Articles
Manufacturing on the move? Beyond the high dollar in the debate about making things in Australia - the case of the Australian surfboard industry (with Andrew Warren), Faculty of Science - Papers (2012)
In October 2011 surfboard manufacturer BASE abruptly closed its factory on the Gold Coast resulting...
A country that makes things? (with Chantel Carr and Andrew Warren), Faculty of Science - Papers (2012)
The announcement in August 2011 that BlueScope Steel was about to close one of its...
Becoming differently modern: Geographic contributions to a generative climate politics (with Lesley M. Head), Faculty of Science - Papers (2012)
Anthropogenic climate change is a quintessentially modern problem in its historical origins and discursive framing,...
Chilling out in 'cosmopolitan country': urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a 'lesbian and gay rural idyll' (with Andrew Gorman-Murray and Gordon Waitt), Faculty of Science - Papers (2012)
This paper advances scholarship on 'lesbian and gay rural idylls'. A growing literature examines how...
Cool places, creative places? Community perceptions of cultural vitality in the suburbs (with Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, and Heidi Brown), Faculty of Science - Papers (2012)
This article stems from a project examining cultural assets in Wollongong - a medium-sized Australian...
Books
Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia (with John Connell), Faculty of Science - Papers (2012)
Contributions to Books
(Putting) mobile technologies in their place: a geographical perspective (with Susan Luckman and Chris Brennan-Horley), Faculty of Science - Papers (2012)
Elvis in the Country: Transforming Place in Rural Australia (with John Connell), Faculty of Science - Papers (2011)
Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability and Human-Nature Relations (with C Wong), Faculty of Science - Papers (2011)
Is It Easy Being Green? On the Dilemmas of Material Cultures of Household Sustainability (with Gordon Waitt, Lesley M. Head, and Nicholas J. Gill), Faculty of Science - Papers (2011)
In the 1970s ‘greens’ were normally thought of as radicals because of their uncompromising political...
Mapping vernacular creativity: the extent and diversity of rural festivals in Australia (with Chris Brennan-Horley and Jim Walmsley), In T. Edensor, D. Leslie, S. Millington & N. M. Rantisi (Eds.), Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy (pp. 89-105). (2010)
The idea that creativity is vital to regional economies has been increasingly debated in Australia,...