GLOBALISMINSTITUTE

RMITJan 2002 - Jan 2003

Table of Contents

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Preface by Mary Kalantzis

What is Globalism? by Paul James

2. Manifesto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3. Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.1 Core Research Staff

3.2 Associate Personnel

4. Administrative Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4.1 Executive Team

4.2. National Advisory Committee

4.3 International Professorial Board

4.4 Adjunct Professors

4.5 Senior Associates

4.6 Associates

5. Global and Local Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5.1 Institutional Links

5.2 Collaborating Scholars

6. Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

6.1 Globalism and Nationalism

6.2 Transnational Movement

6.3 Global Education

6.4 Community and Social Integration, 1. Indigenous Communities

6.5 Community and Social Integration, 2. Local Communities

6.6 Discourses of Critical and Ethical Engagement

7. Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

7.1 Publications 2002

8. Conferences and Forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

8.1 Conference Series

8.2 Additional Conferences Held in 2002

8.3 Forthcoming Conferences

8.4 Forums 2002

8.5 Forums 2001

9. Postgraduate Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

9.1 Postgraduates

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Published in 2003 by the

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Front cover: ‘Psychorama, by Darryl Pfitzner Milika1 (1200mm diameter, 2000)

Inside front cover: a detail from the façade of Storey Hall,RMIT, Melbourne.

Printed on sugar-cane paper. No timber was used in the production of this report.

IntroductionThe Institute was initiated in 2000, with an extended period of consultation anddevelopment, and then formally inaugurated in 2002 with the brief to initiate andmanage re s e a rch projects involving consortia of academics, re s e a rchers, andgovernment and industry consultants from diverse backgrounds. Thesecollaborative projects draw on expertise from across the university and beyond infields such as global politics, international relations, community studies, cross-cultural communication, international education, international trade, productivediversity, and global English and media studies. This work involves creativedialogue and exchange within the university across departments, faculties andschools, and beyond the university limits into the public sphere of community,governmental and non-governmental contexts.

PrefaceI am honoured and delighted to be introducing this Globalism Institute report for

the year 2002. This has proved to be a tremendously exciting and successful year forthis dynamic new research group at RMIT University. In the rapidly changingglobal circumstances that we now face, the engaged and critical research of theGlobalism Institute takes on an increased significance. In a world where boundariesare being redrawn, and mobility of people, culture and capital are redefiningidentities and relationships, this work becomes crucial for articulating possible re s p o n s e s .

The Globalism Institute co-ordinates university-wide research in globalisation andcultural diversity, based in the Department of Language and International Studieswithin the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services. TheGlobalism Institute undertakes engaged research into globalism, transnationalism,nationalism and cultural diversity. It seeks to understand and critically evaluatecurrent directions of global change, with an emphasis on the cultural implicationsof political and economic transformation.

The past year has seen an exceptional range and depth of research activity withinthe Globalism Institute. Highlights include an outstanding performance in securingresearch funding (including five major Australian Research Council Discoverygrants). Conference facilitation has resulted in key roles for the Globalism Institutein the GARMA festival in North-East Arnhem Land, the National Aboriginal andTorres Straight Islander Visual Arts Conference (NATSIVAC), and a host of smallerevents, forums, lectures and seminars. Major international collaboration initiativeshave been developed with the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and theGlobalization Research Center at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. Publishingoutput has included significant monographs — such as Tom Nairn’s Pariah (Verso),Michael Singh, Peter Kell and Ambigapathy Pandian’s Appropriating English(Peter Lang) and Matthew Sleeth and Paul James’ Tour of Duty (Hardy Grant) —along with much more research, as this report evidences.

I trust that the following report will provide an informative record of an exceptionalyear of re s e a rch activity, and provide impetus for future extension anddevelopment of this important engagement with global and local transformations.

Mary Kalantzis, January 2003

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What is Globalism? We live in confusing times. One of the dominant trends in the present period is thedeepening of a set of social contradictions that have only been generalised for acouple of generations. On the one hand, globalisation, a process with long historicalroots, has been developing at an unprecedented pace through the end of twentiethcentury and into the new millennium. A rough, uneven blanketing of capital andcommercialised culture crosses and connects the world in unprecedented ways. Onthe other hand, there is an intense fragmenting and reconfiguring of social relationsat the level of community and locality. Systemic processes of rationalisinghomogenisation integrate the globe at one level, while ideologies and practices ofdifference and radical autonomy frame the popular imaginary at another. These arematerial and lived contradictions rather than simply inexplicable paradoxes. Theyare the kinds of tensions that bear back upon the way we live, and thus are at thecore of the RMIT Globalism Institute’s research mandate.

Across the turn of the century most of the world’s universities have been rushingto set up institutes and centres of globalisation, and, for many of these places,ongoing research projects and paradigms have continued under a new name. In thiswe are no different from any other research group. Where we hope to make anoriginal contribution is in the area of cultural politics. It has become commonplacefor soothsayers to say that the key trends in the coming period will be globalismand tribalism. Where we hope to draw wider connections is through our continuinginterest in nationalism and post-nationalism, connecting questions of nationalidentity to those of indigenous community and global extension. While themainstream and popular culture naming of tribalism and globalism as interlockingbut contrary formations is helpful in its starkness, the projections of theirprominence are too often confusingly presented as a paradox of conflicting epochs.1

Social life is presented as if we are simultaneously going forward into thetechnologically driven world of open globalism, e-commerce and PlanetHollywood and back into the ambivalent, anachronistic gloom of neo-nationaltribalisms. Places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo andChechnya supposedly stand for the past. They are represented as mystical timeswhen social life was ruled by warlords, blood ties and village feuds. They arefound, in this view, in backward settings from where primordial and atavisticsentiments come to seep through the curtain of rational modernity.

Through this confusion of times, ‘contemporary’ social relations are supposedlyheld together by well-connected individuals winging their way into the future,carrying with them — as light rather than cumbersome baggage — the residualcomfort of earlier forms of personal and community connections. It is a confusionof times expressed in recent futuristic films and novels. In the West, we are eitherportrayed ironically romantically as going back to the future in films such asPleasantville and The Truman Show, or more bleakly, shown in cybernetic novelssuch as Snow Crash and Virtual Light as going forward to a world of mega-corporations acting as neo-imperial states, with cyborg outsiders living on the edgein neo-medieval burbclaves. Concepts like the ‘global village’ appear to transcendthe tension of past and future but only by leaving the traditional sense of villagebehind. In the same way that Disney World’s Tomorrow Land has been recast as anhistorical artefact, the concept of ‘global village’ is now the romantic version of thenewer cyberspace term, ‘virtual village’.

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1 The most widely known expositions of this ‘epochal thesis’ are Samuel P. Huntington’s TheClash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996; andBenjamin Barber’s Jihad vs McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World,Ballantine Books, New York, 1996.

The related tension between globalism and localism is everywhere. In the northLondon borough of Islington, the global corporation Microsoft randomly chooses astreet to create what company executives and Blair government ministers proclaimto be the first computer community in Britain. Not to be outdone, IBM announcesa trial project, the first Wireless Virtual Village, based on their new ‘WebSphereEveryplace’ software and covering a one-kilometre radius and the homes of 5,000Helsinki residents. In Malaysia, the universalistic Muslim organisation Mendakiexpresses concerns about the dying of Malay community spirit, gotong-royong. InSingapore, Lee Kuan Yew gives a speech to the Tanjong Pagar DevelopmentCouncil about vision Singapore 21, a state-run program aimed at drawing thecounter-identities of what he calls the ‘cosmopolitans’ and ‘heartlanders’ into a newcohesive knowledge-based economy. Across the world, signs of this tensionbetween the local and the global have seeped into the popular imagination.

As an indication of the new sensitivity, advertising campaigns in the mid-1990sbegan to explain how transnational corporations transcend the divide betweendifferent senses of locale in the global village. In Australia and New Zealand, theworldwide franchiser of hamburger outlets, McDonalds, began an advertisingcampaign explaining how each of its franchisees will organise local communitynoticeboards. In Cambodia, the ‘Japanese’ car manufacturer Toyota ran a campaignunder the banner headline ‘This is Our Town’. To the backdrop of a photograph ofplanet earth spinning in space, the patronising copy speaks with postcolonialsophistication of the mutuality of the global project, all the while slipping betweendifferent meanings of the ‘local’ and different meanings of the ‘we’:

It’s the global village. We live here. You do, too. We’re neighbours. Andsince we’re neighbours, we should be friends. It seems that we are allof us — everywhere — slowly coming to this realization. But how dowe do it? In a practical sense what steps do we take? We can’t speakfor others, but for ourselves we can say this: we will do our part tobring the world together by building up the global auto industry ... Forthe first half of the 20th century we thought of ourselves as a Japanesecompany ... Now we think of ourselves as a world company. Ourresponsibility is to everyone. 2

Despite this self-conscious commercial political emphasis on the intersecting trendsof globalism and community, and despite its embeddedness in everyday life, westill have a poor understanding of the structures, systems and institutions that inthe age of disembodied globalism both integrate polity and community andsimultaneously threaten to break them apart.

Social theorists over the past decade have made globalisation a constant point ofreference. However, in turning to ugly concepts such as ‘glocalisation’, defined asthe simultaneous globalising and localising of social relations, they have named theprocesses that need to be worked through rather than given us the tools with whichto do so. This, we see as a central part of our task. Roland Robertson notes that theconcept of ‘glocalisation’ comes from the Japanese word dochakuka, originallydochaku, which means ‘living on one’s own land’.3 However, dragged into thecontext of global micro-marketing campaigns such as ‘This is Our Town’, the termcame to be instrumentalised as the act of adapting locally to meet globalcircumstances. This in itself should have given pause for thought, but neverthelessthe term quickly became part of the social theory lexicon as an easy shorthand

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2 The Cambodia Daily, 13 July 1994.3 In the early 1990s, Roland Robertson, (Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture, Sage,

London, 1992, pp. 173-4) used the concept advisedly. However, by the middle of the decadeit unreservedly took a centre-place in his writings (‘Glocalization: Time-Space andHomogeneity-Heterogeneity’ in Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson, eds,Global Modernities, Sage, London, 1995).

concept for an extraordinarily complicated phenomenon. It is not so different fromthe way in which the Finnish concept kännykkä, ‘extension of the hand’, used as aNokia brand name for their mobile telephone, subsequently passed into the genericparlance of Finnish teenagers as the word for phone.4 More than that, the embeddedand grounded meaning of the terms themselves — living on one’s own land,extension of the hand — carry us further into the contradictions of our time. Theexpressions of the abstraction of our relationship to others are often carried in therelatively concrete language of the body and of grounded place.

The Globalism Institute was set up as part of an attempt to understand thesecontradictory processes of globalism-localism, universalism-particularism,homogenisation-fragmentation, and abstraction-embeddedness, though neithersimply by posing them as dualistic opposites, nor by coming at them directly. Theglobalism-localism debate has become a bit like the burning bush in Moses’ exodusfrom the desert: best not looked upon too directly for a source of enlightenment.The Institute’s research project is directed towards understanding the dominantforms of polity and community in the present, but this entails making some broadcomparisons to other forms practice — of exchange, communication, production,organisation and inquiry — and to ontologically different ways of living in time,place and corporeality. This is to take up the relatively unfashionable subject ofwhat Scott Lash, in his search for a second modernity, calls ‘forms of social life’:

This ground — which alternatively takes the form of community,history, tradition, the symbolic, place, the material, language, life-world, the gift, Sittlichkeit, the political, the religious, forms of life,memory, nature, the monument, the path, fecundity, the tale, habitus,the body ... has been too much forgotten by cultural theory andreflexive sociology.5

The trouble with this evocative list is that it lists an extraordinary range ofincommensurably named phenomena. They are things that, variably defined, arepart of all social formations, not just Lash’s underside to ‘rational modernity’. Still,such lists are instructive. Theorising the ground of contemporary life has to be ableto keep this messiness to the fore while, at the same time and seemingly incontradiction with acknowledging that messiness, finding ways of providing anaccount that allows us to explore its structural patterns.

Lash’s list has some of the same qualities as the taxonomy from Jorge Borges’sapocryphal Chinese calendar, the one that Michel Foucault famously quotes as hisinspiration for The Order of Things. This list, linked as an Arabic alphabeticalseries, and devoted to different kinds of animals, begins with (a) belonging to theEmperor, and serially goes through those animals that are embalmed, tame, suckingpigs, sirens, fabulous, stray dogs, included in the present classification, andfrenzied. It finishes with (n), those that from a long way off look like flies.6 Foucault,writing in the period of his intellectual history before he was taken over by theenthral of post-structuralism, responds by saying that there may be a ‘mute groundupon which it is possible for entities to be juxtaposed’7, a ground made invisible byBorges’s intentionally comic devise of alphabetical ordering. This ‘ground’ for

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4 Steve Silberman, ‘Just Say Nokia’, Wired Magazine, vol. 7, no. 9, 1999 downloaded fromwww.wired.com/wired/archive. In 1998, of 165 million mobile phones sold in the world —that is, more mobile telephones than cars and computers combined — Nokia manufactured41 million units

5 Scott Lash, Another Modernity: ADifferent Rationality, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1999, p.1.While I am sympathetic to his notion of a ‘groundless ground’, the approach taken herehowever differs considerably from that taken by Lash. It neither searches for a secondgrounded modernity nor affirms the ‘neo-world of technological culture’ (p. 14).

6 Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, Routledge,London, (translated 1970), 1991, p. xv.

7 Ibid. p. xvii

Foucault is not the essentialised ground of being, but an unconscious level ofknowledge broken up into epistemological fields or what he calls ‘epistemes’ thatcan be discerned by archaeological excavation. Although sympathetic to the notionof ‘an archaeology of knowledge’, we are attempting to find a pathway betweenand against the ideas that social life can be understood either in terms of anessentialised ground or a series of discursive formations. There is a missing middleof structural-subjective patterning that our approaches wish to address, and as theInstitute becomes established, we intend to do so by moving between the headinessof abstract theory and the glorious grubbiness of life’s banal particulars.

