Index
Supervisors
Staff of the Globalism Research Centre supervise a number of postgraduate students in various academic programs. Staff and their research interests and expertise are listed below.
Recent research: dissent and social conflict across the local, national and global, from ethnographic work in local communities through to work on global protest movements and the World Social Forum; the relationship between nationally based identity and processes of globalization at the point of conflict, especially in Timor-Leste
Recent research: histories, practices and theories of consumption, particularly in Australia; the history and ethics of 'Western' and cross-cultural research practices in Australia; the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and health interventions.
Recent research: theories of nationalism and globalism; political violence in places of upheaval; transnational movement and cultural identity; theories of social formation including tribalism, traditionalism, modernism and postmodernism.
Recent research: sense of place and community well-being in particular Victorian communities; community development strategies in Papua New Guinea; the recovery of local communities in post-tsunami Sri Lanka; strategies for nature conservation in the post-colonial era; rethinking attitudes to water in Australia and internationally; social history of ecological thought and action.
Recent research: practices that mediate between the two phenomena of 'globalization' and 'localization'; community well-being; practices of engagement and differences, particularly as this relates to modes of knowledge and learning and identity formation; social justice and citizenship.
Recent research: the cultural politics of postcolonialism in the culture and history wars of the USA and Australia; Indigenous-settler relations in Australia; the history of theory in anthropology; and the cultures of global tourist and religious movements.
Recent research: the emergence of the Australian National Training Package as a new mode of governance; national longitudinal evaluation study of the Microsoft PiL initiative; ARC-funded research project to develop a new meta-language that expresses the theory and practice of literacy teaching and learning in the context of digitization and convergence of technologies.
Recent research: globalization; ideology and non-violence in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.
Recent research: globalization and higher education; regulation of international education; teaching and learning in international education; World Trade Organization and services; the internationalization of publishing; sociology of health.