Wendy S Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 168681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy S Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy S |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1520-7250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Affecting Change
Human–animal interactions (HAIs) are popular in wildlife tourism, with visitors willing to pay an addition to the entry fee for “special” experiences. As prices are set for these experiences, it is unclear as to what value visitors place on them. A donation system using an HAI at Taronga Zoo (Australia) bird presentation provided an opportunity to assess how much visitors would “pay” to give money to a bird. Donation giving was tested under three…
Whose (Im)moral rent gap
Childhood hazard encounters at Australian beaches and their influence on attachment behaviours in adulthood
In‐depth interviews with beach users indicate that early memories of the Australian beach space underpin pleasures derived from re‐experiencing childhood hazard encounters. The importance of reliving remembered affects is demonstrated to underpin place attachment and identity. Experiences of the sublime in nature also work to enamour beachgoers to revisit beaches despite early encounters with hazards that, in other environments, might allay re‐us…
Overseas tourists negotiating risk at Australian beaches
Beachgoing experiences are highly desirable among international tourists visiting Australia. Beach use has been popularised in the contemporary Australian imaginary influencing how locals behave at the beach and setting an example to visitors. Many of the behaviours that Australian beach users’ display can be classed as risky. How and why tourists enact certain risky behaviours in their attempts to comply with beach going norms in Australia is no…
Comparing and combining ethnographic records with active Māori histories to provide insights on tsunami hazard
Tectonic hazards have profoundly influenced Māori relationships with, and understandings of, the environment, with oral histories and ethnographic records referencing recurring encounters with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis across Aotearoa-New Zealand. This research works alongside members of the Māori kin-group Ngāti Kuri to deliberate and compare active oral histories with two ethnographic records that potentially refer to ancest…
Trashion treasure
As the saying goes, one person's trash is another's treasure. Analyses of current reuse movements focus generally on a politics of uncoupling from capitalist consumption traps and commodity fetishism. The perspective presented here considers other motivations by tracing desires for specific kinds of objects, from the past. I consider current reuse debates from a subcultural perspective, of inner-urban living in the late 1970s and 1980s. With the …
Measuring the Strength of Human-Animal Bonds in Zoos
Repeated interactions within individual human and animal dyads can lead to the establishment of human–animal relationships (HARs), which may vary in quality from good to bad, defined in terms of the positivity (e.g., friendly contact, play) or negativity (e.g., aggression) of the interactions on which they are based. Particularly good HARs can be regarded as Human– Animal Bonds (HABs) if they are reciprocal and promote wellbeing in both parties. …
Land-beach-risk-scape
This article considers risk-taking associated with the popular leisure activity of beach going in Australia. It investigates the risk-taking proclivities and cultural protocols in Australian beach use which, to date, have received little research attention. Drawing on the testimonies of beachgoers, we provide a discussion on how risk can be both voluntary as well as accidental at the Australian beach. While accidental risk-taking can be attribute…
After Nulla
After the riots at Cronulla, I wrote about the separation of that event as a one-off in popular imaginings, while others were riotous flashpoints. The tricky manoeuvres of whiteness include its capacity to produce cultures of racialisation that demonise some, while exonerating the riotous behaviours of others. Aboriginal commentaries on the events at Cronulla were scarce, at that time. Since then, Aboriginal artists have provided commentary on th…
Big data and the historical sciences
Environmental crisis, narcissism and the work of grief
This article explores the relationship between environmental crisis, narcissism and the work of grief. In the first section, we provide an overview of the way narcissism has re-emerged in recent scholarship within cultural geography and environmental psychology. Developing and in part challenging the normative focus on selfish, self-destructive consumption that we identify as a major strand in the literature, we draw out themes of daunting loss. …
