Gibson, Chris R.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2020	Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future Published in Geoforum
2019	Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times Published in Tourism Geographies
2016	Geographies of making: rethinking materials and skills for volatile futures Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published in City, Culture and Society
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published in Economic Geography
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published in Economic Geography
2015	From incremental change to radical disjuncture: Rethinking everyday household sustainability practices as survival skills Published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers
2014	Surfing places, surfboard makers: Craft, creativity and cultural heritage in Hawai'i, California and Australia
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life
2012	Music festivals and regional development in Australia
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published in Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2005	Cultural economy: a critical review Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2005	Music and Tourism
2004	Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia
2003	Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place

Research Areas

Research Overview

Opening up empirical and theoretical possibilities across the culture-economy divide is my central intellectual agenda. Theoretical and conceptual influences stem from my undergraduate and postgraduate training in both economic geography and literary/cultural studies - this translates into research that seeks to interweave analytical frameworks from Marxian and poststructuralist economic geography with the texture of ethnographic methods. Most of my research focuses on the urban and regional scales, and currently I am especially energised by questions of regional transformation amidst historical inheritances.

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent
Hawaii State or Province
United States of America Country

Member Of

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (Organization) 2017 -
Association of American Geographers 2001 -
Geographical Society of New South Wales 2001 -
Institute of Australian Geographers 1999 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	From backyards to balconies: cultural norms and parents’ experiences of home in higher-density housing Published In Housing Studies
2020	Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future Published In Geoforum
2020	Unsolicited urbanism: development monopolies, regulatory-technical fixes and planning-as-deal-making Published In Environment and Planning A
2019	A sound track to ecological crisis: Tracing guitars all the way back to the tree Published In Popular Music
2019	Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations Published In Research Evaluation
2019	Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times Published In Tourism Geographies
2019	Economic geography, to what ends? From privilege to progressive performances of expertise Published In Environment and Planning A
2019	Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartments Published In The Conversation
2018	Advancing Manufacturing?: Blinkered Visions in U.S. and Australian Urban Policy Published In Urban Policy and Research
2018	Calculated homes, stretched emotions: Unmasking ‘rational’ investor-occupier subjects in large family homes in a coastal Sydney development Published In Emotion, Space and Society
2018	Creative industries, global restructuring, and new forms of subcultural capitalism: the experience of Australia’s surf industry Published In Australian Geographer
2018	From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: Making and playing with plastic-bag footballs Published In Cultural Geographies
2018	Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments Published In Emotion, Space and Society
2018	Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation: Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust redux Published In Australian Geographer
2018	Rural cultural resourcefulness: How community music enterprises sustain cultural vitality Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2018	Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship Published In Australian Geographer
2017	Animating geographies of making: Embodied slow scholarship for participant-researchers of maker cultures and material work Published In Geography Compass
2017	Can our cities’ thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’? Published In The Conversation
2017	Instead of rebuilding stadiums, the NSW government should focus on local sport and events Published In The Conversation
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published In City, Culture and Society
2017	Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes Published In Geoforum
2017	Subcultural enterprises, brand value, and limits to financialized growth: The rise and fall of corporate surfing brands Published In Geoforum
2017	Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production Published In The Conversation
2017	Wheat, sheep or Elvis Presley? Rural Australia has had to change its tune Published In The Conversation
2016	A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response Published In Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability
2016	Beyond lockouts: Sydney needs to become a more inclusive city Published In The Conversation
2016	Geographies of making: rethinking materials and skills for volatile futures Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2016	How clothing design and cultural industries refashioned frontier masculinities: a historical geography of Western wear Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published In Economic Geography
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published In Economic Geography
2015	Cuts to Future Fellowships will cost more than just jobs Published In The Conversation
2015	From incremental change to radical disjuncture: Rethinking everyday household sustainability practices as survival skills Published In Annals of the Association of American Geographers
2015	Less talk more drone: social research with UAVs Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2015	Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems Published In Energy Policy
2015	Negotiating regional creative economies: Academics as expert intermediaries advocating progressive alternatives Published In Regional Studies
2015	Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up Published In The Conversation
2015	The role of festivals in drought-affected Australian communities Published In Event Management: an international journal
2015	Why are young Australian unis punching above their weight? Published In The Conversation
2015	Young adult households and domestic sustainabilities Published In Geoforum
2014	Compelling work, especially when markets fail Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2014	Inter-ethnic partnerships: remaking urban ethnic diversity Published In Urban Policy and Research
2014	Making surfboards: Emergence of a trans-pacific cultural industry Published In The Journal of Pacific History
2014	Pacific worlds: a history of seas, peoples and cultures Published In Australian Geographer
2014	Souvenirs, materialities and animal encounters: Following Texas cowboy boots Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal
2014	The story of steel maps the job future for car workers Published In The Conversation
2013	Crafting regional cultural production: emergence, crisis and consolidation in the Gold Coast surfboard industry Published In Australian Geographer
2013	Looking inwards: Extended family living as an urban consolidation alternative Published In Planning Theory and Practice
2013	Making things in a high-dollar Australia: the case of the surfboard industry Published In Journal of Australian Political Economy
2013	Mild-mannered bistro by day, eclectic freak-land at night: memories of an Australian music venue Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Music festivals and regional development policy: Towards a festival ecology Published In Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture
2013	Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography Published In Dialogues in Human Geography
2013	Niche markets can breathe new life into manufacturing Published In The Conversation
2013	Social media experiments: scholarly practice and collegiality Published In Dialogues in Human Geography
2013	The Spiral Gallery: non-market creativity and belonging in an Australian country town Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2013	The future of manufacturing: niche doesn’t need to be small Published In The Conversation
2013	Welcome to Bogan-ville: reframing class and place through humour Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
2013	“Muting” neoliberalism? Class and colonial legacies in Australia Published In Human Geography: a new radical journal
2012	A country that makes things: Rethinking and broadening manufacturing Published In Griffith Review
2012	A country that makes things? Published In Australian Geographer
2012	All washed up: have surf megabrands forgotten their roots? Published In The Conversation
2012	Becoming differently modern: Geographic contributions to a generative climate politics Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2012	Chilling out in 'cosmopolitan country': urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a 'lesbian and gay rural idyll' Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2012	Cool places, creative places? Community perceptions of cultural vitality in the suburbs Published In International Journal of Cultural Studies
