The teleconference is now being applied in the broadband contexts of the minority world, or Globa... more The teleconference is now being applied in the broadband contexts of the minority world, or Global North1, by both geography teachers and researchers as well as by conference and seminar organisers. The implications for how teleconference technology transforms physical distance has long been considered in relation to businesses (Rosetti and Surynt, 1985) and teaching (Sherry, 1996). Here, we consider some wider implications for geographical knowledge-sharing that arise from teleconference technologies on the basis of a seminar series on landscape research between nine scholars who are simultaneously located in Sweden, Norway and Australia. What are the implications of virtual travel for geographical knowledge-sharing? Does the teleconference provide a route that satisfies the desire to be physically co-present with peers, while at the same time offering emancipation from the tyrannies of physical distance in geographical knowledge- sharing? This article explores these questions in two sections. The first outlines the importance of intermittent face-to-face meetings in conveying geographical knowledge and describes the teleconference seminar context that encouraged us to think about the importance of physical propinquity. The second section discusses our experiences and reflections on the teleconference as a knowledge-sharing technology that transformed physical co-presence. We conclude by discussing the wider geographical implications of applying teleconference technologies.
Whether advocating creativity as a means to place competition or critiquing the social dislocatio... more 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 example 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 disc...
This article investigates intersections of sexuality, sex, femininities, and alcohol. The concept... more This article investigates intersections of sexuality, sex, femininities, and alcohol. The concept of spatially-situated subjectivity is deployed to examine how women negotiate their femininities and sexualities in and through spaces of a 'night out'. A mixed methods approach was ...
Abstract The present paper examines the complex politics of gay/lesbian belonging through a case ... more Abstract The present paper examines the complex politics of gay/lesbian belonging through a case study of Daylesford, Victoria, an Australian country town. It contributes to two research bodies: gay/lesbian rural geographies and the politics of belonging. Daylesford hosts ChillOut, Australia's largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which provides a telling context for investigating gay/lesbian belonging in rural Australia. We use qualitative data from the 2006 ChillOut Festival, including interviews with local residents, newspaper commentaries ...
Abstract We examine how normative constructions of 'the creative city&am... more Abstract We examine how normative constructions of 'the creative city'have entered into Australian planning discourses. Although welcoming a place-based approach, critical consideration is given to how the misappropriation of 'place making'in creative city revitalisation plans may enhance rather than address processes of social marginalisation. A Foucauldian framework is employed, exploring the notion of the social production of power through discourse. We draw on a case study of Wentworth Street, a key urban space in ...
... It's men and women, not man and man. That's sick. That's hitting material! ...... more ... It's men and women, not man and man. That's sick. That's hitting material! ... In-depth life narratives are appropriate for this project for several reasons. ... Virtual Journeys: Exploring Sexuality through Commercial Websites Journeys through virtual space transformed Harry's lifeworld. ...
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2009
This paper examines processes of social cohesion across sexual difference in ‘queer-friendly neig... more This paper examines processes of social cohesion across sexual difference in ‘queer-friendly neighbourhoods’—localities that have a heterosexual majority in residential and commercial terms, but where a significant presence of gay and lesbian residents, businesses, and organisations are welcomed. This investigation advances a lineage of work on the development and maintenance of gay and lesbian neighbourhoods, and their role in residents' well-being. The findings also extend understandings of social cohesion, a key theme in neighbourhood and policy research across the West. The context of this study is Australia, where recent projects on social cohesion have focused on public order, economic benefits, and race tensions. However, given that gay men and lesbians are present in Australian social and political debates, sexuality should be integrated into studies about neighbourhood cohesion. To analyse processes of cohesion between heterosexual and same-sex-attracted people, we draw...
Are mobility scooters harbingers of a future where small and versatile electric vehicles roam our... more Are mobility scooters harbingers of a future where small and versatile electric vehicles roam our cities
It\u27s a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things - ra... more It\u27s a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things - rates, rubbish and parking. They want lower rates, the freedom to turf out as much trash as they like, and convenient free car parking. The arrival of dockless share bikes set these attitudes towards parking and rubbish on a collision course
This paper presents a survey study with 1,444 low-income older residents in regional NSW, Austral... more This paper presents a survey study with 1,444 low-income older residents in regional NSW, Australia exploring their value perceptions towards using energy efficiently, as an approach to segmentation in social marketing. The study theorises that insight regarding the perceived functional, economic, emotional, social, and ecological value of using energy efficiency by participants can be used to segment, target and position social marketing programme activities to facilitate energy efficient behaviour(s). Latent class analysis was conducted on the participant sample, and identified seven distinct latent classes: frugal eco warriors, value opportunists, greenies, indecisive, apathetic independent spendthrifts, independents, and ambivalent ecologists. Each of these distinct latent classes displayed particular orientations with respect to value of using energy efficiently. This analysis presents new insights for social marketers from an appreciation of how different groups frame value in...
