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Climate Change And Household Dynamics: Beyond Consumption, Unbounding Sustainability, Chris Gibson, Lesley Head, Nicholas Gill, Gordon Waitt
Climate Change And Household Dynamics: Beyond Consumption, Unbounding Sustainability, Chris Gibson, Lesley Head, Nicholas Gill, Gordon Waitt
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Nitmiluk: Place, Politics And Empowerment In Australian Aboriginal Popular Music, Chris Gibson, Peter Dunbar-Hall
Nitmiluk: Place, Politics And Empowerment In Australian Aboriginal Popular Music, Chris Gibson, Peter Dunbar-Hall
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Drunken Mobilities: Backpackers, Alcohol, 'Doing Place', Mark Jayne, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Gill Valentine
Drunken Mobilities: Backpackers, Alcohol, 'Doing Place', Mark Jayne, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Gill Valentine
Chris Gibson
This article seeks to advance the understanding of the role of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness as an important, if under-researched, element of tourism. In so doing, we work at the intersection of three bodies of writing focused on mundane mobilities; performativities of tourism and geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Drawing on empirical research undertaken in Australia, we highlight how alcohol, drinking and drunkenness are key to backpacking holidays: first, to help soften a number of (un)comfortable embodied and emotional materialities associated with budget travel; second, as an aid to spatial and temporal imperatives of ‘passing the time’ and ‘being …
Blue-Collar Creativity: Reframing Custom-Car Culture In The Imperilled Industrial City, Andrew Warren, Chris Gibson
Blue-Collar Creativity: Reframing Custom-Car Culture In The Imperilled Industrial City, Andrew Warren, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
This paper hitches a ride with young car enthusiasts to explore how their vehicles catalyse a unique form of vernacular creativity, in a seemingly imperilled industrial city setting.While television and print media regularly demonise young drivers for street racing and `hoon' behaviour, this paper purposely adopts a different perspective, on circuits of production and qualitative aspects of the urban custom-car design scene that constitute forms of vernacular creativity. Beyond moral panics little is known about movements, networks, and linkages between custom cars, young enthusiasts, and urban spaces from which their activities emerge. Utilising responsive, in-depth ethnographic methods in Wollongong, Australia, …
Gis, Ethnography, And Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back Into Ethnographic Mapping, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Susan Luckman, Christopher Gibson, Julie Willoughby-Smith
Gis, Ethnography, And Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back Into Ethnographic Mapping, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Susan Luckman, Christopher Gibson, Julie Willoughby-Smith
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Geographic Information Technologies For Cultural Research: Cultural Mapping And The Prospects Of Colliding Epistemologies, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Warren
Geographic Information Technologies For Cultural Research: Cultural Mapping And The Prospects Of Colliding Epistemologies, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Warren
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Sustainable Household Capability: Which Households Are Doing The Work Of Environmental Sustainability?, Gordon Waitt, Peter Caputi, Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Lesley Head, Nick Gill, Elyse Stanes
Sustainable Household Capability: Which Households Are Doing The Work Of Environmental Sustainability?, Gordon Waitt, Peter Caputi, Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Lesley Head, Nick Gill, Elyse Stanes
Chris Gibson
This paper presents a framework for analysing which households are doing ‘their bit’ for sustainability in an era of climate change, using a two-stage cluster analysis of sustainable household capabilities. The framework segments households by their reported level of commitment to ‘pro-sustainability’ practices common to conventional government policies. Results are presented from a large-scale survey of Wollongong households, New South Wales, Australia. Results illustrate the importance of approaching household sustainability through everyday practices. Attention is drawn to the wide variation in participation in specific household sustainability practices. Investigation into sustainable household capability by household segments shows the limits of even …
Cultural Festivals And Economic Development In Nonmetropolitan Australia, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Jim Walmsley, John Connell
Cultural Festivals And Economic Development In Nonmetropolitan Australia, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Jim Walmsley, John Connell
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Bodily Rhythms: Corporeal Capacities To Engage With Festival Spaces, Michelle Duffy, Gordon Waitt, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Chris Gibson
Bodily Rhythms: Corporeal Capacities To Engage With Festival Spaces, Michelle Duffy, Gordon Waitt, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Is Green The New Black? Exploring Ethical Fashion Consumption, Chris Gibson, Elyse Stanes
Is Green The New Black? Exploring Ethical Fashion Consumption, Chris Gibson, Elyse Stanes
