Binoy Kampmark
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Binoy Kampmark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Binoy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kampmark |
| SIGNATURE | KAMPMARK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4171-0645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Patriotism, Weapons Fetishism and Accountability
WMD Transformations
The Australian Matildas at Fifa 2023
Beyond expectations, the host side in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, held in Australia, reached the semi-finals, only to lose to the European champions, England. This article considers the growing influence of the Matildas (Australian national women’s football team), the enormous challenges that have faced women competitors in football/soccer in Australia, the legacy of the team’s performance at the tournament, and what prospects this offers th…
Intellectual Property, Covid-19 Vaccines and Equity
The debates surrounding Intellectual Property (IP) have opened a front in the geopolitical struggle for COVID-19 vaccine access and distribution. Specific to vaccine manufacture, one route by which local production can be encouraged in low- to middle-income countries would be to ease IP restrictions by such mechanisms as a temporary waiver under the TRIPS [Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights] agreement. High-income states have r…
Covid Meets Volvo
Sweden has been considered both pioneer and pariah in regard to its approach to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its pandemic disease, COVID-19. While much of Europe went into economic hibernation and rigid lockdown in the first wave of novel coronavirus infections in the spring of 2020, Sweden kept its borders, bars, restaurants, schools, gyms etc. open. Organised children’s sporting arrangements were also encouraged, on the basis that socia…
The Lessons of Tragedy
Protesting in Pandemic Times
The COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about reconciling health priorities with the exercise of certain liberties and rights. Public safety has come into conflict with matters of mobility, freedom of expression, and the right to protest. How can the threat of viral transmission be reconciled with the urgency of political protests, such as in the Black Lives Matter movement? This article discusses various approaches, referring to debates in the Un…
Are we all in this together? Footballing ethics in the age of Coronavirus
The effects of COVID-19 have been telling in the sports world, seeing competitions suspended indefinitely. Initial optimism in England – that the Premier League would resume in May – dampened in favour of caution. In the absence of play and catastrophic economic losses, wealthy managers and executives have been encouraged, from a financial perspective, to accept wage freezes and reductions. Players have also been encouraged to do so as part of an…
The Black Dog of Swimming
This article considers the cultural and social crisis facing the sporting celebrity, with specific reference to the Australian athlete in the field of swimming. In that sense, this paper argues that parallels in other political systems for ruthless, sustained success, and the loss occasioned by it to individual sports figures, should be considered. Liberal democracies can still be perpetrating systems of sporting depression and mental illness, un…
Plural International Relations in a Divided World
Plural International Relations in a Divided World . By Stephen Chan (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2017), pp. × + 223. ISBN: 9781509508686. £16.99 (pb)
Australia's “War on Terror” Discourse
Australia's “War on Terror” Discourse. By Kathleen Gleeson (Ashgate Publishing Company: Surrey, 2014). ISBN: 9781472419859. £65.00 (hb)
Shutting Down Protest
This article considers social control mechanisms that targeted public protest at a particular summit, the Brisbane G20, first by examining the management of previous gatherings (Miami and Toronto), and then by looking at the more specific, nuanced techniques deployed in Brisbane in 2014. Despite its violence, the Toronto G20 added a few legal and policing innovations, including designated free speech zones, controlled areas of movement, and, albe…
Australian soccer rivalries
The essay takes a closer look at football (soccer) rivalries within a migrant, transnationalist sporting environment, focusing on Australia as an example. Themes of transnationalism, diasporic activism and the essence of football (soccer) rivalry, including its violent and integrationist manifestations, are considered. This discussion also insists that any understanding of such themes cannot be divorced from the broader political divisions manife…
Punishing wars of aggression
This paper refocuses attention on what has been seen as one of the most important limbs of the Nuremberg Charter - the crime against peace, or aggressive war. It looks at the legal and political dimensions that motivated such a characterisation by figures behind the debate, and the various, at times uncertain steps, in bringing forth the designation based on breaches of the Kellogg-Briand Pact within the milieu of other traditional offences. Part…
Releasing the “Terror Genie