What also tends to be missing from the current debates is appreciation of questionsof comparative social form. In one way this is not surprising — investigating suchquestions tends to give way to an understandable emphasis upon immediate issuesand social exigencies, the very issues brought to the fore by the gallopingtransformations in social form. In another way, however, it is alarming how most ofthe debates over globalisation fail to take cognisance of the substantial and highlyrelevant research that has been going on in a number of quite disparate disciplines.Social theorists are exploring the impact of different modes of communication uponsocial relations. Critical geographers are doing path-breaking work on the natureand forms of spatial extension lived by diff e rent types of communities.Anthropologists are writing challenging works on the changing forms of identity innational and post-national settings. The researchers in the Institute are well placedto draw synthetically upon these disciplines and others — particularly history ands o c i o l o g y, political theory, cultural studies, international relations andanthropology — to provide an alternative understandings of the current tensionsbetween polity and community, nationalism, tribalism and globalism. The Instituteenacts genuinely interdisciplinary research in its engagement with the relationsbetween place, identity and social practice.

If our central focus is on changing forms of social relations, it is always with theview to relate the practices of the past to present trajectories. This is the sense inwhich a major theme of our research can be described as articulating a history of thepresent. It involves comparing tribal reciprocity, past and present — oral culturesinvolved in gift-exchange and production by the hand — to the formations of themodern nation-state. It involves comparing face-to-face community with thestructures and subjectivities of globalism. It involves, for example, writing a historyof the movements of peoples as refugees and linking this to structural shifts in thenature of movement. Throughout, the aim is to draw conclusions about thecontemporary underpinnings of polity and community in a globalised world.

Problems of definitionThe heightened reflexivity about social relations explains why apparently simpleconcepts such as ‘tribe’, ‘race’, ‘nation’, and ‘ethnicity’ are now so hard to define. Itis why, across various disciplines, scholars are increasingly shying away from usingthese concepts. In fact what theorists tend to do is problematise the terms so thatthey no longer work, and then use the very same terms anyway. This has made itincreasingly difficult to write anything about the social without careful definitionsof every inherited concept and the inventing of a thousand new concepts to dealwith the perceived problems of the old. For example, some writers even want togive up on the rich and complex term ‘culture’ with one theorist writing that theconcept was now too baggage-laden to be still useful. It should be replaced, he said,with the concept of ‘powerful discursive formations, globally and strategicallydeployed’.8 Apart from making for very long sentences, here the theoreticalassumptions of the writer are blatantly evident — maybe that is a good thing,

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8 James Clifford cited in Marshall Sahlins, ‘Two or Three Things that I Know About Culture’,Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , vol. 5, no. 3, 1999, p. 410.

allowing us to criticise his instrumentalist assumptions — and those assumptionsare developed in a way that limits rather than extends our understanding of the richcomplexity of lived cultures.

At first thought the terms associated with ‘globalism’ appear to be the easiest set ofconcepts in the world to define: in one way, globalisation is simply the spatialextension of social relations across the globe. It is literally evoked in the picture thatwe have become accustomed to seeing in satellite photographs. However, thatdefinition leaves us concentrating on the last few decades.

GlobalismA working definition of the cluster of terms around ‘globalism’ begins throughrelating the various intersecting modes of practice to their extension across worldspace. Globalisation is thus most simply the name given to the matrix of thosepractices as they extend across world-space. Exemplary contemporary systems ofmaterially powerful but disembodied extension include the stamping presses offinance capital, electronic warfare, or electronic broadcast culture. There are,h o w e v e r, earlier or more concrete forms of globalisation that need to beincorporated into any definition. There are lines of global connection carried byagents of the early expansionist imperial states, by traders on the silk routes, and bycrusading war-makers going off to smash the infidels simply ‘because they werethere’ living in the same world. In the contemporary period there are continuingmovements of people as refugees, migrants and travellers that have an obviouslycontinuing embodied character. Thus globalisation is defined as the unevenstructured manifold of social relations, materially enacted through one or more ofthe various dominant modes of practice — exchange, production, communication,organisation and inquiry — and extended across world-space, where the notion of‘world-space’ is itself defined in the historically variable terms that it has beenpracticed and understood phenomenally through changing world-time. It is thus aprocess, a matrix of ongoing practices.

The associated concept of ‘globalism’ is defined as the dominant ideology andsubjectivity associated with different historical formations of global extension. Thedefinition thus implies that there were pre-modern or traditional forms ofglobalism and globalisation long before the driving force of capitalism sought tocolonise every corner of the globe, for example, going back to the Roman Empire inthe second century A.D., and perhaps to the Greeks of the fifth century B.C.10 As theRoman Empire drew lines of practical connection across vast expanses of theknown world, Claudius Ptolemaeus (c90–c150) revived the Hellenic belief in thePythagorean theory of a spherical globe. He wrote systematically about a world-space stretching from Caledonia and Anglia to what became known as Java Minor.Alongside the secular empire, the Roman Catholic Church, as its name suggests —katholikos universal, kata in respect of, holos the whole — had globalisingpretensions. This does not mean that globalism was the dominant or even ageneralised understanding of the world. Sacred universalism is not necessarily thesame as globalisation. By contrast to the European clerics of globalisation, theChinese form of universalism was inwardly turned. For example, although theCelestial Kingdom had produced printed atlases that date long before the EuropeanOrtelius’s supposedly first historical atlas, early maps of China show the world asfading off beyond the ‘natural extent’ of territory.11 While new evidence suggests

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9 ‘Globalism’ is here treated as the inclusive category for associated terms such as‘globalisation’, ‘globalising’ and ‘global formation’. This is similar to the way that the conceptof ‘nationalism’ is used in the literature to stand in for the cluster of associated-but-differently-defined terms — ‘nation’, ‘nation-state’, ‘national sentiment’, and so on.

10 William Arthur Heidel, The Frame of the Ancient Greek Maps, Arno Press, New York, 1976.11 See Jeremy Black, Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past, Yale University Press,

New Haven, 1997, pp. 2-3, on Standen’s thesis about the ahistorical depiction of the GreatWall, whether or not it had been built.

that the Chinese may have travelled the world, this does not mean that they actedthrough a subjectivity of globalism. In other words, the Chinese centred theirempire, whereas the Romans globally extended theirs. If the Roman PeutingerTable is any indication, the Roman worldview travelled in geometric lines thatstretched as far as the travelling eyes of the agents of Empire could see.12

The definition thus is sensitive to Roland Robertson’s argument that globalism is adeep historical and variable process. However, by including the Roman Empire ashaving both globalising sensibilities and practices it extends Robertson’s chronicleof the ‘germinal stage’ back long before the beginning of modern forms ofglobalism in the fifteenth century with the revival of a spherical view of the world.The earlier form of globalism is what might be called traditional globalism — withall the attendant issues of social form that the concept of ‘traditionalism’ entails.This means that the present approach fundamentally questions modernists likeAnthony Giddens who suggest that globalism is a consequence of modernity, andutterly rejects theorists such as Martin A l b row who, in a fit of theore t i c a lexuberance, claims that globality is now replacing modernity.13 Giddens, in thisview, does not have more than a single layered sense of history, and Albrow makesa stunning category mistake. Albrow overlooks the issue that ‘modernism’ and‘globalism’ come to us from two categorically diff e rent levels of analysis:‘globalism’ is a descriptive term, an empirical generalisation made about variousprocesses of spatial extension; whereas ‘modernism’ is a categorical term that canonly be understood in terms of positing either a kind of subjectivity/aesthetic or ageneral ontological formation. Processes of globalisation developed long beforemodernity (understood provisionally in epoch terms only as a dominant nottotalising formation), and they will probably continue long after its heyday.However, this does not mean that globality is replacing modernity. It means that thedominant form of globalisation and globalism is changing, as is the once assumeddominance of modernism. It is overlaying past practices and ways of life.

Like earlier forms of globalisation, this layer does not completely transform allbefore it, but unlike the past it blankets various social forms of community andpolity with the effects and imperatives of disembodied modes of practice:commodity and financial exchange, computerised production, electr o n i ccommunication, techno-science and so on. This blanketing can no longer bepassively ignored with the hope that it will go away, if it ever could. And even asmodern forms of globalism and imperialism continue, they are overlaid withpostmodern forms: from the globalisation of capital as it commodifies future timethrough speculative hedging, to the globalisation of cinematic culture with itspostmodern sensibility signalled, for example, in the title of a new magazine ofHollywood gloss — Empire. Abstracted from history, the title carries no more thanthe most obvious superficial irony.

NationalismPart of the problem of defining terms such as tribe and nation, and related conceptsof affinity such as ethnicity and race, derives from our increasing self-consciousnessthat the boundaries of these terms of relationship get more and more blurred as weturn our analytical microscopes on the specificities that were once said to define theboundaries of actually existing communities. It used to be, and often still is the case,

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12 A stylised map of the Empire, about twelve feet long and rolled out like a narrow scroll;known from a thirteen-century copy. In modern cartographical terms it is unrecognisablydistorted. Made more than two thousand years earlier is a Mesopotamian clay tablet with acircular Assyroncentric map showing the Euphrates joining the Persian Gulf and surroundedby the ‘Earthly Ocean’. See Norman J.W. Thrower, Maps and Man: An Examination ofCartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1972.

13 Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity , Polity Press, Cambridge, 1990; MartinAlbrow, The Global Age, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1996.

that without thinking much about it, commentators took the particularities ofembodied difference as the essentialised markers of the edge of an ethnic or racialgrouping. They then made ethnicity one of the central factors — alongside otherscommonalities such as those of language, history and territory — through whichmembers of one nation can be distinguished from another. Along these lines, raceis seen unproblematically as a genetic category, ethnicity is seen as an extension ofkinship and inhering in the body of the person as born ethnic, and the nation is seenas an extension of ethnicity as the most important variable factor of culturalcommonality. Thus nation states are understood to be formed in the tensionbetween the unchosen identity of kinship-ethnicity and the daily plebiscite (ErnestRenan) of chosen civic identity. This is not entirely a caricature. Parts of that picturecan be observed in existing contemporary practice and belief. However, to makesuch as retrieval we have to also challenge its challengers. The dominant theoreticalapproach has now moved quickly, too quickly, to the opposite conclusion. From thisposition, rather than being natural, ethnicity is seen as no more than a discursivefiction. Researchers found examples of where ethnicity, usually understood asascribed identity, could be achieved by taking on another cultural regime ormarrying into an existing ethnic grouping. Even when ethnicity was given, itbecame obvious that ascribed ethnic status could over a single generation be made,remade, and changed from above on political-religious grounds, and could come tobe lived and naturalised. The theoretical challenge now is to take this evidenceseriously while not dissolving social life into a play of signifiers.

In a similar overhasty move, some social theorists came to argue that the nation wasan invented formation. Again, once the mystique of the natural is lifted, it isobjectively easy to find evidence of instances of cultural invention. However, toconclude that the ‘nation’ is no more than a social fiction, is to miss the point. Asused here, the ‘nation’ is defined in a way that takes seriously its contradictoryobjective-subjective form. A nation is at once an objectively abstract society ofstrangers, usually connected by a state, and a subjectively embodied communitywhose members experience themselves as an integrated group of compatriots —hence my use of the apparent oxymoron, ‘abstract community’. Even in these late-modern or postmodern times, the continuing phenomenal experience of theembodied community as made up of kindred souls is brought home, so to speak, attimes of crisis. Pictures of fire officers emerging out of the flame and dust of thedisintegrating World Trade Center towers on September 11 served to ‘unite’ asociety that in important respects continually seems to be on the verge of sociallydisintegrating. One week after the terrorist attack, in a remarkable act of nationallysolidarity, actors and singers from Hollywood and MTV mourned the tragic loss oflife that occurred in attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Thep rogram, a telethon fundraiser entitled America: A Tribute to Heroes, wasbroadcast to 210 countries. Tom Hanks, all American boy next door and star ofSteven Spielberg’s blockbuster war movie, Saving Private Ryan, opened theevening in a low-key manner. He named the brave souls who reacted to thehijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 and intoned their last words, ‘We’re going tohave to do something’. Celine Dion sang ‘God Bless America’. Clint Eastwood,affecting the same expression that he wore in his film In the Line of Fire (1993),spoke with gravel voiced intensity about ‘ultimate triumph’:

It was the twenty-first century’s day of infamy. It was a day that willlive in the annals of courage and patriotism. Tonight we pay tribute tothose who were lost and those who survived the fire and the fate thatrained down upon them, and the heroes at ground zero who had lifeand death wear an indelible badge of honour. We celebrate not onlythem, but all our fellow Americans, for the intended victims of thisattack were not just on the planes, and at the Pentagon, the WorldTrade Center. They were wherever else they roam the sky. The targets

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were not just the symbols of America but they were the spirit ofAmerica. And the intended victims were all three hundred million ofus. The terrorists foresaw a nation fearful, doubtful, ready to retreat.Oh, they left us wounded, but renewed in strength. And we’ll standand will not yield. The terrorists who wanted three hundred millionvictims, instead are going to get three hundred million heroes, threehundred million Americans with broken hearts, unbreakable hopes forour country and our future. In the conflict that’s come upon us, we’redetermined as our parents and our grandparents were before us to winthrough the ultimate triumph — so help us God.

It is easy to be cynical about what each of these public figures was doing. They weremaking the nation. However, the question remains, how was it subjectively possiblefor the magical trope of ‘three hundred million’ to stand in for the community ofAmerica. Why didn’t Clint Eastwood have to ring up the Bureau of Statistics andfind out exactly how many people were living in that society that night? How canthese Hollywood actors speak on behalf of all Americans? It is because thecommunity of the nation subjectively and objectively remakes itself everyday. Theevening ended with the now iconic video-image of the US flag flying silently overthe debris of the collapsed towers. No commentary. No introductions. No credits.Everybody who mattered was supposed to naturally know what the image meant.By a generalising shift, expressed first in the words of politicians in the UnitedStates, the attack on the World Trade Center thus became an attack on ‘us all’ — andwe could choose to step into the interpellated space ‘us all’, either as national orglobal citizens … or we could chose to be disloyal.

