Program Leader: Prof. Supriya Singh
Program Manager: Dr Yaso Nadarajah

While the ‘Globalization Program’ emphasizes the global flow of ideas and practices from above, this program works from the ground up and is motivated by the pressing need to understand how local communities are currently negotiating the challenges of globalization. By conducting a mapping of communities in key cities in the Asia-Pacific region, the Program provides a way of connecting the local and global dimensions of social and economic change at the community level. The program examines the associations, networks and bonds that help situate individuals and groups in relation to their cultural, spatial and temporal surroundings. It studies the way these factors operate within specific localities, and as they move across localities. This program investigates practices affected by the globalization of trade, business, work and welfare. It covers sustainable livelihoods, money and exchange as well as places, spaces and networks, health, well-being and migration. In short, it analyses how communities are sustained through time, how they cohere and change.

Research Projects

An important initial step in our research projects is to determine how communities are lived. We want to map what the people who live in and around the research locations understand to be their communities.

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Associated Research

Information about associated research in Community Sustainability research program.

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Discussion & Debate

Many of the participants in the project are asked to give public presentations. In the future this site will provide a repository for such entries into public debate on the part of project participants.

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Links

While the Community Sustainability project is inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary, many of our research collaborators are located in research centres, institutes or units, government departments or non-government organizations that are of particular relevance to our research themes.

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