Centre for Global Research

Annual Report 2015 Front cover: Graffiti Art, Paris, September 2009. Photo by Paul James. This image was selected as it is representative of critical discourses that were significant across 2015, including radical populism, nationalism, and debates on gender.

Image credits: Sam Carroll-Bell, Damian Grenfell, Charles Hunt, Paul James, Nico Keenan, Julian CH Lee. This report also includes pictures taken by Tommaso Durante. These images are part of Durante’s ‘The Visual Archive Project of the Global Imaginary’ (2009–ongoing), an online visual database that aims to contribute to our understanding of the processes of globalization and how the global imaginary is symbolically and socially produced. To learn more go to: www.the-visual-archive-project-of-the-global-imaginary.com

Centre for Global Research

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Director’s report 2 About the Centre 6 Our mission 6 What we do 6 Research agenda 7 Social change in a global world 7 Thematic focus 8 Conflict and security 8 Development and humanitarianism 8 Governance and justice 9 People 12 Members 12 Adjunct and honorary members 22 Associate members 24 Organization 28 Collaborations 30 Key research projects 34 Publications 44 Books and edited collections 44 Book chapters 44 Journal articles 47 Research reports 48 Short pieces and book reviews 49 Encyclopaedia entries 49 National commentary and editorial 49 Key events 52 Global Frictions 52 Centre conferences and symposia 55 Centre colloquiums and co-hosted events 56 Book launches 57 Film screenings 58 Public engagement 60 Invited addresses and keynotes 60 Conference and seminar presentations 61 Exhibitions and poster presentations 61 Television, radio and online discussions 62 Cross-cultural and programmatic engagement 62 Student engagement 64 PhD candidates 64 Higher degree by research: Candidate experience 69 Financial report for 2015 72 Director's report

The harrowing image of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old boy whose body was washed up on the While the Centre continues to grow significantly, in 2015 we did bid farewell to Professor shoreline of Turkey in September 2015, captured the horrendous cost and sadness of armed Manfred Steger. Manfred was a former Director of the Centre from 2007 to 2009 (then known conflict. The public response to the image and the humanitarian crisis that it symbolized was as the Globalism Research Centre). Having joined RMIT University in 2005 he has contributed so great that it affected political debates from Europe to Canada and Australia, focusing immensely through his scholarship and by ensuring that ‘the global’ remained a pivotal theme attention again on refugees, sovereignty and borders. The flows of refugees through at the University. As part of his leadership and mentorship, in 2015 Manfred hosted two Centre Southern and central Europe, across the Mediterranean from North Africa, and across South members at the University of Hawai’i. We thank Manfred, recognize his contribution, and look and South East Asia, have become immense humanitarian challenges. Working within the forward to continuing our work as he assumes the role of Adjunct Professor within the Centre. orthodoxies of a nation-state system simply does not provide for solutions, and Governments Thanks are also extended to the Centre’s 2015 Executive Committee. This group represents such as Australia’s turn themselves inside out as a consequence. As one part of responding members in a day-to-day way and provides important advice and input into the strategic to such immense problems, researchers are increasingly required to simultaneously work direction of the Centre. At the end of 2015 Kent Goldsworthy stepped down after being an in contradictory directions; inwardly towards deep knowledge of specific contexts and invaluable contributor of the executive for two years. As an HDR student and a lecturer in Global outwardly with a global view of social change. Alan Kurdi’s death was a single moment in a Studies, Kent brought considerable experience and ideas, and we look forward to his continued tragic process that is outpacing explanation, albeit a moment repeated innumerable times association with the executive as the representative for higher-degree students. Dr Georgina daily and only differentiated in this instance because a journalist was there to photograph the Heydon, senior lecturer in the Justice and Legal Studies Discipline, was elected Deputy Director body. of the Centre. In recognition of the political and social problems that this world faces, the approach of the In 2015, the Centre launched its dynamic monthly Global Frictions seminar series, furthering its Centre for Global Research eschews parochialism in the research agendas we set. When commitment to supporting a rich research culture. The series began with a sell-out crowd for we speak about our work in Melbourne, or elsewhere through Australia, it is informed by the panel discussion, ‘Understanding Charlie’, which brought vital insight to the intersections the connections, comparisons and common challenges shared with many sites around the between violence, language and culture in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. The world. And the reverse is also true. We engage with communities from the favelas in Brazil to panel format of subsequent seminars proved popular, and there was often standing room only the highlands of Papua New Guinea, from Liberia to Cambodia and to the US, and in doing in RMIT’s ‘Green Brain’ as expert panels debated controversial topics ranging from resilience, so we bring diverse international perspectives to our understanding of what is happening trafficking, detention and political exclusion, to human rights and resistance. immediately before us in our own communities. In addition to the regular Global Frictions seminars, the Centre hosted several large-scale events. The Centre has a long-standing tradition of conducting research across a range of In January 2015 the Centre presented the three-day international conference ‘Reassessing the geographic regions in order to address issues of acute social need: security, human rights, Global Nuclear Order: Past, Present and Future’ in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute justice, development, poverty, gender violence, warfare, language and identity. Embedded of Technology. The conference was a major event in the field of International Relations and in our global approach is a focus on drawing the immediacy of our research findings into the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and brought together more than 50 of the world’s leading experts and broader political, theoretical and ethical debates of globalization, governance, power, culture, scholars to participate in three days of workshops, lectures and events. In attendance at this identity and political community. event were both the RMIT Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, amongst other distinguished guests. In pursuit of our objectives, 2015 marked a critical year for the Centre with the appointment Following the Tom Nairn Lecture in the previous month which featured former Australian and of various high calibre researchers. Dr Ceridwen Spark, an expert in gender, culture and French Prime Ministers, this event demonstrated once more that the Centre continues to make social change, has joined us from the Australian National University as a Vice Chancellor’s a significant impact on key international and local decision-makers. Research Fellow. Associate Professor Hariz Halilovich, a Senior Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and The Centre’s expert contribution to contemporary policy debate was also evident at the one- formerly of Monash University, is well known for his work on place-based identity politics day industry workshop in November 2015 entitled ‘Rethinking Foreign Aid’. Drawing together in relation to migration and reconciliation. Dr Charles Hunt joined the Centre as a Vice representatives from Australia's leading aid and development organisations, emergency relief Chancellor’s Post Doctoral Fellow, moving to Melbourne from the University of Queensland agencies, academic institutions, and federal government bodies, this workshop facilitated a lively and bringing his expertise in peace operations, security and justice in conflict-affected discussion on recent changes to Australia's approach to foreign aid. societies. Furthermore, at the end of 2015 the Centre also announced that it would be joined by Associate Professor Anne Brown from the University of Queensland. Before academia, In addition, at the end of the year the Centre hosted ‘Refuge(e)s in the cities’, a two-day Anne worked with DFAT and has extensive experience in peace and conflict studies. international symposium convened by Associate Professor Hariz Halilovich that assessed post- conflict trauma, gendered violence and social inclusion. This event was attended by an array These four appointments have brought with them considerable experience and extensive of participants, from ambassadors, academics from around the world, film-makers and artists, networks. We welcome each of them, and thank all the members who supported the work activists and students. involved in supporting the process.

2 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 3 There were many other initiatives, events, launches and research projects over 2015. One such initiative for the Centre drew together Centre members in issue-based working groups to address key strategic questions. In addition, other working groups began to emerge organically, with one on interventions and local responses, and another on gender. Both these groups have begun strategic planning to engage in exciting research endeavors in 2016. This short summary captures only a few key highlights from 2015, but nonetheless provides an indication of what has been a richly engaging year for the Centre. There are of course a great many challenges for research centres, not least the near obsession in universities to determine value via the generation of income alone. Quality scholarship requires taking risks—both intellectual and otherwise—and for success to be recognized in ways far broader than the reductive ‘bottom line’. We as a Centre have much to do by our own measures and ambitions, and we would ask you to take a moment to browse through this annual report to see the vast array of publications, projects, engagements and events held by the Centre throughout the course of the year. This is our record of what we have achieved. Whether the items speak to challenges facing Australian communities or elsewhere, we hope they reflect the value the Centre places in addressing critical problems from the local to the global, and with a special emphasis on working with people caught up in the immense challenges of global change.

Damian Grenfell Director, Centre for Global Research July 2016

Opposite: Community members gather to watch a game of street football. Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, 2014. Photo by Charles Hunt.

4 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 5 About the Centre Research agenda

The Centre for Global Research is dedicated to research excellence in the area of Social change in a global world Globalization and Social Change with a thematic focus on Conflict and Security, The world in which we live cannot be understood and its issues adequately addressed without Development and Humanitarianism, and Governance and Justice. a global perspective. Everything from the most ephemeral social phenomenon to the most The Centre’s objective is to understand and critically evaluate current directions of global complex human environment interactions have clear threads that bind them into a global change, with an emphasis on the implications of political, social and cultural transformation fabric, the shape of which they both influence and are influenced by. The study of globalization for communities and organizations from the local to the global. Centre research is undertaken recognizes that all areas of human endeavour can be, from one view, understood within a global with an emphasis on qualitative methods, taking an interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary frame, and that whether we are to study it as social scientists, or to seek to intervene as agents approach. The focus of the Centre’s site-based research is in the Asia Pacific, and extends to of social change, a sound understanding of this global frame is key. Africa, Europe and the Americas. The necessarily broad scope of the study of globalization permits an array of emphases Based at RMIT University in Melbourne, the Centre has a close association with teaching and foci. Thus, as a term that entered the social science lexicon over half a century ago, disciplines in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, including Global Studies ‘globalization’ as an object of study is contested. That these debates continue, with vigour, is (International Studies and International Development), Justice and Legal Studies, Languages, an indication of the importance and urgency of this study. That these debates intersect with as well as Translating and Interpreting. work done in diverse fields of research within and beyond the humanities and social science is a testament to their far-reaching significance. Our mission Research into globalization bridges disciplinary concerns to explore contemporary issues within At a time of acute sensitivity to questions of social dislocation, economic inequity and a hybrid framework of analysis. More so than any other social science field, Global Studies political upheaval, the Centre for Global Research is committed to rethinking the relationship takes a nascent global cosmopolis as its primary referent. Notions of national, social and cultural between the global and the local. Its primary intellectual task is to understand the processes space are challenged by the realities of growing cosmopolitan diversity and the decoupling of of change and continuity, and to think through political-cultural questions about how people geography and identity. The nation state may not be dead but there is an evolving sphere of can live in ways that are sustainable and meaningful to them. In particular, it works to facilitate action beyond the state and nation that transcends established notions of the international and and enhance activities of political and cultural dialogue across the continuing and positive which increasingly engages the attention, resources and energies of many transnational non- boundaries of cultural diversity in the world today. state actors. The study of globalization brings together such concerns under a single umbrella while researchers in the field grapple with the conceptual challenge of integrating this globality What we do into established disciplinary discourses. In the study of our world, the capacity to conceive ‘the global’ and to contextualize local Founded in 2002 as the Globalism Institute, the Centre for Global Research: happenings in a global frame is increasingly prerequisite. However, at the same time, • Undertakes engaged research into globalization, and into conflict, development and globalization at once accentuates and multiplies the connections between people and peoples, governance in a global context. It seeks to understand and critically evaluate current enabling hybridized cultures and identities to form, while promoting the development of local directions of global change, with an emphasis on the social implications of political, identities and the importance of place and local culture. economic and cultural transformation. Understandings of the self and locality evolve in concert with the spread of ostensibly • Builds links with other universities, industry partners and communities. homogenizing global symbols and identities. Whether the behaviour of people seeks to • Plays an educative role in the community, both local and global, about the difficulties and participate in the global, or rootedness in place and tradition, the only constant is change. the possibilities of globalization and social change. Thus, intersecting with the Centre’s research on globalization is a concern for both continuity, • Provides research consultancy to all levels of government, industry and community. but especially ‘social change’. Adaptation, contestation, resilience and sustainability each • Sponsors conferences, forums and seminars to debate and formulate critical analysis become key areas for research as communities across different scales grapple with changing and policy for both government bodies and world and regional organizations and configurations of power and identity that can carry both positive and negative possibilities. agencies. We explore these themes particularly in the context of conflict, development and governance, • Offers a rich research milieu for postgraduate study in the areas of globalization, understanding each in a period of intensifying globalization and taking them in their most international politics, nationalism, identity politics, conflict, security, development, localized moments and understanding them as parts of globalizing flows. From global humanitarianism, justice and governance, from the local to the global. governance to local activism, from transnational companies to petty traders, and from international celebrity to personal identities, there is not a realm of human activity that in some The Centre’s supportive and vibrant research environment provides a strong platform way is not impacted and influenced by the tensions between the local and the global. for competitive grant applications and consultancies, a critical mass for interdisciplinary collaboration and problem solving, and opportunities for better promoting research findings to industry, government and non-government audiences.

6 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 7 Thematic focus Conflict and security Governance and justice There are times in which the world seems to be on fire. For all the assumptions of human Governance is a concept increasingly understood by policy makers, governments and progress and civilised refinement, conflict and its effects remain a constant in global politics. business to be about much more than simply ‘what governments do’. Our researchers extend Yet in all its dimensions, conflict is changing; the patterns of warfare, the use of technology, conventional institutional approaches and engage with governance as the process of how the impact of terrorism, all evolve, driven by the political conditions in post-colonial states, things are done—the exercise of power through social systems and the patterns of social shifts in power balances between superpowers, North-South relations, and the emergence regulation. Since its inception the Centre has researched the intersection between globalization of new points of contestation both locally and globally. The Centre undertakes innovative and systems of governance, and as such our research spans the local to the global, from research in diverse dimensions of conflict and its prevention and resolution, from security small communities in remote Australia through to global institutions such as the International and diplomacy in international relations, through to military interventions and police missions, Criminal Court and the United Nations. Working between grounded research methodologies, and local, national and international practices of reconciliation, peace and transitional justice. empirical studies and social theory, our research shows for instance how indigenous people Our approach is embedded in engaged understandings of the social, historical, cultural and and communities in post-conflict settings negotiate multiple and sometimes contradictory otherwise specific dimensions of particular conflicts. With this, we are interested in the day- systems of authority, responsibility and power that are frequently elusive to and unrecognized to-day subjective responses of people caught in moments of extreme violence through to by governments and corporations. Understanding how these multiple governance systems critically assessing prevailing conceptual and strategic approaches to security and peace. intersect, and how they are changing in response to global forces and technologies, can transform policy deadlock into effective engagement and partnership, and underpin longer-term sustainability. Development and humanitarianism Development is ostensibly about ensuring the provision of basic material needs (food, clothing, shelter, health and education) and opportunities to live lives that are – in the words of Mahbub ul Haq – ‘long, healthy and creative’. Yet almost everything that development is understood to represent appears to be in question. A sense of crisis has emerged, prompted by changing circumstances in the Global North and South, the growing impact of global financial institutions, the changing nature of conflicts, intensifying environmental threats and ideological contestation that manifests in resistance against global capitalism in its neoliberal form. More than ever before, there is growing awareness that development demands a multidimensional, holistic approach. Researchers at the Centre work at the points of intersection between these complex tensions. Our work is framed through an examination of the relationship between the local and the global, macro and micro policies, endogenous and exogenous development, and relationships at the centre and the periphery. With more than a decade of research and policy experience across local, national and global settings, our researchers bring a critical, vibrant and applied dimension to development research.

