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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies | Social and Cultural Geography | Human Geography | Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Pacific Peoples Development and Welfare | International Aid and Development |
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Publications
Resisting a 'Doomed' Fate: an analysis of the Pacific Climate Warriors
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Climate-Migration Responses in the Pacific Region
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 10-09-2018
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190856908.013.53
Abstract: There is widespread understanding that migration can represent an adaptive response to emerging and realized climate threats. However, the concept of “migration as adaptation” positions vulnerable populations as adaptive agents who can and even must migrate in response to climate change impacts, despite their often negligible contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The Pacific islands region is widely viewed as an iconic site of climate change impacts and subsequent climate migration risk. This chapter discusses three Pacific countries—Fiji, Tuvalu, and Kiribati—and explores how people and government officials in these countries respond to the dynamic discursive, policy, social, and biophysical domains of “migration as climate change adaptation.”
Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia
Publisher: OECD
Date: 15-11-2013
The garden
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Human mobility and environmental change: a survey of perceptions and policy direction
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-11-2019
Christmas
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Mobile phones
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Solar hot water
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Screens
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
'We didn't want to leave our island': stories of involuntary resettlement from Gaadhoo Island, Maldives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-06-2020
Flying
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
The refrigerator
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Pacific Labour Mobility on Pause: Consequences of Temporary Immobility During the Pandemic
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2021
Plastic bags
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Driving cars
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Laundry
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Furniture
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Envisioning the archipelago
Publisher: Island Studies Journal
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.253
Abstract: Certain limitations arise from the persistent consideration of two common relations of islands in the humanities and social sciences: land and sea, and island and continent/mainland. What remains largely absent or silent are ways of being, knowing and doing—ontologies, epistemologies and methods—that illuminate island spaces as inter-related, mutually constituted and co-constructed: as island and island. Therefore, this paper seeks to map out and justify a research agenda proposing a robust and comprehensive exploration of this third and comparatively neglected nexus of relations. In advancing these aims, the paper’s goal is to (re)inscribe the theoretical, metaphorical, real and empirical power and potential of the archipelago: of seas studded with islands island chains relations that may embrace equivalence, mutual relation and difference in signification.
Islands, the Anthropocene, and decolonisation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-01-2023
DOI: 10.1111/ANTI.12924
Abstract: The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles to decolonise is more powerful than engaging with a reified framework that is part of ongoing colonial‐imperial excesses, uneven development, and racial capitalism. This work considers how four of us, as instigating authors, worked with five others, as collaborating authors, to understand academic works, activism, and artistic expressions of island life and concerns. Our aim was to learn about how and why their efforts to prioritise decolonisation is at the heart of what is needed to shore up island peoples’ futures.
Book review: Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-11-2012
Climate mobilities, rights and justice: Complexities and particularities
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 21-12-2022
DOI: 10.3389/FCLIM.2022.1026486
Abstract: Climate mobility revolves around issues of justice and human rights, whether this be concerning its causes, expression or handling. This paper examines the justice-rights nexus as it relates to climate mobility, highlighting how the two spheres converge and erge. It works with four case studies exploring the complexity of rights and justice in the climate mobility context. Our case studies are erse, in terms of the mobility types concerned and the rights and justice-based issues involved. We show that conceptualizing or achieving just or righteous outcomes is neither certain nor a uniform pursuit when it comes to climate mobility. Rather, there are many ergences–by those who claim rights or justice, and those asked to respond. We present a complex and contested space, highlight the importance of approaching justice and rights matters contextually, and with special attention to particularities when climate mobility is at issue.
Who do growers trust? Engaging biosecurity knowledges to negotiate risk management in the north Queensland banana industry, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
6. Climate Migration Is about People, Not Numbers
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Date: 09-2021
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0265.06
Scalar Politics of Climate Change: Regions, Emissions and Responsibility
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2012
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1214300106
Abstract: The print media have facilitated multiple types of claim-making and an oppositional climate change politics. Drawing on arguments about the social construction of geographical scale as a category for understanding media practice, this article examines such politics. We focus on the Illawarra Mercury, the only daily newspaper in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, to showcase exactly how this tabloid newspaper engages readers in a scalar politics of climate change. We argue that a regional scalar politics shapes the framing of emissions in the Illawarra Mercury. A key question organising this article concerns the way in which geographical scale is invoked, and reproduced, in this newspaper to structure a certain rationale in reporting on emissions from one of Australia's largest greenhouse gas emitters, the Port Kembla Steelworks. The argument is that the regional scale is evoked as a pre-given, natural and contained entity to justify why the steelworks need not shoulder greenhouse gas emissions reductions. We argue that a better understanding of scalar politics is integral to explain how responsibility for emissions is shifted elsewhere.
