Dr. Mike Donaldson is the Convenor of Sociology Program in the School of Social Sciences, Media & Communication, Faculty of Arts. He is a member of CAPSTRANS - the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies. His CAPSTRANS web page is located here. Dr. Donaldson is the Secretary of the Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific), and was formerly the NSW State Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union. Dr Donaldson has written many books and articles on matters relating to the daily lives of contemporary Australians. He appears regularly on television and radio as a commentator on a wide range of social issues, particularly those concerning men, and writes for the trade union press. He has worked as a consultant with UNESCO and has taught in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the USA. His book Ruling Class Men, Money, Sex, Power (with Scott Poynting) came out in 2007 and Male Trouble (with Stephen Tomsen) was released in 2003.
Articles
So what about blokes? Fathers, husbands, workers under WorkChoices, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (2008)
Text of a Keynote Address delivered by Mike Donaldson at the ‘Our Work Our Lives’...
Indonesian Muslim Masculinities in Australia (with P. Nilan and R. Howson), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
This article is an inquiry into evolving forms of masculinity in Indonesia. It refers to...
Snakes and Leaders: Hegemonic Masculinity in Ruling-Class Boys’ Boarding Schools (with S. Poynting), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
Recent events in a ruling-class boys’ boarding school college in Sydney prompted public discussion about...
Researching Ruling-Class Men: Biography, Autobiography, Life-History, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1997)
There has been a lot of use of the concept 'hegemonic masculinity' and little discussion...
The End of Time? Aboriginal Temporality and the British Invasion of Australia, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1996)
Many of the best studies of time have been concerned with the transitions from one...
Contributions to Books
The Time of Their Lives: Time, Work and Leisure in the Daily Lives of Ruling-Class Men (with S. Poynting), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
This chapter is about what ruling-class men do in their daily lives. How do they...
Studying Up: The Masculinity of the Hegemonic, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2003)
Ruling-class boys are taught early that they are inherently different from and essentially superior to...
Presentations
Gramsci and Class, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
Some of the scholars who use the work of Antonio Gramsci, particularly those influenced by...
Comparative Masculinities: Why Islamic Indonesian Men are Great Mates and Australian Men are Girls (with P. Nilan and R. Howson), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
There may well be no known human societies in which some form of masculinity has...
The Working Class, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Globalisation has, if anything, made the inequality between classes even more obvious over the last...
The Recession, Technological and Social Change in a Regional Economy: The Steel Industry in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1985)
This paper tells the story of the downturn in the steel industry in the early...