Gibson, Chris R.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations Published in Research Evaluation
2018	Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship Published in Australian Geographer
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	Making things: Beyond the binary of manufacturing and creativity
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published in Economic Geography
2003	Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place
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
2005	Cultural economy: a critical review Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published in Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published in Economic Geography
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published in City, Culture and Society
2009	Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods Published in Environment and Planning A

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 Altmetric
2020	Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future Published In Geoforum Volume 108 Pages 325 - 337 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2019	A sound track to ecological crisis: Tracing guitars all the way back to the tree Published In Popular Music Volume 38 Pages 183 - 203 ISSN 0261-1430 Altmetric
2019	Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations Published In Research Evaluation Volume 28 Pages 51 - 62 ISSN 0958-2029 Altmetric
2019	Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times Published In Tourism Geographies Altmetric
2019	Economic geography, to what ends? From privilege to progressive performances of expertise Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 51 Pages 805 - 813 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2019	Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartments Published In The Conversation Volume 26 August Pages 1 - 5
2018	Advancing Manufacturing?: Blinkered Visions in U.S. and Australian Urban Policy Published In Urban Policy and Research Volume Online First Pages 1 - 15 ISSN 0811-1146 Altmetric
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 Volume 26 Pages 23 - 30 ISSN 1755-4586 Altmetric
2018	Creative industries, global restructuring, and new forms of subcultural capitalism: the experience of Australia’s surf industry Published In Australian Geographer Volume 49 Pages 455 - 467 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2018	From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: Making and playing with plastic-bag footballs Published In Cultural Geographies Volume 25 Pages 301 - 318 ISSN 1474-4740 Altmetric
2018	Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments Published In Emotion, Space and Society Volume 26 Pages 1 - 8 ISSN 1755-4586 Altmetric
2018	Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation: Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust redux Published In Australian Geographer Volume Online First Pages 1 - 9 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2018	Rural cultural resourcefulness: How community music enterprises sustain cultural vitality Published In Journal of Rural Studies Volume 63 Pages 259 - 270 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric
2018	Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship Published In Australian Geographer Volume 49 Pages 61 - 80 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2017	Animating geographies of making: Embodied slow scholarship for participant-researchers of maker cultures and material work Published In Geography Compass Volume 11 Pages e12317-1 - e12317-10 ISSN 1749-8198 Altmetric
2017	Can our cities’ thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’? Published In The Conversation Volume 30 August Pages 1 - 7
2017	Instead of rebuilding stadiums, the NSW government should focus on local sport and events Published In The Conversation Volume 12 December Pages 1 - 4
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published In City, Culture and Society Volume 10 Pages 17 - 25 ISSN 1877-9166 Altmetric
2017	Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes Published In Geoforum Volume 85 Pages 27 - 36 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2017	Subcultural enterprises, brand value, and limits to financialized growth: The rise and fall of corporate surfing brands Published In Geoforum Volume 86 Pages 177 - 187 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2017	Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production Published In The Conversation Volume 16 June Pages 1 - 5
2017	Wheat, sheep or Elvis Presley? Rural Australia has had to change its tune Published In The Conversation Volume 10 January Pages 1 - 5
2016	A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response Published In Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability Volume 21 Pages 1467 - 1481 ISSN 1354-9839 Altmetric
2016	Beyond lockouts: Sydney needs to become a more inclusive city Published In The Conversation Volume 17 March Pages 1 - 3
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 Volume 40 Pages 297 - 315 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
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 Volume 23 Pages 733 - 752 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published In Economic Geography Volume 92 Pages 61 - 86 ISSN 0013-0095 Altmetric
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published In Economic Geography Volume 92 Pages 430 - 454 ISSN 0013-0095 Altmetric

2015	From incremental change to radical disjuncture: Rethinking everyday household sustainability practices as survival skills Published In Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 105 Pages 416 - 424 ISSN 0004-5608 Altmetric
2015	Less talk more drone: social research with UAVs Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education Volume 39 Pages 182 - 189 ISSN 0309-8265 Altmetric
2015	Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems Published In Energy Policy Volume 87 Pages 83 - 94 ISSN 0301-4215 Altmetric
2015	Negotiating regional creative economies: Academics as expert intermediaries advocating progressive alternatives Published In Regional Studies Volume 49 Pages 476 - 479 ISSN 1360-0591 Altmetric
2015	Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up Published In The Conversation Volume 18 September Pages 1 - 3
2015	The role of festivals in drought-affected Australian communities Published In Event Management: an international journal Volume 19 Pages 445 - 459 ISSN 1525-9951 Altmetric

