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Beyond Mains Water: A Study Of Households That Are Off-Grid For Water In Regional New South Wales, Australia, Carrie Wilkinson
Beyond Mains Water: A Study Of Households That Are Off-Grid For Water In Regional New South Wales, Australia, Carrie Wilkinson
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+
This thesis offers a new understanding of everyday life for households living off-grid from municipal water and sewerage systems. The thesis argues for household sustainability policy informed by existing adaptive capacities and experiments with alternatives to mains water infrastructure and governance systems in the Minority World. It does so through a research design that combined questionnaire surveys with semi-structured interviews and ‘home-insight tours’ conducted with participants who live off-grid for water in the Eurobodalla Shire, a non-metropolitan local government area situated on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Building on relational ontologies of everyday life, this thesis brings …
Children’S Play Experiences At Playgrounds And Rock Pools In Wollongong, Australia: Adopting A Relational Approach To Play In Childhood, Kiera R A Kent
Children’S Play Experiences At Playgrounds And Rock Pools In Wollongong, Australia: Adopting A Relational Approach To Play In Childhood, Kiera R A Kent
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+
Planning for play in urban landscapes is becoming a priority in western societies where more children are living in cities. In children’s geographies and related fields, play is a well-researched area. Some recent work has, however, questioned the childcentred focus of existing research on play, arguing that this approach may miss broader relationships that impact children’s lives. Similarly, scholars theorising play have advocated for a wider range of actors to be recognised as part of the play process. In response to such calls, this thesis adopts a relational approach to play, drawing from more-than-human scholarship. It approaches play in the …
The Embodied Dimensions Of Road Cycling And The Formation Of Gendered Cycling Identities, Lance Robert Barrie
The Embodied Dimensions Of Road Cycling And The Formation Of Gendered Cycling Identities, Lance Robert Barrie
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+
This thesis aims to offer a better understanding as to why road cycling remains one of Australia’s most popular leisure activities, despite a reported 38 road cyclists killed annually and another 12,000 seriously injured (AIHW, 2019). By investigating cycling sensations of the body and cycling, this thesis responds to calls from feminist geographical scholarship to embraced embodied approaches. Building on feminist readings of the work of Deleuze and Guattari (1987), this thesis offers the concepts of the ‘cycling assemblage’ and ‘cycling refrain’ to help rethink the relationship between mobility, subjectivities and place. Two important implications arise. First, attention is drawn …
Food, Household Sustainability And Migration. Practices Of Papua New Guinean Migrants In Australia And Aotearoa New Zealand, Rebecca Suganya Campbell
Food, Household Sustainability And Migration. Practices Of Papua New Guinean Migrants In Australia And Aotearoa New Zealand, Rebecca Suganya Campbell
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+
Food is central to the global challenge of sustainability and households are positioned as key sites of sustainable action by policymakers in many western neoliberal nations. Thus, ‘household sustainability’ in the Minority World has become the subject of increasing interest in the academic literature. Largely absent from this research are Majority World migrants from diverse ethnic backgrounds who live in the Minority World. The thesis asks, what can we learn from ethnically diverse communities if they are included in debates about household sustainability? To address this question, the empirical focus of the thesis is the everyday food activities of 12 …