Anthony Elliott
Professor of Sociology
Head of Department
PhD Cambridge University
BA (Hons) University of Melbourne
Department of Sociology
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia
Tel: (61 8) 8201-3538
Fax:(61 8) 8201-3521
Room: 323 SSN
anthony.elliott@flinders.edu.au
Anthony Elliott was appointed Professor of Sociology at Flinders University in 2006, where he has served as Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). He also holds a Visiting Research Professorship in the Department of Sociology at the Open University, UK. He was formerly Chair of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and prior to that Foundation Director of the Centre for Critical Theory at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol.
Professor Elliott's writings in social theory have strongly influenced the development of research in the USA and the UK, but have also made a substantial impact in other countries also. His books have been translated into sixteen languages. He has lectured at about one hundred academic institutions worldwide.
Professor Elliott is frequently invited to contribute, as a writer, speaker and/or consultant at local, national and international levels. He regularly contributes articles to The Australian Higher Education, The Times Higher Education Supplement and Times Literary Supplement. He also contributes to media worldwide: amongst others, he has been recently interviewed by the BBC World Service, The Sunday Times, ABC Radio National, The Australian, BBC Radio 4, GMTV Sunday as well as European and North American radio and television networks.
Current Teaching
Research interests
- Social Theory
Currently this involves research on the future of mobility lifestyles with Professor John Urry from Lancaster University, UK, and which forms the basis of a new book for Routledge. - Globalization
With Charles Lemert, Daniel Chaffee and Eric Hsu, this involves the preparation of a new book on the history of globalism. - Identity
This involves a comprehensive examination of the concept of identity in the social sciences, and will inform a new book project: The Handbook of Identity Studies (Routledge). - Expatriates, Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Through the award of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, this involves in-depth interviews with what Professor Elliott calls ‘the globals’ - those working in cutting-edge sectors of the new economy.
Recent Publications
The Routledge Companion to Social Theory, Editor with assistance of Dan Mendleson, London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction, London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
Identity in Question, coedited with Paul du Gay, London and Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009.
Making The Cut: How Cosmetic Surgical Culture is Transforming Our Lives, London: Reaktion and Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008.
Identity in Question, edited with Paul du Gay, Sage, 2008.
Concepts of the Self, 2nd Edition, Fully revised and updated, Cambridge: Polity, 2007.
The Contemporary Bauman, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization, with Charles Lemert, London: Routledge, 2006. Published in the USA: Deadly Worlds: The Emotional Costs of Globalization, New York: Roman and Littlefield, 2006.
"The Constitution of the Subject: Primary Repression after Kresteva and Laplanche", European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 8, Number 1, 2005:25-42.
Recent Book Chapters and Articles
“Drastic Plastic and the Global Electronic Economy”, Society, 2009.
“I Want To Look Like That!: Cosmetic Surgery and Celebrity Culture”, Cultural Sociology, 2009.
“The Global New Individualist Debate: Three Theories of Individualism and Beyond”, with C. Lemert in A. Elliott and P. du Gay, Identity in Question, London and Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009, pp.37-64.
“The Constitution of Identity: Primary Repression After Kristeva and Laplanche” in A. Elliott and P. du Gay, Identity in Question, London and Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009, pp.120-138.
“Identity, identification, imagination: psychoanalysis and modern European thought after the postmodern turn”, in R. Frie and D. Orange (eds), Beyond Postmodernism, London and New York: Routledge, 2009, pp.201-219.
"The Constitution of the Subject: Primary Repression after Kresteva and Laplanche", European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 8, Number 1, 2005:25-42.
Recent Research Grants
Flinders Faculty Research Grant, with John Urry, “Mobile Lifestyles”, 2009.
ARC Discovery Project, 2008-2011, $250,000: “Australian Global Identities: Images of Globalization, Transnationalism and Individualism Among New Expatriates”.
British Academy Large Grant, 2004-6: “The Ideologies of Psychoanalysis”.
British Academy Small Grant, 2002-3: “Reconceptualizing Self-Identity”.
Recent Key-Note Addresses and Public Lectures
“Sociology and Globalization”, Plenary presentation, TASA Conference, University of Melbourne, 5 December 2008.
"Frenetic Life", Keynote address, Centre for Leadership Competence Conference, University of Arcada, Helsinki, October 2008
"The Globalization of Identities", Public Lecture, The Open University, UK, July 2008
“Globalization and New Individualism”, Sociology for a Mobile World, Plenary presentation, TASA Conference, University of Western Australia, 4-7 December 2006.
“Extreme Reinvention: Identity in the Global Age”, Keynote address, ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme Conference, University of Aston, Birmingham, 11/12 July 2006.
“Post-contemporary Architecture and Psychoanalysis”, Keynote address, Self and the City Conference, Tate Modern, London, 2004.
Current Doctoral Students
Mr Daniel Chaffee, “Social Theory After Society”
Ms Alison Thompson, “Social Theory of Childhood”
Mr Eric Hsu, “Sociology of Sleep”
Ms Priscilla Dunk, “Celebrations of Sexuality”
Mr Jordan McKenzie, “Social Theory and Modern Sociology”
Mr Dan Mendleson, “Social Theory of Inequality”
Ms Andrea Lobb, “Honneth, Disrespect and Psychoanalysis”