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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Human Geography | Social And Cultural Geography | Cultural Studies | Consumption And Everyday Life | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Social and Cultural Geography | Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) | Communication And Media Studies | Urban And Regional Studies | The Arts Not Elsewhere Classified | Cultural Policy Studies | Economic Geography | History: Australian | Impacts Of Tourism | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Cultural Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified | Business and Labour History | Policy and Administration | Family And Household Studies |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Studies in human society | The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) | Socio-cultural issues | Global climate change adaptation measures | Regional planning | Civics and citizenship | The creative arts | Urban Planning | Employment | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Political science and public policy | Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design | Community services not elsewhere classified | Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment | Economic issues | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
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Publications
Goodbye pram city: Beyond inner/outer zone binaries in creative city research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2006
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2015
Guest editorial-creative geographies: Tales from the 'margins'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Gis, ethnography, and cultural research: Putting maps back into ethnographic mapping
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2010
Community and Nostalgia in Urban Revitalisation: A critique of urban village and creative class strategies as remedies for social 'problems'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2006
From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: making and playing with plastic-bag footballs
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-10-2017
Abstract: The material recalcitrance of plastic bags – evident in their refusal to decompose and their capacity to evade neat disposal – is a widespread source of environmental concern and frustration. Yet throughout the Majority (developing) World, the incessant materiality of plastic affords boys and young men an opportunity to make footballs (soccer balls) out of waste. Made in situ, plastic-bag footballs are uniquely suited to local contexts and landscapes – a resourceful technology assembled from otherwise troublesome materials. Plastic-bag footballs are also fluid: perpetually in-the-making and characterized by erse states of working order. Insights garnered from discussions with young Tanzanian football-makers and players position plastic-bag footballs against neocolonial discourses of poverty and precarity. Meanwhile attentiveness to the socio-material relations of plastic-bag footballs makes plain that they are not inferior technologies. Plastic-bag footballs invite consideration of how humans live, materially, in the Anthropocene. Plastic bags typify the ecological crises of throwaway consumerism and malignant toxicity. Yet, we ask: could it be that plastic-bag footballs exemplify the material resourcefulness, skill, care for things – and even playfulness – needed to cope with these very crises?
A sound track to ecological crisis: tracing guitars all the way back to the tree
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 05-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S0261143019000047
Abstract: Analyses of music and environment are proliferating, yet new conceptions are needed to make sense of growing ecological crisis in the Anthropocene. From an empirical project tracing guitars all the way back to the tree, I argue for deeper conceptual and empirical integration of music into the material and visceral processes that constitute ecological crisis itself. Musicians are not only inspired by environmental concerns for compositional or activist purposes. They are entangled in environmental crisis through material and embodied relations with ecosystems, especially via the musical instruments we depend upon. I foreground three ‘more-than-musical’ themes to make sense of unfurling forces: materiality, corporeality and volatility. Musical instruments are gateway objects that invite contemplation of material and corporal relations. Such relations bind together musicians and non-human others. Material and corporeal relations with increasingly threatened upstream forests, and endangered tree species, are being confronted and reconfigured. In the context of ecological crisis, guitars do much more than make pleasing acoustic sounds. Via guitars we co-generate, with non-human others, a sound track of crisis both melancholy and hopeful.
Cultural Geography
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2019
Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2009
DOI: 10.1068/A41406
Abstract: This paper discusses a new blend of methods developed to answer the question of where creativity is in the city. Experimentation with new methods was required because of empirical shortcomings with existing creative city research techniques but also to respond to increasingly important questions of where nascent economic activities occur outside the formal sector, and governmental spheres of planning and economic development policy. In response we discuss here how qualitative methods can be used to address such concerns, based on experiences from an empirical project charged with the task of documenting creative activity in Darwin—a small city in Australia's tropical north. Diverse creative practitioners were interviewed about their interactions with the city—and hard-copy maps were used as anchoring devices around spatially orientated interview questions. Results from this interview-mapping process were accumulated and analysed in a geographical information system (GIS). Digital maps produced by this method revealed patterns of concentration and imagined ‘epicentres’ of creativity in Darwin, and showed how types of sites and spaces of the city are imagined as ‘creative’ in different ways. Qualitative mapping of creativity enabled the teasing out of contradictory and ergent stories of the location of creativity in the urban landscape. The opportunities which such methods present for researchers interested in how economic activities are ‘lived’ by workers, situated in social networks, and reproduced in everyday, material, spaces of the city are described.
