Thor Kerr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3783183 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thor Kerr |
| NOMBRES | Thor |
| APELLIDO | Kerr |
| FIRMA | KERR T |
| AFILIACIONES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7101-1204 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Hybrid futures and white nostalgia
This article examines Kamala Harris’ 2020–2024 presidential trajectory as a site where multiracial, diasporic identity confronts white supremacist nostalgia in contemporary US politics. Its central thesis argues that Harris’ transoceanic hybridity, rooted in Black Atlantic and South Asian Indian Ocean histories, both destabilizes hegemonic narratives of national belonging and reveals the structural limits placed on hybrid, gendered bodies within …
Integration of Geospatial Data in Education Management Systems
This study aims to analyze the integration of geospatial data into the education management system through a multicase study in three regions of East Java in Indonesia, namely Surabaya City, Malang City, and Jember Regency. In line with SDGs 4, this study strategically applies GIS to advance equitable access to education by reducing spatial disparities across East Java's metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions. This study adopted a quantitative…
Heritage Interpretation and Accessibility Through 360° Panoramic Tours
This paper examines how 360-degree panoramic tours can enhance heritage promotion, accessibility, and engagement, illustrated through two case studies: the Understory Art and Nature Trail in Northcliffe and the Subiaco Hotel in Perth, Western Australia. The Understory Art Trail was deployed in Google Street View to deliver an interactive, virtual walkthrough of outdoor art installations. This made the site accessible to a geographically diverse g…
Holographic prism projection
This study in media practice provides insights on video production for holographic prism projection, which has become more accessible as smart flat screens have become more available. The study reflects on the experiences of producing, installing and viewing a documentary video projected via holographic prism, titled ‘FarNearFutureNow.’ Engaging the participation of Extinction Rebellion (XR) members, this university-funded production included rec…
Bricolage or breakthrough? Entrepreneurial responses to tourism development in a regional tourism destination
The Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) framework contributes to the study of tourism destination evolution by focusing on the various circumstances and events through which tourism destinations develop over long periods of time. Our research objective is to investigate how players in tourism destinations shape development pathways when they face stagnant or lock‐in situations. Applying the concepts of path dependence and path creation, we expl…
Bodies in flux, cultural studies and the current critical climate
In 2019, we, (a very small and passionate group of Western Australian Cultural Studies academics), put forward a bid to host the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) annual conference in Perth (Boorloo) for 2020.A special mention to Rob Cover for this initiative. 1 The last time the CSAA conference was held in Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Country, was in 2004.So, it would be sixteen years between the Perth Cultural Studies conferences.…
Social imaginaries of subsea cables
As most data travel through subsea cables, this article investigates social imaginaries of the cable laid in 1889 from Banyuwangi in south-eastern Java to Broome in north-western Australia. Through collaborative fieldwork in Broome and Banyuwangi, radically different representations are identified at either end of the cable. In Broome, the cable telegraph station is memorialized for introducing colonial sophistication to a town where Java is cele…
Utopian resort living
This article provides a comparative analysis of localised contests over the reclamation of new islands for resort-style development projects in waters near tourist destinations in Bali and Western Australia. The research focuses on the Tirta Wahana Bali Internasional Resort proposed for a seabed site in Benoa Bay, Bali, and the North Port Quay development proposed for a seabed site off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. The investigation …
Media, Machines and Might
This paper addresses the prevalence of state violence directed at Aboriginal people. It examines how violence has been reproduced in recent years in the space of Western Australia through mutually-reinforcing relations of financial interest, and how the function of private capital accumulation – in state violence against sovereign Aboriginal people – has remained hidden in white sight. This paper argues that state violence is legitimised through …
Indigenous persistence and entitlement
Facades of diversity
This article focuses on urban space and heritage. Our aim is to understand how ordinary streets in Perth respond to urban change and how much these urban streets represent Western Australia's heritage. The intention is to eschew the dominant branding of WA as Australia's mining state and shift the spotlight so that in addition to the economic and material, light is also shed on the socio-cultural in the everyday and the vernacular. This project u…
Negotiating green space between ecological threats and beloved objects
This paper is directed at furthering understandings of the function of space, time and sensory experience in environmental discourse. It does this through an empirical study of the publicity campaigns and counter-campaigns around North Port Quay, proposed as a sustainable property development project for coastal waters off Fremantle in Western Australia. The case demonstrates how a proposed ecological improvement project is contested in discursiv…
Reproducing temples in Fremantle
This paper explores the production and reproduction of a sacred-soliciting built environment in the Western Australian port town of Fremantle, drawing attention to temple iconography produced in the first century of European settlement and its preservation and reproduction at the hands of local and national heritage movements since the 1970s. I show how Fremantle’s High Street solicits a sense of the sacred in its visitors, operating in a similar…
Indigenous persistence and entitlement
Media, Machines and Might
This paper addresses the prevalence of state violence directed at Aboriginal people. It examines how violence has been reproduced in recent years in the space of Western Australia through mutually-reinforcing relations of financial interest, and how the function of private capital accumulation – in state violence against sovereign Aboriginal people – has remained hidden in white sight. This paper argues that state violence is legitimised through …
Reproducing temples in Fremantle
