Michael Roberts
The world of university lecturers is quite varied and cannot be easily distilled. My experience is mostly based on my years teaching at Peradeniya University n Sri Lanka (1960-62 & 1966-76) and Adelaide University from 1978-2004—besides exposures to the environments in Oxford, Chicago, Heidelberg & Bielefeldt.
I have decided to introduce my TPS readership to some personnel from this highly-variegated field. My first choice has been an easy one: PETER MAYER is an easy man – personable, talented, multi-skilled and well-travelled. As vitally, he is an American who has married an equally personable lady named “Latha” who is from India.
Even more vitally, their house is in the south of Adelaide and quite close to my abode. And they host a Christmas gathering every X’mas!
And then: Peter loves cricket and knows his cricket……….. An American cricket addict! Yes, we have even watched games at Adelaide Oval together. Camaraderie at its ‘mostest’…..
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Peter Baldwin MAYER …. CURRICULUM VITÆ
CURRENT POSITION: Affiliate Associate Professor in Politics, University of Adelaide
MAILING ADDRESS: Politics Department, University of Adelaide. ADELAIDE, S.A. 5005N e-mail: peter.mayer@adelaide.edu.au … pmayer01@gmail.com
PERSONAL:
Born: 29 May, 1941, … Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Citizenship: Australia/U.S.A.
Marital Status: Married, two children
Residential Address: 11 Orley Avenue, Stirling, S.A. 5152, Australia … phone: (+61.8) 8339 1724
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
1963: B.A., Oberlin College
1965: M.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
1970: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Languages: Proficient in Hindi, Urdu, Tamil and French.
Computing Applications and Languages: Expert proficiency with Microsoft WORD, Excel, FileMaker Pro, EndNote, Pro-Cite, SPSS, StatView, etc. etc. Reasonable facility in QGIS, R, Fortran, Basic, Logo, Scratch, Python and PostScript.
APPOINTMENTS:
Politics Department, University of Adelaide: 1970-2010
Visiting Appointments:
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, 1982
Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, 1986
Visiting Fellow, World Development Institute, Boston University, 1989
Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo 1993
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, 1993
Visiting Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, 1996
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide, 2010-2025
Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Adelaide, 2025-present
ADMINISTRATION:
B.A. Committee (1971)
Clause 4(c) Committee, Faculty of Arts (1972-3)
Computing Centre Committee (1972-4)
Faculty of Arts Appointments Committee, (1973)
Centre for Asian Studies (1974-1992)
Appointments Committee, Chair in Politics (1974-6)
Chair, Centre for Asian Studies (1976)
Associate Dean of Arts (1979)
Member, University Equipment and Maintenance Committee (1979-80)
Chair, Faculty of Arts Equipment Committee (1979)
Arts Representative on Faculty of Architecture (1979)
Planning and Development Committee (1979)
Faculty of Arts Finance Committee (1979)
Member, Working Party, Council Committee on the University Act (Elections) (1979)
University Coordinating Committee (1980)
Finance Sub-Committee (1980)
Associate Dean of Arts (1981)
Arts Faculty Representative on Music Curriculum Committee (1981-2)
Arts Faculty Representative on Education Committee (1982)
Member, Arts Faculty Staffing Committee (1982)
Arts Equipment Committee (1982)
Education Committee Representative on University Finance Committee (1982)
Executive Member (≈ Provost) for Staffing (1983-85)
Convener, Technical Staff Budget Review (1983)
Member, Cleaning Staff Budget Review (1983)
Member, Budget Review Group (1983-5)
Convener Staffing Budget Review Group (84-85)
Member Vice-Chancellor’s Working Party on Computing (1984)
Member, Electron Optical Centre Working Party (1984)
Review of the Staffing Compact (1984)
Technological Assessment Group (1984)
Convener, University Council Working Party on Equal Opportunity (1985)
Convener, Working Party on Promotions Principles and Procedures (1985)
Member, Working Party on Statistics (1985)
Advisor, Council Study Group on Promotion Principles and Procedures (1985)
Company Director, UNISURE Pty. Ltd. [University Workers’ Compensation Company] (1985)
Chair, Review of the Department of Economics (1987-8)
Member of the Council of the University of Adelaide (1987-1991)
Member, Committee for the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (1988-90)
Deputy Chair, Politics Department (1988-90)
Member, Arts Faculty Curriculum Committee (1988)
Convener, Legislation Committee (1989-91)
Member, Chair of Economics Appointment Committee (1989)
Member, Student Housing Accommodation Working Party (1990)
Member, Special Entry/Aboriginal Access Committees (1991-92)
Member, Arts Faculty Selection Committee (1991-92)
Member, Arts Faculty Curriculum Committee (1991)
Member, Arts Faculty Promotion Committee (1991)
Head, Politics Department (1991-92)
Convener, Equal Opportunities Board (1991)
Convener, Anti-Racism Working Party (1991)
Convener, Access and Equity Advisory Group (1991-2) (1995-6)
Convener, Multi-cultural Advisory Group (1991)
Member, Chair of Asian Studies Appointment Committee (1991)
Member, Committee on the University Act (1991)
Member, Chair of Politics Appointment Committee (1992)
Member, Dean of Arts Search Committee (1992)
Arts Faculty Representative on Faculty of Economics (1992)
Arts Faculty Representative on Multicultural Advisory Group (1992)
Architecture Professorial Tenure Review Committee (1992)
Equal Opportunity Officer on appointments committees in History, Architecture, Environmental Studies (1991); Geography, Economics, Commerce, Classics (1991-92); Women’s Studies (1992); Politics (1994); Asian Studies (1995); English (1995); History (1995); Chair of Women’s Studies (1995-6); Director Centre for Economics Education (1997); Chair of Law (1999); History (2000); Philosophy (2001)
Review of Conditions of Tenure Committee (1994)
Member, Faculty of Arts Higher Degree Committee (1994-6)
Member, Faculty of Arts Equal Opportunity Committee (1994-5)
Postgraduate Coordinator, Politics Department (1994-6)
Member, Faculty of Arts Finance Working Party (coopted member and convener pro tem) (1994)
Member, Acting Academic Registrar Appointment Committee (1994)
University Mediator (1994-2000)
Convener, Review of Fairway Scheme (1995)
Overseas Student Assistance Fund Grant Committee (1995-6)
University (Sexual Harassment Panel) Facilitator (1995-2002)
Head, Politics Department (1997-8)
Member, Working Party on the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (1997)
Convener, Arts Faculty International Student Issues liaison (1997)
Member, Asian Studies Award Committee (1997)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Staff Promotions Committee, 2001
Deputy Head, Politics Department (2001)
Member, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Education and Development Committee (2001)
Member, Board of Research Education and Development, Student Matters Working Party (2001)
Postgraduate Appeals Committee (2001-2)
Student Matters Committee (2001-2003)
Review of the B.A. Social Sciences (2008-9)
ARC Expert Reviewer (2003-present)
TEACHING:
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Asian Politics
Political Anthropology
Third World Political Economy
Peasants and Politics
Political Economy of the ‘Global Village’
The State of the World
Poverty & Hope: Political Economy of the Third World
Special Seminar in South Asian Political Economy
South Australian Parliamentary Internship Program
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Incredible India
The Enquiring Mind
Contributor to Undergraduate Courses in other Departments:
Asian Civilizations (Centre for Asian Studies)
Asian Development (Centre for Asian Studies)
Old Societies and New States (History Department)
Postgraduate Courses Taught:
Cross-Currents
Guest Lectures:
Sociology Department, Murray Park CAE “Ramayana and Ram Lila”, 1975
Sociology Department, Salisbury CAE “Nationalism and Political Development in Southeast Asia” 8 September, 1975
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur “Muslim Political Culture” 15 February, 1977
Politics Department, Flinders University
28 June, 1984 “Communalism in Indian Politics”
2 August, 1990 “The Green Revolution in India”
16 May, 1991 “Labour in post-colonial India”
28 May, 1991 “State and Labour in Post-colonial India”
Geography Department, University of Adelaide 9 May, 1991
3 August, 1988 “The British Raj in the latter half of the 19th century”
9 May, 1991 “Women in Development
Sociology Department, Flinders University 2 September, 1991
M.A in Development Studies, Flinders University
28 October, 1980 “Revolutions Green and Peasant: Development as History”
1 August, 1990 “The Lessons of India’s Green Revolution”
17 October, 1991 “Mobilising the Savings of Poor People in Bangladesh and India”
Politics Department, University of Adelaide, Subject: Feminist Thinkers, “Who is a Third World Feminist?”, 17 May, 1990
Meiji University, Tokyo Course of 15 invited lectures “Poor People and Rich Lands: The Political Economy of the Third World” a series of fifteen lectures June-December 1993
Miyagi Gakuin Women’s College, Sendai, 4 November, 1993 “Women and Development in the Third World”
Shikoku Gakuin University, Zentsuji 10 December, 1993 “Peasants and Development”
Mawson Centre for Environmental Studies, UNEP Course “Reflections on Democracy and Development” 17 May, 1994
“Democracy and Development: Finding Room for Manoeuver” 9 June, 1995
National Centre for South Asian Studies Post-graduate Seminar, Deakin University, 24-26 June, 1995
“‘Not Mourning, Just Teaching’: Reflections on Australia’s Engagement with Asia” Keynote address to Asia Education Foundation National Professional Development Program, Flinders University 19 June, 1997
“What is Asia? Report from the Emperor’s Committee of Investigation” Lecture given to Asia Education Foundation National Professional Development Program, Flinders University 19 June, 1997
“Why Poor People Stay Poor” Lecture given to Asia Education Foundation National Professional Development Program, Flinders University 15 August, 1998
“Why Study Asia?” National Professional Development Program, Flinders University 23 April, 1999
“‘An Italy of Asiatic Dimensions'” Paper presented to the History Department, University of Calcutta 27 September, 2001.
