Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean

该项目审查了该区域的贸易文化，该区域在前殖民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，使这些分析具有历史深度。印度洋研究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值，同时创造多种形式的跨国文化和身份。该项目为文化/历史和后殖民思想做出了重大贡献，有可能创造一个新的研究领域。

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.