M Lobo
Biographic Data
| ID | 16445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Lobo |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lobo |
| SIGNATURE | LOBO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7733-666X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Opening portals, shattering windows and crafting breathable worlds during the pandemic: Young, Indian-Australians in hotel quarantine
Geographies of bordering practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in societies with white majority cultures have focused on unjust harms experienced by displaced, disadvantaged and dispossessed people of colour. This article, however, makes a radical political move to centre the overlooked everyday lives of young, relatively privileged Indian-Australian residents affected by racial hierarchies, forced border crossings and mandatory hotel quarantine…
Breaking open Australian archives: Migrant Working Lives, Industrial Landscapes and Nation Building
This photo essay visualises migrant architectures of work environments in industrial areas of post-war Australia
Spaces of Multispecies Justice
This book produces new sparks of thought on the promise of multispecies justice for ‘whom or what’ (Kirksey and Chao, p 6) by centring plant worlds, bird worlds, animal worlds and other-than-human
Immersive Realities in the "Place of Flowers" and Southern Sea Country, Australia: Slow Science, Artistic Visualizations, and Deep Time Stories of the Earth Otherwise
This article explores how immersion in deep space-times of the earth, Indigenous storytelling, and virtual realities disrupt dystopian futures shaped by Western scientific perspectives on environmental change and climate events. As a Nyul Nyul sand artist, Larrakia story-keeper, physical geographer, cultural geographer, and creative transmedia producer, we reflect on our journey across First Nations lands through the immersive full-dome film The …
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies
This commentary illuminates how Whitehead's vitalistic ethos and speculative philosophy mobilises decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies. These risky leaps that unsettle apocalyptic, commonsense western literacies of planetary crises call for daring and experimentation. Amid the ongoing brutality of a racial, colonial, and capitalist logics, perhaps Whitehead and Roberts are accomplices in decolonial leaps that contribute to a planetary …
Cities in Covid-19: Reconsidering Urban Form, Mobility, Housing and Planning in Australasia
Cities in COVID-19: Reconsidering Urban Form, Mobility, Housing and Planning in Australasia
Critical Dialogues is an occasional section of Postcolonial Studies that engages scholars in interdisciplinary conversations on seminal books that advance our understanding of the (post)colonial. Deco…
Decolonising Governance: Archipelagic Thinking illuminates refreshing ideas on decolonising governance and inspires careful reflections from four transdisciplinary scholars. I followed the unfoldin
Visualising quarantine: Spacetimes of chartered aircraft and mandatory hotels
Spacious accommodation in plush hotels offering city views are spaces of 14-day mandatory quarantine for those entering Australia during the pandemic. When international borders closed to tourists under the Biosecurity Act, 2015 in March 2020 (Australian Government, 2020), vacant hotels emerged as temporary quarantine accommodation for returning Australian citizens and permanent residents. Rather than tourists, mobile bodies that arrived by air b…
Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities
Oceans in the colonial Anthropocene are haunted by the brutal racial logics of slavery, indenture, plunder, violence, death, and multispecies extinction. This brutality manifested through uneven burdens of climate extremes, global warming, ocean acidification, sea level rise, pollution, and threats from offshore energy extraction, chokes the “life force” of oceans that sustain planetary belongings and futures. Global agreements on climate change,…
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India
This article argues that the storying of fossiliferous geological strata opens up geopolitical possibilities for climate justice and ethical energy futures. Our more-than-human approach to the fossil-fuel industry and more specifically coal trade is sparked by ongoing political controversies and protests that have erupted over the development of the Galilee coal Basin in central Queensland, Australia by Indian mining conglomerates. Through a focu…
The multiple intensities of Covid-19 space-times
Tiger atmospheres and co-belonging in mangrove worlds
This article adopts a place-based approach to explore tiger atmospheres in the Sundarbans, a transboundary environmental commons and major climatic hotspot in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of India and Bangladesh. We argue that affective intensities of greed ( lobh), fear ( bhaya), respect ( srodhya), trust ( biswas) and empathy ( karuna) sensed by the tiger subject contribute to novel theoretical as well as empirical insights into co-belon…
Decolonising the university from the Antipodes: Geographical thought and praxis
How does geographical thought and praxis challenge intellectual frameworks and everyday practices to seed pluriversal imaginaries? What role can Antipodean geographers play in decolonising knowledge production and the university? This special section centres, invigorates, and refreshes scholarship that embodies fearlessness, interdependence, commitment to epistemic justice, and generosity nourished by collaborative ethnographic research with, not…
Breathing spaces of fearlessness and generosity in the Anglophone/Western university
How can dreams for just futures take flight in universities with colonial legacies that celebrate diversity but silence academics of colour who seek to be more than "institutional ornaments" and "quiet achievers?" Emerging research on decolonising the university focuses on the struggle that hypervisible Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, and minority ethnic/ethno-religious academics of colour engage in to negotiate the subtleties of institutional …
Together in difference: A review symposium on Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities , by Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston
Celebrating and launching this inspiring book with Professor Lesley Head at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne was a multicultural event that circulated immense joy. There was a
Entangled bodies and visual ethnographies: Encounters in more‐than‐human worlds
In this special section we ask the question: “How can visual ethnographies that focus on sensory inhabitations of place make us attentive to diverse worlds?”
