Danielle Drozdzewski
Biographic Data
| ID | 135459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Drozdzewski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Drozdzewski |
| SIGNATURE | DROZDZEWSKI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6802-0540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Telling asylum stories differently: Arts-based methods and vignettes of Sogie asylum claims in Sweden
This paper advances the case for arts-based methods as a theoretically grounded and practice-led approach to qualitative research with vulnerable populations. Seeking asylum based on sexual orientation and gender identity expression (SOGIE) provides an instructive case for this methodological argument, specifically because SOGIE claims are rooted in non-visible, trauma-inflected and embodied identity traits that challenge formal credibility asses…
BioSocial walking: Digital and Embodied Methods for Understanding Migrant Belonging
Developing QualNotes: A collaborative and cross-disciplinary ethnography
Rarely do academics reveal the ‘backend’ of their research; the hours of labour invested into question generation, ethics compliance, transcription, translation, and data analysis, and in our case coding. Further, when we are working collaboratively, the conversations that occur between collaborators seldom appear in final publications either. In this paper, we use three vignettes to explicate the ‘backend’ of the development of a mobile applicat…
The ‘post’ as powerful specific vocabulary
On several occasions through her article, ‘Keeping You Post-ed: Space-Time Regimes, Metaphors, and Post-Apartheid’, Houssay-Holzschuch (2021) prompts us to consider suitable vocabulary for analysing ‘post’ situations. In this commentary, I pursue the notion that the ‘post’ discourse already has a specific vocabulary. Taking Houssay-Holzschuch’s lead and drawing from Massey’s conception of space-time regimes, I argue that ‘post’ is used powerfully…
Research ethics with vulnerable groups: Ethics in practice and procedure
In this article, drawing from a feminist epistemology, we engage in an exercise of encounter and navigation as we critically reflect on the ethical practices undertaken during research with vulnerable people. That research comprised engaging Sri Lankan refugees in an oral and visual research method that included walking through and filming their homes, followed by an in-depth interview. The research process was an intimate and emotional explorati…
Sonic methods, sonic affects
Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland
Using a politics of identity and memory approach, herein, we explore how political discourse plays out in practice and ‘in place’ when Poles were compelled to consider the introduction of visibly different persons, with different cultural characteristics, to their society. In 2017, and at the height of the "migrant/refugee crisis", we conducted 200 short interviews in Wrocław, Poland, to gauge and interpolate attitudes and opinions to refugees, i…
(Re)visiting the neighbourhood
Neighbourhoods are complex places, at once familiar and foreign, easily found on a map or bounded by rules only insiders know. Although neighbourhood is a concept, one that we experience daily, it remains conceptually challenging for geographers and planners alike. Nevertheless, and despite its complexity, the importance of the understanding the neighbourhood should not be overlooked, especially in the post-pandemic world. Understanding the neigh…
Locating the embodied interconnections in performative geopolitics
Review of: The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia, James Riding, The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia. EU: Ibidem Press, 2019; 192 pp. 9783838213118, $ 30.00 (paperback)
Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home
The word detour denotes taking adifferent direction and/or adeviating pathway– especially from aconsidered norm. While the connotations of taking adetour are not always negative, the idea of movement away from, or against an assumed trajectory indicates achange in direction. In this paper, we pursue both what prompts this changed direction and the products of the detour itself. We follow the detours of Sri Lankan refugees and asylum seekers enact…
Cultural memory and identity in the context of war: Experiential, place-based and political concerns
Remembrance of war and conflict exposes the intricate interweaving of cultural memory and identity. Nations commemorate war to link narratives of the past with the present. This linking creates shared national narratives that temporally reinforce identities across the geography of the nation and among diverse citizenry. In this paper, the authors turn their attention towards the experiential and place-based concerns of the politics of memory with…
Urban perceptions of tree-change migration
This article discusses urban residents’ familiarisation and conceptualisation of the Australian ex-urban migration trend “tree-change”. Urban residents from Sydney, Australia were surveyed and asked whether they were familiar with the term tree-change and to nominate imagery and locations considered to reflect a tree-change move. Many survey respondents were not familiar with the term tree-change, but had little difficulty understanding the conce…
Who can play this game?” The lived experiences of doctoral candidates and early career women in the neoliberal university
Work intensification is a characteristic of the current neoliberal trend in academia. Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers (PhD candidates and ECRs) in geography are no strangers to this development but are rarely the focus of publications or dialogue on the (gendered) outcomes of the academy's neoliberal agenda. Encouraged by the recent emotional turn in the social sciences and humanities, this article seeks to unveil some of the everyday …