This is kind of globalising world that we faced during 2002. It makes our task forthe coming year even more urgent as a war with Iraq beckons, chaos continues inAfghanistan, and the inequalities of rich and poor harden.

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Manifesto

At a time of acute sensitivity to questions of social dislocation, economic inequityand political upheaval, the Globalism Institute is committed to rethinking therelationship between the global and the local. The Institute’s primary intellectualtask is to understand the processes of change and continuity in order to thinkthrough cultural-political questions about sustainable living in a globalising world.In particular, it is concerned to facilitate and enhance activities of cultural dialogueacross the continuing and positive boundaries of cultural diversity in the worldtoday. This entails responding to key political issues of the new century across alllevels of community and polity: from the remaking of institutions of globalgovernance and global civil society through to the reconstitution of the nation-stateand the reformations of local regions and communities. It entails working across thelines of critical theory, applied research and political debate. We begin with theplace in which we live and seek to draw lines of cooperation and reciprocalconnection with others — locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

The Globalism Institute:

• Undertakes engaged research into globalisation, transnationalism, nationalismand cultural diversity. It seeks to understand and critically evaluate currentdirections of global change, with an emphasis on the cultural implications ofpolitical and economic transformation.

• Builds transnational links with other world centres of excellence.

• Educates the community, both local and global, about both the difficulties andthe possibilities of globalisation and multicultural diversity.

• Provides research consultancy to all levels of government, industry andcommunity, from the local to the international.

• Provides a forum for analysing the role of Australia’s culturally diversediasporic communities in the processes of globalisation-localisation.

• Sponsors conferences, forums and seminars to debate, critically analyse andformulate policies for government bodies, and for world and regionalorganisations and agencies.

• Offers a rich research milieu for postgraduate study in the fields of globalism,transnationalism, cosmopolitics, multiculturalism, nationalism, identity politicsand cultural diversity.

Within our central theme of globalisation and localisation, the six key areas ofour research are as follows:

1. Globalism and Nationalism

• the changing relevance of nationalism to questions of identity

• violence and social disintegration within and across cultural borders

• forms of governance in a globalising world

2. Transnational Movement

• refugees, asylum seekers, diasporas and migrant communities

• cultural diversity, social cohesion and religious difference.

• cultural and political borders

3. Global Education

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• globalising education and new learning

• language-communities and collective learning

• ‘Global English’

4. Community and Social Integration, I. Indigenous Communities

• face-to-face communities as they face modernising pressures

• cultural expression as a process of community formation

• the relationship between environment and community

5. Community and Social Integration, II. Local and Global Communities

• wellbeing and social health

• extended relations of mass broadcasting and electronic communication

• the rise of virtual communities

6. Discourses of Critical and Ethical Engagement

• ideologies of cosmopolitanism, post-nationalism and multiculturalism

• approaches to postcolonialism

• new agenda issues of anti-corporate globalisation

The Globalism Institute,

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Core Personnel

3.1 Core Research Staff

Christopher ZigurasResearch Fellow, Postgraduate Co-ordinatorRecent research: globalisation and higher education; regulation of internationaleducation; teaching and learning in international education; World TradeO rganisation and services; the internationalisation of publishing; and sociology of health.

Leanne ReinkeResearcherRecent research: Changing communication technologies; Indigenous politics andreconciliation; theories of community formation and transformation underglobalisation; and cultural dimensions of online education.

Michael Singh Executive Director of the Globalism and Cultural Diversity Research Concentration Professor of Language and Culture and Head of Department of Language andInternational Studies

Recent research: Asian-Australian problematisation of White Australia politics; theuses of international education by transnational students; and global languages andthe sustainability of bio-linguistic diversity. He is joint editor of AppropriatingEnglish: Innovation in the Global Business of English Language Teaching (2002).

Peter PhippsResearch Project ManagerRecent research: project management; postcolonial perspectives on modernity andconsumerism in South and South East Asia; transnational cultural and intellectualflows; global tourism; and transnational religious movements.

Tom Nairn Associate Director (International) of the Globalism InstituteProfessor of Nationalism and Cultural Diversity

Recent research: nationalism and internationalism; genocide and national violence;the break up of Britain and the Scottish parliament; and the United Kingdom underTony Blair. His books include Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (1997), AfterBritain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland (2000), and Pariah: Misfortunes ofthe British Kingdom (2002).

Douglas McQueen-ThomsonResearch Grants Co-ordinatorRecent research: Australian refugee politics; globalisation and culture;cosmopolitanism; community arts practice; contemporary Shakespeare criticism;and cultural materialism.

Paul JamesDirector of the Globalism InstituteProfessor of Globalism and Cultural Diversity

Recent research: theories of nationalism and globalism; political violence in placesof upheaval; transnational movement and cultural identity; and theories of socialformation including tribalism, traditionalism, modernism and postmodernism. Hisbooks include Nation Formation (1996), Work of the Future: Global Perspectives(1997) and Tour of Duty (2002, with Matthew Sleeth).

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Peter KellAssociate Pro f e s s o r, Industry and Adult Education, and Associate Dean (Research) FELCS

Recent research: Teaching and learning technologies in a global context; English asa global language; and commodification and marketing of educational productsand services. He is joint editor of Appropriating English: Innovation in the GlobalBusiness of English Language Teaching (2002).

Mary Kalantzis Professor of Education, and Dean of the Faculty of Education, Languages and CommunityServices

Recent research: education, productive diversity, pedagogy and multi-literacies;multicultural Australia; and indigenous and women’s issues. Her books include APlace in the Sun: Recreating the Australian Way of Life (2000 with Bill Cope);P roductive Diversity (1997, with Bill Cope); and Mistaken Identity:Multiculturalism and the Demise of Nationalism in Australia (1988 with Castles,Cope and Morrissey).

Desmond CahillProfessor, Department of Languages and International StudiesRecent research: immigrant, ethnic and intercultural education; religion, culturaldiversity and globalisation; ethnic communities in diasporic contexts; interculturalmarriages; population movements and crime.

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3.2 Associate Personnel

Nicola YellandProfessor, and Head of the Department of School and Early Childhood, FELCS Recent research: Learning technologies; mathematical literacies; learning in theinformation age; and education.

Cathy WilliamsResearch AdministratorRecent research: radio broadcasting and media globalisation; indigenous law andsociety; medical law and ethics; and marine phycology.

Rob WattsProfessor, Social Science and Planning

Veronica VolkoffPost-Compulsory Education and Training Research CentreRecent research: international post-compulsory education and training policy andreform, including in Australia, China, Mozambique, India, South Africa, Germany,United Kingdom.

David StokesAssociate ResearcherInterpreting and Translating Program Lecturer, FELCS Recent research: the localised reception of popular music in China; and Chineseprint media.

Helen SmithDeputy Dean of the Faculty of Education, Languages and Community ServicesRecent research: publishing needs within the VET system.

Julian SilvermanAssociate ResearcherCo-ordinator of Diploma of Community Services ProgramsRecent Research: student skill development during exposure to issues and activistpractices of untouchable communities; caste, gender and strategies of socialchange; and VET based learning assessment programs in partnership withindigenous and other diverse communities.

Chris ScanlonResearch assistantRecent research: the links between cultural diversity and bio-diversity; micro-finance and micro-credit; bio-piracy and indigenous knowledge; Third Waypolitics; globalisation and social policy; and theories of information society; and social capital approaches to governance.

Scott PhillipsAssociate Professor, Department of Justice and Youth StudiesRecent research: multiculturalism; policies and strategies for responding to theneeds of people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds; refugee issues;multicultural drug education and the role or organised sport in promoting socialdevelopment.

Jane PerryPost-Compulsory Education and Training Research CentreRecent Research: international post-compulsory education and training policy.

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John MurphyDirector of the Centre for Applied Social Research

Bill MartinProfessor, Director Research Programs, Faculty of Business Information Technology Recent Research: knowledge in enterprises (in particular the constructionindustry); knowledge cultures and strategies; knowledge in business models andmetrics for knowledge.

Lynne LiResearch AssistantRecent research: second language acquisition; ESL and LOTE teachingmethodology; and globalisation and multilingualism.

Jack KeatingAssociate Professor, FELCSRecent research: the role of national qualifications systems in promoting lifelonglearning.

Kim HumpherySenior Lecturer, Faculty of Constructed Environment, Social Science and PlanningRecent research: consumption and consumerism; and indigenous health.

Guosheng ChenManager of Language and Global Culture Programs, and the Manager of the Chinese-Australian Studies and Contemporary Culture Forum, Department of Language andInternational StudiesRecent research: internationalisation of higher education; East Asian studies,language teaching and research; and the Chinese diaspora and its development inthe contemporary global context.

Melissa BrownResearch Assistant, Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services Recent research: multilingual publishing and international dimensions of theAustralian book industry

Lynton Brown Lecturer, Department of Languages and International StudiesRecent research: global citizenship; global media; international developmentagencies; community based education initiatives; and action researchmethodologies.

Robert BrooksProfessor, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Business Recent research: financial econometrics; modelling of risk in Australian financialmarkets; and analysing the impact of financial deregulation particularly in Asianfinancial markets.

Paul Battersby Lecturer, Department of Language and International StudiesRecent research: global economic processes; global risks and governance; andSouth East Asian political economy and society.

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Administrative Structure

4.1 Executive Team

Paul James Director

Tom Nairn Associate Director

Michael Singh Executive Director

Christopher Ziguras Deputy Director, Postgraduate Co-ordinator

Peter Phipps Research Project Manager

Leanne Reinke Researcher

Douglas McQueen-Thomson Research Grants Co-ordinator

Cathy Williams Research Administrator

With the support of:

Vasilia Tsiambias Departmental Manager

Debbie Lozankoski Financial Officer

Chris Scanlon Research Assistant

Lynne Li Research Assistant

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From left to right: Paul James, Joel Trigg, Leanne Reinke, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, Chris Ziguras, Noga Kadman, Peter Phipps and Cathy Williams

4.2 National Advisory CommitteeChair: Professor Neil Furlong, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)

Members:

Dr Chris Reus-Smit, Head of the Department of International Relations at ANU

Professor John Nieuwenhuysen, Monash University Centre for the Study of GlobalMovements and Member of Council, RMIT

Jackie Huggins, Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia

Bruce Harvey, Chief Advisor, Aboriginal and Community Relations, Rio Tinto

Rev. Tim Costello, Baptist Church, Melbourne

Dr Bill Cope, Director of Common Ground Publications

4.3 International Professorial BoardProfessor Gayatri Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, ColumbiaUniversity.

Professor Jukka Siikala, University of Helsinki

Professor Peter Sellers, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Fazal Rizvi, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Brendan O’Leary, Director of the Solomon Asch Centre for the Study ofEthnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsyvania

Ashis Nandy, Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Professor Walter Mignolo, Director of the Center for Global Studies, Duke University

Professor Jonathan Friedman, Directeur d’Etudes, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en SciencesSocial, Paris

Dr Alan Chun, Academica Sinica, Taipei

Professor Perry Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles

4.4 Adjunct Professors

Paul Clarkson, Department of Industry, Professional and Adult Education

Rev. Tim Costello (still being finalised) Baptist Church, Melbourne

Professor James Jupp, Director, Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies,Australian National University

Professor John Power, former Professor of Politics, University of Melbourne

Hannie Rayson, Award-winning playwright

4.5 Senior AssociatesDrs Jacob Rumbiak, Australian West Papua Association

Chris Richards, Editor of New Internationalist magazine

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4.6 AssociatesDr Gyorgy Scrinis

Dr Damian Grenfell

Dr Chris Shepherd

Douglas McQueen-Thomson

Michael Singh

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Global and Local LinksThe Globalism Institute aims to build ongoing research links with other centres ofinternational excellence. It is involved in collaborative activities with institutes andgroups concerned about understanding the implications of globalisation. Thesecollaborations have involved, amongst others, university institutes, public-politicalbodies and grass roots organisations.

5.1 Institutional Links

Common Ground

Common Ground, a humanities and social-science publisher based in Melbourneand Sydney, has been collaborating extensively with RMIT for several years. TheGlobalism Institute’s involvement with Common Ground is considerable, andincludes joint re s e a rch projects, conferences and publications. To g e t h e r, theGlobalism Institute and Common Ground have organised several conferences,including the Indigenous Peoples and Racism Conference 2001 and the FourthNational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Conference 2002. We arenow jointly organising several other conferences including the DiversityConference series, the Humanities Conference series, the Management Conferencethe Book Conference and the Learning Conference series. An agreement has alsobeen reached for Common Ground to publish the Globalism Institute Book Series,which will include books coming out of our collaborative conference program. TheGlobalism Institute has been centrally involved in the C2C Research Project on thefuture of the Australian book industry. This project is co-ordinated by CommonGround and involves researchers across RMIT and resulted in the publication of tenbooks, several of which have involved researchers in the Globalism Institute. Booksalready published in the C2C series are listed in Section 6.6 below.

Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)

In May 2002, Tom Nairn and Paul James participated in the Institute’s annualFellows conference in Amsterdam, and met with the Board of the Institute, agreeingto a memorandum of ongoing association and co-operation. As part of thatmemorandum we invited Praful Bidwai to be a keynote speaker at the Diversityconference in Honolulu in February 2003. In addition, we will be cooperating withthe Transnational Institute on our Humanities conference in Greece in July 2003.

