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Social Media Experiments: Scholarly Practice And Collegiality, Chris Gibson, Leah Gibbs
Social Media Experiments: Scholarly Practice And Collegiality, Chris Gibson, Leah Gibbs
Leah Maree Gibbs
We draw out and seek to build on two key insights in Kitchin et al. (2013), namely the possibilities of social media for transforming knowledge production practices and for generating new spaces of collegiality and communality. Most promising are capacities to shape the terms of academic labour and to disrupt binaries of core/periphery, research/impact and academic/public.
Water Places: Cultural, Social And More-Than-Human Geographies Of Nature, Leah Gibbs
Water Places: Cultural, Social And More-Than-Human Geographies Of Nature, Leah Gibbs
Leah Maree Gibbs
Cultural, social and more-than-human approaches to nature research are largely held apart in the discipline of human geography. In this paper I argue that these three approaches can be brought together to good effect. The paper presents a situated account of 'water places' in inland Australia-namely the artesian bores, boredrains and boredrain wetlands of the Birdsville Track-in order to demonstrate that together, these three approaches can reveal the complex interactions that form particular places, and comprise a more-than-human world. This account explores the layers of interaction that have formed these water places, including their insertion into the landscape through drilling, …