Building Australian Research Capacity on Asia: A New Problem-Oriented Strategy

Indo Pacific Governance Research Centre Policy Brief, Issue 1, January 2012

6 Pages Posted: 4 Mar 2012

Date Written: March 4, 2012

Abstract

Asia literacy – literacy about the region – has been the dominant underlying rationale for public investment in research about Australia’s region leading to a strong focus on country based centres with a considerable area studies and humanities focus.

This conventional Asia literacy strategy is prone to rent seeking, and is less effective in generating knowledge about the new social and political dynamics of the region than a strategy geared towards understanding contemporary problems of capitalist transformation in the region.

This Policy Brief advocates a problem-oriented research strategy that addresses problems and puzzles of social, economic, and political transformations that are often transnational in nature and scope.

Public investment on research in the region via major public funding bodies such as the Australian Research Council and AusAID as well as through public universities should develop a strategic and coordinated approach to building research capacity on the region.

Keywords: social science, Asian literacy , Australia and Asia

Suggested Citation

Jayasuriya, Kanishka, Building Australian Research Capacity on Asia: A New Problem-Oriented Strategy (March 4, 2012). Indo Pacific Governance Research Centre Policy Brief, Issue 1, January 2012 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2015798

Kanishka Jayasuriya (Contact Author)

University of Adelaide ( email )

No 233 North Terrace, School of Politics
Adelaide, SA 5005, SA 5005
Australia

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