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Researchers in the Globalism Institute
Dr Damian Grenfell
Prof. Paul James
Prof. Tom Nairn
Prof. Manfred B. Steger
Dr Damian Grenfell
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/damiangrenfell
Research Project Manager (Sources of Insecurity)
Recent research:
manifestations of social conflict, violence and social movements, globalisation and anti-corporate globalisation.
One of my key research interests has involved the development of an
analytical framework and methodology for research around social movements,
conflict, globalisation, and power. The intersections between these
various themes were the basis for my postgraduate study, especially
my PhD - ‘The State and Protest in Contemporary Australia: From Vietnam
to S11’ - in which I considered the relationship between political
structures in Australia and movements for change. The originality
of this work has lain in the sustained analysis it makes in addressing
an area thus far previously unexplored in Australian social literature.
This examination was cast against the changes and continuities in
the Australian political landscape over the last four decades, and
drew in questions around public policy, political processes, national
identity formation and globalisation. Such analysis has provided the
impetus for a series of further publications around changes in how
we understand the nation-state, situating questions around the ability
for resolving conflicts in a period of intense globalisation as a
central feature of my work. In my recent research into international
sites of violent conflict I have been building upon these questions,
and have again sought to provide an original approach to considering
conflict, not only in terms of subject matter, but also in terms of
methodology. Too often explanations of why violence occurs are reductive,
leading to one-dimensional answers, leaving little analytical capacity
for carrying forward the complexity of the events on the ground. My
work concentrates particularly on conflict in East Timor, and attempts
to suggest alternative ways of understanding modes of social conflict
with the aim of finding longer-term and sustainable alternatives.
Prof. Paul James
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/pauljames
Director of the Globalism Institute
Professor of Globalism and Cultural Diversity
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
Paul James is Director of the Globalism Institute (RMIT), an editor
of Arena Journal,
and on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. He has
received a number of awards including the Japan-Australia Foundation
Fellowship, an Australian Research Council Fellowship, and the Crisp
Medal by the Australasian Political Studies Association for the best
book in the field of political studies. Invitations have been received
to deliver addresses in Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cuba, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Israel-Palestine, Japan, Malaysia, Papua
New Guinea, Portugal, Scotland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the
United States. He is author or editor of nine books including, Nation
Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community (Sage, 1996).
His book with Tom Nairn, Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism
and State-Terror, has just been published by Pluto Press, and
Globalism, Nationalism Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In
will be published by Sage shortly.
Prof. Tom Nairn
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tomnairn
Associate Director (International) of the Globalism Institute
Professor of Nationalism and Cultural Diversity
Recent research:
nationalism and internationalism, genocide and national violence,
the break-up of Britain and the Scottish parliament, the United Kingdom
under Tony Blair. For more information see Nationalism and Tom Nairn.
Prof. Manfred B. Steger
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/manfredbsteger
Head of School, International and Community Studies
Professor of Globalism
Academic Director, Globalism Institute
Recent research:
Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Head of School
of International and Community Studies at RMIT University. He is also
the Acadmic Director of the Globalism Research Institute at RMIT University.
In addition, he is Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research
Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i, and an affiliated faculty member with
the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
He has delivered many lectures on globalization, ideology, and nonviolence
in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia.
Comprised of 14 books, dozens of articles and book chapters, and numerous
reviews, Professor Steger's academic work has been cited widely in
the pertinent literature. His study Globalism: The New Market
Ideology (Rowman & Littelfield, 2002) won the 2003 Michael Harrington
Award of the New Political Science Section of the American Political
Science Association. He has been a consultant on globalization for
the U.S. State Department and an advisor on a U.S. Public Television
series on the rise and fall of socialism. Favorable reviews of his
work have appeared in numerous academic journals including the American
Political Science Review and International Affairs.
Professor Steger serves on several editorial boards of academic journals
as well as on the advisory boards of several globalization research
centers around the world. He has been a recipient of research grants
from many institutions, including the U.S. National Endowment of the
Humanities. His latest book project (in progress) is Ideology
in the Global Age: Transforming the National Imaginary (under
contract with Oxford University Press).
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