Globalization Research Center (University of Hawai’i)

In the first week of April 2002, Diana Kalantzis and Paul James travelled to Hawai’ito consolidate discussions that had begun by email and telephone. At theGlobalization Research Center in Honolulu we first met with Nicole Robinson whobriefed us on the activities of the Center, and then with James White, AssociateDirector, with whom we discussed at length the viability and rationale of a jointconference. He agreed that the Center was interested in principle, and was open toa triangular partnership with the East-West Centre. We met with Professor DeaneNeubauer, Acting President of the University of Hawai’i. It was confirmed that theGlobalization Research Center would pursue a joint conference on diversity andglobalisation with the Globalism Institute (RMIT), and that the University ofHawai’i would aff o rd all hospitality, including some conference facilities ifnecessary to complement whatever facilities were offered by the East-West Center.We subsequently met with Professor Nancy Lewis, Research Director of the East-West Center, and Sherée Groves, Co-ordinator of East-West Seminars.

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Out of this series of meetings we agreed with the Globalization Research Centre todevelop a memorandum of co-operation, while the East-West Center subsequentlywithdrew from the triangular sponsorship of the conference because of its potentialpolitical complexity. The Globalization Research Centre invited Paul James toparticipate in their dialogical conference on ideologies of globalism in December2002, and we became joint sponsors of the ‘Cultural Diversity in a GlobalisingWorld’ conference planned for February 2003 in Honolulu. It is seen as the next stepin an ongoing association around the globalisation and cultural diversity issue withjoint projects being discussed such as GAP, a data-base on global connections. (SeeSection 8.1 below for more details.)

Institute of Postcolonial Studies (Melbourne)

The Globalism Institute and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies have drafted aMemorandum of Understanding, and are discussing the possibility of jointlysponsoring a global violence conference planned for 2004. As part of the developingrelationship, the Globalism Institute invited Ashis Nandy and DipeshChakarabarty, fellows of the IPS to be keynote speakers respectively at ourDiversity and Humanities conferences.

The Globalism Institute is represented on the Postcolonial Institute’s Council, theInstitute's peak policy body that oversees academic programs, events, publications,external linkages, and future directions for the Institute. Through Carfax, IPSpublishes Postcolonial Studies, an international journal, founded in 1997 by a groupof scholars associated with the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, including PaulJames who continues as an Associate Editor.

USM International Literacy Research Centre (Universiti Sains Malaysia)

In 1999, the Universiti Sains Malaysia and RMIT University signed a Memorandumof Understanding with the objective of developing collaborative research projectsacross the two internationally recognised universities. In the same year in consortiawith the Penang Department of Education USM and RMIT conducted the SixthInternational Conference in Literacy and Educational Research Network in Penang,Malaysia. At this conference the possibility of a joint research unit was proposed tocontinue the developing alliances and collaborative research projects that haveemerged as a result of the Memorandum of Understanding. The Universiti SainsMalaysia and RMIT International Literacy Research Unit establishes a jointlyfunded and managed International Literacy Research Unit involving the Faculty ofEducation, Language and Community Services and the School of Humanities,Universiti Sains Malaysia. The research unit is involved in joint research in literacyand language and associated areas of policy and practice of mutual interest. Theresearch unit operates from two virtual nodes located at USM in Penang and RMITUniversity in Melbourne. Activities, contacts and news of the centre are availablethrough a joint web site and function as a virtual centre. The collaborationproduced a jointly edited book: Singh, M., Kell, P. and Pandian A. AppropriatingEnglish: The Global Business of Teaching English Language, Peter Lang, New York,2002.

University of South Australia Research Collaboration

The Faculty of Education, Language and Community Service and University ofSouth Australia Division of Education Arts and Social Sciences have embarked ona two-year relationship-building program entitled ‘Researching Education,Language, Community Services and Social Sciences’. The aim of this collaborationis to increase research opportunities through the development of a mutuallybeneficial partnership that will build research capacity and complement researchexpertise through joint research proposals, shared hosting of conferences and

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forums, shared PhD supervision and other collaborative activities. Two jointlyedited books are currently being produced through this collaboration: a book onadult education is being edited by Peter Kell and Michael Singh, and a book onglobalisation and education is being edited by Michael Singh, Jane Kenway andMichael Apple

Arena Publications (Melbourne)

Established in 1963, Arena Publications publishes Arena Journal, an academic bi-annual, and Arena Magazine, Australia's leading left magazine of cultural andpolitical comment. In addition, it publishes books in its political culture series. TheGlobalism Institute and Arena Publications have agreed to publish an essaymonograph series, and in 2002 collaborated as joint sponsors of the Global Futuresseminar series. The Globalism Institute has a presence on the editorial board ofArena Publications through Paul James, one of the publication editors.

New Internationalist (Oxford, Toronto, Amsterdam and Melbourne)

The Australasian editor of the magazine, Chris Richards, has worked from an officein the Globalism Institute since mid-April 2002. The New Internationalist teamproduce magazines designed to bring the voices and experiences of the South (orthe 'developing' world) into the homes of its 75,000 subscribers in the North(Australia, New Zealand, England, Canada, and New Zealand). It is produced by aself-supporting international cooperative that pays its 30 staff a living wage. Themagazine has eight editors: four in Oxford (UK), two in Toronto (Canada), one inAmsterdam (the Netherlands), and one in Melbourne (Australia). Chris Richardshas a watching brief for stories in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly on the waythat globalisation is affecting the people in this region. The New Internationalistand the Globalism Institute work with many parallel issues. The magazine has astanding brief to critique the negative effects of globalisation on economic andhuman development. The relationship between the Globalism Institute and theNew Internationalist, which began with the sharing of information and ideas, hasnow expanded into a series of reciprocal arrangements spanning teaching, research,publishing and jointly sponsoring public forums. We agreed to jointly sponsor aconference on ‘West Papuan Futures’ in February 2003.

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5.2 Collaborating ScholarsAs part of the process of forging international cooperative ties, the Instituteregularly hosts international and Australian visiting scholars. Visiting Fellows areencouraged to be part of the research culture of the Institute. Past collaboration hasinvolved jointly written and edited books, mutual participation in internationalconferences and discussion at local forums:

Visiting Professorial and Senior Fellows, 2001

Michael Apple, Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA

Warren Crichlow, Associate Professor, York University, Canada

Ken-ya Kadosawa, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Shufan Liu, Associate Professor, Jilin University, China

Martin Nakata, Director, Aboriginal Research Institute, University of South Australia

Ambigapathy Pandian, Associate Professor, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Gella Varnava-Skoura, Professor, University of Athens, Greece

Mimis Sophocleous, Athens, Greece

Visiting Professorial and Senior Fellows, 2002

James DonaldP rofessor of Media and founding Head of School of Media and Information, Curtin UniversityAuthor of Imagining the Modern City, and Sentimental Education: SchoolingPopular Culture and the Regulation of Liberty as well as editor of a dozen bookson various aspects of cinema, the media, education and social theory.

Thomas FrankJournalist, author and editor of the BafflerContributing reporter to The Washington Post, The Nation, In These Times, andother periodicals. Tom Frank is a major figure in cultural criticism today. His bookThe Conquest of the Cool became a national bestseller in the United States. He co-edited Commodify Your Dissent (1997) with Matt Weiland, and most recently isauthor of the acclaimed One Market Under God (2002).

James GoodmanUniversity of Technology SydneyAuthor and editor of a number of books on globalism, nationalism and socialmovements. Most recently, he was editor of Protest and Globalisation (2002).

Nelson GraburnProfessor of Anthropology, University of California, BerkeleyCurator of North American Ethnology at the Hearst Museum

Michael H. LeeComparative Education Policy Research Unit, Department of Public and SocialAdministration, City University of Hong KongSince 2002, Michael Lee he has been serving as Forum Co-ordinator of the HongKong Educational Research Association and also Executive Committee Member ofthe Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong.

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Yun-Kie HurProfessor, Dean of International Programs, Induk Institute of Technology, South Korea.

John HutnykGoldsmiths College LondonCollaborating with Paul James and Peter Phipps on a comparative researchproject on policy and media representation of asylum seekers in Australia andEurope, funded by Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Noga Kadman During her three-month visit to the Globalism Institute, Noga Kadman undertooka comparative study of Australia’s immigration and refugee policies towards Jewsduring World War II and the present day. For the past six years she has workedfor B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights information centre in Jerusalem, gatheringdata on human rights violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in theoccupied territories.

Nie Shaomin and Chen YimingProfessors at Yanshan UniversityPart of a visiting delegation from Quinghuangdoa, China.

Anoop NyakSchool of Geography, Politics & Sociology, University of Newcastle upon TyneAs a visiting scholar with the Globalism Institute, Dr Nyak lectured on the topicof youth cultures in a globalising world.

Fazal RizviProfessor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fazil Rizvi is author and co-author of numerous works on education andglobalisation, including Education Policy and the Politics of Change, and TheOECD and Educational Policy, and as well as editor of Discourse and a specialissue of Educational Theory on globalisation and education.

Weihua LuoAssociate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of English Language at DalianMaritime University, ChinaHis one-year visit to RMIT has been dedicated to professional development andcomparative research into English language teaching in Australia and China.

Qi FengP ro f e s s o r, Deputy President, Shanxi Normal University and Deputy President of The Yu w e n(Chinese Language) NewspaperProfessor Qi’s visit focused on researching Chinese language and culturaleduction overseas and, in particular, the role of Chinese Australian newspapers inthis area of learning.

Visiting Professorial and Senior Fellows 2003

Donald Hones Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education andHuman Services, University of Wisconsin OshkoshAugust - December, 2003

Ken Ya KadosawaAssistant Professor, Office of International Affairs, Muroran Institute of TechnologyMarch 2003 - January 2004

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RMIT University Collaborators

The Globalism Institute is building partnerships and draws on expertise across theuniversity. RMIT staff who have been involved in recent collaborations include thefollowing persons (in addition, see 3.6 above the list of Associate Personnel fromacross RMIT):

Tricia CaswellExecutive Director, Global Sustainability at RMIT UniversityRecent research: work with corporations, organisations and others to make them,and RMIT itself, working models of sustainability as presented in the BruntlandReport.

Michael DouglasSenior Lecturer in Industrial DesignRecent research: Cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogue; art, design and thepublic sphere.

Karin GeiselhartPost-Doctoral Research Fellow, Electronic CommerceRecent research: e-commerce; electronic business; global and corporategovernance; and online democracy.

Gillian DavyCo-ordinator, Community Advocacy Unit, Faculty of Constructed Environment, SocialScience and PlanningRecent research: social justice and sustainable environment.

Kipps HornRecent research: music and multiculturalism

David KimberAssociate Professor, School of ManagementRecent research: corporate citizenship; ethics and leadership in management; andcultural diversity.

Heather MallinsonLecturer, Hospitality, Tourism and LeisureRecent research: global citizenship; cultural pedagogy; and industry training forcross-cultural awareness and communication.

Stuart McFarlaneDirector, RMIT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Liaison UnitRecent research: Indigenous education; institution building and organisationalmanagement in overseas projects.

Mark RoseLecturer, School of ManagementRecent research: Indigenous Australia; and business management, education, andorganisational analysis.

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ResearchSensitive to the competing demands of the processes that underpin contemporaryglobalisation, the Globalism Institute specialises in engaged and principledresearch that contributes to cultural and social sustainability of communities fromthe local to the global. The research projects are gathered together around keythemes all related to this core purpose:

1. Globalism and Nationalism

2. Transnational Movement

3. Global Education

4. Community and Social Integration, I. Indigenous Communities

5. Community and Social Integration, II. Local and Global Communities

6. Discourses of Critical and Ethical Engagement

The Globalism Institute was the winner of the 2002 RMIT Innovation Award forTeam Research and was the recipient of five large ARC grants in 2002.

6.1 Globalism and Nationalism

Violence at the Intersections of Globalism, Nationalism and TribalismSponsor: Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant)Chief Investigators: Paul James and Tom Nairn

Project Description: This study investigates recent arenas of violence, from thegenocide in Rwanda to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, militia activities in EastTimor and West Papua, and the ‘War on Terrorism’ in Afghanistan. First, itexamines Western public representations of these arenas. Secondly, drawing uponcomparative political and anthropological analyses, the study tests its hypothesisthat neo-tribalism and neo-traditionalism are best understood in the globalisingcontext of insecure nation states. This study thus critically examines the commonplaceclaim that assertions of primord i a l tribalism and traditionalism are the well-spring ofcontemporary violence.

6.2 Transnational MovementAustralian Responses to Refugees, 1901–2005Sponsor: Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant)Chief Investigators: Paul James and Mary Kalantzis

Project Description: Developing an appropriate response to refugees should be adefinitive political concern in contemporary Australia. However, conceptual andbroad historical analysis is lacking in this area, particularly when it comes tounderstanding the global context and genealogy of Australia's current policy. Thisproject will analyse Australian reactions to refugees from Federation to the present.It is suggested that positions on refugees have been integral to the constitution ofAustralian national identity. The project will explore the complex interactionbetween government policy, humanitarian concerns, and the culture of securityconsiderations in the formation of Australia.

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Mapping the Music of MigrationChief Investigator: Kipps Horn

Project Description: Mapping the Music of Migration involves the preservation,interpretation and celebration of music-making practices associated with diasporacommunities in Melbourne. These communities include migrants and theirextended families, some of which extend across a number of generations; othersbelong to more recent migrant communities. Diaspora community members mayinclude both voluntary and forced migrants; the latter including refugees andasylum seekers. In identifying and celebrating the music of migration the projectencompasses music-making as part of our political, social and culturalenvironment. Project work will question, for example, the label of exoticismassociated with traditional music which has been brought to Melbourne fromcultures from many parts of the world, and explore the sense of ‘otherness’ and‘selfness’ in relation to issues of identity, gender roles in music making, the place oftraditional music-making in education, perceptions of tradition, and hybridmusical phenomena such as that stemming from ‘fusion’ music.

