Dr Vaughan Higgins
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Vaughan Higgins has been with the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences since 2000 and is currently School Graduate Research Co-ordinator and Head of the Sociology discipline.
Classes taught by Vaughan include:
- Global Sociology
- Interpretation and Meaning in Sociology
- Globalisation and Change in Regional Australia
- Sociology of Health and Illness
Research Interests / Publications
Vaughan's research interests, and areas of postgraduate supervision expertise, include globalisation, rural and agricultural regulation, environmental sociology, sociology of science and technology, governmentality and governance.
Current research projects:
- Tools for Dairying Change: Implementation of an On-farm Climate Change Adaptation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation Support Model for Australian Dairy Farms. Australia's Farming Future - FarmReady Grants Scheme (Partner Investigator with Murray Goulburn Dairy Pty Ltd)
- Evaluating Team Communication in Australian Operating Rooms. Monash Gippsland Small Grants Scheme (Chief Investigator)
Publications
Books
- Rural Governance: International Perspectives (2007, co-edited with Lynda Cheshire and Geoffrey Lawrence), Routledge: London.
- Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation (2005, co-edited with Geoffrey Lawrence), Routledge: London.
- Constructing Reform: Economic Expertise and the Governing of Agricultural Change in Australia (2002) Nova Science: New York
Articles/Book Chapters (since 2002)
- Bryant, M. and Higgins, V. (in press) ‘Self Confessed Troublemakers: An Interactionist View of Deviance during Organisational Change', Human Relations.
- Kitto, S. and Higgins, V. (in press) ‘Working Around ERPs in Technological Universities', Science, Technology and Human Values.
- Higgins, V., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2008) ‘Neoliberalism and Natural Resource Management: Agri-Environmental Standards and the Governing of Farming Practices', Geoforum, 39: 1776-1785.
- Lockie, S. and Higgins, V. (2008) ‘Roll-Out Neoliberalism and Hybrid Practices of Regulation in Australian Agri-Environmental Governance', in R. Munton (ed.), The Rural. Critical Essays in Human Geography, Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Higgins, V., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2008) ‘Why do Farmers Adopt EMS? Market-Oriented Environmental Schemes and the Governance of Farm Management', in G. Carruthers and R. Johnson (eds), Practical Approaches: Exploring the Future of EMS in Australia. Proceedings of the 1st National EMS National Forum, Environmental Management Systems Association Inc.
- Higgins, V., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2008) ‘Building Alternative Agri-Food Networks: Certification, Embeddedness and Agri-Environmental Governance', Journal of Rural Studies, 24: 15-27.
- Higgins, V. (2007) ‘Performing Users: The Case of a Computer-Based Dairy Decision-Support System', Science, Technology and Human Values, 32(3): 263-286.
- Higgins, V., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2007) ‘Market-Oriented Initiatives for Agri-Environmental Governance: Environmental Management Systems in Australia ‘, in D. Maye, L. Holloway and M. Kneafsey (eds), Alternative Food Geographies: Representation and Practice, Oxford: Elsevier.
- Lockie, S. and Higgins, V. (2007) ‘Roll-Out Neoliberalism and Hybrid Practices of Governing in Australian Agri-Environmental Governance', Journal of Rural Studies, 23: 1-11.
- Cheshire, L., Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. (2007) ‘Introduction: Governing the Rural', in L. Cheshire, V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Rural Governance: International Perspectives, Routledge: London.
- Cheshire , L., Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. (2007) ‘Rural Governance and Power Relations: Theorising the Complexity of State-Citizen Interactions', in L. Cheshire, V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Rural Governance: International Perspectives, Routledge: London.
- Higgins, V. (2006) ‘Re-figuring the Problem of Farmer Agency in Agri-Food Studies: A Translation Approach', Agriculture and Human Values, 23(1): 51-62.
- Higgins, V. (2005) ‘Governing Agriculture through the Managerial Capacities of Farmers: The Role of Calculation', in V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation, Routledge: London.
- Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. (2005) ‘Introduction: Globalization and Agricultural Governance', in V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation, Routledge: London.
- Higgins, V. and Kitto, S. (2004) ‘Mapping the Dynamics of New Forms of Technological Governance in Agriculture: Methodological Considerations', Environment and Planning A, 36: 1397-1410.
- Herbert-Cheshire, L. and Higgins, V. (2004) ‘From Risky to Responsible: Expertise and the Governing of Community-Led Rural Development', Journal of Rural Studies, 20(3): 289-302.
- Higgins, V. and Natalier, K. (2004) ‘Governing Environmental Harms in a Risk Society', in R. White (ed.), Controversies in Environmental Sociology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Higgins, V. (2004) ‘Government as a Failing Operation: Regulating Administrative Conduct ‘at a Distance' in Australia', Sociology, 38(3): 457-476.
- Kitto, S. and Higgins, V. (2003) ‘Online University Education: Liberating the Student?' Science as Culture , 12(1): 23-58.
- Higgins, V. (2002) ‘Self-Reliant Citizens and Targeted Populations: The Case of Australian Agriculture in the 1990s', ARENA journal , 19: 161-177.
- Higgins, V. and Lockie, S. (2002) ‘Re-discovering the Social: Neo-liberalism and Hybrid Practices of Governing in Rural Natural Resource Management', Journal of Rural Studies, 18(4): 419-428.
Contact Details
| Tel: | +61 3 990 26327 or +61 3 512 26327 |
| Fax: | +61 3 990 26359 or +61 3 512 26359 |
| Office: | 1E127 |
| Email: | Vaughan.Higgins@arts.monash.edu.au |
| Address: | School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences Monash University, Gippsland Campus Northways Road, Churchill, Victoria 3842 |