Politics Department, Adelaide University, International Politics, “International NGOs: Amnesty International” 17 October, 2001, 28 October, 2002
Politics Department, Adelaide University, Justice, Law & the State “Civil Disobedience” 18 October, 2001
“Inventing Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation”, Politics Department, Citizenship in an International Context , 8 October, 2002
“Politics and Health” International Primary Health Care Seminar Program, Department of Community Health, University of Adelaide 9 July, 2004; 15 April, 2005; 29 July, 2005, etc. 2006-2014
“The Indian Development Model” for Development Studies, 2006, 2007
“Discovering India” National Professional Development Program, Flinders University 2009,2010
“Australia-India Relations” for Centre for Asian Studies 2006, 2010-12
“Quantitative methods” for Priya Chacko, Third Year Capstone course, Politics Department 2018-2024
“Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi: The Personalities of two Indian Dominators” for Czes Tubiliwicz 15/08/2019
Honours Courses Taught:
Peasant Revolutions
Peasants and Politics
Futurology
Radical Political Methodology
Agricultural Development in China and India
South Asian Anthropology (with Dr. John Gray)
Political Obstacles to Development
The Prince and the Third World Pauper
The Political Economy of Economic Reform in Asia: Import-Substituting Economies in an Era of Globalisation
“How Much is Society Worth?”: Social Capital and Governance
Honours Common Course
Honours Thesis Supervision:
Richard Anderson “The Decline of US Hegemony” (1972)
Merry Wickes “Australia and the Defence of Papua New Guinea” (1974)
Peter Mullins “Adventurism” (1974)
Jane Robbins “Tribal Society: Settler Society” (1975)
Szula Nowak “The Laughter of Intelligence” (1975)
Collette Snowden “Women’s Consciousness of their Role Structure” (1981)
Siva Sivakumar “The Punwood Affair as an example of Multinational Dominance of Resources” (1981)
Peter Rogers “The Political Economy of Burmese Socialism” (1982)
Malcolm Jacobi “The Iranian Revolution” (1982)
Cathy Chua “Development of Capitalism in 19th Century Indian Agriculture” (1982)
Jane (Gurney) Haggis “In Search of Peasant Politics: Class & Consciousness Among the Rural Poor in Kerala” (1983)
Anthony Waters “Capitalist Industrialization in East Asia: The Periphery Strikes Back” (1983)
Lynne Chatterton “The Overseas Project Policy of South Australian Governments, 1975-84” (1984)
Glen Giles “Nationalism, and the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) in Tamil Nadu” (1986)
Stephen Murphy “The Relevance of Gandhism in Independent India” (1987)
Maria Kaplanis “Human Rights Abuses and Development in the Third World” (1988)
Pierre James “The Role of the State: Indonesia Under the New Order” (1988)
Richard Rodgers “What Price for Press Freedom?” (1990)
Matthew Hawkins “The Politics of Unity and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe” (1990)
Cathi Walker “The Metamorphosis of the Accord: 1983-89” (1990)
James Prest “Politics, Science and Experts—Roxby Downs” (1990)
Paul Evans “Towards a Future Theoretical Collectivism?” (1991)
Simon Badcock “Common Property and the Degradation of a Village Resource Base: Nesas West Timor” (1991)
Don McMaster “The Flight of the Falcon The Sikh Panth: A Claim for National Identity” (1992)
Annie Schulz “Acknowledging the Invisible Resource” (1991)
Donna Bertilone “Learning from Mistakes” (1992)
Mona Girgis “Lifting the Veil off Minority Underdevelopment: The Arabs in Israel” (1992)
Vanessa Almeida “Putting the ‘Funk’ Back In” (1994)
Rita Bouras “Human Rights in China: Rhetoric, Rule and Practice” (1994)
Narelle Lehane “The Apostrophe Effect” (1994)
Raphael Tan “Economic Globalisation and the Triumph of the State in the East Asian MNCs” (1995)
Kate Leeson “Women, Development and Empowerment” (1995)
Charles Vanderpeer “The East Asian Miracle and Human Capital: Square Pegs and Round Holes” (1997)
Mimi Wang “The Global Commons: Tragedy or Apocalypse?” (1997)
Annabel Davies “Little White Lies: (In) Authenticity and the Author” (1998)
Harpinder Pal “International Relations in South Asia in the Nuclear Era” (1998)
Tamara Baillie “Getting Development Organisations Right for Women” (1998)
Kylie Staines “Governing at a Distance: The Discourse of the World Bank” (1998)
Benjamin Sporton “Australian Aid and the Fostering of PNG and East Timor” (1999)
Nathan Holt “The Fall of the New Order: Transition to Democracy &Changes in the Indonesian Press” (2000)
David Quast “The ANZUS Treaty: Australia’s Regional Military and Political Presence” (2001)
Michael Brougham “Nations Within Nations” (2002)
Richard Gabbet-Mulhallen (2004)
Gemma Peachey (2006) “Globalisation and Social Exclusion”
Michael Lee (2006) “The Political Will to end Corruption”
Zoe Helman (2006) “The Solomon Islands as a ‘Failed State’”
Paige Nguyen (2007) “International Development: a human factor analysis”
Liam Aldous (2007) “International Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy”
Christopher Dally (2007) “Problems of Modernisation in the Middle East”
Michael Lannan (2008)” The Australian Labor Party and the waning politics of working class representation”
Kate Walker (2008) “Searching for a light at the end of the tunnel: Timor-Leste’s prospects for peacekeeper withdrawal”
Kathryn Kirk (2008) “’Reinventing, rebuilding, and rediscovering’ the global city: [Mumbai] from the exclusive to the excluded”
Christian Reynolds (2009) “The International Politics of Food”
Katherine Edmond (2009) “The historiography of failing states: Indonesia and Pakistan”
Julia Terreu “ ‘Strategic Depth’ in Pakistan’s Military Doctrine”(2010)
Postgraduate Thesis Supervision:
- Jacobi “A Political Technology of the Soul” (M.A.)
- Sivakumar “Dancing on the Edge: The Dynamics of External Debt in the United States, South Korea and Argentina” (M.A.)
- Ranald “Feminism and Class” (M.A.)
- Gituru “Class Formation in Africa: A Case Study of Kenya” (M.A.)
- Milich “Green Revolution in Java Under the New Order” (M.A.)
- Burley “Equal Before the Law? The Case of Vietnamese Refugees in South Australia” (Ph. D.)
- Mather “A Politics of Culture and Identity: Education and Development in Oceania” (Ph. D.)
- Magor “Empowering Marginal Farm Families in Bangladesh” (Ph. D.)
Stephanie Jarrett “‘We Have Left it in Their Hands’ A Critical Assessment of Legal and Policy Responses to Aboriginal Domestic Violence: a Location Study” (Ph. D.)
Matthew Herring “Sustainable Eye Surgery: Replicating the Arvind Hospital Model in India” (Ph.D.)
Priya Chacko ” Indian foreign policy and the ambivalence of postcolonial modernity” (Ph.D.)
Michelle Hackett “Crimes against Women in India” (MA)
Rebecca Jones “The Role of the Military in Humanitarian Relief” (MA)
Ahmed Salahuddin “Values in agricultural research and development management for pro-poor impact: the case of the PETRRA project, Bangladesh “(PhD)
Pierre Ahouré (MA)
Wanlapat Soitong “Social Capital, Political Partipation and Institutional Performance of Local Government in Northern Thailand” (PhD)
Michelle Hackett “A New Role for ‘Social Business’ in Development? A Study of Grameen in South Asia” (Ph.D.)
Nicholas Wilkey “Suicide Missions in Afghanistan and Pakistan” (Ph. D.)
