Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean

该项目考察了该地区的贸易文化，该地区在殖民前时期是主要世界经济体系的中心，现在正在重新加强。因此，它将最早的全球体系与当前的全球化研究联系起来，赋予这些分析以历史深度。这是印度洋研究中的第一个文化研究项目，它将新理论与该地区的经验多样性相匹配，分析文化力量如何为商品增加价值，同时创造各种形式的跨国文化和身份。该项目对文化/历史和后殖民思想做出了重大贡献，有可能开创一个新的研究领域。

The project examines trade cultures in a region which was the hub of the major world economic system in the pre-colonial period, and is now restrengthening. It thus links the earliest global system with current globalisation studies, giving those analyses historical depth. The first cultural studies project in Indian Ocean studies, it matches new theory to the empirical diversity of the region, analysing the way cultural forces add value to commodities, while creating diverse forms of transnational culture and identity. The project makes major contributions to cultural/historical and postcolonial thought, with the potential to create a new field of study.