2012	Cultural economy: achievements, divergences, future prospects Published In Geographical Research
2012	Does the shape of countries shape their destiny? Published In The Conversation
2012	Drunken mobilities: backpackers, alcohol, ‘doing place’ Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal
2012	Engaging creative communities in an industrial city setting Published In Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
2012	Living together but apart: material geographies of everyday sustainability in extended family households Published In Environment and Planning A
2012	Mobilité humaine et changement environnemental: une analyse historique et textuelle de la politique des Nations Unies Published In Cultures et Conflits
2012	Once a cultural icon, is Australia’s surfboard industry destined to disappear? Published In The Conversation
2012	Sustainable household capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability? Published In Australian Geographer
2012	We can’t compete on cheap and nasty; let’s be a country that makes high-quality, lasting things Published In The Conversation
2011	Blue-collar creativity: reframing custom-car culture in the imperilled industrial city Published In Environment and Planning A
2011	Bodily rhythms: corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces Published In Emotion, Space and Society
2011	Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2011	Governing Knowledge: Discourses and Tactics of the European Union in Trade-Related Intellectual Property Negotiations Published In Antipode: a radical journal of geography
2011	New dawn or new dusk? Beyond the binary of day and night Published In Environment and Planning A
2010	Creativity without borders? Rethinking remoteness and proximity Published In Australian Geographer
2010	Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia Published In Journal of Planning Education and Research
2010	GIS, Ethnography, and Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back into Ethnographic Mapping Published In The Information Society
2010	Geographic Information Technologies for cultural research: cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies Published In Cultural Trends
2010	Geographies of tourism: (Un)ethical encounters Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2010	Guest Editorial - Creative Geographies: Tales from the ‘margins’ Published In Australian Geographer
2010	Interventions on the meanings of the Obama presidency for US relations with global regions Published In Political Geography
2010	Mapping same-sex couple family households in Australia Published In Journal of Maps
2010	Place making: mapping culture, creating places: collisions of science and art Published In Local-Global: identity, security, community
2010	The cultural economy of small cities Published In Geography Compass
2009	'We do not want to leave our land': Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of 'climate refugees' Published In Geoforum
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published In Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2009	Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2009	Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking? Published In Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
2009	Musical work in a university town: The shifting spaces and practices of DJs in Dunedin Published In Asia Pacific Viewpoint
2009	Place and music: Performing "the region" on the New South Wales Far North Coast Published In Transforming Cultures eJournal
2009	Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods Published In Environment and Planning A
2008	'No passport necessary': music, record covers and vicarious tourism in post-war Hawai'i Published In The Journal of Pacific History
2008	A queer country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town Published In Australian Geographer
2008	Counter-geographies: the campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2008	Environmental sustainability in practice? A macro-scale profile of tourist accommodation facilities in Australia's coastal zone Published In Journal of Sustainable Tourism
2008	Getting on, getting up and getting out? Broadening perspectives on rural youth migration Published In Geographical Research
2008	Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
2008	Locating geographies of tourism Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2008	Scaling the rural: reflections on rural cultural studies Published In Australian Humanities Review
2008	Youthful creativity in regional Australia: panacea for unemployment and out-migration? Published In Geographical Research
2007	'Babes in the woods': geographers reflect on their participation in a forest consultancy project Published In Geography
2007	Geography in higher education in Australia Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2007	Get into the groove: the role of sound in generating a sense of belonging in street parades Published In Altitude: A Journal of Emerging Humanities Work
2007	Interrogating the politics of Gay/Lesbian belonging in an Australian country town: a case study of Daylesford, Victoria, and local responses to the Chillout Festival Published In Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences
2007	Music festivals: transformations in non-metropolitan places, and in creative work Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2007	Music, tourism and the transformation of Memphis Published In Tourism Geographies: an international journal of tourism place, space and the environment
2007	Obliging indigenous citizens? Shared responsibility agreements in Australian Aboriginal communities Published In Cultural Studies
2007	Popular music: networks, industries and spaces Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2007	The Parkes Elvis revival festival: economic development and contested place identities in rural Australia Published In Geographical Research
2006	Affordable housing for the arts? Local housing markets, affordability and creative city strategies Published In HousingWorks: Journal of the Australiasian Housing Institute
2006	Community and nostalgia in urban revitalisation: a critique of urban village and creative class strategies as remedies for social 'problems' Published In Australian Geographer
2006	Decolonizing the production of geographical knowledges? Reflections on research with indigenous musicians Published In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
2006	Goodbye Pram City: beyond inner/outer zone binaries in creative city research Published In Urban Policy and Research
2006	Knowledges of the creative economy: towards a relational geography of diffusion and adaptation in Asia Published In Asia Pacific Viewpoint
2006	The Cultural Research Network: opportunities for a rhizomic future for geography in Australia? Published In Geographical Research
2005	Cultural economy: a critical review Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2005	Recording studios: relational spaces of creativity in the city Published In Built Environment
2005	Resident Attitudes to Farmland Protection Measures in the Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales Published In Australian Geographer
2005	The 'cultural turn' in Australian regional economic development discourse: neoliberalising creativity? Published In Geographical Research
2004	Academic publishing as 'creative' industry and recent discourses of 'creative economies': some critical reflections Published In Area
2004	Creative networks in regional Australia Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2004	Experimential learning in the field: measuring the economic impacts of a music festival in regional Australia Published In Geography Bulletin
2004	Indonesia's cultural economy: an economic geography using two secondary data sources Published In Indonesian Journal of Geography
2004	Introduction: Doing cultural geography Published In Australian Geographer
2004	Mediating Aboriginal music: discussions of the music industry in Australia Published In Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture
2004	Music and tourism: the blues, the bizarre, and big business Published In Geodate
2004	On academic language, and publishing books: whither the bestseller? Published In Australian Geographical Studies
2004	Tamworth, Australia's country music capital: place marketing, rural narratives and resident reactions Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2004	Urban redevelopment, live music and public space: cultural performance and the re-making of Marrickville Published In The International Journal of Cultural Policy
2004	Vicarious journeys: travels in music Published In Tourism Geographies: an international journal of tourism place, space and the environment
2004	World Music: deterritorialising place and identity Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2003	Bongo Fury: tourism, music and cultural economy at Byron Bay, Australia Published In Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
2003	Cultures at work: why 'culture' matters in research on the 'cultural' industries Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2003	Digital divides in New South Wales: a research note on socio spatial inequality using 2001 census data on computer and internet technology Published In Australian Geographer
2003	The sound and space of music Published In Geodate
2002	Employment and socio-spatial relations in Australia's cultural economy Published In Australian Geographer
2002	Migration, music and social relations on the NSW Far North Coast Published In Transformations
2002	Rural transformation and cultural industries: popular music on the New South Wales Far North Coast Published In Australian Geographical Studies