M.A. and Ph.D. Theses currently being supervised:
Aavrit Gautham “Hindu Babas and Politics In India”
Maggie Paul “Migration and Citizenship In Mumbai” 2025
Unaza Khan “Sufism in Pakistan”
Anand Sreekumar
Janhavi Pande
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS:
NDFL Fellow, 1964-67
American Institute of Indian Studies Fellow, 1967-67
Wisconsin-Ford Fellow and Southeast Asian Studies Fellow, 1968-9
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Australian Research Grants Commission grant (1971)
Social Science Research Council Travel Grant (1971)
University of Adelaide Research Grant Scheme (1986, 87, 88, 89)
Australian Research Council (1987, 88)
Asia-Australia Insitutute (1992)
Department of Employment, Education, and Training (1992)
EROPA Regional Government College (Tokyo) (1993)
University of Adelaide Small Research Grant (1994)
Japan Foundation Grant (1995)
Minor University Research Grant (1997)
Australian Research Council Small Grant (1999) (Joint with Dr. Greg O’Leary)
Australian Research Council Small Grant (1999)
Australian Research Council Large Grant (2000-2002)
Australian Research Council Small Grant (2001)
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (2004-5) $48,000 “Investigation of electronic voting” (joint with Dr. Lisa Hill and Dr. Greg McCarthy)
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH:
BOOKS:
Capitalism and Colonial Production (with Hamza Alavi, et al) (London: Croom Helm, 1982)
India: Rebellion to Republic (with Robin Jeffrey, et al) (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1990)
India (Sydney: Asia-Australia Institute, 1993)
Suicide and Society in India (with Della Steen, Clare Bradley and Tahereh Ziaian) (London: Routledge, 2011)
Suicide and Society in India (with Della Steen, Clare Bradley and Tahereh Ziaian) (New Delhi: Routledge, 2012)
Chapters in books, monographs:
“Patterns of Urban Political Culture in India” in Donald B. Rosenthal (ed.) The City in Indian Politics, (Faridabad: Thomson Press (India) Limited, 1976).pp. 59-67.
“South India, North India: The Capitalist Transformation of Two Provincial Districts” in Capitalism and Colonial Production (with Hamza Alavi, et al) (London: Croom Helm, 1982)
“Tombs and Dark Houses: Ideology, intellectuals and proletarians in the study of contemporary Indian Islam” in I. Ahmed (ed.) Modernization and Social Change Among Muslims in India (Delhi: Manohar, 1983)
“Why do the Landless in India remain without Land?” in C. Gertzel (ed.) The Politics of Poverty in the Third World (Adelaide: Flinders University, 1984)
“Development and Demise: the Congress as the Raj” in J. Masselos (ed.) Struggling and Ruling: The Indian National Congress 1885-1985 (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1987)
“The Year the Vote Banks Failed: The 1967 General Elections and the Beginning of the End of Congress Party Dominance” in J. Masselos (ed.) India: Creating a Modern Nation (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.,1990)
‘Congress (I), Emergency (I): Interpreting Indira Gandhi’s India.’ inIndia: From Rebellion to Republic, Robin Jeffrey, Lance Brennan, Jim Masselos, Peter Mayer and Peter Reeves (eds.)(New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1990).
“Which way does the wind blow in a cyclone? Longer-term trends in rural India.” in Ken McPherson (ed.) India: Prospects for the Future (Perth: The Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies; June, 1991), pp. 19-24. (ICOPS Briefing Paper No. 1).
“State, Régime and Business Culture in India” in Marika Vicziany (ed.)Australia-India, The Economic Links: Past, Present and Future , (Perth: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies, 1993), pp. 107-127.
“The Last Great Closed Market in the World” in India—What You Need to Know (Sydney: Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), July, 1993) Public Information Paper No. 45.
Hinkon na tami to hiyoku na totchi: Daisan sekai no seiji kezaigaku [Poor People and Rich Lands: The Political Economy of the Third World], Meiji University International Exchange Programs Guest Lecture Series. (Tokyo: Meiji University).No. 11 (1993),
“South Asia on the Brink of Nuclear War Needs a LION whose Roar is Louder than its SAARC.” in Marika Vicziany and Ken McPherson (eds.), Australia and South Asia: A Blueprint for 2001?, (Melbourne: National Centre for South Asian Studies, 1994).
‘Equal Opportunity: “shock” or opportunity? Reflections on the Australian experience’ in A. Nakamura (ed). Comparative Studies of Public Administration (Tokyo: EROPA Local Government Center, 1996).
“The Two Nations: Indian Federalism in the Rip Tide of Debt and Globalism” in Ian Copland and John Rickard (eds.) Federalism: Australia and India (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1999)
“Militarism and Development in Underdeveloped Societies” in Lester Kurtz (ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (San Diego: Academic Press, 1999)
“‘We are the Slowest Reformers’: Disinvestment of India’s State-Owned Enterprises” in Dilip Dutta (ed.) Economic Liberalisation and Institutional Reforms in South Asia: Recent Experiences and Future Prospects (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2000)
“Making Democracy Perform: Human Development and Civic Community in India” in Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Bishnu N. Mohapatra & Sudha Pai (eds.) Interrogating Social Capital (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2004)
“Privatization and Resistance in South Asia” in Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) South Asia in the Era of Globalization: Trade, Industrialization and Welfare (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2004)
“Tombs and Dark Houses: Ideology, Intellectuals, and Proletarians in the Study of Contemporary Indian Islam” in David Ludden (ed.) Capitalism In Asia: Perspectives on Asia—Sixty Years of the Journal of Asian Studies (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2004)
“Asia-Pacific Political and Economic Circumstances in an Era of Global and Regional Transformation” in Purnendra Jain (ed.) Asia-Pacific and a New International Order, (Commack, NJ: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2006) with Purnendra Jain.
“The Hindu Rate of Reform: Privatization under the BJP‑Still Waiting for that Bada Kadam” in John McGuire and Ian Copland (eds) Hindu Nationalism and Governance (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007
“Militarism and Development in Underdeveloped Societies” in Lester Kurtz (ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict Second Edition (Oxford: Academic Press, 2008).
“South Australia and India” (with Purnendra Jain) in John Spoehr and Purnendra Jain (eds.) The Engaging State (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2012).
“Politics at the University of Adelaide” in Nick Harvey, Jean Fornasiero, Greg McCarthy, Clem Macintyre and Carl Crossin (eds.) A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876-2012 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2012).
“Riots, Elections and Society: Discerning Social and Political Trends in India and Pakistan in Coming Decades” in Amitendu Palit and Gloria Spittel (eds.) South Asia in the New Decade: Challenges and Prospects (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013).
“Mapping the Strength of Village Elites” in Lance Brennan and Auriol Weigold (eds.) Re-Thinking India: Perceptions from Australia (New Delhi: Readworthy, 2013), pp. 104-127.
“Comparative Reflections on The Civilizing Process” in David Lemmings and Ann Brooks (eds.) Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (New York & London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 233-251.
“The Jajmani System” in Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on Caste in the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
“Militarism and Development in Underdeveloped Societies” in Lester Kurtz (ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict Third Edition (Elsevier, Academic Press, 2022) pp. 192–206.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820195-4.00077-7.
ISBN: 9780128201954,.
“Measuring Caste-based Discrimination” with Victoire Girard & Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche in Sudha Pai, Shyam Babu, & Rahul Verma (eds.) Dalits in the New Millennium (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2023).
“Suicide rates among Dalits” with Vikas Arya, Andrew Page & Gregory Armstrong in Sudha Pai, Shyam Babu, & Rahul Verma (eds.) Dalits in the New Millennium (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2023).
“South Asians” in The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History Wilfred Prest, Kerry Rund & Sandra Kearney (eds) (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2024), pp634-5.
Journal Articles:
“Patterns of Urban Political Culture in India” Asian Survey vol 13, no. 4 (April, 1973), pp.400-407.
“Support for the Principles of Democracy by the Indian Electorate” South Asia (No. 2, 1972), pp.24-32.
“The Penetration of Capitalism in a South Indian District: The First 60 Years of Colonial Rule in Tiruchirapalli” South Asia Vol. III, No. 2 (1980),.pp.1-24.
“Tombs and Dark Houses: Ideology, Intellectuals, and Proletarians in the Study of Contemporary Indian Islam” Journal of Asian Studies Vol. XL, No.3, (May, 1981), pp.481-502.
“The Revolution of 1981: The Corbett Report and After” Vestes (September/October, 1982), pp. 45-51.
“ ‘Orientalism’ and ‘Homo Hierarchicus’ ” Asian Studies Association of Australia Review Vol. 7, No. 1 (1983), pp. 1-3.
