Adrian is Pro Vice Chancellor (International) at the University of Melbourne. He is also Professor of Political Theory and was the Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences between 2007 and 2017.

He received his PhD from Queen’s University Belfast in 1993 and joined Melbourne from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2004. He is a former President of the Australian Political Studies Association (2011-2012).

Find out more about Adrian Little's experience

Adrian Little's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

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

Adrian Little's selected work

How Can Extra Territorial Border Control Governance Achieve Political Legitimacy?

Internal Research Grant

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

NEWS ARTICLE

Contextualizing Concepts: The Methodology of Comparative Political Theory

Journal article

States, Frontiers And Conflict In The Asia Pacific

Research Contracts

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

Journal article

Governing Resource Conflict In Bougainville - Accountability For Past And The Future

Research Contracts

Projects

Displaying the 5 most recent projects by Adrian Little.

How Can Extra Territorial Border Control Governance Achieve Political Legitimacy?

2016 - 2016

Completed

States, Frontiers And Conflict In The Asia Pacific

2014 - 2019

Completed

Governing Resource Conflict In Bougainville - Accountability For Past And The Future

2014 - 2015

Completed

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

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

5

Projects

Project Types

Research Contracts

Research Grant

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 66 most recent scholarly works by Adrian Little.

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

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2020 | Political Theory

Contextualizing Concepts: The Methodology of Comparative Political Theory

A Little

Journal article | 2018 | The Review of Politics

AbstractOver the last twenty years, comparative political theory has emerged as a distinctive contribution to contemporary theoret..

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

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

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2017 | International Political Science Review

Reconciliation, transformation, struggle: An introduction

Adrian Little, Sarah Maddison

Journal article | 2017 | International Political Science Review

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

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

Adrian Little, Mark McMillan

Journal article | 2017 | Ethnopolitics

What is at Stake in Constitutional Recognition?

A LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2016

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

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

Adrian Little, Terry Macdonald

Journal article | 2015 | European Journal of Political Theory

The complex temporality of borders: Contingency and normativity

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2015 | European Journal of Political Theory

On realism in politics and modesty in theory

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2015 | Contemporary Political Theory

Reconstituting Realism: Feasibility, Utopia and Epistemological Imperfection

A Little

Journal article | 2015 | Contemporary Political Theory

Complexity and Real Politics

A LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2015

In this Handbook, leading thinkers in multiple domains set out these new ideas and allow us to understand how these new ideas are ..

Performing the demos: towards a processive theory of global democracy

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2015 | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Enduring Conflict Challenging the Signature of Peace and Democracy

AJ Little

Book | 2014

Pathways to global democracy? Escaping the statist imaginary

A Little, K Macdonald

Journal article | 2013 | Review of International Studies

Critics of global democracy have often claimed that the social and political conditions necessary for democracy to function are no..

Political Action, Error and Failure: The Epistemological Limits of Complexity

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2012 | Political Studies

Democratic Theories

AJ Little

Book Chapter | 2012

Disjunctured narratives: rethinking reconciliation and conflict transformation

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2012 | International Political Science Review

Rhetorics of reconciliation: shifting conflict paradigms in Northern Ireland

AJ Little

Book Chapter | 2012

Democratic Voice: Popular Sovereingty in Conditions of Pluralisation

M Crozier, AJ Little

Journal article | 2012 | Australian Journal of Political Science

Pathways to Democratic International Institutions: Taking Plurality and Turbulence Seriously

AJ Little, K Macdonald

Conference Proceedings | 2012 | 2012 APSA Conference

The Social Foundations of Global Democracy: Escaping the Statist Imaginary

AJ Little, K Macdonald

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Australian Political Studies Association Conference Proceedings

Democratic Voice: Popular sovereignty in conditions of pluralization

MP Crozier, AJ Little

Conference Proceedings | 2011 | Australian Political Studies Association Conference Proceedings

