Associate Professor Alastair Greig
Research interests
Industrial Sociology; Urban Sociology; Housing Studies; Globalisation; Environmental Sociology;The Sociology of Sport
Biography
I joined sociology at ANU in January 1995. Prior to that, I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Urban Research Program in the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. I undertook Honours in history and sociology in the School of General Studies, ANU (1983), and obtained my PhD in sociology through the Faculty of Arts, ANU (1989). My dissertation was entitled ‘States, Parties and Socialist Revolution’.
My doctoral interests in development sociology led me in my postdoctoral work to examine global commodity chains in the clothing industry, as well as the role of outwork in the Australian clothing industry. This interest in changing patterns of work then led me to study the building industry and the relationship between social change, housing formation and the urban built environment. I have always been driven by macro-sociological concerns relating to social inequalities, and have reflected on changing patterns of local inequality (Inequality in Australia, Cambridge UP, 2003, with F. Lewins and K. White) and international inequalities (Challenging Global Inequalities, Palgrave, 2007, with D, Hulme and M. Turner).
I was fortunate to be awarded the inaugural National Award for University Teaching in Social Sciences (1997) and the Team-Taught Large First Year Award in 2003. I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching in 1997 and 2003. A podcast of my views on lecturing and learning, delivered as the 2008 ANU ‘Last lecture’, can be accessed at http://www.anu.edu.au/dos/last_lecture/2008lastlecture.mp3 and designing first-year sociology courses at http://chelt.anu.edu.au/podcast/experimental-learning-social-sciences
I was Head of School of Social Sciences between 2005 and 2008. In 2010 I received the CASS Award for Excellence in Supervision along with the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Supervision, and in 2014 I was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service to the Campus Community. I was elected onto the Academic Board of the ANU for the term 2012-2014.
At the end of 2015 I retired and became an Emeritus Fellow.
Researcher's projects
Current research projects
Development Theory and Praxis
I have been working with the University of Aarhus (Denmark) on their project ‘An Intellectual History of Global Inequality’. In 2022 my chapter on Australia entitled ‘How the Global Movement of Money and People Turns the World Upside Down’ will be published in their book edited by Christian Olaf Christiansen et.al, 2022, 5 Key Questions on Global Inequality, London, Palgrave, Chapter 8. This book explores globalisation from a wide range of locations and perspectves across the world.
For the origins of this project, see http://global-inequality.com/key-questions-on-global-inequality-interview-series-research-diary/
My colleague Professor Mark Turner and I continue to pursue our interest in global inequalities and in global context of the sociology of development. We are contracted, with our colleague Professor David Hulme at the University of Manchester, to write a second edition of our book Challenging Global Inequality, with Palgrave.
Urban and Regional Development
After editing and writing new chapters with Dr Sue Feary for the long-overdue new edition of the late-Bruce Hamon's history of Kioloa and Bawley Point, They Came to Murramarang (published by ANU Press in 2015), as a follow-up, I am completing a book-length manuscript on the early colonial history of Batemans Bay. This deals with the earliest land grants and development plans on the north side of the Bay. Continuing my interest in historical sociology and land development, the book links these local events to the wider social, administrative, legal and artistic life of the colony at the onset of the great depression of the 1840s.
The Sociology of Sport
My colleague Dr Nick Guoth and I have been researching the history of Australian soccer in the 1920s, exploring issues of immigration, nationalism and sporting incumbency, or ‘sport space’ and currently have an article out under review.
