Global South Research and Pedagogy
Considering areas in the Global South - those regions outside Europe and North America - not as recipients of exported knowledge but as producers of theories, methods and world views that question the motivations of Western ways of knowing.
What does it mean to research, teach or theorise from the Global South? To regard those regions outside Europe and North America not as recipients of exported knowledge but as producers of theories, methods and world views that question the motivations of Western ways of knowing. How might we continually interrogate the geopolitics of knowledge? Can we extend the critique of power initiated by postcolonial theory to analyses of Cold War legacies? Can we expose the extent to which canonical approaches align with mercantilism and private property? Global South approaches occur at the confluence of two formerly marginal postcolonial and socialist ways of knowing. Initially identified through decolonised political alliances for South-South cooperation and demarcated later in 1980 as a territorial southern region based on development indices, this term is increasingly used to describe social disadvantage within Global North liberal democracies. This third important dimension to Global South knowledges links global and social forms of inequity.
Destination Global South
An ongoing exhibition at the ABP Library featuring student work or exhibits related to travelling studios in countries and cities in the Global South.
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Destination Global South
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Destination Indonesia
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Destination Ahmedabad
- 2022 ARC Discovery Project DP220101100 Communities, Kava, Court Orders: ways of possessing the pacific city Lead CI: Jennifer Day
- 2019, ARC-Discovery Project DP190101531 Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building CIs: Anoma Pieris (lead) , Andrew Saniga, Mirjana Lozanovska (Deakin University); David Beyon (University of Tasmania; Alexandra Dellios (Australian National University).
- 2015, Australian Research Council Future Fellowship FT140100190 Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment Lead CI: Anoma Pieris
- 2022, Evidence to Action (E2A) Implementation Design Phase, Lead CI: Acuto, M. CI: IB Mateo-Babiano, Fattah, K
- 2021, Tackling a global pandemic in Asian Megacities: Uneven vulnerabilities, State responses and grassroots practices , Regional Studies Association, Lead CI: Mateo-Babiano, IB, Recio, R, Fattah, K and Acuto, M
- 2021, Gender and Transport Assemblage of Learning and Knowledge (GTALK), Regional Collaboration Project COVID-19 Digital Grant, Australia Academy of Sciences, Lead CI: Mateo-Babiano, IB, A. Abuzo, M.D. Guillen, S.G. Napalang, M. Mustafa, T.A. Trinh, P. Iamtrakul, C. Matsunaga and A. Kusumawati.
- 2018-2020, Gender and Transport Nexus in Asia Pacific: Achieving a more equitable and inclusive society, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies International Cooperative Research Activity Grant Scheme, Lead CI: IB Mateo-Babiano, A. Abuzo, M.D. Guillen, N. Kang, M. Mustafa, D. Parikesit, P. Pheng, F. Rahman, T.A. Trinh, N. Ohmori,
- 2015-16: Rethinking Asia-Pacific Architectures: New Aesthetic Pedagogies Strategic Initiative Fund at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne & International Research and Research Training Fund workshop grant from the University of Melbourne in collaboration with Hong Kong University and the National University of Singapore. Research Team: (Lead CI) Anoma Pieris; Amanda Achmadi; Sidh Sintusinghe; Cecilia Chu (HKU; Eunice Seng (HKU); Jiat-Hwee Chang (NUS); Lilian Chee (NUS)
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Immigrant Networks
2022-2023 Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building
IMMIGRANT NETWORKS: Migration + Industry + Architecture + Landscape
Museo Italiano CO. AS. IT. 15 November 2022 - 10 February 2023
Migration, industry and settlement were catalytic for modernisation in Australia after World War II, a period shaped by post-war reconstruction. Federal and corporate funding for major industries together with government policies for population growth enabled nation-building programs that shaped remote, rural and urban environments into modern industrial landscapes. Populations were drawn from war-destroyed nations, underdeveloped economies, and hostile political environments.
Immigration centres and industries that employed refugee and immigrant labour in the post war period can be thought of as nodes in an interdependent spatial and transnational labour network. The physical sites and projects featured in this exhibition convey this network, its nodal points and inter-cultural social interactions through a study of migrant camps (the examples of Benalla and Greta are explored), key industrial sites for hydro-electric power generation (Snowy Hydro), defence (Woomera) and raw-material production (BHP Steelworks, Port Kembla), independent small businesses and the associated industrial infrastructure and landscapes (trans-Asian suburbanisation in Melbourne). These are selected due to their significance in the history of immigration and Australian modernisation and capacity to convey their co-dependence, and the later dispersal of new immigrants into manufacturing and service industries at the metropolitan periphery.
