Dr Michael Janover - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Michael Janover is Lecturer in Politics teaching and researching in the areas of political theory and history of political thought. He has a BA (Hons) in Politics and Philosophy and PhD (Politics) from Monash University. Michael teaches at all year levels of the BA and supervises several PhD and MA candidates.

Michael's research inquires into the symbolic and cultural frameworks in which political ideas and images are developed. Central to his questioning are the ways in which ideas drawn from morality, art and science can shape political thinking and action. He is currently investigating the place of ancient Greek (Athenian) tragic drama and philosophy in the Athenian polis, with reference to modern representations of the ancient polis as a primordial community.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Book Chapters

Janover, M., 2011, Politics and worldliness in the thought of Hannah Arendt, in Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt, eds Anna Yeatman, Phillip Hansen, Magdalena Zolkos and Charles Barbour, Continuum International, New York, US, pp. 25-38.

Janover, M., 1997, The Subject of Foucault, in Foucault: The Legacy, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Qld Australia, pp. 215-225.

Journal Articles

Janover, M.M., 2007, Experience Lost and Experience Regained, Thesis Eleven, vol 91, issue 1, Sage Publications, UK, pp. 128-135.

Janover, M.M., 2006, Political theory and methodology: Nasser Behnegar, Leo Strauss, Max Weber and the scientific study of politics, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 41, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 658-659.

Janover, M.M., 2005, The limits of forgiveness and the ends of politics, Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol 26, issue 3, Routledge Journals, Abingdon UK, pp. 221-235.

Janover, M.M., 2003, Mythic form and political reflection in Athenian tragedy, Parallax, vol 9, issue 4, Routledge Journals, Abingdon UK, pp. 41-51.

Janover, M., 2000, Nostalgias, Critical Horizons, vol 1 issue 1, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden Netherland, pp. 113-133.

Janover, M., 1998, Mark Reinhardt, The Art of Being Free: Taking Liberties with Tocqueville, Marx and Arendt, American Political Science Review, vol 92 no 3, American Political Science Association, Washington USA, pp. 693-694.

Other

Janover, M.M., 2006, Learning to live with ghosts, Ghosts of Self and State, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Ethics in hospitality: possibilities of Levinas, impossibilties of Derrida.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Muldoon, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Hannah Arendt's contribution to thinking about non-citizens in law and politics..

Supervisors:

Kneebone, S (Main), Janover, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Nietzsche on Freedom and Forgetting.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Ure, M (Associate), Janover, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Resituating emotion in the understanding of terrorist violence.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Joint), Walter, J (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Solitude and solidarity in Nietzsche.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Joint), Ure, M (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Social-Democratic Deficit: Has Europe Passed Over its "Social-Democratic Moment"?.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Joint-co), Muldoon, P (Joint).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The ontology of the concepts of Me, Us and Them in the wake of 9/11.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Ahmad, I (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The politics of inversion and opposition in Fredy Perlman's Against His-story, Against Leviathan.

Supervisors:

Sparrow, R (Main), Janover, M (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Acreman, S.

Program of Study:

Allowing the world to resist: a postconstructivist enlarged mentality. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Joint-Co), Muldoon, P (Joint).

Student:

Balaton-Chrimes, S.

Program of Study:

Citizens minus: rights, recognition and the Nubians of Kenya. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Joint-Co), Muldoon, P (Joint).

Student:

Barlow, R.

Program of Study:

Universal women's human rights and the 'Muslim question': an inquiry into the Iranian women's movement. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Macdonald, T (Associate).

Student:

Beljac, M.

Program of Study:

Problems of knowledge and survival: naturalism and emancipation in international theory. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Devetak, R (Associate).

Student:

Campbell, P.

Program of Study:

Fractured lives, digital selves: Iraqi women's warblogs and the wilderness of cyberspace. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Kelly, P (Main), Janover, M (Associate).

Student:

Cheong, D.

Program of Study:

Political survival and the Palestinian leadership 1994-2004. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main).

Student:

Gurciullo, S.

Program of Study:

BETWEEN ART AND PHILOSOPHY: ADORNO AND FOUCAULT AS HEIRS AND CRITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main).

Student:

Kujawa, J.

Program of Study:

MIGRATION, BELONGING AND ALIENATION: A STUDY OF THE NARRATIVES OF POLISH INTELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA, 1947-1990. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Dever, M (Main), Janover, M (Associate).

Student:

Mcnaughton, C.

Program of Study:

The living spirit of the real: Hegelian-Marxism and the reinvention of the emancipatory imagination. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Morton, T.

Program of Study:

Political Participation and Re-enchanting Being. (Masters) 2002.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Lentini, P (Joint).

Student:

Ogru, E.

Program of Study:

Turkish nation-Building and the Development of Kurdish Nationalism: Marginalisation and Intergration of Identity and Politics. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Akbarzadeh, S (Main), Janover, M (Associate).

Student:

Raffass, T.

Program of Study:

Imperial, federal, national statehood and the break-up of the USSR. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Lentini, P (Associate).

Student:

Ross, D.

Program of Study:

HEIDEGGER AND THE QUESTION OF THE POLITICAL. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main).

Student:

Shortridge, A.

Program of Study:

Nomos and Phusis: Their Role in Sophistic Ethical Theory. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Baltzly, D (Main), Janover, M (Associate).

Student:

Willson, M.

Program of Study:

TECHNICALLY TOGETHER: THE IMPLICATIONS OF USING COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNITY.. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

James, P (Main), Janover, M (Joint).

Student:

Wu, G.

Program of Study:

The great dragon fantasy: a Lacanian (psycho) analysis of contemporary Chinese thought. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Janover, M (Associate).