The threat of “Islamic terrorism” has become a feature of the Australian political landscape. This has taken the form of unconfirmed suggestions of promised beheadings by groups, the threat of lone-wolf attacks, and the radicalisation of Islamic youths fighting in Syria and Iraq. This paper argues that the Islamic terror genie has been used to effectively transform the Australian political landscape through a series of plotted suggestions. The ex…
Apologists for Power
This paper examines the legal and political arguments of those who support an expansive interpretation of US executive power in the face of threats to the state, taking a comparative historical perspective. It discusses the rationale for this approach by locating its historical origins in international and American jurisprudence, thereby placing them in a modern context. Attention is paid to the points made by various legal representatives of the…
Commentary on John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the …
The first neo-conservative
This article examines the origins of American neo-conservatism by assessing the contributions of one of its less known inspirations, James Burnham. In charting Burnham's political philosophies and various contemporary reactions to them, this article examines his legacy as it relates to the movement, specifically in his approach to foreign affairs and institutions. It argues that he was more a pioneer than is often acknowledged. In so doing this a…
No Peace with the Hohenzollerns”
The notion that a nation's 'people' are the sovereign arbiters of its affairs, exercising power through a representative leadership who govern in the name of public 'virtue', point to a concept of political legitimacy which has proven to be a guiding principle in American diplomacy. The Wilson administration's response to peace overtures by the German government between 1917 and 1918 is a good illustration of this tendency. In line with American …
William A. Williams's Tragedy Fifty Years On
Fifty years have passed since the publication of The tragedy of American Diplomacy , the seminal work by New Left scholar William Appleman Williams. The work fired off one of the most important salvos of historical revisionism, heralding the arrival of the ‘Wisconsin School’ of American historiography. In examining the expansionist and consuming tendencies of American power and capital, Williams ushered in a movement which has left an enduring ma…
Sacred Sovereigns and Punishable War Crimes
Conventional wisdom characterises President Woodrow Wilson as a progressive internationalist in the making of foreign policy, sceptical of international practices such as secret diplomacy and balance‐of‐power theories. An examination of the Wilson Administration's record in quelling Allied attempts to punish Kaiser Wilhelm II after the end of the First World War provides a contrasting view. The White House, leading figures in the State Department…
The Struggle for Europe
THERE has been a recent upsurge in publications on twentieth-century European history. The trend is unsurprising. The end of the Cold War and the relentless conflict in Iraq provide scholars with new avenues for the theoretically complex and hazardous task of Europe-gazing. Nevertheless, while not threadbare, the register of work on post-1945 Europe is less weighty than that on the pre-1945 period. William Hitchcock and Eric Dorn Brose apply them…
A Wowseristic Affair
When H. G. Wells turned his eye to Australian attitudes towards literature, he found cadres of suspicious citizens keen to inoculate the Australian population against insidious dogmas and dangerous doctrines. 'A barrier of illiterate policemen and officers stands between the tender Australian mind and what they imagine to be subversive literature' (Murray-Smith, 1970, p. 77). In July 2003, the same cadre of Wells' description sought to exert its …
Spying for Hitler’ and ‘Working for Bin Laden’
This paper argues that the complexity of recent debates about ‘illegal’ refugee arrivals in Australia, held since the prominent MV Tampa incident of August 2001, might be better understood by placing them in a comparative historical context. Towards this end, an investigation of previous debates on the subject of Jewish refugees in Australia prior to the Second World War is suggested. Such an exploration reveals a seemingly idiosyncratic ‘Austral…
Shaping the holocaust
There has been a growing comparative literature in recent times on the use of the Holocaust in contemporary events. The atrocities in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo have resulted in comparative works which suggest strong parallels with the Holocaust. One author has gone so far as to suggest that the influence of the Holocaust in the political discourses of the 1990s was influential in framing politics with such events as the Kosovo conflict, drawing o…
Spying for Hitler’ and ‘Working for Bin Laden’
This paper argues that the complexity of recent debates about ‘illegal’ refugee arrivals in Australia, held since the prominent MV Tampa incident of August 2001, might be better understood by placing them in a comparative historical context. Towards this end, an investigation of previous debates on the subject of Jewish refugees in Australia prior to the Second World War is suggested. Such an exploration reveals a seemingly idiosyncratic ‘Austral…
Protesting in Pandemic Times
The COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about reconciling health priorities with the exercise of certain liberties and rights. Public safety has come into conflict with matters of mobility, freedom of expression, and the right to protest. How can the threat of viral transmission be reconciled with the urgency of political protests, such as in the Black Lives Matter movement? This article discusses various approaches, referring to debates in the Un…
