Professor Duncan Ivison
I teach in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. I have also taught in the the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto; the Department of Politics at the University of York (UK) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. I did my BA at McGill University in Montreal, where I grew up, and my MSc and PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
I am currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
I have been Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, and Visiting Fellow in Ethics and Public Affairs, at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (2002-3), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU (1997).
I work in three main areas: political theory, the history of political thought and ethics. I've published four books: The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government (Cornell UP, 1997); Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge UP, 2002), which was awarded the 2004 CB Macpherson Prize by the CPSA for best book in political theory in 2002 and 2003; Rights (Acumen and McGill Queens Press, 2008); and with Paul Patton and Will Sanders, edited Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge UP, 2000; reprinted 2002). Another edited volume, The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism, is due in early 2010.
Among my current projects include an attempt to write an intellectual history of the emergence of the concept of social justice (as a way of thinking about its future, and as a way of stepping back from the dominance of Rawlsian theories of justice in academic work on justice today); and a project funded by the Australian Research Council on 'the uneasy alliance between democracy and justice'...among a bunch of other things....
Publications
Links are to publisher websites or pre-prints and post-prints. I have included links to Jstor as well; if you can't access these then your institution doesn't have a subscription.
Books
Rights (Acumen & McGill-Queens Press, 2008), vi, 282 pp. [Part of the 'Central Problems in Philosophy' series.] A thoughtful review by Derrick Darby in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002). Here is a thoughtful review essay on it, published in the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy in 2003; in the Australian Review of Public Affairs (2003); in the Australian Humanities Review (2003); in Perspectives on Politics, 1, 4 (2003) 762-3; Australian Journal of Political Science 15, 3 (2005) 474-5....and more....
The
Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government
(Ithaca and London,
Cornell University Press, 1997).
Edited Books
The Ashgate Research Companion to
Multiculturalism (London, Ashgate, forthcoming 2010).
with Paul Patton, Will
Sanders. Political
Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2000; reprinted 2002).
Refereed Articles and Chapters
39. 'Afterword: The normative force of the past' , in S. Belmessous ed. Indigenous versus European Land Claims 1500-1920 (Oxford, Oxford University Press) forthcoming
38. 'Another world is actual: Between Imperialism and Freedom', Political Theory 39, 1 (2011) pp. 131-137
37. 'Liberty and Government: Hindess and the History of Liberalism', Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 36, 1 (2011) pp. 10-16.
36. 'Justice and imperialism: On the very idea of a universal standard' in Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire, eds. Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter (London, Palgrave 2010)
35. ‘Liberal Multiculturalism and its Critics’ in Donna Lee Van Cott (ed.) The Oxford Handbook to Indigenous Peoples’ Politics (Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011)
34. 'Multiculturalism as Public Ideal' in Ivison, ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism, forthcoming 2010
33. ‘Human Rights’, in D.S.A. Bell, Ethics and World Politics (Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010).
32. 'Consent or Contestation?' in Jeremy Webber, Colin M. Mcleod (eds) Between Cosenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent (Vancouver, UBC Press, forthcoming 2010).
31. 'Republican human rights', European Journal of Political Theory, 9, 1 (2010) pp. 31-47.
30. 'Democracy' (2500 words), 'Colonialism' (2500 words), 'Modus Vivendi' (500 words) in Mark Bevir (ed) Sage Encyclopedia of Political Theory (Thousand Oaks, California, forthcoming 2010).
29. 'Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Reconciliation', in David Kahane et al. (eds) Deliberative Democracy in Practice (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2010) pp. 115-137 [Uncorrected proof]
28. 'Multiculturalism and resentment', in Geoffrey Brahm-Levy ed. Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism (New York, Berghan Books, 2008) pp. 129-48.
27. 'Indigenous Rights' (2000 words) in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. ed. William A. Darity (Farmington Hills, MacMillan, 2007).
26. ‘Nation’ (1000 words); 'Postcolonialism' (2500 words); ‘Self-Government’ (500 words) in Routledge Encyclopedia of Governance ed. M. Bevir (New York, Sage, 2007). pp. 587-9, 726-30, 862.
25. 'The nature of rights and the history of empire' in David Armitage ed. British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006) pp. 191-211.
24. 'Historical Injustice', Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Philips (eds) (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006) pp. 507-25.
23. ‘Emergent Cosmopolitanism’, in Ronald Tinnevelt, Gert Verschraegen (eds) Between Cosmopolitanism Ideals and State Sovereignty (New York, Pagrave, 2006) pp. 120-34
22. 'The moralism of multiculturalism', Journal of Applied Philosophy, 22, 2 (2005) 169-182. Re-printed in What's wrong with moralism? ed. Tony Coady (Oxford, Blackwell, 2006).
21. ‘Arguing about ethics’ in Catherine Lumby and Elspeth Probyn (eds) Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003) 25-41.
20. ‘The Logic of Aboriginal Rights’, Ethnicities, 3, 3 (2003) 321-44. Reprinted in Peter Jones ed. Group Rights (London, Ashgate, forthcoming) part of the series 'International Essays on Rights', ed. Tom Campbell.