Democratic Melancholy: On the Sacrosanct Place of Democracy in Radical Democratic Theory

AJL Little

Journal article | 2010 | Political Studies

'Just getting on with my life': the politics of Muslim identity in Australia

Y MORSI, A LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2010 | Australian Political Science Association Conference 2010

Debating peace and conflict in Northern Ireland: Towards a narrative approach

AJL Little

Book Chapter | 2010

The Complex Agon

AJ LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2009

Complexity, Error and Failure: Reconceptualising the Epistemological Foundations of Contemporary Liberal Democratic Politics

A LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2009 | Australian Political Science Association Annual Conference 2009

Sunningdale for slow learners? Towards a complexity paradigm

A LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2009

Conclusion

Paul Fawcett, Matthew Flinders, Colin Hay, Matthew Wood

Book Chapter | 2009

This chapter returns to the idea of ‘nexus politics’ and the collection’s overall concern with how depoliticization functions to r..

Introduction

Ann Maxwell Hill, Minglang Zhou

Book Chapter | 2009 | Coastal and Estuarine Studies

The Northern Ireland Paradox: The Retreat from Democracy since the Belfast Agreement

AJ LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2009

Squaring some vicious circles Transforming the political in Northern Ireland

John Cash

Book Chapter | 2009

Democratic Piety: Complexity, Conflict and Violence

AJ LITTLE

Book | 2008

Reconciliation, Ideology and Identity in Northern Ireland

A LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2008 | Australasian Political Science Association Conference (APSA)

A state of exception: the concept of the political in Northern Ireland

AJ LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2008

Between disagreement and consensus: Unravelling the democratic paradox

A Little

Journal article | 2007 | Australian Journal of Political Science

Between disagreement and consensus: Unravelling the democratic paradox

Adrian Little

Journal article | 2007 | AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Democracy

A LITTLE

Scholarly edition | 2007

Disagreeable democracy: Deliberation, conflict and communication in contemporary democratic practice.

M CROZIER, A LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2007 | Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA)

Community

A LITTLE

Scholarly edition | 2007

Third way

A LITTLE

Scholarly edition | 2007

Complexity, Poststructuralism and Conflict

A LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2006 | Australasian Political Studies Association Conference

Theorizing Democracy and Violence – The Case of Northern Ireland

A LITTLE

Journal article | 2006 | Theoria

Theories of Democracy and Violence: the Case of Northern Ireland

AJ LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2005 | Australian Journal of Political Science

Community

AJ LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2005

The Northern Ireland Paradox: the Retreat from Democracy Since the Belfast Agreement

AJ LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2005 | Manchester School

Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Communication

Adrian Little

Book Chapter | 2004

Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference

Adrian Little

Book Chapter | 2004

Democracy and Northern Ireland: beyond the liberal paradigm?

AJ LITTLE

Book | 2004

Social Capital, Trust and Civil Society

Adrian Little

Book Chapter | 2004

Explaining the Belfast Agreement

Adrian Little

Book Chapter | 2004

Political Liberalism

Adrian Little

Book Chapter | 2004

Liberal democracy, ethics and the politics of disagreement

AJ LITTLE

Conference Proceedings | 2004 | Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004

Radical Democracy

Adrian Little

Book Chapter | 2004

Democracy and Northern Ireland Beyond the Liberal Paradigm? Introduction

Adrian Little

Book | 2004

Feminism and the Politics of Difference

Adrian Little

Book Chapter | 2004

Multiculturalism, diversity and liberal egalitarianism in Northern Ireland

A Little

Journal article | 2003 | Irish Political Studies

The Problems of Antagonism: Applying Liberal Political Theory in Northern Ireland

A LITTLE

Journal article | 2003 | The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Rethinking civil society: Radical politics and the legitimization of unpaid activities

A Little

Journal article | 2002 | Contemporary Politics

This article examines recent debates on the concept of civil society as a source of renewal for political economy and a contributi..

