Sue Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1684-2224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 560 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Degrees of Separation
The impact of acquired brain injury on family members is far reaching. Research has identified experiences of trauma, ambiguous loss and burden of care. Limited research has addressed the ripple effect of brain injury across the wider family. The study aimed to gain a detailed insight into the lived experiences of grandchildren of those who have experienced stroke or brain tumor. Ten participants (eight female and two males aged between 18 and 29…
Understanding the Support and Information Needs of Family Members After Acquired Brain Injury
The aim of this systematic review was to (a) identify the specific information and support needs of family members caring for ABI survivors and (b) assess the effectiveness of current support systems and resources available. A comprehensive search of the literature was carried out, focusing on studies that were published between the years 2000 and 2025. Seventeen studies met the inclusion criteria. The review employed a narrative synthesis approa…
Weedy rivers and the settler-colonial project of salvaging water from willows
Improving wetland management through First Nations’ knowledge and a spatial visualisation tool
As wetlands continue to decline, there is an urgent need to improve their management by following the guidelines of international programs. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands requires assessing baseline conditions and monitoring, for which Earth Observations are powerful tools. However, spatial and temporal limitations require integrated co-management, incorporating First Nations' Knowledge. We address three case studies with unique management cha…
Lisan Matters
First study on central role of Indigenous practices of kinship, ritual and everyday resource negotiations in carbon forestry. • Invisible political-economy work is embedded in embodied socio-ecological knowledges. • Reformulates ways of imagining carbon commodification and associated environmental governance. • Calls on proponents of carbon projects to address the political and cultural implications of Indigenous governance processes. • Identifie…
‘Other’ geographies
My research with Indigenous peoples responds to the imperative to decolonise Australia’s system of environmental governance and the disciplines upon which it draws for knowledge and authority. The value and meaning of water – salt and fresh – is a key focus of my interdisciplinary research into different geographical ways of knowing, valuing and acting. It has informed Australian water policy, Indigenous advocacy strategies, and the programmes an…
Voicing Experiences of Family Members Providing Care to Loved Ones With a Pituitary Condition
Introduction: This paper draws upon lived experiences of family members caring for a relative with a pituitary condition. The rationale for the study stems from the crucial role provided by informal, unpaid carers. Yet in the specific domain of pituitary care, they remain overlooked within empirical research. Therefore, the current study aimed to understand (a) the experiences of family members whose loved ones have a pituitary condition and (b) …
All the rage - and other feelings
Feminist anger and rage have taken on a new visibility in the post-#MeToo moment, after decades of muting and prohibition related in part to the dominance of a postfeminist sensibility, and the ongoing force of normative femininity with its renunciation of anger. In this article, we extend a body of research on #MeToo and rage which has centred on 'feminist flashpoints', the cultural products of #MeToo and digital feminist activism. Our focus is …
Scale, evidence, and community participation matter
Rivers and their interdependent human communities form social-ecologically complex systems that reflect basin scale functionally but are often governed by spatially mismatched governance systems. Accounting for this complexity requires flexible adaptive governance systems supported by legitimacy in decision-making processes. Meaningful community dialogue, information exchange, transparency, and scientific rigor are essential to this process. We e…
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
Amid a renewed push to extract water for agriculture and mining, Indigenous advocacy in northern Australia has resulted in the introduction of a new water allocation mechanism: a reserve of water to be retained for the use and benefit of Indigenous communities. Our socio-legal analysis of the Oolloo Water Allocation Plan shows that the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves carry essential hallmarks of neoliberal property relations and are founded i…
A very basic view of feminism”
Feminist scholarship has richly critiqued the burgeoning of popular feminism across multiple media platforms in recent years. Representing a particular visibility of popular feminism, celebrity feminism has re-ignited questions about what constitutes a “legitimate” feminist. But what might the mediated visibility of celebrity feminism mean and make possible for media audiences? Observing the dearth of audience studies, several scholars highlight …
Trends in Aboriginal water ownership in New South Wales, Australia
There is significant interest in global trends in Indigenous land titling but relatively less attention given to Indigenous water tenure despite significant reform of water governance regimes in many regions of the world. This paper considers the intertwined and complex history of Aboriginal land and water tenure in the Australian State of New South Wales, within the Murray-Darling Basin. Its temporal scope encompasses the initial dispossession e…
Australia’s mass fish kills as a crisis of modern water
In the summer of 2018/19, a series of fish kills on the Darling River attracted international attention. We analyse the disaster as a crisis of modern water within the hydrosocial cycle framework formulated by Linton and Budds. Using archival analysis we identify four phases in the emergence and transformation of modern water in the Murray-Darling Basin generally and the lower Darling specifically; navigation flows (1850–1900s), entitlement flows…
Conceptualizing Hydro-socio-ecological Relationships to Enable More Integrated and Inclusive Water Allocation Planning
Remaking imperial power in the city
When the enormous drapes that had been covering a new building in central Melbourne were thrown off in early 2015, an extraordinary sight was revealed: a colossal image of a face staring down the city's civic spine. This moment of unveiling marked a fascinating moment for Indigenous-settler relations in Australia, but especially urban, densely settled Melbourne. For the face is that of William Barak, ancestor and leader of the Wurundjeri people, …
Flat and fabulous
The ‘pinkification’ of breast cancer culture in recent years conflates women’s empowerment with the celebration of hyperfemininity. Consistent with this trend, reconstructive surgery post-mastectomy is increasingly normalised: restoring the breasts is to restore ‘lost’ femininity. Contextualised within the pressures of this normalisation, our article explores how women who decide against breast reconstruction negotiate their non-normative ‘flat’ …
‘I want that power back’
This article examines the ways that men actively construct masculinity within an online pornography-abstinence reddit forum, NoFap. Of central interest is how members of NoFap negotiate possible contradictions between abstinence and presenting themselves as masculine subjects. Utilizing discourse analysis, we illustrate the ways in which forum members employ idealized discourses of innate masculinity and the need for ‘real sex’ to justify their r…
Young feminists, feminism and digital media
Over recent years, young feminist activism has assumed prominence in mainstream media where news headlines herald the efforts of schoolgirls in fighting sexism, sexual violence and inequity. Less visible in the public eye, girls’ activism plays out in social media where they can speak out about gender-based injustices experienced and witnessed. Yet we know relatively little about this significant social moment wherein an increasing visibility of …
White, classed and gendered
Within neoliberal postfeminism young women are depicted as powerful, unconstrained and ready to work for success. However, research reveals a far more complicated picture than this straightforward ode to success. We explore the intersection of racialised, classed and gendered ideals of successful femininity from the perspective of Māori (indigenous New Zealand) and Pākehā (European descent) pre-teen girls, addressing the lack of research with thi…
Using conversation analytic methods to assess fidelity to a talk-based healthcare intervention for frequently attending patients
The Making of White Water Citizens in Australia and the Western United States
This article examines the role of settler irrigation systems and water governance in establishing and reinforcing tenacious imperial geographies of whiteness. Through an analysis of the lives and work of two powerful men who made foundational contributions to establishing irrigation economies and water governance systems in Australia and the Western United States, we investigate the racialized sociospatial processes that bound whiteness to water.…
Exciting” and “borderline offensive”
Feminism is “cool” like never before in popular culture and celebrity feminism is arguably the most visible manifestation of this currently chic status. Some scholars and commentators see this as evidence of a global feminist resurgence; others critique it as empty and devoid of political traction. The hypervisibility of celebrity feminism makes it an ideal site to explore sense-making of contemporary feminism. Long-standing feminist debates abou…
Identifying and categorizing cobenefits in state-supported Australian indigenous environmental management programs
Barber, M., and S. Jackson. 2017. Identifying and categorizing cobenefits in state-supported Australian indigenous environmental management programs: international research implications. Ecology and Society 22(2):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09114-220211
Cultures of Carbon and the Logic of Care
Climate change and the associated need to decarbonize pose not just risks to cultures but potential opportunities for cultural experimentation, renewal, and economic dynamism. An Australian case of carbon mitigation through carbon farming represents a discursive tool with which indigenous groups are seeking to leverage a very distinct conceptualization of payment for ecosystem services, one that values the labor and reciprocal relationships and l…
The reasons for disclosing (or not) laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery and the impact on long-term weight loss
Reconceptualizing ecosystem services
This paper responds to a recent call for geographers to engage with the ecosystem services concept which is an increasingly dominant global model for environmental policy and management. We focus on its economic exchange mechanism, payment for environmental services (PES), and reject the conventional notion of it as either an economic or an environmental strategy. Rather than treating a disaggregated nature as the 'fixed stock' of ecosystem servi…
Young feminists, feminism and digital media
Over recent years, young feminist activism has assumed prominence in mainstream media where news headlines herald the efforts of schoolgirls in fighting sexism, sexual violence and inequity. Less visible in the public eye, girls’ activism plays out in social media where they can speak out about gender-based injustices experienced and witnessed. Yet we know relatively little about this significant social moment wherein an increasing visibility of …
Hot Lesbians