Employment and socio-spatial relations in Australia's cultural economy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2002
Geography in higher education in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2007
Geographies of tourism: (un)ethical encounters
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-11-2009
Abstract: In this report I focus on encounter, and the manner in which tourism catalyses entanglements of people, places and identities. Antecedent were earlier theories of the tourist gaze, and critiques of tourism as neocolonialism. One response was the emergence of an ethical tourism industry — branded as such because of commitments to pay decent wages, respect local cultures and tread lightly on nature. While the ethical tourism industry has made strides on these issues, I critique its reliance on binary thinking, and failure to accommodate contradictions and variable ethical conduct in the moments of encounter. By contrast, recent work in geography has sought to explore the multisensory and affective dimensions of tourism encounters without recourse to ethical essentialism. In research on embodiment, emotions and sensory encounters, risks of diluting critique are weighed against opportunities to sharpen ethical concepts. A focus on encounter enables closer dissection of the moments and spaces in which power is exercised, and relations of care extended.
Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Remaking Urban Ethnic Diversity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-04-2014
Living Together but Apart: Material Geographies of Everyday Sustainability in Extended Family Households
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1068/A44594
Abstract: In the Industrialized West, ageing populations and cultural ersity—combined with rising property prices and extensive years spent in education—have been recognized as erse factors driving increases in extended family living. At the same time, there is growing awareness that household size is inversely related to per capita resource consumption patterns, and that urgent problems of environmental sustainability are negotiated, on a day-to-day basis (and often unconsciously), at the household level. This paper explores the sustainability implications of everyday decisions to fashion, consume, and share resources around the home, through the lens of extended family households. Through interviews with extended family households in Australia, we explore the potential for these living arrangements to reduce resource use, and thus improve sustainability outcomes. In these households, a desire to care for and support family members in hard times (rather than an overt sustainability agenda) has promoted particular modes of extended family living, including unique forms of sharing and pooling material goods. But cultural values of privacy, space, and independence—and the sanctity of the nuclear family—have led to duplication (and even multiplication) of household spaces, appliances, and resources, under one roof. The potential environmental and economic benefits of resource sharing within larger households are thus mediated by deep cultural values and exigencies of everyday life.
Regional futures in crisis: lived experience and the generative role of intermediaries
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-08-2022
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-09-2017
Governing knowledge: Discourses and tactics of the european union in trade-related intellectual property negotiations
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-02-2011
A Queer Country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Interventions on the meanings of the Obama presidency for US relations with global regions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 19-12-2018
The Place-based Work of Global Circulation: Maritime Workers, Collaboration, and Labor Agency at the Seaport
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-10-2023
Advancing Manufacturing?: Blinkered Visions in U.S. and Australian Urban Policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-12-2019
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Becoming differently modern
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-02-2012
From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-12-2014
Making space to write ‘care-fully’: Engaged responses to the institutional politics of research writing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-07-2021
DOI: 10.1177/03091325211020807
Abstract: As pressures around academic writing mount, human geographers have developed critical strategies to resist and rework the institutional politics of research writing. Overlooked, until now, is the role of pedagogy. We advance an engaged pedagogy of research writing and use this concept to propose three practical strategies: (1) understanding writing as social practice (2) reimagining the temporalities of writing and, (3) reimagining the spatialities of writing. We argue that an engaged pedagogical approach expands the possibilities of how human geographers can critically and practically respond to the institutional politics of research writing.
Creative encounters in the volatile north
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2018
Blue-collar creativity: Reframing custom-car culture in the imperilled industrial city
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2011
DOI: 10.1068/A44122
Abstract: This paper hitches a ride with young car enthusiasts to explore how their vehicles catalyse a unique form of vernacular creativity, in a seemingly imperilled industrial city setting. While television and print media regularly demonise young drivers for street racing and ‘hoon’ behaviour, this paper purposely adopts a different perspective, on circuits of production and qualitative aspects of the urban custom-car design scene that constitute forms of vernacular creativity. Beyond moral panics little is known about movements, networks, and linkages between custom cars, young enthusiasts, and urban spaces from which their activities emerge. Utilising responsive, in-depth ethnographic methods in Wollongong, Australia, this paper interprets custom-car design as vernacular creativity, valued by young people and located across unassuming and unheralded urban spaces. The possibility that custom-car designers possess skills that are assets for ‘blue-collar’ industrial cities is contrasted against a backdrop of wider discourses depicting such cities as economically vulnerable, as ‘victims' of restructuring—and even ‘uncreative’. Insights relevant to future research on the politics of planning, creative industries, and class identities are also discussed.
Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2011
Cultural economy: A critical review
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2005
DOI: 10.1191/0309132505PH567OA
Abstract: This article reviews work on `cultural economy', particularly from within geography, and from other disciplines, where there are links to overtly geographical debates. We seek to clarify different interpretations of the term and to steer a course through this multivalency to suggest productive new research agendas. We review and critique work on cultural economy that represents a relatively straightforward economic geography, based on empirical observation while theoretically informed and driven by debates about Fordism and post-Fordism, agglomeration and cluster theory. Some of these ideas about cultural economy have proven attractive to policy-makers and we map a normative script of cultural economy, with its prescriptive recommendations for economic development, which we then critique. Turning from this normative cultural economy, we move to a more theoretical discussion which reinterprets the cultural economy in light of debates on the culturization of `the economic' in research praxis. We conclude that better acknowledgement is needed of the contradictory uses of `cultural economy', but point nevertheless value of this multivalency as long as we reflect on the multiple contradictions and interpretations. With many current absences in work on cultural economy, we suggest various agendas waiting to be addressed.
The Globalization of Musics in Transit
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-12-2013
Resource-Sensitive Global Production Networks: Reconfigured Geographies of Timber and Acoustic Guitar Manufacturing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-06-2016
A Country that Makes Things?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Critical minerals: rethinking extractivism?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-05-2023
Making things: Beyond the binary of manufacturing and creativity
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-05-2015
Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
From backyards to balconies: cultural norms and parents’ experiences of home in higher-density housing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-01-2020
Calculated homes, stretched emotions: Unmasking ‘rational’ investor-occupier subjects in large family homes in a coastal Sydney development
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Writing economies and economies of writing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-12-2021
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X211069380
Abstract: Our introduction to the Exchanges section unpacks the two terms, writing economies and economies of writing, as well as previewing the subsequent nine papers included within the section. We contend first, that the economy cannot exist until it is first written about – ‘writing economies’. Here a variety of dates have been suggested as to its first written representation, from roughly 2500 hundred years ago to a mere hundred years. Second, we argue that the pressures on academics to write – ‘economies of writing’ – have never been more acute than now and bound up with the neoliberalization of the university.
Young adult households and domestic sustainabilities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
SOUND TRACKS: Popular music identity and place
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-09-2003
Household Sustainability
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Rural cultural resourcefulness: How community music enterprises sustain cultural vitality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Critical Minerals: rethinking extractivism?
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 20-10-2022
Abstract: Acceleration in funding and political support for critical minerals industry development is linked to securing resource supply chains essential to low carbon futures. This commentary reviews the Australian critical minerals agenda and scrutinises urgency claims engulfing the ‘rush’ to explore and extract critical minerals. First, we define critical minerals and examine their ‘criticality’ in relation to decarbonisation and geopolitical motivations. The idea that the emergent industry is premised on an ethics of climate action conflicts with evidence that reputational risk and market shifts are driving companies to pivot from traditional mining. Second, we problematise urgency claims fuelling the critical minerals ‘rush’, arguing that crisis narratives and regulatory fast-tracking mask serious ethical, social, and environmental justice concerns, while neglecting material blockages. We separate the idea of producing materials central to low carbon futures from localised social and environmental impacts of their extraction and processing, in order to raise concerns over the absolution work performed by urgency claims. The burgeoning critical minerals industry presents an epochal moment to reconstitute mining differently to meet social and environmental justice goals. Instead, as currently imagined, it threatens to extend a frontier mentality and existing models of extractivism, reproducing colonial-capitalist legacies. We conclude by advocating for counter-urgencies that foreground materiality and view critical minerals and decarbonisation as policy commons, enabling debates on the shape and ethics of the critical minerals industry before it is fully established. Geographers, presently less visible than industry advocates in the critical minerals discourse, are well positioned to contribute to such debates.
