Atchison, Jennifer M.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia Published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2015	Experiments in co-existence: the science and practices of biocontrol in invasive species management Published in Environment and Planning A
2013	Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2012	Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
2009	Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities

Research Areas

1604 - HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Research Overview

Research interests and expertise
- Human-nature relations, global environmental change
- Living with invasive life, biogeography
- Ethnobotany, Archaeobotany
My research focuses on the material interactions of human-nature relationships. I am primarily interested in the ways nonhumans (particularly plants, but also others) shape human lives and provoke us to think differently and live more sustainably in the world. I am motivated and inspired by relational thinking and more-than-human geographies that attempt to bridge or undo the nature culture binary, and I contribute to this disciplinary project by researching places and relationships that articulate how nonhumans might be taken seriously as equally sociable beings. I have a multidisciplinary background in environmental science and archaeobotany. More recently, I am interested in human-nature relationships occurring in the face of environmental change, and in what ways the ideas and principals of justice might be understood in this context.

My current research examines how humans and nonhumans are adjusting to aspects of the rapid environmental change that characterise contemporary earth. I am interested in the implications of these responses in the context of invasive life and sea-level rise.

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent

Available as Research Supervisor

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 44 Pages 735 - 748 ISSN 1475-5661 Altmetric
2019	Green and Blue Infrastructure in Darwin; Carbon Economies and the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Valuing Urban Mangroves in Australia Published In Urban Science Volume 3 Pages 86-1 - 86-15 Altmetric
2018	Seeing the trees for the (urban) forest: more-than-human geographies and urban greening Published In Australian Geographer Volume Online First Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2017	Killing Carp (Cyprinus carpio) as a Volunteer Practice: implications for community involvement in invasive species management and policy Published In Australian Geographer Volume 48 Pages 333 - 348 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2016	Local Knowledge, Use and Management of Ethnovarieties of Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) Ktze. in the Plateau of Santa Catarina, Brazil Published In Economic Botany: devoted to applied botany and plant utilization Volume 70 Pages 353 - 364 ISSN 0013-0001 Altmetric
2015	Camel country: Assemblage, belonging and scale in invasive species geographies Published In Geoforum Volume 58 Pages 56 - 67 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2015	Entangled invasive lives: Indigenous invasive plant management in Northern Australia Published In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography Volume 97 Pages 169 - 182 ISSN 0435-3684 Altmetric
2015	Experiments in co-existence: the science and practices of biocontrol in invasive species management Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 47 Pages 1697 - 1712 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2015	Governing invasive plants: Policy and practice in managing the Gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus) - Bushfire nexus in northern Australia Published In Land Use Policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use Volume 47 Pages 225 - 234 ISSN 0264-8377 Altmetric
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published In Conservation and Society Volume 13 Pages 311 - 318 ISSN 0972-4923 Altmetric
2015	The distinctive capacities of plants: re-thinking difference via invasive species Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 40 Pages 399 - 413 ISSN 1475-5661 Altmetric
2014	Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places Published In Social and Cultural Geography Volume 15 Pages 861 - 870 ISSN 1464-9365 Altmetric
2013	Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Volume 31 Pages 951 - 968 ISSN 0263-7758 Altmetric
2012	High-throughput sequencing of ancient plant and mammal DNA preserved in herbivore middens Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal Volume 58 Pages 135 - 145 ISSN 1873-457X Altmetric
2012	The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing Published In Geography Volume 97 Pages 42 - 46 ISSN 0016-7487
2012	Yam landscapes: the biogeography and social life of Australian Dioscorea Published In Artefact: Pacific rim archaeology Volume 35 Pages 59 - 74 ISSN 0044-9075
2011	A fine-grained study of the experience of drought, risk and climate change among Australian wheat farming households Published In Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 101 Pages 1089 - 1108 ISSN 0004-5608 Altmetric
2010	Wheat as food, wheat as industrial substance; comparative geographies of transformation and mobility Published In Geoforum Volume 41 Pages 236 - 246 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2009	Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: practice, potential and prospects Published In Australian Archaeology Volume 68 Pages 1 - 10 ISSN 0312-2417
2009	Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities Volume 33 Pages 236 - 245 ISSN 0309-1325 Altmetric
2009	Human impacts on Persoonia falcata. Perspectives on post-contact vegetation change in the Keep River region, Australia, from contemporary vegetation surveys Published In Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Volume 18 Pages 147 - 157 ISSN 0939-6314 Altmetric