Encountering the city: Haptic images of suburban Darwin
Photographs by research participants capture the multisensory dimension of encounters in shared public spaces that are often difficult to articulate in words. Rather than freezing the moment in stillness, these images of movement and feeling that fuse vision, sound, touch, taste and smell show how racially differentiated bodies explore the city through practices that are part of their everyday life. This paper draws on photographs and poetry by l…
Earth unbound: Climate change, activism and justice
This experimental writing piece by the Earth Unbound Collective explores the ethical, political and pedagogical challenges in addressing climate change, activism and justice. The provocation Earth Unbound: the struggle to breathe and the creative thoughts that follow are inspired by the contagious energy of what Donna Haraway (2016 Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.[Crossref] , [Goo…
Living on the edge: Precarity and freedom in Darwin, Australia
The marked increase in the flow of asylum seekers and refugees to nations with white majority cultures is perceived as a crisis that needs to be well managed. The arrival of these ethnic-minority newcomers from countries in Africa, the Middle East, South/Central America and Asia contribute to national security concerns, border protection measures, restrictive immigration policies, everyday anxieties and racism. Australia, however, ‘manages’ the ‘…
Straying Beyond the Well-worn Path: Fighting for Racial Justice and Planetary Justice
This paper traces my intellectual journey in Australia as a first-generation migrant woman of colour inspired by Sara Ahmed’s politics and ethics that lets ‘strangers’ live and belong. I rethink co-occurring events such as the Black Lives Matter Movement, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic to highlight the everyday lives of black and brown bodies including Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. From a view ‘down under’ …
Commuter lives: A review symposium on David Bissell's Transit Life
This article presents a series of commentaries on Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities , published by MIT Press in 2018. Centring on an in—depth case study of Sydney, the book argues the need to attend carefully to the fine—grained detail of the commuting experience. In all sorts of ways, Transit Life presents a way of thinking about urban transportation radically different from that used by mainstream transport planners and geo…
Speculative listening: Melting sea ice and new methods of listening with the planet
In this paper we speculate on ways of listening with the planet as a way of producing multisensory knowledges of climate change. ‘Listening’ is a visceral experience that helps us consider the intricate, deeply entangled relations between human and non-human worlds through multisensory attentions. We draw on Oliveros’ notion of ‘deep listening’ and methodological experimentation to explore and speculate about the effects of climate change in the …
Practising lively geographies in the city: Encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops
This article explores diverse ways of experiencing the city through an experimental field-based workshop supported by the Institute of Australian Geographers and this journal. The two-day methods practice workshop attracted 40 participants and aimed to train doctoral students and early career researchers in practices of observing, feeling, listening, mapping and visualizing the city. This paper aims to demonstrate how learning new methods that in…
Decoloniality: Seeding pluriversal imaginaries
Decolonisation has become an academic buzzword in the western academy, particularly among scholars keen to think with and illuminate living worlds of Indigenous peoples who ‘go on’ even though they
Refreshing methods: Reflections and Provocations
This virtual special issue of Social & Cultural Geography is part of a series of retrospectives published in celebration of the journal’s twentieth anniversary. This issue features a selection of eight previously published articles on method that, taken together, highlight key themes and developments in methodological work since the journal’s inception in 2000. In this introduction, the editors introduce the featured articles and, engaging other …
Everyday multiculturalism: Catching the bus in Darwin, Australia
Following acts of violence in major cities, the future of multiculturalism as a philosophy and a state-sponsored policy to promote peace and interdependence in white majority societies seem uncertain. Ethnographic research that explores the lived experience of multiculturalism in shared public spaces, however, offers the possibility to explore emotional stress as well as possibilities for change in culturally diverse cities. Within this literatur…
Affective energies: Sensory bodies on the beach in Darwin, Australia
Addressing the “Muslim Question
The question of whether Islam and Muslims belong in the West has been the subject of considerable political “debate” well before the events of 9/11. Indeed, subsequent events, though different but connected, have unfolded on the international scene as the “War on Terror”. This question has undoubtedly attracted public attention and the answers are more polarised nowadays as we live in the highly mediatised shadow of Al-Qa’eda and its more violent…