Priests on the Move: The History of the Scalabrini Priests in Australia and Asia1952–2002Sponsor: Scalabrini CentreChief Investigator: Desmond Cahill

Project Description: This study documents the history of the Scalabrinian priests,who arrived in Australia in 1952 from Italy to work among Italian immigrants, andexpanded to the Philippines, Taiwan and other parts of Asia in the Middle East.This study has required accessing parish archives in every Australian state andinterviewing the priests themselves, as well as accessing the archives of theScalabrinian order in New York and Chicago.

Indochinese Prisoners in the Port Phillip PrisonSponsor: Moreland Hall in association with the Uniting Church of AustraliaChief Investigators: Desmond Cahill and M. Benes

Project Description: This project culminated in a confidential report for MorelandHall, a drug education and treatment agency of the Uniting Church. The highnumber of Vietnamese prisoners in Victorian jails triggered this two-year project.The report was able to make a series of recommendations to prison authoritiesconcerning their incarceration, and to outlined an in-prison and post-prison strategy forthe rehabilitation of Indo-Chinese drug dealers and traffickers and drug users.

6.3 Global EducationEnglish as a Global LanguageSponsor: Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant)Chief Investigators: Michael Singh, Peter Kell and Ambigapathy PandianC o l l a b o r a t i o n : USM International Literacy Research Centre, Universite Sains Malaysia.

Project Description: This project involved fieldwork in Australia and Malaysia andanalysed the impact of the English language business in promoting Global Englishin the Asia-Pacific region. The research also analysed the way that English has beencommodified in the context of a worldwide market and the influence this is havingon teachers’ work, curriculum and managers of these businesses. The research teamexamined the notion of globalisation and localisation through an analysis ofvarieties of localised English and their relationship to the teaching of standardEnglish.

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Publications:

Singh, M., Kell, P. and Pandian, A. (eds) Appropriating English: Innovation in theGlobal Business of English Language Teaching, Peter Lang, New York, 2002.

Debating the Impact of International Trade Agreements on Transnational HigherEducation: A Comparative Study of Australia, Malaysia, Canada and GreeceSponsor: Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant) Chief Investigators: Chris Ziguras and Grant McBurnie

Project Description: In the past decade, provision of education across nationalborders has grown dramatically. However, the governmental frameworks forregulating such programs are yet to solidify, with rival approaches hotly contested.Governments are influenced and constrained by existing and emergent regulatorystructures and trade agreements at national, regional and global levels. This projectwill identify issues of central concern to key actors in four countries with significantinvolvement in transnational higher education, and analyse how debates in thesecountries utilise divergent models of likely implications of trade agreements.

Multiliteracies in Curriculum PracticeSponsor: Australian Research CouncilChief Investigators: Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope and Allan Luke

C o l l a b o r a t o r s : James Cook University, University of Queensland, HarvardUniversity, Clark University, Lancaster University, University of London, NationalLanguages and Literacy Institute of Australia

Project Description: This project builds upon a pilot program that began in 1996. Itinvolves a detailed case study of current curriculum and classroom practices inthree Australian schools and compares these results with parallel work beingundertaken in the United Kingdom and the United States. The schools representeducational endeavours across a range of socio-economic, culturally andlinguistically diverse contexts. All will purport to teach literacy in innovative waysthat address the need for technological competence, new forms of citizenship,cultural and linguistic pluralism and multimedia education. Critical discourseanalysis will be used to examine how policy documents, textbooks and curricularmaterials, and everyday talk in community and school settings constru c t s'multiliteracies' in the form of a range of highly particularised versions of identity,work and citizenship.

International Student Mobility and Educational Innovation: Chinese Studentsand the Internationalisation of Australian and American UniversitiesSponsor: Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant) Chief Investigators: Michael Singh and Fazal Rizvi

Project Description: Given China's entry into the WTO and building upon researchinto the uses of international education this project investigates educationalchanges arising from Chinese students studying abroad. Its theoretical andempirical focus is the change that the mobility of international students is effectingin the universities in which they are studying. It explores how Chinese students'identity-formation, career trajectories and transnational relationships informchanges in Australian and American universities. The project informs ourunderstanding of the ways their presence impacts on the different historicaltrajectories of these university systems to produce varying possibilities foreducational innovation.

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Education and Training and Regional Networks: The Implications forOutcomes and Governance Sponsor: Australian Research Council (Linkage Grant)Chief Investigators: Jack Keating, Veronica Volkoff and Sandra Haukka.Collaboration: Victorian Department of Education, Employment and Training andthe University of Melbourne.

Project Description: The project, which began in 2002, is investigating local learningand employment networks (LLENs) that have been established in Victoria. It willanalyse the effectiveness of networks in delivering education and training servicesand improving outcomes for young people. The inter- and intra-action of networks,and their relationships with government in policy formation will also be a n a l y s e d .It will provide new findings on effectiveness of networks in education outcomes.

International Perspectives on Innovation and Vocational Education and Tr a i n i n gSponsor: National Centre for Vocational Education and ResearchChief Investigators: Veronica Volkoff and Jack Keating

Project Description: The purpose of this study is to identify and compare theconditions that enable VET to facilitate innovation in a cross-section ofindustrialised countries and use the results as the basis for an in-depth analysis ofVET’s contribution to innovation in Australia. Part of the study is a comparativecomponent exploring developments and debates in VET/TVET in Kore a ,Singapore, Denmark, Germany, the UK and the USA.

6.4 Community and Social Integration, I. IndigenousCommunitiesIndigenous Peoples and Racism Research ProjectSponsor: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander CommissionChief Investigators: Martin Nakata, Jackie Huggins and Peter PhippsCollaborators: Common Ground

Project Description: This project involved RMIT co-ordinating a conference oncontemporary manifestations of racism towards indigenous people and publishinga report stemming from this gathering.

Publication: Nakata, M. (ed.) Indigenous Peoples and Racism: Report of theRegional Meeting of the World Conference on Racism, Xenophobia and RelatedIntolerance, Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2001.

Sustainable Community-Based Vocational EducationSponsor: National Council of Vocational Education and Research (NCVER)Chief Investigators: Leanne Reinke and Helen SmithCollaboration: Banduk Marika and Colin Lane from Gamarrwa Nuwul Land CareYirrkala in North-East Arnhem.

Project Description: The Globalism Institute in collaboration with Yirrkala LandCare, was successful in securing a funding grant to work on developing on acollaborative model to deliver sustainable, community-based vocational educationand training. The outcome of the grant will be included in a series of papersrelevant to equity issues in vocational education and training. These papers willcontribute to the National Strategy for VET 2004–2010 currently being developedby the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA).

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6.5 Community and Social Integration, II. Local CommunitiesCommunity Health and the Arts ProjectSponsor: VicHealthChief Investigators: Chris Ziguras, Douglas McQueen-Thomson and Paul James

Project Description: This research documents the relationship between communityarts projects and social and physical health in order to assess the methodologicalrigour of existing studies, to examine the strength of evidence for associationsbetween community level health promotion and social health, and to suggest futurelines of fruitful research.

Publication: McQueen-Thomson, D. and Ziguras, C. Cultures of Well-Being: AReview of the Evidence for the Health Benefits of Community Arts Practice, VicHealth,Melbourne, 2002, 42 pp.

Religion, Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion in Contemporary AustraliaSponsor: DIMIAChief Investigator: Desmond Cahill and Gary Bouma

Project Description: The project was established in the context of September 11. Itinvolves consultations with the heads of faith in every Australian State andTerritory, case studies of 14 local faith communities in urban and rural Australia, ane l e c t ronic consultation held with the Australian people, the production ofeducational materials on Islam and the development of a kit for interfaithcooperation at grassroots level. It also examines the feasibility of an Australianinter-faith council to advise government.

Holy Cities, Holy SitesSponsor: Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural andIndigenous AffairsChief Investigator: Desmond Cahill

Project Description: This project will bring together three religious schools in ani n t e r-faith initiative to encourage interaction and cooperation in A u s t r a l i a ’ semerging multi-faith society.

6.6 Discourses of Critical and Ethical EngagementC2C System: An Integrated Book Production ProjectSponsor: Department of Industry, Science and Resources, through theInfrastructure and Industry Growth Fund, Book Production Enhanced PrintingIndustry Competitiveness Scheme Grants

Collaboration: Globalism Institute, RMIT Art, Design and Communication, RMITBusiness, FELCS, and Common Ground

Project Description: The C2C (Creator to Consumer in the Digital Age) researchproject has attracted approximately $1.7 million in research funding to RMIT in2001–2002. The project has involved a large number of RMIT researchers as well asexternal joint venture collaborators. The research has produced a series of bookscomprehensively covering a broad range of technological, market and culturalissues affecting the publishing industry. Commentary internationally and inAustralia has recognised this as perhaps the most comprehensive and forward

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thinking body of knowledge on the impact of the digital publishing revolution inrecent years anywhere in the world. The Globalism Institute has been involved ind i ff e rent aspects of the re s e a rch. This includes re s e a rch and editing of thepublications listed below.

• Cope, B. and Mason D. (eds) Creator to Consumer in a Digital Age: BookProduction in Transition

• Cope, B. and Gollings, G. (eds) Print and Electronic Text ConvergenceMultilingual Book Production

• Cope, B. and Mason, D. (eds) Digital Book Production and Supply Chain Management

• Cope, B. and Freeman, R. (eds) Digital Rights Management and ContentDevelopment

• Cope B. and Mason D (eds) New Markets for Printed Books

• Cope B. and Mason D (eds) Markets for Electronic Book Products

• Cope, B and Ziguras C (eds) The International Publishing Services Market

• Cope B and Brown, R. (eds) Value Chain Clustering in Regional Publishing ServiceMarkets

• Cope, B. and Freeman, R. (eds) Developing Knowledge Workers in the Printing andPublishing Industries

• Cope, B and Gollings, G. (eds) Multilingual Book Production

Accreditation for C2C: Funding has been approved to support the development ofan accredited online course in Digital Publishing for the purpose of engaging workersand managers in the process of creating new publishing systems and products forexisting and emerging markets for publishing materials. The Globalism Institutehas played an active role in the accreditation of these courses at RMIT University.

Representing the Refugee Sponsor: The British AcademyCollaboration: Joint project between John Hutnyk, Goldsmith's College, London,and Paul James and Peter Phipps of the Globalism Institute, RMIT

Project Description: This is a joint activities grant over two years. The proposedstudy is titled ‘Representing the Refugee: Comparative Perspectives on Australiaand Britain’.

Biotechnology Across the Borders of Life: Stem Cell Technology and GlobalMedical ExchangeSponsor: Australian Research Council (Fellowship)Chief Investigator: Kate Cregan

Project Description: This project examines the debates and policies surroundingembryonic stem cell technology and two intimately connected medicaltechnologies: re p roductive technology, in which it is founded; and org a ntransplantation, which it seeks to overcome. Each of these technologies repeatedlyconfronts and tests social, cultural, ethical and legal precedents, fuelling worldwidepolitical and media debate. The project addresses the social effects — locally andglobally — of these technologies. Analyses of altruism, giving and commodificationunderpin the study, and are used to elucidate the social ramifications of thepractices and expert discourses of these biotechnologies in four nation states:Australia, Singapore, UK and USA.

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7PublicationsOne of the aims of the Institute is to support research that leads to relevant andsocially engaged publications. (NB. Rather than attempting to collate thepublications of all the persons associated with the ‘Globalisation and CulturalDiversity’ research concentration at RMIT, the publications, conference papers andpublic addresses listed below are those produced by the core personnel only.)

7.1 Publications 2002

Books

Cope, B. and Ziguras, C. (eds) The International Publishing Services Market: EmergingMarkets for Books from Creator to Consumer. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Jupp, J. From White Australia to Woomera: Story of Australian Immigration. CambridgeUniversity Press, Melbourne, 2002.

Kalantzis, M. and Cope, B. Civic Pluralism: Multicultural Visions of Government andEconomy. Pluto Press, Sydney, forthcoming.

Kalantzis, M., Varnarva-Skoura, G. and Cope, B. (eds) Learning for the Future: NewWorlds, New Literacies, New Learning, New People. Common Ground, Altona, 2002.

Kell, P. (ed.) Ways of Learning; The Revolution in Teaching and Learning. CommonGround Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Nairn, T. Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom. Verso, London and New York, 2002.

Singh, M. G., Kell, P. and Pandian, A. Appropriating English: Innovation in the GlobalBusiness of Teaching English. Peter Lang, New York, 2002.

Singh, M. (ed.) Global Learning. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Singh, M. (ed.) The World of Learning: Globalisation and Multicultural Education.Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Sleeth, M and James, P. Tour of Duty: Winning Hearts and Minds in East Timor.(Photographs by Matthew Sleeth.) Hardie Grant Publishing, Melbourne, 2002.

Other Monographs and Reports

Kalantzis, M. and Cope. B with Harvey A. New Learning: A Charter for AustralianEducation. Australian Council of Deans of Education, 2001–2002.

McQueen-Thomson, D. and Ziguras, C. Cultures of Wellbeing: A Review of theEvidence for the Health Benefits of Community Arts. Victorian Health PromotionFoundation, Carlton, 2002.

Ziguras, C. McBurnie, G. and Reinke, L. Negotiating Trade in Education Services:Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Trade in Education and Training Services .Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra, 2002.

Chapters

Cahill, D. ‘From Broadbanding to Disbanding: the Schooling of Students fromImmigrant Families at the Turn of the Millennium’, in Singh, M. (ed.) Worlds ofLearning: Globalisation and Multicultural Education. Common Ground Publishing,Altona, 2002.

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James, P. ‘Forming Nations: Beyond Western-Centrism’, in Aveling H. andKingsbury, D. (eds) Autonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia. Routledge CurzonPress, London, 2003, 28-44.