Misrepresentation in tsunami warning signage
Living with the Anthropocene blues
Limited by imagination alone
Introduction: The politics and practice of open embraceThese are exciting times for cultural geography, especially in the often-under-sung realm of methods: spurred by rapidly developing theoretical engagements and pursuit of creative opportunities, our research methods are now as varied as imaginations allow.Through challenges and innovations in methods, cultural geography has flourished-cultural geographers have embraced not only a proliferatio…
Fibro Dreaming
New Urbanism has been appropriated in an Australia context and deployed in the marketing of a peri-urban housing development on the far north coast of New South Wales. Mimicking the ‘neo-traditional’ focus in the US, developers offered a resurrection of quintessential Australian beach house architecture ‘lost’ through the suburbanisation of the coast. Symbolic references to a more ‘authentic’ past, represented in the built form, were contemporise…
For menopause geographies
Redfern as the Heart(h)
Before the arrival of the 'white fella' over 200 years ago, the Gadigal people and others of the Eora Darug occupied the place where the city of Sydney now stands. At the heart of this second tier global city, the inner-city suburb of Redfern has become a mainstay of urban Aboriginal identity. Yet, this troubled and stigmatised focal point of populist media representations and government policy does not reflect the diversity of urban Aboriginal l…
Auto-ethnography and autobiography in geographical research
The Challenges of and from Indigenous Geographies
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Indigeneity as a Relational Construct Storytelling as Transcultural Research Conclusion: Implications for Openly Transcultural Research References
Researcher journeying and the adventure/danger impulse
Many geographers carry out research in locations away from home. In the name of fieldwork we sometimes travel out of our comfort zones. And then there are those of us who travel to places that are ‘dangerous’, where we engage in adventures while carrying out research. This paper reflects on the lure of the remote or unusual research destination for researchers who venture to ‘foreign’ or unfamiliar places. By turning the research lens on our own …
Riotous Sydney
This paper interrogates the reactions to three riotous events that occurred in 2004 and 2005 in neighbourhoods of Sydney, Australia. At Redfern and Cronulla, the riots appeared to be 'race' related, whereas the Macquarie Fields incidents represented an apparent 'class war'. Parallels between Redfern and Macquarie Fields were also drawn because of the identification of similar circumstances of poverty and dispossession. By delving into the populis…
Cities of Whiteness
List of Figures. List of Boxes. Introduction. 1. Encountering Cities of Whiteness. Journeying to Inner Sydney. Cities as Cultural Constructions ~ Gentrification and Urbanism. The Birth of Whiteness Scholarship. Cities of Neo-colonial Whiteness. 2. (Post)colonial Sydney. From Dangerous to Endangered City. Securing Whiteness in the Paradoxical City. Conclusions. 3. 'The Good Old Days'. Heritage Dreaming. Performing Sydney Heritage. Activating Herit…
Encountering indigeneity
In an era of postcolonialism and postcolonization, Indigenous struggles continue. Within ‘settler societies’ issues of dispossession—particularly of lands—remain largely unresolved. As part of the discipline of geography's active movement away from its colonizing project, this introduction to this special edition of Geografiska Annaler B seeks to (re)focus a disciplinary lens, and (re)open a dialogue—and potential research trajectory ‐ about ‘ind…
Decolonizing Geographies of Whiteness
Engagement with the study of whiteness is slow within the discipline of geography despite repeated calls for it to be placed on the research agenda, and regardless of a strong heritage of critical “race” and postcolonial scholarship. This paper considers this reticence, and the problems inherent in Whiteness Studies more generally. It then offers examples from inner Sydney, Australia, that avoid some of the more pressing shortcomings of studying …
Sydney's SoHo Syndrome? Loft living in the urbane city
In its ongoing search for a global identity, the city of Sydney, Australia, has looked to other cities for inspiration and direction. Like many of these cities, Sydney's Central Business District, and the former industrial areas that surround it, are being transformed through 'apartment' (condominium) development. Many are marketed as 'New York-style lofts' via a flurry of promotions that suggest a distinctly generic and global form of cosmopolit…
Encountering indigeneity
