RUSSIC is a multidisciplinary research and teaching unit within the Division of Humanities, Curtin University.
RUSSIC examines processes of social and cultural transformation associated with global economic change to better understand the full dimensions of development and underdevelopment. The Unit, while maintaining an emphasis on development related issues, seeks to broaden its approach to these issues by incorporating some of the newer perspectives to the study of changing societies. It recognises for example that processes of globalisation are making the earlier tripartite division of the world less tenable, and seeks to draw out theoretical and practice implications for the study of societies in change.
Current research projects include:
- Forest conservation in East Java
- Migration in PNG
- Oil palm sector in PNG-2001 and 2002
- Education reconstruction in East Timor