“Is there Urban Bias in the Green Revolution? Report on a field trip to North Thanjavur” Peasant Studies Vol. 11, No.4 (1984) 213-235.
“Congress (I), Emergency (I): Interpreting Indira Gandhi’s India” The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Vol XXII, No.2, pp.128-150 (1984)
“Capitalism, Colonialism and India” South Asia Bulletin Vol. V, No.2 (1985) pp. 8-18.
“Development and Demise: The Congress as the Raj” South Asia Vol. 8, Nos. 1&2 (June, December, 1985), pp.182-197.
(with Jane Haggis et al) “By the Teeth: A Critical Examination of James Scott’s The Moral Economy of the Peasant “ World Development Vol. 14, No. 12 (1986), pp. 1435-1455.
(With Charmaine McEachern) “The Children of Bronze and the Children of Gold: The Apolitical Anthropology of the Peasant” Social Analysis No. 19 (August,1986) pp.70-77.
“Prosperous Crises: Contradictory Trends in India’s Political Economy” World Review Vol. 26, No.1 (March, 1987), pp. 22-32.
“Women, Poverty and Politics in South Asia” in S. Abeyesekere (ed.) “Why Gender Matters in Asian Politics”ASAA Review Vol. 13, No.1 (July, 1989), pp. 25-29.
‘“Item, she hath more hair than wit”: Reflections on the post-Dumontian study of culture in India’ Asian Studies Review. Vol. 15, No. 2 (November, 1991), pp. 88-94.
‘“Lest we forget” the Asian past we have lost in the heat of the debate over our Asian future’ Asian Studies Review, Vol. 16, No. 2 (November, 1992), pp. 35-38.
‘Inventing Village Tradition: The late 19th Century Origins of the north Indian “Jajmani System”’ Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 27, Part 2 (1993) pp. 357-395.
“Has India’s Self-Sufficiency in Agriculture been Achieved at the Expense of Social Justice? Reflections on Recent Village Studies in Tamil Nadu” South Asia Bulletin Vol. XII, No. 2 (Fall, 1993), pp. 70-84.
“Clash of Civilizations—or Balderdash of Scholars?” (with Pal Ahluwalia) Asian Studies Review Vol. 18, No. 1 (July, 1994), pp.21-30.
“’This great evil’: anticipating political obstacles to development”. Public Administration and Development, 16(5), (1996) pp 431 (with Piers Gillespie and Mona Girgis).
“India’s Falling Sex Ratios” Population and Development Review Volume 25, No. 2 (June, 1999), pp. 323-343.
“Development, Gender Equality and Suicide Rates” Psychological Reports Vol. 87 (2000), pp. 367-372.
“Human Development and Civic Community in India: Making Democracy Perform” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XXXVI, No. 8 (24 February, 2001), pp. 684-692.
” ‘Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again…’ Did Anything Really Change on September 11?” Australian Options No. 27 (November, 2001), pp. 3-6.
“Indian Suicide and Marriage: A Research Note” Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. XXXIII, No. 2 (Spring, 2002), pp. 297-305. (with Tahereh Ziaian)
“Suicide, Gender and Age Variations in India: Are Women in Indian Society Protected from Suicide”Crisis Vol. 23, No.3, pp. 98-103 (2002) (with Tahereh Ziaian).
“The Hindu Rate of Reform: Privatisation under the BJP—Still Waiting for that Bada Kadam” South Asia New Series Vol. XXV, No. 3 (December, 2002), pp. 103-129.
“Patterns of Suicide by Age and Gender in the Indian States: A Reflection of Human Development?” Archives of Suicide Research , 7, (2003), pp.1-18 (with Della Steen).
“Female Equality and Suicide in the Indian States” Psychological Reports , 92, (2003), pp.1022-1028.
“Modernization and the Male-Female Suicide Ratio in India 1967-1997: Divergence or Convergence?” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 34(2) (Summer, 2004) pp. 147-159 (with Della Steen).
“Suicide in India” Asian Currents (June 2005) http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/asian-currents-archive/asian-currents-05-06.html
“Trends of Real Income in Tiruchirapalli and the upper Kaveri Delta, 1819-1980: A Footnote in Honour of Dharma Kumar” Indian Economic and Social History Review Vol. 43, No. 3 (July-September, 2006), pp.349-364.
“Beyond Cricket: Australia–India Evolving Relations” Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 45, No. 1, (March 2010), pp. 133–148 (with Purnendra Jain).
“Old Regions, New States: Why Is Governance Weak in the Indus-Ganges Plain?” Asian Journal of Political Science Vol. 18, No. 1, (April 2010), pp. 20-47.
“Persuading Politicians: Researching the Value of Social Capital in South Australia” (with Lou Wilson) Revista Migrações No. 9, Outubro 2011, pp. 89-99.
“Gross Violations of Duverger’s Law in India”, Studies in Indian Politics Vol. 1 No.2, (2013), pp. 179–201.
“Does Social Capital Work in Thai Politics?” Silpakorn University Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.75-97, 2013, with Wanlapat Suksawas.
“The Modi lahar (wave) in the 2014 Indian national election: A critical realignment?”, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol .49, No. 3, (2014), pp. 518-528, (with Priya Chacko).
“Thinking Clearly about Suicide in India – I: Desperate Housewives, Despairing Farmers” Economic and Political Weekly, April 2, 2016, Vol. LI, No. 14, pp. 44-55 http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/14/thinking-clearly-about-suicide-india.html
“Thinking Clearly about Suicide in India – II: Suitable Girls & Companionate Couples: Social Change and Suicide in the Indian Family” Economic and Political Weekly, 8 Oct, 2016, Vol. 51, Issue No. 41, pp. 40-45. http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/41/special-articles/thinking-clearly-about-suicide-india.html
“Thinking Clearly about Suicide in India – III: Youth and Young Adult Suicide in Australia and India” Economic and Political Weekly, 24 December, 2016, Vol. 51, Issue No. 52, pp. 85-94 http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/52/special-articles/thinking-clearly-about-suicide-india%E2%80%94iii.html
“Can Gender and Social Class Generate Political Participation in Northern Thailand?” Advanced Science Letters 2016.Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 4197-4200 with Wanlapat Suksawas.
“The Better Angels of Their Natures? The Declining Rate of Homicides against India’s Dalits” Studies in Indian Politics 2017 Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1-22.
“Modernization, Social Capital and Public Participation in the Creation of Self-Management Charter in Thailand.” Advanced Science Letters, 2018 Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 2185-9, with Wanlapat Suksawas and Parinya Soithong.
“Trends and socio-economic determinants of suicide in India: 2001–2013” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2018 Vol. 53, pp. 269–78 with Vikas Arya, Andrew Page, Jo River, and Gregory Armstrong.
“The Geographic Heterogeneity of Suicide Rates in India by Religion, Caste, Tribe, and Other Backward Classes” Crisis The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 2019 with Vikas Arya, Andrew Page, Rakhi Dandona, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, & Gregory Armstrong (doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000574)
‘“They Did Not Have to Burn My Sister Alive” : Causes and Distribution by State of Dowry Murders in India’ Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence 2022, Volume 7, Issue 1, Article 9. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol7/iss1/9/
https://doi.org/10.23860/dignity.2022.07.01.05
“Disease and Democracy: Which Way does the Arrow of Causality Point in India?” 2022, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 24, No. 1 (June), pp. 65-90. ISSN 1174-8915.
“Insights from use of police data for suicide surveillance in India: An interim step toward suicide surveillance in low- and middle-income countries.” Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 2023 (April) with Arya, Vikas, Page, Andrew, Mayer, Peter, Vijayakumar, Lakshmi, Shin, Sangsoo, Pirkis, Jane & Armstrong, Gregory. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666915323000380
“Dowry Murders: Lingering Tragedy, Emerging Hope” The India Forum (February 27, 2025)
https://www.theindiaforum.in/society/dowry-murders-lingering-tragedy-emerging-hope
Institutional Research, Policy Papers and Commentary
Report to the Council of the University of Adelaide from the Working Party on Equal Opportunities (Adelaide: 1986), 49pp.(Convener and principal author).
Review of the Department of Economics (Adelaide: 1988).
“The Two Cultures of Equal Opportunity: A Study of Institutional Culture at the University of Adelaide” (with Carol Bacchi) (1994).