Racialised Bodies Encounter the City: Long Grassers' and Asylum Seekers in Darwin
The visibility of bodies of colour in public space can engender responses of anxiety, insecurity and discomfort in cities with white majority cultures. Such embodied responses that privilege the invisibility of whiteness have effects if they mark Aboriginal people and asylum seekers who arrive by boat as ‘out of place’ in public spaces of Australian cities. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Darwin, I argue, however, that such white spaces are int…
Affective ecologies: Braiding urban worlds in Darwin, Australia
Household diversity and migration in mid‐life: Understanding residential mobility among 45–64 year olds in Melbourne, Australia
This paper focuses on the residential mobility of middle‐aged persons, not yet retired, an understudied cohort in mobility research. From the 1950s to the 1980s, mobility studies pointed to mid‐life as a settled stage in terms of family, work and housing. Recent demographic and social changes, however, have led to these years being typified by a wide gamut of living arrangements that have complicated decisions about, and patterns of, residential …
Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities
Oceans in the colonial Anthropocene are haunted by the brutal racial logics of slavery, indenture, plunder, violence, death, and multispecies extinction. This brutality manifested through uneven burdens of climate extremes, global warming, ocean acidification, sea level rise, pollution, and threats from offshore energy extraction, chokes the “life force” of oceans that sustain planetary belongings and futures. Global agreements on climate change,…
Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia
Australia has one of the most urbanised and diverse populations in the world, but there is little research that explores fleeting friendships between marginalised/racialised ethnic minority and indigenous populations. In contrast to metropolitan cities in white settler societies that have been the focus of much research, this paper focuses on the small, tropical city of Darwin in Northern Australia. This is a city that is at the centre of public …
Examining Islamic religiosity and civic engagement in Melbourne
With geopolitical concerns surrounding the rise of militant, transnational groups who draw on Islamic texts for legitimacy, the place of Islam in western societies has become a source of anxiety, fear and suspicion. The central concern is whether Muslims living in the West have the capacity to become fully active citizens. This article uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine whether Islamic religiosity is a predictor for civic engage…
Co-inhabiting public spaces: Diversity and playful encounters in Darwin, Australia
When fear and anxiety circulate in public spaces of diverse western cities, heightened surveillance can provide a sense of safety and comfort. These measures of surveillance that target bodies that are ‘out of place’, however, are limited in animating public spaces. This paper focuses on Darwin, a small but rapidly growing north Australian city where the visibility of Aboriginal people from Greater Darwin/regional communities and migrant newcomer…
Negotiating emotions, rethinking otherness in suburban Melbourne
I argue that research that tries to makes sense of emotion provides a better understanding of the politics and ethics of doing face-to-face research. Reflecting on in-depth interviews with people who live and/or work in Dandenong, an outer suburban area of Melbourne, I draw attention to the emotional dimensions of the research process. In particular I focus on moments when the exercise of white privilege made it difficult to negotiate emotions. T…
Grounding Religiosity in Urban Space: Insights from multicultural Melbourne
Cities within Western democratic societies have long been regarded as sites where secular visions of modernity and citizenship are enacted. Today, however, ethno-religious diversity has emerged as a deep and vibrant part of urban social life and public culture, shaping place-making practices that nourish 'post-secular' belonging and practices of citizenship. Place-making and citizenship practices that are shaped by ethno-religious diversity have …
Geopower in public spaces of Darwin, Australia: Exploring Forces That Unsettle Phenotypical Racism
This paper reports the results of ethnographic research conducted in Darwin, a north Australian city with a growing population of Aboriginals and migrant newcomers. It is situated within the emerging literature on race, encounter, and affect and explores how events of phenotypical racism unfold in public spaces of the city. The paper argues that negative affects of hurt, anger, and frustration that saturate places through events of coding, labell…
Gestures of judgement and welcome in public spaces: Hypervisible migrant newcomers in Darwin, Australia