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Youthful Creativity In Regional Australia: Panacea For Unemployment And Out-Migration?, Chris Gibson
Youthful Creativity In Regional Australia: Panacea For Unemployment And Out-Migration?, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Environmental Sustainability In Practice? A Macro-Scale Profile Of Tourist Accommodation Facilities In Australia's Coastal Zone, Karen Mcnamara, Chris Gibson
Environmental Sustainability In Practice? A Macro-Scale Profile Of Tourist Accommodation Facilities In Australia's Coastal Zone, Karen Mcnamara, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Creativity Without Borders? Rethinking Remoteness And Proximity, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Julie Willoughby-Smith
Creativity Without Borders? Rethinking Remoteness And Proximity, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Julie Willoughby-Smith
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Becoming Differently Modern: Geographic Contributions To A Generative Climate Politics, Lesley M. Head, Christopher R. Gibson
Becoming Differently Modern: Geographic Contributions To A Generative Climate Politics, Lesley M. Head, Christopher R. Gibson
Chris Gibson
Anthropogenic climate change is a quintessentially modern problem in its historical origins and discursive framing, but how well does modernist thinking provide us with the tools to solve the problems it created? On one hand even though anthropogenic climate change is argued to be a problem of human origins, solutions to which will require human actions and engagements, modernity separates people from climate change in a number of ways. On the other, while amodern or more-than-human concepts of multiple and relational agency are more consistent with the empirical evidence of humans being deeply embedded in earth surface processes, these approaches …
Engaging Creative Communities In An Industrial City Setting, Chris Gibson, Ben Gallan, Andrew Warren
Engaging Creative Communities In An Industrial City Setting, Chris Gibson, Ben Gallan, Andrew Warren
Chris Gibson
Much has been said about how ‘creativity’ might infuse policymaking and planning – especially in the wake of popular bestsellers by Richard Florida and Charles Landry on ‘creative places’ and the ‘creative class’ (the latter a supposed demographic group associated with creative industries such as film, design and music, who are said to be the key to the economic fortunes of cities). Creativity, it is said, can be facilitated in particular urban environments, given the right preconditions such as ‘hip’ inner-city precincts, café culture and walkable dense clusters of design firms and retail and residential spaces. The common argument is …
Living Together But Apart: Material Geographies Of Everyday Sustainability In Extended Family Households, Natascha Klocker, Chris Gibson, Erin Borger
Living Together But Apart: Material Geographies Of Everyday Sustainability In Extended Family Households, Natascha Klocker, Chris Gibson, Erin Borger
Chris Gibson
In the Industrialized West, ageing populations and cultural diversity-combined with rising property prices and extensive years spent in education-have been recognized as diverse factors driving increases in extended family living. At the same time, there is growing awareness that household size is inversely related to per capita resource consumption patterns, and that urgent problems of environmental sustainability are negotiated, on a day-to-day basis (and often unconsciously), at the household level. This paper explores the sustainability implications of everyday decisions to fashion, consume, and share resources around the home, through the lens of extended family households. Through interviews with extended family …
Is It Easy Being Green? On The Dilemmas Of Material Cultures Of Household Sustainability, Chris Gibson, Gordon R. Waitt, Lesley M. Head, Nick Gill
Is It Easy Being Green? On The Dilemmas Of Material Cultures Of Household Sustainability, Chris Gibson, Gordon R. Waitt, Lesley M. Head, Nick Gill
Chris Gibson
In the 1970s ‘greens’ were normally thought of as radicals because of their uncompromising political views about sustainability, non-violence, social justice and grassroots democracy. Sometimes greens were marginalised as ‘tree-huggers’ because of their affinity with the non-human world. Today, in popular discourse, ‘green’ provides the centre of sustainability gravity (Barr 2003). Green has become a definitive reflection of what individuals are to become as both consumers and citizens. It is easy, it is said, to be green. This is evident from product branding to categories used in government survey results to describe the ‘most acceptable’ household practices. But as green …
Interventions On The Meanings Of The Obama Presidency For Us Relations With Global Regions, Maano Ramutsindela, Takashi Yamazak, Christopher Gibson, Virginie Mamadouh
Interventions On The Meanings Of The Obama Presidency For Us Relations With Global Regions, Maano Ramutsindela, Takashi Yamazak, Christopher Gibson, Virginie Mamadouh
Chris Gibson
The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in November 2008 was an event of global significance. Departing from the usual format of the Political Geography Specialty Group plenary lecture (co-sponsored by the publisher of this journal, Elsevier Science) at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, the editors asked four international board members to present their views on the meaning of the Obama victory for US relations with the countries of their respective regions at the annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV in March 2009. Their commentaries were later updated to reflect the early …
The Extent And Significance Of Rural Festivals, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson, John Connell, Jim Walmsley
The Extent And Significance Of Rural Festivals, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson, John Connell, Jim Walmsley
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Decolonizing The Production Of Geographical Knowledges? Reflections On Research With Indigenous Musicians, Christopher Gibson
Decolonizing The Production Of Geographical Knowledges? Reflections On Research With Indigenous Musicians, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
A Country That Makes Things?, Christopher Gibson, Chantel Carr, Andrew Warren
A Country That Makes Things?, Christopher Gibson, Chantel Carr, Andrew Warren
Chris Gibson
The announcement in August 2011 that BlueScope Steel was about to close one of its Port Kembla blast furnaces and cease steel exports quickly spurred public debate, not just about steel but about the very future of manufacturing in Australia. With an elevated Australian dollar, job losses have followed in garment-making, car manufacturing and aluminium smelting. Even the iconic Australian fly-spray Mortein is now heading for offshore production. Australian Workers’ Union National Secretary Paul Howes thus suggested: ‘The question the Australian community needs to ask itself*is do we want to be a country that still makes things? Do we want …
Music Festivals: Transformations In Non-Metropolitan Places, And In Creative Work, Christopher Gibson
Music Festivals: Transformations In Non-Metropolitan Places, And In Creative Work, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Unchanging Places, Christopher Gibson
The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson
The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
The Shifting Spaces And Practices Of Dance Music Djs In Dunedin, Christopher Gibson, Andrew Mcgregor
The Shifting Spaces And Practices Of Dance Music Djs In Dunedin, Christopher Gibson, Andrew Mcgregor
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith
Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown
Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown
Chris Gibson
This article stems from a project examining cultural assets in Wollongong - a medium-sized Australian city with a decentralized and linear suburban pattern that challenges orthodox binaries of inner-city bohemia/outer-suburban domesticity. In Wollongong we documented community perceptions of cultural assets across this unusual setting, through a simple public research method. At the city's largest annual festival we recruited the general public to nominate the city's most 'cool' and 'creative' places, by drawing on a map of Wollongong and telling their stories. Hand-drawn maps from 205 participants were combined in a Geographical Information System and 50 hours of stories transcribed for …
'No Passport Necessary' : Music, Record Covers And Vicarious Tourism In Post-War Hawai'i, John Connell, Christopher Gibson
'No Passport Necessary' : Music, Record Covers And Vicarious Tourism In Post-War Hawai'i, John Connell, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
This paper analyses the relationship between the marketing and consumption of popular music and the historical representation of one tourist destination and its peoples. It focuses on how Hawai‘i was represented when it became an American state, mass tourism was emerging and graphic record covers were new. It traces the manner in which Hawai‘i was commodified and represented for vicarious consumption, and how particular musical objects created and reflected structures of tourism.
Sydney's Creative Economy: Social And Spatial Challenges, Christopher R. Gibson
Sydney's Creative Economy: Social And Spatial Challenges, Christopher R. Gibson
Chris Gibson
The recent popularity of Richard Florida's work on the rise of the 'creative class' invites attention not only on the size and impact of the creative economy in Australia, but on its geography as well." At the core of Florida's approach is the premise that places compete with each other for a new kind of economic development, fuelled not by the availability of raw materials, cheap labour, or state investment in infrastructure, but by the decisions of producers in creative industries such as film, music, design and advertising to live and work in particular localities. Such creative producers constitute a …
Chilling Out In The Country? Interrogating Daylesford As A 'Gay/Lesbian Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson
Chilling Out In The Country? Interrogating Daylesford As A 'Gay/Lesbian Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
Recent scholarship suggests that the gay/lesbian idyllisation of rural places is an urban construct, constituted through metropolitan sensibilities, communities and imaginaries. We extend this work through examining the construction of Daylesford, Victoria, as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’. Daylesford annually hosts ChillOut, Australia’s largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which underpins its idyllisation. Utilising data drawn from fieldwork conducted at the 2006 festival and commentaries circulated in the gay/lesbian media, we argue that not only is Daylesford idyllised in the Australian gay/lesbian imaginary, but that rurality and urbanity are hybridised in its framing as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’. This is manifested in several …