Globalisation/History and New Media

This site is intended as a portal site for those interested in understanding the broad field/s that inform the discourse on 'globalisation'. The particular focus of this site is (a) understanding globalistion in a local context and (b) how can the Internet and new media be used as tools to express truthful historical understandings?

This site is a collection of articles, links and pointers to work on globalistion and history and new media? There are pointers to on-line history sites as well as new-media theory and practical examples. This site will also house the large research work titled: The Global Milkbar: Understanding Globalisation in an Inner-City Community in Australia.

The past is not a land to return to in a simple politics of memory. It has become a synchronic warehouse of cultural scenarios, a kind of temporal central casting, to which recourse can be taken as appropriate, depending on the movie to be made, the scene to be enacted, the hostages to be rescued.

Arjun Appadurai 1996

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers are to heroin addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

Eric Hobsbawn 1996