Above: Hariz Halilovich and Ceridwen Spark lead a discussion at the Centre's End of Year Meeting. Melbourne, December 2015. Photo by Damian Grenfell.

8 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 9 Mapping Portuguese colonial conquests at the Padrão dos Descobrimentos Monument. Lisbon, Portugal, January, 2015. Photo by Damian Grenfelll. People The Centre for Global Research is comprised of members, adjunct and honorary appointments, and associates, including colleagues from local, national and international institutions. Paul Battersby Associate Professor and Convenor of Global Studies Members School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Damian Grenfell Paul Battersby leads the Global Studies Discipline at RMIT. He teaches in the areas Director of global governance and international law, global crime, global risk and Asian business culture. His published research explores the multi-scale intersections Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Global Studies between law, governance, society, crime and security. His interests extend to the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies complex patterns of globalization as these manifest across different discipline Damian Grenfell is the Director of the Centre for Global Research, a Senior specializations and concerns. He has also written colonial Australia into international Lecturer in Global Studies (incorporating both International Studies and and global history through his studies of Australian travel, tourism and investment in International Development), and Manager of the Timor-Leste Research Southeast Asia since 1788. Program. His research concentrates on different forms social change, power Areas of expertise: Theories and methodologies of global governance, global and conflict, both in war-affected societies and between social movements development practice, and the legal, moral and political complexities of and the state. Within this, his work concentrates on gender and violence, transnational organized crime, and international crime. security, reconciliation, as well protest and forms of social contestation. Areas of expertise: Social change and violence, the State, nation formation, interventions, security, gender, peace and reconciliation, social movements, Desmond Cahill OAM protest. Professor of Intercultural Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Desmond Cahill has been a world leading researcher and teacher in the areas of Georgina Heydon immigrant, cross-cultural and international studies for more than three decades. Over this time, his numerous publications and projects have focused on the many Deputy Director immigrant and refugee groups that comprise modern Australia, including the Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Argentinian, British, Cambodian, Chilean, Dutch, Filipino, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Georgina Heydon is an internationally recognized expert in the field of forensic Maltese, Polish, Turkish, Uruguayan and Vietnamese communities. He has also linguistics and investigative interviewing, and has published numerous conducted research in Japan, the Philippines, Switzerland and Viet Nam. academic papers and a book, The language of police interviewing, on the Areas of expertise: Immigrant, multicultural and international education, cross- topic of interviewing and information gathering. Georgina also provides cultural communication, bilingualism and biculturalism, ethnic minority youth, expert evidence on authorship and speaker identification, as well as on threat immigrant settlement, ethnic community development, world population identification, and commercial trademark cases. She has delivered interview movements, cultural diversity policy development and evaluation, intermarriage, training and advice to police in Australia, Sweden, Belgium, Indonesia, and international students and, religion and globalization. Canada, and to members of Australian judicial colleges and tribunals as well as lawyers and corporate clients. Areas of expertise: Police interviewing, pragmatics, forensic linguistics and Robin Cameron language in a legal context. Lecturer in Justice and Legal Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Robin Cameron’s research focuses on the intersection of security and social order. His book Subjects of security: Domestic effects of foreign policy in the War on

Natsuko Akagawa Terror, examines the many forms of social control within communities perpetuated Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies by September 11, 2001 and subsequent global counter-terrorism. An edited Natsuko Akagawa’s research focuses on heritage as it applies to people, collection entitled Human security and natural disasters examines the human nations and global interactions. Her pioneering research establishes a dimension of natural disasters and offers prospects for moving towards a more theoretical nexus between the politics of cultural diplomacy, heritage progressive politics of security. conservation and national interest. This was the subject of her 2015 book, Areas of expertise: Counter-terrorism and the war on terror, global criminology, Heritage conservation in Japan’s cultural diplomacy (Routledge). social control, community resilience, human security, critical security studies, and Areas of expertise: Heritage diplomacy and foreign policy, intangible heritage, international relations theory. heritage and cultural tourism, historic urban / cultural landscapes.

12 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 13 Sam Carroll-Bell Michelle Farley PhD Candidate and Research Centre Coordinator, Centre for Global Research Research Centre Coordinator, Centre for Global Research Sam Carroll-Bell is a PhD candidate and Research Coordinator with the Centre of Michelle's role focuses on events and publications management, financial Global Research. His research focuses on the framing and impact of international management and reporting, and oversight of the Centre’s human resources development activities based in the Asia Pacific. Sam's PhD research examines responsibilities. Michelle is also a graphic designer and supports the publishing aims the knowledge and worldviews of international development workers operating in of the Centre. Timor-Leste. As the Research Centre Coordinator, Sam's work spans a range of functions, including event and publication management, financial monitoring and reporting, grant development, and human resources responsibilities. Kent Goldsworthy Areas of expertise: International development studies, community development, and Lecturer and PhD Candidate, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies international relations. Kent Goldsworthy is a Lecturer in the Master of International Development program with the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. As a PhD Candidate with the School, Kent’s research focuses on neo-liberal globalization and consumer cultures Chantal Crozet by investigating Voluntourism in international development. This research uses Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies social and political theories along with critical discourse analysis to investigate an Chantal Crozet is a Senior lecturer in French Studies and Intercultural explanation for the presence and popular support of Voluntourism. Communication. She completed her PhD and MA in linguistics at the Australian Areas of expertise: Globalization, consumerism, commodification, civil society in National University. Her main area of interest is culture and its links to language development, and theories of development. and identity. She has widely published on interculturality in language and culture education. Jose Roberto Guevara Areas of expertise: Intercultural language and culture education, language, culture and identity, discourse analysis, French popular culture, French songs, religions and Associate Professor and Program Manager, Master of International Development laïcité in contemporary France. School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Jose Roberto ‘Robbie’ Guevara's main research interests are popular and community environmental education in the Asia-Pacific region; Education for Ana Maria Ducasse Sustainable Development; international aid and community development; and Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies global citizenship. Robbie has successfully completed two ARC-Linkage Grants that Ana Maria Ducasse has an MA in Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Language investigated learning partnerships in connection with (i) youth-led learning for global testing. She has taught Italian Language, English as a Second Language, Adult citizenship, and (ii) school-community partnerships for sustainable development. He Literacy and Academic English. Currently her role as a Lecturer in Spanish is the President of the Asia-South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education Language and Spanish Studies at RMIT is combined with Program Manager for the (ASPBAE) and Vice-President (Asia-Pacific) of the International Council of Adult Diploma of Languages and Director of the Spanish Resource Centre. Her current Education (ICAE). Robbie was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing research projects are on the connection between high stakes English tests used Education Hall of Fame in October 2012 for his contribution to adult environmental for university entrance and oral assessments in higher education (with ACER), education and education for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific. persuasion in goal oriented business pitches in Spanish and English (with two Areas of expertise: Adult and community education, education for sustainable Spanish Universities la UNED & UAH) and Classroom Based Assessment focusing development, education advocacy, participatory action research, and global on feedback (with La Trobe University). She is also currently supervising in the area citizenship. of learning, teaching and assessment in translating and interpreting.

Hariz Halilovich Tommaso Durante Associate Professor and Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow Lecturer and Online Course Coordinator Centre for Global Research School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Hariz Halilovich’s main research interests include place-based identity politics, Tommaso Durante is a lecturer of Global Studies in the School of Global, Urban and forced migration, politically motivated violence, post-conflict recovery, memory Social Studies, and Honorary Urban Scholar with the UN Global Compact Cities studies and human rights. Most recently, his research has drawn attention to ways Programme (UNGCCP). His academic research, rooted in an art history and theory in which people use narratives and digital technologies to build life stories about background, was developed in the fields of cultural studies and visual ethnography place, migration, war, reconciliation and communal identity. Much of Hariz’s work and currently focuses on visual culture to better understand the relationship has an applied focus, and he has conducted research on migration-related issues between nation-state, ideological power and globalization processes. Tommaso for a range of non-governmental and governmental bodies, including the Minister for is also an award winning professional artist and his artistic production deals with a Immigration and Citizenship (Australia). wide range of media, from sculpture-installations to artist’s books. Areas of expertise: Post-conflict societies, refugee diasporas, reconciliation, Areas of expertise: Aesthetics of globalization, complex symbolic systems, social migration, war commemorations, communal archives and the Former Yugoslavia. imaginary, visual rhetoric with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region and Australia.

14 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 15 Vandra Harris Julian CH Lee Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Master of International Development Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Julian CH Lee’s research focuses on civil society, gender, sexuality and Vandra Harris is Program Manager of the graduate program in International multiculturalism with an area focus on Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. He Development and researches NGO-military interaction. Her previous work has has been an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the focused on international policing, participatory development and cultural impacts University of Kent, and maintains an interest in public engagement through regular of development. Vandra currently teaches courses on humanitarian assistance and columns in non-academic periodicals. His published academic work includes his on ethics. Prior to her university career, Vandra worked in local and international sole-authored books Islamization and activism in Malaysia, and Policing sexuality: community development NGOs and served on the boards of a range of Sex, society, and the state. He is also the editor of Narratives of globalization: organizations. Reflections on the global human condition, and co-editor with Yeoh Seng Guan of Areas of expertise: Humanitarian crises and complex emergencies, particularly Fringe benefits, and with Julian Hopkins of Thinking through Malaysia. NGO-military interaction in these environments. Areas of expertise: Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, civil society, activism, sexuality, gender, inter-ethnic relations, religion, and identity.

Charles Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow and Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow Lynne Li Centre for Global Research Coordinator of Chinese Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Charles has a background in international relations and critical security studies. Lynne Li coordinates the Chinese Language Program at undergraduate and His research focuses on peace operations, security and justice in conflict-affected postgraduate levels at RMIT and teaches into its courses. She also works as a societies and evaluating the impact of peacebuilding efforts. Charles has been research student supervisor for both Masters by Research and Doctoral Degrees, in an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre for Excellence in Policing and the areas of Chinese and English languages and cultures education. She engages Security since 2009 and he is an Honorary Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for extensively in cross-institutional networking and collaborative research projects with the Responsibility to Protect. He has worked with the Australian government, think both local and international partners. tanks and academic institutions in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and consults to the Areas of expertise: Second language acquisition, languages and cultures, UN and a number of international humanitarian NGOs. multilingualism and globalism, English and Chinese language studies, professional Areas of expertise: UN peace operations, Security and justice reform in conflict- development of TESOL and LOTE teachers. affected societies, Responsibility to Protect and protection of civilians in armed conflict, organisational learning, impact assessment and monitoring and evaluation Jock McCulloch Professor of History, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Reina Ichii Jock McCulloch is Professor of History in the School of Global, Urban and Social Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Studies. Jock’s principal interests are in the colonial history of southern Africa Reina Ichii is a trained economist with significant research and industrial experience and the history of medicine in particular. He has conducted fieldwork in Algeria, in the field of development economics. In 2008, as an academic advisor, Reina Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Malawi and Kenya. Jock is a Fellow joined the Japanese Government delegation for the 52nd session of the UN of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of Commission for the Status of Women in New York. Reina has also undertaken the Humanities. In January 2012, Jock began A history of tuberculosis in Southern consultancy work for UNESCO, UNDP and JICA. Her research interests include the Africa. The project, which is being funded by the Australian Research Council, runs care economy, microfinance and intra-household resource allocation. parallel with an important legal action in the Pretoria High Court against the mining Areas of expertise: Public finance, development economics, gender and conglomerate Anglo / American. development, and care economy.

Elizabeth Kath Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Elizabeth Kath is a Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, Honorary Research Fellow with the UN Global Compact Cities Programme and Co-Director of Global Reconciliation. Elizabeth has a political science background and now works within the interdisciplinary field of global studies. Thematically, she is interested in reconciliation, intercultural communication, and social inclusion / exclusion. Regionally, Kath has a long-standing interest in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Australia’s relationship with Latin America. Areas of expertise: Latin American and Caribbean society politics and culture, Australia’s relations with Latin America, reconciliation, social inclusion, public health, state capacity, social capital, development. 16 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 17 Glenda Mejía Caroline Norma Senior Lecturer, Coordinator of Spanish Studies, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Caroline Norma is a Lecturer in the Master of Translating and Interpreting degree Glenda Mejía is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language Studies and the Coordinator in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. In her research, Norma applies of the Spanish Program. She has published various articles in the area of women's a gender analysis to the practice of translation and interpreting, and examines studies in Cuban cinema such as Dos épocas en el cine cubano, Madagascar: the experience of migrant women in accessing sexual assault, domestic violence Un viaje interno, and Mujer transparente: In search of a woman. She is currently and child protection services in Australia from this communication perspective. researching the topics of women's representation, migration and place in Mexican Caroline’s work also examines policy approaches to prostitution, trafficking and cinema. Her latest article in this field is ‘Impact of power domains on irregular pornography in Australia and Asia. migrants’ as seen in La vida precoz y brevede Sabina Rivas. Currently, she is Areas of expertise: Public policy, prostitution, pornography and trafficking in conducting an ethnographic research project: ‘Transnationalism and belonging of Australia, Japan and South Korea. Latin Americans in Melbourne’. Areas of expertise: Latin American cinema, women’s studies, belonging and place- making within the Spanish community, sociolinguistics (identity and language), and Peter Phipps pedagogy (teaching and practice). Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer (International Studies) School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Peter Phipps is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT and a founding member Kerry Mullan of the Centre for Global Research. He undertook post-graduate training in cultural Senior Lecturer, Convenor of Languages anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, and a PhD on the cultural School of Global, Urban and Social Studies politics of postcolonial theory at the University of Melbourne. His research interests Kerry Mullan is Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Languages at RMIT. She teaches include: the cultural politics of globalization and cultural diversity; postcolonial French language and culture and introductory sociolinguistics. Kerry’s main research perspectives on globalism, nationalism, urbanism and modernity; Indigenous interests are cross-cultural communication and the differing interactional styles cultural festivals; Indigenous-settler relations; transnational cultural, religious and of French and Australian English speakers. She also researches in the areas of intellectual flows and movements, the history of theory in anthropology and the intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and language teaching. She is currently anthropology of tourism; all these themes with specific reference to Australia, Papua investigating humour in French and Australian English social interaction. New Guinea, Amdo and Kham (eastern Tibetan areas), Hawai'i, Native North Areas of expertise: Cross-cultural communication, discourse analysis, intercultural America and Bosnia-Herzegovina. pragmatics, French and Australian interactional styles, and expression of opinion. Areas of expertise: Postcolonial perspectives on globalization, nationalism, development and modernity in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, Indigenous festivals, cultural politics of globalizing cultures and identities, cultural diversity and urban Yaso Nadarajah ethnic precincts. Senior Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Yaso Nadarajah’s research activities are in the areas of community and development Lesley Pruitt studies, society and culture and narrative research. Her recent publications include Abiding by Malaysia: Mediating belonging through cultural contestations, Rebuilding Lecturer, International Development, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies communities in the wake of disaster: Social recovery in Sri Lanka and India, Lesley Pruitt is Lecturer in International Development. A Truman Scholar, Rotary and Sustainable communities, sustainable development: Other paths for Papua Ambassadorial Scholar, and a former McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow New Guinea. Yaso is also a Research Associate of the Institute of Malaysian and at the University of Melbourne, Lesley holds a BA (Political Science, summa cum International Studies (IKMAS) at University Kebangsaaan (UKM), Malaysia, and also laude) from Arkansas State University as well as a Masters and PhD (Political with the Sisters-in-Islam Forum (NGO), Malaysia. Science and International Studies) from the University of Queensland. Lesley’s book, Areas of expertise: Community and development studies, society and culture, Youth peacebuilding: Music, gender & change is available from SUNY Press. Her narrative research, and community identity and belonging. second book, The women in blue helmets is forthcoming in 2016. Areas of expertise: Peacebuilding, youth political participation, creative conflict transformation, art & politics, gender & violence, international peacekeeping, gender equity in peace processes