Book

Year	Title
2014	Surfing places, surfboard makers: Craft, creativity and cultural heritage in Hawai'i, California and Australia Publisher Hawai'i, United States
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2012	Music festivals and regional development in Australia Publisher Surrey, England
2005	Music and Tourism Publisher New York & Toronto
2004	Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia Publisher Sydney, NSW
2003	Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place Publisher London & New York

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	Malleable homes and mutual possessions: caring and sharing in extended family households as a resource for survival Published In Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: Practices, politics and possibilities Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2018	Souvenirs, animals, and enchantment: encountering Texas cowboy boots Published In Tourists and Tourism: A Reader Publisher Long Grove, United States
2018	Work, value and space: Three key questions of making for the Anthropocene Published In Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2017	Music and community in Australian country towns: choir singing, belonging and emotion Published In Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2017	Soulful and Precarious: The Working Experiences of Surfboard Makers Published In The Critical Surf Studies Reader Publisher Durham, United States
2017	Surfboard making and environmental sustainability: New materials and regulations, subcultural norms and economic constraints Published In Sustainable Surfing Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2017	The environmental implications of multigenerational living: Are larger households also greener households? Published In Multigenerational Family Living: Evidence and Policy Implications from Australia Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2016	Putting the boot into creative cluster theory Published In Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2015	Engaging creativity in industrial regions: Mapping vernacular cultural assets Published In By-roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia Publisher Crawley, Australia
2015	Housing and sustainability: everyday practices and material entanglements Published In Housing In Twenty-First Century Australia: People, Practices and Policies Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2015	Making things: Beyond the binary of manufacturing and creativity Published In The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2015	Manufacturing stoke: emergence, transformation and consolidation in the surfboard industry Published In Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2014	Cowboy masculinities: Relationality and rural identity Published In Masculinities and Place Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2014	Mobilizing music festivals for rural transformation: opportunities and ambiguities Published In The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism Publisher New York
2014	Outback Elvis: Musical creativity in rural Australia Published In Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place and Globalization Publisher Basingstoke, United Kingdom
2014	Rural place marketing, tourism and creativity: Entering the post-productivist countryside Published In Rural Change in Australia: Population, Economy, Environment Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2014	Tourism and creative economies Published In Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography: Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism Publisher United States
2013	Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia Published In World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments Publisher Paris, France
2013	Indigenous geopolitics Published In The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2013	The cool, creative mapping lounge Published In All Culture is Local: Good practice in regional cultural mapping and planning from local government Publisher Sydney, Australia
2013	The global cowboy: rural masculinities and sexualities Published In Sexuality, Rurality and Geography Publisher Lanham
2013	Tourism Published In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography Publisher Malden, USA
2013	Urban cultural policy, city size, and proximity Published In The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy: Global Perspectives Publisher Abingdon, Oxon
2012	(Putting) mobile technologies in their place: a geographical perspective Published In Mobile Technology and Place Publisher New York
2012	Geographies of tourism: space, ethics and encounter Published In The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies Publisher Florence, United States
2011	Elvis in the Country: Transforming Place in Rural Australia Published In Festival places : revitalising rural Australia Publisher Bristol, UK
2011	Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability and Human-Nature Relations Published In Festival places : revitalising rural Australia Publisher Bristol, UK
2011	Is green the new black? Exploring ethical fashion consumption Published In Ethical consumption : a critical introduction Publisher Abingdon, UK
2011	Is it easy being green? On the dilemmas of material cultures of household sustainability Published In Material Geographies of Household Sustainability Publisher Surrey, England
2011	The extent and significance of rural festivals Published In Festival places : revitalising rural Australia Publisher Bristol, UK
2011	The shifting spaces and practices of dance music DJs in Dunedin Published In Home, Land and Sea: Situating music in Aotearoa and New Zealand Publisher Rosedale, New Zealand
2010	Mapping vernacular creativity: the extent and diversity of rural festivals in Australia Published In Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy Publisher Abingdon, Oxon
2010	Shifting welfare, shifting people: rural development, housing and population mobility in Australia Published In Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives Publisher UK
2009	Ambient Australia: music, meditation and tourist places Published In Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music Publisher Farnham, UK
2009	Australasia Published In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Publisher Amsterdam
2009	Human geography Published In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Publisher Amsterdam
2008	Contemporary Aboriginal Music Published In Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: popular music in Australia Publisher Tasmania
2008	Creative arts, people and places: which policy directions? Published In Making Meaning, Making Money: Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in The Creative Age Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2007	Unchanging places Published In Companion Encyclopedia of Geography: From the Local to the Global Publisher London, UK
2007	Urban vitality, culture and the public realm Published In Urban 45: New Ideas for Australia's Cities Publisher Melbourne, Australia
2006	Nitmiluk: place, politics and empowerment in Australian Aboriginal popular music Published In Ethnomusicology:A Contemporary Reader Publisher New York
2006	Sydney's creative economy: social and spatial challenges Published In Talking about Sydney Population, Community and Culture in Contemporary Sydney Publisher Sydney, Australia
2006	The cultural dimension of urban planning strategies: an historical perspective Published In Culture, Urbanism and Planning Publisher England
2004	Cultural industry production in remote places: indigenous popular music in Australia Published In The Cultural Industries and The Production of Culture Publisher Abingdon & New York
2003	Belonging in the Rainbow Region: Cultural Perspectives on the North Coast of NSW Published In Belonging in the Rainbow Region: Cultural Perspectives on the North Coast of NSW Publisher Lismore
2002	The Cultural economic spaces of Sydney Published In Culture, Economy and Places: Asia-Pacific Perspectives Publisher Seoul
2001	Appropriating the means of production: dance music industries and contested digital space Published In FreeNRG: Notes from the Edge of the Dance Floor Publisher Melbourne
2001	Capitalising on culture: emphases in Australian regional development Published In The Culture and Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia Publisher Seoul
2001	Towards an understanding of the urban cultural economy: an Australian perspective Published In The Culture and Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia Publisher Seoul