Shutting Down Protest
This article considers social control mechanisms that targeted public protest at a particular summit, the Brisbane G20, first by examining the management of previous gatherings (Miami and Toronto), and then by looking at the more specific, nuanced techniques deployed in Brisbane in 2014. Despite its violence, the Toronto G20 added a few legal and policing innovations, including designated free speech zones, controlled areas of movement, and, albe…
The President of Good and Evil
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How to Read an Anti-terrorist Kit
This paper examines the anti‐terrorist package Let's Look Out For Australia: protecting our way of life from a possible terrorist threat (or LOFA) sent to Australian homes in February 2003. It seeks to accomplish two things. Firstly, it critically interrogates various political and mythological strategies used in the package, arguing that it fails to reassure the public against terrorism. Instead, LOFA reveals quite the opposite: the possibility …
Shaping the holocaust
There has been a growing comparative literature in recent times on the use of the Holocaust in contemporary events. The atrocities in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo have resulted in comparative works which suggest strong parallels with the Holocaust. One author has gone so far as to suggest that the influence of the Holocaust in the political discourses of the 1990s was influential in framing politics with such events as the Kosovo conflict, drawing o…
Hanan Ashrawi and the prize protest
This paper analyses the events following the awarding of the Sydney Peace Foundation prize to Hanan Ashrawi in 2003. The argument first charts the political environment within which the debate took place. The dramatic focus on terrorism and the frame of perpetual violence given to the Palestinian–Israeli context immediately guaranteed an exceptional place for the decision to give Ashrawi, a long-term Palestinian activist, a peace prize. Important…
A Wowseristic Affair
When H. G. Wells turned his eye to Australian attitudes towards literature, he found cadres of suspicious citizens keen to inoculate the Australian population against insidious dogmas and dangerous doctrines. 'A barrier of illiterate policemen and officers stands between the tender Australian mind and what they imagine to be subversive literature' (Murray-Smith, 1970, p. 77). In July 2003, the same cadre of Wells' description sought to exert its …
Spying for Hitler’ and ‘Working for Bin Laden’
This paper argues that the complexity of recent debates about ‘illegal’ refugee arrivals in Australia, held since the prominent MV Tampa incident of August 2001, might be better understood by placing them in a comparative historical context. Towards this end, an investigation of previous debates on the subject of Jewish refugees in Australia prior to the Second World War is suggested. Such an exploration reveals a seemingly idiosyncratic ‘Austral…
Sacred Sovereigns and Punishable War Crimes
Conventional wisdom characterises President Woodrow Wilson as a progressive internationalist in the making of foreign policy, sceptical of international practices such as secret diplomacy and balance‐of‐power theories. An examination of the Wilson Administration's record in quelling Allied attempts to punish Kaiser Wilhelm II after the end of the First World War provides a contrasting view. The White House, leading figures in the State Department…
The Struggle for Europe
THERE has been a recent upsurge in publications on twentieth-century European history. The trend is unsurprising. The end of the Cold War and the relentless conflict in Iraq provide scholars with new avenues for the theoretically complex and hazardous task of Europe-gazing. Nevertheless, while not threadbare, the register of work on post-1945 Europe is less weighty than that on the pre-1945 period. William Hitchcock and Eric Dorn Brose apply them…
No Peace with the Hohenzollerns”
The notion that a nation's 'people' are the sovereign arbiters of its affairs, exercising power through a representative leadership who govern in the name of public 'virtue', point to a concept of political legitimacy which has proven to be a guiding principle in American diplomacy. The Wilson administration's response to peace overtures by the German government between 1917 and 1918 is a good illustration of this tendency. In line with American …
William A. Williams's Tragedy Fifty Years On
Fifty years have passed since the publication of The tragedy of American Diplomacy , the seminal work by New Left scholar William Appleman Williams. The work fired off one of the most important salvos of historical revisionism, heralding the arrival of the ‘Wisconsin School’ of American historiography. In examining the expansionist and consuming tendencies of American power and capital, Williams ushered in a movement which has left an enduring ma…
The first neo-conservative
This article examines the origins of American neo-conservatism by assessing the contributions of one of its less known inspirations, James Burnham. In charting Burnham's political philosophies and various contemporary reactions to them, this article examines his legacy as it relates to the movement, specifically in his approach to foreign affairs and institutions. It argues that he was more a pioneer than is often acknowledged. In so doing this a…
