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Research Projects

Members of the Centre are engaged in a number of research projects, a substantial number of which are or have been externally funded. Follow the links below for short descriptions of funded projects and collaborative projects.

Current Research Projects

Changing Farming Lives in South India, Past and Present project

Colonial art in British India: power, gender and race under the Raj

Completed Research Projects

Cultural Rights and Kenya's New Constitution

Beyond the Frame: Indian British connections project website

Performing Memory: theatricalising identity in contemporary South Africa project

Managing Heritage in contemporary Kenya project

Commodities Histories project

Commodities of Empire project

Contemporary Literature in English in the Indian market

Contraband modern in the Fes Medina

Managing Heritage, building peace: museums, memorialisation and the uses of memory in Kenya

Nollywood film industry and the African diaspora in the UK

Religion and Spirituality in the constitution of public and private lives

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