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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 …
The Global Cowboy: Rural Masculinities And Sexualities, Chris Gibson
The Global Cowboy: Rural Masculinities And Sexualities, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
There is arguably no more iconic motif of rural masculinity than the cowboy. The cowboy is a persona, a stereotype, an ideology, and a style of manhood strongly associated with rurality. With origins in Mexico and the American West, cowboy imagery and identities were globalized in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and were adopted, mutated, and subverted in contexts as different as Hawai'i, urban Japan, and remote Aboriginal Australia. This chapter traces the historical emergence and diffusion of cowboy masculinity, arguing that key to its endurance has been its malleability-its multivalent combinations of hero worship, ambiguity, rural place-based …
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.
Neither Here Nor There Or Always Here And There? Antipodean Reflections On Economic Geography, Felicity Wray, Rae Dufty-Jones, Chris Gibson, Wendy Larner, Andrew Beer, Richard Heron, Phillip O'Neill
Neither Here Nor There Or Always Here And There? Antipodean Reflections On Economic Geography, Felicity Wray, Rae Dufty-Jones, Chris Gibson, Wendy Larner, Andrew Beer, Richard Heron, Phillip O'Neill
Chris Gibson
This paper emerged from discussions held over a two-day symposium hosted by the University of Western Sydney and the Institute of Australian Geographers in December 2011. Drawing on contemporary themes in economic geography around postcolonial theory and a concern with the histories of the sub-discipline, the symposium sought to triangulate these discourses using Raewyn Connell's (2006, 2007a, 2007b) concept of 'Southern Theory' as a means of beginning a process of critical reflection about the types of economic geographies that are produced from and in the 'Antipodes'. After introducing these debates and presenting a critical reflection on how Connell's Southern Theory …
Mild-Mannered Bistro By Day, Eclectic Freak-Land At Night: Memories Of An Australian Music Venue, Ben Gallan, Chris Gibson
Mild-Mannered Bistro By Day, Eclectic Freak-Land At Night: Memories Of An Australian Music Venue, Ben Gallan, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
This article is about a pub that is also a live music venue: the Oxford Tavern in Wollongong. It tells the story of the alternative live music scene that existed there for twenty years before the venue closed in 2010. More than this, it makes an argument for vernacular cultural histories of subcultural places within Australian cities, taking seriously the forgotten venues where marginal social groups find meaning and community. Resonating are more universal themes in Australian cultural life: accommodating difference, a space for expression of otherness, and the importance of music and of a venue in shaping a time …
Urban Cultural Policy, City Size, And Proximity, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt
Urban Cultural Policy, City Size, And Proximity, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt
Chris Gibson
In this chapter we bring a distinctly geographical perspective to questions of urban cultural policy. We are interested in how perceptions (and concrete experiences) of city size and proximity shape the politics of urban cultural policymaking. The particular kind of urban cultural policymaking we discuss relates to the pervasive idea that cities ought to refashion their economic development policies and planning regimes to become "creative cities" (Landry 2000). Central to this is an assumption that all places now compete with each other for creative industries and people - the supposed "creative class," who are imagined as a vital demographic group …
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.
The Spiral Gallery: Non-Market Creativity And Belonging In An Australian Country Town, Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson
The Spiral Gallery: Non-Market Creativity And Belonging In An Australian Country Town, Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
This paper seeks to explore creative practice in an Australian country town, and in so doing, to unsettle market-orientated interpretations of creativity that privilege the urban. Instead of focusing on creative practice as a means to develop industries, we focus on how creativity is a means to establish a cooperative gallery space that helps to sustain a sense of self in an otherwise antithetical social and cultural context. The example we discuss is The Spiral Gallery, a women's co-operative arts space established in the 1990s in the small (but somewhat iconic) country town of Bega - in a place where …
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.
The 'Cultural Turn' In Australian Regional Economic Development Discourse: Neoliberalising Creativity?, Chris Gibson, Natascha Klocker
The 'Cultural Turn' In Australian Regional Economic Development Discourse: Neoliberalising Creativity?, Chris Gibson, Natascha Klocker
Chris Gibson
Regional economic policy-makers are increasingly interested in the contribution of creativity to the economic performance of regions and, more generally, in its power to transform the images and identities of places. This has constituted a 'cultural turn', of sorts, away from an emphasis on macro-scale projects and employment schemes, towards an interest in the creative industries, entrepreneurial culture and innovation. This paper discusses how recent discourses of the role of 'creativity' in regions have drawn upon, and contributed to, particular forms of neoliberalisation. Its focus is the recent application of a statistical measure - Richard Florida's (2002) 'creativity index' - …
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.