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2008	Measuring Food Insecurity in Wollongong Published In Population Health Congress 2008: A Global World - Practical Action for Health and Well-Being
2007	Chilling out in the country? Interrogating Daylesford as a 'gay/lesbian rural idyll' Published In Queer space: centres and peripheries
2005	An Irregular Geography: Reading Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries in Creative City Research Published In After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney
2003	Cultural industries and cultural policy: a critique of recent discourses in regional economic development Published In Windows on a Changing World - NZ Geographical Society Conference Series No 22
2003	New economic geographies Published In Geography's New Frontiers, The Geographical Society of New South Wales Conference papers no 17
2003	Reinventing rurality through 'creativity'? The cultural industries in rural areas Published In Windows on a Changing World - NZ Geographical Society Conference Series No 22

Other Publications

Year	Title
2012	Manufacturing on the move? Beyond the high dollar in the debate about making things in Australia - the case of the Australian surfboard industry - AUSCCER Discussion Paper No. 2012/2

Editor Of

Book
- By-roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia. Crawley, Australia. 2015
- Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia. Bristol, UK. 2011

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020 - 2023	Continuity and change in the Australian industrial landscape Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2010	Crisis and change: cultural-economic research on the adaptability and sustainability of Australian households Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2009	Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2009	Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2008	Cultural asset mapping for planning and development in regional Australia. Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Impact Story

The extent and significance of rural and regional festivals in Australia
Summary
UOW research has had significant impact on rural and regional festivals in Australia and internationally, benefiting regional development policy, and influencing the work of local authorities, arts organisations, and festival bodies. The project’s unprecedented documentation of the previously undervalued extent and significance of rural and regional festivals contributed to the recognition of their importance in debates about regional development, while the individual events themselves benefited from improved management and the legitimation of their economic contribution to the rural and regional sector. <a href="https://research-impact.uow.edu.au/case-studies/reinventing-rural-places-the-extent-and-significance-of-rural-and-regional-festivals-in-australia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://research-impact.uow.edu.au/case-studies/reinventing-rural-places-the-extent-and-significance-of-rural-and-regional-festivals-in-australia/</a>

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Potential Supervision Topics

I am interested in supervising research students working on the following topics:
- Aspects of material resource scarcity, salvage cultures, and related downstream making, manufacturing and repurposing of commodities
- Ecological crisis and cultural economic geographies of resource-dependent industries
- Trees and things: linking environmental humanities scholarship on the agency of plants with related cultural products industries
- Cultural policy and urban manufacturing, with a focus on contestations of city futures and development regimes
- Historical geographies of cultural products and craft-based industries, especially related to timber use

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Sharing Cities: New Strategies for Communal Sharing	Santala, Inka
Doctor of Philosophy	Making Things, Producing Culture, Housing People? Competing Visions of Industrial Land Use in the Contemporary City	Lyons, Craig
Doctor of Philosophy	Landlines and Tracelines ¿ topographies of place and the body in the field of contemporary jewellery & small object-based craft practices.	Young, Mel

Education And Training

B.A. in Human Geography, Australian Literature, University of Sydney, Department of Geography, Honours Class 1, University Medal 1992 - 1995
Ph.D. in Human Geography, University of Sydney, Geosciences 1996 - 2000

Awards And Honors

Fellowship, conferred by Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2017
Fellowship of the Geographical Society of NSW, conferred by Geographical Society of NSW, 2016
Finalist Ka Palapala Po`okela Awards (Hawai`i Book of the Year, ‘Excellence in Nonfiction’ category) , 2015
Winner of the ASSH Book Award, conferred by Australian Society for Sport History (ASSH), 2015
Fellow of Institute of Australian Geographers, 2012
Inaugural ARC Future Fellowship, 2010

Keywords

Cultural economy, regional transformation, materiality, work, social and economic aspects of climate change, inter-disciplinary research

