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University of Milano
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James Cook University Cairns Campus
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University of Milano-Bicocca
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Studies of Asian Society | Economic Geography | Social and Cultural Geography | Human Geography
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Economic Framework not elsewhere classified |
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-08-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00115.1
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-10-1967
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-06-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-10-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-07-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2007
Abstract: Based on the book by Alex Garland, Twentieth Century Fox's movie, The Beach, proffers critical views on the effects of traveller tourism in Thailand. Yet the movie is itself bound up with tourist practices in a variety of ways. In this article, we are concerned with how such intertwining extends beyond `film tourism', conventionally conceived. In particular, we seek to elaborate the modification of the Maya Bay set(ting) for The Beach as part a broader process whereby `tropical environments' are staged in line with the `tourist gaze'. In this way, film viewing itself may be understood as a form of tourism — a kind of tropical flânerie which both reflects and constitutes a range of tourist practices in Thailand. Yet these practices extend beyond the western film viewer or would-be tourist, and include Thai environmental activists, Japanese Di Caprio fans and researchers such as ourselves. Including these groups helps us displace normative constructions of the gaze, and situates The Beach within an interpretive field that considers networks of influence rather than unidirectional representation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-08-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-03-2018
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12186
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-05-2017
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.468
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2002
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 05-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2014
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12044
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2001
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-09-2009
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 06-11-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 06-07-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2007
DOI: 10.1177/146499340700700404
Abstract: The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused massive human and economic destruction. In this paper we argue that the international response to the tsunami exemplifies a shift in the way humanitarian aid is sourced and delivered, and tease out a framework for understanding the continuities and discontinuities that led to differential distribution across a range of sites in southern Thailand. On the one hand we examine the degree to which we can understand differential aid distribution in terms of persistent characteristics in the political economy, such as lack of transparency and corruption . We also consider the importance of ‘traditional’ structures, networks and resiliences and their role in influencing aid distribution. But these sorts of explanations must be nuanced in light of the emergence of new aid linkages and networks, particularly the move from formal organizations to in idualized and direct donations. We suggest these patterns reflect new abilities of communities to mobilize trans-national networks, a more participatory approach to aid donation and an opportunity to re-map the multi-scalar politics of aid.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2002
DOI: 10.1080/00420980220151691
Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between public space and cultural politics in Hong Kong. There is a tendency to assert that public space is disappearing in the city, whether through overt control of the public sphere or the commodification of landscape. While similar views have been expressed in relation to many cities around the world, in Hong Kong these concerns are difficult to disentangle from post-colonial politics. This paper therefore situates anxieties about public space within an historical geography of the Central district. This contextual strategy is deployed to frame a contemporary case study of the imaged powerful and powerless in the city: Hong Kong Land, Central leading landlord and Filipino domestic workers who gather in Central on Sundays to enjoy their day off. It is suggested that this gathering and the political rallies it hosts disrupt normative understandings of public space by introducing a transnational element that helps us to see Hong Kong's public spaces as contested. The paper concludes by pointing to the possibilities opened up by conceiving the public space of Central as a cultural landscape and as a cosmopolitan space reflective of Hong Kong's possible futures.
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 21-12-2020
DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.19.2.2020.3774
Abstract: This paper engages with debates about tropical cities and climate responsive design to consider the emergence of two local government master plans and one planning scheme provision explicitly addressing the tropical climate in Cairns, Australia. The undergirding concept of these initiatives is a terminology of Tropical Urbanism, a simultaneously environmental and social/cultural term that captures issues such as climate, lifestyle and identity in the constitution of the urban fabric. Through a detailed reading of the documents, combined with interviews with local architects and planners, this paper positions Tropical Urbanism as an environmentally aware version of New Urbanism and as a distinctive language of urban design emerging in the regional context of tropical Australia. Place-based initiatives such as these are important to improving the design outcomes and sustainability of regional cities, and we suggest Tropical Urbanism could be further reinforced by the social/cultural and political nuances of a more progressive Critical Regionalist approach.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-12-2020
DOI: 10.3390/SU122410492
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has made many urban policymakers, planners, and scholars, all around the globe, rethink conventional, neoliberal growth strategies of cities. The trend of rapid urbanization, particularly around capital cities, has been questioned, and alternative growth models and locations have been the subjects of countless discussions. This is particularly the case for the Australian context: The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the debates in urban circles on post-pandemic urban growth strategies and boosting the growth of towns and cities across regional Australia is a popular alternative strategy. While some scholars argue that regional Australia poses an invaluable opportunity for post-pandemic growth by ‘taking off the pressure from the capital cities’ others warn us about the risks of growing regional towns and cities without carefully designed national, regional, and local planning, design, and development strategies. Superimposing planning and development policies meant for metropolitan cities could simply result in transferring the ills of capital cities to regions and exacerbate unsustainable development and heightened socioeconomic inequalities. This opinion piece, by keeping both of these perspectives in mind, explores approaches to regional community and economic development of Australia’s towns and cities, along with identifying sustainable urban growth locations in the post-pandemic era. It also offers new insights that could help re-shape the policy debate on regional growth and development.
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 21-12-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2016
DOI: 10.1111/SJTG.12148
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-04-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-03-2017
Abstract: The optimal provision of thermal comfort and energy efficiency for residential housing in the hot and humid tropics presents challenges and opportunities for housing and sub ision designs. Climatic challenges come in the form of high ambient temperature and humidity, especially during the wet season and transition periods. On the other hand, climatic advantages come in the form of breezes coupled with relatively dry air during the dry season, enabling thermal comfort attainment through natural ventilation that employs prevailing breezes. This paper discusses existing design practices for housing and sub isions in the hot and humid tropics with particular reference to the city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. This includes several research issues and gaps that have been identified and need to be addressed. The paper also critically assesses how air speed, air temperature and humidity – three of the thermal comfort parameters – play a key role in housing and sub ision design consideration in the hot and humid tropics. In doing so, the paper sheds light on the inadequacy of the current residential energy rating methodology as a tool for assessing tropical housing performance and proposes a new direction for future research to ameliorate these issues for the tropics.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2008
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2012
Abstract: The development of food trails is regularly touted as a key economic ersification strategy for struggling areas in rural Australia. Academics and consultants alike offer many strategies for their successful development however, none present a comprehensive consideration of food trail quality. This article reports on a study exploring two food trails in regional Australia, based on a framework developed from success factors identified in the literature. While one trail was considered ‘successful’ and the other ‘unsuccessful’, the longevity of both trails was in jeopardy, raising questions of whether the success factors identified in the literature adequately address the real issues facing food trails. Drawing on the experiences of the case studies, a more critical and user-friendly framework for food trail performance is proposed with the aim of providing a tool for enquiry for rural areas considering ersification into food tourism through trails.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2022
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: Canada
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 2017
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 03-2015
End Date: 03-2020
Amount: $197,300.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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