This paper draws on ethnographic research to show how pigmentation intensities of skin and facial characteristics make bodies of colour recognisable in public spaces of Darwin, a small multiethnic and multiracial north Australian city. This paper shows that the visibility of newcomers, in particular, humanitarian migrants from countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, circulates negative sentiments of fear, anxiety and discomfort in public s…
Tiger atmospheres and co-belonging in mangrove worlds
This article adopts a place-based approach to explore tiger atmospheres in the Sundarbans, a transboundary environmental commons and major climatic hotspot in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of India and Bangladesh. We argue that affective intensities of greed ( lobh), fear ( bhaya), respect ( srodhya), trust ( biswas) and empathy ( karuna) sensed by the tiger subject contribute to novel theoretical as well as empirical insights into co-belon…
Refreshing methods: Reflections and Provocations
This virtual special issue of Social & Cultural Geography is part of a series of retrospectives published in celebration of the journal’s twentieth anniversary. This issue features a selection of eight previously published articles on method that, taken together, highlight key themes and developments in methodological work since the journal’s inception in 2000. In this introduction, the editors introduce the featured articles and, engaging other …
Reinscribing and Inhabiting the City: Young Women Students from Asia Make Melbourne Home
This paper argues that embodied acts of mapping movement and feeling, taking photographs, and talking about public spaces have the potential to transform the central city into homely and stimulating spaces for young women, tertiary students from Asia who have recently migrated to Melbourne. Such performative acts that reinscribe the city temporarily unsettle feelings of exclusion, anxiety, and disappointment that are so much a part of living with…
The multiple intensities of Covid-19 space-times
Speculative listening: Melting sea ice and new methods of listening with the planet
In this paper we speculate on ways of listening with the planet as a way of producing multisensory knowledges of climate change. ‘Listening’ is a visceral experience that helps us consider the intricate, deeply entangled relations between human and non-human worlds through multisensory attentions. We draw on Oliveros’ notion of ‘deep listening’ and methodological experimentation to explore and speculate about the effects of climate change in the …
Practising lively geographies in the city: Encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops
This article explores diverse ways of experiencing the city through an experimental field-based workshop supported by the Institute of Australian Geographers and this journal. The two-day methods practice workshop attracted 40 participants and aimed to train doctoral students and early career researchers in practices of observing, feeling, listening, mapping and visualizing the city. This paper aims to demonstrate how learning new methods that in…
Decoloniality: Seeding pluriversal imaginaries
Decolonisation has become an academic buzzword in the western academy, particularly among scholars keen to think with and illuminate living worlds of Indigenous peoples who ‘go on’ even though they
Encountering naturecultures in the urban Anthropocene
Taking it to the Street: Reclaiming Australia in the Top End
Since Cronulla, racism and the resurgence of White ethno-nationalism is again contesting the diversity of Australian national imaginaries. This paper argues, however, that encounters with Aboriginality and connection to Country provide fresh perspectives that affirm difference. The paper focuses on Broome and Darwin, two urban centres in northern Australia with a visible Aboriginal population that have been the focus of little contemporary resear…
Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India
This article argues that the storying of fossiliferous geological strata opens up geopolitical possibilities for climate justice and ethical energy futures. Our more-than-human approach to the fossil-fuel industry and more specifically coal trade is sparked by ongoing political controversies and protests that have erupted over the development of the Galilee coal Basin in central Queensland, Australia by Indian mining conglomerates. Through a focu…
Living on the edge: Precarity and freedom in Darwin, Australia
The marked increase in the flow of asylum seekers and refugees to nations with white majority cultures is perceived as a crisis that needs to be well managed. The arrival of these ethnic-minority newcomers from countries in Africa, the Middle East, South/Central America and Asia contribute to national security concerns, border protection measures, restrictive immigration policies, everyday anxieties and racism. Australia, however, ‘manages’ the ‘…
Nutritional status of the Andean population of Puna and Quebrada of Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina
Objective To assess the nutritional status of the Andean population of Puna and Quebrada of Humahuaca, Jujuy, using anthropometric measurements. Design and subjects A cross-sectional nutritional survey was carried out in a representative sample ( n = 1236) of individuals from these regions. Children aged 2–9 years, adolescents (10–17 years) and adults (≥18 years; pregnant and lactating women excluded) were considered. Height-for-age, weight-for-h…
Household diversity and migration in mid‐life: Understanding residential mobility among 45–64 year olds in Melbourne, Australia
This paper focuses on the residential mobility of middle‐aged persons, not yet retired, an understudied cohort in mobility research. From the 1950s to the 1980s, mobility studies pointed to mid‐life as a settled stage in terms of family, work and housing. Recent demographic and social changes, however, have led to these years being typified by a wide gamut of living arrangements that have complicated decisions about, and patterns of, residential …
Negotiating emotions, rethinking otherness in suburban Melbourne
I argue that research that tries to makes sense of emotion provides a better understanding of the politics and ethics of doing face-to-face research. Reflecting on in-depth interviews with people who live and/or work in Dandenong, an outer suburban area of Melbourne, I draw attention to the emotional dimensions of the research process. In particular I focus on moments when the exercise of white privilege made it difficult to negotiate emotions. T…
Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne
This paper uses an auto-ethnographic approach to map how two Melburnians of Anglo-Indian heritage make sense of their belonging through connections to cities within the South Asian diaspora, in particular, Lahore, Kolkata and London. As diasporic writers of mixed descent working within the disciplines of geography and visual culture, we use food and images of public space as entry points to explore our everyday experiences as translocal subjects …
Reinscribing and Inhabiting the City: Young Women Students from Asia Make Melbourne Home
This paper argues that embodied acts of mapping movement and feeling, taking photographs, and talking about public spaces have the potential to transform the central city into homely and stimulating spaces for young women, tertiary students from Asia who have recently migrated to Melbourne. Such performative acts that reinscribe the city temporarily unsettle feelings of exclusion, anxiety, and disappointment that are so much a part of living with…
Conversations on Belonging: Women of Indian Heritage Speak
In this Special Section we highlight existing and emerging scholarship on Belonging in countries with white majority cultures. We argue that ‘belonging’ is a familiar and well researched concept that continues to be relevant today because it is central to the joy and vitality of life that enables us to inhabit multiple worlds. Drawing on intellectual and personal journeys in USA, Canada and Australia, the contributors of ‘Indian’ heritage raise q…
Racialised Bodies Encounter the City: Long Grassers' and Asylum Seekers in Darwin
The visibility of bodies of colour in public space can engender responses of anxiety, insecurity and discomfort in cities with white majority cultures. Such embodied responses that privilege the invisibility of whiteness have effects if they mark Aboriginal people and asylum seekers who arrive by boat as ‘out of place’ in public spaces of Australian cities. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Darwin, I argue, however, that such white spaces are int…
Affective energies: Sensory bodies on the beach in Darwin, Australia
Affective life: Rethinking the politics of mobility, displacement and refuge
Everyday multiculturalism: Catching the bus in Darwin, Australia
Following acts of violence in major cities, the future of multiculturalism as a philosophy and a state-sponsored policy to promote peace and interdependence in white majority societies seem uncertain. Ethnographic research that explores the lived experience of multiculturalism in shared public spaces, however, offers the possibility to explore emotional stress as well as possibilities for change in culturally diverse cities. Within this literatur…
Gestures of judgement and welcome in public spaces: Hypervisible migrant newcomers in Darwin, Australia
This paper draws on ethnographic research to show how pigmentation intensities of skin and facial characteristics make bodies of colour recognisable in public spaces of Darwin, a small multiethnic and multiracial north Australian city. This paper shows that the visibility of newcomers, in particular, humanitarian migrants from countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, circulates negative sentiments of fear, anxiety and discomfort in public s…
Addressing the “Muslim Question
The question of whether Islam and Muslims belong in the West has been the subject of considerable political “debate” well before the events of 9/11. Indeed, subsequent events, though different but connected, have unfolded on the international scene as the “War on Terror”. This question has undoubtedly attracted public attention and the answers are more polarised nowadays as we live in the highly mediatised shadow of Al-Qa’eda and its more violent…
Grounding Religiosity in Urban Space: Insights from multicultural Melbourne
