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Members of the Institute are involved in various groups that seek to engage with postcolonialism in different ways.

Southern Perspectives

Southern Perspectives is a network that seeks to promote a south-south dialogue of ideas. It profiles individuals and organisations that explore a southern perspective on a broad range of disciplines, including creative arts, humanities, professions, social and physical sciences. www.southernperspectives.net

The Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies

The Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, seeks to improve understandings of Australian Indigenous cultures, history and the long and complex process of colonialism, reconciliation and post-colonialism. http://arts.monash.edu.au/cais/newsletter/2008-spring.pdf

The Centre for Postcolonial Writing

The Centre for Postcolonial Writing, Monash University, crosses traditional literary borders into new frontiers that subversively redescribe and reshape the world. It engages with the discourses of empire, the special positioning of colonizing cultures in the colonized environment, and the subtleties of subject-construction in colonial discourse. It extends to the resistance of those subjects and their contentious dialogue with the colonizing culture in redefining themselves in pre and post independence contexts, and considers the effects of globalisation and diaspora in this revolutionary process. http://arts.monash.edu.au/postcolonial-writing/

Trans/forming Cultures

Trans/forming Cultures at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) focuses on transnational social and cultural transformations in different media - language, film, radio, popular cultural forms - across time and across national and geographical boundaries. http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/

Shared Hopes New Worlds project is part of broader ARC-supported research being carried out by Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, Michael Pearson and Stephen Muecke: ‘Intercolonial Networks of the Indian Ocean’ (2008-2010) which is reassessing the movement of people, commodities, ecologies and ideas around the network of colonies in the Indian Ocean, under British, Dutch, French and Portuguese control. This work is already highlighting the extent and significance of intercolonial relationships which were independent of the control – and often out of the awareness of – colonial authorities.