Sharon Beder is a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong (see about). Dr Beder has written 9 books, around 150 articles, book chapters and conference papers, as well as educational monographs, consultancy reports and teaching resources (see publications). Her research has focussed on how power relationships are maintained and challenged, particularly by corporations and professions.
Articles
The Corporate Assault on Democracy, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
Throughout the 20th Century business associations and coalitions coordinated mass propaganda campaigns that combined sophisticated...
The Role of “Economic Education” in Achieving Capitalist Hegemony, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Free enterprise has become the prevailing idea of our times, an idea without serious rival...
The Right Way to Go? Earth Sanctuaries and Market-based Conservation (with J. Sydee), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as...
Role of the precautionary principle in water recycling (with A. I. Schäfer), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
In an engineering context the precautionary principle is often perceived as an excuse to do...
Regulating the power shift: the state, capital and electricity privatisation in Australia (with D. Cahill), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
This article examines the process of electricity privatisation in Australia in order to identify the...
Contributions to Books
The Changing Face of Conservation: Commodification, Privatisation and the Free Market, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Environmentalists in the late 1960s and 1970s argued that the exponential growth of populations and...
Electricity: The global impact of power reforms, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Dozens of governments have embarked on the pathway to electricity deregulation and privatisation since the...
Power Play: The Japanese Situation, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
The Japanese electricity industry is currently being gradually deregulated in the hopes that high electricity...
Corporate propaganda and global capitalism - Selling free enterprise?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
This chapter examines the way in which capitalism has been underpinned by a self-conscious propaganda...
Digging Your Own Grave, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
[Extract] The work ethic is one of the most neglected problems in society today, and...
Other
Treated Timber, Toxic Time-bomb: The Need for a Precautionary Approach to the Use of Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) as a Timber Preservative (with N. Lansbury), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
Timber preserved with Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) is ubiquitous in Australia. Wood, such as radiata...