“The Wider Economic Value of Social Capital and Volunteering in South Australia” (2003) Report prepared for the Office for Volunteers, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia (http://www.ofv.sa.gov.au/pdfs/mayer_report.pdf)
Upward Mobility and Social Capital: Building Advantage Through Volunteering (with Lou Wilson) (2006) Report prepared for the Office for Volunteers, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia http://www.ofv.sa.gov.au/pdfs/p_UPWARDMOBILITYANDSOCIAL CAPITAL.pdf
“Why Australia must not sell uranium to Pakistan” The Conversation 7/12/2011 http://theconversation.edu.au/why-australia-must-not-sell-uranium-to-pakistan-4589
“India gains its rightful place in the Asian century white paper” (with Purnendra Jain) The Conversation 29 October 2012 http://theconversation.edu.au/india-gains-its-rightful-place-in-the-asian-century-white-paper-10331
“Australia Elects a not-so Liberal Liberal Government” Extraordinary and Plentipotentiary: Diplomatist Vol. 1, No. 7 (October, 2013), pp. 16-17.
“Has NaMo Come in from the Cold? Extraordinary and Plentipotentiary: Diplomatist Vol. 1, No. 8 (November, 2013), pp. 29-30.
“Delhi voters pick an unconventional winner” with Purnendra Jain East Asia Forum Vol. 6, No. 1. 14 January 2014 (http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2014/01/14/delhi-voters-pick-an-unconventional-winner/).
“Modi’s BJP no longer invincible” with Purnendra Jain East Asia Forum February 2015 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/02/25/modis-bjp-no-longer-invincible/
“The Emperor of India: Modi’s first year in office” Asian Currents 19 June 2015 http://asaablog.tumblr.com/post/121876431686/the-emperor-of-india-modis-first-year-in-office
“Mixed record calls Modi’s reform credentials into question” Asian Currents 17 September, 2016 http://asaa.asn.au/mixed-record-calls-modis-reform-credentials-into-question/
“Jayalalithaa: death of a political mother goddess” Asian Currents 14 December, 2016 http://asaa.asn.au/jayalalithaa-death-political-mother-goddess/
“The Modi effect steamrolls New Delhi’s municipal elections” East Asia Forum 19th May, 2017 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/05/19/the-modi-effect-steamrolls-new-delhis-municipal-elections/
“India’s ban on cow slaughter: appeasing the BJP Hindu base but scoring an economic own goal?”(with Mandar Oak) Asian Currents July, 2017 http://asaa.asn.au/indias-ban-cow-slaughter-appeasing-bjp-hindu-base-scoring-economic-goal/
“India adopts a national Goods and Services Tax … sort of” (with Mandar Oak) Asian Currents November, 2017
http://asaa.asn.au/india-adopts-national-goods-services-tax-sort/
“The complexity behind India’s GST” ” (with Mandar Oak) East Asia Forum 8 December 2017
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/12/08/the-complexity-behind-indias-gst/
“Modi appeals to voters by putting on khaki and saffron” (with Mandar Oak) East Asia Forum 11th April, 2019 https://www.eastasiaforum.org/?p=178000
“The Modi Era: India’s Prime Minister Towers Over Party and Opponents” (with Mandar Oak) The Globe Post 30 May, 2019 https://theglobepost.com/2019/05/30/india-modi-era/
“Modi’s High Stakes Gamble: How Will India’s Citizenship Act Play Out?” (with Mandar Oak) The Globe Post 30 December, 2019 https://theglobepost.com/2019/12/30/india-caa-gamble/
“India’s Lockdown Locks Out the Poor” (with Mandar Oak) East Asia Forum 20 June 2020 https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/06/20/indias-lockdown-locks-out-the-poor/
“Will India Implement a Uniform Civil Code?” (with Priya Chacko) Australian Outlook (2022) https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/will-india-implement-a-uniform-civil-code/
Conference Papers:
“Muslim Political Culture: A Comparison of Attitudes in North and South India” delivered at the 1970 meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Francisco.
“Support for the Principles of Democracy by the Indian Electorate” delivered at the 28th International Congress of Orientalists, Canberra, 1971.
“Nationalism and/or Regionalism in Contemporary India? An Empirical Investigation” delivered at the 1973 meeting of the South Asian Studies Association, Perth.
“Femina Hierarchica” delivered at the annual conference of the South Asian Studies Association, Canberra, 1975.
“Tombs and Dark Houses: Ideology, Intellectuals and Proletarians in the Study of Contemporary Indian Islam” delivered at the Seminar on “ Modernization and Social Change among Muslims in India”, New Delhi, 1977.
“Reflections on the Indian Emergency” delivered at the Second National Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Sydney 1978.
“Sunspot Cycles and Economic Crises” delivered to Politics Department Staff Seminar 3 August, 1978 [with B. J. McFarlane].
“Capitalism, Colonialism and India” delivered at the Third National Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Brisbane, 1980.
“The real contradictions of the Green Revolution?” presented at the Journal of Contemporary Asia Conference, Adelaide, 1981.
“Congress (I), Emergency (I): Interpreting Indira Gandhi’s India” delivered at the 10th Annual Wisconsin Conference on South Asian Studies, Madison, 1981.
“Is There Urban Bias in the Green Revolution?” delivered at the Fourth National Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne 1982.
“India: Grounds for Optimism, Grounds for Pessimism” Presented to the ‘Rethinking Development Issues: Opportunities and Constraints in the 1980s’ Conference, Centre for Developing Studies, Flinders University, September, 1984.
“Five Outrageous Theses on Indian Political Economy” Presented to the Working Group in Social History, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi, January, 1986.
“A Poverty of Theory: Conceptions of the Colonial State in India” Presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia Sixth Biennial Conference, University of Sydney 11-16 May, 1986.
“An Embarrassment of Riches: Teaching the Political Economy of Third World Women and Men” Presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia Sixth Biennial Conference, University of Sydney 11-16 May, 1986.
“Pieces of the Evidence: Unexpected Trends in the Political Economy of Indian Agriculture” Presented to the Workshop on the Green Revolution in South and Southeast Asia in Perspective, Australian National University, 10-12 April, 1987.
“Should We Celebrate the Centenary of the ‘Jajmani System’ in 1988?” Presented to the Seminar in Anthropology, University of Adelaide, October, 1987.
“Of Goats and Smallholdings: Untouchability and Class in Contemporary Tamilnadu” Presented to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association, The Australian National University, 11-15 February, 1988.
“Agricultural Investment and Rural Development in Peasant Countries: The Case of India and China” (with Andrew Watson) Presented to the Research Seminar in Politics, University of Adelaide, May 2, 1988.
“The Year the Vote-Banks Failed: The 1967 General Elections and the End of Congress Party Dominance” Presented at the “India Forty Years On: Ends and Beginnings” The Research Institute for Asia, The University of Sydney, 18-20 May, 1988.
“Fighting for the Fleece: Economic Reform and Regional Conflict in China” (with Christopher Findlay and Andrew Watson) Presented to the Boston University Economics Seminar, Boston 18 October, 1989.
“Should We Celebrate the Sesquicentenary of the ‘Jajmani System’ in 2005?” Presented to the 18th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison November 3-5, 1989.
“Inventing Village Tradition: The late 19th Century Origins of the North Indian ‘Jajmani System’ Presented to the 8th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Griffith University, Brisbane 2-5 July, 1990.
“State, Régime and Business Culture” Presented to the 9th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, The University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 6 -9 July, 1992.
“The Green Revolution and Agricultural Labour in India” Presented to the Labour Movement Researcher’s Group, Tokyo, 9th December, 1993.
“‘We are All Reformers Now’: Reform and Resistance in South Asia” Paper presented at the Democracy and Reform in Asia Conference, Adelaide, April 20-21, 1996.
“The Two Nations: Indian Federalism in the Rip Tide of Debt and Globalism” Paper presented at the Federalism: Comparative Perspectives from India and Australia Conference, Monash University, 4-5 July, 1996.
“Reform in a Hot Climate: Economic Reform and Resistance in Bangladesh” Paper presented at the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, LaTrobe University, 8-11 July 1996.
“‘We are the slowest reformers’: Disinvesting India’s state-owned enterprises” Paper presented at the International Seminar on South Asia in 1997 and Beyond, University of Sydney 12-14 September, 1997
“‘An Italy of Asiatic Dimensions’: What 19th Century Italy Can Tell Us About India in the 21st Century” Paper presented to the Politics Department Research Seminar 29 May, 2000
“Bodies in Question–Questions in Bodies: The Political Economy of Violent Death in India” Paper presented to the 21st Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, University of Melbourne 3-5 July, 2000
“Mapping the Strength of Village Elites in India” Paper presented to the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Conference, University of Sydney 12-15 June, 2001
“‘Computer Chips, Not Potato Chips’: Resistance to Globalisation in South Asia” Paper presented to the “Globalisation” Conference, Adelaide University, 20-21 July, 2001
“Modernisation and Suicide in India” Paper presented to the International Society for Suicide Prevention Conference, Chennai, India 22-26 September, 2001.
“Suicide in Pondicherry” (With S. Vaidyanathan) Paper presented to the International Society for Suicide Prevention Conference, Chennai, India 22-26 September, 2001.
