[Reader-list] Milkbar: Globalisation and the Everyday City

[Craig Bellamy]

Dear Sarai Readers,

I would like to introduce my project to you. It is a local oral-history 
that speculatively tries to understand globalisation within an inner-city 
Australian community. It is almost due for submission as part of a 
Doctorate program here at RMIT University in Melbourne. Your comments are 
most appreciated and I will try and enact on them if you have any major 
suggestions.

www.milkbar.com.au

Milkbar.com.au: Globalisation and the Everyday City Creator Bellamy, Craig 
Subject Humanities; History; Oral History; Local History; Melbourne, Fitzroy

Description This is a project that seeks to offer a speculative encounter 
with the set of ideas called 'globalisation' through utilising some of the 
new tools offered to researchers. Using a mini digital video camera, I have 
recorded a number of people in the suburb of Fitzroy, an inner city suburb 
of Melbourne, Australia. The creator has asked people what they identify 
with in the suburb, how this has changed over time, and what they see as 
negative or positive changes. Succinctly, the raison d'être of the project 
is to create an oral history archive of the area in a period of rapid 
change and to try and understand some of these changes within larger 
analytical frameworks.

take care,

Craig