Dr Gideon Baker
B Arts (Hons), M Arts, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business School
Contact details for Dr Gideon Baker
Research expertise
- Political Theory / Philosophy
- International Political Theory
- Democracy and Democratization
- The State and Civil Society
- Global Civil Society
- Cosmopolitan theory
Current teaching areas
- Political Theory
- History of Political Thought
- International Relations Theory
- Introduction to Politics
- Research Methods
- International Political Economy
- Democracy and Democratization
- Ethics
Publications
Refereed journal articles
- Baker, G. (2007) 'Post-Territorial Politics and the Politics of Difference', Area ??? Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, 39:1.
- Baker, G. (2006) 'Revisiting the Concept of Representation', Parliamentary Affairs, 59:1.
- Baker, G. (2004) 'Global Civil Society and Rights', Bulletin of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, 11(1).
- Baker, G. (2003) ''Civil Society that so Perturbs': Zapatismo and the Democracy of Civil Society', Space and Polity, 7:3.
- Baker, G. (2002) 'Problems in the Theorisation of Global Civil Society', Political Studies, 50:5.
- Baker, G. and May, T. (2002) 'Auditing as the Eternal Present: Organizational Transformation in British Higher Education', European Political Science, Summer 1:3.
- Baker, G. (2001) 'Civil Society Theory and Republican Democracy', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 4:2.
Books
- Baker, G. (2002) Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices, London, Routledge.
- Baker, G. and David Chandler (eds) (2005) Global Civil Society: Contested Futures, London, Routledge.
Book chapters
- Baker, G. (2007) Saying Global Civil Society with Rights, in Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Political Science, R. Falk, H. Elver and L. Hajjar (eds), Routledge.
- Baker, G. (2006) 'Liberalism', in Encyclopaedia of Social Theory, Routledge.
- Baker, G. (2006) 'Freedom', in Encyclopaedia of Social Theory, Routledge.
- Baker, G. (2005) 'Saying Global Civil Society with Rights', in Global Civil Society: Contested Futures, G. Baker and D. Chandler (eds), Routledge.
- Baker, G. and Chandler, D. (2005) 'Introduction: Theorising Global Civil Society', in Global Civil Society: Contested Futures, G. Baker and D. Chandler (eds), Routledge.
- Baker, G. (2004) 'The Taming of the Idea of Civil Society', in Civil Society in Democratization, P. Burnell and P. Calvert (eds), Frank Cass, pp 43-71.
Recent conference and seminar papers
- Baker, G. (2006) Cosmopolitan Justice: Hospitality or Humanitarian Intervention?, presented to Griffith University's Asian Studies and International Relations research seminar series, August 2006.
- Baker, G. (2006) Cosmopolitan Justice: Hospitality or Humanitarian Intervention?, presented to the 2nd Annual Conference of the Oceanic International Studies Conference, University of Melbourne, July 2006.
- Baker, G. (2006) The Future of Political Community, presented to Griffith University's Politics and Public Policy Seminar Series, June 2006.
- Baker, G. (2006) The Future of Political Community, presented to the University of Queensland's International Relations Seminar Series, May 2006.
- Baker, G. (2006) A Clump of Their Native Soil: Cosmopolitan and Political Community, presented to the European Consortium on Political Research's Workshop on the Future of Political Community, Nicosia, April 2006.
- Baker, G. (2005) Cosmopolitanism After 7/7, presented to the Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Lancaster, October 2005.
- Baker, G. (2005) Global Civil Society and Global Justice, 'Global Poverty or Global Justice?': 5th Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association (UK), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, September 2005.