Book

Year	Title
2012	Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat Publisher Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	Thriving in the anthropocene: Understanding human-weed relations and invasive plant management using theories of practice Published In Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans: Nature, Materials and Technologies Publisher Switzerland: Springer Nature Pages 25 - 46 ISBN 9783319921891 Altmetric
2017	Rethinking ethnobotany? A methodological reflection on human-plant research Published In Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Pages 178 - 191 ISBN 9781138957350 Altmetric
2013	Exploring human-plant entanglements: the case of Australian dioscorea yams Published In Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations Publisher http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/moreinfo.aspx?isbn=9780203508947&ISO=US: Routledge Pages 167 - 180

Report

Year	Title
2018	Plant Sure Environmentally Safe Ornamental Plant Scheme: Review of existing certification or accreditation schemes and recommendations for a model scheme Publisher University of Wollongong

Editor Of

Book
- Vegetal Politics: Belonging, practices and places. Abingdon, United Kingdom. 2016

Other Research Activities

FAPESP-UOW Sprint 2019 Improving social and environmental adaptation to rapid environmental change and governance of the coastal zone. UOW Principal investigator 2019 - 2021
A love of Country: mapping and re-imagining a UOW Geography curriculum (Jindaola Indigenous Knowledge grant) Adams M, Gibbs L, Atchison J, Hammersley L, Cavanagh V Co-investigator 2018 - 2019
UoM Community Engagement Grant Valuing Melbourne's Trees: the emotional and experiential dimensions Co-investigator 2018 - 2019
Hope and Grief in the Geography classroom (AUSCCER Research Support Funding) Klocker N, Gibbs L, Gillon C, Waitt G, Atchison J, Warren A Co-investigator 2017 - 2018
Plant Sure Environmentally Safe Ornamental Plant Scheme: Scheme Review, Nursery and Garden Industry of NSW and the ACT 2017-2018 Co-investigator 2017 - 2018
Time to kill? Geographies of volunteerism and community in invasive species management (AUSCCER funding) Lead investigator 2014 - 2016

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

I welcome discussions with students interested in developing research projects on the social and cultural dimensions of invasive species management, and on human relations with plants.

Teaching Activities

Geography Research Internships Academic Program Director 2019 -
Geog 354 Environmental Crime and Harm Lecturer and subject coordinator 2018 -
Human Geography Honours Academic Program Director 2018 -

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Storytelling and Ocean Conservation	Croft, Freya
Doctor of Philosophy	An Examination of the Relationships that the People of Rarotonga have with Native and Non-Native Species; in order to Inform Conservation Strategy on the Island	Llewellyn, Marc
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring the climatic and anthropogenic challenges to build livelihood vulnerability and resilience of Tanguar Haor in Bangladesh	Malak, Md Abdul
Doctor of Philosophy	Country as a Methodology: Engaging With Human/Plant Relationships	Arnold, Crystal

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Geography, University of Wollongong, School of Geosciences, Continuity and change: a late Holocene and post contact history of Aboriginal environmental interaction and vegetation process from the Keep river Region, Northern Territory 1996 - 2000

Teaching Overview

Academic Program Director Human Geography Honours

Keywords

Human Geography

Land Management

Invasive species

Interdisciplinary research

Human-plant relations
Environmental change

Full Name

Jennifer May Atchison

Mailing Address

School of Geography and Sustainable Communities

University of Wollongong

Wollongong

New South Wales

2522

Australia

Geographic Location

Wollongong

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-8943 (confirmed)

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia Published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2015	Experiments in co-existence: the science and practices of biocontrol in invasive species management Published in Environment and Planning A
2013	Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2012	Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
2009	Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities

Research Areas

1604 - HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Research Overview

Research interests and expertise
- Human-nature relations, global environmental change
- Living with invasive life, biogeography
- Ethnobotany, Archaeobotany
My research focuses on the material interactions of human-nature relationships. I am primarily interested in the ways nonhumans (particularly plants, but also others) shape human lives and provoke us to think differently and live more sustainably in the world. I am motivated and inspired by relational thinking and more-than-human geographies that attempt to bridge or undo the nature culture binary, and I contribute to this disciplinary project by researching places and relationships that articulate how nonhumans might be taken seriously as equally sociable beings. I have a multidisciplinary background in environmental science and archaeobotany. More recently, I am interested in human-nature relationships occurring in the face of environmental change, and in what ways the ideas and principals of justice might be understood in this context.

My current research examines how humans and nonhumans are adjusting to aspects of the rapid environmental change that characterise contemporary earth. I am interested in the implications of these responses in the context of invasive life and sea-level rise.

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 44 Pages 735 - 748 ISSN 1475-5661 Altmetric
2019	Green and Blue Infrastructure in Darwin; Carbon Economies and the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Valuing Urban Mangroves in Australia Published In Urban Science Volume 3 Pages 86-1 - 86-15 Altmetric
2018	Seeing the trees for the (urban) forest: more-than-human geographies and urban greening Published In Australian Geographer Volume Online First Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2017	Killing Carp (Cyprinus carpio) as a Volunteer Practice: implications for community involvement in invasive species management and policy Published In Australian Geographer Volume 48 Pages 333 - 348 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2016	Local Knowledge, Use and Management of Ethnovarieties of Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) Ktze. in the Plateau of Santa Catarina, Brazil Published In Economic Botany: devoted to applied botany and plant utilization Volume 70 Pages 353 - 364 ISSN 0013-0001 Altmetric
2015	Camel country: Assemblage, belonging and scale in invasive species geographies Published In Geoforum Volume 58 Pages 56 - 67 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2015	Entangled invasive lives: Indigenous invasive plant management in Northern Australia Published In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography Volume 97 Pages 169 - 182 ISSN 0435-3684 Altmetric
2015	Experiments in co-existence: the science and practices of biocontrol in invasive species management Published In Environment and Planning A Volume 47 Pages 1697 - 1712 ISSN 0308-518X Altmetric
2015	Governing invasive plants: Policy and practice in managing the Gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus) - Bushfire nexus in northern Australia Published In Land Use Policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use Volume 47 Pages 225 - 234 ISSN 0264-8377 Altmetric
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published In Conservation and Society Volume 13 Pages 311 - 318 ISSN 0972-4923 Altmetric
2015	The distinctive capacities of plants: re-thinking difference via invasive species Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 40 Pages 399 - 413 ISSN 1475-5661 Altmetric
2014	Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places Published In Social and Cultural Geography Volume 15 Pages 861 - 870 ISSN 1464-9365 Altmetric
2013	Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Volume 31 Pages 951 - 968 ISSN 0263-7758 Altmetric
2012	High-throughput sequencing of ancient plant and mammal DNA preserved in herbivore middens Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal Volume 58 Pages 135 - 145 ISSN 1873-457X Altmetric
2012	The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing Published In Geography Volume 97 Pages 42 - 46 ISSN 0016-7487
2012	Yam landscapes: the biogeography and social life of Australian Dioscorea Published In Artefact: Pacific rim archaeology Volume 35 Pages 59 - 74 ISSN 0044-9075
2011	A fine-grained study of the experience of drought, risk and climate change among Australian wheat farming households Published In Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 101 Pages 1089 - 1108 ISSN 0004-5608 Altmetric
2010	Wheat as food, wheat as industrial substance; comparative geographies of transformation and mobility Published In Geoforum Volume 41 Pages 236 - 246 ISSN 0016-7185 Altmetric
2009	Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: practice, potential and prospects Published In Australian Archaeology Volume 68 Pages 1 - 10 ISSN 0312-2417
2009	Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies Published In Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities Volume 33 Pages 236 - 245 ISSN 0309-1325 Altmetric
2009	Human impacts on Persoonia falcata. Perspectives on post-contact vegetation change in the Keep River region, Australia, from contemporary vegetation surveys Published In Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Volume 18 Pages 147 - 157 ISSN 0939-6314 Altmetric