This paper explores the production and reproduction of a sacred-soliciting built environment in the Western Australian port town of Fremantle, drawing attention to temple iconography produced in the first century of European settlement and its preservation and reproduction at the hands of local and national heritage movements since the 1970s. I show how Fremantle’s High Street solicits a sense of the sacred in its visitors, operating in a similar…
Utopian resort living
This article provides a comparative analysis of localised contests over the reclamation of new islands for resort-style development projects in waters near tourist destinations in Bali and Western Australia. The research focuses on the Tirta Wahana Bali Internasional Resort proposed for a seabed site in Benoa Bay, Bali, and the North Port Quay development proposed for a seabed site off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. The investigation …
Reproducing temples in Fremantle
This paper explores the production and reproduction of a sacred-soliciting built environment in the Western Australian port town of Fremantle, drawing attention to temple iconography produced in the first century of European settlement and its preservation and reproduction at the hands of local and national heritage movements since the 1970s. I show how Fremantle’s High Street solicits a sense of the sacred in its visitors, operating in a similar…
Negotiating green space between ecological threats and beloved objects
This paper is directed at furthering understandings of the function of space, time and sensory experience in environmental discourse. It does this through an empirical study of the publicity campaigns and counter-campaigns around North Port Quay, proposed as a sustainable property development project for coastal waters off Fremantle in Western Australia. The case demonstrates how a proposed ecological improvement project is contested in discursiv…
Media, Machines and Might
This paper addresses the prevalence of state violence directed at Aboriginal people. It examines how violence has been reproduced in recent years in the space of Western Australia through mutually-reinforcing relations of financial interest, and how the function of private capital accumulation – in state violence against sovereign Aboriginal people – has remained hidden in white sight. This paper argues that state violence is legitimised through …
Indigenous persistence and entitlement
Facades of diversity
This article focuses on urban space and heritage. Our aim is to understand how ordinary streets in Perth respond to urban change and how much these urban streets represent Western Australia's heritage. The intention is to eschew the dominant branding of WA as Australia's mining state and shift the spotlight so that in addition to the economic and material, light is also shed on the socio-cultural in the everyday and the vernacular. This project u…
Utopian resort living
This article provides a comparative analysis of localised contests over the reclamation of new islands for resort-style development projects in waters near tourist destinations in Bali and Western Australia. The research focuses on the Tirta Wahana Bali Internasional Resort proposed for a seabed site in Benoa Bay, Bali, and the North Port Quay development proposed for a seabed site off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. The investigation …
Social imaginaries of subsea cables
As most data travel through subsea cables, this article investigates social imaginaries of the cable laid in 1889 from Banyuwangi in south-eastern Java to Broome in north-western Australia. Through collaborative fieldwork in Broome and Banyuwangi, radically different representations are identified at either end of the cable. In Broome, the cable telegraph station is memorialized for introducing colonial sophistication to a town where Java is cele…
Bodies in flux, cultural studies and the current critical climate
In 2019, we, (a very small and passionate group of Western Australian Cultural Studies academics), put forward a bid to host the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) annual conference in Perth (Boorloo) for 2020.A special mention to Rob Cover for this initiative. 1 The last time the CSAA conference was held in Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Country, was in 2004.So, it would be sixteen years between the Perth Cultural Studies conferences.…
Holographic prism projection
This study in media practice provides insights on video production for holographic prism projection, which has become more accessible as smart flat screens have become more available. The study reflects on the experiences of producing, installing and viewing a documentary video projected via holographic prism, titled ‘FarNearFutureNow.’ Engaging the participation of Extinction Rebellion (XR) members, this university-funded production included rec…
Bricolage or breakthrough? Entrepreneurial responses to tourism development in a regional tourism destination
The Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) framework contributes to the study of tourism destination evolution by focusing on the various circumstances and events through which tourism destinations develop over long periods of time. Our research objective is to investigate how players in tourism destinations shape development pathways when they face stagnant or lock‐in situations. Applying the concepts of path dependence and path creation, we expl…
Integration of Geospatial Data in Education Management Systems
This study aims to analyze the integration of geospatial data into the education management system through a multicase study in three regions of East Java in Indonesia, namely Surabaya City, Malang City, and Jember Regency. In line with SDGs 4, this study strategically applies GIS to advance equitable access to education by reducing spatial disparities across East Java's metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions. This study adopted a quantitative…
Heritage Interpretation and Accessibility Through 360° Panoramic Tours
This paper examines how 360-degree panoramic tours can enhance heritage promotion, accessibility, and engagement, illustrated through two case studies: the Understory Art and Nature Trail in Northcliffe and the Subiaco Hotel in Perth, Western Australia. The Understory Art Trail was deployed in Google Street View to deliver an interactive, virtual walkthrough of outdoor art installations. This made the site accessible to a geographically diverse g…
Hybrid futures and white nostalgia
This article examines Kamala Harris’ 2020–2024 presidential trajectory as a site where multiracial, diasporic identity confronts white supremacist nostalgia in contemporary US politics. Its central thesis argues that Harris’ transoceanic hybridity, rooted in Black Atlantic and South Asian Indian Ocean histories, both destabilizes hegemonic narratives of national belonging and reveals the structural limits placed on hybrid, gendered bodies within …
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