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Research in the Globalism Institute
The research of the Globalism Institute is conducted within a range of research themes.
Those with dedicated websites are in the process of being linked to our Global-Local database, the first integration of which is live at our Community Sustainability website.
Sources of Insecurity
Border Knowledges
Community Sustainability
Critical and Ethical Engagement
Global Media
You can visit each of these sites to see the range of research being carried out.
In addition, here we provide information on research being carried out by and in collaboration with Tom Nairn.
Violence at the Intersections of Globalism, Nationalism and Tribalism
Sponsor:
Australian Research Council
(Discovery Grant) 2003–5
Chief Investigators:
Paul James and Tom Nairn
Project Description:
This study investigates recent arenas of violence, from the genocide in
Rwanda to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, militia activities in East
Timor and West Papua, and the ‘War on Terrorism’ in Afghanistan.
First, it examines Western public representations of these arenas.
Secondly, drawing upon comparative political and anthropological
analyses, the study tests its hypothesis that neo-tribalism and neotraditionalism
are best understood in the globalizing context of
insecure nation states. This study thus critically examines the
commonplace claim that assertions of primordial tribalism and
traditionalism are the well-spring of contemporary violence.
Book Publications:
Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalization and State-Terrorism, Pluto Press,
London, 2005
Sources of Insecurity: Localism, Nationalism
and Globalism
Sponsor:
RMIT University (Research Infrastructure Funding)
Research Team:
Damian Grenfell, Hariz Halilovich, John Handmer, Paul James, Jeff Lewis, Tom Nairn
Project Description:
Over the past decade a number of destabilizing developments have occurred which
pose serious practical and conceptual challenges to conventional policy frameworks
and responses. These security challenges have all been of a complex and
unconventional nature—they do not accord with conventional models of statebased
military threats from the deployment or use of conventional military force.
They involve non-state or multiple actors, or complex processes such as social,
environmental and economic feedbacks. They challenge the relevance and efficacy
of conventional militarized, state-based security responses conducted as standalone
actions.
Border Knowledges: Learning Across the Boundaries of Difference
Sponsor:
RMIT University (Research Infrastructure Funding)
Research Team:
Cathy Greenfield, Mary Kalantzis, Bill Martin,
Tom Nairn, Leanne Reinke, Peter Williams, Christopher Ziguras
Project Description:
In the context of a world beset by violence, cultural tension and the
fragmentation of more traditional forms of community this project
researches and engages practically in a dialogue across the borders of
difference. We explore the traditional knowledge systems practiced by
groups of Indigenous peoples, learners in cross-cultural or new
knowledge settings and new media technology users. The project will
generate a body of scholarly work with the goal of learning to live
across the boundaries of traditional and modern knowledge
formations, explore alternative layered forms of organization,
governance and being in a globalizing world.
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