Book

Year	Title
2012	Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat Publisher Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	Thriving in the anthropocene: Understanding human-weed relations and invasive plant management using theories of practice Published In Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans: Nature, Materials and Technologies Publisher Switzerland: Springer Nature Pages 25 - 46 ISBN 9783319921891 Altmetric
2017	Rethinking ethnobotany? A methodological reflection on human-plant research Published In Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Pages 178 - 191 ISBN 9781138957350 Altmetric
2013	Exploring human-plant entanglements: the case of Australian dioscorea yams Published In Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations Publisher http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/moreinfo.aspx?isbn=9780203508947&ISO=US: Routledge Pages 167 - 180

Report

Year	Title
2018	Plant Sure Environmentally Safe Ornamental Plant Scheme: Review of existing certification or accreditation schemes and recommendations for a model scheme Publisher University of Wollongong

Editor Of

Book
- Vegetal Politics: Belonging, practices and places. Abingdon, United Kingdom. 2016

Other Research Activities

FAPESP-UOW Sprint 2019 Improving social and environmental adaptation to rapid environmental change and governance of the coastal zone. UOW Principal investigator 2019 - 2021
A love of Country: mapping and re-imagining a UOW Geography curriculum (Jindaola Indigenous Knowledge grant) Adams M, Gibbs L, Atchison J, Hammersley L, Cavanagh V Co-investigator 2018 - 2019
UoM Community Engagement Grant Valuing Melbourne's Trees: the emotional and experiential dimensions Co-investigator 2018 - 2019
Hope and Grief in the Geography classroom (AUSCCER Research Support Funding) Klocker N, Gibbs L, Gillon C, Waitt G, Atchison J, Warren A Co-investigator 2017 - 2018
Plant Sure Environmentally Safe Ornamental Plant Scheme: Scheme Review, Nursery and Garden Industry of NSW and the ACT 2017-2018 Co-investigator 2017 - 2018
Time to kill? Geographies of volunteerism and community in invasive species management (AUSCCER funding) Lead investigator 2014 - 2016

Potential Supervision Topics

I welcome discussions with students interested in developing research projects on the social and cultural dimensions of invasive species management, and on human relations with plants.

Teaching Activities

Geography Research Internships Academic Program Director 2019 -
Geog 354 Environmental Crime and Harm Lecturer and subject coordinator 2018 -
Human Geography Honours Academic Program Director 2018 -

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Storytelling and Ocean Conservation	Croft, Freya
Doctor of Philosophy	An Examination of the Relationships that the People of Rarotonga have with Native and Non-Native Species; in order to Inform Conservation Strategy on the Island	Llewellyn, Marc
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring the climatic and anthropogenic challenges to build livelihood vulnerability and resilience of Tanguar Haor in Bangladesh	Malak, Md Abdul
Doctor of Philosophy	Country as a Methodology: Engaging With Human/Plant Relationships	Arnold, Crystal

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Geography, University of Wollongong, School of Geosciences, Continuity and change: a late Holocene and post contact history of Aboriginal environmental interaction and vegetation process from the Keep river Region, Northern Territory 1996 - 2000

Teaching Overview

Academic Program Director Human Geography Honours

Keywords

Human Geography

Land Management

Invasive species

Interdisciplinary research

Human-plant relations
Environmental change

Full Name

Jennifer May Atchison

Mailing Address

School of Geography and Sustainable Communities

University of Wollongong

Wollongong

New South Wales

2522

Australia

Geographic Location

Wollongong

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-8943 (confirmed)

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Available as Research Supervisor

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Report

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Education And Training

Teaching Overview

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Report

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Education And Training

Teaching Overview

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus