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Prof

Adrian Little

Pro Vice-Chancellor (International)
International
social sciences
political science
government & law
reconciliation
northern-ireland
ethnic studies
complexity
sovereignty
international relations
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Prof

Adrian Little

 
Division
The University of Melbourne
 
Primary Interest
Contemporary political and social theory
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Projects

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States, Frontiers and Conflict in the Asia Pacific

2014 - 2019
Completed
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Resistance, Recognition and Reconciliation in Australia - lessons from South Africa and Northern Ireland.

This project examines resistances to reconciliation in Australia, South Africa and Northern Ireland. The project compares efforts toward rec..

2013 - 2017
Completed
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How can extra territorial border control governance achieve political legitimacy?

2016 - 2016
Completed
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Governing Resource Conflict in Bougainville - accountability for past and the future

2014 - 2015
Completed
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Islamic movements in secular societies: grammars of experience

There is increasing public debate about the place of Islam in western societies, but little reference to lived experience. At a same time, w..

2007 - 2012
Completed

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Project Types

2

Research Contracts

2

Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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The Politics of Makarrata: Understanding Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia

Adrian Little

Journal article  |  2020  |  POLITICAL THEORY

In May 2017, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was released, providing an Indigenous response to debates on recognition of Aborig..

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Contextualizing Concepts: The Methodology of Comparative Political Theory

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Journal article  |  2018  |  Review of Politics

Over the last twenty years, comparative political theory has emerged as a distinctive contribution to contemporary theoretical and..

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Stopping boats, saving lives, securing subjects: Humanitarian borders in Europe and Australia

Adrian Little, Nick Vaughan-Williams

Journal article  |  2017  |  European Journal of International Relations

In April 2015, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott called on European leaders to respond to the migration and refugee cri..

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Fear, hope and disappointment: Emotions in the politics of reconciliation and conflict transformation

Adrian Little

Journal article  |  2017  |  International Political Science Review

The place of reconciliation in processes of conflict transformation is a deeply contested political issue. Reconciliation has play..

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Reconciliation, transformation, struggle: An introduction

Adrian Little, Sarah Maddison

Journal article  |  2017  |  International Political Science Review

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The politics of 'whataboutery': The problem of trauma trumping the political in conflictual societies

Adrian Little, Juliet Brough Rogers

Journal article  |  2017  |  The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Trauma demands a melancholic orientation to the past, a wish to recover what is lost. In conflicts located in long histories of po..

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Reconciliation after Recognition? Indigenous settler relations in Australia

Adrian Little

Book Chapter  |  2017

Since 2010 the political agenda on addressing Indigenous-settler relations in Australia has been dominated by the debate on consti..

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Invisibility and the Politics of Reconciliation in Australia: Keeping Conflict in View

Adrian Little, Mark McMillan

Journal article  |  2017  |  Ethnopolitics

Is reconciliation a process of masking conflict in order for it to be eradicated from the view, consciousness and responsibility o..

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What is at Stake in Constitutional Recognition?

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Book Chapter  |  2016

This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attit..

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Introduction to special issue: Real-world justice and international migration

Adrian Little, Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2015  |  European Journal of Political theory

In this article, we introduce the project developed in this special issue: a search for principles of ‘real-world’ justice in inte..

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Keyword Analysis

Political Science
Government and Politics
Expanding Knowledge
International Relations
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Services
Community Services
Other Law, Politics and Community Services

News

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On the wrong track: why Australia's attempt at Indigenous reconciliation will fail

Adrian Little, Mark McMillan

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, constitutional change is about righting injustices inherent in the current recognition of..

May 19, 2016
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

Melbourne Leadership Award for Internationalisation of the Student Experience
2017

Australian Political Science Association Award for Outstanding Leadership in Political Science
2003

FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Social and Political Sciences

Ordinary Member

International Studies Association

Member

Australian Political Studies Association

Member

Political Studies Association of the UK

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Queen's University Belfast

Bachelor of Arts (honours)

Nottingham Trent University

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Queen's University Belfast

United Kingdom

Universitas Gadjah Mada

Indonesia

University of Witwatersrand

South Africa