19. ‘Locke, liberalism and empire’, in Peter Anstey (ed) The Philosophy of John Locke: New Perspectives (London, Routledge, 2003) pp. 86-105.
18. ‘Property, Territory, Sovereignty: the justification of political boundaries’ in Ian Hunter, David Saunders (eds) Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought (London, Palgrave, 2002) pp. 219-34.
17. ‘Responding to humanity’, The Drawing Board: Australian Review of Public Affairs, June (2002)
16. 'Multiculturalism' (5000 words) in Neil J. Smelser, Paul B Baltes (eds) International Encyclopedia of Social and Behaviour Sciences (Pergamon Press, 2001) 10169-10175.
15. ‘Political Community and Historical Injustice’, Australian Journal of Philosophy, 78, 3 (2000); 360-73.
14. with Paul Patton and Will Sanders 'Introduction' (11,000 wds) in Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000) 1-21.
13. 'Constitutional unity and complex identification: comments on Post', Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 23 (2000) 105-110.
12. 'Modus Vivendi Citizenship' in Catriona Mckinnon, Iain Hampsher-Monk (eds) The Demands of Citizenship (London, Cassells, 2000) 123-43.
11. ‘Two concepts of reconciliation’, Proceedings of the Russellian Society, 19 (2000), pp 25-33.
10. 'Pluralism and the Hobbesian logic of negative constitutionalism' Political Studies, XLVII (1999) pp. 83-99.
9. 'Whose Values? Which Norms? Justifying punishment in intercultural contexts' in M. Matravers (ed) Punishment and Political Philosophy (Oxford, HartPublishers, 1999) 88-107.
8. 'The Technical and the Political: Discourses of Race, Reasons of State', Social & Legal Studies 7 (1998) 589-94.
7. 'The Disciplinary Moment: Foucault, law and the re inscription of rights', in J. Moss (ed.) The Later Foucault (London, Sage, 1998) 129-48.
6. ‘Decolonising the rule of law', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 17, 2, (1997) 253-279. [Jstor]
5. 'The Secret History of Public Reason', History of Political Thought, XVIII, 1 (1997) 125-147.
4. 'Postcolonialism and Political Theory' in Andrew Vincent (ed.) Political Theory: Tradition, Diversity and Ideology (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997) 154-71. Reprinted in Diana Bryson (ed) Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts (New York, Routledge, 2000).
3. The Art of Political Liberalism' Canadian Journal of Political Science 28, (1995), 203-226.
2. 'Political order and human nature: Kant and Hume', History of Philosophy [Australasian Society for the History of Philosophy] 2 (1994) 64-84.
1. ‘Liberal Conduct’, History of the Human Sciences, 6, 3 (1993) 25-59
Longer reviews, review essays (1000 words +)
Review of William E. Connolly, Pluralism in Political Theory 34, 6 (2006) 824-827.
Review of Catriona Mackinnon, Toleration (London, Routledge, 2006) in Notre Dame Philosophical Review (August 2006)
Review of George Klosko, Political Obligation; and Jacobins and Utopians: The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform in the Canadian Journal of Political Science 2, 39 (2006) 457-460.
Review of Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford UP, 2000) in Constellations 11, 3 (2004) 445-7.
Review of Ross Harrison, Hobbes, Locke and Confusion’s Masterpiece: An Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Philosophy (CUP, 2003) for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (May 2003)
Review of David Runciman, Pluralism and the Personality of the State, (Cambridge UP 1997) entitled ‘Wormes in the entrayles’, Times Literary Supplement, November 28. 1997 p. 20.
Review essay of James Tully, Strange Multiplicity: constitutionalism in an age of diversity (Cambridge UP, 1995) and Russell Hardin, One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict (Princeton UP, 1995) entitled ‘Does the Spirit of Haida Gwaii fly only at dusk?’ Theory and Event, 1 (1997).
Shorter Reviews (1000 words or less)
Review of Tim Rowse, Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australians (UNSW Press, 2002) in Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1 (2004) 112-113.
Review of Joanna Thompson, Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice (Cambridge, Polity, 2002) in The Australian Journal of Political Science, (2004), 469=70.
Review of Elizabeth Povinelli, The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (Duke UP, 2002) in The Australian Journal of Political Science, 38, 3. (2004) 562-3.
Review of Deinstag, Joshua: Dancing in Chains: Narrative and History in Political Theory in Political Studies, March (1999) 00-00.
Review of Carey J. Nederman, John Christian Laursen, Difference and Dissent: Theories of Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe in Journal of Early Modern History 3, 4 (1999) 410-12.
Review of Mark Tunick: Practices and Principles: Approaches to Ethical and Legal Judgement in Ethics March (1999) 000-000.
Review of Berry, Christopher: Social Theory and the Enlightenment in Political Studies 5 (1998) 00-00.
Review of Gerald Gaus: Justificatory Liberalism; An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory in Nations and Nationalism 4 (1998) 581-3.