Emeritus Professor Barry Hindess

Position: Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: School of Politics & International Relations
Email: Barry.hindess@anu.edu.au
Location: 1166, Haydon-Allen Building 22
Qualification:
BA maths (oxford), MA social science (Liverpool), PhD sociology (Liverpool)After many years as a sociologist in Britain Barry Hindess moved to the Australian National University in 1987 and then to ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences, where he learned to pass as a political scientist. He is now Emeritus Professor in ANU’s School of Social Sciences. Like many senior academics he has published more than he cares to remember, including Discourses of Power: from Hobbes to Foucault, Governing Australia: studies in contemporary rationalities of government (with Mitchell Dean), Corruption and Democracy in Australia, Us and them: elites and anti-elitism in Australia (with Marian Sawer)and papers on neo-liberalism, liberalism and empire and the temporalizing of difference.