James, P. and McQueen-Thomson, D. ‘Academic Publishing: A Report on theGlobalised Production of Knowledge’, in Cope, B. and Mason, D. (eds) New Marketsfor Printed Books. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002, 11-34.

James, P. ‘Principles of Solidarity: Beyond a Postnational Imaginary’, in GoodmanJ. (ed.) Protest and Globalisation: Prospects for Transnational Solidarity. Pluto Press,Annandale, 2002, 3-18, 231-3.

James, P. and Trigg, S. ‘King George III of Australia: Medievalism, Nationalism andRepublicanism’, in S. Trigg (ed.) Australian Gothic . Brepols and MelbourneUniversity Press, Brussels (forthcoming 2003).

Kalantzis M. and Cope. B ‘Manageable Knowledge: Communication, Learning andOrganisation Change’, in Cope, B. and Freeman, R. (eds) Developing KnowledgeWorkers in the Printing and Publishing Supply Chain. Common Ground Publishing,Altona, 2002, 1-16.

Kalantzis, M. with Cope, C. ‘Digital Meaning and the Case for a Pedagogy ofMultiliteracies’ (‘Significado digital y defensa de una pedagogía de losmultialfabetismos’), in Pereyra, M. A. (ed.), Multiliteracies in the Digital Space.Consorcio "Fernando de los Ríos", Granada, Spain, 2002.

McQueen-Thomson, D. and Brown, M. ‘Learning from Successful Book Exporters’,in Cope, B. and Ziguras, C. (eds) The International Publishing Services Market:Emerging Markets for Books from Creator to Consumer. Common Ground Publishing,Altona, 2002, 189-209.

Phipps, P. and Wearne, J. ‘Print, Publishing and Indigenous Australia’, in Cope, B.and Brown, R. (eds) Value Chain Clustering in Regional Publishing Service Markets.Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Reinke, L. ‘Utopia in Chiapas? Questioning Disembodied Politics’, in JamesGoodman (ed.) Protest and Globalisation: Prospects for Transnational Solidarity. PlutoPress, Annandale, 2002, 75-87.

Reinke, L. and James, P. ‘Learning Reflexively: Technological Mediation and theTribal-Modern’, in Kell, P. (ed.) Adult Education @ 21st Century: Future Issues forTheory and Practice. Peter Lang, New York (forthcoming 2003).

Singh, M. ‘The Globalisation of the World of Learning’, in M. Singh (ed.) GlobalLearning. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Singh, M. ‘The Uses of English Language Teaching: A Medium for Creating a NewWorld of Learning?’ in Singh, M. (ed.) Global Learning. Common Gro u n dPublishing, Altona, 2002.

Singh, M. ‘Introduction’, in M. Singh, (ed.) The World of Learning: Globalisation andMulticultural Education. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Singh, M. ‘Work Points for Tactically Appropriating Education Policies’, in M.Singh, (ed.) The World of Learning: Globalisation and Multicultural Education. CommonGround Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Smith, H. ‘Book Production and Distribution Models’, in Cope, B. and Mason, D.New Markets for Printed Books. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002.

Ziguras, C., Reinke, L. and Scanlon, C. ‘Trends in Education in the Australian BookIndustry: Between Specialisation and Integration’, in Cope, B. and Freeman. R. (eds)Developing Knowledge Workers in the Printing and Publishing Supply Chain. CommonGround Publishing, Altona, 2002, 91-106.

Ziguras, C. and Lawrence, A. ‘The Business of Exporting Books’, in Cope, B. andZiguras, C. (eds) The International Publishing Services Market. Common GroundPublishing, Altona 2002, 9-26.

Ziguras, C. and Wilcox, K. ‘Reconstructing the Bosnia-Herzegovina Book Industry’,in Bill Cope and Christopher Ziguras (eds) The International Publishing ServicesMarket. Common Ground Publishing, Altona 2002, 131-52.

Ziguras, C. ‘Publishing in International Education’, in Cope, B. and Ziguras, C.(eds) The International Publishing Services Market. Common Ground Publishing,Altona, 2002, 153-72

Ziguras, C., Lawrence, A., Brown, M. and Wilcox, K. ‘Export Assistance forPublishing’, in Cope, B. and Ziguras, C. (eds) The International Publishing ServicesMarket. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, 2002, 173-88.

Refereed Articles

Cregan, K. and James, P. ‘Stem Cell Alchemy: Techno-Science and the NewPhilosopher’s Stone’, Arena Journal, no. 19, 2002, 61-72

James, P. and McQueen-Thomson, D. ‘Abstracting Knowledge Formation: A Reporton Academia and Publishing’, Arena Journal, no. 17/18, 2002, 183-205.

James, P. ‘The Word Set in Blood and the Stone: The Book of God from Tribes toKingdoms and Nations’, Semeia, no. 88, 2001/2002, 173-98. (Special issue: ‘AVanishing Mediator? The Presence/Absence of the Bible in Postcolonialism’).

Nairn, T. ‘Globalization and the Unchosen: Leaving America Behind’, Arena Journal,no. 19, 2002, 45-60.

Scanlon, C. ‘A Step to the Left, or Just a Jump to the Right? Making Sense of theThird Way in Government and Governance’, Australian Journal of Political Science,vol. 36, no. 3, 2002, 481-98.

Singh M. ‘Rewriting Ways of Globalising Education’, Race Ethnicity and Education,vol. 5, no. 2, 2002, 217-30.

Other Articles and Political Commentaries

James, P. ‘The Concepts of "Community" and "Community Bro a d c a s t i n g " ’ ,Renaissance Television (Channel 31), Melbourne, 2002.

James, P. ‘An International Criminal Court?’, A rena Magazine, no. 60, 2002, 8 - 9.

James, P. ‘Tour of Duty’, STU, no. 13, 2002, 75-82.

James, P. ‘The Universities in Crisis? Which Crisis?’, Arena Magazine, no. 58, 2002,15-16.

Kalantzis, M. ‘Australians, True to Ourselves’, Campus Review, 6–12 February, 2002,12.

McQueen-Thomson, D. ‘Shakespeare in Our Time’, Arena Magazine, no. 57, 2002, 46-48.

Nairn, T. ‘The Modesty of Australia’, Arena Magazine, no. 62, 2002/2003, 5-6.

Nairn, T. ‘Turning Point Politics: From Salvaging the Past to Protecting theFuture’, openDemocracy, 16 January 2002,http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/Document_Details.asp?DocID=994&CatID=108

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Nairn, T. ‘The Lord of the Rings: Ethnicity in Your Dreams’, openDemocracy, 27February 2002,h t t p : / / w w w. o p e n d e m o c r a c y. n e t / d e b a t e s / a r t i c l e . j s p ? i d = 1 & d e b a t e I d = 6 7 & a r t i c l e I d = 4 5 3

Nairn, T. ‘Just Another Country’, openDemocracy, 11 September, 2002,h t t p : / / w w w. o p e n d e m o c r a c y. n e t / d e b a t e s / a r t i c l e . j s p ? i d = 2 & d e b a t e I d = 5 0 & a r t i c l e I d=183

Scanlon, C. ‘Conservative Hacking’, Arena Magazine, no. 60, 2002, 3.

Scanlon, C. ‘It’s time to slay Latham’s ideas and remake the Labor Party’, The Age,3 May 2002, 15.

Scanlon, C. ‘New Labor and the State They’re In’, Arena Magazine, no. 56, 2001–2002,46-8.

Scanlon, C. ‘From Plan B to Plan B - Reconstructing the ALP’, Arena Magazine, no.56, 2001/2002, 4-5.

Singh, M. (book review) in Campbell, J. (ed.) ‘Creating Our Common Future:Educating for Unity in Diversity’, Australian Education Researcher (2002).

Singh, M. and Scanlon, C. ‘Linguistic Diversity, Bio-Diversity and Education’,Education Quarterly (Accepted).

Singh, M. and Scanlon, C. ‘Cultural Diversity, Bio-Diversity and EthicalInvestment’, Chain Reaction (Accepted).

Ziguras, C. ‘GATS Goes to School’, New Internationalist, no.349, September 2002, 7.

Keynote and Other Public Addresses

Cahill, D. ‘Religion, Cultural Diversity and Community Leadership’, at the‘Community Leadership Forum’, sponsored by the Victorian Government,Melbourne, September 2002.

Cahill, D. ‘Paradise Lost: Religion and Social Cohesion in the Australian Context’,plenary paper at the 'Federation of Ethnic Communities Conference’, Canberra,December 2002.

Cahill, D. ‘Debating Diversity’, plenary panel discussion at the 'Federation of EthnicCommunities Conference’, Canberra, December 2002.

James, P. ‘University Governance and the Rationalisation of Councils’, at the‘University Governance in the Twenty-First Century Conference.’ MonashUniversity, 22 November 2002.

James, P. ‘Learning to Live in a Globalising and Postmodernising World.’ Keynotea d d ress at the ‘New Pedagogies in Globalising Times’ conference, MonashUniversity Gippsland, 31 October 2002.

James, P. ‘Ethics in the Age of the Abstract War-Machine.’ Plenary paper at the‘Ethics After September 11 Conference’, Storey Hall, co-sponsored by the La Trobeand Monash Universities, 14 September 2002.

James, P. ‘Violence, Patriotism and Social Capital.’ Respondent at the ‘Globalismand Religion Conference’, RMIT, 13–14 September 2002.

James, P. ‘Living Locally Across the Frontiers of Nationalism and Globalism: WhereDo We Go From Here?’ Keynote address at the ‘Nationalism and GlobalismConference’, University of Technology Sydney, 15–16 July 2002.

James, P. ‘The Intertwined History of Nationalism and Globalism. Plenary addressat the ‘Nationalism and Globalism Conference’, University of Technology Sydney,15–16 July 2002.

James, P. ‘Global Education: Between Cosmopolitanism and the Market.’ Keynoteaddress at the ‘Education and New Cosmopolitan Formations Conference’, DeakinUniversity, 3 July 2002.

James, P. ‘Western Democracy and the Passion for Thin Proceduralism.’ Institute ofPostcolonial Studies, 15 October 2002.

James, P. ‘The Abstraction of the Word and the Formation of Nations’, Departmentof History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, 16 October 2002.

James, P. ‘The Ideological Terror of Henry Kissinger’, Arena forum series, 26October 2002.

James, P. ‘Global Change and Regional Sustainability.’ Public address, DaylesfordTown Hall, 24 October 2002.

James, P. ‘Meaning in a Globalising and Postmodernising World.’ Public address inthe ‘Making Meaning in a Changing World’ series, jointly hosted by the Faculties ofArt, Design and Communication, Constructed Environment, and Education,Language and Community Services, Radio Theatre, RMIT, 26 September 2002.

James, P. ‘The Globalism Institute and West Papua.’ at Yumi Wantaim: TalkingAbout West Papua, Living Museum of the West, Pipers Park, Maribyrnong, 3–4August 2002.

James, P. ‘Reconciliation for West Papua.’ for the Induction of Jacob Rumbiak, WestPapua Forum, Storey Hall, Melbourne, 1 August 2002.

James, P. ‘Political Sustainability in an Era of Globalisation.’ for The Age newspaperand Global Education Project series, Camberwell Civic Centre, Melbourne, 30 July2002.

James, P. ‘ "Freedom" as Totalising Control.’ in the After Humanity series of forums( s p o n s o red by A rena, New Internationalist, Pax Christi, and the GlobalismInstitute), Kaleide theatre, RMIT, 19 June 2002.

James, P. ‘Subjectivity and Consumerism’, in the ‘Sights, Minds & Matters’ series,School of Applied Communication, RMIT, 2 May 2002.

James, P. ‘The Joy and Discomfort of Multiculturalism.’ Public address at theFintona ‘Celebrating Multiculturalism 2002’ Forum (with Tim Costello), FintonaGirls School, Balwyn, 8 May 2002.

James, P. ‘West Papuan Independence or Special Autonomy.’ Public address at theAustralian Catholic University, Ballarat campus, 24 April 2002.

James, P. ‘Cultural Diversity: Prospects for a Shared Future.’ Public address,Whittlesea Community Festival, 17 March 2002.

James, P. University Inaugural Professorial Address, ‘Globalisation: Refugees,Terrorists and Other Boundary Crossers.’ RMIT University, 19 February 2002.

Reinke, L. ‘Educational Practice in Mexico: Indigenous communities use globalpolitics to reform local educational practices’, Internationalizing Education in theAsia-Pacific Region: ‘Critical Reflections, Critical Times’, ANZCIES Conference,University of New England, NSW, 6–8 December 2002.

Reinke, L. ‘Beyond Corporate Globalism: Is Another World Possible?’ Panelconvened in conjunction with the Research Initiative on International Activism(UTS), Readers Feast, Melbourne, 23 July 2002.

Singh, M. ‘Aligning University Curricula to the "Global Economy": MakingOpportunities for New Learning/New Teaching Through the Internationalisationof Education.’ Keynote presentation for the ‘Internationalising Education in theAsia-Pacific Region: Critical Reflections, Critical Times’ Annual Conference of the

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Singh, M. ‘Migrant Women’s Changing Roles: The Impact of Immigration and ThePreservation of Skills.’ Speech for the Opening of the Exhibition "Textiles and Tales:Punjabi Women In Victoria" (14 May – 11 August, 2002), Immigration Museum, OldCustoms House, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne.

Singh, M. ‘Risks and Opportunities: The Multilingual Knowledge Economy and theSustainability Of The Earth’s People and Their Cultures.’ Second Public Forum InThe ‘Making Meaning In AWorld Of Change’, a lecture series exploring some of theissues that face us in modern society. Jointly hosted by the Faculties of Art, Designand Communication; Constructed Environment; and Education, Language andCommunity Studies, Radio Theatre, RMIT University, 12 September 2002.

Singh, M. ‘The Problem of White Australia Politics: Proliferating Talk of Admixtureand Australian Cosmopolitics.’ Presentation to the Centre for Language, Literacyand Diversity, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 14 September 2002.