Less‐than‐fluent” and culturally connected: Language learning and cultural fluency as research methodology
The purpose of this paper is to critically explore language learning and cultural fluency as a research methodology. Deploying an auto‐ethnographic approach, I scrutinise my programme of language learning and forays into the cultural to highlight how knowledge of the cultural contexts of a language, and not just the language itself, have provided nuanced insights into Polish cultural memory and identity. The paper's specific contribution is to ag…
Electric vehicle adoption: An analysis of best practice and pitfalls for policy making from experiences of Europe and the US
Accelerating the rate of electric vehicle (EV) adoption is an objective of many countries to mitigate and ameliorate negative externalities arising from the use of fossil fuels for personal motorised transportation including: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air pollution and noise, as well as increasing energy security and reducing budget deficits. Within the dynamic field of EVs, this paper highlights strategic directions for policy makers to in…
Assembling attachments to homes under bushfire risk
This research, conducted in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, explores attachment to the home in the context of bushfire risk. The paper builds on existing research that has focused both on the home and on emplaced and mobile methods therein and seeks to understand the range of human and non-human attachments. We situate our examination of attachment in the context of a bushfire-prone suburban area to consider whether attachments to…
Capturing commemoration: Using mobile recordings within memory research
This paper details the contribution of mobile devices to capturing commemoration in action. It investigates the incorporation of audio and sound recording devices, observation, and note-taking into a mobile (auto)ethnographic research methodology, to research a large-scale commemorative event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On May 4, 2016, the sounds of a Silent March-through the streets of Amsterdam to Dam Square-were recorded and complemented by…
Stereotyping the Shire: Assigning White Privilege to Place and Identity
Through a focus on the media’s role in constructing and maintaining stereotypes of white privilege and racism, this paper investigates the stereotyping of the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia, and its residents. Print media plays a significant role in constructing social identities, shaping public opinion and typecasting public perception. Using a media content analysis and surveys with residents and non-residents of the Sutherland Shire we (d…
Does Anzac Sit Comfortably within Australia's Multiculturalism
Certain events mark national histories—wars most especially among them; they become foundational to constructions of national identity. Declaring and maintaining a strong collective identity is an
Geographies of memory, place and identity: Intersections in remembering war and conflict
The terms memory, place and identity exemplify the core concerns of geographical inquiry - focusing on linkages between people, place, and culture. In this review, we hone in on the intersections between these three terms in the context of the remembrance of war and conflict. We seek to highlight how memory informs the construction and maintenance of identities (personal, national, and supranational) post-conflict and post-war, and how these iden…
Hybrid identities: Juxtaposing multiple identities against the ‘authentic’ Moken
The Moken and Moklen are an indigenous population residing along the Andaman coast of Thailand. They have been represented, both in popular and academic discourse, as seafaring nomads living in traditional boats and small temporal coastal communities. The overwhelmingly precept of the existing literature about the Moken is one of vulnerability and of stemming the erosion of ‘authentic’ Moken cultural identities. Identification of Moken as being u…
Care-work on fieldwork: Taking your own children into the field
AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank their children and partners for support in and out of the field, their Moken participants for inspiring them to think further, and Tracey Skelton and Danielle's mentor for their insightful and constructive comments on the paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.FundingThe Thai-based research was funded by a UNSW Australia Science Faculty and Early Care…
The Experiences of Weak and Non-Swimmers Caught in Rip Currents at Australian Beaches
© 2015,Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. ABSTRACT: Beach rip currents present a risk to weak and non-swimmers, whose limited open water swim competencies may render them incapable of swimming out of these common and strong offshore flows. Here, the aim has been to explore this group's vulnerability by identifying how the limits of their swimming competencies influence their abilities to successfully execute a rip current exit strategy.…
Dye in the Water”: A Visual Approach to Communicating the Rip Current Hazard
Many beaches are characterized by rip currents—strong, narrow flows that can quickly carry bathers offshore, often against their will. However, despite long-standing efforts at community education and awareness strategies, people continue to drown in rip currents at high rates. Here we describe a simple, but powerful visual-based risk communication approach involving imagery associated with releases of colored dye into rip currents that has been …
When the Everyday and the Sacred Collide: Positioning Płaszów in the Kraków Landscape