The exhibition was made possible by the Australia Research Council Discovery Project DP190101531, Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building 2019-2022, with an interdisciplinary team from The University of Melbourne, Deakin University, The University of Tasmania and The Australian National University. The broader project covers a range of sites indicated in the above map.
Migrant Camps – Alexandra Dellios
Snowy Hydro – Anoma Pieris
Port Kembla Steelworks – Mirjana Lozanovska
Woomera – Andrew Saniga
Melbourne Suburbs- David Beynon
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Southern Built Environments
The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning presented the Southern Built Environments Research Seminar Series in 2022. This seminar series combines and showcases the expertise and passion of our academics and their research collaborators whose research projects continue to have a meaningful impact on communities in the Global South encompassing Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania.
Our seminar series aims to inspire interdisciplinary dialogue, sparking debate and conversations among Faculty staff and guests from all over the world about the future of Southern Urbanism.
Each seminar will focus on a different geographical region, with guest speakers tackling compelling issues in the Global South that affect both the natural and built environment, with major implications to settlements where these challenges emerge.
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Rethinking Asia-Pacific Architectures
The workshop, ‘Spaces in transition: globalisation, transnationalism and urban change in the Asia-Pacific’ was held from 2015-2106 as the inaugural forum for the Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia a regional and international network for critical reflection on the histories, pedagogies and practices of architecture in the Asia-Pacific. Workshop participants shared their insights on architecture and urbanism in the Asia-Pacific region, using ‘global modernisms’ as a conceptual entry-point. The workshop engaged with multiple historical processes such as decolonisation, indigenisation, urbanisation and globalisation.
The workshop was framed as a forum for Australia-based scholarship on Southeast Asian and East Asian topics, approached from an Inter-Asian perspective. A panel from CAMEA at the University of Adelaide will extend this focus towards other Asian regions.The keynote for the workshop was Abidin Kusno from York University, Toronto, Canada. Alongside his participation at the workshop, Kusno delivered one of the keynotes in ‘GOLD: the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)’ and was a panellist at the Indonesia Forum Panel Discussion, ‘Reading Indonesian Cities: Dreams, Nightmares and Memories of a Nation’.The workshop was followed by a postgraduate student plenary, ‘Rethinking Modern Asia-Pacific Architectures’ held in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore.
It was funded through an International Research and Research Training Fund workshop grant from the University of Melbourne. Collaborating academics include Cecilia Chu and Eunice Seng from Hong Kong University and Jiat-Hwee Chang and Lilian Chee from the National University of Singapore.The workshop was organised with funding from the Strategic Initiative Fund at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne. The initiative was headed by Anoma Pieris (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning), Duanfang Lu (University of Sydney), and Cecilia Chu (Hong Kong University).Organisers of both the events include Anoma Pieris, Amanda Achmadi and Sidh Sintusingha at the University of Melbourne, John Ting at the University of Canberra and David Beynon at Deakin University. Amanda is also the convenor of the University of Melbourne’s Indonesia Forum.
Selected publications on Global South topics
Featuring a selection of recent and previous publications by researchers in our faculty concerned with Global South issues
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Informal Settlement
Atlas of Informal Settlement
Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design
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Informal workers
COVID-19 and informal workers in Asian cities
Impact, response, and implications for urban recovery
Edited By Redento B. Recio, Kazi Nazrul Fattah, Nausheen H. Anwar, Noman Ahmed, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Michele Acuto, Ian Jayson Hecita, Shiva NouriCopyright 2024
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Urban Planning in Africa
Reimagining Urban Planning in Africa
- Edited by Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, University of Melbourne, Eric Gaisie, University of Melbourne 2023
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Belt and Road
International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative
A Bottom-Up Approach
Edited By Sidh Sintusingha, Hao Wu, Wenqi Lin, Sun Sheng Han, Bo Qin
2021
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Equitable land use
Equitable Land Use for Asian Infrastructure
Edited by Piyush Tiwari, Grant B. Stillman and Naoyuki Yoshino
Publication | December 2020
- Borders
- Urban Housing
- Civil Conflict in Sri Lanka
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