Erratum: A sound track to ecological crisis: Tracing guitars all the way back to the tree (Popular Music (2019) 38:2 (183-203) DOI: 10.1017/S0261143019000047)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2019
The cultural economy of small cities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2010
Environmental Sustainability in practice? A macro-scale profile of tourist accommodation facilities in Australia's coastal zone
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-01-2008
DOI: 10.2167/JOST621.0
Academic publishing as ‘creative’ industry, and recent discourses of ‘creative economies’: some critical reflections
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2004
Zones of friction, zones of traction: The connected household in climate change and sustainability policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Social media, popular culture and ‘soft heritage’: Chinese tourists in search of Harry Potter
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14687976211045199
Abstract: Complex relationships exist between rationales for visiting, experiences and perceptions. Tourists are influenced by others, increasingly through social media as electronic word of mouth (ewom). While visitation rationales associated with popular culture are well documented, less understood is how social media use among specific cultural groups constructs and fuels new fictitious sites of popular cultural tourism, through what we call ‘soft heritage’. Particular physical qualities (often visual) endow places with a distinct but fabricated heritage value, linked especially to fictional characters in popular culture. Tourism numbers grow accordingly, as soft heritage sites become marked places for tourists of specific cultural backgrounds. This is illustrated through the case of the University of Sydney, which in the 2010s became a significant destination for Chinese tourists. Through mixed-methods research involving participant observation and interviews with 85 Chinese tourists, the rationales, experiences and perceptions of Chinese tourists were explored. Reasons for visiting included group tours, education, heritage and photography, but a key attraction was the ‘Harry Potter building’, a site not in JK Rowling’s books, nor involved in the making of the films, and not previously a tourist attraction. So much did social media and the Harry Potter Building influence tourism that the University became the most prominent of the city’s several ‘marked places’ (daka). The participatory character of Chinese social media, combined with architectural heritage and the enthusiasm of many younger Chinese tourists for Harry Potter, led them to create a new Chinese tourist site (or daka destination) without input from the management of the place itself.
Locating geographies of tourism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2008
Crafting Regional Cultural Production: Emergence, crisis and consolidation in the Gold Coast surfboard industry
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Tamworth, Australia's 'country music capital': Place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2004
Finding hope in unpromising times: Stories of progressive planning alternatives for a world in crisis/Neoliberal planning is not the only way: mapping the regressive tendencies of planning practice/Ca
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Less talk more drone: social research with UAVs
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Creative industries, global restructuring, and new forms of subcultural capitalism: the experience of Australia’s surf industry
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-10-2018
Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2013
Abstract: This paper emerged from discussions held over a two-day symposium hosted by the University of Western Sydney and the Institute of Australian Geographers in December 2011. Drawing on contemporary themes in economic geography around postcolonial theory and a concern with the histories of the sub-discipline, the symposium sought to triangulate these discourses using Raewyn Connell’s (2006, 2007a, 2007b) concept of ‘Southern Theory’ as a means of beginning a process of critical reflection about the types of economic geographies that are produced from and in the ‘Antipodes’. After introducing these debates and presenting a critical reflection on how Connell’s Southern Theory potentially provides a useful means of bringing them into conversation, the paper presents five considerations from geographers who have made significant contributions to contemporary economic geography understandings, drawing on, in various ways, their Antipodean positionality. The paper assesses to what extent are Antipodean economic geography knowledges: (i) unique and embedded in specific conditions and events, (ii) inexorably tied to other economic geographical knowledges produced elsewhere and (iii) how Antipodean economic geography knowledges have been exported and assembled within and beyond the discipline of geography.
The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities for a rhizomic future for geography in Australia?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-10-2006
World music: Deterritorializing place and identity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2004
DOI: 10.1191/0309132504PH493OA
Abstract: Music has been neglected in geography, yet the rise of ‘world music’ exemplifies the multiple ways in which places are constructed, commodified and contested. Music from distant and ‘exotic’ places has long entered the western canon, yet the pace of diffusion to the west accelerated with the rise of reggae and the marketing of Paul Simon's Graceland (1986), which pointed to the modification and transformation of distant, ‘other’ musics for western tastes and markets. Fusion and hybridity in musical styles emphasized both the impossibility of tracing authenticity in musical styles and the simultaneous exoticism and accessibility of distant musics. ‘Strategic inauthenticity’, romanticization and the fetishization of marginality were central to the search for and marketing of purity and novelty: simplistic celebrations of geographical ersity and remoteness. The formal arrival of world music in 1987 was as a marketing category with commerce and culture entangled and inseparable, in a form of appropriation for western, cosmopolitan audiences. Yet, for musicians, world music was an expressive project, which created identities that fused the local and global, traditional and modern. For some, international success required artistic compromise, essentialized identities and the resources of transnational companies. Others simply resisted categorization. The expansion of world music exemplifies the deterritorialization of cultures and emphasizes how the rise of a particular cultural commodity (world music) is primarily a commercial phenomenon, but could not have occurred without the construction and contestation of discourses of place and otherness.
Struggles over Skills: Lived Experiences of Evolving Technologies and Gendered Hierarchies at Work
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-02-2023
Animating historical resource geographies: Encountering the guitar's North American material traces
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Introduction: Doing cultural geography
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2004
Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-12-2009
Abstract: Examining a database of 2,856 festivals in Australia and survey results from 480 festival organizers, we consider how nonmetropolitan cultural festivals provide constraints as well as opportunities for economic planners. Cultural festivals are ubiquitous, impressively erse, and strongly connected to local communities through employment, volunteerism, and participation. Despite cultural festivals being mostly small-scale, economically modest affairs, geared around community goals, the regional proliferation of cultural festivals produces enormous direct and indirect economic benefits. Amidst debates over cultural and political issues (such as identity, exclusion, and elitism), links between cultural festivals and economic development planning are explored.