This paper seeks to better understand mobility justice with reference to the bodily sensations of... more This paper seeks to better understand mobility justice with reference to the bodily sensations of cycling. Differential mobility is not just the result of gendered, classed and racialised social norms but are productive of these social hierarches. We build on these arguments by asking the question: ‘Where does it feel right to ride a bike‘? This paper takes up this challenge by drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of assemblage and territory. In this way, mobility justice is conceptualised as a process of territorialisation, reterritorialisation and deterritorialisation. Our analysis proceeds by offering three ‘portraits’ ‘from empirical materials gathered from a qualitative cycling project in the car-dominated small city of Wollongong, Australia. We argue that all road users are not equal, regardless of having the same formal status. Through an appreciation of the rhythmic qualities of spatiality, the paper charts experiences of the process of inclusion and exclusion from the ...
presented at the World Social Marketing Conference, 19-21 April 2015, Sydney, Australiapresented ... more presented at the World Social Marketing Conference, 19-21 April 2015, Sydney, Australiapresented at the World Social Marketing Conference, 19-21 April 2015, Sydney, Australia
It's a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things rat... more It's a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things rates, rubbish and parking. They want lower rates, the freedom to turf out as much trash as they like, and convenient free car parking. The arrival of dockless share bikes set these attitudes towards parking and rubbish on a collision course.
University of Wollongong acknowledges that never has there been a more exciting or important time... more University of Wollongong acknowledges that never has there been a more exciting or important time to do Geography. There are new global challenges, problems and anomalies emerging that need creative solutions. University of Wollongong recognised that a Geography degree provides graduates with an eclectic and interdisciplinary skill-set necessary to address these challenges. Graduates will be trained in both the skill sets of a scientist and a social scientist, alongside communication, writing, and analytical skills. UOW Geography graduates will be analytical and critical thinkers toward social, cultural and physical problems and issues. The UOW Bachelor of Geography provides graduates with a broad range of transferrable skills setting up a lifetime of career opportunities.
The teleconference is now being applied in the broadband contexts of the minority world, or Globa... more The teleconference is now being applied in the broadband contexts of the minority world, or Global North1, by both geography teachers and researchers as well as by conference and seminar organisers. The implications for how teleconference technology transforms physical distance has long been considered in relation to businesses (Rosetti and Surynt, 1985) and teaching (Sherry, 1996). Here, we consider some wider implications for geographical knowledge-sharing that arise from teleconference technologies on the basis of a seminar series on landscape research between nine scholars who are simultaneously located in Sweden, Norway and Australia. What are the implications of virtual travel for geographical knowledge-sharing? Does the teleconference provide a route that satisfies the desire to be physically co-present with peers, while at the same time offering emancipation from the tyrannies of physical distance in geographical knowledge- sharing? This article explores these questions in two sections. The first outlines the importance of intermittent face-to-face meetings in conveying geographical knowledge and describes the teleconference seminar context that encouraged us to think about the importance of physical propinquity. The second section discusses our experiences and reflections on the teleconference as a knowledge-sharing technology that transformed physical co-presence. We conclude by discussing the wider geographical implications of applying teleconference technologies.
Whether advocating creativity as a means to place competition or critiquing the social dislocatio... more 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 example 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 disc...
This article investigates intersections of sexuality, sex, femininities, and alcohol. The concept... more This article investigates intersections of sexuality, sex, femininities, and alcohol. The concept of spatially-situated subjectivity is deployed to examine how women negotiate their femininities and sexualities in and through spaces of a 'night out'. A mixed methods approach was ...
Abstract The present paper examines the complex politics of gay/lesbian belonging through a case ... more Abstract The present paper examines the complex politics of gay/lesbian belonging through a case study of Daylesford, Victoria, an Australian country town. It contributes to two research bodies: gay/lesbian rural geographies and the politics of belonging. Daylesford hosts ChillOut, Australia's largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which provides a telling context for investigating gay/lesbian belonging in rural Australia. We use qualitative data from the 2006 ChillOut Festival, including interviews with local residents, newspaper commentaries ...