Cities within Western democratic societies have long been regarded as sites where secular visions of modernity and citizenship are enacted. Today, however, ethno-religious diversity has emerged as a deep and vibrant part of urban social life and public culture, shaping place-making practices that nourish 'post-secular' belonging and practices of citizenship. Place-making and citizenship practices that are shaped by ethno-religious diversity have …
Co-inhabiting public spaces: Diversity and playful encounters in Darwin, Australia
When fear and anxiety circulate in public spaces of diverse western cities, heightened surveillance can provide a sense of safety and comfort. These measures of surveillance that target bodies that are ‘out of place’, however, are limited in animating public spaces. This paper focuses on Darwin, a small but rapidly growing north Australian city where the visibility of Aboriginal people from Greater Darwin/regional communities and migrant newcomer…
Animating Place: Exploring Encounters in the Diverse City
This special feature examines and analyzes how the diverse city is animated through everyday human and more‐than‐human encounters. The five papers in the feature explore difference using diverse th
Geopower in public spaces of Darwin, Australia: Exploring Forces That Unsettle Phenotypical Racism
This paper reports the results of ethnographic research conducted in Darwin, a north Australian city with a growing population of Aboriginals and migrant newcomers. It is situated within the emerging literature on race, encounter, and affect and explores how events of phenotypical racism unfold in public spaces of the city. The paper argues that negative affects of hurt, anger, and frustration that saturate places through events of coding, labell…
Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia
Australia has one of the most urbanised and diverse populations in the world, but there is little research that explores fleeting friendships between marginalised/racialised ethnic minority and indigenous populations. In contrast to metropolitan cities in white settler societies that have been the focus of much research, this paper focuses on the small, tropical city of Darwin in Northern Australia. This is a city that is at the centre of public …
Taking it to the Street: Reclaiming Australia in the Top End
Since Cronulla, racism and the resurgence of White ethno-nationalism is again contesting the diversity of Australian national imaginaries. This paper argues, however, that encounters with Aboriginality and connection to Country provide fresh perspectives that affirm difference. The paper focuses on Broome and Darwin, two urban centres in northern Australia with a visible Aboriginal population that have been the focus of little contemporary resear…
Parallel Emergencies' in Italy and Australia: Marginalised and Racialised Romani and Aboriginal 'Camp Dwellers
This paper focuses on Romani and Aboriginal peoples who live at the margins of Italian and Australian societies, often in city ‘camps’ that show signs of institutional abandonment, neglect and extreme decay. To address this socio-economic disadvantage and improve the quality of life, the governments of these two countries have implemented what we have defined ‘parallel emergencies’, extraordinary policy measures of intervention, surveillance and …
Examining Islamic religiosity and civic engagement in Melbourne
With geopolitical concerns surrounding the rise of militant, transnational groups who draw on Islamic texts for legitimacy, the place of Islam in western societies has become a source of anxiety, fear and suspicion. The central concern is whether Muslims living in the West have the capacity to become fully active citizens. This article uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine whether Islamic religiosity is a predictor for civic engage…
Duress: Hope in Toxic Landscapes and Carceral Archipelagos
Duress: hope in toxic landscapes and carceral archipelagos
Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night: A Pedagogical Writing Experiment
This article traces stories of singular footsteps taken on a collective meandering through Brisbane city, as a pedagogical experiment in writing for geographers. The diverse encounters recounted here took place as part of an extended workshop on the topic of light, beginning with an afternoon discussion, and ending in an evening walk through the illuminated city. This paper aims to do two things through the example of light: firstly, it explores …
Entanglements with the 'Sea
Displacement following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and later political instability in the Middle East, has led to the increase of Iranian migrants to Australia and beyond, many of whom live in exile and can never return. This article explores how Iranian conceptualisations of the sea provide a framework for entanglements with nature and the environment that are poetic and turbulent, and provides insights into nostalgia and belonging. It explo…
Encountering naturecultures in the urban Anthropocene
Affective ecologies: Braiding urban worlds in Darwin, Australia
Sociology (40 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (27 works) · Political science (26 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Anthropology (16 works) · Media studies (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Aesthetics (12 works)