In an era of postcolonialism and postcolonization, Indigenous struggles continue. Within ‘settler societies’ issues of dispossession—particularly of lands—remain largely unresolved. As part of the discipline of geography's active movement away from its colonizing project, this introduction to this special edition of Geografiska Annaler B seeks to (re)focus a disciplinary lens, and (re)open a dialogue—and potential research trajectory ‐ about ‘ind…
Decolonizing Geographies of Whiteness
Engagement with the study of whiteness is slow within the discipline of geography despite repeated calls for it to be placed on the research agenda, and regardless of a strong heritage of critical “race” and postcolonial scholarship. This paper considers this reticence, and the problems inherent in Whiteness Studies more generally. It then offers examples from inner Sydney, Australia, that avoid some of the more pressing shortcomings of studying …
Ways of Whiteness
The inner Sydney Aboriginal settlement known as The Block has been monitored by police, the media and welfare organisations since its inception in the early 1970s. The Block is the subject of an ongoing commentary, a ‘discourse of decline’ about a place that is commonly considered to be Australia's own Harlem‐like ‘black ghetto’. In stark contrast, the predominantly non‐Aboriginal suburbs of Darlington, Redfern and Chippendale, which surround The…
Sydney's SoHo Syndrome? Loft living in the urbane city
In its ongoing search for a global identity, the city of Sydney, Australia, has looked to other cities for inspiration and direction. Like many of these cities, Sydney's Central Business District, and the former industrial areas that surround it, are being transformed through 'apartment' (condominium) development. Many are marketed as 'New York-style lofts' via a flurry of promotions that suggest a distinctly generic and global form of cosmopolit…
Limited by imagination alone
Introduction: The politics and practice of open embraceThese are exciting times for cultural geography, especially in the often-under-sung realm of methods: spurred by rapidly developing theoretical engagements and pursuit of creative opportunities, our research methods are now as varied as imaginations allow.Through challenges and innovations in methods, cultural geography has flourished-cultural geographers have embraced not only a proliferatio…
Fibro Dreaming
New Urbanism has been appropriated in an Australia context and deployed in the marketing of a peri-urban housing development on the far north coast of New South Wales. Mimicking the ‘neo-traditional’ focus in the US, developers offered a resurrection of quintessential Australian beach house architecture ‘lost’ through the suburbanisation of the coast. Symbolic references to a more ‘authentic’ past, represented in the built form, were contemporise…
Auto-ethnography and autobiography in geographical research
Environmental crisis, narcissism and the work of grief
This article explores the relationship between environmental crisis, narcissism and the work of grief. In the first section, we provide an overview of the way narcissism has re-emerged in recent scholarship within cultural geography and environmental psychology. Developing and in part challenging the normative focus on selfish, self-destructive consumption that we identify as a major strand in the literature, we draw out themes of daunting loss. …
Living with the Anthropocene blues
Land-beach-risk-scape
This article considers risk-taking associated with the popular leisure activity of beach going in Australia. It investigates the risk-taking proclivities and cultural protocols in Australian beach use which, to date, have received little research attention. Drawing on the testimonies of beachgoers, we provide a discussion on how risk can be both voluntary as well as accidental at the Australian beach. While accidental risk-taking can be attribute…
Riotous Sydney
This paper interrogates the reactions to three riotous events that occurred in 2004 and 2005 in neighbourhoods of Sydney, Australia. At Redfern and Cronulla, the riots appeared to be 'race' related, whereas the Macquarie Fields incidents represented an apparent 'class war'. Parallels between Redfern and Macquarie Fields were also drawn because of the identification of similar circumstances of poverty and dispossession. By delving into the populis…
Measuring the Strength of Human-Animal Bonds in Zoos
Repeated interactions within individual human and animal dyads can lead to the establishment of human–animal relationships (HARs), which may vary in quality from good to bad, defined in terms of the positivity (e.g., friendly contact, play) or negativity (e.g., aggression) of the interactions on which they are based. Particularly good HARs can be regarded as Human– Animal Bonds (HABs) if they are reciprocal and promote wellbeing in both parties. …
Researcher journeying and the adventure/danger impulse