Commentary on John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the …
Apologists for Power
This paper examines the legal and political arguments of those who support an expansive interpretation of US executive power in the face of threats to the state, taking a comparative historical perspective. It discusses the rationale for this approach by locating its historical origins in international and American jurisprudence, thereby placing them in a modern context. Attention is paid to the points made by various legal representatives of the…
Australia's “War on Terror” Discourse
Australia's “War on Terror” Discourse. By Kathleen Gleeson (Ashgate Publishing Company: Surrey, 2014). ISBN: 9781472419859. £65.00 (hb)
Shutting Down Protest
This article considers social control mechanisms that targeted public protest at a particular summit, the Brisbane G20, first by examining the management of previous gatherings (Miami and Toronto), and then by looking at the more specific, nuanced techniques deployed in Brisbane in 2014. Despite its violence, the Toronto G20 added a few legal and policing innovations, including designated free speech zones, controlled areas of movement, and, albe…
Australian soccer rivalries
The essay takes a closer look at football (soccer) rivalries within a migrant, transnationalist sporting environment, focusing on Australia as an example. Themes of transnationalism, diasporic activism and the essence of football (soccer) rivalry, including its violent and integrationist manifestations, are considered. This discussion also insists that any understanding of such themes cannot be divorced from the broader political divisions manife…
Punishing wars of aggression
This paper refocuses attention on what has been seen as one of the most important limbs of the Nuremberg Charter - the crime against peace, or aggressive war. It looks at the legal and political dimensions that motivated such a characterisation by figures behind the debate, and the various, at times uncertain steps, in bringing forth the designation based on breaches of the Kellogg-Briand Pact within the milieu of other traditional offences. Part…
Releasing the “Terror Genie
The threat of “Islamic terrorism” has become a feature of the Australian political landscape. This has taken the form of unconfirmed suggestions of promised beheadings by groups, the threat of lone-wolf attacks, and the radicalisation of Islamic youths fighting in Syria and Iraq. This paper argues that the Islamic terror genie has been used to effectively transform the Australian political landscape through a series of plotted suggestions. The ex…
Plural International Relations in a Divided World
Plural International Relations in a Divided World . By Stephen Chan (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2017), pp. × + 223. ISBN: 9781509508686. £16.99 (pb)
The Black Dog of Swimming
This article considers the cultural and social crisis facing the sporting celebrity, with specific reference to the Australian athlete in the field of swimming. In that sense, this paper argues that parallels in other political systems for ruthless, sustained success, and the loss occasioned by it to individual sports figures, should be considered. Liberal democracies can still be perpetrating systems of sporting depression and mental illness, un…
The Lessons of Tragedy
Protesting in Pandemic Times
The COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about reconciling health priorities with the exercise of certain liberties and rights. Public safety has come into conflict with matters of mobility, freedom of expression, and the right to protest. How can the threat of viral transmission be reconciled with the urgency of political protests, such as in the Black Lives Matter movement? This article discusses various approaches, referring to debates in the Un…
Are we all in this together? Footballing ethics in the age of Coronavirus
The effects of COVID-19 have been telling in the sports world, seeing competitions suspended indefinitely. Initial optimism in England – that the Premier League would resume in May – dampened in favour of caution. In the absence of play and catastrophic economic losses, wealthy managers and executives have been encouraged, from a financial perspective, to accept wage freezes and reductions. Players have also been encouraged to do so as part of an…
Covid Meets Volvo
Sweden has been considered both pioneer and pariah in regard to its approach to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its pandemic disease, COVID-19. While much of Europe went into economic hibernation and rigid lockdown in the first wave of novel coronavirus infections in the spring of 2020, Sweden kept its borders, bars, restaurants, schools, gyms etc. open. Organised children’s sporting arrangements were also encouraged, on the basis that socia…
Intellectual Property, Covid-19 Vaccines and Equity
The debates surrounding Intellectual Property (IP) have opened a front in the geopolitical struggle for COVID-19 vaccine access and distribution. Specific to vaccine manufacture, one route by which local production can be encouraged in low- to middle-income countries would be to ease IP restrictions by such mechanisms as a temporary waiver under the TRIPS [Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights] agreement. High-income states have r…
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