2015	Young adult households and domestic sustainabilities Published In Geoforum Volume 65 Pages 46 - 58 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2014	Compelling work, especially when markets fail Published In Social and Cultural Geography Volume 15 Pages 978 - 979 ISSN 1464-9365 Altmetric
2014	Inter-ethnic partnerships: remaking urban ethnic diversity Published In Urban Policy and Research Volume 32 Pages 393 - 415 ISSN 0811-1146 Altmetric
2014	Making surfboards: Emergence of a trans-pacific cultural industry Published In The Journal of Pacific History Volume 49 Pages 1 - 25 ISSN 0022-3344 Altmetric

2014	Souvenirs, materialities and animal encounters: Following Texas cowboy boots Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal Volume 14 Pages 286 - 301 ISSN 1741-3206 Altmetric

2013	Crafting regional cultural production: emergence, crisis and consolidation in the Gold Coast surfboard industry Published In Australian Geographer Volume 44 Pages 365 - 381 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2013	Looking inwards: Extended family living as an urban consolidation alternative Published In Planning Theory and Practice Volume 14 Pages 555 - 559 ISSN 1464-9357 Altmetric
2013	Making things in a high-dollar Australia: the case of the surfboard industry Published In Journal of Australian Political Economy Volume 71 Pages 26 - 50 ISSN 0156-5826
2013	Mild-mannered bistro by day, eclectic freak-land at night: memories of an Australian music venue Published In Journal of Australian Studies Volume 37 Pages 174 - 193 ISSN 1444-3058 Altmetric
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 Volume 14 Pages 140 - 157 ISSN 1038-2909 Altmetric
2013	Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography Published In Dialogues in Human Geography Volume 3 Pages 179 - 199 Altmetric

2013	Social media experiments: scholarly practice and collegiality Published In Dialogues in Human Geography Volume 3 Pages 87 - 91 Altmetric
2013	The Spiral Gallery: non-market creativity and belonging in an Australian country town Published In Journal of Rural Studies Volume 30 Pages 75 - 85 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric

2013	Welcome to Bogan-ville: reframing class and place through humour Published In Journal of Australian Studies Volume 37 Pages 62 - 75 ISSN 1444-3058 Altmetric
2013	Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management Volume 20 Pages 351 - 362 ISSN 1448-6563 Altmetric
2013	“Muting” neoliberalism? Class and colonial legacies in Australia Published In Human Geography: a new radical journal Volume 6 Pages 54 - 68 ISSN 1942-7786
2012	A country that makes things: Rethinking and broadening manufacturing Published In Griffith Review Volume 36 Pages 123 - 129
2012	A country that makes things? Published In Australian Geographer Volume 43 Pages 109 - 113 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric

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 Volume 36 Pages 699 - 714 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
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 Volume 28 Pages 69 - 79 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric
2012	Cool places, creative places? Community perceptions of cultural vitality in the suburbs Published In International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 15 Pages 287 - 302 ISSN 1367-8779 Altmetric
2012	Cultural economy: achievements, divergences, future prospects Published In Geographical Research Volume 50 Pages 282 - 290 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric

2012	Drunken mobilities: backpackers, alcohol, ‘doing place’ Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal Volume 12 Pages 211 - 231 ISSN 1741-3206 Altmetric
2012	Engaging creative communities in an industrial city setting Published In Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement Volume 5 Pages 1 - 15 ISSN 1836-3393
2012	Living together but apart: material geographies of everyday sustainability in extended family households Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 44 Pages 2240 - 2259 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2012	Mobilité humaine et changement environnemental: une analyse historique et textuelle de la politique des Nations Unies Published In Cultures et Conflits Volume 88 Pages 43 - 60
2012	Once a cultural icon, is Australia’s surfboard industry destined to disappear? Published In The Conversation Volume 17 May Pages 1 - 4
2012	Sustainable household capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability? Published In Australian Geographer Volume 43 Pages 51 - 74 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric

2011	Blue-collar creativity: reframing custom-car culture in the imperilled industrial city Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 43 Pages 2705 - 2722 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2011	Bodily rhythms: corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces Published In Emotion, Space and Society Volume 4 Pages 17 - 24 ISSN 1755-4586 Altmetric
2011	Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 36 Pages 3 - 8 ISSN 1475-5661 Altmetric
2011	Governing Knowledge: Discourses and Tactics of the European Union in Trade-Related Intellectual Property Negotiations Published In Antipode: a radical journal of geography Volume 43 Pages 1883 - 1910 ISSN 0066-4812 Altmetric
2011	New dawn or new dusk? Beyond the binary of day and night Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 43 Pages 2509 - 2515 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2010	Creativity without borders? Rethinking remoteness and proximity Published In Australian Geographer Volume 41 Pages 25 - 38 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2010	Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia Published In Journal of Planning Education and Research Volume 29 Pages 280 - 293 ISSN 0739-456X Altmetric
2010	GIS, Ethnography, and Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back into Ethnographic Mapping Published In The Information Society Volume 26 Pages 92 - 103 ISSN 0197-2243 Altmetric
2010	Geographic Information Technologies for cultural research: cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies Published In Cultural Trends Volume 19 Pages 325 - 348 ISSN 0954-8963 Altmetric
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 Volume 34 Pages 521 - 527 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
2010	Guest Editorial - Creative Geographies: Tales from the ‘margins’ Published In Australian Geographer Volume 41 Pages 1 - 10 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2010	Interventions on the meanings of the Obama presidency for US relations with global regions Published In Political Geography Volume 29 Pages 5 - 16 ISSN 0962-6298 Altmetric
2010	Mapping same-sex couple family households in Australia Published In Journal of Maps Pages 382 - 392 ISSN 1744-5647 Altmetric
2010	Place making: mapping culture, creating places: collisions of science and art Published In Local-Global: identity, security, community Volume 7 Pages 66 - 83 ISSN 1832-6919
2010	The cultural economy of small cities Published In Geography Compass Volume 4 Pages 1408 - 1417 ISSN 1749-8198 Altmetric
2009	'We do not want to leave our land': Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of 'climate refugees' Published In Geoforum Volume 40 Pages 475 - 483 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published In Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies Volume 46 Pages 1223 - 1246 ISSN 0042-0980 Altmetric
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 Volume 33 Pages 527 - 534 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
2009	Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking? Published In Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Volume 30 Pages 70 - 85 ISSN 1467-9493 Altmetric
2009	Musical work in a university town: The shifting spaces and practices of DJs in Dunedin Published In Asia Pacific Viewpoint Volume 50 Pages 277 - 288 ISSN 1360-7456 Altmetric
2009	Place and music: Performing "the region" on the New South Wales Far North Coast Published In Transforming Cultures eJournal Volume 4 Pages 60 - 81 ISSN 1833-8542
2009	Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 41 Pages 2595 - 2614 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2008	'No passport necessary': music, record covers and vicarious tourism in post-war Hawai'i Published In The Journal of Pacific History Volume 43 Pages 51 - 75 ISSN 0022-3344 Altmetric
2008	A queer country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town Published In Australian Geographer Volume 39 Pages 171 - 191 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2008	Counter-geographies: the campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia Published In Journal of Rural Studies Volume 24 Pages 351 - 366 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric
2008	Environmental sustainability in practice? A macro-scale profile of tourist accommodation facilities in Australia's coastal zone Published In Journal of Sustainable Tourism Volume 16 Pages 85 - 100 ISSN 0966-9582 Altmetric
2008	Getting on, getting up and getting out? Broadening perspectives on rural youth migration Published In Geographical Research Volume 46 Pages 135 - 138 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric
2008	Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 22 Pages 623 - 637 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2008	Locating geographies of tourism Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities Volume 32 Pages 407 - 422 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
2008	Scaling the rural: reflections on rural cultural studies Published In Australian Humanities Review Volume 45 Pages 37 - 52 ISSN 1325-8338
2008	Youthful creativity in regional Australia: panacea for unemployment and out-migration? Published In Geographical Research Volume 46 Pages 183 - 195 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric
2007	'Babes in the woods': geographers reflect on their participation in a forest consultancy project Published In Geography Volume 92 Pages 48 - 56 ISSN 0016-7487
2007	Geography in higher education in Australia Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education Volume 31 Pages 97 - 119 ISSN 0309-8265 Altmetric

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	Continuity and change in the Australian industrial landscape Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2017 - 2019	Urban cultural policy and the changing dynamics of cultural production 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	Living with children in apartments: sharing, materials and space	Kerr, Sophie-May
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

Global Challenges Program

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations Published in Research Evaluation
2018	Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship Published in Australian Geographer
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	Making things: Beyond the binary of manufacturing and creativity
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published in Economic Geography
2003	Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place
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
2005	Cultural economy: a critical review Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published in Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published in Economic Geography
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published in City, Culture and Society
2009	Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods Published in Environment and Planning A