“Muting” Neoliberalism? Class and Colonial Legacies in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2013
DOI: 10.1177/194277861300600205
Abstract: Australian governments of left and right persuasions have seemingly embraced elements of the neoliberal agenda, as in many other parts of the world but exactly how deeply these have been enacted, and how transformative they have been, must be understood in relation to key colonial, geographical and cultural inheritances. These inheritances include the hegemony of central government stewardship of the economy (essential in a colonized, sparsely populated continent of almost unmanageable scale), a long tradition of social democratic regulation, and cultural expectations of socio-spatial equality. Neoliberal policy projects have been “muted” by on-going equality claims, and some progressive “wins” in the social democratic mould have been forthcoming, even while governments have espoused the ascendancy of the market. Nevertheless, neoliberal policy moves have been most starkly felt in worsening income inequalities – where the evidence is unambiguous of a direct threat to the Australian egalitarian ethos.
Getting On, Getting Up and Getting Out? Broadening Perspectives on Rural Youth Migration
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-05-2008
The Role of Festivals in Drought-affected Australian Communities
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 23-12-2015
DOI: 10.3727/152599515X14465748512560
Abstract: Event management research increasingly recognizes place embeddedness as critical to success. Less well understood is the significance of the festivals and events sector in places suffering from environmental crises. A major empirical survey of 480 festivals in rural Australia, conducted in 2008 at the height of the Millennium Drought, elucidates the role and significance of festivals under conditions of extreme environmental stress. It centers on a qualitative analysis of responses to open-ended questions on the impacts of that drought. Over 70% of participating festival and event managers indicated that their community had suffered from drought, while 43% cited drought as adversely affecting the organization and management of their event. Impacts varied geographically and by event type (with inland agricultural shows especially hard hit). Nearly half of event managers also explained how their festival played a constructive role in helping their community cope with drought. Festivals stimulated much-needed economic activity and encouraged "creative frugality" in difficult times. Festivals also fulfilled an important civic emotional and psychological role in lifting community spirits and bringing communities together in otherwise adverse circumstances. Biophysical extremity is thus both a constrainer and a catalyst for the festivals and events sector in trying social circumstances.
Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-02-2009
Geographies of making
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-04-2015
Abstract: Making material things remains central to human economies and subsistence, and to how earthly resources are transformed. Yet experiences and knowledges of those who make things – especially in the heart of the industrial complex – are notably absent in existing debates on shifting to a less resource-intensive future. We review research on materials and their making, presenting three research trajectories: making beyond binaries of craft and manufacturing the social life of making and acknowledging industrial cultures, workers and capacities amidst climate change. Success in transforming economy and society in anticipation of volatile futures depends on material acknowledgements and accomplishments.
Mild-mannered bistro by day, eclectic freak-land at night: memories of an Australian music venue
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-09-2017
Musical work in a university town: The shifting spaces and practices of DJs in Dunedin
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2009
Souvenirs, materialities and animal encounters: Following Texas cowboy boots
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-05-2014
Abstract: Rather than take the tourist or the tourist place as the starting point of analysis, in this article, I begin with a seemingly superficial souvenir object, the Texan cowboy boot, in order to trace a more complex picture of the material cultures of tourism. I describe the Texan boot at the intersection of three threads: historical legacies, materialities of animal encounters and a political economy of ‘things’ (including their composite materials). The iconic Texas cowboy boot is a mythological but very material object of mobility – made by hand, with wild cowboy flair, by (mostly) Mexican artisans who use slowly accrued haptic skills with a variety of leathers to assemble neocolonial, hyper-masculine artefacts of fashion, fable and travel. Drawing on archival work and interviews in bootmaking workshops, I unravel a historical cultural economy of material production and consumption that entangles animal skins, migrant workers, Western movie stars and tourists.
