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Research themes

Community formation and transnationalism

Community formation and transnationalism serves as the thematic umbrella for researchers exploring the strengths and weaknesses of local communities, with a particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region, in the context of the local-global challenges of the contemporary period.

Global and local governance

Global and local governance explores the ways in which different organizations and societal wholes are steered towards desirable outcomes by means of rules, principles and various policy instruments.

Global knowledges and transnational education

Global knowledges and transnational education serves as the thematic umbrella for researchers exploring the impact of new technologies and internationalization on education, and the ways in which national and cultural borders effect the movements of people and knowledge.

Histories and ideologies of globalization

Histories and ideologies of globalization serves as the thematic umbrella for researchers exploring various ideational and historical aspects involving the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space.

Insecurity and conflict

Insecurity and conflict serves as the thematic umbrella for research which carries an 'on-the-ground' sense of the complexity of violence into broader frameworks of understanding.