18 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 19 Larissa Sandy Joseph M Siracusa Lecturer, Justice and Legal Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Professor of Human Security and International Diplomacy Larissa Sandy is a Lecturer in Criminology at RMIT University. She carried out School of Global, Urban and Social Studies her PhD at the ANU and has been a research analyst at the Australian Institute of Joseph M Siracusa is Professor of Human Security and International Diplomacy and Criminology where she worked on projects including intimate partner homicide and President of Australia’s Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Born human trafficking in Australia. She was also a research fellow on the International and raised in Chicago, he studied at the University of Denver and the University HIV Program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La of Vienna and received his PhD from the University of Colorado (Boulder). He is Trobe University and a Vice–Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Flinders internationally known for his writings on the history of nuclear weapons, diplomacy, University. and global security. Areas of expertise: Sex work, labour migration, human trafficking, contract labour, Areas of expertise: Global security, nuclear weapons, and international social policy. sexual violence, gender and sexuality, HIV, Cambodia, applied anthropology, and globalization. Helen Smith Senior Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Rajesh Sharma Helen Smith’s recent research includes the emergence of the Australian National Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Training Package as a new mode of governance; national longitudinal evaluation Rajesh Sharma has twenty years of teaching and research experience in study of the Microsoft PiL initiative. In 2009, Helen was awarded the Francis International Trade, Investment Law and Dispute Resolution. He has provided Ormond Medal for serving RMIT University with distinction. She was also made an capacity building programs for government officials, judges, lawyers and businesses ALTC Teaching Fellow in 2010. in Hong Kong, China, Macao, Africa and India on behalf of WTO, UNITAR, and ITC. Rajesh is the first Indian to hold a PhD in Law from China. He also has a MBL from Monash University. He has received his professional training from WIPO, Harvard Ceridwen Spark Law School, ICC, CIArb and UNU-IAS. Senior Research Fellow and Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow Area of expertise: Dispute resolution, international trade, investment law and policy. Centre for Global Research Ceridwen is a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Global Research in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. Since 2007, most of Rachel Sharples Ceridwen’s research has focused on gender in the Pacific, particularly Papua New Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Guinea. She has examined cross-cultural interactions between Australians and Rachel Sharples joined the Centre in 2012. She completed her PhD in 2012, Papua New Guineans and the interaction between gender, culture and education; entitled Spaces of solidarity: Karen identity in the Thai-Burma borderlands, which women in leadership, women’s economic empowerment and the impact of used ethnographic fieldwork to examine concepts of space (borderlands) and social and cultural change on women. Her research has entailed several fruitful cultural and political identity. She has worked primarily in Burma and Thailand and collaborations including with organizations and individuals in PNG, the Solomon has undertaken various field research trips in these sites. Rachel's research interests Islands and Vanuatu. This includes the DFAT funded Pawa Meri project, a research include borderlands; irregular migration, particularly refugees, displaced persons and filmmaking collaboration which resulted in the production of six films about and stateless persons; constructions of cultural and political identity; spaces of women leaders in PNG. solidarity and activism. Rachel also teaches into the International Studies and Areas of expertise: Indigenous place-making, intercountry adoption, gender and International Development programs. education, gender and leadership, transnationalism, and community and belonging Areas of expertise: Refugees, borderlands, irregular migration, cultural identity, in Melbourne. spaces of solidarity and activism, Thailand, and Burma. Aiden Warren Julian Silverman Senior Lecturer, International Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Program Coordinator, Community Work Dr Aiden Warren is a Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Program Manager in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Bachelor of Arts (International Studies) program in the School of Global, Urban and Julian Silverman’s research investigates how cultural practice informs models Social Studies. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of International of community development. In particular he is interested in the ways in which Security, US national security and foreign policy, US Politics (ideas, institutions, Indigenous and developing communities apply their traditional knowledge systems contemporary and historical), International Relations (especially great power politics), to the formation of new institutions and models of vocational training. His other and issues associated with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation, major research interest is in how Jewish and Muslim communities coexist in North nonproliferation and arms control. He is also the Series Editor of the Weapons of African and other contexts. mass destruction (WMD) book series with Rowman and Littlefield. Areas of expertise: Cultural practice, community development, and capacity Areas of expertise: International Security, US national security and foreign policy, building. US Politics, International Relations, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), nonproliferation and arms control.

20 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 21 Christopher Ziguras Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase Professor and Deputy Dean, International Adjunct Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase was formerly Professor of Anthropology and the National Christopher Ziguras’ research focuses on globalization processes in education, Course Director for International Studies, Australian Catholic University. Her most particularly the regulation of cross-border provision. He oversees a wide range recent books include, Rethinking displacement: Asia Pacific perspectives, and of international projects at RMIT and is President of the International Education Globalization and the middle classes in India: The social and cultural impact of Association of Australia. His latest book is Governing cross-border higher education neoliberal reforms. Ruchira is currently completing a major study on globalization (Routledge 2015). and regional development in South Asia. Areas of expertise: Cross-border higher education, international education, Areas of expertise: Anthropology of South and Southeast Asia, international international trade, and international development. development studies, inequality of women in developing countries.

Adjunct and honorary members John Hutnyk Adjunct Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Stephen Alomes Over the last 25 years Professor Hutnyk has developed international reputation for academic distinction in the fields of Anthropology, Cultural Politics and Global Adjunct Professor, School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies Cultural Studies. From 1998 to 2014 he was academic Director of Centre for Stephen Alomes is the author and editor of nine books on globalization and change: Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College London, and currently holds a number of Australian nationalism, expatriation, contemporary Australia and Japan, and sport. prestigious visiting Professorships in Europe and Japan. A prolific writer, Hutnyk has His research also explores populism, celebrity, popular culture, national war memory written a number of critically acclaimed books including, Critique of exotica: Music, (the current major focus of his research), multiculturalism in the context of global politics and the culture industry (Pluto, 2000), Bad Marxism: Capitalism and cultural restructuring, and globalization and the colonial cultural cringe. His most recent studies (Pluto, 2004 ), Beyond borders (Pavement, 2012) and Pantomime terror: book is Australian football: The people’s game 1958-2058. music and politics (Zero books, 2014)

Guosheng Chen Paul James Honorary Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Honorary Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Guosheng Chen is Honorary Professor with the School of Global, Urban and Social School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Studies having served as Discipline Head of Languages for several years. She also Paul James is Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western lectures in Culture and Business Practice in Asia; Chinese Language and LOTE Sydney University. He is Scientific Advisor to the Senate Department for Urban Teacher Training. Guosheng is the Executive Director of the Chinese-Australian Development, Berlin, and on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. He Studies Forum and Director of the Chinese Proficiency Test Centre. She received a is author or editor of 33 books, including Globalism, nationalism, tribalism. He is Master of Education from Melbourne University. editor of a 16-volume landmark series mapping the field of globalization. His latest Areas of expertise: East Asian studies, globalization and culture, higher education book is Urban sustainability in theory and practice: Circles of sustainability. For the reform (East Asian countries), multilingual knowledge economies, and work- last 30 years he has been an editor of Arena. integrated learning. Areas of expertise: Globalization and its impact on social relations; social change, including the impact of modernization on other ways of being; and sustainable urbanization. Kim Dunphy Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Paul Komesaroff AM Kim Dunphy is the Research Program Manager of the Cultural Development Network (CDN). Kim contributes to practice and scholarship about cultural Honorary Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies development, particularly in the local government sector. CDN advocates for the Paul Komesaroff AM is a practicing physician and philosopher at Monash University essential function of arts and cultural expression in the development of creative, in Melbourne. Paul’s work ranges from promoting ethical standards in professional healthy, engaged and sustainable communities. Kim’s research interests are life to fostering reconciliation in Australia and overseas. In 2002, Paul created Global focused on the change that can be effected through engagement in cultural activity, Reconciliation to re-establish trust and community strength in settings of stress or from heritage through to creative arts participation, and how that change can be crisis. This non-profit organization now has projects in more than 40 countries. In understood and measured. 2014, he was named as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia. Areas of expertise: Planning and evaluation in the arts; arts participation; cultural Areas of expertise: Clinical medicine, biomedical research, social research, development planning; local government; creative arts therapy; cultural heritage; philosophy and ethical theory, clinical ethics, and policy development. and international development.

22 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 23 Douglas Lewis Jeff Lewis Adjunct Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Collaborating Scholar, Professor, School of Media and Communication Douglas Lewis is a native of Texas. Educated at Rice University and Brown Cirila Limpangog University, he began long-term ethnographic and ethnological research on the Collaborating Scholar, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies peoples of Sikka on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia in 1977. He has Martin Mulligan lectured on anthropology in universities in Australia and the United States. His main Collaborating Scholar, Senior Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social interests are in Austronesian ethnology, kinship, alliance and social organisation, the Studies anthropology of religion, the transition from oral to literate culture, and the evolution Aya Ono and neurobiology of consciousness, language and culture. Douglas is the author of Collaborating Scholar, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies numerous essays and articles, mainly on the peoples of the Regency of Sikka on Flores. His most recent book is The stranger-kings of Sikka (KITLV Press, 2010). Linda Williams Collaborating Scholar, Associate Professor, School of Art Bronwyn Winch John Smithies Collaborating Scholar, Researcher, Centre for Global Research Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies John is Director of the Cultural Development Network, funded by the PhD candidates Commonwealth and State governments to increase the capability of cultural development and planning in local government in Australia. He studied at the Adam Bartley Tasmanian School of Art, the South Australian School of Art, Monash University and School of Global, Urban and Social Studies the Academy of Fine Art Karlsruhe, Germany. John was Director of the State Film Sufia Begum Centre of Victoria, leading it through its development to the Australian Centre for the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Moving Image (ACMI) opening in 2002. Louise Coventry Areas of expertise: Cultural policy development, cultural development planning, arts School of Global, Urban and Social Studies programming. Jessica Findling School of Global, Urban and Social Studies David Gilbert Manfred B Steger School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Honorary Professor of Global Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Ceyhan Kurt Manfred Steger is Professor of Global and Transnational Sociology at the University School of Global, Urban and Social Studies of Hawai’i-Manoa and Honorary Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Victor Lasa Melbourne, Australia. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization School of Global, Urban and Social Studies for the US State Department and is the author or editor of over twenty books on globalization, global history, and the history of political ideas, including: The Rise of Michael Montalto School of Global, Urban and Social Studies the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Justice Globalism: Ideology, Fumiko Noguchi Crises, Policy (Sage, 2013). School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Areas of expertise: Globalization, globalism, ideology, and non-violence in the Kate Phelan Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. School of Global, Urban and Social Studies David Pollock School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Associate members Anita Samardzija School of Global, Urban and Social Studies RMIT based associates Rene Sephton Ifte Ahmed School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Collaborating Scholar, Research Fellow, School of Architecture and Design Emily Toome Marcus Banks School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Collaborating Scholar, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing Laurens Visser School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Angel Calderon Principal Advisor, Planning and Research, Business Analytics and Planning Alexander Waters School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Jonathan Kolieb Collaborating Scholar, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law Catherine Weiss School of Global, Urban and Social Studies

24 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 25 Externally located associates Peter Annear Collaborating Scholar, Senior Research Fellow The Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne John Callinan Community Researcher, Hamilton William Cope Collaborating Scholar, Research Professor, Educational Policy Studies University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Julie Foster-Smith Researcher Meg Holden Collaborating Scholar, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Geography Simon Fraser University Mary Kalantzis Collaborating Scholar, Dean, College of Education University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Grant McBurnie Collaborating Scholar, Office of International Development, Monash University Kevin McDonald Collaborating Scholar, Professor, Adjunct Fellow Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University Anne McNevin Collaborating Scholar, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University Gloria Martinez Collaborating scholar Tom Nairn Collaborating Scholar, Honorary Research Fellow School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University Heikki Patomäki Collaborating Scholar, Professor of World Politics, University of Helsinki Shanthi Robertson Collaborating Scholar, Career Development Fellow Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney Charlotte Scarf Collaborating Scholar, Lecturer, Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health University of Sydney Andy Scerri Collaborating Scholar, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science,Virginia Tech Nevzat Soguk Collaborating Scholar, Professor, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Victoria Stead Collaborating Scholar, Research Fellow Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Erin Wilson Collaborating Scholar, Director Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain, University of Groningen

CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH Americana: ANNUALmemories REPORTand memorabilia, 2015 New York City, USA. 26 2012 © Tommaso Durante/The Visual Archive Project of the Global Imaginary 27 Organization The Centre for Global Research's organizational form is intended to be co- Walter Mignolo Duke University operative and non-hierarchical. In consultation with the Global Advisory Board, Juliet Mitchell Cambridge University the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies and Centre Membership, the Ashis Nandy Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Director and Executive determine, then manage, the Centre's core research activity. Jamal Nassar California State University (San Bernardino) In late 2015, the Centre drafted new terms of reference and invited a number Martha Nussbaum University of Chicago Law School highly respected and intellectually driven actors to become members of a new Brendan O’Leary University of Pennsylvania industry-focussed advisory committee. We look forward to working with this Christian Reus-Smit University of Queensland strategically orientated body in 2016 and beyond. Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne Director Deputy Director Jan Aart Scholte University of Gothenburg Damian Grenfell Georgina Heydon Jukka Siikala University of Helsinki James Spencer University of Hawai’i-Manoa Executive Gayatri Spivak Columbia University Damian Grenfell Paul Battersby Kent Goldsworthy Vandra Harris Georgina Heydon Julian CH Lee Kerry Mullan

Global advisory board Perry Anderson University of California, Los Angeles Terrell Carver University of Bristol Allen Chun Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology Lane Crothers Illinois State University Jonathan Friedman Ecoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Barry Gills University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Jack Goody Cambridge University Liah Greenfeld Boston University Siri Hettige University of Colombo Bruce Kapferer University of Bergen Glen David Kuecker DePauw University Krishan Kumar University of Virginia Above: Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, Charles Hunt, offers his thoughts and insights at the Centre's Rethinking Foreign Aid Workshop, Melbourne, November 2015. Photo by Sam Carroll-Bell. T. Vasantha Kumaran University of Madras David Lyon Queen's University (Ontario)

28 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 29 Hametin, Timor-Leste Richmond Football Club Handbury Foundation RMIT English World Wide Higher Education Research and Development Sisters-in-Islam, Malaysia Collaborations Society of Australia Social Policy Analysis and Research Centre, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural University of Colombo, Sri Lanka The Centre for Global Research aims to build ongoing research links with other Heritage South Eastern University of Sri Lanka centres and scholars of international excellence. It is involved in collaborative Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne Spanish and Latin American Studies Network, activities with institutes, communities, groups and individual scholars concerned Institute for the Study of French-Australian Melbourne with understanding the implications of social change in a global world. Relations Sporting Traditions Throughout 2015, the CGR worked with a range of institutes, community International ADR Association (ADR World) organizations and NGOs, collaborating on a number of local, national and Sri Lanka Unites Australia international projects, and promoting the exchange of staff and students. International Council for Canadian Studies Sunrise Health International Education Association of Australia Swinburne University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Central Australian Aboriginal Congress International Studies Association Tribal Council, Patea and Amam remote PNG Board of the Australia Council for the Arts Centre for Interdisciplinary Applied Social International University Sarajevo tribal communities, Morobe Province Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Research – Sarajevo International Women’s Development Agency Trust Company Alliance Française de Melbourne Centru Feto Haburas Dezenvolvimento, Jawarhalal Nehru University UK Skills Funding Agency The Applied Linguistics Association of Baucau Japan International Cooperation Agency UN Association of Australia Australia China-Latin America Legal Research Centre, Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne Universidade Nacional de Timor-Leste The Asia Foundation Shanghai Korin Gamadji Institute University Kebangsaan, Malaysia Asian Institute of Technology City of Melbourne La Trobe University, Melbourne University Malaya, Malaysia Asia Pacific Association for International Committee for Melbourne – Future Focus Education Group Alumni Languages and Cultures Network for Australian University Sains, Malaysia Universities Association of French Teachers in Victoria Contemporary European Studies Association University of California Los Angeles Lee Foundation, Malaysia Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Costa Asset Management University of Canberra, Australia Community Arts Program Cultural Development Network, Melbourne Manohar Publishing, India University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Australian and New Zealand Journal of DaNang Women’s Hospital, Vietnam Melbourne Discourse Group University of Hawai’i-Manoa, USA European Studies De Pauw University, Greencastle The Melbourne Salon University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka Australian Bosnian Academic Forum Department of Justice, Maputo, Mozambique Migration and Refugee Review Tribunal University of Leiden, Netherlands Australian Council for International Developmental Leadership Program Modern Language Teachers’ Association of University of Limpopo, South Africa Development Victoria Drapac Group University of Madras, India Australian Linguistics Society Monash University, Melbourne Durham University University of Malawi, Malawi Australian Society for French Studies Motu-Koita Association, Port Moresby Eduardo Mondlane Universidad University of Melbourne, Australia Australian Research Council Multicultural Community Network The Federation of Associations of Teachers of University of Oxford, United Kingdom Bosniak Institute French in Australia Museum Victoria University of Queensland, Australia Bosnian-Herzegovinian Ministry for Human Forum Francophone de Recherche à National Community Development Network, University of Tampere, Finland Rights and Refugees Melbourne Melbourne University of Technology Sydney, Australia Brazilian Institute for Social Health Foundation of Goodness, Sri Lanka Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Innovations Elizabeth, South Africa University of Zadar, Croatia French Australian Review Buku-Larnggay Mulka Art Centre, Yirrkala, Papua New Guinea Business Coalition for Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University, Friends of the Earth, Australia Northern Territory Women Vancouver Global Studies Consortium Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi Papua New Guinea Cultural Commission Victorian Multicultural Commission Global Partnerships for Education Cambridge International College Patea (Kukukuku) Tribal Council Wannon Water, Southern Grampians Shire Global Reconciliation (International) Canadian Government Social Science and Pradet, Timor-Leste World University Service Austria Humanities Research Council Hambantota District Chamber of Commerce, Executive, Morobe, Papua New Guinea Yothu Yindi Foundation, Darwin Carers Victoria Sri Lanka 30 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 31 Centre researchers heading home after a day of community interviews and surveys. Fatumean, Timor-Leste. Photo by Damian Grenfelll. Art central Key research projects Chief investigators Damian Grenfell, Paul James and John Smithies Researchers Cynthia Lam The Centre for Global Research is committed to rethinking the relationship Project sponsor Cultural Development Network between the global and the local with a particular focus on Conflict, Development and Governance. As a result, our research projects are structured Total funding $100,000 around this core purpose and these key themes. This research project was conducted as part of a shire-wide arts program based in the Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria. Funded by the Cultural Development Network, as a recipient of Analysing the effectiveness of a legislative approach to gender responsive Australia Council for the Arts Creative Communities Partnerships Initiatives (CCPI) grant, budgeting in South Korea the program brought together professional artists from the Central Goldfields region into a Chief investigator Reina Ichii collaborative residency with the local arts community. The project sought to connect and engage with community members from across the education, recreation, business and health Project sponsor Academy of Korean Studies sectors through a series of workshops and projects. The research dimension of the project Total funding $10,800 assessed the strong links between policies for community cultural development, community leadership, human wellbeing and individual capabilities. The research was borne out of This research project examines the effectiveness of legislative approaches to gender previous community development projects undertaken by Centre researchers in Port Moresby, responsive budgeting (GRB) in South Korea. To date, GRB has been undertaken as a Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Dili, Hamilton and Braidwood. gender mainstreaming strategy by more than 90 countries around the world. In 2006 the South Korean government included GRB implementation components into the national Financial Act. As a result, government agencies are now required to submit gender Australia and Latin America in a global era budget statements to the National Assembly. This research project examines the progress Elizabeth Kath and Raul Sanchez Urribarri (La Trobe University) of the GRB framework and approaches in South Korea. It also examines how different Chief investigators approaches to GRB influence the progress of gender equality and the empowerment of Project sponsors RMIT University and La Trobe University women. Until recently, Australia and Latin America were considered remote, disconnected, and politically irrelevant to one another. Despite significant efforts from a variety of actors (including scholars Anime, Cosplay and attitudes towards Japan among young Southeast Asians on both sides of the Pacific), the prevailing perception was one of lack of awareness and the relationship was defined by little need for engagement. This has changed significantly in recent Chief Investigators Julian CH Lee and Paul Battersby years with a noticeable increase of Australia’s social, political and economic connections with Project Sponsor Sumitomo Foundation the region. Scholars are catching up to these developments, but still lack a unified framework Total funding $7,700 grounded in rigorous empirical analysis that can help to explain what exactly this growing interconnection is about, how it might shape Australia in the coming years, and why it should This project examined communities of young people in Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia matter for academics, policy-makers, and the general public. This edited collection explores how who are participants in cosplay – where people dress up as favourite (usually Japanese) Australia’s relations with Latin America are changing in a global era. cartoon characters. Through interviews and a documentary, the motivations of young people in participating in cosplay were explored, as were the regional interconnections–– such as through regional cosplay competitions––that link disparate cosplay communities. Civilian protection and the use of force in UN peacekeeping operations Among other things, this research illuminates the regard with which Japan is held by young Chief investigators Charles Hunt and Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland) people in Southeast Asia and the extent to which cosplay might be regarded as a soft Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project power tool for Japan. Project sponsors Total funding $250, 887 This project seeks to evaluate the use of force to protect civilians in United Nations peacekeeping. United Nations peacekeepers are on the frontline of efforts to protect civilians from violence. More than 100 were killed in 2014. Hundreds of thousands of civilians depend on peacekeepers for their safety. To date, however, there has been little systematic evaluation of the impact of the use of force for civilian protection mandates on both immediate protection goals and the wider goals of peacekeeping. This project aims to assess the impact of the implementation of mandates to use force to protect civilians. Through a focused comparison of six missions, it plans to identify what works, what doesn't, and the factors which determine these outcomes in order to identify ways of improving performance in the future.

34 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 35 Contingent development in regional India: Ethnographies of neoliberal globalization in Global faces: Emotions, cultures, histories Gujarat and West Bengal Chief investigators Paul James and Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne) Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Tim Scrase (Australian Catholic University) and Chief investigators ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Mario Rutten (University of Amsterdam) Project sponsor Total funding $60,000 Project sponsors Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Total funding $128,000 Despite the centrality of the face in the study of emotions, and despite some studies of the indexical representation of facial features and the way they express emotions, there has been no This study examines how globalization is transforming regional towns in India. By comparing substantial history of the patterns of facial representation. There has been little research into the and contrasting the town of Anand, in the state of Gujarat and Darjeeling in West Bengal this changing ways in which the face mediates human emotions as a means of studying differences research challenges the conventional assumptions about India's transformed economy, that between present and past. There are some obvious shifts in the patterns of representation. Art is, that there are now more social and economic opportunities for all. This study reveals the historians study the changing individualization of faces from the medieval to the early modern inconsistencies and problems created by neoliberal development policies at the local level. period; cultural theorists analyse the electronic hybridization of faces over the last two decades. Ethnographic research conducted in these two locations examined the unequal ways in which However, tracing those shifts and understanding what they mean for the history of emotions is globalization has impacted on various social institutions, urban growth and youth culture at the complicated. It requires some fundamental historical research and redefining of basic categories. local level. This project treats the face as the perfect medium for confronting both the past, and cultural difference in contemporary culture. Culture and change: A comparative study of women's activism through coalitions in Papua New Guinea and Malaysia Global Reconciliation projects Chief investigator Ceridwen Spark Chief investigator Elizabeth Kath Associate Investigator Julian CH Lee Researchers Elizabeth Kath, Paul Komesaroff, Paul James and Leigh Matthews Project sponsors Developmental Leadership Program Project sponsors Costa Foundation Total funding $28,200 Total funding $80,000 The Developmental Leadership Program (DLP) has an emerging track record of research on Global Reconciliation is an ambitious and innovative global network of people and organizations the role that women’s coalitions play in creating social and political change. This project seeks around the world seeking to promote 'reconciliation' - that is, dialogue and practical to consolidate existing DLP research on coalitions and to extend their reach in the Pacific. The engagements across cultural, religious, racial and other differences. Its mission is to promote research will deliver important lessons for policy makers and development partners conducting reconciliation by fostering dialogue and conducting projects with a research and learning focus research and development projects in PNG, Melanesia and Malaysia. that cross national, cultural, religious and racial differences in Australia and overseas. Global Reconciliation has conducted many projects in partnership with RMIT University, Monash University and the University of Western Sydney. This philanthropic funding was donated to Equitable employment for women in mining companies in Laos & Thailand appoint designated staff members at RMIT to support the advancement of this work. Chief investigators Christopher Ziguras and Nattavud Pimpa Timothy Moore (University of Melbourne) and Researchers The Helen and Geoff Handbury community fellowship program Brigitte Tenni (University of Melbourne) Chief investigator Yaso Nadarajah Project sponsor AusAID Development Research Awards Scheme Geoff Handbury AO, Rev. Peter Cook, Anthony MacGillivray, $293,814 Advisory committee Total funding Cicely Fenton and John Callinan The mining industry is traditionally a male-dominated environment posing crucial vulnerabilities Project sponsors The Geoff and Helen Handbury Foundation, Federal Government for women. In recent years the industry has opened up greater work opportunities for women; Collaborative and Structural Regional Development Fund, and a trend potentially promoting sustainable development especially in rural areas. Whether the RMIT University, Research and Development. industry offers women decent and equitable employment, and undertakes practice to mitigate gender related vulnerability thus safeguarding the needs and rights of women, remains unclear. Developed by Yaso Nadarajah and funded by Helen and Geoff Handbury, The Community Through qualitative enquiry, this project will examine ways in which mining companies operating Fellowship Program, supports community-led ideas and practices in the Western Victoria as well in Lao PDR and Thailand promote equitable employment opportunities for women, and their as drawing links between local issues and questions of sustainability. The program encourages economic and social impacts. ideas from members of the community who might fall outside of other grant processes, or who would not see themselves as capable of applying for a grant elsewhere. Projects have ranged from the development of low-cost strategies for using reclaimed water in integrated enterprise systems, to evaluating the benefit of arts festivals, to community wellbeing.

36 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 37 Humour in social interactions in French and English Nabilan: Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) program, Dili, Timor-Leste Chief Investigators Kerry Mullan, Christine Beal (Université Montpellier III) and Chief investigator Damian Grenfell Véronique Traverso (Université Lyon II) Project sponsor The Asia Foundation Project sponsors Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), RMIT University, Total funding $140,000 Université Montpellier III, Université Lyon II2 The Asia Foundation is implementing the Nabilan: Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) $8,000 Total funding Program in Timor-Leste under a Grant Agreement with the Australian Department of Foreign The main aim of the project is to analyse the functions of humour in French and Australian social Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The program goal is to reduce the proportion of women who have visits within the framework of a larger joint project on social interaction in French and Australian experienced violence, and to better meet the needs of women and children affected by violence. English. Two comparative corpora of naturally occurring conversations during social visits were The objective is to improve outcomes for women in prevention, support services, and access collected to explore conversational strategies. It is intended that this research will contribute to to justice by building capacity in key ministries, reducing levels of violence, enhancing services, the growing literature on French-Australian inter-cultural studies and strengthen understanding and strengthening judicial processes serving the needs of women. As a part of this program, and relations between the two cultures. The project has so far identified the different forms the CI provides research advice to the EVAW program, including to staff at The Asia Foundation of conversational humour used by the participants in the two corpora and proposed a new and associated partners, supports the team’s consolidation of existing knowledge on violence framework for the cross-cultural analysis of humour in interaction. against women and children in Timor-Leste, and provides support to the development of research projects commissioned via the program.

