Dr John Walker
Senior Lecturer
Politics Program
Phone : (+61) (02) 62688854
Fax : (+61) (02) 62688879
Email : j.walker@adfa.edu.au
Professional Background
Dr Walker worked in the Commonwealth Public Service from 1980 until 1987 advising on policies for the administration of Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories. From 1987 until 1991, he advised on the development of strategic and intelligence policy in the Department of Defence.
Dr Walker was awarded his PhD by the UNSW in 1995 and has worked at UNSW@ADFA since 1991.
Courses Taught
- Political Cultures in Asia and the Pacific
- Political Change in Indonesia
- Precolonial State Systems in Southeast Asia
- Strategic Issues in the Asia Pacific
Research Interests / Projects
- Political Culture
- 19th and 20th Century Sarawak
- Arabs in southeast Asian history and politics
Consulting / Professional Activities
Fellow, Borneo Research Council
Publications
Books
- with Minako Sakai and Glenn Banks, eds., (forthcoming, 2009) The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographic Perspectives. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
- Walker, J. H., (2002), Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
Articles
- Walker, J. H., (forthcoming, 2009), “Patrimonialism and Feudalism in the Sejarah Melayu (Raffles MS 18)”, in Minako Sakai, Glenn Banks and J. H. Walker, eds., The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographic Perspectives. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
- with Minako Sakai and Glenn Banks, “The Politics of the Periphary”, in Minako Sakai, Glenn Banks and J. H. Walker, eds., (forthcoming, 2009) The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographic Perspectives. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
- Walker, J. H. (2006), “Zaman ini: Making Time the Same as Money in Nineteenth Cenntury Sarawak”, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 40:2, pp.55-72.
- Walker, J. H. (2005), "Hikayat Panglima Nikosa and the Sarawak Gazette: Transforming Texts in Nineteenth Century Sarawak”, Modern Asian Studies, 39:2, pp. 427-460.
- Walker, J. H. (2005), “Ideologies of Authority; State and Society in Nineteenth Century Sarawak”, Australian Religion Studies Review, 18:2, pp. 151-177.
- Walker, J. H. (2004), “Autonomy, Diversity and Dissent: Conceptions of Power and Sources of Action in the Sejarah Melayu (Raffles MS 18)”. Theory and Society, 33, pp, 213-255.
- Walker, J. H. (2001), “Rajahs, Rebels and Ritual: Iban and the early Brooke State 1841-186”, Encyclopaedia of Iban Studies, Kuching: Tun Jugah Foundation in cooperation with Borneo Research Council, vol. III, pp. 1523-1554.
- Walker, J. H. (1998), “This Peculiar Acuteness of Feeling': James Brooke and the Enactment of Desire”, Borneo Research Bulletin, 29, pp. 148-189.
- Walker, J. H. (1998), “Savage Gardens: Sexuality, Scholarship and Sarawak”, Borneo Research Bulletin. 29, pp. 210-222.
- Walker, J. H. (1998), “James Brooke and the Bidayuh: Some Ritual Dimensions of Dependency and Resistance in Nineteenth Century Sarawak”, Modern Asian Studies, 32 (1), pp. 91-116.
- Walker, J. H. (1997), “A Confusion of Crookshanks (sic): Personalities and Power in the Lives of the Early Brookes”, Borneo Research Bulletin, 28, pp. 42-54.
- Walker, J. H. (1996), “A Florentine Source for Nineteenth Century Sarawak History”, Borneo Research Bulletin, 27, pp.39-43.
- Walker, John (1995), “Trunks of the Banyan Tree: History, Politics and Fiction”, Island, 63, pp. 18-26.
- Walker, J. H. (1995), “The Meaning of Politics and the Mechanics of Meaning”, Australian Journal of Political Science, 30:2, pp. 264-272.
- Walker, J. H. (1995), “Notes on the Use of 'Malay' and 'Abang , in Sarawak”, Sarawak !Museum Journal, XLVIII (69), pp. 83-86.
- Walker, John (1994), “With one eye on the main game: The photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak, 1936-1967”, Island, 60-61, pp. 142-147.
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Political
- Southeast Asian Politics and History
- Political Culture