“The Hindu Rate of Reform: Privatisation Under the BJP—Still Waiting for that bada kadam” Paper presented to the “Governance in India: The Role of the BJP” Conference, Curtin University, Perth 7-9 February, 2002
“Putting India on the E-governance Map” Paper presented to the Asian Studies Association of Australia 14th Biennial Conference University of Hobart 1-3 July, 2002
“The Momentary Death of Reform: Stopping (and starting) the BJP Privatisation Train” Paper prepared for the “Indian Economy Conference” Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Melbourne 22 November, 2002
“Trends of Real Income in Tiruchirapalli and the upper Kaveri Delta, 1819-1980: A Footnote in Honour of Dharma Kumar” Refereed paper presented to the Asian Studies Association of Australia 12th Biennial Conference Australian National University Canberra 29 June-2 July, 2004 and to the History Department Seminar, University of Adelaide August, 2004.
“Suicide and Civic Republicanism: Questioning Durkheim and Putnam” Refereed paper presented to the Australian Political Science Association Conference, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 29 September—1 October, 2004.
“The South Asian Arc of Instability: In Search of Explanations” Refereed Paper presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of Wollongong 26-29 June, 2006. <http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2006/Mayer-Peter-ASAA2006.pdf>
“Desperate (Indian) Housewives: Middle-Class Culture, Social Change and Suicide” Paper presented to “The Political Economy of Development in Asia: Comparing the Chinese and Indian Middle Classes” Workshop, University of Wollongong 11 August, 2006.
“India Update” paper presented at the Australian Government, AusAID, Australian Research Council South Asia Update and Poverty Dynamics Conference, Canberra 27-28 September, 2007
“More Than Cricket: Multiple Dimensions of Australia’s Relationship with India” Refereed Paper presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne 1-4 July, 2008 (with Purnendra Jain). http://arts.monash.edu.au/mai/asaa/mayerjain.pdf
“Is North India Violent Because it has an Excess of Males?” (with Lance Brennan, Ralph Shlomowicz and John McDonald) Refereed Paper presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne 1-4 July, 2008. (http://arts.monash.edu.au/mai/asaa/petermayeretal.pdf)
“The South Asian Arc of Instability: In Search of Explanations” paper presented to the South Asia Seminar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C, 23 February, 2009
“Desperate Housewives, Despairing Farmers: suicide, social change and the media in India” Paper presented to the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago 26-30 April, 2009
“Are There Political Patterns to Communal Violence in India?” Refereed Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Adelaide 5-8 July, 2010 Canberra: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Inc and the University of Adelaide. ISBN 978-0-7258-1136-5
(http://www.adelaide.edu.au/asaa2010/reviewed_papers/Mayer-Peter.pdf).
“The Engaging State? South Australia and India” Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Adelaide 5-8 July, 2010 (with Purnendra Jain)
“Riots, Elections and Society: Discerning Social and Political Trends in India and Pakistan in Coming Decades” Paper presented at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), University of Singapore, 6th International Conference on South Asia, Singapore November 11-12 2010.
‘Two Faces of Emotional Aggression: Comparative Reflections on “The Civilizing Process”’ Paper presented to the Norbert Elias, Emotional Styles and Historical Change: An Interdisciplinary Collaboratory. ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Change Program, University of Adelaide, 14-15 June 2011
“What Concerns Us: Comparing Responses to Youth & Young Adult Suicide in Australia and India” Paper presented at the Indian Association for the Study of Australia Sixth International Conference, New Delhi 19-21 January, 2012.
“Gross Violations of Duverger’s Law: Why Most Candidates Lose Their Deposits in India” Paper presented at the “Governance, Democracy and Political Parties” Conference, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 1-3 December, 2012.
“The Modi lahar [wave] in the 2014 Indian Elections” Roundtable presentation at the 20th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of Western Australia, Perth, 8-10 July, 2014.
“The Better Angels of their Natures? The declining rate of homicides against India’s Dalits” Paper presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 9) Adelaide 6-9, 2015
“Narendra Modi ki adhuri Reform kahaani [Narendra Modi’s unfinished reform story]: Big steps…or baby steps?” Paper presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 9) Adelaide 6-9 July, 2015
“Henry Hart’s Legacy: Two Slices” Paper presented at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison 22-25 October, 2015
“Disease, Diffusion & Democracy: Which way does the arrow of causality point in India?” Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Australian National University, Canberra, July 5-7, 2016.
” ‘The Rape Capital of India’: exploring the spatial dimensions and causes of crimes against women” Paper delivered at the International Convention of Asian Scholars Conference (ICAS10) Chiang Mai 20-23 July, 2017.
” Indira Gandhi: Emotional Profile of a Dominator” Paper prepared for the “Emotional Bodies in Context” Symposium ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, University of Adelaide University, Australia 12 April, 2019
“Should India Adopt a Preferential/Ranked Order Ballot?” Paper prepared for the Indian Democracy at Work Conference, Hyderabad 9-10 January 2020
“‘Cut and Come Again’: Imagining the Sequel to Jim Masselos’s India: Creating a Modern Nation (1990)” Paper presented at the Power and Culture: Making Indian Identity – A Conference in Honour of Jim Masselos University of Sydney 20-21 February, 2020
Review Articles:
- i) Reviewed for the Australian Journal of Politics and History
A.C. Bose Indian Revolutionaries Abroad, 1905-1922 (1973) Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 325.
- Drieberg Indira Gandhi: A Profile in Courage (1973) Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 325
R.W. Stern The Politics of Opposition in India (1971),Vol 17, No. 2, pp. 326-8.
- Kumar Essays on Gandhian Politics 1973, Vol.19 (1), p.135-6
- Ostergaard and M. Currell The Gentle Anarchists 1973, Vol.19 (2), p.308-9
S.R. Mehrotra The Emergence of the Indian National Congress 1973, Vol.19 (3), p.456-7
- Johnson Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism 1975, Vol.21 (1), p.108
- Ray Tension Areas in India’s Federal System Volume 17, Issue 2, August 1971 p. 340
M.S. Rajan Studies in Politics, National and International Volume 17, Issue 2, August 1971 p. 340
Z.M. Quaraishi Struggle for Rashtrapati Bhawan p. 322, August 1977, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1977.tb01246.x
K.K. Aziz The All India Muslim Conference 1928-1935 August 1977, p.320 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1977.tb01246.x
E.M. Mangat Rai Commitment My Style: Career in the Indian Civil Service p. 322 August 1977, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1977.tb01246.x
H.R. Alker, K.W. Deutsch and A.H. Stroetzel Mathematical Approaches to Politics Vol.23, No. 2 August 1977 pp.301-2
- Manor Political Change in an Indian State: Mysore 1917-1955 1979, Vol.25 (2), p.269-70
- ii) Reviewed for South Asia
R.G. Fox Urban India Volume 2, Issue 1, 1972, pp. 127-128 https://doi.org/10.1080/00856407208730669
J.E. Di Bona Language Change and Modernization 1973, Vol.3, p.131-2.
V.M. Sirsikar Sovereigns Without Crowns: A Behavioural Analysis of the Indian Electoral Process Vol. 6, No. 1, 1976, p.147-8.
- Gough Rural Society in Southeast India 1986, Vol.9 (1), p.114-6 https://doi.org/10.1080/00856408608723082
- Weiner Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India 1981, Vol.4 (1), p.69
M.C. Carras Indira Gandhi in the Crucible of Leadership: A Political Biography Volume 5, 1982 – Issue 1 pp. 64-5
Studies in Socio-Cultural Change in Rural Villages in Tiruchirapalli District, Tamilnadu, India Vol.6, No. 2, (1983) pp. 103-5
Studies on Agrarian Societies in South Asia
iii) Reviewed for the Economic and Political Weekly
K.A. Gupta Politics of a Small Town Vol. 15, No. 12 (Mar. 22, 1980), pp. 597-598
- Connell, B. Dasgupta, R. Laishley and M. Lipton Migration from Rural Areas. 14, No. 3 (Jan. 20, 1979), p. 109 (and Vol. 13, No. 15 (Apr. 15, 1978), p. 652)
- iv) Reviewed for the Journal of Asian Studies
T.J. Nossiter Communism in Kerala Vol. 44, No. 2 (Feb., 1985), pp. 436-437
- v) Reviewed for Pacific Affairs
A.R.H. Copley The Political Career of C. Rajagopalachari, 1937-1954. Vol. 55, No. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 327-329
- Hardiman Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District, 1917-1934. Vol. 57, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), pp. 344-346
- vi) Reviewed for Peasant Studies
W.H. Wriggins and J.F. Guyot Population, Politics, and the Future of Southern Asia
- Gough and H.P. Sharma Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia
vii) Reviewed for Asian Studies Association of Australia Review
Veena Das (ed.) Mirrors of Violence Asian Studies Review, 1994, Vol.18 (2), p.184-187
- Grant Gods and Politicians Volume 9, Issue 1 27 Feb 2007 133-4
- Emdad-ul Haq Drugs in South Asia: From the Opium Trade to the Present
viii) Reviewed for Politics
- Henderson Experiment with Untruth: India Under Emergency
- ix) Reviewed for Journal of Developing Societies
L.J. Calman Protest in Democratic India: Authority’s Response to Challenge
- x) Reviewed for The Adelaide Review
V.S. Naipaul India: A Million Mutinies Now
- xi) Reviewed for the Current Affairs Bulletin
Doug McEachern Business Mates
- x) Reviewed for Australian Historical Studies
Robin Jeffrey Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala Became “A Model” Volume 25, 1993 – Issue 101 pp. 684-686
- xi) Reviewed for Australian Journal of Political Science
Pradeep K. Chhibber Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India 2000, Vol.35 (2), p.348
Peter Ronald deSouza and E. Sridharan (eds), India’s Political Parties (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006), 415 pp., US$43.95, ISBN 076193514
Ghanshyam Shah, Social Movements in India: A Review of the Literature (Second Edition) (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2004), 281 pp., £31.99, ISBN 0761998349
2009 Vol 44 (2), pp. 372-3
Other Publications:
“Reactions to the 1980 ASAA Conference” ASAA Review Vol. 4, No. 2 (November, 1980), pp.15-16.