In Krak w, Poland, the sacredness of the former Płasz w concentration camp is positioned within the everyday and urban landscape. The grievous history of the site contrasts the urbanity of the busy thoroughfare along one of the site's perimeters, where commercial developments are increasing in number and size. The site's open green spaces and the paucity of formal and material monuments place it outside the ambit of more common public portrayals …
Who can play this game?” The lived experiences of doctoral candidates and early career women in the neoliberal university
Work intensification is a characteristic of the current neoliberal trend in academia. Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers (PhD candidates and ECRs) in geography are no strangers to this development but are rarely the focus of publications or dialogue on the (gendered) outcomes of the academy's neoliberal agenda. Encouraged by the recent emotional turn in the social sciences and humanities, this article seeks to unveil some of the everyday …
Geographies of memory, place and identity: Intersections in remembering war and conflict
The terms memory, place and identity exemplify the core concerns of geographical inquiry - focusing on linkages between people, place, and culture. In this review, we hone in on the intersections between these three terms in the context of the remembrance of war and conflict. We seek to highlight how memory informs the construction and maintenance of identities (personal, national, and supranational) post-conflict and post-war, and how these iden…
Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home
The word detour denotes taking adifferent direction and/or adeviating pathway– especially from aconsidered norm. While the connotations of taking adetour are not always negative, the idea of movement away from, or against an assumed trajectory indicates achange in direction. In this paper, we pursue both what prompts this changed direction and the products of the detour itself. We follow the detours of Sri Lankan refugees and asylum seekers enact…
Language Tourism in Poland
This paper explores the drivers for language tourism through an examination of a group of foreign students studying the Polish language in Poland. Travel for education represents a growing sector of the international tourist market. Polish language courses for foreigners are an emergent form of tourism in Poland. This research examines two distinct groups of Polish language students: those with and without Polish heritage. For those students with…
Cultural memory and identity in the context of war: Experiential, place-based and political concerns
Remembrance of war and conflict exposes the intricate interweaving of cultural memory and identity. Nations commemorate war to link narratives of the past with the present. This linking creates shared national narratives that temporally reinforce identities across the geography of the nation and among diverse citizenry. In this paper, the authors turn their attention towards the experiential and place-based concerns of the politics of memory with…
A place called 'Bielany: Negotiating a diasporic Polish place in Sydney
This paper examines the creation of a distinctly Polish place by Polish migrants and their children, in Sydney, Australia. I explore the use of place as a means of maintaining distinct ethno-cultural identity in diaspora by evaluating how different groups of Polish people contextualise their diasporic identity, attribute meaning to place, and how these meanings change through time. Differing generational cohorts and waves of migration within Sydn…
Using history in the streetscape to affirm geopolitics of memory
Commentary
We're moving out: Youth Out-Migration Intentions in Coastal Non-Metropolitan New South Wales
This article discusses youth out-migration on the non-metropolitan New South Wales Eastern Seaboard. High levels of in-migration and counter-urbanisation, typical of many coastal non-metropolitan towns in NSW, mask the out-migration of youth. There are relatively few 15-24 year olds in the coastal communities of non-metropolitan New South Wales, because many youths out-migrate to larger centres, for a range of reasons. Out-migration also demarcat…
Resident Attitudes to Farmland Protection Measures in the Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales
In-migration to popular ‘sea change’ and ‘tree change’ regions has produced conflicts between rural land users. In the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, new residential developments have been built on much of what was previously prime agricultural land, while farmers (in particular, those negatively affected by the deregulation of the dairy industry) have sought to secure retirement incomes by subdividing land for sale. Although develope…
Sonic methods, sonic affects
Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland
Using a politics of identity and memory approach, herein, we explore how political discourse plays out in practice and ‘in place’ when Poles were compelled to consider the introduction of visibly different persons, with different cultural characteristics, to their society. In 2017, and at the height of the "migrant/refugee crisis", we conducted 200 short interviews in Wrocław, Poland, to gauge and interpolate attitudes and opinions to refugees, i…
(Re)visiting the neighbourhood
Neighbourhoods are complex places, at once familiar and foreign, easily found on a map or bounded by rules only insiders know. Although neighbourhood is a concept, one that we experience daily, it remains conceptually challenging for geographers and planners alike. Nevertheless, and despite its complexity, the importance of the understanding the neighbourhood should not be overlooked, especially in the post-pandemic world. Understanding the neigh…
Research ethics with vulnerable groups: Ethics in practice and procedure
