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 Senior Lecturer in Sociology, and Head of the Sociology and Social Research Section. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food . Classes taught by Vaughan include:
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| 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. 2005 Changing Mechanisms for Agri-Environmental Governance in Australia (Monash Small Grant, with Jacqui Dibden and Chris Cocklin). 2003 Governing the Enterprising Farmer (Monash Small Grant) Recent publications: Books: Rural Governance: International Perspectives (2006, co-edited with Lynda Cheshire and Geoffrey Lawrence), Routledge: Abingdon , UK . Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation (2005, co-edited with Geoffrey Lawrence), Routledge: Abingdon , UK . Constructing Reform: Economic Expertise and the Governing of Agricultural Change in Australia (2002) Nova Science: New York Articles/Book chapters (since 2002): Higgins, V., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2008) Building Alternative Agri-Food Networks: Certification, Embeddedness and Agri-Environmental Governance', Journal of Rural Studies (in press). 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: Abingdon , UK . 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: Abingdon , UK . 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. |
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