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 Altmetric
2020	Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future Published In Geoforum Volume 108 Pages 325 - 337 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2019	A sound track to ecological crisis: Tracing guitars all the way back to the tree Published In Popular Music Volume 38 Pages 183 - 203 ISSN 0261-1430 Altmetric
2019	Challenge-led interdisciplinary research in practice: Program design, early career research, and a dialogic approach to building unlikely collaborations Published In Research Evaluation Volume 28 Pages 51 - 62 ISSN 0958-2029 Altmetric
2019	Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times Published In Tourism Geographies Altmetric
2019	Economic geography, to what ends? From privilege to progressive performances of expertise Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 51 Pages 805 - 813 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2019	Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartments Published In The Conversation Volume 26 August Pages 1 - 5
2018	Advancing Manufacturing?: Blinkered Visions in U.S. and Australian Urban Policy Published In Urban Policy and Research Volume Online First Pages 1 - 15 ISSN 0811-1146 Altmetric
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 Volume 26 Pages 23 - 30 ISSN 1755-4586 Altmetric
2018	Creative industries, global restructuring, and new forms of subcultural capitalism: the experience of Australia’s surf industry Published In Australian Geographer Volume 49 Pages 455 - 467 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2018	From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: Making and playing with plastic-bag footballs Published In Cultural Geographies Volume 25 Pages 301 - 318 ISSN 1474-4740 Altmetric
2018	Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments Published In Emotion, Space and Society Volume 26 Pages 1 - 8 ISSN 1755-4586 Altmetric
2018	Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation: Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust redux Published In Australian Geographer Volume Online First Pages 1 - 9 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2018	Rural cultural resourcefulness: How community music enterprises sustain cultural vitality Published In Journal of Rural Studies Volume 63 Pages 259 - 270 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric
2018	Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship Published In Australian Geographer Volume 49 Pages 61 - 80 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2017	Animating geographies of making: Embodied slow scholarship for participant-researchers of maker cultures and material work Published In Geography Compass Volume 11 Pages e12317-1 - e12317-10 ISSN 1749-8198 Altmetric
2017	Can our cities’ thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’? Published In The Conversation Volume 30 August Pages 1 - 7
2017	Instead of rebuilding stadiums, the NSW government should focus on local sport and events Published In The Conversation Volume 12 December Pages 1 - 4
2017	Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy Published In City, Culture and Society Volume 10 Pages 17 - 25 ISSN 1877-9166 Altmetric
2017	Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes Published In Geoforum Volume 85 Pages 27 - 36 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2017	Subcultural enterprises, brand value, and limits to financialized growth: The rise and fall of corporate surfing brands Published In Geoforum Volume 86 Pages 177 - 187 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2017	Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production Published In The Conversation Volume 16 June Pages 1 - 5
2017	Wheat, sheep or Elvis Presley? Rural Australia has had to change its tune Published In The Conversation Volume 10 January Pages 1 - 5
2016	A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response Published In Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability Volume 21 Pages 1467 - 1481 ISSN 1354-9839 Altmetric
2016	Beyond lockouts: Sydney needs to become a more inclusive city Published In The Conversation Volume 17 March Pages 1 - 3
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 Volume 40 Pages 297 - 315 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
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 Volume 23 Pages 733 - 752 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2016	Material inheritances: how place, materiality, and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production Published In Economic Geography Volume 92 Pages 61 - 86 ISSN 0013-0095 Altmetric
2016	Resource-sensitive global production networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing Published In Economic Geography Volume 92 Pages 430 - 454 ISSN 0013-0095 Altmetric

2015	From incremental change to radical disjuncture: Rethinking everyday household sustainability practices as survival skills Published In Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 105 Pages 416 - 424 ISSN 0004-5608 Altmetric
2015	Less talk more drone: social research with UAVs Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education Volume 39 Pages 182 - 189 ISSN 0309-8265 Altmetric
2015	Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems Published In Energy Policy Volume 87 Pages 83 - 94 ISSN 0301-4215 Altmetric
2015	Negotiating regional creative economies: Academics as expert intermediaries advocating progressive alternatives Published In Regional Studies Volume 49 Pages 476 - 479 ISSN 1360-0591 Altmetric
2015	Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up Published In The Conversation Volume 18 September Pages 1 - 3
2015	The role of festivals in drought-affected Australian communities Published In Event Management: an international journal Volume 19 Pages 445 - 459 ISSN 1525-9951 Altmetric

