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Climate Change And Household Dynamics: Beyond Consumption, Unbounding Sustainability, Chris Gibson, Lesley Head, Nicholas Gill, Gordon Waitt Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

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 Nov 2013

Creativity Without Borders? Rethinking Remoteness And Proximity, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Julie Willoughby-Smith

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.