The Kukukuku local-global eco-enterprise: A rural/remote reality in Papua New Guinea Negotiating the local-global in the Hamilton region: The Coleraine Enterprise Chief investigator Yaso Nadarajah Yaso Nadarajah with John Kane, Jenny Kane, (Hamilton community The Trust Company, Melbourne Research team Project sponsor researchers), Michael McCarthy (Southern Grampians Shire Council, The Patea (Kukukuku) eco-enterprise research traces the idea of development as a ground-up, Futures Director), Zainil Zainuddin (commencing PhD, RMIT organic practice within a rural/remote tribal community. Research with the Kukukuku found that Environmental Science Program) and the Coleraine Community Progress systematic ground-up approaches that respect local tribal knowledge and cultural protocols Association can effectively engage remote communities in development activities, with resultant economic Project sponsors Handbury Fellowship Program, Victorian Department of Community and agricultural enterprises more likely to thrive as they draw support from individuals and the Development and Planning community. The key to self-sustainability and extension of such enterprises is the diffusion of key income-generating capacities through the community. Four pilot projects, including establishing The Coleraine Enterprise began as a combination of three Handbury Fellowship Programs a Women’s Enterprise and Agricultural Hub, were mobilized to support the community’s and worked as a catalytic team of researchers (university and community), local government, efforts at cultural preservation, local expertise development, self-governance and self-reliance. and statutory bodies to test the scale and scope of a community-led enterprise that could be Integrated research on these projects yielded important new knowledge to inform effective both economically and culturally vital and viable as a small town model of integration of water remote community development strategy design and delivery. conservation, organic bio-remediation, and food production for a sustainable future. Initially designed to be located at the Coleraine Reclamation Plant, the project has since relocated to a farming site in the western Victorian farming town of Coleraine. Currently the group is working to Local security and resilience in Dili, Timor-Leste complete documentation of this process. Chief investigators Damian Grenfell and Bronwyn Winch Project sponsors The Asia Foundation Profiles of PNG Women in Business Total funding $7,800 Chief investigator Ceridwen Spark Drawing data from a survey completed in five sites in Dili, and combined with orem recent Associate investigator Bayden Findlay data and analysis, this project and subsequent report (published 2015) sought to understand Project sponsors Business Coalition for Women/International Finance Corporation how people viewed their security in the capital. With the return of control of policing to the $29,735 National Police Force of Timor-Leste in 2011, the 2012 National Elections and the subsequent Total funding withdrawal of the International Stabilization Force, how security is reproduced in the capital and Working with the Papua New Guinea Business Coalition for Women (BCFW) and filmmaker, the value people give to different systems of authority and decision-making is vitally important to Bayden Findlay, this project investigate the role of PNG women in business. This work seeks to understanding longer-term and sustainable forms of security. identify and profile five PNG women in leadership roles in the PNG business community via a series of high-quality, short video and written pieces.

38 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 39 Recognising the pain of others: Gendered displacement, memory and identity in Southeast Asian filial piety: The impact of mobility on a core Asian value Bosnian refugee diaspora Chief Investigators Julian CH Lee, Paul Battersby, Joseph N Goh (Monash University) Chief investigator Hariz Halilovich and Maree Pardy (Deakin University) Project sponsor Australian Research Council (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) Project Sponsor Toyota Foundation Total funding $375,000 Total funding $12,500 This project explores and compares how pre-migration, migration and settlement factors have This project explores how the ‘Asian value’ of filial piety––respect and care for parents––is affected Bosnian refugee women in Australia, Austria and the USA. The project particularly being transformed as a result of processes of globalization which can fragment family units focuses on the Bosnian war widows and women who have experienced violence against across large distances. It is particularly interested in the ways by which people maintain their themselves, their families and communities during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. connections with their parents and seek to fulfill their obligations. By taking three case-study families located in Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia, and conducting interviews and making a documentary, this project will illuminate the ways filial piety is (re)conceived and enacted under Review of literature and previous inquiries in relation to child sexual abuse in Catholic circumstances where distances are great. institutions Chief investigator Desmond Cahill A study of Muslim polygamous marriages in Peninsular Malaysia Project sponsor Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Collaborating Investigator Yaso Nadarajah Total funding $88,603 Research Intern Bree Alexander This project collates and examines past inquiries and reports, both Australian and international, Project Sponsor Sisters-in-Islam Forum, Lee Foundation (Malaysia), which have addressed child sexual abuse in Catholic institutions. It reviews the literature Malaysian Universities Consortium surrounding academic and ‘grey’ literature concerning factors unique to the Catholic Church that may have contributed to child sexual abuse by priests and religious and/or to inadequate This research study focuses on seven areas of marriage and family law and seeks an responses by members of Catholic institutions to allegations or concerns of child sexual abuse. understanding of the practice of polygamy among Muslims in Peninsular Malaysia. In The review also includes an assessment of the methodology, remit and standing of the relevant collaboration with key universities in Malaysia––Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), University Malaya bodies of literature and inquiries to assist in a determination of the weight that should be given to (UM) and University Science Malaysia (USM)––this multidisciplinary study involves fourteen each relevant body of literature or inquiry. other Malaysia-based co-researchers whilst also linking with key international Islamic women movements. Yaso Nadarajah is co-editor of this edition, now in the final stages of completion. Research Intern Bree Alexander spent six months in Malaysia (June to December 2014), Senses of place: The experience of Catalans in Melbourne working at the SIS Office––assisting with copy editing and cross checking research data and Chief investigator Glenda Mejía with Sarah Pink tabulations. Project sponsor RMIT University The economic crisis in Europe has engendered new waves of migration from Europe to more Towards best practice police interviewing in a post-conflict, post-colonial society: thriving economies in the South, including to Australia. This project takes a first step in exploring Customary law practices and the police investigation of domestic violence in how these movements of people – in the case discussed here of Catalans to Australia – are Mozambique constituting contemporary ways of being and experiencing for migrants in a world that is Chief investigators Georgina Heydon and Eliseu Mabasso (Eduardo Mondlane increasingly globalized. It does so through a focus on atmosphere; that is on how the affective University, Mozambique (MZ)) states of attachments and a sense of belonging were generated through migrant’s place-making Project sponsors RMIT Foundation International Research Exchange Fellowship, as they engaged with the material and intangible elements of Melbourne’s localities. This unique Eduardo Mondlane University (MZ), Mozambique Department project draws on visual narratives, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation of Justice, Police Science Training College (MZ) and the undertaken with ten Catalan migrants living in Melbourne. Mozambican League of Human Rights Total funding $10,000 In Mozambique, customary law in the form of community-based mediation is the mainstay of justice in rural areas. However, anecdotal and research evidence suggests that even in the most urban of environments, approaches to collecting evidence and testimony by police do not always follow modern expectations of objectivity and discovery. This research provides an important opportunity to conduct an analysis that leverages existing networks and government support. Though this project, CIs Heydon and Mabasso, draw on their extensive research networks in Mozambique and their experiences of working within the constraints of post-conflict administration in order to explore the response to domestic violence in Maputo.

40 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 41 Tuberculosis in Southern Africa: The history of a pandemic Chief investigator Jock McCulloch Project sponsor Australian Research Council (Discovery Project Scheme) Total funding $170,000 This will be the first history of the current tuberculosis pandemic in Southern Africa, a region which has the highest infection rates in the world. The project will focus on the gold mines and oscillating migration in the creation of the present crisis. It will explore the interplay between colonial policy makers, industry, medical researchers, labour, legislatures and states in the identification of risk and the provision of treatment. The resultant book and articles will illuminate key aspects of a regional public health crisis and provide evidence to support those seeking improved working conditions and legal redress.

Trans-national Knowledge Network in Education (TKNE) with Chongqing University of Technology Chief investigator Lynne Li Partner institution Chongqing University of Technology This project explores factors that may impact on Chinese language learning and the role of multilingual and multicultural knowledge. It extends on an earlier TKNE initiative, a collaborative research project that established strong links between RMIT University and Chongqing University of Technology.

Opposite: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 2014 © Tommaso Durante/The Visual Archive Project of the Global Imaginary Chantal Crozet, 'First, second, third place and beyond: Reflection on a philosophy of self and Publications identity for intercultural language teaching', in Wai Meng Chan, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Masanori Nagami, Izumi Walker, eds, Culture and foreign language education: Insights from research and One of the aims of the Centre is to support research that leads to relevant and implications for the practice, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, Berlin, 2015, pp. 135–54. socially engaged publications. In 2015, Centre members authored, edited or co-authored twelve books, and twenty-seven book chapters. Members also Kim Dunphy 'A holistic framework of evaluation for arts engagement', in Lachlan MacDowall, contributed twenty-nine articles to leading journals around the world. Research Marnie Badham, Emma Blomkamp and Kim Dunphy, eds, Making Culture Count: the politics of reports also featured prominently throughout the year. cultural measurement, Palgrave, London, 2015, pp. 243–63. Kim Dunphy, Jane Guthrie and Sue Mullane, 'Dance movement therapy as a specialized form Books and edited collections of counselling and psychotherapy in Australia: the emergence of theory and practice', Carolyn Natsuko Akagawa, Heritage conservation and Japan's cultural diplomacy: Heritage, Noble and Elizabeth Day, eds, Psychotherapy and counselling: Reflections on practice, Oxford national identity and national interest, Routledge, London and New York, 2014. University Press, London, 2015, pp. 173–89. Lachlan MacDowall, Marnie Badham, Emma Blomkamp and Kim Dunphy, Making Culture Damian Grenfell, 'Rethinking governance and security in Timor-Leste', in Sue Ingram, Lia Kent Count: the politics of cultural measurement, Palgrave, London, 2015. and Andrew McWilliam, eds, A new era? Timor-Leste after the UN, ANU Press, Canberra, 2015, Hariz Halilovich, Places of pain: forced displacement, popular memory and trans-local pp. 169–86. identities in Bosnian war-torn communities, Berghahn Books, New York, 2015. David La Rooy, Georgina Heydon, Julia Korkman and Trond Myklebust, 'Interviewing child Charles Hunt, UN peace operations and international policing: Navigating complexity, witnesses', in Trond Myklebust, Tim Grant and Rebecca Milne, eds, Communication in assessing impact and learning to learn, Routledge, Oxford, 2015. investigative and legal contexts: Integrated approaches from forensic psychology, linguistics and Paul James, Urban sustainability in theory and practice: Circles of sustainability, Routledge, law enforcement, John Wiley and Sons, London, 2015, pp. 57–78. London, 2015. Stephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey and Paul James, 'Making modernity from the Mashriq to the Stephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey and Paul James, eds, Making Modernity from the Mashriq to Maghreb', in Stephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey and Paul James, eds, Making Modernity from the the Maghreb, Arena Publications, Melbourne, 2015. Mashriq to the Maghreb, Arena Publications, Melbourne, 2015, pp. 1–13. Julian CH. Lee, Second thoughts: On Malaysia, globalisation, society and self, SIRD, Paul James, 'They have never been modern: Then what Is the problem with those Persians', in Petaling Jaya, 2015. Stephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey and Paul James, eds, Making modernity from the Mashriq to the Julian CH Lee and John M Prior, Pemburu yang cekatan: Anjangsana bersama karya-karya Maghreb, Arena Publications, Melbourne, 2015, pp. 31–54. E. Douglas Lewis (The deft hunter: Essays in honour of the work of E. Douglas Lewis), Paul James and Hebe Verrest, 'Beyond the network effect: Towards an alternative Penerbit Ledalero, Maumere, 2015. understanding of global urban organizations', in Joyeeta Gupta, Karin Pfeffer, Hebe Verrest, and Sadat Mulayim, Miranda Lai and Caroline Norma, Police investigative interviews and Mirjam Ros-Tonen, eds, Geographies of urban governance: Advanced theories, methods and interpreting: Context, challenges, and strategies, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2015. practices, Springer, Cham, 2015, 65–84. Manfred B Steger and Paul James, eds, Globalization: The career of a concept, Routledge, Paul James and Manfred B Steger, 'A genealogy of globalization: The career of a concept', Abingdon, 2015. in Manfred Steger and Paul James, eds, Globalization: The career of a concept, Routledge, Rajesh Sharma, Dispute settlement mechanism in the FTAs of Asia, Wolters Kluwer Hong Abingdon, 2015. Kong Limited, Hong Kong, 2015. Marco Ferrarese, Joseph N Goh, Julian CH Lee and Caryn Lim, 'Identity formations in Christopher Ziguras, Governing Cross-Border Higher Education, Routledge, New York, contemporary Malaysia: Traversing and transcending ethnicity', in James Chin and Joern Dosch, 2015. eds, Ten years after Mahathir, Marshall Cavendish International, Singapore, 2015, pp. 41–69. Julian CH Lee, 'Konfabulasi akbar: Menyandarkan otak dalam akal budi ketika menelisk Book chapters pembentukan aneka narasi (The great confabulation: Bearing the brain in mind when Natsuko Akagawa, 'Intangible heritage and embodiment: Japan’s influence on global considering the formation of narratives)', in Julian CH Lee and John M Prior, eds, Pemburu yang heritage discourse', in William Logan, Máiread Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel, eds, A cekatan anjangsana bersama karya-karya E. Douglas Lewis (The deft hunter: Essays in honour companion to heritage studies, Wiley -Blackwell, New Jersey, 2015, pp.69–85. of the work of E. Douglas Lewis), Penerbit Ledalero, Indonesia, 2015, pp. 411–32. Desmond Cahill, 'Turkish Cypriots in Australia: The evolution of a multi-hyphenated Julian CH Lee, 'Tentang asal usul budaya dan perubahan: Proses stokastic di Malaysian dan community and the impact of transnational events', in Michális Michael, ed, Reconciling Afrika Selatan (On the origins of culture and change: Stochastic processes in Malaysia and cultural and political identities in a globalized world, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2015, South Africa)', in Julian CH Lee and John M Prior, eds, Pemburu yang cekatan anjangsana pp. 211–26. bersama karya-karya E. Douglas Lewis (The deft hunter: Essays in honour of the work of E. Douglas Lewis), Penerbit Ledalero, Indonesia, 2015, pp. 381–410.

