Dr Richard Howson

B.Soc.Sc (Hons), University of New England, PhD UOW

Location:19:2021
Phone:02 4221 4926
Email: rhowson@uow.edu.au

Position

Head, School of Social Sciences, Media & Communication
Senior Lecturer, Sociology Program
Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong 

Teaching

• Introduction to Media and Culture, 1st Year
• Gender and Society, 3rd Year
• Third Sector, 3rd Year
• Social Policy, 3rd Year
• Contemporary Social and Political Theory, 3rd Year

Research

Convenor, Social Thought and Action
Institute for Social Transformation Research

Co-Director
Centre for Research on Men and Masculinities (CROMM)
Institute for Social Transformation Research 

Research Specialisation

Contemporary social and political theory, masculinities and feminist theory, migration, civil society and social capital

Open Position Fellow. Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel), Linkoping University, Sweden.

Current Research Projects

• Men and Masculinities in Transnational Context
• Political Sociology focusing on Postmarxist and Social Capital Theory (Central aspect of the forthcoming monograph Sociology of PostMarxism)
• Hegemony and Sovereignty: Indigenous claims on State Power in Australia and New Zealand.

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Monographs

• Howson, R. (2011 forthcoming). Sociology of Postmarxism. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
• Howson, R. (2006). Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity. London: Routledge.

Volumes

• Donaldson M., Hibbins R., Howson R. and Pease, B. (eds.) (2009). Migrant Men : Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience. New York: Routledge.
• Howson, R. & Smith, K. (eds) (2008). Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion. New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

• Howson, R (2012 forthcoming). ‘Hegemonic Masculinity and Migrant Men Within Australia’ in Blagojević, M, Harrison, K and Hearn, J (eds.)  Rethinking Transnational Men: Beyond, Between and Within Nations. Routledge: New York
• Donaldson, M. and Howson, R., (2009). Men, Migration and Hegemonic Masculinity in Donaldson, M., Hibbins, R., Howson, R. and Pease, B. (eds.). Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience. New York: Routledge.
• Howson, R., (2009). Theorising Hegemonic Masculinity: Contradiction, Hegemony and Dislocation in Donaldson, M., Hibbins, R., Howson, R. and Pease, B. (eds.) Migrant Men : Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience. New York: Routledge.
• Hearn, J., and Howson, R., (2009). Policy, Men and Transnationalism in Donaldson, M., Hibbins, R., Howson, R. and Pease, B. (eds.) Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience. New York: Routledge.
• Nilan, P., Donaldson, M., and Howson, R., (2009). Indonesian Islamic Masulinities in Australia in Donaldson, M., Hibbins, R., Howson, R. and Pease, B. (eds.) Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience New York: Routledge.
• Howson, R. (2008). Hegemony in Pre-Prison Context. In Howson, R. & Smith, K. (eds) Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion, New York: Routledge.
• Howson, R. & Smith, K. (2008). Hegemony in the Asia-Pacific. In Howson, R. & Smith, K. (eds) Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion, New York: Routledge.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Hawksley, C and Howson, R. (2011 forthcoming). ‘Tino Rangatiratanga and Mana Motuhake: Nation, State and Self-determination in Aotearoa New Zealand’ in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.
• Howson, R. (2009) 'Deconstructing Hegemonic Masculinity: Contradiction, Hegemony and Dislocation', Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies 4: 1.
• Howson, R. (2008). ‘Hegemonic Masculinity in the Theory of Hegemony’. Men and Masculinities. 11.1
• Nilan, P., Donaldson, M., and Howson, R.,(2007). ‘Indonesian Muslim Masculinities in Australia’. Asian Social Science. Vol. 3, No. 9.
• Howson, R. (2007). ‘From Ethico-Political to Postmarxism’. Re-Thinking Marxism. Vol. 19, No. 2.

Refereed Conference Papers

• Howson, R. (2009) 'Why Masculinity is Still an Important Empirical Category: Migrant Men and the Migration Experience', GEXcel Conference Proceedings, Sub-theme 2 - Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence
• Donaldson, M., Howson, R., and Nilan, P. (2006). ‘Comparative Masculinities: Why Islamic Indonesian Men are Great Mates and Australian Men are Girls’ in Refereed Proceedings for ASAA Conference, University of Wollongong.
• Howson, R. (2003). ‘Antagonism and Equivalence in a Radical Plural Democracy’ in New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow, Refereed Proceedings for TASA Conference, University of New England, 4–6 December.

Current Research Students

PhD/Masters
Trent Brown - principal supervisor
Scott Burrows - principal supervisor
Corrina Trimarchi - principal supervisor
Adam Rogan - principal supervisor