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About the Globalism Institute
Manifesto
Our Aims and What We Do
Institutional Affiliations
National Advisory Committee
International Professorial Board
Background
At a time of acute sensitivity to questions of social dislocation, economic inequity and political upheaval, the Globalism Institute is committed to rethinking the relationship between the global and the local. Its primary intellectual task is to understand the processes of change and continuity, and to think through cultural-political questions about sustainable living in a globalizing world. In particular, it is concerned to facilitate and enhance activities of cultural dialogue across the continuing and positive boundaries of cultural diversity in the world today.
'Psychorama', the artwork we use on our homepage and in our publications, symbolizes all the concerns of the Globalism Institute. As the artist, a descendent of the Kokotha people from South Australia's West Coast, Darryl Pfitzner Milika says, it 'invites the viewer to consider the balance (or imbalance) between the natural environment and our constructed world, as well as between subjective notions of awareness and greater consciousness.'
In our work, this entails responding to key political issues of the new century across all levels of community and polity: from the remaking of institutions of global governance and the reconstitution of the nation-state to the re-formations of local regions and communities. It entails working across the divide between abstract theory and applied research. We begin with the place in which we live—Melbourne—and seek to draw lines of co-operation and reciprocal connection locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
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