Agrifood systems knowledge exchange through Australia‐Pacific circular migration schemes
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.370
Abstract: Pacific Island workers contribute significantly to Australiaʼs agriculture and food security through the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). Previous studies show the economic benefits of the SWP to both Australian agro‐industries and Pacific workers. However, there are limited studies about the agricultural knowledge exchange that occurs via the circular migration enabled by the SWP, and the experiences of workers and employers as agricultural knowledge holders. With the SWP merged into the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme, there is an opportunity to help define how circular migration is both an economic and agricultural development policy. In this paper, we present findings from interviews with 63 workers (from Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu) about agricultural knowledge and skills acquired and exchanged via SWP participation. We provide a discussion of opportunities for knowledge exchange in international labour mobility, and areas of future research in circular migration.
Copenhagen, Climate Science and the Emotional Geographies of Climate Change
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Transformative mobilities in the Pacific: Promoting adaptation and development in a changing climate
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-08-2018
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.254
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2011
Conclusion
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Who defines atoll ‘uninhabitability’?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
Tuvalu and climate change: constructions of environmental displacement in the sydney morning herald
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2005
Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water?
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2014
Retirement
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Sustainable household capability: Which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Death
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
OF BRICKS AND GLASS: Learning to Accommodate the Everyday Rhythms of Home
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2017
Voluntary immobility and existential security in a changing climate in the Pacific
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12231
Relocation planning must address voluntary immobility
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2020
A climate justice perspective on international labour migration and climate change adaptation among Tuvaluan workers
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2022
Abstract: Research on climate change and human mobility has posited migration as a potentially adaptive response. In the Pacific Islands region, international labour migration specifically is an important component of emerging climate change mobility policy, at both regional and national scales. However, the existence of opportunities for people in climate-exposed locations to move for work does not, on its own, advance climate justice. To gain insights into the nexus of climate justice, labour migration and adaptation, this paper explores the social and emotional experiences of international labour migration programme participants from climate-vulnerable Tuvalu as well as the emergent climate mobility regime in which this migration is taking place, drawing on qualitative research undertaken on the policy context and with workers from Tuvalu on short-term contracts under Australia’s Pacific Labour Scheme. Their experiences, their perceptions of climate change and their role as livelihood earners for families are explored to consider issues of climate justice in understanding labour migration as adaptation. While the workers benefited economically, they experienced significant social and emotional issues including poor mental health and family breakdown during their time working abroad, in addition to long-term climate change concerns. Further, the labour mobility programme in which they participated does not recognize migration-as-adaptation or climate justice, even though these are an emergent priority in the climate mobility regime. This highlights the need to consider how international labour migration programmes can be strengthened to advance climate justice for climate vulnerable populations on the move.
Performing a plant biosecurity emergency: The generation of disease absence and presence in Northern Australia banana plantations
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-12-2016
Abstract: This paper explores the generation of presences and absences of objects in plant biosecurity practices. We use praxiography to trace how multiple versions of disease were generated on a quarantined banana plantation during an emergency response to a suspected outbreak of feared Panama disease. Attending to the practices, techniques and materials that established different versions of disease presence and absence, we ask if the momentarily certain absence of disease on a particular farm necessarily indicated a favourable biosecurity outcome, thus informing enhanced policy strategies for plant health. There were, in fact, multiple objects. Not only diseases, but multiple presences of health, stress, disease and disorder were involved in confirming the absence of Panama.
Recognitions and Responsibilities
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 06-2014
DOI: 10.1086/676298
Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-05-2022
Making place in virus‐free space
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-03-2021
Domestic Environmental Labour
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-01-2018
Building social resilience to biological invasions. A case study of Panama Tropical Race 4 in the Australian Banana Industry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Gifts, sustainable consumption and giving up green anxieties at Christmas
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Rising seas, immobilities, and translocality in small island states: case studies from Fiji and Tuvalu
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-03-2021
‘The global warming clock is ticking so see these places while you can’: Voyeuristic tourism and model environmental citizens on Tuvalu's disappearing islands
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-07-2010
Anthropocene Shiftings: Response to Perego, E. and Scopacasa, R. The Agency of the Displaced? Roman Expansion, Environmental Forces, and the Occupation of Marginal Landscapes in Ancient Italy. Humanities 2018, 7, 116
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 10-10-2019
DOI: 10.3390/H8040158
Abstract: In this response to Elisa Perego and Rafael Scopacasa’s article, I reflect on connections across time and space from an Anthropocenic perspective that is, by urgent necessity, open to the unexpected. In Ancient Italy, and contemporary Tuvalu and Brazil, it is possible to find similarly unexpected ends being achieved among populations that move, whose lives are lived on ground that cannot be assumed to be inert: earth has agency, and over time, it shifts, or is flooded, or buries things. When non-elites are moving into marginal places where life is tough, where earthly agency cannot be ignored, such people are also finding themselves at the centre of major turning points in history. Mobility and survival in marginal places can offer a way to live a less colonized life.
Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-09-2016
Is it too late to prevent systemic danger to the world's poor?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2019
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.609
Abstract: To answer the question “is it too late to stop dangerous climate change?” requires systemic thinking. An experiment named ‘climate risk disclosure’ is currently underway in the global financial industry, one that is seeking to stabilize the climate‐finance meta‐system. This meta‐system is in danger of meta‐crisis, but addressing this risk in itself is a systemic danger to the world's poor, to the extent that the climate‐finance risk calculus does not adequately account for social risk. The global poor now face being systemically excluded from having their interests measured and managed in the climate‐finance meta‐system. Already vulnerable groups, at risk from poverty, climate change impacts, political unrest, and other social ills, are at risk of being even further marginalized. The systemic embedding of social exclusion is a largely unrecognized risk in work toward maintaining climate‐finance meta‐system stability. The question of preventing dangerous climate change, then, may be not so much a question of ‘when?,’ but of how to reduce the dangers arising from systemic social marginalization and compounding vulnerabilities along with systemically reducing carbon emissions. Perhaps it is not loo late to stop climate danger, but without a specific focus on social risk in the meta‐system this may only be true for those who already enjoy the fruits of global financial stability. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge Knowledge and Practice
Using the Concept of Common Pool Resources to Understand Community Perceptions of Diverse Water Sources in Adelaide, South Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-01-2015
Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2019
The Political Ecology and Visual Culture of the Pacific Climate Warriors
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-02-2021
Household Sustainability
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Reclaiming open climate adaptation futures
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-07-2023
Engaging with risk (or not): shared responsibility for biosecurity surveillance and the role of community gardens
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2017
Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2010
Mobilities and Immobilities in Tuvalu: an unexpected pandemic experience?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-02-2023
Warmth
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Toilets
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Picking fruit is not climate justice
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2023
Clothes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Zones of friction, zones of traction: The connected household in climate change and sustainability policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Water
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Climate migration myths
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-11-2019
Anti-displacement mobilities and re-emplacements: alternative climate mobilities in Funafala
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-05-2022
Investing in home: development outcomes and climate change adaptation for seasonal workers living between Solomon Islands and Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-12-2020
Residential air-conditioning and climate change: voices of the vulnerable
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1071/HE11413
Spaghetti bolognese
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Decolonising methodologies: emergent learning in island research
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-11-2021
Abstract: This article documents an attempt to decolonise our approach to methodology to explicitly show respect for islands and their islanders. Our twin starting points are an awareness of a turn to the Anthropocene in studies related to islands and an appreciation of the imperative to think outside colonial frames. The Anthropocene has been conceived as both an enduring colonising force and a significant moment in decolonisation, and islands have been viewed as emblematic of the Anthropocene, so the relationship between them is complex. These dynamic conceptions raise dilemmas for those wanting to apply methodologies to island research and negotiate ethical relations across multiple geographies and knowledge systems. For those whose cultures have been subjected to colonial oppressions, there are emotional and material costs and varied risks in participating in attempts to decolonise island research. Settler researchers seeking to ally themselves with others to advance such agendas and aspirations may slow or damage decolonising practices if they act without appropriate permissions, respectful commitments to support and understand decolonisation, and preparedness to engage in deep learning about what decolonisation of knowledge means. With these challenges in mind, we detail an approach to decolonising one of our own island research projects in ways that are enriched by a Tuvaluan concept, Fale Pili , which means treating a neighbour’s problems as your own.
Introduction
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Having a baby
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2013
Climate change and national security: an agenda for geography
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-10-2018
The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
Global financial stability, rapid transition to a low-carbon economy and social justice: can climate-related financial risk disclosure do it all?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-09-2019
Being(s) framed: The means and ends of framing environmental migrants
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
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