Staff Directory

Peter McMahon

Position: Lecturer in Sustainable Development
Email: p.mcmahon@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 6267
Room: SS3.015

Qualifications:

BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD Murdoch

Teaching:

STP108 Introduction to Sustainable development
STP 240/640 Special Topic (The Future in a Time of Crisis)

Research Interests:

The theory of sustainability; global systems and flows; the politics of global change; organisational and technological change; Australian politics; global political economy; the history of sustainability in WA development.

Major Publications:

Global Control: Information Technology and Globalisation since 1845, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK and Northhampton MA, USA, 2002.
“Technology and Globalisation: An Overview”, Prometheus, Vol 19, No 3, September  2001, pp 211-222.
“Early Electrical Communications Technology and Structural Change in the International Political Economy – The Cases of Telegraphy and Radio”, Prometheus, Vol 20, No 4, 2002, pp 379-390.
Book review: “Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability”, Prometheus,  Vol 20, No 2, 2002, pp 182-184.
“Money, Markets and Microelectronics: Building the Infrastructure for the Global Finance Sector”, Prometheus, Vol 22, No 1, March 2004, pp 71-82.
“Globalisation and Australian politics”, Australian Quarterly, Vol 73  Issue5, September-October 2001, pp 16-17.
“Memo to Labor: the voters are ignorant, not stupid”, Australian Quarterly, Vol 74 Issue 2, March-April 2002, pp 30-34.
“Rethinking ALP policy: options for the new century”, Australian Quarterly, Vol 74, Issue 4, July-August 2002, pp 22-26.
“The politics of paradigm shift”, Australian Quarterly, Vol 75, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 2003, pp 22-26.
“Global crisis and Australian politics”, Australian Quarterly, Vol 78, Issue 3, May-June 2006, pp 22-27.
“Reinventing the ALP”, Arena, No 62, December 2002-January 2003, p 18.
“Transport systems”, Economist.com (On line), URL:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story-id=831318 (accessed 15/11/2001)

Awards

2001: Third Prize The Economist/Shell essay competition.

Other:

Long term activist on peace, social justice and environmental issues. Active contributor to electronic and print media on relevant issues.