Mailing Address

School of Geography and Sustainable Communities

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Top Publications

Year	Title
2020	Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future Published in Geoforum
2019	Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times Published in Tourism Geographies
2016	Geographies of making: rethinking materials and skills for volatile futures Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published in City, Culture and Society
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published in Economic Geography
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published in Economic Geography
2015	From incremental change to radical disjuncture: Rethinking everyday household sustainability practices as survival skills Published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers
2014	Surfing places, surfboard makers: Craft, creativity and cultural heritage in Hawai'i, California and Australia
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life
2012	Music festivals and regional development in Australia
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published in Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2005	Cultural economy: a critical review Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2005	Music and Tourism
2004	Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia
2003	Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place

Research Areas

Research Overview

Opening up empirical and theoretical possibilities across the culture-economy divide is my central intellectual agenda. Theoretical and conceptual influences stem from my undergraduate and postgraduate training in both economic geography and literary/cultural studies - this translates into research that seeks to interweave analytical frameworks from Marxian and poststructuralist economic geography with the texture of ethnographic methods. Most of my research focuses on the urban and regional scales, and currently I am especially energised by questions of regional transformation amidst historical inheritances.

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent
Hawaii State or Province
United States of America Country

Member Of

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (Organization) 2017 -
Association of American Geographers 2001 -
Geographical Society of New South Wales 2001 -
Institute of Australian Geographers 1999 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	From backyards to balconies: cultural norms and parents’ experiences of home in higher-density housing Published In Housing Studies
2020	Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future Published In Geoforum
2020	Unsolicited urbanism: development monopolies, regulatory-technical fixes and planning-as-deal-making Published In Environment and Planning A
2019	A sound track to ecological crisis: Tracing guitars all the way back to the tree Published In Popular Music
2019	Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations Published In Research Evaluation
2019	Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times Published In Tourism Geographies
2019	Economic geography, to what ends? From privilege to progressive performances of expertise Published In Environment and Planning A
2019	Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartments Published In The Conversation
2018	Advancing Manufacturing?: Blinkered Visions in U.S. and Australian Urban Policy Published In Urban Policy and Research
2018	Calculated homes, stretched emotions: Unmasking ‘rational’ investor-occupier subjects in large family homes in a coastal Sydney development Published In Emotion, Space and Society
2018	Creative industries, global restructuring, and new forms of subcultural capitalism: the experience of Australia’s surf industry Published In Australian Geographer
2018	From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: Making and playing with plastic-bag footballs Published In Cultural Geographies
2018	Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments Published In Emotion, Space and Society
2018	Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation: Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust redux Published In Australian Geographer
2018	Rural cultural resourcefulness: How community music enterprises sustain cultural vitality Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2018	Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship Published In Australian Geographer
2017	Animating geographies of making: Embodied slow scholarship for participant-researchers of maker cultures and material work Published In Geography Compass
2017	Can our cities’ thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’? Published In The Conversation
2017	Instead of rebuilding stadiums, the NSW government should focus on local sport and events Published In The Conversation
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published In City, Culture and Society
2017	Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes Published In Geoforum
2017	Subcultural enterprises, brand value, and limits to financialized growth: The rise and fall of corporate surfing brands Published In Geoforum
2017	Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production Published In The Conversation
2017	Wheat, sheep or Elvis Presley? Rural Australia has had to change its tune Published In The Conversation
2016	A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response Published In Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability
2016	Beyond lockouts: Sydney needs to become a more inclusive city Published In The Conversation
2016	Geographies of making: rethinking materials and skills for volatile futures Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2016	How clothing design and cultural industries refashioned frontier masculinities: a historical geography of Western wear Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published In Economic Geography
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published In Economic Geography
2015	Cuts to Future Fellowships will cost more than just jobs Published In The Conversation
2015	From incremental change to radical disjuncture: Rethinking everyday household sustainability practices as survival skills Published In Annals of the Association of American Geographers
2015	Less talk more drone: social research with UAVs Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2015	Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems Published In Energy Policy
2015	Negotiating regional creative economies: Academics as expert intermediaries advocating progressive alternatives Published In Regional Studies
2015	Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up Published In The Conversation
2015	The role of festivals in drought-affected Australian communities Published In Event Management: an international journal
2015	Why are young Australian unis punching above their weight? Published In The Conversation
2015	Young adult households and domestic sustainabilities Published In Geoforum
2014	Compelling work, especially when markets fail Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2014	Inter-ethnic partnerships: remaking urban ethnic diversity Published In Urban Policy and Research
2014	Making surfboards: Emergence of a trans-pacific cultural industry Published In The Journal of Pacific History
2014	Pacific worlds: a history of seas, peoples and cultures Published In Australian Geographer
2014	Souvenirs, materialities and animal encounters: Following Texas cowboy boots Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal
2014	The story of steel maps the job future for car workers Published In The Conversation
2013	Crafting regional cultural production: emergence, crisis and consolidation in the Gold Coast surfboard industry Published In Australian Geographer
2013	Looking inwards: Extended family living as an urban consolidation alternative Published In Planning Theory and Practice
2013	Making things in a high-dollar Australia: the case of the surfboard industry Published In Journal of Australian Political Economy
2013	Mild-mannered bistro by day, eclectic freak-land at night: memories of an Australian music venue Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Music festivals and regional development policy: Towards a festival ecology Published In Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture
2013	Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography Published In Dialogues in Human Geography
2013	Niche markets can breathe new life into manufacturing Published In The Conversation
2013	Social media experiments: scholarly practice and collegiality Published In Dialogues in Human Geography
2013	The Spiral Gallery: non-market creativity and belonging in an Australian country town Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2013	The future of manufacturing: niche doesn’t need to be small Published In The Conversation
2013	Welcome to Bogan-ville: reframing class and place through humour Published In Journal of Australian Studies
2013	Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
2013	“Muting” neoliberalism? Class and colonial legacies in Australia Published In Human Geography: a new radical journal
2012	A country that makes things: Rethinking and broadening manufacturing Published In Griffith Review
2012	A country that makes things? Published In Australian Geographer
2012	All washed up: have surf megabrands forgotten their roots? Published In The Conversation
2012	Becoming differently modern: Geographic contributions to a generative climate politics Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2012	Chilling out in 'cosmopolitan country': urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a 'lesbian and gay rural idyll' Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2012	Cool places, creative places? Community perceptions of cultural vitality in the suburbs Published In International Journal of Cultural Studies