Current student projects
Ms Geraldine Khachan, ‘From Diaspora to Belonging: The paths of early Lebanese settlers in Australia’ (in progress)
Past student projects
Primary PhD Supervisor Only
Dr Joseph McCarthy, ‘China and Energy Security’, (awarded April 2020)
Dr Jennifer Beattie, ‘“Gatekeepers of Abortion”: The medical regulation of Abortion in Australia’ (awarded, July 2018)
Dr Susan Marsh, ‘It’s not cold money, it’s warm money: Microcredit and empowerment in the case of the New Zealand Women’s Loan Fund’ (awarded February 2016)
Dr Janecke Wille, ‘“A tree is not a tree without its leaves…” Exploring Integration and Belonging among South Sudanese Australians in Canberra’ (accepted 2014)
Dr Sarah Spiller, ‘”Now we are Successful and Developed”: Participation and Development in Cambodia’ (awarded, December 2013)
Dr Sarah Maslen, ‘The Sociology of Sound’ (awarded December 2012, Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Sociology, ANU)
Dr Vanessa McDermott, ‘Conceptualising Legitimacy, Moral Panics and Performance Enhancing Drugs: Crisis? Whose Crisis?’ (accepted January 2012, to be published by Routledge)
Dr Shanti Sumartojo, ‘Re-Imagining the National Community in Urban Public Place: Trafalgar Square, 1906 - 2010’ (awarded, April 2011, published by Peter Lang Publishers, 2014)
Dr Angela Lehmann, ‘Traces of Home: Cosmopolitan Journeys from the West’, (awarded June 2010, published by Palgrave in 2014)
Dr Catherine Strong, ‘”As a friend, as a trend, as an old memory”: Popular music, memory and power’ (Awarded in November 2008, thesis published by Ashgate Publishers, London)
Dr Priya Chattier, ‘A Feminist Approach to Measuring Poverty in Fiji’ (awarded July 2008)
Dr James Connor, ‘The Sociology of Loyalty’ (thesis awarded May 2007, thesis published by Springer, US)
Dr Tanya Bretherton, ‘Professional Women and Enterprise Bargaining’ (awarded 2006)
Dr Luke Buckmaster, ‘Constructing Structurelessness: Openness, Closure, and Collective Action – the case of Indymedia’ (awarded 2006)
Dr Ester Basri, ‘Inter-Firm Technological Collaboration and the Innovation Process’ (awarded 2006)
Dr Nicolette Burford, 'The Political Significance of Non-Tribal Indigenous Youth’s Talk on Identity, Land and the Forest Environment: An Amazonian Case Study from the Arapiuns River, Brazil', Forestry, SRES (awarded, July 2006)
Dr Wendy Riemens, ‘Innovation Networks and Public Policy’ (awarded 1998)
Dr Gotz Ottmann, ‘Social Movements and Violence in Sao Paulo’ (awarded 1999, thesis published by Minnesota University Press)
Dr Bette O’Brien, ‘Gender, Ethnicity and Public Housing’ (awarded 2000)
Publications
- Greig, A 2017, 'The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia', Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 376-378pp.
- Greig, A & van der Velden, J 2015, 'Earth Hour Approaches', Overland, pp. 1-7.
- Greig, A 2015, 'Introduction to the new edition: The significance of They Came to Murramarang', in Alastair Greig and Sue Feary (ed.), They Came to Murramarang. A History of Murramarang, Kioloa and Bawley Point, ANU Press, Australia, pp. xvii-xxvi.
- Greig, A & Feary, S, eds, 2015, They Came to Murramarang. A History of Murramarang, Kioloa and Bawley Point, ANU Press, Australia.
- Greig, A & Feary, S 2015, 'Epilogue: Murramarang in the Early Twenty-First Century', in Alastair Greig and Sue Feary (ed.), They Came to Murramarang. A History of Murramarang, Kioloa and Bawley Point, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 145-151.
- Greig, A 2015, 'Globalisation and the City', in David Holmes, Kate Hughes, Roberta Julian (ed.), Australian Sociology: A Changing Society (4th Edition), Pearson Australia, Melbourne, pp. 303 - 326.
- Greig, A 2015, 'The Working Enviroment', in David Holmes, Kate Hughes, Roberta Julian (ed.), Australian Sociology: A Changing Society (4th Edition), Pearson Australia, Melbourne, pp. 233 - 255.