In this article, drawing from a feminist epistemology, we engage in an exercise of encounter and navigation as we critically reflect on the ethical practices undertaken during research with vulnerable people. That research comprised engaging Sri Lankan refugees in an oral and visual research method that included walking through and filming their homes, followed by an in-depth interview. The research process was an intimate and emotional explorati…
Knowing (or Not) about Katyń: The Silencing and Surfacing of Public Memory
For Poles, the Katyń Forest, in Russia, is a place immediately associated with national suffering. Katyń is one of three sites where approximately 20 000 Poles were executed during World War II, by the Soviet secret service. To shore up wartime political dependencies, knowledge of Katyń was silenced by the dominant hegemony. The public absence of Katyń narratives compelled their safeguarding and presence (where possible) in private spheres of the…
Assembling attachments to homes under bushfire risk
This research, conducted in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, explores attachment to the home in the context of bushfire risk. The paper builds on existing research that has focused both on the home and on emplaced and mobile methods therein and seeks to understand the range of human and non-human attachments. We situate our examination of attachment in the context of a bushfire-prone suburban area to consider whether attachments to…
Stereotyping the Shire: Assigning White Privilege to Place and Identity
Through a focus on the media’s role in constructing and maintaining stereotypes of white privilege and racism, this paper investigates the stereotyping of the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia, and its residents. Print media plays a significant role in constructing social identities, shaping public opinion and typecasting public perception. Using a media content analysis and surveys with residents and non-residents of the Sutherland Shire we (d…
Care-work on fieldwork: Taking your own children into the field
AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank their children and partners for support in and out of the field, their Moken participants for inspiring them to think further, and Tracey Skelton and Danielle's mentor for their insightful and constructive comments on the paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.FundingThe Thai-based research was funded by a UNSW Australia Science Faculty and Early Care…
The Experiences of Weak and Non-Swimmers Caught in Rip Currents at Australian Beaches
© 2015,Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. ABSTRACT: Beach rip currents present a risk to weak and non-swimmers, whose limited open water swim competencies may render them incapable of swimming out of these common and strong offshore flows. Here, the aim has been to explore this group's vulnerability by identifying how the limits of their swimming competencies influence their abilities to successfully execute a rip current exit strategy.…
Capturing commemoration: Using mobile recordings within memory research
This paper details the contribution of mobile devices to capturing commemoration in action. It investigates the incorporation of audio and sound recording devices, observation, and note-taking into a mobile (auto)ethnographic research methodology, to research a large-scale commemorative event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On May 4, 2016, the sounds of a Silent March-through the streets of Amsterdam to Dam Square-were recorded and complemented by…
Dye in the Water”: A Visual Approach to Communicating the Rip Current Hazard
Many beaches are characterized by rip currents—strong, narrow flows that can quickly carry bathers offshore, often against their will. However, despite long-standing efforts at community education and awareness strategies, people continue to drown in rip currents at high rates. Here we describe a simple, but powerful visual-based risk communication approach involving imagery associated with releases of colored dye into rip currents that has been …
When the Everyday and the Sacred Collide: Positioning Płaszów in the Kraków Landscape
In Krak w, Poland, the sacredness of the former Płasz w concentration camp is positioned within the everyday and urban landscape. The grievous history of the site contrasts the urbanity of the busy thoroughfare along one of the site's perimeters, where commercial developments are increasing in number and size. The site's open green spaces and the paucity of formal and material monuments place it outside the ambit of more common public portrayals …
The ‘post’ as powerful specific vocabulary
On several occasions through her article, ‘Keeping You Post-ed: Space-Time Regimes, Metaphors, and Post-Apartheid’, Houssay-Holzschuch (2021) prompts us to consider suitable vocabulary for analysing ‘post’ situations. In this commentary, I pursue the notion that the ‘post’ discourse already has a specific vocabulary. Taking Houssay-Holzschuch’s lead and drawing from Massey’s conception of space-time regimes, I argue that ‘post’ is used powerfully…
Less‐than‐fluent” and culturally connected: Language learning and cultural fluency as research methodology
The purpose of this paper is to critically explore language learning and cultural fluency as a research methodology. Deploying an auto‐ethnographic approach, I scrutinise my programme of language learning and forays into the cultural to highlight how knowledge of the cultural contexts of a language, and not just the language itself, have provided nuanced insights into Polish cultural memory and identity. The paper's specific contribution is to ag…
Electric vehicle adoption: An analysis of best practice and pitfalls for policy making from experiences of Europe and the US
Accelerating the rate of electric vehicle (EV) adoption is an objective of many countries to mitigate and ameliorate negative externalities arising from the use of fossil fuels for personal motorised transportation including: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air pollution and noise, as well as increasing energy security and reducing budget deficits. Within the dynamic field of EVs, this paper highlights strategic directions for policy makers to in…
