At The Open University:
In alphabetical order:
Belief Beyond Boundaries
"...aims to invite exploration of questions relating to the
centrality of belief vis à vis experience and outward observance,
and the location of boundaries between the 'alternative' and the
'mainstream' at historical, institutional, definitional, traditional,
geographical, methodological, and transnational levels."
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Centre for Complexity
and Change (CCC)
"The Centre for Complexity and Change ( CCC ) links the work
of three disciplines in the Open University's Technology Faculty:
Systems, Development policy and practice and Technology Management...
and study... complexity and change, especially in the management
of technologies, organizations, the environment and sustainable
development in all parts of the world."
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Empire and Postcolonial
Studies Research Group
The Empire and Postcolonial Studies Research Group promotes research
into the history and impact of empires and imperialism. Our aim
is to facilitate collaboration between scholars in the History Department,
and between them and the Ferguson Centre, English and Geography
Departments, and other parts of the Open University. The group encourages
seminars and conferences and mutual support of research students.
In the first instance, we hope to support potential synergies between
Empire and the OU’s development of a Heritage Studies curriculum,
and between Empire and the History Department’s strengths
in policing and security.
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Ethics Centre
"The environment... Globalisation... Poverty... War... Corporate
fraud... New technologies... Ethical debate has moved to the very
top of the world agenda in the 21st century. The Open University's
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brenda Gourley, has established a visionary
new international and interdisciplinary Ethics Centre which will
meet these needs".
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Globalization, Identity
Politics, and Social Conflict: Contemporary Texts and Discourses
"...is an international collaborative research project"
which examines "the relationships between socio-political and
economic phenomena such as globalization, identity-politics and
different forms of social conflict... encountered and expressed
in social/cultural discourses and texts in the public domain"
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International Development
Centre
"The International Development Centre is an inter-faculty research
centre to develop research and teaching interventions on issues
of international development. The centre is geared at building effective
collaborations and networking with colleagues from around the world,
especially Africa."
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OU in Africa
Whether it is training teachers, supporting curriculum development,
developing future leaders, improving the use of ICT in classrooms
or simply helping a child come to terms with the loss of their parentsfrom
HIV/Aids, The Open University pursues a strategy in Africa to help
build capacity. We draw on our expertise in teaching and research
to support African higher education institutions, to strengthen
the capacity of Africa's people and to help build their economy
and eliminate poverty, by improving teaching and learning resources
and access to high quality higher education.
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Pavis Centre for
Social and Cultural Research
"The Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research pursues
and develops research concerned with the relations between culture
and society."
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Post-Colonial Literatures
Group
The group (founded in 1992)
forms a recognised focus for the department’s activities in
the ever-expanding field of colonial and post-colonial literary
studies. Professor Walder’s work on South African drama is
widely known; in particular his editing of Fugard’s plays
for OUP and, more recently his book Athol Fugard for Writers &
Their Work (2003). His Post-Colonial Literatures: History, Theory,
Practice (1998) provides a popular introduction to the field;
he is currently publishing in the area of Post-colonial Memories
and Life Writing. Dr Susheila Nasta, the founding editor of the
journal Wasafiri, specialises in Black British and Asian writing,
the subject of her major book Home Truths: Fictions of the South
Asian Diaspora (2002); she is currently working on Jamaica
Kincaid. Dr Robert Fraser’s Lifting the Sentence: a poetics
of postcolonial fiction was published in 2001; he is currently
engaged in the Post-Colonial Book History Project (see below). Dr
David Johnson has published on Shakespeare in the post-colonial
context, and on concepts of nation; his co-edited Historical
Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2005) involved
several members of the group. Dr Françoise Parent Ugochukwu
has published on Orality and Nigerian literature.
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Wasafiri
International Magazine of Contemporary Writing
In nearly twenty years of publishing, Wasafiri has changed the face
of contemporary writing in Britain. As a literary magazine primarily
concerned with new and postcolonial writers, it continues to stress
the diversity and range of black and diasporic writers world-wide.
Wasafiri remains committed to its original aims: to create a definitive
forum for the voices of new writers and to open up lively spaces
for serious critical discussion not available elsewhere. It is Britain's
only international magazine for Black British, African, Asian and
Caribbean literatures.
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External Links:
In alphabetical order:
British Empire &
Commonwealth Museum
based in Bristol, “…draws upon a wide range of experiences
and divergent opinions about the colonial period. It presents a
history seen from all sides… The 500-year history of the British
empire and the modern Commonwealth is presented to the visitor through
twenty themed galleries.”
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Caribbean Studies
Centre, London Metropolitan University
" The Caribbean Studies Centre was established in 2002, building
on the success of the longstanding programme in Caribbean Studies
offered by the University, the only such programme on offer in the
UK. It is hoped that the Centre's website will become a useful resource
for all those interested in the Caribbean, its history, society,
culture and everyday reality."
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DISA - Digital Imaging South
Africa Project
A joint project run by the Killie Campbell Museum and University
of KwaZulu-Natal. The aim of the DISA project, which is expected
to last three years, is to make accessible to scholars and researchers
world-wide, South African material of high socio-political interest
which would otherwise be difficult to locate and use. In addition
the project aims to provide experience and develop knowledge and
expertise in digital imaging amongst archivists and librarians in
South Africa. It is intended that DISA be the first in a series
of projects dealing with South Africa's fascinating social and political
history.
DISA
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University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Leeds University
Centre for African Studies
"LUCAS exists to promote studies relating to Africa in the
University and city of Leeds, and further afield."
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Moving Worlds Jounral
Moving worlds is a biannual international magazine, and is a form
for creative work as well as criticism, literary as well as visual
texts. Each issue highlights a particular theme and also carries
material of general interest. The journal is internationally refereed
and is published by Moving Worlds at The School of English, University
of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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SALIDAA
"The SALIDAA digital archive covers South Asian literature,
art, theatre, dance and music in England and features collections
of materials by individual artists and organisations."
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Tibet Visual History
Online
"The Pitt Rivers Museum holds an extraordinarily rich collection
of over 4000 historical photographs of Tibet taken by British colonial
photographers between 1908 and 1950... The Tibet Visual History
Online pilot website currently presents only a small proportion
of the photographs in the collections. It aims to explore ways of
delivering a fully searchable, flexible, interactive and multi-layered
website."
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