- Greig, A 2015, 'Power and the State', in David Holmes, Kate Hughes, Roberta Julian (ed.), Australian Sociology: A Changing Society (4th Edition), Pearson Australia, Melbourne, pp. 256 - 277.
- Greig, A & Holmes, D 2015, 'Class', in David Holmes, Kate Hughes, Roberta Julian (ed.), Australian Sociology: A Changing Society (4th Edition), Pearson Australia, Melbourne, pp. 17 - 38.
- Greig, A & Strong, C 2014, '"But We Remember When We Were Young" Joy Division and New Orders of Nostalgia', Volume!, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 192-205.
- Gale, M, Edwards, M, Wilson, L & Greig A 2014, 'The Boomerang Effect: A Case Study of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 153-163.
- Greig, A 2014, 'Obituary Bruce Hamon 1917 - 2014', Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Vol. 27, No. 6, December, ISSN 1035-6576, pp. 126-7
- Prosser, B, Greig, A & Sumartojo, S 2014, 'Introducing the Complete Case Study into an Australian Undergraduate Sociology Major', Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences (ELiSS), vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1 - 13. DOI: 10.11120/elss.2014.00034
- Greig, A., 2013, The Australian Way of Life: A Sociological Introduction, Melbourne, Palgrave, ISBN 9781420256017 (paperback.) pp. 608.
- Greig, A 2012, 'House and Home', in Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (ed.), Sociology: Antipodean Persectives, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 373 - 377pp.
- Greig, A 2012, 'Canberra', in Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (ed.), Sociology: Antipodean Persectives, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 59 - 62.
- Hynes, M, S. Sharpe & A. Greig, 2012, 'Appearing true in the social sciences: Reflections on an academic hoax', Journal of Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 3, September, ISSN 1440-7833.
- Greig, A 2012, 'Power and the State', in Lucy Elliott (ed.), Australian Sociology, A changing Society (3rd ed), Pearson Australia, Sydney Australia, pp. 292-313.
- Greig, A.W. 2012, 'Book Review: Half a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia, P. Murphy et al', The Journal of Sociology (forthcoming)
- Greig, A & Guoth, N 2011, 'Abandon Hope All Ye Who Practice Here: Soccer and Sport Space in 1920s Australia', Annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA 2011), ed. Steven Threadgold, Emma Kirby and John Germov, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, pp. 1-17.
- Greig, A, D'Arcy, P & Turner, M 2011, 'The Fragility of Success: Repositioning Mauritian Development in the Twenty-First Century', Island Studies Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 157-178.
- McCarthy-Jones, A & A. Greig, 2011, 'Somos hijos de Sandino y Bolivar: Radical Pan-American Traditions in Historical and Cultural Context', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 231-248.
- Greig, A & Turner, M 2010, 'Reclaiming a 'Plausible Narrative of Progress': Rorty, Institutions of Hope and the MDGs', Annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA 2010), ed. Velayutham, Selvaraj; Ebert, Norbert; Watkins, Sheila, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia, p. 13.
- Hynes, M, Greig, A & Sharpe, S (2009), 'The Windschuttle Hoax and the Problem of Truth', Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA 2009), ed. The Australian Sociological Association, TASA (the Australian Sociological Association), Canberra, p. 14.
- Lauer, S, Dyball, R, Greig, A et al 2009, 'Community Formation and Attitudes to Sustainability: comparative case studies from Canberra', State of Australian Cities: National Conference 2009, ed. Conference Program Committee, Promaco Conventions Pty Ltd, Perth, pp. 1-36.
- Hynes, M, Sharpe, S & Greig, A (2008), 'Chasing Democracy: Dissent, Democracy and APEC', Social Alternatives, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 34-38.
- Lehmann, A. & A. Greig, 2008, 'Book Review: Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employees, S. Marshall. R. Mitchell & I. Ramsey eds', Labour and Industry, Vol. 19, No. 1/2, Aug/Dec: 130-132, ISSN 1030-1763 (with A. Lehmann). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3024/is_1-2_19/ai_n31608545/
- Greig, A 2008, 'Book Review: Development Success - Statecraft in the South', Globalizations, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 331-332.