2015	Young adult households and domestic sustainabilities Published In Geoforum Volume 65 Pages 46 - 58 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2014	Compelling work, especially when markets fail Published In Social and Cultural Geography Volume 15 Pages 978 - 979 ISSN 1464-9365 Altmetric
2014	Inter-ethnic partnerships: remaking urban ethnic diversity Published In Urban Policy and Research Volume 32 Pages 393 - 415 ISSN 0811-1146 Altmetric
2014	Making surfboards: Emergence of a trans-pacific cultural industry Published In The Journal of Pacific History Volume 49 Pages 1 - 25 ISSN 0022-3344 Altmetric

2014	Souvenirs, materialities and animal encounters: Following Texas cowboy boots Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal Volume 14 Pages 286 - 301 ISSN 1741-3206 Altmetric

2013	Crafting regional cultural production: emergence, crisis and consolidation in the Gold Coast surfboard industry Published In Australian Geographer Volume 44 Pages 365 - 381 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2013	Looking inwards: Extended family living as an urban consolidation alternative Published In Planning Theory and Practice Volume 14 Pages 555 - 559 ISSN 1464-9357 Altmetric
2013	Making things in a high-dollar Australia: the case of the surfboard industry Published In Journal of Australian Political Economy Volume 71 Pages 26 - 50 ISSN 0156-5826
2013	Mild-mannered bistro by day, eclectic freak-land at night: memories of an Australian music venue Published In Journal of Australian Studies Volume 37 Pages 174 - 193 ISSN 1444-3058 Altmetric
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 Volume 14 Pages 140 - 157 ISSN 1038-2909 Altmetric
2013	Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography Published In Dialogues in Human Geography Volume 3 Pages 179 - 199 Altmetric

2013	Social media experiments: scholarly practice and collegiality Published In Dialogues in Human Geography Volume 3 Pages 87 - 91 Altmetric
2013	The Spiral Gallery: non-market creativity and belonging in an Australian country town Published In Journal of Rural Studies Volume 30 Pages 75 - 85 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric

2013	Welcome to Bogan-ville: reframing class and place through humour Published In Journal of Australian Studies Volume 37 Pages 62 - 75 ISSN 1444-3058 Altmetric
2013	Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management Volume 20 Pages 351 - 362 ISSN 1448-6563 Altmetric
2013	“Muting” neoliberalism? Class and colonial legacies in Australia Published In Human Geography: a new radical journal Volume 6 Pages 54 - 68 ISSN 1942-7786
2012	A country that makes things: Rethinking and broadening manufacturing Published In Griffith Review Volume 36 Pages 123 - 129
2012	A country that makes things? Published In Australian Geographer Volume 43 Pages 109 - 113 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric

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 Volume 36 Pages 699 - 714 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
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 Volume 28 Pages 69 - 79 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric
2012	Cool places, creative places? Community perceptions of cultural vitality in the suburbs Published In International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 15 Pages 287 - 302 ISSN 1367-8779 Altmetric
2012	Cultural economy: achievements, divergences, future prospects Published In Geographical Research Volume 50 Pages 282 - 290 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric

2012	Drunken mobilities: backpackers, alcohol, ‘doing place’ Published In Tourist Studies: an international journal Volume 12 Pages 211 - 231 ISSN 1741-3206 Altmetric
2012	Engaging creative communities in an industrial city setting Published In Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement Volume 5 Pages 1 - 15 ISSN 1836-3393
2012	Living together but apart: material geographies of everyday sustainability in extended family households Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 44 Pages 2240 - 2259 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2012	Mobilité humaine et changement environnemental: une analyse historique et textuelle de la politique des Nations Unies Published In Cultures et Conflits Volume 88 Pages 43 - 60
2012	Once a cultural icon, is Australia’s surfboard industry destined to disappear? Published In The Conversation Volume 17 May Pages 1 - 4
2012	Sustainable household capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability? Published In Australian Geographer Volume 43 Pages 51 - 74 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric

2011	Blue-collar creativity: reframing custom-car culture in the imperilled industrial city Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 43 Pages 2705 - 2722 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2011	Bodily rhythms: corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces Published In Emotion, Space and Society Volume 4 Pages 17 - 24 ISSN 1755-4586 Altmetric
2011	Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 36 Pages 3 - 8 ISSN 1475-5661 Altmetric
2011	Governing Knowledge: Discourses and Tactics of the European Union in Trade-Related Intellectual Property Negotiations Published In Antipode: a radical journal of geography Volume 43 Pages 1883 - 1910 ISSN 0066-4812 Altmetric
2011	New dawn or new dusk? Beyond the binary of day and night Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 43 Pages 2509 - 2515 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2010	Creativity without borders? Rethinking remoteness and proximity Published In Australian Geographer Volume 41 Pages 25 - 38 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2010	Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia Published In Journal of Planning Education and Research Volume 29 Pages 280 - 293 ISSN 0739-456X Altmetric
2010	GIS, Ethnography, and Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back into Ethnographic Mapping Published In The Information Society Volume 26 Pages 92 - 103 ISSN 0197-2243 Altmetric
2010	Geographic Information Technologies for cultural research: cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies Published In Cultural Trends Volume 19 Pages 325 - 348 ISSN 0954-8963 Altmetric
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 Volume 34 Pages 521 - 527 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
2010	Guest Editorial - Creative Geographies: Tales from the ‘margins’ Published In Australian Geographer Volume 41 Pages 1 - 10 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2010	Interventions on the meanings of the Obama presidency for US relations with global regions Published In Political Geography Volume 29 Pages 5 - 16 ISSN 0962-6298 Altmetric
2010	Mapping same-sex couple family households in Australia Published In Journal of Maps Pages 382 - 392 ISSN 1744-5647 Altmetric
2010	Place making: mapping culture, creating places: collisions of science and art Published In Local-Global: identity, security, community Volume 7 Pages 66 - 83 ISSN 1832-6919
2010	The cultural economy of small cities Published In Geography Compass Volume 4 Pages 1408 - 1417 ISSN 1749-8198 Altmetric
2009	'We do not want to leave our land': Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of 'climate refugees' Published In Geoforum Volume 40 Pages 475 - 483 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2009	Creative small cities: Rethinking the creative economy in place Published In Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies Volume 46 Pages 1223 - 1246 ISSN 0042-0980 Altmetric
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 Volume 33 Pages 527 - 534 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
2009	Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking? Published In Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Volume 30 Pages 70 - 85 ISSN 1467-9493 Altmetric
2009	Musical work in a university town: The shifting spaces and practices of DJs in Dunedin Published In Asia Pacific Viewpoint Volume 50 Pages 277 - 288 ISSN 1360-7456 Altmetric
2009	Place and music: Performing "the region" on the New South Wales Far North Coast Published In Transforming Cultures eJournal Volume 4 Pages 60 - 81 ISSN 1833-8542
2009	Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 41 Pages 2595 - 2614 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2008	'No passport necessary': music, record covers and vicarious tourism in post-war Hawai'i Published In The Journal of Pacific History Volume 43 Pages 51 - 75 ISSN 0022-3344 Altmetric
2008	A queer country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town Published In Australian Geographer Volume 39 Pages 171 - 191 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2008	Counter-geographies: the campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia Published In Journal of Rural Studies Volume 24 Pages 351 - 366 ISSN 0743-0167 Altmetric
2008	Environmental sustainability in practice? A macro-scale profile of tourist accommodation facilities in Australia's coastal zone Published In Journal of Sustainable Tourism Volume 16 Pages 85 - 100 ISSN 0966-9582 Altmetric
2008	Getting on, getting up and getting out? Broadening perspectives on rural youth migration Published In Geographical Research Volume 46 Pages 135 - 138 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric
2008	Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 22 Pages 623 - 637 ISSN 1030-4312 Altmetric
2008	Locating geographies of tourism Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities Volume 32 Pages 407 - 422 ISSN 1477-0288 Altmetric
2008	Scaling the rural: reflections on rural cultural studies Published In Australian Humanities Review Volume 45 Pages 37 - 52 ISSN 1325-8338
2008	Youthful creativity in regional Australia: panacea for unemployment and out-migration? Published In Geographical Research Volume 46 Pages 183 - 195 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric
2007	'Babes in the woods': geographers reflect on their participation in a forest consultancy project Published In Geography Volume 92 Pages 48 - 56 ISSN 0016-7487
2007	Geography in higher education in Australia Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education Volume 31 Pages 97 - 119 ISSN 0309-8265 Altmetric

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- 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	Continuity and change in the Australian industrial landscape Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2017 - 2019	Urban cultural policy and the changing dynamics of cultural production 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

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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

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Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Living with children in apartments: sharing, materials and space	Kerr, Sophie-May
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

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

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Global Challenges Program

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

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

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7201824203

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