Resident Attitudes to Farmland Protection Measures in the Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales
In-migration to popular ‘sea change’ and ‘tree change’ regions has produced conflicts between rural land users. In the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, new residential developments have been built on much of what was previously prime agricultural land, while farmers (in particular, those negatively affected by the deregulation of the dairy industry) have sought to secure retirement incomes by subdividing land for sale. Although develope…
A place called 'Bielany: Negotiating a diasporic Polish place in Sydney
This paper examines the creation of a distinctly Polish place by Polish migrants and their children, in Sydney, Australia. I explore the use of place as a means of maintaining distinct ethno-cultural identity in diaspora by evaluating how different groups of Polish people contextualise their diasporic identity, attribute meaning to place, and how these meanings change through time. Differing generational cohorts and waves of migration within Sydn…
We're moving out: Youth Out-Migration Intentions in Coastal Non-Metropolitan New South Wales
This article discusses youth out-migration on the non-metropolitan New South Wales Eastern Seaboard. High levels of in-migration and counter-urbanisation, typical of many coastal non-metropolitan towns in NSW, mask the out-migration of youth. There are relatively few 15-24 year olds in the coastal communities of non-metropolitan New South Wales, because many youths out-migrate to larger centres, for a range of reasons. Out-migration also demarcat…
Festival places: Revitalising rural Australia
Festival places: revitalising rural Australia Chris Gibson & John Connell (eds), 2011 Channel View Publications, Clevedon, UK 296 pp. ISBN 978-184-54116-6-4 (soft), $72.95 Festival places explores
Language Tourism in Poland
This paper explores the drivers for language tourism through an examination of a group of foreign students studying the Polish language in Poland. Travel for education represents a growing sector of the international tourist market. Polish language courses for foreigners are an emergent form of tourism in Poland. This research examines two distinct groups of Polish language students: those with and without Polish heritage. For those students with…
Knowing (or Not) about Katyń: The Silencing and Surfacing of Public Memory
For Poles, the Katyń Forest, in Russia, is a place immediately associated with national suffering. Katyń is one of three sites where approximately 20 000 Poles were executed during World War II, by the Soviet secret service. To shore up wartime political dependencies, knowledge of Katyń was silenced by the dominant hegemony. The public absence of Katyń narratives compelled their safeguarding and presence (where possible) in private spheres of the…
Commentary
Dye in the Water”: A Visual Approach to Communicating the Rip Current Hazard
Many beaches are characterized by rip currents—strong, narrow flows that can quickly carry bathers offshore, often against their will. However, despite long-standing efforts at community education and awareness strategies, people continue to drown in rip currents at high rates. Here we describe a simple, but powerful visual-based risk communication approach involving imagery associated with releases of colored dye into rip currents that has been …
When the Everyday and the Sacred Collide: Positioning Płaszów in the Kraków Landscape
In Krak w, Poland, the sacredness of the former Płasz w concentration camp is positioned within the everyday and urban landscape. The grievous history of the site contrasts the urbanity of the busy thoroughfare along one of the site's perimeters, where commercial developments are increasing in number and size. The site's open green spaces and the paucity of formal and material monuments place it outside the ambit of more common public portrayals …
Using history in the streetscape to affirm geopolitics of memory
Hybrid identities: Juxtaposing multiple identities against the ‘authentic’ Moken
The Moken and Moklen are an indigenous population residing along the Andaman coast of Thailand. They have been represented, both in popular and academic discourse, as seafaring nomads living in traditional boats and small temporal coastal communities. The overwhelmingly precept of the existing literature about the Moken is one of vulnerability and of stemming the erosion of ‘authentic’ Moken cultural identities. Identification of Moken as being u…
Care-work on fieldwork: Taking your own children into the field
AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank their children and partners for support in and out of the field, their Moken participants for inspiring them to think further, and Tracey Skelton and Danielle's mentor for their insightful and constructive comments on the paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.FundingThe Thai-based research was funded by a UNSW Australia Science Faculty and Early Care…
The Experiences of Weak and Non-Swimmers Caught in Rip Currents at Australian Beaches
© 2015,Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. ABSTRACT: Beach rip currents present a risk to weak and non-swimmers, whose limited open water swim competencies may render them incapable of swimming out of these common and strong offshore flows. Here, the aim has been to explore this group's vulnerability by identifying how the limits of their swimming competencies influence their abilities to successfully execute a rip current exit strategy.…
Does Anzac Sit Comfortably within Australia's Multiculturalism