2012	Cultural economy: achievements, divergences, future prospects Published In Geographical Research
2012	Does the shape of countries shape their destiny? Published In The Conversation
2012	Drunken mobilities: backpackers, alcohol, ‘doing place’ Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal
2012	Engaging creative communities in an industrial city setting Published In Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
2012	Living together but apart: material geographies of everyday sustainability in extended family households Published In Environment and Planning A
2012	Mobilité humaine et changement environnemental: une analyse historique et textuelle de la politique des Nations Unies Published In Cultures et Conflits
2012	Once a cultural icon, is Australia’s surfboard industry destined to disappear? Published In The Conversation
2012	Sustainable household capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability? Published In Australian Geographer
2012	We can’t compete on cheap and nasty; let’s be a country that makes high-quality, lasting things Published In The Conversation
2011	Blue-collar creativity: reframing custom-car culture in the imperilled industrial city Published In Environment and Planning A
2011	Bodily rhythms: corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces Published In Emotion, Space and Society
2011	Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2011	Governing Knowledge: Discourses and Tactics of the European Union in Trade-Related Intellectual Property Negotiations Published In Antipode: a radical journal of geography
2011	New dawn or new dusk? Beyond the binary of day and night Published In Environment and Planning A
2010	Creativity without borders? Rethinking remoteness and proximity Published In Australian Geographer
2010	Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia Published In Journal of Planning Education and Research
2010	GIS, Ethnography, and Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back into Ethnographic Mapping Published In The Information Society
2010	Geographic Information Technologies for cultural research: cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies Published In Cultural Trends
2010	Geographies of tourism: (Un)ethical encounters Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2010	Guest Editorial - Creative Geographies: Tales from the ‘margins’ Published In Australian Geographer
2010	Interventions on the meanings of the Obama presidency for US relations with global regions Published In Political Geography
2010	Mapping same-sex couple family households in Australia Published In Journal of Maps
2010	Place making: mapping culture, creating places: collisions of science and art Published In Local-Global: identity, security, community
2010	The cultural economy of small cities Published In Geography Compass
2009	'We do not want to leave our land': Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of 'climate refugees' Published In Geoforum
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published In Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2009	Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2009	Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking? Published In Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
2009	Musical work in a university town: The shifting spaces and practices of DJs in Dunedin Published In Asia Pacific Viewpoint
2009	Place and music: Performing "the region" on the New South Wales Far North Coast Published In Transforming Cultures eJournal
2009	Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods Published In Environment and Planning A
2008	'No passport necessary': music, record covers and vicarious tourism in post-war Hawai'i Published In The Journal of Pacific History
2008	A queer country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town Published In Australian Geographer
2008	Counter-geographies: the campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2008	Environmental sustainability in practice? A macro-scale profile of tourist accommodation facilities in Australia's coastal zone Published In Journal of Sustainable Tourism
2008	Getting on, getting up and getting out? Broadening perspectives on rural youth migration Published In Geographical Research
2008	Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
2008	Locating geographies of tourism Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2008	Scaling the rural: reflections on rural cultural studies Published In Australian Humanities Review
2008	Youthful creativity in regional Australia: panacea for unemployment and out-migration? Published In Geographical Research
2007	'Babes in the woods': geographers reflect on their participation in a forest consultancy project Published In Geography
2007	Geography in higher education in Australia Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2007	Get into the groove: the role of sound in generating a sense of belonging in street parades Published In Altitude: A Journal of Emerging Humanities Work
2007	Interrogating the politics of Gay/Lesbian belonging in an Australian country town: a case study of Daylesford, Victoria, and local responses to the Chillout Festival Published In Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences
2007	Music festivals: transformations in non-metropolitan places, and in creative work Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2007	Music, tourism and the transformation of Memphis Published In Tourism Geographies: an international journal of tourism place, space and the environment
2007	Obliging indigenous citizens? Shared responsibility agreements in Australian Aboriginal communities Published In Cultural Studies
2007	Popular music: networks, industries and spaces Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2007	The Parkes Elvis revival festival: economic development and contested place identities in rural Australia Published In Geographical Research
2006	Affordable housing for the arts? Local housing markets, affordability and creative city strategies Published In HousingWorks: Journal of the Australiasian Housing Institute
2006	Community and nostalgia in urban revitalisation: a critique of urban village and creative class strategies as remedies for social 'problems' Published In Australian Geographer
2006	Decolonizing the production of geographical knowledges? Reflections on research with indigenous musicians Published In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
2006	Goodbye Pram City: beyond inner/outer zone binaries in creative city research Published In Urban Policy and Research
2006	Knowledges of the creative economy: towards a relational geography of diffusion and adaptation in Asia Published In Asia Pacific Viewpoint
2006	The Cultural Research Network: opportunities for a rhizomic future for geography in Australia? Published In Geographical Research
2005	Cultural economy: a critical review Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2005	Recording studios: relational spaces of creativity in the city Published In Built Environment
2005	Resident Attitudes to Farmland Protection Measures in the Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales Published In Australian Geographer
2005	The 'cultural turn' in Australian regional economic development discourse: neoliberalising creativity? Published In Geographical Research
2004	Academic publishing as 'creative' industry and recent discourses of 'creative economies': some critical reflections Published In Area
2004	Creative networks in regional Australia Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2004	Experimential learning in the field: measuring the economic impacts of a music festival in regional Australia Published In Geography Bulletin
2004	Indonesia's cultural economy: an economic geography using two secondary data sources Published In Indonesian Journal of Geography
2004	Introduction: Doing cultural geography Published In Australian Geographer
2004	Mediating Aboriginal music: discussions of the music industry in Australia Published In Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture
2004	Music and tourism: the blues, the bizarre, and big business Published In Geodate
2004	On academic language, and publishing books: whither the bestseller? Published In Australian Geographical Studies
2004	Tamworth, Australia's country music capital: place marketing, rural narratives and resident reactions Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2004	Urban redevelopment, live music and public space: cultural performance and the re-making of Marrickville Published In The International Journal of Cultural Policy
2004	Vicarious journeys: travels in music Published In Tourism Geographies: an international journal of tourism place, space and the environment
2004	World Music: deterritorialising place and identity Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2003	Bongo Fury: tourism, music and cultural economy at Byron Bay, Australia Published In Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
2003	Cultures at work: why 'culture' matters in research on the 'cultural' industries Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2003	Digital divides in New South Wales: a research note on socio spatial inequality using 2001 census data on computer and internet technology Published In Australian Geographer
2003	The sound and space of music Published In Geodate
2002	Employment and socio-spatial relations in Australia's cultural economy Published In Australian Geographer
2002	Migration, music and social relations on the NSW Far North Coast Published In Transformations
2002	Rural transformation and cultural industries: popular music on the New South Wales Far North Coast Published In Australian Geographical Studies

