Research Projects
Icelandic 'Imagined Recovery' Project
Dr. David M. Berry (The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power and Empire and Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University)
Iceland provides a potentially paradigmatic case study into financialisation and “imagined recovery” from a profound financial crisis facilitated by weakened democratic structures and processes of checks-and-balances. Indeed, the Icelandic financial crisis, is better understood as a profound crash of the economy, more broadly defined. Also, to test a variation of Cultural Political Economy employing a conceptual apparatus taken from the work of Boltanski et al.
This research is being run by Queen Mary, University of London; Swansea University and Bifrost University.
Cultures of Discipline Group
The Cultures of Discipline Group relates contemporary issues facing police and armed forces to the academic study and public representation of these institutions. Themes of investigation undertaken by the Group centre on the evolution of police and military culture(s) and how the police and the military are portrayed in the media, cinema, literature and the arts. The Group is keen to involve members of police and military organizations alongside academic researchers in order to promote exchanges of knowledge, ideas and experience in a multi-disciplinary context. For further information, click here.
Anti-Terrorism
Dr Lee Jarvis has secured an ESRC Small Grant Award in collaboration with Dr. Michael Lister of Oxford Brookes University. The award is for a project entitled Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security in the UK, which will run for 12 months from September 2009. The project will explore public attitudes towards anti-terrorism policies, and the impact of those attitudes on security and citizenship within Britain today.
Tianjin, China
Professor Nicola Cooper is currently co-Principal Investigator on a 3 year ESRC large project entitled: ‘Tianjin under Nine Flags: Colonialism in Comparative Perspective’. The research aims at producing a comparative and trans-national analysis of the identities, practices and rivalries of five of the major powers established in Tianjin: Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. The project will provide powerful new insights into the understanding of colonial history, as well as the history of China, and will produce work with crossover value between a variety of different subfields of history and political science. See here for the project’s website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/tianjin-project/
GWACS
The Callaghan Centre is affiliated with the Group for War and Culture Studies (GWACS). GWACS was established in 1995 at the University of Westminster, and Key aspects of the Group's work are its focus on the forms and practices of cultural transmission in time of war, and the analysis of the impact of war on cultural identity and international cultural relations.See here for more details: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-1322
East India Company
Professor Huw Bowen is currently engaged in a re-estimation of the value, volume, and geographical distribution of British trade with Asia, 1760-1833. As part of this study, he has developed an East India Company Trade and Finance Database.
Resources for War
Professor Huw Bowen is the co-founder and organiser of two research networks: 'Resources for war: European states at work, c.1650-1815' (with Rafael Torres Sanchez and Agustin Gonzalez Enciso of Universidad de Navarra, Spain) 'British Asia and the British Atlantic, 1500-1820: Two worlds or one?' (with Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron, USA and John G. Reid, St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada) .