Recording studios: Relational spaces of creativity in the city
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Date: 09-2005
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT, LIVE MUSIC AND PUBLIC SPACE: Cultural performance and the re‐making of Marrickville
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Decolonizing the production of geographical knowledges? Reflections on research with indigenous musicians
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
The 'Cultural Turn' in Australian Regional Economic Development Discourse: Neoliberalising Creativity?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2005
Singing about nations within nations: Geopolitics and identity in Australian indigenous rock music
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2000
Tourism and creative economies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-04-2014
Multigenerational Family Living
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-11-2016
Animating geographies of making: Embodied slow scholarship for participant‐researchers of maker cultures and material work
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1111/GEC3.12317
Economic geography, to what ends? From privilege to progressive performances of expertise
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-02-2019
Abstract: Recent Exchanges have focused on economic geography’s purported ‘decline’ and its patriarchal and generational privilege, asking ‘who speaks’ for the subdiscipline. This Exchanges piece asks another kind of existential question: what ends does economic geography serve? And how is economic geographical expertise marshalled and performed towards such ends – especially beyond the British context, where much of the debate has focused? Drawing briefly upon collaborative research experiences in Sydney, Australia, I offer thoughts on progressive contributions arising from grounded empirical research within cities subject to profound transformation from speculative real estate, and hypercharged by global finance. Amid unsolicited plans for massive rezoning of industrial spaces and accompanying displacement of manufacturing, repair and cultural industries, credible economic geographical data assisted activists and sympathetic local decisionmakers by bringing to light the significance of existing spaces of work (especially in industrially zoned land) subject to rezoning plans. Contestation over massive real estate proposals continues in Sydney, but empirical research targeted at public debate has nevertheless already shifted the narrative. While academic privilege and expert status warrants intra-disciplinary critique, what also matters is whether, how and where economic geographers deploy expertise productively towards progressive ends. Hence, critically engaged economic geography flourishes in different forms beyond the discipline's imagined ‘core’ places, even via quite ‘dry’ empirical studies that on the surface do not declare radical intents. Economic geographers are key intermediaries circulating knowledges, active agents in making concrete manifestations of the economy known. And that is a crucial point of intervention.
Cool places, creative places? Community perceptions of cultural vitality in the suburbs
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-02-2012
Abstract: This article stems from a project examining cultural assets in Wollongong – a medium-sized Australian city with a decentralized and linear suburban pattern that challenges orthodox binaries of inner-city bohemia/outer-suburban domesticity. In Wollongong we documented community perceptions of cultural assets across this unusual setting, through a simple public research method. At the city’s largest annual festival we recruited the general public to nominate the city’s most ‘cool’ and ‘creative’ places, by drawing on a map of Wollongong and telling their stories. Hand-drawn maps from 205 participants were combined in a Geographical Information System and 50 hours of stories transcribed for qualitative analysis. Over 2300 places were identified. Among them were some surprising results: although places known for the arts and bohemian creative industries figured prominently, these were not only in the inner-city but in beachside suburbs with unique cultural histories. Also, a range of affective engagements with place, including unconventional forms of creativity, were described in industrial and blue-collar suburbs. Network topology analysis by place of residence also revealed the extent of localism, as well as specializations and aggrandizements among suburbs. Our conclusions are threefold: first, that ‘creativity’ is relationally situated and linked across all parts of the city second, that decentralized forms of small-scale cultural infrastructure provision are vital for vernacular cultural pursuits and, third, that ‘creativity’ is a polysemic and contested category – only ever partially revealing the contours of cultural vitality in the suburbs.
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
On 90 years of Australian Geographer, and beyond
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2018
Spaces of Vernacular Creativity
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-10-2009
Negotiating Regional Creative Economies: Academics as Expert Intermediaries Advocating Progressive Alternatives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-08-2015
Resident Attitudes to Farmland Protection Measures in the Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2005
How clothing design and cultural industries refashioned frontier masculinities: a historical geography of Western wear
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2015
Counter-geographies: The campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2008
Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2009
Abstract: Whether advocating creativity as a means to place competition or critiquing the social dislocations that stem from creativity-led urban regeneration, research about the creative economy has tended to assume that large cities are the cores of creativity. That many workers in `creative' industries choose to live and work in small urban centres is often overlooked. In this context, this article aims to recover within debates the importance of size, geographical position and class legacies in theories of creativity, economic development and urban regeneration. Using empirical materials from a case study of one Australian city—Wollongong, in New South Wales—it is argued that what might at first appear a rather parochial ex le illustrates the importance of rethinking the creative economy in place. Crucially, it is shown that, regardless of the numerical population size of a city, creativity is embedded in various complex, competing and intersecting place narratives fashioned by discourses of size, proximity and inherited class legacies. Only when the creative economy is conceptualised qualitatively in place is it possible to reveal how urban regeneration can operate in uncertain and sometimes surprising ways, simultaneously to estrange and involve civic leaders and residents.