Australia/India Relations Submission to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade of the Australian Senate (Adelaide: December, 1988) 22pp.
“India: Powered Down” AustAsian Insight 9 June, 1995, pp. 3-4.
“Just Another Punitive Expedition?” ABC Unleashed
“TheAyodhya Judgement: Good Politics, Bad History? Asian Currents October 2010 http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/ac/2010/asian-currents-10-10.pdf
“Australia Elects a not-so liberal Liberal Government” The Diplomatist Vol. 1, No. 7 (October, 2013), pp. 16-7 http://diplomatist.com/printissue/index.html
“Has NaMo Come in from the cold?” Extraordinary and Plentipotentiary Diplomatist November, 2013, pp. 29-30 http://www.diplomatist.com/dipom11y2013/story011.html
“Too early for bets as India lumbers to a national election” Asian Currents, February, 2014 http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/ac/2014/asian-currents-14-02.pdf
“The cockatoo and the chickpea” in Gretchen Miller (ed.) In Their Branches: Stories from ABC RN’s Trees Project (Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited, 2015)
“Jayalalithaa: death of a political mother goddess” Asian Currents, 14 December, 2016 http://asaa.asn.au/jayalalithaa-death-political-mother-goddess/
FIELDWORK OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA
Periods of residence in India:
1967-69—Resident principally in Tiruchirapalli and Jabalpur. During this period I conducted research on the historical evolution of patterns of municipal politics which formed the basis of my doctoral dissertation. An important topic investigated in this work was the origin of north Indian communal violence.
1972—Returned to sites of earlier field work to collect additional data.
1976-77—During this period I spent about four months collecting what material I could on the “Emergency”. Fortuitously during this period, the “Emergency” was lifted and a General Election called.
1980—During this period I spent about three months, mostly in Tamil Nadu, much of it in a Thanjavur village, studying the social and political effects of the Green Revolution. During this period I also conducted archival research in the Tamilnadu Archives in Madras.
1986—I spent six months in New Delhi as a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. During this period I examined a very wide range of unpublished materials on social change in Indian agriculture held by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
1996—In January and February I conducted a comparative study of economic reforms in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India
1996-7—Between September and January I worked in New Delhi studying various aspects of the political management of India’s political reforms. In particular I studied the initial phases of the divestment (≈ privatisation) of India’s State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs).
1998—In December, I spent two weeks bringing my research on disinvestment up to date.
2000—In January-February I collected data and conducted field work in Delhi and Pondicherry as part of my research on suicide and homicide.
1961—During this year I was an external student at the London School of Economics. My tutor was the late Professor Hedley Bull.
1977—I spent several months in Oxford working in the Bodleian and the India Office Library in London, collecting material for a critical assessment of debate concerning the ‘mode of production in Indian agriculture’.
1982—I spent five months in the latter half of the year as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies in Brighton. During the period I also continued archival research in the India Office Library.
1993—In December and January of 1994 I was again a Visiting Fellow at IDS. During that period I collected additional materials for my study of political obstacles in development.
1993—Between June and December I held the position of Visiting Professor at Meiji University in Tokyo. In addition to giving a series of 15 lectures on development in the Third World, I also conducted research at the Institute for Developing Economies on the question of political obstacles in development.
(post 1970)
1977—In the latter half of this year I was based in Connecticut where I wrote up my earlier work on the Indian ‘Emergency’ and the ‘mode of production’ debate.
1989—Between September and December I was a Visiting Fellow in the World Development Institute at Boston University run by Professor Paul Streeton. During this period I completed work on my study of the historical origins of India’s jajmani system.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Associations
Asian Studies Association of Australia …… (I am the ex-Treasurer and ex-Vice-President of the Association)
South Asian Studies Association
Indian Institute of Public Administration (Life member)
External Thesis Examiner:
External examiner of Ph.D. Theses, A.N.U. (1972, 1988)
External examiner M.A. Thesis, Monash University, 1978
External examiner of M.A. Thesis, LaTrobe University, 1988
External examiner of Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, 1989
External examiner of Honours theses, Politics Department, Flinders University (1988, 1991)
External examiner of Honours theses, Development Studies, Flinders University (1998, 2001)
External examiner of M.A. theses, Centre for Development Studies, Flinders University (1991, 1993)
External examiner of Ph D Thesis, La Trobe University, 1997
External examiner of M.A. (International Studies) University of Sydney, 1998
External examiner of Ph.D. Thesis, Monash University, 1999.
External examiner of Ph. D. Thesis, La Trobe University, 2000.
External examiner of M.A. Thesis, National University of Singapore, 2001
External examiner of Ph. D. Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 2008
External examiner of History Honours thesis, Flinders University, 2008
External examiner of Ph.D. Thesis, Newcastle University, 2009
External examiner of Ph.D. Thesis, University of Western Australia, 2010.
External examiner of Ph.D. Thesis, University of South Australia, 2010.
Research Grant, Journal and Book Referee
ARC Expert Reviewer
ARC ERA Peer Reviewer
External Reviewer for School for Social Care Research, London
Referee for South Asia
Referee for African Identities
Referee for Asian Studies Review
Referee for Australian Journal of Political Science
Referee for Population Research and Policy Review
Referee for Oxford University Press
Referee for Routledge
Referee for Journal of the Indian Ocean Region
Referee for South Asian History and Culture
Referee for Identities
Referee for Socio-Economic Review
Referee for Journal of Socio-Economics
Referee for Melbourne University Law Review
Referee for Psychological Reports
Referee for Palgrave Macmillan Publishers
Referee for Australian Journal of Politics and History
Referee for Politics and Governance
Referee for East Asia Forum
Referee for Social Change
Referee for International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnography
Referee for New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Radio and Television Broadcasts
News Commentary, ABC Radio 21 April, 1971
Schools Programme & Young World , Radio 5CL 26 October, 1972
News Commentary, ABC Radio National 22 April, 1981
Radio 5UV September 6, 1984
Radio 5KA 23 December, 1984
Political Commentary (ABC Radio National 11 July, 1985)
Radio 5UV 12 August, 1987
Notes on the News (ABC Radio National 11 November, 1988)
Radio Australia (five news commentaries since 1985)
ABC Television 25 April, 1990
Radio 5UV 26 April, 1990
Late Night Live, (ABC Radio National 26 April, 1990)
Philip Satchell Show, Radio 5AN 29 July, 1990
Radio 5UV 7 August, 1990
Radio 5MMM 8 August, 1990
Radio 5UV 4 October, 1990
Radio 5MMM 15 November, 1990
Radio 5UV 11 March, 1991
News Commentary (ABC Radio National 21 March, 1991)
Radios 5AN, 5UV (May 22, 1991)
New Commentary (ABC Radio National 20 November, 1991)
News Commentary (ABC Radio National 2 April, 1992)
Radio 5EBI 15 August, 1992
Radio 5AN 14 September, 1992
Radio 5UV 15 September, 1992
News Commentary (ABC Radio National 15 October, 1992)
Radio 5UV 20 November, 1992
News Commentary (ABC Radio National 10 December, 1992)
Radio 5UV 9 December, 1992
Radio 5UV 10 December, 1992
Notes on the News (ABC Radio National 10 December, 1992)
Indian- Pacific (ABC Radio National 19 December, 1992)
News Commenatary (ABC Radio National 18 August, 1994)
Philip Satchell Show, Radio 5AN, 17 May, 1995
Review of Errol Hodge Radio Wars, Book Talk, ABC Radio National, 17 June, 1995
Philip Satchell Show, Radio 5AN, 31 May, 1999
World Today Interview, ABC Radio National, 26 April, 2000
3 October, 2007
Radio Singapore International
http://www.rsi.sg/english/newsline/view/2007100316524/1/.html
29 November, 2007
Radio Singapore International
http://www.rsi.sg/english/newsline/view/20071129151551/1/.html
Radio National The World Today, 29 November , 2007
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s2105117.htm
28/12/2007
28 December–assassination of Benazir Bhutto
5AA two times
6TR–Harvey Deagan
ABC Local Radio-Libby Gore/Mary Moody
3 January 2008
RTHK (Hong Kong)-“Back Chat” Hugh Chiverton/Andrew Work
http://www.rsi.sg/english/newsline/view/20080103160118/1/.html
18 February 2008
RTHK (Hong Kong)-“Back Chat” Hugh Chiverton/Brian Carter
18 February 2008
Interview with ABC radio Michelle Aleksandrovics
19 February, 2008
Interview for The Wire.org.au (2SCR) Community Radio with Eleanor Bell
15 May 2008
Radio Singapore International—Melanie Yip
http://www/rso/sg/english/newsline/view/2008051514037/1/.html
27 May 2008
Radio Singapore International—Melanie Yip
http://www/rso/sg/english/newsline/view/2008052711341/1/.html
17 June, 2008
The World Today (ABC Radio National) (Barbara Miller)
31 July 2008
PM (ABC Radio National) (Edmond Roy)
18 August 2008
Interview for The Wire.org.au (2SCR) Community Radio with ??
