Professor John Keane, Director

John Keane was born in South Australia and educated at the University of Adelaide, the University of Toronto and Cambridge University, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). John Keane is also Director of the Sydney Democracy Initiaitive at the University of Sydney. During his many years in Britain, The Times ranked him one of the country’s leading political thinkers and recognised him as a writer whose work has ‘world-wide importance’. His research areas include:

• The past, present and future of representation and democracy;
• Antarctica, globalisation and the future of global governance;
• Public life, communicative abundance and cross-border journalism;
• Early modern and contemporary conceptions of civil society and government;
• Fear and politics

His The Media and Democracy has been translated into over 25 languages and The Life and Death of Democracy was shortlisted in the 2010 Prime Minister’s Non-Fiction Literary Award.

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