Book

Year	Title
2014	Surfing places, surfboard makers: Craft, creativity and cultural heritage in Hawai'i, California and Australia Publisher Hawai'i, United States
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2012	Music festivals and regional development in Australia Publisher Surrey, England
2005	Music and Tourism Publisher New York & Toronto
2004	Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia Publisher Sydney, NSW
2003	Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place Publisher London & New York

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	Malleable homes and mutual possessions: caring and sharing in extended family households as a resource for survival Published In Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: Practices, politics and possibilities Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2018	Souvenirs, animals, and enchantment: encountering Texas cowboy boots Published In Tourists and Tourism: A Reader Publisher Long Grove, United States
2018	Work, value and space: Three key questions of making for the Anthropocene Published In Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2017	Music and community in Australian country towns: choir singing, belonging and emotion Published In Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2017	Soulful and Precarious: The Working Experiences of Surfboard Makers Published In The Critical Surf Studies Reader Publisher Durham, United States
2017	Surfboard making and environmental sustainability: New materials and regulations, subcultural norms and economic constraints Published In Sustainable Surfing Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2017	The environmental implications of multigenerational living: Are larger households also greener households? Published In Multigenerational Family Living: Evidence and Policy Implications from Australia Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2016	Putting the boot into creative cluster theory Published In Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2015	Engaging creativity in industrial regions: Mapping vernacular cultural assets Published In By-roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia Publisher Crawley, Australia
2015	Housing and sustainability: everyday practices and material entanglements Published In Housing In Twenty-First Century Australia: People, Practices and Policies Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2015	Making things: Beyond the binary of manufacturing and creativity Published In The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2015	Manufacturing stoke: emergence, transformation and consolidation in the surfboard industry Published In Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2014	Cowboy masculinities: Relationality and rural identity Published In Masculinities and Place Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2014	Mobilizing music festivals for rural transformation: opportunities and ambiguities Published In The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism Publisher New York
2014	Outback Elvis: Musical creativity in rural Australia Published In Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place and Globalization Publisher Basingstoke, United Kingdom
2014	Rural place marketing, tourism and creativity: Entering the post-productivist countryside Published In Rural Change in Australia: Population, Economy, Environment Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2014	Tourism and creative economies Published In Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography: Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism Publisher United States
2013	Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia Published In World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments Publisher Paris, France
2013	Indigenous geopolitics Published In The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics Publisher Farnham, United Kingdom
2013	The cool, creative mapping lounge Published In All Culture is Local: Good practice in regional cultural mapping and planning from local government Publisher Sydney, Australia
2013	The global cowboy: rural masculinities and sexualities Published In Sexuality, Rurality and Geography Publisher Lanham
2013	Tourism Published In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography Publisher Malden, USA
2013	Urban cultural policy, city size, and proximity Published In The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy: Global Perspectives Publisher Abingdon, Oxon
2012	(Putting) mobile technologies in their place: a geographical perspective Published In Mobile Technology and Place Publisher New York
2012	Geographies of tourism: space, ethics and encounter Published In The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies Publisher Florence, United States
2011	Elvis in the Country: Transforming Place in Rural Australia Published In Festival places : revitalising rural Australia Publisher Bristol, UK
2011	Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability and Human-Nature Relations Published In Festival places : revitalising rural Australia Publisher Bristol, UK
2011	Is green the new black? Exploring ethical fashion consumption Published In Ethical consumption : a critical introduction Publisher Abingdon, UK
2011	Is it easy being green? On the dilemmas of material cultures of household sustainability Published In Material Geographies of Household Sustainability Publisher Surrey, England
2011	The extent and significance of rural festivals Published In Festival places : revitalising rural Australia Publisher Bristol, UK
2011	The shifting spaces and practices of dance music DJs in Dunedin Published In Home, Land and Sea: Situating music in Aotearoa and New Zealand Publisher Rosedale, New Zealand
2010	Mapping vernacular creativity: the extent and diversity of rural festivals in Australia Published In Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy Publisher Abingdon, Oxon
2010	Shifting welfare, shifting people: rural development, housing and population mobility in Australia Published In Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives Publisher UK
2009	Ambient Australia: music, meditation and tourist places Published In Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music Publisher Farnham, UK
2009	Australasia Published In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Publisher Amsterdam
2009	Human geography Published In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Publisher Amsterdam
2008	Contemporary Aboriginal Music Published In Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: popular music in Australia Publisher Tasmania
2008	Creative arts, people and places: which policy directions? Published In Making Meaning, Making Money: Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in The Creative Age Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2007	Unchanging places Published In Companion Encyclopedia of Geography: From the Local to the Global Publisher London, UK
2007	Urban vitality, culture and the public realm Published In Urban 45: New Ideas for Australia's Cities Publisher Melbourne, Australia
2006	Nitmiluk: place, politics and empowerment in Australian Aboriginal popular music Published In Ethnomusicology:A Contemporary Reader Publisher New York
2006	Sydney's creative economy: social and spatial challenges Published In Talking about Sydney Population, Community and Culture in Contemporary Sydney Publisher Sydney, Australia
2006	The cultural dimension of urban planning strategies: an historical perspective Published In Culture, Urbanism and Planning Publisher England
2004	Cultural industry production in remote places: indigenous popular music in Australia Published In The Cultural Industries and The Production of Culture Publisher Abingdon & New York
2003	Belonging in the Rainbow Region: Cultural Perspectives on the North Coast of NSW Published In Belonging in the Rainbow Region: Cultural Perspectives on the North Coast of NSW Publisher Lismore
2002	The Cultural economic spaces of Sydney Published In Culture, Economy and Places: Asia-Pacific Perspectives Publisher Seoul
2001	Appropriating the means of production: dance music industries and contested digital space Published In FreeNRG: Notes from the Edge of the Dance Floor Publisher Melbourne
2001	Capitalising on culture: emphases in Australian regional development Published In The Culture and Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia Publisher Seoul
2001	Towards an understanding of the urban cultural economy: an Australian perspective Published In The Culture and Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia Publisher Seoul