Singh, M. ‘Social and Cultural Drivers for Sustainability: A Case Study of theImpact of Linguistic Diversity.’ Paper presented at The Global SustainabilitySeminar for the Master Of Business Administration Program, RMIT Business,Saturday 16 February 2002.

Singh, M. ‘The Sustainability of the Earth’s People and Their Cultures.’ Paperpresented at the Forum for on Cultural Sustainability’, conducted by The Age andThe Global Education Project, Camberwell Civic Centre, 22 May 2002.

Wu, J. and Singh, M. 'Wishing for Dragon Children: A Comparative Study ofChinese Parents’ Perspectives on Education in China and Australia.’ Paper forpresentation at The Ninth International Literacy and Education Research NetworkC o n f e rence on Learning, "New Learning: Culture, Technologies, Literacies,Persons." Beijing, China, 16–20 July 2002.

Ziguras, C. ‘Trade in Education Services: Liberalisation, Regulation and PublicPolicy.’ A paper prepared for the Mexican Consejo de Universidades Públicas eInstituciones Afines (Council of Public Universities and Affiliated Institutions)presented at the University of Colima, Mexico, 23 November 2002.

Ziguras, C. ‘Policy Issues and Impacts of Further Trade Liberalisation.’ Keynoteaddress to the APEC Education Network Thematic Dialogue ‘Trade in EducationServices: Issues and Approaches’, Hanoi, 11 May 2002.

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8Conferences and ForumsThe Globalism Institute organises national and international conferences andseminars that provide public spaces for debating and formulate policy and practicein all dimensions of global-local relations. Each of these conferences is treated as thebasis for furthering the research aims of the Institute and is linked to the publicationof research monographs and anthologies. We intend the conferences as a means offorging cooperative research relations with kindred institutes and centres ofexcellence both within Australia and across the world.

8.1 Conference SeriesCultural Diversity ConferencesSydney, 2000; Geelong, 2001; Honolulu, 2003

An annual series of international conferences on reconciliation, multiculturalism,immigration and questions of cultural sustainability in a globalising world. Theseries examines the concept of ‘diversity’ as a positive aspect of a global world andglobalised society. Diversity is in many ways not only reflective of our presentworld order but normatively preferable to its alternatives: racism, discriminationand inequity. The series seeks to explore the full range of what diversity means andexplore modes of diversity in real life situations of living together in community.

Garma Conferences

An annual forum held in Arnhem Land under the auspices of the Yothu YindiFoundation. The series is intended to facilitate discussions between indigenouspeoples, particularly the Yolngu, and non-indigenous Australians about how to livein relationship with each other culturally and in place.

Gove, 2002 (13 - 18 August), ‘Indigenous People and the Environment’

In May 2002, Peter Phipps from the RMIT Globalism Institute, was contracted bythe Yothu Yindi Foundation to co-ordinate Djakamirri Wangawu, ("Take Care of,Look After Country"), a three-day forum on the theme of Indigenous People andthe Environment. The forum was part of the fourth Annual Garma Festival ofTraditional Culture, held every August at Gulkula, near Nhulunbuy, in ArnhemLand. The themes of 'Djakamirri Wangawu' included: governance and naturalresource management; caring for country, sustainable occupation; intellectual andcultural property rights; and eco-tourism. The Forum brought together Indigenouspeoples, scientists, conservationists, venture capitalists, social scientists andecotourism experts to find new linkages, synergies and directions in equitablecultural exchange, sustainable indigenous and non-indigenous economies and thewise use of cultural and natural resources.

Peter's involvement saw a delegation of seven RMIT staff attend the Forum. TriciaCaswell from Global Sustainability spoke to an audience of mining executives andenvironmentalists about the environmental challenges of mining. Paul James wasinvolved in discussions around regional governance, while Helen Smith, JulianSilverman and Leanne Reinke from FELCS, and Bill Cope from our research partnerCommon Ground, engaged in discussions with Yolngu institutions such as therenowned Yirrkala Community Education Centre. They looked at new technologyapplications, appropriate VET delivery and possible research collaborations. Thishas already led to a successful research grant involving FELCS and Yirrkala LandCare. RMIT has been contracted to provide a co-ordinator for next year's GarmaForum, with the focus being on visual arts and culture. The sound of the yirdaki

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(didgeridu) is a call to all people to come together in unity. From 8–12 August 2003,this call will announce the fifth annual Garma Festival. At the present timeindigenous peoples internationally are rethinking their engagement with Westernsociety as they demand and reassert their rights to both manage their own landsand culture, and map their own futures. Garma serves as a model of howtraditional cultures and intellectual practices can not only survive, but thrive in acontemporary global context. The Garma Festival website iswww.garma.telstra.com

Indigenous Peoples and Racism ConferencesSydney, Australia, 20–22 February 2001

A Regional Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Racial Discrimination andRelated Intolerance. Organised in association with Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslander Commission (ATSIC) and designated as a satellite meeting by the UnitedNations High Commissioner of Human Rights. The conference provided a forumfor discussion by Indigenous Peoples from Aotearoa/New Zealand, mainlandUnited States, Hawaii, Canada and Australia. Out of the conference a book waspublished as a research anthology and as a series of recommendations takenforward as agenda items for the United Nations world conference in Durban,August 2001:

Nakata, M. (ed.) Indigenous Peoples, Racism and the United Nations Common GroundPublishing, Altona, 2001.

International Literacy Conferences (LitCon)Penang Malaysia, 1999, 2001, 15 - 17 2003

LitCon is organised by the International Literacy Research Unit (USM–RMIT withwhich the Globalism Institute has institutional links) in association with UniversitiSains Malaysia, the International Development in Asia Committee (IDAC) and theInternational Reading Association.

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts ConferencesAdelaide, Australia, 5–7 March 2002

A biannual conference organised in association with ATSIC and the Aboriginal andTo r res Strait Islander Arts Fund of the Australia Council to bring togetherAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and art-workers to have a voice aboutthe future of art practice and policy in Australia.

New Learning Conferences Penang, Malaysia, 1999; Melbourne, Australia, 2000; Beijing, China, 2002

International Literacy and Education Research Network Conferences on Learning.This conference is linked to the Globalism Institute through the New Learningconcentration and the Chinese Australia Forum. (See Appendix 1.)

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8.2 Additional Conferences Held in 2002After September 11: Religion, Diversity and Cohesion in the GlobalNeighbourhoodMelbourne, Australia, 13–14 September 2002

This conference explored how the events of September 11th brought into sharpfocus a number of dimensions: the interface between religion and key aspects ofglobalisation, such as the formation of cultural, linguistic and religious diasporaand transnational faith communities; the tension between heterogenisation andhomogenisation; the consequences of the politics of identity and of grievance; therise of different types of fundamentalism and religious revivalism; the marketing ofproducts, including religious products, in a global-local world; the emergence andgrowth of older and newer global social and religious movements; the unmooringof personal multifaceted identities and the ambivalence of 'home'; the changing roleand repositioning of the nation-state with the rise of global cities and the resultinggrowth in urban-rural tension. Religion is at the core, or close to the core of most ofthese issues.

Refugees and the Lucky CountryMelbourne, Australia, 28–30 November 2002

The Globalism Institute, together with the RMIT Community Advocacy Unit andthe Australian Sociological Association, hosted this three-day conference looking atrefugee politics in Australia. Featured speakers included Peter Mares, MargaretReynolds, Arnold Zable and Mary Kalantzis. Around 180 people attended theevent. It provided an opportunity to refocus on refugee politics in Australia at acrucial moment of transition, and to reconsider the juncture between activism andanalytical work.

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8.3 Forthcoming ConferencesCultural Diversity Conference 2003: Managing Cultural Diversity in aGlobalising World Hawai’i, 13–16 February 2003

A joint conference with the Globalization Research Center (University of Hawai’i).The conference is intended as a research conference to bring together academics,community leaders and policy makers to develop a better understanding of thequestion of how to live in a world of cultural diversity—how to reconcile culturaldivides without flattening cultural difference. It is intended as a basis for at leasttwo edited books to be published by Common Ground: one on the broad theme of‘Managing Cultural Diversity in a Globalising World’, and the second on ‘Crossingthe Great Divide: Indigenous People and Globalisation’.

The Humanities ConferenceRhodes, Greece, 2–5 July 2003

The Humanities Conference aims to develop an agenda for the humanities in an eraotherwise dominated by scientific, technical and economic rationalisms. What is therole of the humanities in thinking the shape of the future and the human? Theconference’s conversations will range from the broad and speculative to themicrocosmic and empirical. Its overriding concern, however, will be to redefine thehuman and mount a case for the humanities. At a time when the dominantrationalisms seem to be running a course towards often less than satisfactory ends,this conference will reopen the question of the human — for highly pragmatic aswell as redemptory reasons. Central considerations of the conference will includethe dynamics of identity and belonging; governance and politics in a time ofglobalism and multiculturalism; and the purpose of the humanities in an era ofcontested social ends.

The Management ConferencePenang, 11– 13 August 2003

The Third International Conference on Culture and Change in Organisations,jointly organized with Common Ground and the Business Faculty, RMIT.

Fifth Annual Garma ConferenceGove, Arnhem Land, Australia, 8–12 August 2003

Violence, Terror and Insecurity: After September 11Melbourne, 2004

A joint conference with the Institute for Global Movements at Monash University,the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University,and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies.

8.4 Forums 2002Globalisation: Refugees, Terrorists and Other Boundary CrossersInaugural Professorial Lectures, Kaleide Theatre, RMIT, 19 February 2002Addresses by Tom Nairn and Paul James with 120 invited guests.

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Tibetan Film FestivalCapitol Theatre, RMIT, April 2002

War on Terrorism; Middle East Conflict and AustraliaLa Trobe University City Campus, 1 May 2002

The Globalism Institute was one of the co-sponsors with The Centre forCivilisational Dialogue through Professor Desmond Cahill. Over 150 peopleattended the event.

After HumanityKaleide Theatre, RMIT, 19 June 2002

Co-sponsored with the New Internationalist magazine, Arena Publications, andPax Christi. The speakers were Joe Camilleri, Chris Richards and Paul James, with60 participants.

Humanity Uprooted: Refugees, Stem Cells and ReconciliationCapitol Theatre, RMIT, 4 July 2002

Co-sponsored with the New Internationalist magazine, Arena Publications, andPax Christi. The speakers were Tim Costello, Guy Rundle, and Gordon Preece, with70 participants.

Beyond Corporate Globalism: Is Another World Possible? Reader's Feast, Melbourne, 23 July 2002

Speakers included Barry Carr, James Goodman, Damien Grenfell, Paul James,Leanne Reinke, and John Wiseman. Panel convened in conjunction with theResearch Initiative on International Activism at the University of Technology,Sydney. Forty-five people attended the event.

Global Communications: Four Propositions and Several FuneralsGlobalism Institute, RMIT, 25 July 2002.

An address by James Donald on global communications.

West PapuaStorey Hall, RMIT, 1 August 2002

A major forum to celebrate the induction Jacob Rumbiak as a Senior Associate of theGlobalism Institute. Speakers included Larry Walsh (Kulan Nation) Bishop HiltonDeakin, Professor Mary Kalantzis (Dean of FELCS) and Professor Paul James, witha closing note from Professor Ruth Dunkin, Vice Chancellor of RMIT. Over 230people attended the event including delegates from the Solomon Islands, Fiji,Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Maluku.

Yumi Wantaim, 2002: Talking About West PapuaLiving Museum of the West, Pipers Park, Maribyrnong. 3–4 August 2002.

Speakers included Kel Dummett, Mike Parsons, Jacob Rumbiak, Sr Rita Hayes, DrRobert Wolgramm, Jason MacLeod, Aggies Mosese, with delegates from theSolomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Maluku.

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The Role of Faith in Building a Harmonious Multicultural SocietyMelbourne Town Hall, 11September, 2002

Hosted by SBS Radio and the Victorian Multicultural Commission and supportedby the Australian Multicultural Foundation, the Australian MulticulturalCommission and the World Conference of Religions for Peace as part ofcommemorating the terrorist attacks in the US one year previously. Desmond Cahillof the Globalism Institute was a speaker at the event.

After September 11: The Ethical Consequences Storey Hall, RMIT, 14 September 2002

A forum organised in association with the Monash Centre for the Study of Ethics inMedicine and Society and the La Trobe School of Communication, Arts and CriticalEnquiry. Speakers included Paul Komearoff, Mary Kalantzis, Mohammad Kamal,Deborah Zion, Toula Nikolacopoulos, George Vassilakopoulos, DipeshChakrabarty, Paul James, Andrew Milner, John Wiltshire, John Gatt-Rutter, DavidBuckingham, and Graham Gee.

One Global Market Under GodTrades Hall, Melbourne, 14 October 2002.

A forum with the prominent American cultural critic, Tom Frank, and editor ofArena Journal, Dr John Hinkson. Co-sponsored with the School of AppliedCommunication at RMIT. 150 people attended.

Race, Place and Globalisation: Youth Cultures in a Globalising WorldGlobalism Institute, RMIT, 19 December 2002

A lecture by visiting scholar Dr Anoop Nyak from the School of Geography, Politicsand Sociology at the University of Newcastle on Tyne.

8.5 Forums 2001Where to Next: A Public Forum on Asylum Seekers in AustraliaStorey Hall, RMIT, 13 September 2001.

The forum involved prominent speakers from the community, politics andacademia, with over 600 people attending. Images and papers were posted on theRMIT website with a massive, positive reaction from the public who saw RMITtaking a crucial leadership role at a moment of heightened tension.

The Australian People Book LaunchStorey Hall, RMIT, 4 October 2001.

A book launch by Sir Gustav Nossal of Adjunct Professor James Jupp’s (ed.), The Australian People, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

The Afghan Tragedy: 23 Years of NightStorey Hall, RMIT, 11 October 2001.