Media representation of heterosexual alternatives is particularly salient for young people negotiating sexuality, more so for those with limited access to other cultural resources to inform their homosexual understandings. With the centrality of media as resource in mind, we present in this article findings from our focus group research with 25 high school students aged 16-18 in which we invited them to discuss representations of homosexuality in…
Compartmentalising Culture
Social values are receiving increased attention in natural resource management policy and practice, and the notion of cultural values has recently emerged, particularly in relation to water resources. Philosophers, environmental policy analysts and others with an interest in environmental valuation have critically analysed value concepts and theories. A popular focus is the commonly ‘bipolar’ character of value construed as either an intrinsic or…
Legal Geography
Law is a powerful influence on people and place. Law both creates and is created by the relationship between people and place, although it rarely acknowledges this. Law frequently operates as if space does not matter. Law and legal processes, therefore, deserve greater attention from geographers. Legal geography is an emerging field of inquiry that facilitates much-needed attention to the interrelationships among the environment, people and socia…
Happily Never after
Although repeated exposure to narratives of romance in popular culture from an early age may lead young women to expect idealized romance in their heterosexual love relationships, a good number encounter abusive experiences. This article draws on young women's stories of abuse in heterosexual love relationships gathered from interviews with 23 young women aged 16-18 years. These stories are examined using a feminist, poststructuralist form of nar…
The whole playboy mansion image’
This article is located in contemporary feminist interrogations of postfeminism and postfeminist popular culture. Fashion articulates a postfeminist ideology through notions of empowerment via sexuality and consumption, and engages a postfeminist aesthetic of the ‘sexy’, desirable young woman. Recognising the potential complications of these postfeminist constructions and practices for embodied identities of girls within discourses of child innoc…
I’m 15 and Desperate for Sex’
In a social climate that largely problematizes young women’s sexuality, voices of sexual desire and pleasure may struggle to be heard. Teenage magazines, in actively marketing young women’s (hetero)sexuality, offer ‘permission’ to talk about sex through their problem pages. This article examines letters written to the advice pages of an Australasian teen magazine in which writers articulated or alluded to sexual desire. Using a feminist, poststru…
A Typology of Indigenous Engagement in Australian Environmental Management
Hill, R., C. Grant, M. George, C. Robinson, S. Jackson, and N. Abel. 2012. A typology of indigenous engagement in Australian environmental management: implications for knowledge integration and social-ecological system sustainability. Ecology and Society 17(1): 23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04587-170123
Perceptions of evidence-based medicine
Acupuncture and other types of 'complementary and alternative medicine' (CAM) are proving increasingly popular in the UK. As attempts to incorporate acupuncture into allopathic medicine have grown in number, the issue of assessing its effectiveness in ways consistent with the concept of evidence-based medicine has become more urgent. The nature, relevance and applicability of such assessments remain controversial however. This paper reports a qua…
Australia’s mass fish kills as a crisis of modern water
In the summer of 2018/19, a series of fish kills on the Darling River attracted international attention. We analyse the disaster as a crisis of modern water within the hydrosocial cycle framework formulated by Linton and Budds. Using archival analysis we identify four phases in the emergence and transformation of modern water in the Murray-Darling Basin generally and the lower Darling specifically; navigation flows (1850–1900s), entitlement flows…
Some things do change
Using a recent editorial comment in this journal as a focus, this paper reviews the extent to which geography has been implicated in the ‘colonial project’ in Australia. It argues that recent work amongst geographers involved with indigenous Australians reflects a commitment to transcend this colonial past. The paper calls for geographers to work toward a wide‐reaching decolonisation of the discipline, and to develop a better understanding of the…
Aquatic Resource Use by Indigenous Australians in Two Tropical River Catchments
Look Janet’, ‘No you look John’
Children’s reading materials are a widely available cultural resource that children may draw on to make sense of gender. Much of the research on gender and reading materials has used content analysis and has focused on children’s literature. The research we present in this article detours from these approaches, using a feminist post‐structuralist analysis to examine constructions of gender in a randomly selected sample of 100 early school readers…
Lifelong Earning
This article argues that despite the rhetoric that surrounds lifelong learning, barriers to participation for working-class women are too often ignored or made invisible. Starting from a critique of current policies and practices of lifelong learning that are based in instrumentalism and individualism, the article addresses the diversities of working-class women's multiple identities and considers some of the (apparent) wider benefits of learning…
Romance and friendship in pre-teen stories about conflicts
Although scholars have given considerable attention to adolescent romance, few have examined the discursive practices of pre-adolescents, as they are just beginning to take up (and to resist) cultural coherence systems that construct gender and sexuality. From a corpus of 689 personal narratives written by US inner-city pre-teens about interpersonal conflict, we selected the 33 stories that included themes of romance (`liking', `goin' with', `hav…
Preteen girls read 'tween' popular culture
Proliferation of the 'porn-chic' styled woman or girl in postfeminist media underpins contemporary debates about the effects of 'sexualizing' media on girls. Policy reports and popular books frame such media as a significant cause of harm, positioning girls as highly susceptible to their 'sexualizing' representations. However, what is absent from this literature and current debates are the perspectives of preteen girls themselves. In this article…
Where 'angels' and 'wusses' fear to tread
Sexual coercion of female adolescents is a major ongoing concern of feminists. This article provides a comparative analysis of a sample of New Zealand and British adolescents' narratives concerning sexuality, sexual practices and coercion within heterosexual dating relationships. The narratives suggest that sexual coercion operates through 'normal' heterosexuality which employs discursive dichotomies of femininity and masculinity. 'Slut'/'angel' …
Crossing Borders and Changing Pedagogies
We are living in times of change and uncertainty, where many groups are challenging existing structures. Challenges to education have come from postmodernists and poststructuralists, calling into question previously held beliefs and ideologies, and from people from a variety of cultural and ethnic groups, examining the relationship of the oppressed and the exploited to educational structures. Through consideration of the work of Henry Giroux and …
Perfect skin', 'pretty skinny
The relationship between idealised femininity images in the media and girls' experiences of self and body has long been of interest to feminist scholars. Over recent years, this interest has organised around sexualised post-feminist media in which the female body must be worked upon towards norms of perfection, slimness and also ‘sexiness’. Approaches to researching relationships between girls' embodiment and media images within this post-feminis…
Adaptive basin governance and the prospects for meeting Indigenous water claims
The Making of White Water Citizens in Australia and the Western United States
This article examines the role of settler irrigation systems and water governance in establishing and reinforcing tenacious imperial geographies of whiteness. Through an analysis of the lives and work of two powerful men who made foundational contributions to establishing irrigation economies and water governance systems in Australia and the Western United States, we investigate the racialized sociospatial processes that bound whiteness to water.…
Cultures of Carbon and the Logic of Care
Climate change and the associated need to decarbonize pose not just risks to cultures but potential opportunities for cultural experimentation, renewal, and economic dynamism. An Australian case of carbon mitigation through carbon farming represents a discursive tool with which indigenous groups are seeking to leverage a very distinct conceptualization of payment for ecosystem services, one that values the labor and reciprocal relationships and l…
The (Im)possibilities of Feminist School Based Sexuality Education
A feminist school based sexuality education needs to be both gender-focused and critical. In this paper, we investigate the (im)possibilities of feminist sexuality education by exploring instances of its practice in New Zealand. Using a poststructuralist discursive framework, we use the theoretical concepts of ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ gender to examine how students (aged 13—16) responded to progressive and liberal ideas presented by sexuality educat…
Remaking imperial power in the city
When the enormous drapes that had been covering a new building in central Melbourne were thrown off in early 2015, an extraordinary sight was revealed: a colossal image of a face staring down the city's civic spine. This moment of unveiling marked a fascinating moment for Indigenous-settler relations in Australia, but especially urban, densely settled Melbourne. For the face is that of William Barak, ancestor and leader of the Wurundjeri people, …
Calling the equality bluff
Keepers of the history
Systems for Sustainability
Crossing Borders and Changing Pedagogies
We are living in times of change and uncertainty, where many groups are challenging existing structures. Challenges to education have come from postmodernists and poststructuralists, calling into question previously held beliefs and ideologies, and from people from a variety of cultural and ethnic groups, examining the relationship of the oppressed and the exploited to educational structures. Through consideration of the work of Henry Giroux and …
God of our fathers
In a Class of their Own
Celebrating the lives of Jewish women; patterns in a feminist sampler
Some things do change
Using a recent editorial comment in this journal as a focus, this paper reviews the extent to which geography has been implicated in the ‘colonial project’ in Australia. It argues that recent work amongst geographers involved with indigenous Australians reflects a commitment to transcend this colonial past. The paper calls for geographers to work toward a wide‐reaching decolonisation of the discipline, and to develop a better understanding of the…
Networking women
Women, Research and Careers
To Be Or Not To Be? The place of women's studies in the lives of its students
This article draws on my research work with women's studies students throughout the three years of their degrees at a 'new' university in London. In examining the place of women's studies in the lives of its students, it considers four broad areas: why women choose to study women's studies; the question of men in the women's studies classroom; difference and diversity; and the connection between women's studies and feminist politics. It concludes…
Happily Never after
