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
Gramsci, Class and Post-Marxism, International Gramsci Journal (2011)
Often Gramsci is presented in the social sciences, particularly by post-Marxists, as a precursor of...
Hegemony and Education. Gramsci, Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy Revisited (Review), International Gramsci Journal (2011)
Review of Hegemony and Education. Gramsci, Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy Revisited Deb J. Hill, Lexington...
Explorations in the working class at a time of crisis, Labour & Industry (2010)
The Global Financial Crisis has intensified class reformation which is very much back on the...
Interpersonal reasoning and communication in deaf children: the silent, signing access to emotions and thoughts (with Maria Nunez and L. Byrne), Metis Journal (2010)
This article examines reasoning and communication in deaf children.
Review - Of human right & human gain: peak labour organisation in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, 1869-2000, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (2010)
Of Human Right & Human Gain traces the development from 1869 to 2000 in the...
Contributions to Books
Men, migration and hegemonic masculinity (with R. Howson), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
While migrant men may renegotiate the patriarchal dividend after resettlement in Australia, fundamental elements of...
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
The UQAM Mummy – The Use of Non-Destructive Imaging to Reconstruct an Ancient Osteobiography and to Document Modern Malfeasance (with Andrew J. Nelson, Andrew D. Wade, R. Hibbert, B. MacDonald, R. Chatelain, N. Nguyen, V. Lywood, G. Gibson, M. Trumpour, S. N. Friedman, P. V. Granton, J. Morgan, David W. Holdsworth, and I. A. Cunningham), Anthropology Presentations (2009)
An Egyptian mummy and her coffin dating to the 26th Dynasty were donated to the...
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...