The forum was organised in conjunction with the Afghan Support Group and theB ro t h e rhood of St Lawrence’s Ecumenical Migration Centre, and involvedprominent leaders from the community, politics and academia. Over two hundredpeople attended.

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Postgraduate ProgramThe Institute has as one of its central activities the provision of a research culturesupporting postgraduate supervision in the areas of globalism, transnationalism,nationalism and cultural diversity. It concentrates this supervision in theuniversity’s re s e a rch program of Doctor of Philosophy and Masters Degree by re s e a rc h .

9.1 PostgraduatesThe Institute has a strong postgraduate program with a number of seniorsupervisors including Michael Singh, Mary Kalantzis, Desmond Cahill, PaulBattersby, Peter Kell and Paul James.

Paul James, for example, supervises the following postgraduates at RMIT:

• Ben Burdon (PhD), Nationalism, Modern and Postmodern

• Louise Byrne (PhD), West Papuan Futures

• Caciano Chow (PhD), People Smuggling (associate supervisor withDesmond Cahill)

• Brad Haylock (PhD), The Global Politics and Ethics of Design

• Maria Katsabanis (PhD), Nation and Gender (co-supervisor with MaryKalantzis)

• Gareth Knapman (PhD), Nation Formation in Indonesia

• Poly Tzimourtas (PhD), Australian Women’s Fiction and Spatiality

• Andrew Scerri (PhD), Subjectivity of Consumption

In addition, in 2002 Professor James supervised the following students for otheruniversities:

• Gina Anderson (PhD), ‘University Education in Crisis’ (University ofWestern Sydney)

• Ruth Arber (PhD), ‘Multiculturalism, Racism and Difference’ (Faculty ofEducation;Monash University)

• Maya Rangathanan (PhD), ‘The Internet and the Nation’ (MonashUniversity)

• Mathew Ryan (PhD), ‘The Identity of Ireland’ (associate supervisor withAndrew Milner, Comparative Literature, Monash University)

• Chris Scanlon (PhD), ‘Third Way Liberalism and the Governance ofPostmodern Nations’ (Department of Politics, Monash University)

• Che Tibby (PhD), ‘Indigenous Politics and Identity’ (Department ofPolitical Science, University of Melbourne, associate supervisor withRobyn Eckersley)

• Ben Wellings (PhD), ‘Changing National Identity: Comparing England,Scotland and Australia’ (Australian National University)

The following students successfully completed their PhDs under his supervision in2002:

• Lucas Walsh, ‘For Those Who Can Climb? A Critique of the InstrumentalRationalisation of Mass Education and its Relationship to DemocraticCitizenship’ (Monash University)

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• Damian Grenfell, ‘Dissent: The State and Protest in ContemporaryAustralia’ (Monash University)

• Kerry Wardlaw, ‘Questioning Transcendence: Information Technologiesand the Changing Nature of Embodiment’ (Monash University)

• Michele Willson, ‘Community and Technology’ (Monash University)

9.2 Postgraduate forums Each month the Institute holds a general research forum for postgraduates and stafffrom across RMIT working in the area of ‘globalism and cultural diversity’. Papersare given by mix of invited scholars and postgraduate students. The forum isassociated with a monthly dinner.

Each fortnight during semester, Professor Michael Singh conducts a specialisedHigher Degree student forum where participants discuss research in progress andkey aspects of the research process.

In addition, we run regular occasional forums with invited keynote speakers. Theseforums are usually open to the public. Speakers for 2002 included:

9.3 Postgraduate ProgramsThe Globalism Institute offers the following postgraduate research degrees:

Master of Arts (Globalisation and Cultural Diversity);Master of Education (Globalisation and Cultural Diversity).

The Institute is also associated with the following postgraduate programs offeredby other RMIT departments:

Graduate Diploma of Social Science (International Development);Master of Social Science (International Development);Graduate Diploma of Social Science (International Urban and EnvironmentalManagement);Master of Social Science (International Urban and Environmental Management);Master of Business Administration International Management.

Professor Joe Camilleri (La Trobe University)

Dr Barry Carr (La Trobe University)

Tim Costello (Director of theUrban Mission, Baptist Church)

Dr Thomas Frank (Chicago)

Bishop Hilton Deakin

P rofessor James Donald(Communications, CurtinU n i v e r s i t y )

Dr James Goodman(University of TechnologySydney)

Dr Damian Grenfell (Monash University)

Dr John Hinkson (Arena Journal)

Gordon Preece (Director of theCentre for Christian Ethics)

Dr Leanne Reinke (RMIT)

Chris Richards (the NewInternationalist)

Guy Rundle (Arena Magazine)

Associate Professor JohnWiseman (RMIT).

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The Chinese-Australian ForumThe Chinese-Australian Forum is a key part of RMIT’s university-wide researchconcentration in Globalisation and Cultural Diversity sponsored by the Faculty ofEducation, Language and Community Services and RMIT Business.

RMIT University recognised the need for the Forum in response to:

• the risky opportunities created by globalisation and cultural diversity;

• anti-Asian racism in the Australian community;

• the desires of Chinese Australians to make productive contributions toAustralia; and

• the imperative to build much better relations between Australia and Asia.

The Chinese-Australian Forum focuses on contemporary interests and issues facingChinese Australians and seeks to give voice to these. It works to support ChineseAustralians in speaking confidently to the wider community of their concerns incontemporary Australia, their past and present contributions to this country'sdevelopment and their leadership in developing a prosperous, cosmopolitanAustralia.

T h e re are diff e rent groupings of Chinese Australians and each contributessignificantly to the development of Australian society, their relations with theChinese diaspora and the nations peopled by the Chinese. In this respect the Forumis distinctive, being the first of its kind in Australia to address these interrelatedissues from the multiple perspectives of Chinese Australians.

The RMIT Chinese-Australian Forum aims to:

• proactively build educational and cultural relationships between Australia, theChinese diaspora and China by means of conferences and scholarly exchanges;

• broker and co-ordinate the provision of business and community leadershipskills development and senior management training for people from Chinaand those intending to work there;

• contribute to the sustainability of linguistic diversity, the enhancement of theworld’s multilingual knowledge economy, and the renewal of Australianmulticulturalism while investigating the problematic legacy of WhiteAustralian politics;

• undertake research that investigates the complex and contradictory processesof globalisation and localisation, particularly as these relate to managing therisks associated with the globalisation of English, the uses of internationaleducation and training and Chinese Australian relations.

The Learning Conference

In July 2002 Beijing Normal University co-hosted with RMIT University,Melbourne, Australia, the Ninth International Literacy and Education ResearchNetwork (LERN) Conference in Beijing. The focus of the 2002 Learning Conferencewas ‘New Learning: Cultures, Technologies, Literacies, Persons’. Since the events ofSeptember 11, 2001 the Conference’s themes of cultural diversity, globalisation,citizenship and new information and communications technologies, are now moreimportant than ever.

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Language and Culture Study Tour to China

Each year since 1997 the Chinese-Australian Forum has co-ordinated an excitingprogram of Language and Culture Study Tours to China. These study tours provideAustralian students with the opportunity to gain knowledge about contemporaryChinese politics, economic development, social changes, and underlying culturalissues of significance in China today.

Our Chinese partner, Nanjing Normal University, provides considerable assistanceand input into this month-long language and cultural study tour. The Universityhas been long established in Nanjing, a city that was China's capital for sixdynasties and has a rich cultural heritage.

University Mobility in Asia Pacific (UMAP) Program is an association ofgovernment and nongovernment representatives of the higher education sectorthroughout the Asia Pacific region. The Australian Federal Government sponsorstertiary students to study accredited courses in universities throughout the region.The Government assists Australian students to study overseas for several months,with the aims of increasing their international understanding and enhancing theirpositioning within the global labour market.

The Chinese-Australian Forum has obtained UMAP funding for the planning,management and joint delivery of a study program at Nanjing University, China.This involved the recruitment and selection of participating students, as well asproviding preparatory Chinese language and cultural training as well as fieldadvice. During their study program the RMIT exchange students interacted withChinese students, made group presentations on behalf of Australian youth,engaged in personal exchanges and participated in multimedia presentations.Through these means these exchange students promoted multicultural Australia.

The Forum:

• provides advice to various Australian State and Federal Government agencieson Chinese governmental visits;

• organises industry consultation for Chinese Government Ministries, such asTreasury, Social Security and Welfare, and

• facilitates industry management education about Australian policies andadministration.

Recent activities have included briefings for official delegations and conductingTraining Programs such as:

• Officer Training—Civil Affairs Bureau of Beijing Municipal City Government

• Senior citizen development and services—Beijing Municipal CityGovernment’s Senior Citizen Management Team

• Civil administration—Beijing Municipal City Government’s Civil AffairsBureau and the Civil Affairs Bureau of Tianjin Municipal City Government

• Environment development—Beijing Chaoyang District Government.

• Tourism and hospitality—Beijing Tourism and Hospitality Senior Management

• Internal and external auditing—Beijing Municipal Audit Bureau

• University and vocational education articulation—Changzhou LocalGovernment and Education Authority

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The Greek CentreThe Australian Greek Resource and Learning centre was established in 1997. It islocated at 209 Lonsdale St., (120 Building of RMIT) in the Greek precinct ofMelbourne. The centre is part of the Faculty of Education, Language, andCommunity Services (FELCS). It is associated with the Department of Languageand International Studies (LIS), and plays an important role in supporting theGreek-language program delivered by the Department. The focus of the Centre isto promote Greek education, language, culture and history within the Greek andwider Australian and International community as well as contribute to the teachingof learning programs through developing, collating and accessing teaching andeducational re s o u rces. The centre acts as a re f e rence service to the Gre e kcommunity by making resources available to the public and supporting research ofthe Diasporic Hellenism in its global dimensions. The Centre is open to allcommunity members, students, educators, artists, and scholars.

In August 2002, a Memorandum of Understanding was officially signed betweenRMIT and the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria to furtherdevelop the community and educational role of the RMIT Australian-GreekResource and Learning Centre.

The Centre is particularly involved with the following programs:

Collecting and distributing teaching resources to support innovative pedagogy andmethodology in teaching the Greek language and culture as well as the delivery ofeducational programs to school-age students. These pursuits focus primarily onprograms of community social history, Greek migration and settlement, communitytheatre and community family profiles. More than 2,000 students have participatedin activities of the Centre since 1997. In 2002, the Centre also distributed books onthe European Union and its relationship with Australia and other languageresources to all Greek-language programs and schools in Victoria. The Centre hasas one of its aims the promotion and encouragement of the lingual polymorphy ofAustralian society in the present.

Teaching-support and program co-ordination of students attending theu n d e rgraduate Greek-language program within the Faculty of Education,Language Community Services (FELCS). Part of the support takes the form ofsupervision of postgraduate students undertaking postgraduate projects byresearch in Greek-related topics.

Professional Development seminars and workshops for teachers and studentsin schools where Modern Greek is taught.

The development of Community History Resource Packages and EducationalPrograms.

The co-ordination of school partnerships and innovative educational projectswith schools of the Greek Diaspora.

The maintenance of a Greek Library with more than 4,000 volumes andlanguage resources.

The organisation of student and community exhibitions, discussion forums,seminars and conferences on the Greek language and culture and cultural eventsin association with the Greek Community. As well as catering for its studentbase through the plethora of cultural awareness seminars, the Centre aims to beappealing at the same time to the wider Australian and internationalcommunity. In particular, the Centre has organised and supported majorcultural events throughout 2002 and especially during the Antipodes Festival.

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All activities were very successful, attracting hundreds of people, includingschool students. These events were made possible with the support ofcommunity organisations (Greek Community of Melbourne) as well asacademic agencies (e.g. Australian National University, National Europe Centre,Centre of European Studies, RMIT Globalism Institute, Alliance Française), thusenhancing community and corporate partnerships. Such activities include:

• Organisation of the ASIO book launch in February 2002, funded by FELCS

• The Drachma Exhibition and Educational Program, March 2002

• The Open Forum on European Integration Issues and Relations betweenAustralia and the European Union (guest speakers: Prof. Tom Nairn andLindsay Turner, MP)

• The Miniature Exhibition by Zacharias Vogiatzopoulos, April 2002

• The third Greek Book Exhibition co-organised by AXEPA, April 2002

• The Educational Forum, with guest speaker the Secretary of the GreekEducational Ministry, Prof. Stella Priovolou, August 2002

• The provision of consultation and translation services to the SAE WomenExhibition on Migrant Women, Immigration Museum, September 2002

• The Painting Exhibition by the Australian-Greek local artist GeorgeKannavas, October 2002

• Modern Greek Literary Forum on Nikos Kazantzakis with an internationalspeaker from Switzerland, Mr Stassinakis. This forum was organised bythe Centre in association with the Globalism Institute, the AllianceFrançaise and the International Society of the Friends of NikosKazantzakis, November 2002

Finally, the Centre undertakes and co-ordinates:

• Research-based projects such as the International European project‘Paideia Omogenon’

• Conferences such as the annual Oral History Symposium (running sincethe mid-1980s), the three Greek-Australian Literature NationalConferences and the forthcoming conference on Greek-Australians in the21st Century to be held in 2004

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Photos 1 and 2. Every evening in the cooling hours before sunset, dancers gatheredon the sands of the ceremonial ground dressed in the ochre and clay of their landfor bunggul; to dance and sing the stories that keep their land and culture strong.The ideas communicated were an exposition of Yolngu governance: law,philosophy and their relationships to a globalised world. This particular dance bythe Red Flag Dance Group, Numbulwar community, represents the 700-year-oldYolngu trade and exchange relationship with the Macassar fishermen fro mIndonesia.

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Photograph 3. 'The closing concert of the Garma Festival with Yothu Yindi, togetherwith other local and national musicians.'

Photograph 4. Women watching the bunngul.

Photographs by Peter Eve. © Yothu Yindi Foundation.