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Biography
Paul James is Emeritus Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is 2026 recipient of the James Rosenau Award, honouring 'the scholar who has made the most important contributions to globalization studies'.
He is author or editor of over 30 books, including Global Crisis and Insecurity: The Human Condition, Darkly (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Manfred Steger, Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has been an advisor to a number of agencies and governments, including to the Berlin Senate Chancellery, the Canadian G40 process, the Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor, and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Community Development. From 2007 till 2014 he was Director of the United Nations agency, the Global Compact Cities Programme.
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Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Research keywords
- Social Change
- Globalization
- Ontological Formations
- Community
- Social Theory
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Changing formations of globalization: ontological disjunctures in the postcolonial pluriverse
James, P. & Steger, M. B., 2025, A Modern Guide to Globalization. Axford, B. & Huggins, R. (eds.). U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 56-78 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Chapter › peer-review
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Global Crisis and Insecurity: The Human Condition, Darkly
James, P., 2025, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 371 p. (Towards a Theory of Abstract Community; vol. 3)Research output: Book/Research Report › Authored Book › peer-review
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Hope in changing social imaginaries
James, P., 2025, The Oxford Compendium of Hope. Scioli, A. & van den Heuvel, S. C. (eds.). U.K.: Oxford University Press, p. 641-660 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Chapter › peer-review
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Is it genocide? Gaza, Ukraine, and other crimes against humanity
James, P., Mar 2025, In: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 22, 1, p. 37-45 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The uses and abuses of civilizational analysis
James, P., 2025, From Intercivilizational Encounters to Intercivilizational Analysis: Reflections on Robertson's Views of the Global Human Condition, and Beyond. Rossi, I. (ed.). Switzerland: Springer, p. 25-45 21 p. (Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives).Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Chapter › peer-review
Projects
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Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Affective Visual Cultures in Australasia [via RMIT University]
James, P. (PI)
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Enabling Disability: Autonomous Technologies & CaLD persons with disability
James, P. (PI), Soldatic, K. (Investigator), Magee, L. (Investigator), Li, S. (Investigator), Stuebe, M. (Investigator), Ghahremanlou, L. (Investigator) & Kiang, R. (Investigator)
Microsoft Limited, Australian Research Council, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Your Side Australia, Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre LTD, Gallery Lane Cove and Creative Studios
26/06/20 → 25/06/25
Project: Research
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Cultural Infrastructure 2039: City of Parramatta Council
Stevenson, D. (PI), Rowe, D. (Investigator), Ang, I. (Investigator), James, P. (Investigator), Magee, L. (Investigator) & Van Den Nouwelant, R. (Investigator)
22/10/19 → 31/08/20
Project: Research
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Closing the Loop on Waste Project
Salazar Sutil, J. F. (PI), Mellick Lopes, A. (Investigator) & James, P. (Investigator)
Western Sydney University, Canterbury-Bankstown Council
18/02/19 → 15/06/19
Project: Research
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Sustainable Cities Collaboratory
James, P. (PI)
The Federal State of Berlin -Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection
1/05/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research