44 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 45 Julian CH Lee and John M Prior, 'Pendahuluan', in Julian CH Lee and John M. Prior, eds, Journal articles Pemburu yang cekatan anjangsana bersama karya-karya E. Douglas Lewis (The deft hunter: Ana Maria Ducasse and Kathryn Hill 2015, 'Development of a Spanish generic writing skills scale Essays in honour of the work of E. Douglas Lewis), Penerbit Ledalero, Indonesia, 2015, pp. xv- for the Colombian Graduate Skills Assessment (SaberPro)', Papers in Language Testing and xxvii. Assessment, vol. 4, no. 2, 2015, pp. 18–33. E. Douglas Lewis, 'Langkah-langkah menuju sebuah pemahaman tentang budaya" (Steps to Tommaso Durante, 'On the global imaginary: Visualizing and interpreting aesthetics of global an understanding of culture)', in Julian CH Lee and John M Prior, eds, Pemburu yang cekatan change in Melbourne, Australia and Shanghai, People's Republic of China', The Global Studies anjangsana bersama karya-karya E. Douglas Lewis (The deft hunter: Essays in honour of the Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, 2015, pp. 19–33. work of E. Douglas Lewis), Penerbit Ledalero, Indonesia, 2015, pp. 450–95. Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, and Timothy Scrase, 'Darjeeling re-made: The cultural politics of Lynne Li, 'Cultural learning styles: Is there such a thing?', in Wai Meng Chan, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, charm and heritage', South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2015, pp. 246– Masanori Nagami, Izumi Walker, eds, Culture and foreign language education: Insights from 62. research and implications for the practice, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, Berlin, 2015, pp. 265–95. Timothy Scrase, Mario Rutten, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Trent Brown, 'Beyond the metropolis - regional globalisation and town development in India: An introduction', South Asia: Yaso Nadarajah, 'Kuala Lumpar city: At the confluence of history, indentity and nation-making', Journal of South Asia Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2015, pp. 216–29. in Supriya Singh, Yaso Nadarajah, Martin Mulligan and Chris Chamberlain, eds, Searching for Community: Melbourne to Delhi, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2015, pp. Damian Grenfell, 'Of time and history: the dead of war, memory and the national imaginary in 99–125. Timor-Leste', Communication, Politics and Culture, vol. 48, no. 3, 2015, pp. 16–28. Yaso Nadarajah, Martin Mulligan, Supriya Singh and Chris Chamberlain, 'Introduction', in Supriya Hariz Halilovich, 'Long-distance mourning and synchronised memories in a global context: Singh, Yaso Nadarajah, Martin Mulligan and Chris Chamberlain, eds, Searching for Community: Commemorating Srebrenica in diaspora', Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, vol. 35, no. 3, 2015, Melbourne to Delhi, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2015, pp. 17–32. pp. 410–22. Caroline Norma, 'Catharine MacKinnon in Japanese: Towards a radical feminist theory of Hariz Halilovich and Peter Phipps, 'Atentat! Contested histories at the one hundredth anniversary translation', in Beverley Curran, Nana Sato-Rossberg and Kikuko Tanabe, eds, Multiple of the Sarajevo assassination', Communication, Politics and Culture, vol. 48, no. 3, 2015, pp. Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan, Routledge, New York, 2015, pp. 79–98. 29–40. Caroline Norma, 'A human right to prostitute others? Amnesty International and the privileging of Miranda Lai, Georgina Heydon, Sedat Mulayim, 'Vicarious trauma among interpreters', the male orgasm', in Miranda Kiraly and Meagan Tyler, eds, Freedom fallacy: The limits of liberal International Journal of Interpreter Education, vol. 7, no. 1, 2015, pp. 3–22. feminism, Connor Court, Ballarat, Melbourne, 2015, pp. 125–32. Alex Bellamy and Charles Hunt, 'Twenty-first century UN peace operations: Protection, force Peter Phipps, 'Port Moresby: Contesting tradition, identity and urbanization', in Supriya Singh, and the changing security environment', International Affairs, vol. 91, no. 6, 2015, pp. 1277–98. Yaso Nadarajah, Martin Mulligan and Chris Chamberlain, eds, Searching for Community: Natalie Skinnera and Reina Ichii, 'Exploring a family, work, and community model of work-family Melbourne to Delhi, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2015, pp. 149–64. gains and strains', Community, Work and Family, vol. 18, no. 1, 2015, pp. 79–99. N. Maggessi and Rajesh Sharma, 'Gateway to China: Brand Hong Kong untouched', in Julien Paul James, 'Despite the terrors of typologies: The importance of understanding categories of Chaise, Michael Lang, Oliver-Christoph Gunther, Jason Kollmann and Na Li, eds, International difference and identity', Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, Taxation: Law and Practice in Hong Kong and China, Wolters Kluwer Hong Kong Limited, Hong 2015, pp. 174–95. Kong, 2015, pp. 141–66. Lynne Li, 'Policy-actor research: In, on and for language classrooms', Global Studies Journal, Rajesh Sharma, 'Developments of ADR in relation with economic model', in Korea Legislation vol. 8, no. 3, 2015, pp. 70–8. Research Institute, ed, Current Legal Issues in Asian Countries, MUNU Publishing Co., Korea, 2015, pp. 93–112. Lynne Li and Xiao Wang, 'Multilingual knowledge transmission of international Chinese language learners in China', International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, vol. 9, no. 3-4, 2015, John Smithies and Kim Dunphy, ‘Frameworks for cultural development projects’, in Martin pp. 1–11. Comte, ed, Community cultural development: challenges and connections, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2015 pp.10–29. Lynne Li and Xiao Wang, 'Culture, language, and knowledge: cultural learning styles for international students learning Chinese in China', China – USA Business Review, vol. 5, no. 7, Ceridwen Spark, 'The 'Pawa Meri' project: Producing film biographies about women in Papua 2015, pp. 487–99. New Guinea', in Jack Corbett and Brij V. Lal, eds, Political life writing in the Pacific Islands: Reflections on practice, Australian National University Press, Acton, 2015, pp. 47-57. Glenda Mejia, 'Language usage and culture maintenance: a study of Spanish-speaking immigrant mothers in Australia', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. 37, Manfred B Steger, 'The spectre of the Communist Manifesto stalks neoliberal globalization: no. 1, 2015, pp. 1–19. Reconfiguring the Marxist discourse(s) in the 1990s', in Terrell Carver and James Farr, eds, The Cambridge companion to the Communist Manifesto, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, C. Edwards and Kerry Mullan, 'Migration of young French professionals to Australia', The French 2015, pp. 175–94. Australian Review, vol. 57, no. 1, 2015, pp. 71–95.

46 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 47 Kerry Mullan, 'Taking French interactional style into the classroom', System, vol. 48, no. 1, 2015, Siew Fang Law, Michele Grossman and Ceridwen Spark, River of lives, Report prepared for pp. 35–47. Maribyrnong City Council, Published by Victoria University, Melbourne, 2015. Peter Phipps, 'Indigenous Festivals in Australia: Performing the Postcolonial', Ethnos, special Short pieces and book reviews issue, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1–14. Natsuko Akagawa, 'A Heritage of Ruins by William Chapman', Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 3, Rachel Sharples, 'To be Karen in the Thai–Burma borderlands: Identity formation through the no. 3, 2015, pp. 678–80. prism of a human rights discourse', Asian Ethnicity, 2015, pp. 1–21. Natsuko Akagawa, 'Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Rachel Sharples, 'Institutional governance and refugee resistance: Displaced Karen in the Thai– Identity by Hyung Il Pai', Museum Anthropology Review, vol. 9, no. 1-2, 2015, pp. 114–6. Burma Borderlands', Anthropological Forum, vol. 26, no. 1, 2015, pp. 37–53. Julian CH. Lee, 'Review of “Mind change” by Susan Greenfield', Anthropological Forum, vol. 25, Anne Harris, Ceridwen Spark and Mimmie Ngum Chi Watts, 'Gains and losses: African no. 3, 2015, pp. 315–17. Australian women and higher education', Journal of Sociology, vol. 51, no. 2, 2015, pp. 370–84. Encyclopaedia entries Tim Sharp, John Cox, Ceridwen Spark, Stephanie Lusby and Michelle Rooney, 'The formal, the informal and the precarious: Making a living in urban Papua New Guinea', State, Society and Julian CH. Lee and Caryn Lim, 'Malaysia', in Religion in Southeast Asia: An Encyclopaedia of Governance in Melanesia (SSGM), vol. 2015, no. 2, pp. 1–24. Faiths and Cultures, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2015, pp. 163–5. Ceridwen Spark, 'Working out what to wear in Papua New Guinea: The politics of fashion in National commentary and editorial pieces Stella', The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 27, no. 1, 2015, pp. 39–70. Stephen Alomes, 'A versatile researcher revealed the personal stress of politicians' work: Kate Ceridwen Spark, 'Food is life: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia', Pacific Journalism Jones 5-10-1949 – 13-3-2015’, The Age, 14 May 2015. Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 2015 , pp. 77–85. Stephen Alomes, 'Why Hawthorn supporters boo Adam Goodes', The Drum, 25 May 2015. Aiden Warren and Ingvild Bode, 'Altering the playing field: The U.S. redefinition of the use-of- Stephen Alomes, 'AFL finds itself at a $2.5 billion crossroads', The Age, 24 August 2015. force', Contemporary Security Policy, vol. 36, no. 2, 2015, pp. 174–99. Christopher Ziguras and Cate Gribble, 'Policy responses to address student "Brain drain": An assessment of measures intended to reduce the emigration of Singaporean international students?', Journal of Studies in International Education, vol. 19, no. 3, 2015, pp. 246–64.

Research reports Kim Dunphy, Ildefonso da Silva, Nelinha Pereira, Thomas Lopes, Lucia Pichler, Holly Schauble and Tim Ballagh, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Tutuala, Lautem, including representation of rock art in cultural elements, Report published by Many Hands International, Publication and exhibition commissioned by UNESCO and the Secretariat for Tourism, Arts and Culture (Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste), Lospalos, Timor-Leste, November, 2015. Kim Dunphy and Leda Yazgin, Analysis of Victorian Local Government Cultural Development Plans, Report published by Cultural Development Network, Melbourne, December, 2015. Kim Dunphy and John Smithies, Cultural development planning for Victorian local government, Report published by Cultural Development Network, Report prepared for the Arts and Culture Committee of the Municipal Association of Victoria, Melbourne, December, 2015. Kim Dunphy and John Smithies, Findings of survey of Victorian councils’ cultural development activity 2014-2015, Report published by Cultural Development Network, Melbourne, December, 2015. Damian Grenfell, Meabh Cryan, Kathryn Robertson and Alex McClean, Beyond fragility and inequity women's experiences of the economic dimensions of domestic violence in Timor-Leste, Report published by The Asia Foundation, Dili, March 2015. Damian Grenfell and Bornwyn Winch, Local security and resilience in Dili, Timor-Leste, Report published by The Asia Foundation, Dili, March 2015. Above: Dr Georgina Heydon (centre) is pictured here at the Judicial College in Mozambique with the College Director, Dr Vitalina Papadakis (left) and Georgina's research partner, Dr Eliseu Mabasso of Eduardo Mondlane Fumiko Noguchi, Jose Roberto Guevara and Rika Yorozu, Communities in Action: Lifelong University in Maputo. Learning for Sustainable Development, Report published by UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Hamburg, 2015.

48 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 49 Kerry Mullan introduces panellists to a packed house at Global Frictions: Understanding Charlie. 50 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Melbourne, March 2015. Photo by Damian Grenfelll. 51 Key events In order to disseminate research and engage in public discussion the Centre initiates and supports a wide range of public forums, including conferences, seminars and festivals. Resistance is useless? The globalization of state crime and the denial of history In 2015, the Centre hosted a number of major conferences and symposia Panel: Dr Georgina Heydon (RMIT), Professor Jude McCulloch (Monash) and including, ‘Reassessing the Global Nuclear Order – Past, Present, and Future', a Dr Louise Boon-Kuo (Sydney Law School) three-day conference featuring fifty of the world’s top nuclear weapons policy Convener: Associate Professor Paul Battersby (RMIT) and non-proliferation experts. The Centre also launched a new seminar program, Thursday, 21 May 2015 Global Frictions, an innovative series of panel discussions focussing on some of the most challenging social issues of our time. Set against the emergence new forensic surveillance techniques this panel examined how ‘global unlawfulness’ now readily accommodates the actions, and failings, of states and their Global Frictions: A seminar series hosted by the Centre for Global Research agents. In so doing, it also attempted to answer the questions: Where does this lead us? And to whom does this ultimately serve? The need for this debate, the panel argued, was urgent: the Understanding Charlie: The implications for language, culture and globalization words we write (or speak), the websites we visit, the friends we make, the causes we support, Panel: Dr Chantal Crozet (RMIT), Professor Jeff Lewis (RMIT) and and the things we buy, all create digital footprints in the global data-sphere that work to betray Professor John Hajek (University of Melbourne) our idiosyncrasies. They can even be used to predict our future achievements and intent. At the core of this debate, the panel examined the ‘who is a domestic criminal’ and ‘who is an : Dr Kerry Mullan (RMIT) Convener international threat’ all while noting that lines between the two are becoming increasingly blurred Thursday, 19 March 2015 as states adapt to a changing security environment. On 7 January 2015, two gunmen forced their way into the Paris headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire, killing twelve. This attack, together with those that followed a month later in Copenhagen brought to the fore a number of key Rupture and connection in the global age questions around freedoms of speech and expression. At the core of the discussion was a Panel: Professor Manfred B Steger (RMIT), Associate Professor James Goodman concern for how we negotiate acute difference across diverse beliefs. This discussion panel (UTS) and Associate Professor Chris Hudson (RMIT) also examined the basic values underpinning the magazine Charlie Hebdo, values which Convener: Professor Supriya Singh (RMIT) the international media could not always make sense of. It also considered the role that Thursday, 30 July 2015 multilinguality and inter-cultural awareness could play in mitigating future conflict and violence across societies. The world is fast approaching a critical point of disjuncture in relations between the major powers, not least between the US, Russia and China, driven by the power rivalries of the ‘old order’ of nation-states. At the same time, across the globe vastly different movements organise Inside inside / Outside outside: A global account of imprisonment and detention as political via alternative dynamics that affect the lives of civilians as surveillance and securitizing agendas exclusion recalibrate both compliance and contestation. Accompanying these developments is the Presenter: Dr Robin Cameron (RMIT) increasing globalization of culture. Ulrich Beck has argued that there is 'a new kind of capitalism, a new kind of economy, a new kind of global order, a new kind of personal life coming into Thursday, 23 April 2015 being, all of which differ from earlier phases of social development'. With these issues in mind In this edition of Global Frictions, Robin Cameron considered the relationship between the panel considered a range of questions including: Are we on the verge of global rupture domestic imprisonment and offshore detention. He argued that while the two practices triggered by the power shifts across and between states and movements? And, is the increased have much in common, they are not the same. Each speaks to the respective modalities of coerciveness of the state, and attempts to control the ‘margins’, an inevitable outcome of this regulating behaviour that challenges the norms of domestic and international politics. Drawing period of intensifying globalization? on the work of R. B. J. Walker and his 1993 book Inside/Outside: International Relations In addition to an engaging discussion, this event celebrated the many achievements and as Political Theory, Cameron also critiqued the theoretical juxtaposition of domestic and considerable contributions of Professor Manfred B Steger, who, after ten-years is departing international political spheres, suggesting they provide the legal and moral foundations that RMIT. both enable and legitimise how societies are governed and violence is projected.

52 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 53 Rethinking resilience: Policy and practice in the context of global development Centre conferences and symposia Panel: Dr Anne Brown (University of Queensland), Associate Professor Robbie Guevara Reassessing the global nuclear order: Past, present, and future (RMIT) and Annette Salkeld (Oxfam Australia) 8–10 January 2015 Convener: Dr Damian Grenfell (RMIT) In early January 2015, the world’s top 50 nuclear weapons policy and non-proliferation experts Thursday, 20 August 2015 gathered at RMIT to discuss the history, contemporary challenges and future threats to the In this edition of Global Frictions, the panel discussed the concept of 'resilience' and how it has global nuclear order. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Gilpatric Report, the conference come to dominate areas of social policy, debates around practice, and specific areas of activity represented the greatest gathering of nuclear specialists ever held in Australia, with scholars and such as development, conflict, security and peace studies. Through this discussion, the panel think tanks from the United States, United Kingdom, China, Iran, Australia and New Zealand noted how 'resilience' continues to raise significant issues for research and practice and what it all involved. The conference was co-convened by Professor Joseph Siracusa, Deputy Dean of means to be classified as 'fragile'. In the face of human and natural disasters, resilience they argued Global and Language Studies in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, and Professor has been promoted as a way of not only buttressing against the worst effects of crises, but also Francis Gavin, first Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies and Professor of as a way of evaluating the extent to which communities can re-gather themselves in the aftermath Political Science at MIT. Delegates included Emma Belcher (MacArthur Foundation, USA), of a destructive event. To an extent, the traction that resilience now holds, it was suggested, could Ken Young (Kings College London, UK), Elisabeth Röhrlich (University of Vienna, Austria), Eliza be attributed to the sense that risks are multiplying and deepening—perhaps most clearly manifest Gheorghe (Cornell University, USA), Wenting Nie (The Party School of the Central Committee of with regards to climate change and epidemics—and with an added complexity which sees the CPC, China) and Gareth Evans (Australian National University, Australia). development, security, humanitarian and environmental organizations being continually brought into The conference was co-hosted by the Centre for Global Research and Massachusetts Institute closer cooperation with one another. of Technology (MIT). It was also supported by the Nuclear Studies Research Initiative and the International Security Studies Forum (an H-Diplo production).

Culture and human rights: Contest, consonance and accommodation Panel: Dr Maree Pardy (University of Melbourne), Sonia Randhawa (Centre for Refuge(e)s in the cities : Post-conflict trauma, gendered violence and social inclusion Independent Journalism, Malaysia, and University of Melbourne). 26–27 November 2015 Convener: Dr Julian CH Lee (RMIT) Set against the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide and the 21st anniversary of the Thursday, 24 September 2015 Rwandan genocide, this two-day symposium provided attendees with the opportunity to reflect on the experiences of conflict, violence, migration and resilience. It also sought to explore what Human Rights are often thought to be universal, but they are also often contested and decried could be learnt from these mass atrocities and our failure to stop them. Brining together leading as foreign or Western impositions that do not accommodate local cultural values, histories or scholars from Australia and overseas, human rights activists and practitioners, socially engaged practices. This panel brought together academic and activist perspectives to examine the ways in artists, government representatives and policy makers, refugee advocacy groups and survivors which human rights and culture are brought into contestation, consonance and accommodation. of war, violence and displacement, the event harnessed a range of disciplines, forms and By what means do activists reconcile supposed conflicts between culture and human rights? What experiences to give voice to unspeakable issues and to understand key silences in post-conflict are the political contexts of these supposed conflicts? And how should academics think through recovery. The symposium also provided the opportunity for Australian academics and research specificities of culture and the universality of rights? Drawing on Australian and Asian contexts in students with interests in this broad area to discuss their own research projects and ideas and particular, this panel explored these and many more questions in order to advance and deepen our to become a part of a vibrant international research network. appreciation for the complexities located within this important issue. The symposium was convened by Associate Professor Hariz Halilovich (RMIT University) and Professor Jacqui True (Monash University). Srey Mum: Staging the trafficking victim in Cambodia : Dr Larissa Sandy (RMIT) Presenter Rethinking foreign aid: A round table discussion Thursday, 29 October 2015 Thursday, 19 November 2015 In the final edition of Global Frictions for 2015, Larissa Sandy critically explored a variety of Major changes to Australia’s approach to foreign aid in recent years have generated significant trafficking narratives from Cambodia in order to unpack how the ‘schizophrenic identifications’ debate, reflecting both recognition of the deficiencies of conventional approaches to aid and of women in the sex trade have been constructed. Based on analysis of trafficking narratives concerns about fulfilling global responsibilities. They have also posed major challenges for the published in NGO research, media reports and popular books, the seminar explored the trafficking various stakeholders in the aid sector, including NGOs, academia and government. It is widely story as it is told in and about Cambodia and considers the relationship between trafficking recognised that there is a need for a national debate about Australia’s approach to foreign aid, narratives and programmatic strategies as well as the strategies used to represent the suffering of including the relative emphasis on its various components, intended outcomes, and methods for trafficked women. By closely examining the role these narratives play in shaping understandings assessing effectiveness. To contribute to this process, the Centre for Global Research together of trafficking and anti-trafficking interventions, Sandy’s presentation sought to go beyond the myth with its event partners, Global Reconciliation, and the Humanitarian Advisory Group, was proud and examine how and why the ‘trafficking story’ is created and crafted in anti-trafficking campaigns to host this round table discussion. The five main topics discussed were the nature and purpose and for what purposes. of aid, how to better serve humanitarian needs, addressing the assessment of effectiveness, the composition and future of the humanitarian and development workforce and how to move forward. The participants contributed to a rich discussion that produced significant outcomes.

54 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 55 Centre colloquiums and co-hosted events Time to draw the line: Justice in the Timor Sea Democratic transitions: Realities and challenges in Myanmar Thursday, 22 October 2015 Friday, 20 March 2015 This event brought together The Friends of Baucau, Alola Australia and the Centre for Global In this event, Shihab Uddin Ahamad, Country Director of ActionAid in Myanmar, discussed the Research to discuss the need to find an acceptable solution on the issue of a maritime nation’s recent transition toward democracy and what it means for the people on the ground. boundary between Australia and Timor-Leste. With recent allegations over spying still Since the quasi-civilian government headed by President Thein Sein came to power in 2010, dominating diplomatic relations between the two countries, Janelle Saffin––former Federal Ahamad explained, there has been a rapid development of ‘top-down changes’ aimed at Parliamentarian and now adviser to the East Timorese Government––argued that Australia was democratization and economic liberalization. These changes have altered the perceptions of continuing to shortchange the East Timorese of billions of dollars worth of oil and gas royalties. both regional countries and the international community. Despite the beneficial changes, he Moreover, she stated that Australia’s insistence on a negotiated compromise to the sea border argued that it is many of the reforms are more about enhancing the government’s political with Timor-Leste failed to acknowledge the UN maritime boundary jurisdiction set by the UN legitimacy (both internally and externally), than a genuine movement towards an open and Convention on the Laws of the Sea. transparent democracy. In this lecture Ahamad outlined the current situation of ‘democratic transition’ in Myanmar, provided some predictions, and discussed what it all really means for the Book launches people on the ground. Youth peacebuilding: Music, gender and change By Lesley Pruitt Religious freedom and tolerance in a global age Friday, 27 March 2015 Monday, 4 May 2015 In late March 2015, the Centre celebrated the launch of Youth Contrary to Nietzsche’s declaration, God does not appear to be dead. Right around the world, peacebuilding: Music, gender and change, an innovative new text by religious and humanist world views are influencing national and international processes. The Lesley Pruitt. issues surrounding freedom of religion and belief and freedom of conscience are emerging in new international, national and local contexts. Featuring presentations from Professor Fred In this book Pruitt highlights the important role that youth can play Woods (Brigham Young University, USA), Professor Neville Rochow S.C (Notre Dame University in peacebuilding by examining music as a tool for engaging youth in Law School, and Adelaide Law School) and the Centre’s own, Professor Desmond Cahill OAM such activities. Music, Pruitt argues, can provide many unique insights (RMIT University), the symposium offered attendees the chance to examine religious freedom into transforming conflicts, altering our understandings, and achieving and tolerance from a number of differing perspectives. change. In this text, Pruitt also pays careful attention to the ways in which gender norms might influence a young person’s participation in music-based peacebuilding. Ultimately, the book defines a new An event to recognize the outstanding contribution of Manfred B Steger research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding Monday, 3 August 2015 practice and policy. This event celebrated the contribution of Professor Manfred B Steger, who, after ten years The book was launched by Professor Jacqui True, Professor of Politics and International was departing RMIT. As one the world's foremost authorities on globalization, having made Relations at Monash University, along with RMIT’s Global Studies Discipline and the Centre for major contributions to global debates on nonviolence, peace, and cosmopolitan social change, Global Research. Professor Steger helped redefine the University's global agendas in teaching and research. On the occasion of his departure, after 10 years as a major thought leader in Global Studies, this Heritage conservation and Japan's cultural diplomacy: Heritage, national identity and event celebrated his considerable achievements and provided some important insights into the national interest nature of global social transformations. By Natsuko Akagawa Friday, 17 April 2015 Changing minds, saving lives: Ending violence against women and girls In mid-April 2015, the Centre supported the launch of Natsuko Monday, 17 August 2015 Akagawa’s new book, Heritage conservation and Japan's cultural This special event brought together former Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon, diplomacy. In this book Akagawa argues that Japan’s heritage Plan International staff, Centre Director Dr Damian Grenfell and experts from Our Watch to conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid discuss gender-based violence. The event was held in partnership with Plan International, Our programs, has become one of the main means through which post- Watch, and RMIT Global Studies / Master of International Development program. World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservation, she suggests, has also been intimately linked to Japan’s sense of national identity as well as its self-portrayal as a responsible global and regional citizen. This book explores the concepts of heritage, nationalism and Japanese national identity in the context of Japanese and international history since the second half of the nineteenth century.

56 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 57 Film Screenings Beyond right and wrong: Stories of justice and forgiveness Monday, 23 March 2015 In association with Global Reconciliation and the RMIT International Studies Association (ISA), the Centre for Global Research hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary Beyond right and wrong: Stories of justice and forgiveness. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode and Lekha Singh the film depicts victims and perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide, the Israeli– Palestinian conflict, and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The film tells the stories of Bassam and Salwa Aramin, Emmanuel Bamporiki, Jo Berry, Robi Damelin, Rami Elhanan and Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Patrick Magee, Richard Moore, Beatrice (Beata) Mukangarambe, and Jean-Baptiste Ntakirutimana. The screening was followed by a question and answer session with the film’s director, Lekha Singh, and one of the film subject’s, Jo Berry.

En tierra extraña (In a foreign land) Thursday, 30 April 2015 In late April 2015, the Centre for Global Research hosted a screening of the Spanish language documentary film En tierra extraña (In a foreign land). Directed by the internationally renowned director, Iciar Bollain, this film follows the life of several young Spanish migrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, having left Spain in the wake of recession and unemployment. The screening was followed by question and answer session with one of the producers, Lina Badenes.

Opposite: Urban street scape in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo by Damian Grenfell.

58 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 59 Conference and seminar presentations Natsuko Akagawa, 'Visual representation of colonial heritage', Practices of Order: Colonial Public engagement and Imperial Projects Conference, Copenhagen, January 2015. Natsuko Akagawa, 'Local, national and international factors in the protection of intangible One of the aims of the Centre is to disseminate research findings amongst cultural heritage in Japan', Protecting the Weak: Entangled processes of framing, colleagues and stakeholders through conference presentations and lectures. In mobilization and institutionalization in East Asia, Frankfurt, January 2015. 2015, Centre staff presented their research findings at conferences and seminars around the globe, often at the invitation of host institutions. They also contributed Natsuko Akagawa, 'Where do we draw a line?', Thinking About Borders, Institute of to public debate and education through television and radio appearances as well Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, July 2015. as exhibitions. Here we present a sample of these activities. Natsuko Akagawa, 'The impact of UNESCO intangible heritage convention and the Invited addresses and keynotes politics and practice of heritage in Indonesia', Eighth Indonesia Council Open Conference, Geelong, July 2015. Natsuko Akagawa, 'Urban heritage, Indonesian heritage systems' Address, Faculty of Urban and Environmental Studies, Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang, February Natsuko Akagawa, 'The politics of "tangible" and "intangible"', Risks to Identity: Loss of 2015. Traditions and Collective Memory, 2015 ICOMOS Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee Meeting and Scientific Symposium, Fukuoka, October 2015. Natsuko Akagawa, 'Japan, word heritage, national interest and cultural diplomacy', Address, Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage, University of Melbourne, Kim Dunphy, 'How can we understand and measure the impact of our work in public Melbourne, September 2015. pedagogy?', Public Pedagogies Institute Conference, Melbourne, November 2015. Natsuko Akagawa, 'Heritage and embodiment: Japan’s influence on global heritage Kim Dunphy, 'Outcomes of urban place-making projects: a holistic assessment', Regional discourse', Address, Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Studies Association Conference, Melbourne, August 2015. Hasanuddin, Makassar, December 2015. Kim Dunphy, 'Workshop leader: How do we engage more effectively with our indigenous Stephen Alomes, 'Participate, imagine, innovate: Revitalising historic cities', Invited and diverse communities?', Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia contributor, Ballarat’s 2nd International Symposium on UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Conference, Melbourne, July 2015. Historic Urban Landscape, Ballarat, February 2015. Charles Hunt, '21st century UN peace operations: Civilian protection, use of force and Stephen Alomes, 'Retention of students studying japanese at secondary and tertiary levels: stabilization', Pan-European Conference in International Studies (EISA), Sicily, September issues and approaches', Invited workshop participant, Japanese Studies Association of 2015. Australia, 2015 Biennial Conference, Melbourne, June 2015. Stephen Alomes, 'Documenting UNESCO in Australia and sites of international heritage: Charles Hunt, 'Complex social systems and peace formation: Implications for Roundtable workshop', Invited contributor, Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne, peacebuilding policy and practice', International Studies Association Annual Convention, August 2015. New Orleans, February 2015. Kim Dunphy, 'Evidence for expressive arts', Invited speaker, Psychotherapy and Counselling Charles Hunt, 'Variables and vectors of normative behaviour in complex international Federation of Australia, Melbourne, July 2015. society: Rising powers and the responsibility to protect', International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, February 2015. Manfred B Steger, 'What is Global Studies?', Address, Global Studies Program, California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, February 2015. Manfred B Steger, 'Contested governance in a globalizing world', Keynote address, Social Exhibitions and poster presentations Agency in a Globalizing World: Where Now, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, July 2015. Tommaso Durante, 'Impegno per la vita [Commitment to Life]', Pozzuoli Cultural Center, Palazzo Toledo, Italy 19 November – 19 December. Manfred B Steger, 'America’s Pacific century and the global imaginary', Keynote address, Conference on Democracy and Difference the Pacific Century, Institute for American Kim Dunphy, 'A schema of outcomes of cultural engagement', Poster presentation, Studies, Leipzig University, Leipzig, July 2015. Australasian Evaluation Society Conference, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, September 2015. Kim Dunphy, Ildefonso da Silva, Nelinha Pereira and Lucia Pichler, 'Intangible Cultural Heritage of Tutuala, Lautem, including representation of rock art in cultural elements', Exhibition commissioned by UNESCO and Secretariat for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Government of Timor-Leste, Lospalos, November 2015.

60 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 61 Television, radio and online discussions Stephen Alomes, 'Interview about sport and society', 2HC Radio, 9 July 2015. Stephen Alomes, 'Interview about sport and social change', ABC NewsRadio, 9 July 2015. Stephen Alomes, 'Interview about life after football', 2GB Radio, 14 July 2015. Stephen Alomes, 'Interview on the globalising of Halloween', ABC Ballarat Radio, 29 October 2015. Stephen Alomes, 'Interview on the globalising of Halloween' ABC News 24 Television, 30 October 2015. Stephen Alomes, 'Interview on the globalising of Halloween', 720 ABC Perth and ABC Gippsland Radio, 30 October 2015. Hariz Halilovich, 'Russia has vetoed a UN resolution that would have condemned the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war as a crime of genocide', ABC News Radio, Interviewed by Tracey Holmes, 9 July 12015. Georgina Heydon, Miranda Lai and Sedat Mulayim, 'Trauma takes toll on interpreters in confronting cases', SBS World News, Television and radio, 10 February 2015. Georgina Heydon, Miranda Lai and Sedat Mulayim, 'Interpreters in the justice system', The Law Report, ABC Radio National, 10 February 2015.

Cross-cultural and programmatic engagement

Matadalan ba Malu Matadalan Ba Malu was established to facilitate English language scholarships for women from Timor-Leste. The program targets women working within a community context or local organisation in Timor-Leste and who would benefit from high quality English training and the experience of a cross-cultural exchange in Melbourne Australia. The learning and experience gained through the program are also designed to benefit the participant’s community in a number of ways, including the transference of new found skills and knowledge, promoting mutual understanding between East-Timorese and Australian communities, and an enhanced capacity to facilitate and negotiate local development activities and opportunities on returning home. A key objective of the program is to consider candidates who may not otherwise have had the opportunity to learn English and benefit from the experiences of living in another country for a period of time. The work of the Matadalan Ba Malu Committee is part of the broader Timor-Leste Research Program, which is located within the Centre. The Timor-Leste Research Program has conducted a wide range of research projects and activities in Timor-Leste for over a decade. While the English training component has been successfully operating since 2005—resulting in 10 program alumni—a volunteer committee was established in 2012 to expand the program’s opportunities and governance. The primary focus of the committee is to enhance the sustainability of the program via forging partnerships with other organisations, provide additional support services to candidates, and explore additional fundraising opportunities. The volunteer committee now comprises a number of RMIT academics as well as current and former RMIT students, each of whom have travelled to and been involved in various research and development projects in Timor-Leste.

Opposite: Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries), Lisbon, Portugal, January 2015. Photo by Damian Grenfell.

62 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 63 Sam Carroll-Bell Student engagement Thesis / Topic: Examining the Epistemologies of International Development Workers in Timor-Leste Members of the Centre for Global Research supervise a wide range of PhD, Supervisor: Damian Grenfell Masters by Research and Honours candidates, as well as overseeing research project and internship opportunities for postgraduate and undergraduate Supanida Chantarin students. Here we highlight a small sample of the Centre's supervisory activity in Thesis / Topic: Experience of student centred learning in international degree programs in 2015 together with the contribution of research candidates and interns. Vietnam Supervisor: Christopher Ziguras

PhD candidates Louise Coventry Hessah Alageel Thesis / Topic: Challenges and responses to good governance practices within civil Thesis / Topic: Politeness and Request Behaviour in Contemporary Arabic: A Case Study society in Cambodia of Saudi Arabian Women Supervisor: Yaso Nadarajah Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Tristan Ewins Amerah Alsharif Thesis / Topic: Third roads and third ways: Reconciling tensions in European left debates, Thesis / Topic: The Process of Intercultural Email Negotiation of Requests between Saudi 1848–1934 Postgraduate Students and Australian Academics Supervisor: Paul James Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Rebekah Farrell Aries Hui Thesis / Topic: Restraining big pharma: Legal avenues Thesis / Topic: Role of Precedence in International Investment Arbitration Supervisor: Jock McCulloch Supervisor: Rajesh Shamra Jessica Findling Patricia Armstrong Supervisor: Georgina Heydon Thesis / Topic: Adolescent leadership for sustainability: A longitudinal study of secondary Olga Garcia-Caro school students to investigate their attitudes and understandings of leadership and the Thesis / Topic: Interpreting and violence against women: Empowering women and factors that help shape their identity and development as leaders improving the profession through specialisation Supervisor: Jose Roberto Guevara Supervisor: Caroline Norma

Farahdiba Bachtiar Dave Gilbert Supervisor: Paul Battersby Thesis / Topic: Electronic surveillance and systemic deficiencies in language capability: Mihaela Balan Implications for Australia’s national security Thesis / Topic: Monitoring and evaluation participation in multilateral and bilateral funded Supervisor: Paul Battersby projects in developing Abderahim Gime Supervisor: Paul Battersby Thesis / Topic: The Commission for Africa: Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic Sufia Begum discourses of development Thesis / Topic: Negotiating self, religion and ethnicity: Bangladeshi migrant women in Supervisor: Peter Phipps Victoria, Australia Kent Goldsworthy Supervisor: Yaso Nadarajah Thesis / Topic: The commodification of good intentions: The case study of voluntourism in Jennifer Brooker international development Thesis / Topic: Youth work training in historical and contemporary contexts: Developing a Supervisor: Yaso Nadarajah new pre-service model Endro Dwi Hatmanto Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Thesis / Topic: An evaluation of competency-based curricula implemented in English Ronaldo Bucud language programs in Indonesia: Case studies of six high education programs in Thesis / Topic: Community participation in school based management: Studying the effect Jogjakarta of decentralisation Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Supervisor: Jose Roberto Guevara

64 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 65 Mohammad Iqbal R. Dian Diaan Muniroh Thesis / Topic: Citizens of the world: The integration of transnationally connected Bangladeshi Supervisor: Georgina Heydon and Pakistani immigrants into Australian society

Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Ho Phuong Chi Nguyen Thesis / Topic: The Effectiveness of the Practicum in EFL eacherT Education: Case Studies of Govindran Jegatesen Three Universities in Vietnam Thesis / Topic: The management of indigenous lands in Malaysia - The Kensiu dilemma Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Supervisor: Yaso Nadarajah Fumiko Noguchi Hong Thi Cam Khuong Thesis / Topic: Towards a conceptual framework for Education for Sustainable Development Thesis / Topic: Internationalising tourism education in Vietnam: An evaluation of the work- (ESD) in a sustainable community development context integrated learning process in tourism training programs Supervisor: Jose Roberto Guevara Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Gregoire Nimbtik Hayley King Thesis / Topic: 'Worlds in Collision': An inquiry into the sources of corruption within Vanuatu Thesis / Topic: The nature of the teaching and learning process and the role of student Government and Society assessment Supervisor: Paul Battersby Supervisor: Anamaria Ducasse Hiroko Ohashi Gina Krone Thesis / Topic: Revaluating Japanese language education beyond graduate attributes in Supervisor: Peter Phipps Australia Supervisor: Chantal Crozetn Ceyhan Kurt Supervisor: Georgina Heydon Aya Ono Thesis / Topic: How significant is social impact investing in the evolving fieldof global

Chen-Hui Lai development finance? Thesis / Topic: Interpreting and translating coming of age Supervisor: Paul Battersby Supervisor: Georgina Heydon Thi Ngoc Anh Pham Miranda Lai Thesis / Topic: The contribution of cross-border higher education to human resource Thesis / Topic: Community interpreting and translating coming of age development in Ho Chi Minh City . Supervisor: Georgina Heydon Supervisor: Christopher Ziguras Elizabeth Lakey Thesis / Topic: Multiculturalism and Somali young people Dao Tuyet Ha Pham Thesis / Topic: Recruitment, retention and professional development of upper secondary Supervisor: Yaso Nadarajah teachers in rural Vietnam Quang Toan Le Supervisor: Christopher Ziguras Thesis / Topic: A Study of the Life Histories of Young Male Offenders in Vietnam in the Context

of Government Policies and Practices Kate Phelan Thesis / Topic: What is a woman? Supervisor: Desmond Cahill Supervisor: Caroline Norma

Hai Thanh Luong Thesis / Topic: Transnational Narcotics Trafficking and Law Enforcement: A Vietnam Perspective David Pollock Supervisor: Peter Phipps Supervisor: Paul Battersby Anita Samardjiza Brenna McIntosh Thesis / Topic: State legitimacy and contemporary Serbian national identity Thesis / Topic: A history of tactical nuclear weapons Supervisor: Peter Phipps Supervisor: Joseph M Siracusa

Rene Sephton Michael Montalto Thesis / Topic: Finding peace amongst restless and unatoned bones: ‘Bumuntu’ memory Thesis / Topic: Rules of the road: Making and enforcing the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the legacy of violence in Kamina, The Democratic Republic of Congo Supervisor: Joseph M Siracusa Supervisor: Damian Grenfell

Sedat Mulayim Thesis / Topic: Understanding the dynamics of community translation Emily Toome Thesis / Topic: Trauma in Timor-Leste: Politics and embodiments of post-conflict suffering Supervisor: Georgina Heydon Supervisor: Hariz Halilovich

66 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 67 Andres Felipe Vargas Marino Higher degree by research: Candidate experience Thesis / Topic: Usme: a Space for Hope. A case study of decolonial resistance and processes of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation in Bogotá, Colombia The Centre for Global Research offers a wonderfully rich and supportive Supervisor: Yaso Nadarajah environment for research candidates. The following testimonies briefly detail how research candidates have benefited from their involvement Alexander Waters with the Centre. Thesis / Topic: Divergent models of globalisation: New Feudalism and New Democracy. What are the consequences of global populist social movements agitating for system change? Kent Goldsworthy Supervisor: Paul Battersby 'In the final year of my PhD, my research is focused on how neo-liberal globalization produces certain kinds of relationships between citizens, markets and states of the Catherine Weiss Supervisor: Ceridwen Spark rich and developing worlds. I have been involved with the Centre for Global Research since halfway through my Bronwyn Winch first year. I actively attended the Centre's seminar events and because the Centre Thesis / Topic: Spiritual beliefs and magic in post-colonial Timor-Leste: The role of provides its research candidates the opportunity to participate in its seminar series, I transcendental power and agency in the constitution of security eventually delivered a seminar myself. Being active in the seminars resulted in some Supervisor: Damian Grenfell very valuable feedback on the progress of my research and particularly valuable encouragement from Centre members. The research culture and collegiality of the Centre has been an ongoing source of encouragement consistently over the past four years. Colleagues at the Centre include both my supervisors and coordinators of courses with whom I have taught. These relationships, held within a shared experience of the Centre’s intellectual and education environment, have been especially enriching. Over time I have also had the opportunity to contribute to the Centre as the PhD representative on the Centre Executive. In addition I had the opportunity to undertake some administrative project work promoting the Centre. I have come to understand and appreciate that engagement with the Centre has been integral to the progress of my PhD research and it has been a significant influence on shaping my direction into a research and teaching career.'

Rachel Sharples 'I graduated with a PhD in 2012. As a research candidate, my PhD was supervised through the Centre for Global Research. My thesis was on the constructs of culture and identity for displaced persons residing in borderlands spaces. Focusing specifically on a group of Karen who had been displaced from Burma and now living in the Thai-Burma borderlands, I undertook a number of field trips to the Thai-Burma border in order to develop my research. As a student and a researcher, these were important and challenging trips and I benefited from the support of many colleagues at RMIT. Above: A postgraduate student asks a question at Global Frictions: Rupture and connection in the global age. Melbourne, July 2015. Photo by Nico Keenan. As a part-time student I had been working on my PhD for eight years. During that time I was given many opportunities within the Centre, and found the Global Studies Seminar Series incredibly useful for finding out what sort of research colleagues were working on and for networking both within and outside RMIT. The Centre maintains an excellent intellectual culture where I was able to converse not only with other PhD students but also with academics working in the field. There were important elements of rigour and mentoring that underpin this intellectual culture. It also gave me important links into the teaching program, where I have begun teaching courses, and this added depth and greater understanding to my research.'

68 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 69 A popular destination for Japanese newly weds, here a couple have their photo taken on an Oahu beach. 70 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Oahu, Hawai'i, March 2015. Photo by Damian Grenfell. 71 Financial report for 2015 For the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015

Income 2015 Research grants income Australian Research Council 120,142 Other Commonwealth 35,532 Industry 75,646 International 12,305 RMIT co-contribution 184,430 Total research grants income 480,680

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