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2008	Measuring Food Insecurity in Wollongong Published In Population Health Congress 2008: A Global World - Practical Action for Health and Well-Being
2007	Chilling out in the country? Interrogating Daylesford as a 'gay/lesbian rural idyll' Published In Queer space: centres and peripheries
2005	An Irregular Geography: Reading Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries in Creative City Research Published In After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney
2003	Cultural industries and cultural policy: a critique of recent discourses in regional economic development Published In Windows on a Changing World - NZ Geographical Society Conference Series No 22
2003	New economic geographies Published In Geography's New Frontiers, The Geographical Society of New South Wales Conference papers no 17
2003	Reinventing rurality through 'creativity'? The cultural industries in rural areas Published In Windows on a Changing World - NZ Geographical Society Conference Series No 22

Other Publications

Year	Title
2012	Manufacturing on the move? Beyond the high dollar in the debate about making things in Australia - the case of the Australian surfboard industry - AUSCCER Discussion Paper No. 2012/2

Editor Of

Book
- By-roads and Hidden Treasures: Mapping Cultural Assets in Regional Australia. Crawley, Australia. 2015
- Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia. Bristol, UK. 2011

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020 - 2023	Continuity and change in the Australian industrial landscape Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2010	Crisis and change: cultural-economic research on the adaptability and sustainability of Australian households Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2009	Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2009	Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2008	Cultural asset mapping for planning and development in regional Australia. Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Impact Story

The extent and significance of rural and regional festivals in Australia
Summary
UOW research has had significant impact on rural and regional festivals in Australia and internationally, benefiting regional development policy, and influencing the work of local authorities, arts organisations, and festival bodies. The project’s unprecedented documentation of the previously undervalued extent and significance of rural and regional festivals contributed to the recognition of their importance in debates about regional development, while the individual events themselves benefited from improved management and the legitimation of their economic contribution to the rural and regional sector. <a href="https://research-impact.uow.edu.au/case-studies/reinventing-rural-places-the-extent-and-significance-of-rural-and-regional-festivals-in-australia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://research-impact.uow.edu.au/case-studies/reinventing-rural-places-the-extent-and-significance-of-rural-and-regional-festivals-in-australia/</a>

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Potential Supervision Topics

I am interested in supervising research students working on the following topics:
- Aspects of material resource scarcity, salvage cultures, and related downstream making, manufacturing and repurposing of commodities
- Ecological crisis and cultural economic geographies of resource-dependent industries
- Trees and things: linking environmental humanities scholarship on the agency of plants with related cultural products industries
- Cultural policy and urban manufacturing, with a focus on contestations of city futures and development regimes
- Historical geographies of cultural products and craft-based industries, especially related to timber use

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Sharing Cities: New Strategies for Communal Sharing	Santala, Inka
Doctor of Philosophy	Making Things, Producing Culture, Housing People? Competing Visions of Industrial Land Use in the Contemporary City	Lyons, Craig
Doctor of Philosophy	Landlines and Tracelines ¿ topographies of place and the body in the field of contemporary jewellery & small object-based craft practices.	Young, Mel

Education And Training

B.A. in Human Geography, Australian Literature, University of Sydney, Department of Geography, Honours Class 1, University Medal 1992 - 1995
Ph.D. in Human Geography, University of Sydney, Geosciences 1996 - 2000

Awards And Honors

Fellowship, conferred by Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2017
Fellowship of the Geographical Society of NSW, conferred by Geographical Society of NSW, 2016
Finalist Ka Palapala Po`okela Awards (Hawai`i Book of the Year, ‘Excellence in Nonfiction’ category) , 2015
Winner of the ASSH Book Award, conferred by Australian Society for Sport History (ASSH), 2015
Fellow of Institute of Australian Geographers, 2012
Inaugural ARC Future Fellowship, 2010

Keywords

Cultural economy, regional transformation, materiality, work, social and economic aspects of climate change, inter-disciplinary research

Mailing Address

School of Geography and Sustainable Communities

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

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Social Sciences

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7242-8255 (confirmed)

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7201824203

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