Atchison, Jennifer

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
2023	��Often in between��: Thinking through research methods and Indigenous sovereignty with Yuin Country Published In Environment and Planning F
2022	Abject life and disaster: Opportunity and invasive species governance following the 2019��2020 Australian bushfires Published In Political Geography
2022	Finding comfort and conviviality with urban trees Published In Cultural Geographies
2022	Operationalizing marketable blue carbon Published In One Earth
2022	Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management Published In Conservation Biology
2021	Hope and grief in the human geography classroom Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2021	Reciprocal relationships with trees: rekindling Indigenous wellbeing and identity through the Yuin ontology of oneness Published In Australian Geographer
2020	Being on country as protest: Designing a virtual geography fieldtrip guided by jindaola Published In Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
2019	Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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
2018	Seeing the trees for the (urban) forest: more-than-human geographies and urban greening Published In Australian Geographer
2017	Erratum to: Local Knowledge, Use and Management of Ethnovarieties of Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) Ktze. in the Plateau of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Econ Bot, 70, 4, (353-364), 10.1007/s12231-016-9361-z) Published In Economic Botany
2017	Killing Carp (Cyprinus carpio) as a Volunteer Practice: implications for community involvement in invasive species management and policy Published In Australian Geographer
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
2015	Camel country: Assemblage, belonging and scale in invasive species geographies Published In Geoforum
2015	Entangled invasive lives: Indigenous invasive plant management in Northern Australia Published In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
2015	Experiments in co-existence: the science and practices of biocontrol in invasive species management Published In Environment and Planning A
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
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published In Conservation and Society
2015	The distinctive capacities of plants: re-thinking difference via invasive species Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2014	Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2013	Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
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
2012	The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing Published In Geography
2012	Yam landscapes: the biogeography and social life of Australian Dioscorea Published In Artefact: Pacific rim archaeology
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
2010	Wheat as food, wheat as industrial substance; comparative geographies of transformation and mobility Published In Geoforum
2009	Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: practice, potential and prospects Published In Australian Archaeology
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
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

Book

Year	Title
2016	Ingrained, A Human Bio-geography of Wheat Publisher : Routledge
2016	Ingrained, A Human Bio-geography of Wheat Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2012	Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat Publisher Surrey, England

Chapter

Year	Title
2021	Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia Published In The Work That Plants Do Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies Publisher : transcript Verlag
2021	Watching the Grass Grow Published In Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species Publisher : Routledge
2021	Watching the Grass Grow Published In Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2021	Watching the grass grow: How landholders learn to live with an invasive plant in conditions of uncertainty Published In Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species
2019	Plant Geographies Published In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition Publisher : Elsevier
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
2017	Rethinking ethnobotany? A methodological reflection on human-plant research Published In Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2016	Rethinking ethnobotany? A methodological reflection on human-plant research Published In Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds
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

Other Publications

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

Editor Of

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

Investigator On

Year	Title
2021 - 2023	Understanding contested human-plant geographies for urban greening success Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Transforming invasive plant management in northern Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships

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	Resilient Livelihoods? Insights from Tanguar Haor in Bangladesh
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	What teachings are being shared by weeds? Lessons from the Shoalhaven River.	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
2023	��Often in between��: Thinking through research methods and Indigenous sovereignty with Yuin Country Published In Environment and Planning F
2022	Abject life and disaster: Opportunity and invasive species governance following the 2019��2020 Australian bushfires Published In Political Geography
2022	Finding comfort and conviviality with urban trees Published In Cultural Geographies
2022	Operationalizing marketable blue carbon Published In One Earth
2022	Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management Published In Conservation Biology
2021	Hope and grief in the human geography classroom Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2021	Reciprocal relationships with trees: rekindling Indigenous wellbeing and identity through the Yuin ontology of oneness Published In Australian Geographer
2020	Being on country as protest: Designing a virtual geography fieldtrip guided by jindaola Published In Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
2019	Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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
2018	Seeing the trees for the (urban) forest: more-than-human geographies and urban greening Published In Australian Geographer
2017	Erratum to: Local Knowledge, Use and Management of Ethnovarieties of Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) Ktze. in the Plateau of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Econ Bot, 70, 4, (353-364), 10.1007/s12231-016-9361-z) Published In Economic Botany
2017	Killing Carp (Cyprinus carpio) as a Volunteer Practice: implications for community involvement in invasive species management and policy Published In Australian Geographer
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
2015	Camel country: Assemblage, belonging and scale in invasive species geographies Published In Geoforum
2015	Entangled invasive lives: Indigenous invasive plant management in Northern Australia Published In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
2015	Experiments in co-existence: the science and practices of biocontrol in invasive species management Published In Environment and Planning A
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
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published In Conservation and Society
2015	The distinctive capacities of plants: re-thinking difference via invasive species Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2014	Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2013	Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
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
2012	The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing Published In Geography
2012	Yam landscapes: the biogeography and social life of Australian Dioscorea Published In Artefact: Pacific rim archaeology
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
2010	Wheat as food, wheat as industrial substance; comparative geographies of transformation and mobility Published In Geoforum
2009	Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: practice, potential and prospects Published In Australian Archaeology
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
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

Book

Year	Title
2016	Ingrained, A Human Bio-geography of Wheat Publisher : Routledge
2016	Ingrained, A Human Bio-geography of Wheat Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2012	Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat Publisher Surrey, England

Chapter

Year	Title
2021	Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia Published In The Work That Plants Do Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies Publisher : transcript Verlag
2021	Watching the Grass Grow Published In Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species Publisher : Routledge
2021	Watching the Grass Grow Published In Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2021	Watching the grass grow: How landholders learn to live with an invasive plant in conditions of uncertainty Published In Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species
2019	Plant Geographies Published In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition Publisher : Elsevier
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
2017	Rethinking ethnobotany? A methodological reflection on human-plant research Published In Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom
2016	Rethinking ethnobotany? A methodological reflection on human-plant research Published In Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds
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

Other Publications

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

Editor Of

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

Investigator On

Year	Title
2021 - 2023	Understanding contested human-plant geographies for urban greening success Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Transforming invasive plant management in northern Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships

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	Resilient Livelihoods? Insights from Tanguar Haor in Bangladesh
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	What teachings are being shared by weeds? Lessons from the Shoalhaven River.	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

Other Publications

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

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

Other Publications

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

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