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Directors GroupThis group, which includes the Director, Deputy Director and Academic Director, is the board of management of the Globalism Research Centre, and handles the day-to-day administration and governance of the Centre.
Manfred B. StegerDirector, Globalism Research Centre Recent research: globalization; ideology and non-violence in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. Manfred B. Steger is Director of the Globalism Research Centre and Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University. In addition, he is Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. He has delivered many lectures on globalization, ideology, and nonviolence in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. Comprised of 14 books, dozens of articles and book chapters, and numerous reviews, Professor Steger's academic work has been cited widely in the pertinent literature. His study Globalism: The New Market Ideology (Rowman & Littelfield, 2002) won the 2003 Michael Harrington Award of the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association. He has been a consultant on globalization for the U.S. State Department and an advisor on a U.S. Public Television series on the rise and fall of socialism. Favorable reviews of his work have appeared in numerous academic journals including the American Political Science Review and International Affairs. Professor Steger serves on several editorial boards of academic journals as well as on the advisory boards of several globalization research centers around the world. He has been a recipient of research grants from many institutions, including the U.S. National Endowment of the Humanities. His latest book project (forthcoming 2008) is Ideology in the Global Age: Transforming the National Imaginary (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Martin MulliganDeputy Director, Globalism Research Centre Recent research: sense of place and community well-being in particular Victorian communities; community development strategies in Papua New Guinea; the recovery of local communities in post-tsunami Sri Lanka; strategies for nature conservation in the post-colonial era; rethinking attitudes to water in Australia and internationally; social history of ecological thought and action. Before joining the Globalism Research Centre in 2004, Martin Mulligan worked for ten years in the innovative Social Ecology program at the University of Western Sydney where he developed new courses in areas related to ecological thinking and environmental education. During this time he conducted the research for a book titled Ecological Pioneers:A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action co-authored with Prof. Stuart Hill and published by Cambridge University Press (2001). This book was nominated for both the NSW Premier's Prize for history writing and the Queensland Premier's Prize for history writing. With Professor William Adams of Cambridge University, he collected and edited a volume of writings published under the title Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era by Earthscan (London, 2003). Dr Mulligan is interested in ways of deepening discourses on sustainability through the promotion of 'ecological literacy' and in exploring how a deeper 'sense of place' can bring together concerns for the environmental and social sustainability of local communities. In particular, he is interested in how Australians might rethink their attitudes to water, by 're-immersing' themselves in the hydrological cycle. Ecological Pioneers was dedicated to the memory of the great Australian poet and conservationist Judith Wright, who died just before it was published, and Dr Mulligan subsequently worked for more than three years to organise a festival that would celebrate and extend her legacy. Held in March 2005, the Two Fires Festival of Arts and Activism attracted around 1,000 participants and it featured an impressive list of leading Australian writers, musicians, film-makers, activists and scholars. More than 20 of these prominent people are contributing to a book that will explore Judith Wright's legacy on the interplay between art and activism (currently under consideration by Cambridge University Press). Dr Mulligan also has a long-term association with Sri Lanka and he is working on a proposal for a collaboration with researchers at Ruhuna University in southern Sri Lanka on how local communities are recovering from the devastating impacts of the tsunami.
Paul JamesAcademic Director, Globalism Research Centre Recent research: theories of nationalism and globalism, political violence in places of upheaval, transnational movement and cultural identity, theories of social formation including tribalism, traditionalism, modernism and postmodernism Paul James is Academic Director of the Globalism Research Centre (RMIT), an editor of Arena Journal, and on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. He has received a number of awards including the Japan-Australia Foundation Fellowship, an Australian Research Council Fellowship, and the Crisp Medal by the Australasian Political Studies Association for the best book in the field of political studies. Invitations have been received to deliver addresses in twenty different countries including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel-Palestine, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Taiwan and the United States. He is author or editor of fourteen books, including Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community (Sage, 1996). His book with Tom Nairn, Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terror, has just been published by Pluto Press, and Globalism, Nationalism Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In was published by Sage Publications in 2006. |
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