Feminism and the Politics of Difference in Northern Ireland

A LITTLE

Journal article | 2002 | Journal of Political Ideologies

Working Time Reductions

A LITTLE

Book Chapter | 2002

The Politics of Community: Theory and Practice

A LITTLE

Book | 2002

Community and Radical Democracy

A LITTLE

Journal article | 2002 | Journal of Political Ideologies

The politics of compensation: Tom Paine's Agrarian Justice and liberal egalitarianism

A Little

Journal article | 1999 | Contemporary Politics

66

Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Political Science

Government and Politics

International Relations

Community Service (excl. Work)

Expanding Knowledge

Sociology

Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards

Other Law, Politics and Community Services

Other Policy and Political Science

Policy and Administration

News

Displaying the most recent news article by Adrian Little.

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

Adrian Little

May 19, 2016

1

News Articles

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)

3

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

Prof

Adrian Little

Pro Vice-Chancellor (International)

International

Prof

Adrian Little

Enquiries

Contact Adrian

Division

The University Of Melbourne

Primary Interest

Contemporary political and social theory

Prof

Adrian Little

Enquiries

Contact

Find out more about Adrian Little's experience

Adrian Little's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

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

Adrian Little's selected work

Internal Research Grant

NEWS ARTICLE

Journal article

Research Contracts

Journal article

Research Contracts

Projects

How Can Extra Territorial Border Control Governance Achieve Political Legitimacy?

States, Frontiers And Conflict In The Asia Pacific

Governing Resource Conflict In Bougainville - Accountability For Past And The Future

Resistance, Recognition And Reconciliation In Australia - Lessons From South Africa And Northern Ireland.

Islamic Movements In Secular Societies: Grammars Of Experience

5

Projects

Project Types

Scholarly Works

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

Contextualizing Concepts: The Methodology of Comparative Political Theory

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

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

Reconciliation, transformation, struggle: An introduction

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

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

What is at Stake in Constitutional Recognition?

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

The complex temporality of borders: Contingency and normativity

On realism in politics and modesty in theory

Reconstituting Realism: Feasibility, Utopia and Epistemological Imperfection

Complexity and Real Politics

Performing the demos: towards a processive theory of global democracy

Enduring Conflict Challenging the Signature of Peace and Democracy

Pathways to global democracy? Escaping the statist imaginary

Political Action, Error and Failure: The Epistemological Limits of Complexity

Democratic Theories

Disjunctured narratives: rethinking reconciliation and conflict transformation

Rhetorics of reconciliation: shifting conflict paradigms in Northern Ireland

Democratic Voice: Popular Sovereingty in Conditions of Pluralisation

Pathways to Democratic International Institutions: Taking Plurality and Turbulence Seriously

The Social Foundations of Global Democracy: Escaping the Statist Imaginary

Democratic Voice: Popular sovereignty in conditions of pluralization

Democratic Melancholy: On the Sacrosanct Place of Democracy in Radical Democratic Theory

'Just getting on with my life': the politics of Muslim identity in Australia

Debating peace and conflict in Northern Ireland: Towards a narrative approach

The Complex Agon

Complexity, Error and Failure: Reconceptualising the Epistemological Foundations of Contemporary Liberal Democratic Politics

Sunningdale for slow learners? Towards a complexity paradigm

Conclusion

Introduction

The Northern Ireland Paradox: The Retreat from Democracy since the Belfast Agreement

Squaring some vicious circles Transforming the political in Northern Ireland

Democratic Piety: Complexity, Conflict and Violence

Reconciliation, Ideology and Identity in Northern Ireland

A state of exception: the concept of the political in Northern Ireland

Between disagreement and consensus: Unravelling the democratic paradox

Between disagreement and consensus: Unravelling the democratic paradox

Democracy

Disagreeable democracy: Deliberation, conflict and communication in contemporary democratic practice.

Community

Third way