Chapter 9 Shifting welfare, shifting people: rural development, housing and population mobility in Australia
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2010
Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Sustainable household capability: Which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Green hydrogen regions
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 21-10-2022
Abstract: This paper analyses the discursive and material politics of energy transition, focusing on promotion of Australian regions as ‘green hydrogen hubs’. Regions are key spatial imaginaries in energy transitions projects assembled by coalitions of state and corporate actors. With suitable infrastructures and workforces, they are where first-to-market big infrastructure plays ‘hit the ground’ as decarbonised energy markets take shape. Yet, far from an orderly transition, such projects are challenged by hydrogen’s troublesome materiality and its role in transforming established industries. Scholars of decarbonisation, ‘green capitalism’ and energy transitions must pay closer attention to the material and discursive politics within regions.
OF BRICKS AND GLASS: Learning to Accommodate the Everyday Rhythms of Home
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2017
Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-04-2016
Obliging indigenous citizens?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2007
Geographies of tourism: Critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-03-2009
Music festivals and regional development policy
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 30-01-2014
Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-04-2019
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-02-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00420980211067906
Abstract: In this commentary, we argue that augmented concepts and research methods are needed to comprehend hybrid urban governance reconfigurations that benefit market actors but eschew competition in favour of deal-making between elite state and private actors. Fuelled by financialisation and in response to planning conflict are regulatory reforms that legitimise opaque alliances in service of infrastructure and urban development projects. From a specific city (Sydney, Australia) we draw upon one such reform – Unsolicited Proposals – to point to a broader landscape of hybrid urban governance, its reconfigurations of power and potential effect on cities. Whereas neoliberal governance promotes competition and views the state and private sectors as distinct, hybrid urban governance leverages state monopoly power and abjures market competition, instead endorsing high-level public–private coordination, technical and financial expertise and confidential deal-making over major urban projects. We scrutinise how Unsolicited Proposals normalise this approach. Commercial-in-confidence protection and absent tender processes authorise a narrow constellation of influential private and public actors to preconfigure outcomes without oversight. Such reforms, we argue, consolidate elite socio-spatial power, jeopardise city function and lify corruption vulnerabilities. To theorise hybrid urban governance at the intersection of neoliberalism and Asia-Pacific state-capitalism, we offer the concepts of coercive monopoly (where market entry is closed, without opportunity to compete) and de jure collusion (where regulation reforms codify informal alliances among elites connected across government and corporate and consultancy worlds). We call for urban scholarship to pay closer attention to public–private hybridisation in governance, scrutinising regulatory mechanisms that consecrate deal-making and undermine the public interest.
COVID-19 and the shifting industrial landscape
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-02-2021
Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Climate change and household dynamics: Beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-08-2011
The Commodity and Its Aftermarkets: Products as Unfinished Business
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-07-2021
The Post-Pandemic Central Business District (CBD): Re-Imagining the Creative City?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-12-2023
Digital divides in New South Wales: A research note on socio-spatial inequality using 2001 Census data on computer and Internet technology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2003
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-12-2012
Cultural Economy: Achievements, Divergences, Future Prospects
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-12-2011
Chilling out in ‘cosmopolitan country’: Urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a ‘lesbian and gay rural idyll’
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
Youthful creativity in regional Australia: Panacea for unemployment and out-migration?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-05-2008
Mobile Technology and Place
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-05-2013
Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2008
Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-11-2016
Subcultural enterprises, brand value, and limits to financialized growth: The rise and fall of corporate surfing brands
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Manufacturing stoke: emergence, transformation and consolidation in the surfboard industry
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 24-04-2015
'We do not want to leave our land': Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of 'climate refugees'
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2009
Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Drunken mobilities: Backpackers, alcohol, ‘doing place’
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2012
Abstract: This article seeks to advance the understanding of the role of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness as an important, if under-researched, element of tourism. In so doing, we work at the intersection of three bodies of writing focused on mundane mobilities performativities of tourism and geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Drawing on empirical research undertaken in Australia, we highlight how alcohol, drinking and drunkenness are key to backpacking holidays: first, to help soften a number of (un)comfortable embodied and emotional materialities associated with budget travel second, as an aid to spatial and temporal imperatives of ‘passing the time’ and ‘being able to do nothing’ and finally, to heighten senses of belonging with fellow travellers and ‘locals’. Crucial is participation in specific experiential practices and performativities that are fundamental to practices of ‘doing place’. Alcohol, drinking and drunkenness are key to unpacking backpacking and offer potentially fruitful research avenues for broader theoretical and empirical debates in tourist studies.