18 August 2008
SBS Radio (Andrew Bolton)
Included inter alia in Hindi Broadcast 24 August 2008
19 August
ABC 936 Hobart (Tim Cox)
21-27 August 2008
The Epoch Times Front page story Jane Goodwin “Musharraf Resigns, But Turbulent Times Remain”
19 September, 2008
Interview for “The Wire” via 5UV
22 September, 2008
Interview for Radio National (“Luke”)
28 November, 2008
Jayce (Jason) 9MSN- Interview
5AA Keith Conlon & Tony Pilkington
RTHK (Hong Kong) Backchat Hugh Chiverton and Ada Wong
5AA Amanda Blair
2 December, 2008
The World Today (ABC Radio National) Barbara Miller
23 February, 2009
Voice of America Hindi Program
29 April, 2009
The Wire (Australian Community Radio National Program—Julian Tregenza Radio Adelaide)
11 May, 2009
ABC Radio National (The World Today-David Mark)
13 May, 2009
RTHK radio3 (Hong Kong) (Back chat-Bryan Curtis and Michael Chugani)
18 May, 2009
ABC News Breakfast TV show (Joe O’Brien)Kerr.Justine@abc.net.au
18 May, 2009
Connect Asia, Radio Australia (Sen Lam) Lam.Sen@abc.net.au
19 May, 2009
SBS Radio News (Louis Sthevenin)
20 May, 2009
SBS News Radio Feature Podcast (Aileen Phillips)
25 May, 2009
“Just Another Punitive Expedition?”
ABC Unleashed posted 25/5/2009
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2578227.htm
1 June 2009
The World Today ABC Radio National (Jennifer Macey)
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2585936.htm
16 October 2009
SBS Radio News interview (David Crisante)
Used (among others, possibly) on Hindi Programme and Urdu Programmes 18 October, 2009.
30 October, 2009
Radio Hong Kong “Back Chat”
High Chiverton, Ada Wong http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/radio3/backchat
14/1/2010
Radio 6PR—Shiv Sena threat to Oz cricketers
Steve Mills and Tony McManus
15 January 2010
5AA—Haiti earthquake
Jane Reilly
15January 2010
ABC Drive Local Radio Sydney–Shiv Sena threat to Oz cricketers
Steve Cannane
16/4/2010
Radio Australia Today–UN Report on assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Phil Kafcaloudes
24/8/2010
National Radio News
Shane Jones
27/8/2010
Radio Adelaide
Tom Peters
14/9/2010
National Radio News
Alex Bernhardt—Commonwealth Games
24/9/2010
612 ABC Radio Brisbane
Madonna King—Babri Masjid
24/9/2010
John Barrington
JJJ—Commonwealth Games
30/9/2010
Philip Adams
Late Night Live—Babri Masjid
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2010/3026406.htm
February 9, 2012
Radio Australia
Asia Pacific with Kanaha Sabapathy
Uttar Pradesh polls a test for Rahul Gandhi
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/stories/201202/s3427268.htm
[See separate post-2010 listing]
Consultancies
Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1974 In-office lecture to cadets
History Trust of South Australia 1981, Computerisation policy
Business Cultures International, 1994, India Briefing
International Trade and Charter, 1996, Political Briefing
India Parliamentary Study Tour, Centre for International Education and Training, Sydney 6-8 May, 1997 & Adelaide 29 May, 1997
Business Seminars
Organiser and Chair of Pan Pacific Institute Seminar “Business Opportunities in India” Adelaide 31 August, 1994
Organiser and Chair of Pan Pacific Institute Seminar “Business Opportunities in India” Adelaide 31 May, 1995
Talks to Community Groups
Mercedes College Assembly, 14 June, 1972
Australia-India Association, Independence Day, 15 August, 1972
Australian Institute of International Affairs 15 April, 1975
Australian Institute of International Affairs “After The Fall: India Post-Sanjay Gandhi” September 29, 1980
United Services Institute, 3 November, 1980
Annesley College Assembly, 27 October, 1981
Talk to Kym Mayne’s Electoral Group “Recent Trends in India” 25 March, 1985
Australian Institute of International Affairs “Recent Trends in India” 17 April, 1985
Community Aid Abroad “Reflections on the Green Revolution” 27 October, 1985
“The Green Revolution And Beyond”, Adelaide University History Club, 17 June, 1987
“Development in the Third World”, TEAR Australia 3 April, 1989
“India and China”, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 17 May, 1989
“Third World Debt”, Hills Community Aid Abroad Group, 24 February, 1991
“Women Workers in Third World”, Consultant for Junction Theatre Company, 18 April, 1991
“Human Rights Abuse in India”, Amnesty International, April 27, 1992
“Sri Lanka Briefing”, Overseas Service Bureau 11 October, 1994
“Trade, Debt, Development and Australia”, Community Aid Abroad October 22, 1994
“Women and Development”, Lyceum Club 22 November, 1994
“Human Rights Conditionality for Official Development Assistance”, Amnesty International March 12, 1995
Justice, Peace and Creation Commission, Launch of “Sharing the Good” 11 June, 1995
“Working Womens’ Cooperatives in India”, Lyceum Club, 27 June, 1995
“Accessing India” keynote address to Professional Development Day for Teachers, South Australian Department of Education, Training and Employment, 26 October, 1998
“Cultural Diversity in India” keynote address, South Australian Independent Schools Targeted Programs Authority, Studies of Asia Program, 28 May, 1999
“Child Labour” keynote speech, Society and Environment: Asian Studies, Mitcham Primary School, 11 June, 1999
“East Timor”, Amnesty International Adelaide Hills Public Meeting on Timor, 22 March, 2000
Facilitator for GENA Network meeting, Visions and Values: Global Awareness in the Curriculum, Adelaide 21 July, 2000
“Afghanistan: Background Briefing” for Australian Refugee Association, 13 November, 2001
“From ‘Cause of Poverty’ to ‘Hope of Development’: Changing Understandings of the significance of Trade for the Third World” CAA/OXFAM 15 August, 2002
“Teaching for Responsible Citizenship” keynote speech at “Visions and Values in a Democratic Society: Teaching for Responsible Citizenship” Discovering Democracy Week Forum, Global Education Centre, 31 October, 2002
“Strategy Development Workshop” Justice for Refugees, Facilitator, 14 October, 2003
“Health and Politics” talk given to International Health Group of the AMSS, 10 May 2004
“The Political Economy of Health Provision in the Third World” talk given to the 8th Summer School in International Health & Development, Intermed-SA 11 January, 2005; 9th Summer School 10 January, 2006, etc. etc. 2007,2008, 2009, 2010
“The Battle for Pakistan” given to Stirling Rotary Club 27 October, 2008
“India’s General Elections in 2019” given to Stirling Rotary Club 18 February, 2019
“Books in my Life” given to the Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 3 December, 2024
Voluntary Association Memberships
Adelaide Hills Amnesty International Group
Stirling Oxfam Group (group no longer meets)
Oxfam Used Bookshop
Adelaide Hills Fencing Club (vic
