globalisation and international development

This research program examines the impact of globalisation on development at the local, national, and regional levels. Research projects are currently organised into three major themes.

• International Agencies and Development NGOs - inter-related projects that provide in-depth case studies of international agencies, regional bodies, international labour regimes, non-government organisations, and international environmental and human rights bodies.
• Social Impact Analysis - projects that examine how communities sustain themselves ecologically, culturally and economically, and how individuals and communities maintain, challenge or transform state and transnational forces.
• Environmental Change – projects monitor and evaluate the increasing productive and economic growth in the Asia Pacific region and how this impacts the local and global environment, focusing on how to introduce positive environemental change through local initiatives.

International Agencies and Development NGOs

• Australian Volunteers Abroad in Communities in the Asia/Pacific Region (Peter Kell, Tim Scrase, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, R O'Halloran)
• Australian Volunteers Abroad (Nichole Georgeou)
• The Asia Crisis: Indonesia and the IMF compared to Malaysia's state-led recovery (Georgia Lysaght)

Social Impact Analysis

• An exploratory study of the use of non-biomedical treatments by cancer patients in India, 2007-2008 British Academy Grant, (Alex Broom and Phil Tovey [Leeds], K.R. Nayar [JNU India]
• Precarious Production: Indian Artisans in the Global Economy (Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Tim Scrase)
• Social Impact of Globalisation in India (Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Tim Scrase)
• Social Impact Analysis and the Transformation of Asia-Pacific Ports (Andrew Wells and Tim Scrase)
• The social and political world of the “aspirational class”: Changing attitudes to taxation philosophies and policies (John Robinson)
• Social impacts of social transformation in China (Yanxia Huo)
• Privatization of water and the socio-cultural and political implications for poor women in developing countries: Cambodia and West Bengal as comparative case studies (Mary Scott)
• Modern politics and ideas of Empire in the Asia-Pacific (Nicholas Southall)
• Keeping Body and Soul Together:  Social Transformation and Health Inequalities in Rural East Java (Caroline Haksoro Campbell and Linda Connor)
• The Effect of Development Interventions on Power Relations in the Villages of Les and Penuktukan (Nazrina Zuryani and Terry Leahy)

 Environmental Change

• Logging, corruption and protest in Papua New Guinea (Andrew Lattas)
• Open Cuts to Land and Culture: Rural Community Engagement with Large-Scale Industrial Development (Connor, L., Albrecht, G.A. and Higginbotham, N.)
• Land and sustainability in cross-national perspective (Terry Leahy)
• Climate change, citizenship and cosmopolitanism in Bali, Indonesia (Linda Connor) 
• Climate Change Research And Policy In The Pacific Region (Jasmin Sydee)