1)

Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism, (co-author with Tom Nairn) Pluto Press, London and New York, 2005, 316pp. (ISBN 0 7453 2290 5 hb, 0 7453 2291 3 pb)

Tour of Duty: Winning Hearts and Minds in East Timor (with photographs by Matthew Sleeth), Hardie Grant Publishing, Melbourne, 2002, 114pp. ( ISBN 0 9579553 1 6 hb, 1 74064 066 7 pb )

Burning Down the House: Bonfire of the Universities (editor), Association for the Public University with Arena Publications, Melbourne, 2000, 64 pp. (ISBN 0 9598181 5 4)

Work of the Future: Global Perspectives (co-editor with Walter Veit and Steve Wright), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997, xviii + 349 pp. (ISBN 1 86448 447 0).

Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community, Sage, London, 1996, xv + 237 pp. (ISBN 0 7619 5072 9 hb, 0 7619 5073 7 pb). Winner of the 1996 Crisp Medal for Political Studies, Australasia.

The State in Question: Transformations of the Australian State (editor), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996, x + 261 pp. (ISBN 1 86373 673 5)

Critical Politics: From the Personal to the Global (editor) Arena Publications, Melbourne, 1994, vi + 174 pp. (ISBN 0 9598181 4 6)

Technocratic Dreaming: Of Very Fast Trains and Japanese Designer Cities (editor) Left Book Club, Melbourne, 1990, 240 pp. (ISBN 1 875285 03 2)

(Under contract)

Nationalism and Global Solidarities, Routledge, London (editor with James Goodman, forthcoming 2007).

Sage Publications has contracted a sixteen-volume series to be called ‘Main Currents in Globalization’ to be edited by senior figures in the field of globalization. The first four volumes in the series were published in 2006.