- Greig, A, Hulme, D & Turner, M 2007, Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and practice in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK and US.
- Greig, A 2007, 'Book Review: Permission to Steal: Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal', Labour and Industry, vol. 18, no. 1.
- Connor, J, Greig, A & Kennedy, R 2007, 'Writing the Journal Article', in Lucy Neave, James Connor & Amanda Crawford (ed.), Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 91-102.
- Sikora, J & Greig, A 2007, 'Book Review: Globalization, Uncertainty and Women's Careers: an International Comparison', Labour and Industry, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 143-145.
- Sikora, J & Greig, A 2007, 'Book Review: Globalisation, Uncertainty and Women's Careers', Labour and Industry, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 143-145.
- Greig, A, Hulme, D & Turner, M 2006, 'Class', in D A Clark (ed.), The Elgar companion to development studies, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK, pp. 67-71pp.
- Greig, A 2006, 'The Accommodation of Growth: ''Canberra's Growing Pains" 1945-55', Canberra Historical Journal, vol. 57, no. July 2006, pp. 13-34.
- Greig, A 2006, 'Rhetoric and Reality in the Clothing Industry: The Case of Post-Fordism (1992)', in Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols (ed.), Patterns of Work in the Post-Fordist Era: Fordism and Post Fordism, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, p. 1.
- Greig, A & Sikora, J 2006, 'Book Review: Globalization, Uncertainty and Men's Careers: An International Comparison', Labour and Industry, vol. 17, no. 2, December 2006, pp. 119-121.
- Greig, A 2006, 'House and Home', in Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (ed.), Sociology: Place, Time and Division, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 319 -323.
- Greig, A 2006, 'Metropolitan Cities - Canberra', in Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (ed.), Sociology: Place, Time and Division, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 47 - 51.
- Greig, A 2005, 'Understanding and Changing Capitalism', Overland, vol. Spring 2005, no. 180, pp. 36-37.
- Greig, A 2004, 'Book Review: Australian Economy and Society 2001: Education, Work and Welfare', Labour and Industry, vol. 14, pp. 159-164.
- Greig, A 2004, 'Book Review: Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: A New Reform Agenda for Australia', Labour and Industry, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 159-164.
- Greig, A 2004, 'The Heart of Empire: comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam', Seeing Red - Forum of social political and cultural dissent, vol. September 2004, pp. 14-17.
- Greig, A 2003, 'Review: The way we live', Griffith Review, vol. Summer 2003, pp. 50-54.
- Greig, A 2003, 'Globalisation and Social Movements', in R. Jureidini and M Poole (ed.), Sociology: Australian Connections (3rd ed), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 102-122.
- Greig, A 2003, 'Book Review: Globalization/Anti-Globalization', Labour and Industry, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 117-119.
- (Book) Greig, A, Lewins, F & White, K. (2003), Inequality in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. (ISBN 0521524423)
- Greig, A 2002, 'The Struggle For Outwork Reform in the Australian Colthing Industry', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol. 49, no. June 2002, pp. 5-33.
- Greig, A 2001, 'No Quick Response: Who is Responsible for Clothing Outwork Reform?', National Labour History Conference 2001, ed. Phil Griffiths and Rosemary Webb, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra, pp. 134-142.
- Greig, A 2001, 'Australian Apparel Retailing Through the Net and Over the Waves', Prometheus, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 315-331.
- Greig, A 2000, 'A review of Economic Appraisal of Behind the Label', in <> (ed.), <>, p. 13.
- Greig, A 2000, 'Project Homes or Homes-as-Projects: Fashion and Utility in Twentieth-Century Australia', in Troy, P. (ed.), A History of European Housing in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Vic, pp. 218-236.
- Greig, A 2000, 'Globalisation', in Jureidini, R.*; Poole, M.*; Kenny, S.* (ed.), Sociology: Australian Connections (2nd ed), Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 117-136.
