A Creole Landscape: Jamaica in Space and Time. Comparative analysis, over time and space, enables a richer understanding of the long-term consequences of changing attitudes to landscape and their impact on the exploitation of resources. Compared to Australia, the process of creolization, moving beyond acculturation and multiculturalism, is far advanced in Jamaica, leading to a redefinition of concepts of the native, the exotic and the feral, and of ideas about conservation and wilderness. Explan ....A Creole Landscape: Jamaica in Space and Time. Comparative analysis, over time and space, enables a richer understanding of the long-term consequences of changing attitudes to landscape and their impact on the exploitation of resources. Compared to Australia, the process of creolization, moving beyond acculturation and multiculturalism, is far advanced in Jamaica, leading to a redefinition of concepts of the native, the exotic and the feral, and of ideas about conservation and wilderness. Explanation of such differences can provide important lessons for policy and planning. The project will develop and refine a methodology with potential for broad application, including Australia.Read moreRead less
Borders and Empires: A Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1636 - 2006. This historical atlas brings insights into the continuing tensions in Northeast Asia, both in the Korean Peninsula, and between China and Russia, where old antagonisms have repeatedly led to armed conflict and where border friction today is exacerbated by economic disparities, population movements and rival nationalist rhetorics. Our research deepens the understanding of decision-makers and of the Australian public concernin ....Borders and Empires: A Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1636 - 2006. This historical atlas brings insights into the continuing tensions in Northeast Asia, both in the Korean Peninsula, and between China and Russia, where old antagonisms have repeatedly led to armed conflict and where border friction today is exacerbated by economic disparities, population movements and rival nationalist rhetorics. Our research deepens the understanding of decision-makers and of the Australian public concerning these issues. The project contributes important insights into the flexibility of borders at a time when they under new challenge. Our study of settler politics in Northeast Asia and the settler relations with indigenous political forces is also relevant to Australia's history and present. Read moreRead less