Publications include Karl Hack’s Did Singapore Have to Fall? (London: RoutledgeAsia, 2004), Dialogues with Chin Peng (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2004), and co-edited books on Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia, RoutledgeCurzon (2006), and Forgotten Captives in Japanese Occupied Asia, RoutledgeCurzon (January 2008). On the same themes, there is Chris Williams’s article with Georgina Sinclair, ‘Home and Away’; the Cross Fertilisation between ‘Colonial’ and ‘British’ Policing, 1921-1985’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 35 No. 2 (June 2007) pp. 221-238. Sinclair and Williams now have an ESRC grant to research global policing. Karl Hack, meanwhile, has completed a BA-funded project on ‘New Documents and Sources on the Southeast Asian Cold War’, and continues to publish on counterinsurgency for academic and practitioner audiences. The latter includes his ‘Extracting Counterinsurgency lessons: the Malayan Emergency and Afghanistan’, available via the Royal United Services site (winter 2009/2010).
Sandip Hazareesingh has published The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity: Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay 1900-1925, Orient Longman, Delhi (2007). He is running a joint research project on Commodities of Empire with the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Hack, meanwhile, is editing (with Jean-Louis Margolin and Karine Delaye), Reinventing the Global City: Singapore from Srivijaya to Present (Singapore: National University of Singapore, forthcoming), and continues to be actively engaged in researching Southeast Asian history.
Lotte Hughes has published Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure, Palgrave Macmillan (2006), The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples (2003) and, with William Beinart, Environment and Empire, Oxford University Press (2007). She is currently working on the Heritage, museums and memorialisation in Kenya project. Rodney Harrison has written on the archaeology of colonialism and on postcolonialism and heritage in Australia and other settler societies, notably in Shared Landscapes, UNSW Press (2004) and The Heritage Reader, Routledge (2008). He is currently working on the relationship between colonial curios, indigenous agency and notions of Empire, in the project ‘Consuming Colonialism’. He is a co-editor of the forthcoming Unpacking the Collection: Museums, identity and agency (Springer, 2011; with S. Byrne, A. Clarke and R. Torrence), and in 2010 is co-organising a research seminar on ‘Reassembling the Collection: Indigenous agency and ethnographic collections’ at the School of Advanced Research (Santa Fe). In his current writing he continues to explore new frameworks for the archaeology of colonialism and Empire which derive from his work on ‘shared histories’ and the application of postcolonial theory to archaeology. Karl Hack, meanwhile, has been a consultant on heritage projects in Singapore, where he is a ‘zoom out’ historian’s voice in the National Museum’s history gallery.
Karl Hack also specialises on decolonisation, having published Defence and Decolonisaiton in Southeast Asia: Britain, Malaya and Singapore, 1941-1968 (London: Curzon, 2001), and articles and chapters on postcolonial developments in Singapore. In 2009-2010 he is also academic consultant to a BBC series on the British Empire.
