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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Human Geography | Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) | Social and Cultural Geography | Environmental Science and Management | Human Geography Not Elsewhere Classified | Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified | Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Sociology | Urban Policy | Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Social And Cultural Geography | Social Policy And Planning | Urban And Regional Studies | Urban Sociology And Community Studies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Urban planning | Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Management of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Information and Communication Services | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Community services not elsewhere classified | Families | Environmentally Sustainable Information and Communication Services not elsewhere classified | Land and water management | Government and politics not elsewhere classified | Climate and Climate Change not elsewhere classified | Environmentally Sustainable Energy Activities not elsewhere classified | Other social development and community services | Environmentally Sustainable Transport not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
FEMININITY, PLACE AND COMMODITIES: A RETAIL CASE STUDY
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-1993
Home and Homelessness
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
Geographies of identity: landscapes of class
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-05-2009
Abstract: Historically class has been less likely than dimensions such as gender or race to come up in geographical discussions of identity as lived experience. In this progress report I document the novel ways in which social scientists have recently explored the discourses shaping, and lived experiences of, class identities in numerous cities and regions across the globe. Theoretically, the progress report identifies the presence of longstanding theories of class (eg, Marx, Bourdieu) alongside experiential and psychic theories, suggesting that there is a new language of class developing in human geography. Empirically, geographical scholarship on class similarly builds upon conventional interests in the transformation and use of urban spaces as elements of processes of class colonization in the west, but also moves beyond these through consideration of processes in the global south. As a result, new means of forging identity politics are suggested, that recognize the contingent yet ever present position of class in the contemporary era.
Qualitative methods 1: Enriching the interview
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Abstract: In this first of a series of three progress reports on qualitative methods we scope recent qualitative research in human geography through the prism of the interview. Across erse subfields the interview persists as the dominant means of understanding, though increasingly supplemented or complemented by other means such as diaries and autobiography. Capturing social life as it happens is emerging in response to theoretical developments that encourage new methodological thinking, and includes cities and buildings being thought of as methodological resources as well as sites. These point to concerns with the materiality and inventiveness of method that will be explored in subsequent reports.
‘Shift – the way you move’: reconstituting automobility
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-03-2013
Multiscalar governance of urban energy transitions in Australia: The cases of Sydney and Melbourne
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Accommodating Open Plan: Children, Clutter, and Containment in Suburban Houses in Sydney, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2008
DOI: 10.1068/A39320
Abstract: Open-plan living areas are one of the defining features of contemporary suburban architecture in spatially expansive nations like Australia, the United States, and Canada. In these contexts, the European and modernist meanings of ‘open plan’ are joined by relations between parents and children and identities associated with motherhood and homemaking. Using a feminist and material-culture analysis of the practices of living open plan in this distinctive historical and geographical context, this paper offers a different interpretation of the social significance of the open-planned domestic interior. Drawing on research conducted with residents of new, open-planned houses on the outskirts of Sydney and, in particular, mothers' narratives of the materialities of their home and the place of children and open plan within it, I show how open plan is held together, as a material and imaginative space, by a balancing of aesthetic considerations and the materiality and anxieties produced by children. The processes of living open plan entailed accommodating family ideals and practices to suit the house and/or altering the house to suit the family: banishing children from open-plan areas to maintain their simplicity embracing children's presence placing furniture to enclose it knocking out walls to open it.
Social and cultural geographies of Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2005
Digital doctorates? An exploratory study of PhD candidates’ use of online tools
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-06-2015
Sharing as sociomaterial practice: Car sharing and the material reconstitution of automobility
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Placing researcher identifications: labs, offices and homes in the PhD
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12317
“Over 1000 Cars and No Garage”: How Urban Planning Supports Car(Park) Sharing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-02-2016
Reading Idiot Box: Film reviews intertwining the social and cultural
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2003
Privatism, privatisation and social distinction in master-planned residential estates
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-09-2010
NEOTRADITIONALISM IN THE SUBURBAN LANDSCAPE: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION IN VANCOUVER, CANADA
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-1998
Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-07-2016
Abstract: In a growing debate about the smart city, considerations of the ways in which urban infrastructures and their materialities are being reconfigured and contested remain in the shadows of analyses which have been primarily concerned with the management and flow of digitalisation and big data in pursuit of new logics for economic growth. In this paper, we examine the ways in which the ‘smart city’ is being put to work for different ends and through different means. We argue that the co-constitution of the urban as a site for carbon governance and a place where smart energy systems are developed is leading to novel forms of governmental intervention operating at the conjunction of the grid and the city. We seek to move beyond examining the rationales and discourses of such interventions to engage with the ways in which they are actualised in and through particular urban conditions in order to draw attention to their material politics. In so doing, we argue that the urban is not a mere backdrop to transitions in electricity provision and use but central to its politics, while electricity is also critical to the ways in which we should understand the politics of urbanism.