Abstract We examine how normative constructions of 'the creative city&am... more Abstract We examine how normative constructions of 'the creative city'have entered into Australian planning discourses. Although welcoming a place-based approach, critical consideration is given to how the misappropriation of 'place making'in creative city revitalisation plans may enhance rather than address processes of social marginalisation. A Foucauldian framework is employed, exploring the notion of the social production of power through discourse. We draw on a case study of Wentworth Street, a key urban space in ...
... It's men and women, not man and man. That's sick. That's hitting material! ...... more ... It's men and women, not man and man. That's sick. That's hitting material! ... In-depth life narratives are appropriate for this project for several reasons. ... Virtual Journeys: Exploring Sexuality through Commercial Websites Journeys through virtual space transformed Harry's lifeworld. ...
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2009
This paper examines processes of social cohesion across sexual difference in ‘queer-friendly neig... more This paper examines processes of social cohesion across sexual difference in ‘queer-friendly neighbourhoods’—localities that have a heterosexual majority in residential and commercial terms, but where a significant presence of gay and lesbian residents, businesses, and organisations are welcomed. This investigation advances a lineage of work on the development and maintenance of gay and lesbian neighbourhoods, and their role in residents' well-being. The findings also extend understandings of social cohesion, a key theme in neighbourhood and policy research across the West. The context of this study is Australia, where recent projects on social cohesion have focused on public order, economic benefits, and race tensions. However, given that gay men and lesbians are present in Australian social and political debates, sexuality should be integrated into studies about neighbourhood cohesion. To analyse processes of cohesion between heterosexual and same-sex-attracted people, we draw...
Are mobility scooters harbingers of a future where small and versatile electric vehicles roam our... more Are mobility scooters harbingers of a future where small and versatile electric vehicles roam our cities
It\u27s a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things - ra... more It\u27s a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things - rates, rubbish and parking. They want lower rates, the freedom to turf out as much trash as they like, and convenient free car parking. The arrival of dockless share bikes set these attitudes towards parking and rubbish on a collision course
This paper presents a survey study with 1,444 low-income older residents in regional NSW, Austral... more This paper presents a survey study with 1,444 low-income older residents in regional NSW, Australia exploring their value perceptions towards using energy efficiently, as an approach to segmentation in social marketing. The study theorises that insight regarding the perceived functional, economic, emotional, social, and ecological value of using energy efficiency by participants can be used to segment, target and position social marketing programme activities to facilitate energy efficient behaviour(s). Latent class analysis was conducted on the participant sample, and identified seven distinct latent classes: frugal eco warriors, value opportunists, greenies, indecisive, apathetic independent spendthrifts, independents, and ambivalent ecologists. Each of these distinct latent classes displayed particular orientations with respect to value of using energy efficiently. This analysis presents new insights for social marketers from an appreciation of how different groups frame value in...
This paper seeks to better understand mobility justice with reference to the bodily sensations of... more This paper seeks to better understand mobility justice with reference to the bodily sensations of cycling. Differential mobility is not just the result of gendered, classed and racialised social norms but are productive of these social hierarches. We build on these arguments by asking the question: ‘Where does it feel right to ride a bike‘? This paper takes up this challenge by drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of assemblage and territory. In this way, mobility justice is conceptualised as a process of territorialisation, reterritorialisation and deterritorialisation. Our analysis proceeds by offering three ‘portraits’ ‘from empirical materials gathered from a qualitative cycling project in the car-dominated small city of Wollongong, Australia. We argue that all road users are not equal, regardless of having the same formal status. Through an appreciation of the rhythmic qualities of spatiality, the paper charts experiences of the process of inclusion and exclusion from the ...
presented at the World Social Marketing Conference, 19-21 April 2015, Sydney, Australiapresented ... more presented at the World Social Marketing Conference, 19-21 April 2015, Sydney, Australiapresented at the World Social Marketing Conference, 19-21 April 2015, Sydney, Australia
It's a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things rat... more It's a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things rates, rubbish and parking. They want lower rates, the freedom to turf out as much trash as they like, and convenient free car parking. The arrival of dockless share bikes set these attitudes towards parking and rubbish on a collision course.
University of Wollongong acknowledges that never has there been a more exciting or important time... more University of Wollongong acknowledges that never has there been a more exciting or important time to do Geography. There are new global challenges, problems and anomalies emerging that need creative solutions. University of Wollongong recognised that a Geography degree provides graduates with an eclectic and interdisciplinary skill-set necessary to address these challenges. Graduates will be trained in both the skill sets of a scientist and a social scientist, alongside communication, writing, and analytical skills. UOW Geography graduates will be analytical and critical thinkers toward social, cultural and physical problems and issues. The UOW Bachelor of Geography provides graduates with a broad range of transferrable skills setting up a lifetime of career opportunities.
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