Jeremy Smith | Federation University

Associate Professor Jeremy Smith

Associate Dean Research and Professor, Sociology

Contact

jeremy.smith@federation.edu.au +61 (3) 53279633

Campus

Mt Helen Campus

Biography

Associate ProfessorJeremy Smith’s principal research expertise lies in the disciplinary fields of historical and comparative sociology and social theory. Dr Smith’s current work revolves around the multidisciplinary fields of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries.

Jeremy has published widely in high-ranking journals, and is author of Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity (Brill, 2006) and Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is also a Coordinating Editor of the international journal Social Imaginaries (Zeta Books) and the Social Imaginaries book series (Rowman & Littlefield).

Jeremy is currently Associate Dean (Research) in the School of Arts at Federation University Australia and has worked for the University and its predecessors since 1996. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1996, researching long-term processes of state formation and the development of capitalism in Europe.

Available to supervise or examine PhDs in historical sociology, social theory and urban sociology.

Scopus ID: 57189586020

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeremy-Smith-72

Academia.edu: https://federation-au.academia.edu/JeremySmith

Fields of research

Social theory
Urban sociology and community studies
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism

Available for

HDR Supervision

HDR Examiner

Publications

Castoriadis in the City: Placing Metropolitan and Urban Imaginaries

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1163/9789004747418_007

Theories of state formation and civilisation in Johann P Arnason and Shmuel Eisenstadt's comparative sociologies of Japan

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Global encounters in Japanese social thought during the Meiji era

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Civilization sociology and perspective on the Atlantic

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Europe and the Americas: State formation, capitalism and civilizations in Atlantic modernity

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Europe's Atlantic empires: Early modern state formation reconsidered

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DOI reference: 10.1016/S0198-8719(04)17004-X

Issues and debates in contemporary critical and social philosophy

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Japan's civilization, Japan's others

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The peripheral centre: Essays on Japanese history and civilization

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Lives of young Koreans in Japan

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Strategies of Social Activists: an NLP interpretation

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How to be happy by calling for change: Constructs of happiness and meaningfulness amongst social movement activists

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Civilisational Analysis and Intercultural Models of American Societies

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Outside and against the Quincentenary: Modern indigenous representations at the time of the Colombian celebrations

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The Ballarat Clemente Program: A doorway to the treasures of humanities education

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The Many Americas - Civilization and Modernity in the Atlantic World

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DOI reference: 10.1177/1368431009355863

Modernity and civilization in Johann Arnason's social theory of Japan

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DOI reference: 10.1177/1368431010394507

Political Imaginaries in Question

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DOI reference: 10.1558/crit.v13i1.5

Revolutionary Doctrines and Political Imaginaries: American Modernities in the Republican Age

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DOI reference: 10.1558/crit.v13i1.52

Humanities education as a pathway for women in regional and rural Australia: Clemente Ballarat

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Genetic resistance to growth of Lucilia cuprina larvae in Merino sheep

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Capitalism

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Atlantic capitalism, American economic cultures

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Contexts of Capitalism: From the 'Unlimited Extension of "Rational Mastery"' to Civilizational Varieties of Accumulation and Economic Imagination

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DOI reference: 10.1163/9789004278585_011

Grounds for engagement: Dissonances and overlaps at the intersection of contemporary civilizations analysis and postcolonial sociology

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DOI reference: 10.1177/0011392115572166

Social Imaginaries in Debate

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DOI reference: 10.5040/9798881811778

Translating Sociology into Japanese, Chinese and Korean Languages

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DOI reference: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.03121-4

Japan's civilisation, japan's others

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DOI reference: 10.1080/0725686032000165405

Reviews

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DOI reference: 10.1177/0725513602069001007