Qualitative methods 3: Experimenting, picturing, sensing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2017
Abstract: In this, our third and final snapshot of contemporary qualitative research methods, we pick up on the proliferation of non-representational theory across human geography and focus on research methods concerned with practices that exceed (more than) representation or are non-representational. We chart work that pays attention to the non-visible, the non-verbal and the non-obvious, as well as methods and methodologies that enable researchers to grasp and grapple with assemblages, relationalities, and life as it unfolds. We characterize these ‘more-than representational’ methodologies as: experimenting with approaches to research, using picturing as an embedded research methodology, and highlighting research as sensing. We conclude that these have opened new forms of knowledge, including into subdisciplines like health geography. Nonetheless, a privileging of written and visual modes of thinking and representing remain, and the discipline must be vigilant to nurture and value the emerging work on neural ersity and non-Western modes of thinking.
Privacy, Sanctuary and Privatism
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
Parking futures: Curbside management in the era of ‘new mobility’ services in British and Australian cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2020
Catalysts for transport transitions: Bridging the gap between disruptions and change
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Urban Carbon Governance Experiments: The Role of Australian Local Governments
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-01-2015
Gender, Class and Home Ownership: Placing the Connections
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-1998
Smart city place-based outcomes in India: bubble urbanism and socio-spatial fragmentation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-01-2022
Synergies between geography, planning and vocationalism in curriculum development and implementation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2013
Configuring urban carbon governance: Insights from Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-10-2016
Microgeographies of Retailing and Gentrification
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2001
Smart Mobility: Disrupting Transport Governance?
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 06-03-2018
Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2014
Cultures of mothering and car use in suburban Sydney: a preliminary investigation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2000
Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-02-2023
DOI: 10.1177/20438206231156655
Abstract: Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked. Using the Indian case as a focus and drawing upon empirical studies in three cities of Bhubaneswar, Pune, and Chennai, which are among the first 20 smart cities prioritised for implementation in the Smart Cities Mission, we show how informality challenges the understanding of the smart city. We analyse how this phenomenon is framed in smart city planning, focusing on the three domains of affordable housing, infrastructure services, and citizen engagement. We argue that using informality as a lens of critical analysis offers a new perspective on the ‘Southern theory’ of smart cities. In doing so, we highlight the disregard of informality at the cost of socio-spatial ision – as a significant challenge for smart city development in India.
Geographies of identity: labouring in the `neoliberal' university
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-02-2008
Sizing Home, Doing Family in Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2012
Strategic or Piecemeal? Smart City Initiatives in Sydney and Melbourne
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
Governing social reproduction in masterplanned estates: Urban politics and everyday life in sydney
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-08-2011
Abstract: Critical urban research arising from the ‘new urban politics’ rich heritage has conventionally privileged the politics of accumulation and the city’s downtown over the politics of social reproduction and everyday, residential spaces. This paper focuses on residential spaces and the politics involved in recasting everyday practices of social reproduction through private neighbourhood governance. Focusing on the masterplanned estates increasingly prevalent across Sydney’s residential landscape, it explores the material practices and subjectivities shaped by these estates’ contractual governance and the contours and limits to the formation of self-governing middle-class consumer citizens. The paper highlights a granular fabric to urban politics produced as residents engage with meeting the demands of daily urban life and providing the means of middle-class social reproduction in a neo-liberalised context. Finally, it points to opportunities for a more complete grammar of contemporary urban politics provided by this expanded focus.