Material inheritances: How place, materiality, and labor process underpin the Path-Dependent evolution of contemporary craft production
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-10-2016
Unsolicited urbanism: development monopolies, regulatory-technical fixes and planning-as-deal-making
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-08-2021
Abstract: This article identifies the evolution of, and critiques, unsolicited urbanism—a project of city-shaping favouring powerful market actors but inconsistent with the neoliberal tenet of competition. Marked by predetermined outcomes, unsolicited urbanism legitimates secretive monopolies over specific sites and the normalization of planning-as-deal-making. Such features are not uncommon globally, as circuits of capital seek rent opportunities latent in urban land, and as market actors increasingly exercise power over development decision-making. But following casino-led mega-development in Melbourne (Southbank/Docklands) and Sydney (Barangaroo), Australia, unsolicited urbanism has coalesced as a clearly-identifiable project, inflected by relationships forged in the Asia-Pacific. The project, promoted by coalitions of developers, global capital, state government, and real estate, engineering and financing consultants, targets not just new sites for development, but the planning system itself. At its heart is a novel urban planning instrument, Unsolicited Proposals, that codifies and legitimizes bold and secretive bids for sites and assets over which governments and communities have not signalled intent or need for change. Unsolicited Proposal guidelines solicit premeditated, commercial-in-confidence bids to redevelop key urban assets without outside competition. Originating in two high-profile waterfront sites in Australia, the formalized Unsolicited Proposal planning process has spread elsewhere as a ‘fix’ to ‘unlock’ urban spaces for casino development, infrastructure financing and quasi-privatizations, with foreboding signs of its rapid mobility. The project of unsolicited urbanism connects money and power in new ways to reshape cities, and this analysis shows how a suite of regulatory-technical processes has been reconfigured to make this possible.
Migrant manufacturing: translocal production and the establishment of a Polish bakery in Birmingham, UK
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 24-04-2015
The Spiral Gallery: Non-market creativity and belonging in an Australian country town
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Theorising tourism in crisis: Writing and relating in place
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-01-2021
Abstract: Recent headline events – most notably the COVID-19 pandemic – have illustrated the fragility of tourism capitalism, prompting forward-looking analyses among critical scholars. While grappling with political and philosophical implications, commentaries have tended towards the prescriptive and general: contemplating the collapse of tourism as-we-know-it, and foregrounding opportunities to reconstitute more sustainable, resilient and inclusive forms of tourism. Heeding Haraway’s call to ‘stay with the trouble’, I briefly outline three sympathetic critiques, integrating insights from more-than-human theory, disaster studies and climate change adaptation literatures. First, I unsettle temporalities of disruption and change that emphasise singular moments, such as lockdowns, rather than multiple temporalities of vulnerability and resilience. Second, a lurking species exceptionalism, which positions humans as the locus of agency, is contrasted with nonhuman capacities to shape unfurling events. Third, speculations on tourism’s future that rest on normative categories, disembodied from lived experience, are contrasted with First Nations ontologies, and the messiness of tourism’s relatings in place. Theorising tourism, within and beyond crisis, must evolve iteratively from the ethnographic. To illustrate, I ‘write from’ the east coast of Australia, where an otherwise steady-growth tourism economy has experienced profound disruption in 2020, not just from coronavirus-related travel restrictions, but from climate-change- lified catastrophic bushfires. From this vantage point, multiple traumas refract tourism industry responses, while hope commingles with caution, tempering strident proclamations on the future. The nonhuman, political-economic, and emotional are inextricably entwined in the fabric of tourism. The fraught navigation of lived (more-than-human) experience must figure more prominently in our scholarly reckonings.
The Parkes Elvis Revival Festival: Economic development and contested place identities in rural Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2016
Compelling work, especially when markets fail
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-05-2014
Social media experiments: Scholarly practice and collegiality
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2013
Abstract: We draw out and seek to build on two key insights in Kitchin et al. (2013), namely the possibilities of social media for transforming knowledge production practices and for generating new spaces of collegiality and communality. Most promising are capacities to shape the terms of academic labour and to disrupt binaries of core eriphery, research/impact and academic ublic.
Music, tourism and the transformation of memphis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2007
Geographic information technologies for cultural research: Cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Creativity without borders? Rethinking remoteness and proximity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Beyond the ‘buzz’: locating critical geographies of creativity
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 11-09-2020
Welcome to Bogan-ville: reframing class and place through humour
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-07-2019
New dawn or new dusk? Beyond the binary of day and night
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2011
DOI: 10.1068/A44386
Cultures at work: Why ‘culture’ matters in research on the ‘cultural’ industries
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2003
Making surfboards: Emergence of a trans-Pacific cultural industry
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
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