Certain events mark national histories—wars most especially among them; they become foundational to constructions of national identity. Declaring and maintaining a strong collective identity is an
Geographies of memory, place and identity: Intersections in remembering war and conflict
The terms memory, place and identity exemplify the core concerns of geographical inquiry - focusing on linkages between people, place, and culture. In this review, we hone in on the intersections between these three terms in the context of the remembrance of war and conflict. We seek to highlight how memory informs the construction and maintenance of identities (personal, national, and supranational) post-conflict and post-war, and how these iden…
Capturing commemoration: Using mobile recordings within memory research
This paper details the contribution of mobile devices to capturing commemoration in action. It investigates the incorporation of audio and sound recording devices, observation, and note-taking into a mobile (auto)ethnographic research methodology, to research a large-scale commemorative event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On May 4, 2016, the sounds of a Silent March-through the streets of Amsterdam to Dam Square-were recorded and complemented by…
Stereotyping the Shire: Assigning White Privilege to Place and Identity
Through a focus on the media’s role in constructing and maintaining stereotypes of white privilege and racism, this paper investigates the stereotyping of the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia, and its residents. Print media plays a significant role in constructing social identities, shaping public opinion and typecasting public perception. Using a media content analysis and surveys with residents and non-residents of the Sutherland Shire we (d…
Urban perceptions of tree-change migration
This article discusses urban residents’ familiarisation and conceptualisation of the Australian ex-urban migration trend “tree-change”. Urban residents from Sydney, Australia were surveyed and asked whether they were familiar with the term tree-change and to nominate imagery and locations considered to reflect a tree-change move. Many survey respondents were not familiar with the term tree-change, but had little difficulty understanding the conce…
Who can play this game?” The lived experiences of doctoral candidates and early career women in the neoliberal university
Work intensification is a characteristic of the current neoliberal trend in academia. Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers (PhD candidates and ECRs) in geography are no strangers to this development but are rarely the focus of publications or dialogue on the (gendered) outcomes of the academy's neoliberal agenda. Encouraged by the recent emotional turn in the social sciences and humanities, this article seeks to unveil some of the everyday …
Less‐than‐fluent” and culturally connected: Language learning and cultural fluency as research methodology
The purpose of this paper is to critically explore language learning and cultural fluency as a research methodology. Deploying an auto‐ethnographic approach, I scrutinise my programme of language learning and forays into the cultural to highlight how knowledge of the cultural contexts of a language, and not just the language itself, have provided nuanced insights into Polish cultural memory and identity. The paper's specific contribution is to ag…
Electric vehicle adoption: An analysis of best practice and pitfalls for policy making from experiences of Europe and the US
Accelerating the rate of electric vehicle (EV) adoption is an objective of many countries to mitigate and ameliorate negative externalities arising from the use of fossil fuels for personal motorised transportation including: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air pollution and noise, as well as increasing energy security and reducing budget deficits. Within the dynamic field of EVs, this paper highlights strategic directions for policy makers to in…
Assembling attachments to homes under bushfire risk
This research, conducted in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, explores attachment to the home in the context of bushfire risk. The paper builds on existing research that has focused both on the home and on emplaced and mobile methods therein and seeks to understand the range of human and non-human attachments. We situate our examination of attachment in the context of a bushfire-prone suburban area to consider whether attachments to…
Cultural memory and identity in the context of war: Experiential, place-based and political concerns
Remembrance of war and conflict exposes the intricate interweaving of cultural memory and identity. Nations commemorate war to link narratives of the past with the present. This linking creates shared national narratives that temporally reinforce identities across the geography of the nation and among diverse citizenry. In this paper, the authors turn their attention towards the experiential and place-based concerns of the politics of memory with…
Locating the embodied interconnections in performative geopolitics
Review of: The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia, James Riding, The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia. EU: Ibidem Press, 2019; 192 pp. 9783838213118, $ 30.00 (paperback)
Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home
The word detour denotes taking adifferent direction and/or adeviating pathway– especially from aconsidered norm. While the connotations of taking adetour are not always negative, the idea of movement away from, or against an assumed trajectory indicates achange in direction. In this paper, we pursue both what prompts this changed direction and the products of the detour itself. We follow the detours of Sri Lankan refugees and asylum seekers enact…
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