Although repeated exposure to narratives of romance in popular culture from an early age may lead young women to expect idealized romance in their heterosexual love relationships, a good number encounter abusive experiences. This article draws on young women's stories of abuse in heterosexual love relationships gathered from interviews with 23 young women aged 16-18 years. These stories are examined using a feminist, poststructuralist form of nar…
Where 'angels' and 'wusses' fear to tread
Sexual coercion of female adolescents is a major ongoing concern of feminists. This article provides a comparative analysis of a sample of New Zealand and British adolescents' narratives concerning sexuality, sexual practices and coercion within heterosexual dating relationships. The narratives suggest that sexual coercion operates through 'normal' heterosexuality which employs discursive dichotomies of femininity and masculinity. 'Slut'/'angel' …
Romance and friendship in pre-teen stories about conflicts
Although scholars have given considerable attention to adolescent romance, few have examined the discursive practices of pre-adolescents, as they are just beginning to take up (and to resist) cultural coherence systems that construct gender and sexuality. From a corpus of 689 personal narratives written by US inner-city pre-teens about interpersonal conflict, we selected the 33 stories that included themes of romance (`liking', `goin' with', `hav…
Lifelong Earning
This article argues that despite the rhetoric that surrounds lifelong learning, barriers to participation for working-class women are too often ignored or made invisible. Starting from a critique of current policies and practices of lifelong learning that are based in instrumentalism and individualism, the article addresses the diversities of working-class women's multiple identities and considers some of the (apparent) wider benefits of learning…
Look Janet’, ‘No you look John’
Children’s reading materials are a widely available cultural resource that children may draw on to make sense of gender. Much of the research on gender and reading materials has used content analysis and has focused on children’s literature. The research we present in this article detours from these approaches, using a feminist post‐structuralist analysis to examine constructions of gender in a randomly selected sample of 100 early school readers…
‘Dear Girlfriend…’
Advice columns in teenage magazines provide space for young women to both write and read about representations of issues that teenage girls may grapple with in their everyday lives. Issues related to sexuality appear frequently in these pages. This article examines letters about sexual health issues written to the advice columns of Girlfriend, an Australasian teen magazine. Using a Foucauldian poststructuralist analysis, the article asks how sexu…
I’m 15 and Desperate for Sex’
In a social climate that largely problematizes young women’s sexuality, voices of sexual desire and pleasure may struggle to be heard. Teenage magazines, in actively marketing young women’s (hetero)sexuality, offer ‘permission’ to talk about sex through their problem pages. This article examines letters written to the advice pages of an Australasian teen magazine in which writers articulated or alluded to sexual desire. Using a feminist, poststru…
Street Girl”
This article is located in the body of feminist work on “girl culture” that has as its focus the shifts in constructions of femininity. A number of feminists have contextualised these shifts within the broader discursive influences of neo-liberalism, post-feminism, and “girl power,” each of which produce the millennium “girl” subject in particular ways. The independent, “sassy,” and “sexually free” girl may be seen as constructed at the intersect…
Jam, Jerusalem and calendar girls
Both lifelong learning and community are central to the mission of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (WI). Their website, for example, states that the WI aims to educate women to enable them to provide an effective role in the community, to expand their horizons and to develop and pass on important skills—key elements of lifelong learning and active citizenship. The research project reported in this paper considers questions of learni…
Learning to live
This paper explores the ways in which people with lifelong chronic illness engage with learning, and how learning impacts on the ways in which they learn to live with their illness. It considers their engagement with and changing focus of learning at different stages: prior to diagnosis, at about the time of diagnosis, and as their understanding of their condition deepens. It asks how knowledge of their illness affects people's learning, and whet…
Gender, class and ‘race’ in lifelong learning
Compartmentalising Culture
Social values are receiving increased attention in natural resource management policy and practice, and the notion of cultural values has recently emerged, particularly in relation to water resources. Philosophers, environmental policy analysts and others with an interest in environmental valuation have critically analysed value concepts and theories. A popular focus is the commonly ‘bipolar’ character of value construed as either an intrinsic or…
Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education
‘She might not have the right tools… and he does’
Children’s cultural worlds provide them with many different sources of information about gender and work. Early school reader illustrations, for example, are a cultural resource that produces particular meanings about gender, however children may also draw on understandings from other contexts to make their own sense of these representations. The study described in this article interviewed young children about illustrations depicting women and me…
Sociology (50 works) · Political science (37 works) · Gender Studies (34 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Gender Studies (26 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (24 works) · Social science (20 works) · Geography (18 works) · Human sexuality (17 works) · Ecology (16 works)