• POLITICS OF PLACE

    Processes of planned and forced migration around the world are as central to social transformation of societies across the globe. Countries, such as Australia, that once sought to... read more

  • DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY

    The aim of this group is to support research and writing that considers the ways in which people and communities’ function, with a particular focus on the context (e.g. social, political, cultural, organisational) in which people and communities exist.

  • RACE, COLONIALITY AND DECOLONIALITY

    This research area incorporates a number of projects that focus on the interconnectedness of race and coloniality and the means of overcoming social injustice. The aftermath of colonial violence, war, dispersion of indigenous peoples and ongoing global migration present some of the contexts in which questions of race, culture and discriminatory practices have been raised and investigated. More generally, researchers in this area are concerned with problems of identity, displacement and community strengthening in ways that seek to understand the relations between systems and structure of knowledge and governing practices, and to analyse the conditions for changing these relations.