Master-planned residential developments: Beyond iconic spaces of neoliberalism?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2009
Reinforcing and refracting automobility
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-10-2023
How smart cities are made: A priori, ad hoc and post hoc drivers of smart city implementation in Sydney, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-02-2021
Abstract: Recent geographical attention to smart places has underlined the key point that smart places are made: crafted incrementally over time and woven through existing sites and contexts. Work on analysing the crafting of ‘actually existing’ smart cities has turned to describing and characterising the processes through which smart cities are made and, within this, the interplay and relative significance of accidental versus purposeful smart cities has come to the fore. Drawing on the concept of dispositif to capture the simultaneity of piecemeal and opportunistic change with deliberate strategy, this paper furthers these debates using ex les of two places within the Sydney Metropolitan Region, Australia: Newcastle and Parramatta. Through their analysis we identify the evolving interplay of a priori drivers, ad hoc initiatives and post hoc strategies evident in the crafting of smart cities. Understanding the emergence of actually existing smart cities, we conclude, is sharpened and strengthened by the concept of dispositif, through its attention to processes characterised by non-linear, overlapping and recursively combined drivers that are not without purposeful, strategic intent.
Neoliberalism and Suburban Employment: Western Sydney in the 1990s
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2005
Innovating urban governance through ‘Challenges’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-07-2023
Multiscalar Smart City Governance in India
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
Practice and public–private partnerships in sustainable transport governance: The case of car sharing in Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2015
Puncturing automobility? Carsharing practices
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia's changing climate and energy governance regimes
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-05-2014
Abstract: Urban local governments are important players in climate governance, and their roles are evolving. This review traces the changing nexus of Australia’s climate policy, energy policy and energy efficiency imperatives and its repositioning of urban local governments. We characterise the ways urban local governments’ capacities and capabilities are being mobilised in light of a changing multi-level political opportunity structure around energy efficiency. The shifts we observe not only extend local governments’ role in implementing climate change responses but also engage them as partners in conceiving and operationalising new measures, suggesting new ground is being opened in the urban politics of climate governance. A review of the Australian context provides important insights for the new politics of energy in the city as, internationally, energy efficiency is reframed as a climate change issue and the city is repositioned as an important strategic space in energy politics and the governance of energy systems.
Geographies of identity: climate change, governmentality and activism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-12-2009
Abstract: The possibilities for, and impediments to, progressive social transformation have underpinned many strands of research in human geography. In this, the last of my series of reports on geographies of identity, I tour through the ways in which identities are figuring in geographical explorations of potentials for ‘alternative’ political futures beyond those of current hegemonies. In particular, I draw attention to the erse scholarship on identity and subject formation that focuses on the practices of development professionals, ethical consumption activities, and climate change activism, among others. Highlighting the growing salience of governmentality as a perspective through which to comprehend identity, the report canvasses: the intensification of economic logics as a rubric of subject formation the role of food and consumption in both opening up and closing down new political subjectivities and the identities produced and required to address the challenges of climate change.
Smart regional spaces: ready set go!
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2022
Sydney/Global/City: An Exploration
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2005
Home and homemaking in contemporary Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2007
Devising low-carbon desires in the Australian urban economy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 15-09-2016
Critical Reflections on Doctoral Research and Supervision in Human Geography: The ‘PhD by Publication’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2012
Autonomous vehicle experiments and the city
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-12-2022
Beyond the Driverless Car: A Typology of Forms and Functions for Autonomous Mobility
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2021
Orchestrating energy transitions: from ‘eco-bling’ to tuning the building
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-10-2022
Gender in the Australian innovation ecosystem: planning smart cities for men
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2022
Rethinking Urban Transitions
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-03-2018
PhD students’ housing experiences in suburban Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-04-2017
HOME TRUTHS: RECENT FEMINIST CONSTRUCTIONS
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1993
Innovating urban governance: A research agenda
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-09-2022
DOI: 10.1177/03091325221127298
Abstract: Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and techniques. Urban political geographers are still some way off fully apprehending the dynamics of these innovations and their potential to reconfigure the composition and politics of urban governance. This paper suggests dialogue between urban political geography and public sector innovation literatures as a productive way forward. We build from this engagement to suggest a critical research agenda to drive systematic analysis of innovatory urban governance, its heterogeneous formation, politics and possibilities.
The coordination role in research education: Emerging understandings and dilemmas for leadership
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2014
The Future of Paratransit and DRT: Introducing Cars on Demand
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 28-09-2016
Parents, children and automobility: trends, challenges and opportunities
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 28-08-2015
Neoliberal privatisation? Remapping the public and the private in Sydney's masterplanned residential estates
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2009
An integrated city-level planning process to address the impacts of climate change in Kenya: The case of Mombasa
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2010
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