Many geographers carry out research in locations away from home. In the name of fieldwork we sometimes travel out of our comfort zones. And then there are those of us who travel to places that are ‘dangerous’, where we engage in adventures while carrying out research. This paper reflects on the lure of the remote or unusual research destination for researchers who venture to ‘foreign’ or unfamiliar places. By turning the research lens on our own …
Overseas tourists negotiating risk at Australian beaches
Beachgoing experiences are highly desirable among international tourists visiting Australia. Beach use has been popularised in the contemporary Australian imaginary influencing how locals behave at the beach and setting an example to visitors. Many of the behaviours that Australian beach users’ display can be classed as risky. How and why tourists enact certain risky behaviours in their attempts to comply with beach going norms in Australia is no…
Big data and the historical sciences
Trashion treasure
As the saying goes, one person's trash is another's treasure. Analyses of current reuse movements focus generally on a politics of uncoupling from capitalist consumption traps and commodity fetishism. The perspective presented here considers other motivations by tracing desires for specific kinds of objects, from the past. I consider current reuse debates from a subcultural perspective, of inner-urban living in the late 1970s and 1980s. With the …
Misrepresentation in tsunami warning signage
Redfern as the Heart(h)
Before the arrival of the 'white fella' over 200 years ago, the Gadigal people and others of the Eora Darug occupied the place where the city of Sydney now stands. At the heart of this second tier global city, the inner-city suburb of Redfern has become a mainstay of urban Aboriginal identity. Yet, this troubled and stigmatised focal point of populist media representations and government policy does not reflect the diversity of urban Aboriginal l…
(Post)Colonial [1] Encounters
This article identifies how the Australian legal system has generated knowledge about ‘traditional’ gender relations in Aboriginal Australia. Using a sample of artefact cases from the Australian judicial system, constructions of Aboriginal gender relations are mapped. By tracing knowledge production in these cases, it demonstrates how the non-Aboriginal Australian legal system has fabricated its own versions of ‘Aboriginal Customary Laws’, or Abo…
Ways of Whiteness
The inner Sydney Aboriginal settlement known as The Block has been monitored by police, the media and welfare organisations since its inception in the early 1970s. The Block is the subject of an ongoing commentary, a ‘discourse of decline’ about a place that is commonly considered to be Australia's own Harlem‐like ‘black ghetto’. In stark contrast, the predominantly non‐Aboriginal suburbs of Darlington, Redfern and Chippendale, which surround The…
(Post)Colonial [1] Encounters
This article identifies how the Australian legal system has generated knowledge about ‘traditional’ gender relations in Aboriginal Australia. Using a sample of artefact cases from the Australian judicial system, constructions of Aboriginal gender relations are mapped. By tracing knowledge production in these cases, it demonstrates how the non-Aboriginal Australian legal system has fabricated its own versions of ‘Aboriginal Customary Laws’, or Abo…
Encountering indigeneity
In an era of postcolonialism and postcolonization, Indigenous struggles continue. Within ‘settler societies’ issues of dispossession—particularly of lands—remain largely unresolved. As part of the discipline of geography's active movement away from its colonizing project, this introduction to this special edition of Geografiska Annaler B seeks to (re)focus a disciplinary lens, and (re)open a dialogue—and potential research trajectory ‐ about ‘ind…
Decolonizing Geographies of Whiteness
Engagement with the study of whiteness is slow within the discipline of geography despite repeated calls for it to be placed on the research agenda, and regardless of a strong heritage of critical “race” and postcolonial scholarship. This paper considers this reticence, and the problems inherent in Whiteness Studies more generally. It then offers examples from inner Sydney, Australia, that avoid some of the more pressing shortcomings of studying …
Sydney's SoHo Syndrome? Loft living in the urbane city
In its ongoing search for a global identity, the city of Sydney, Australia, has looked to other cities for inspiration and direction. Like many of these cities, Sydney's Central Business District, and the former industrial areas that surround it, are being transformed through 'apartment' (condominium) development. Many are marketed as 'New York-style lofts' via a flurry of promotions that suggest a distinctly generic and global form of cosmopolit…
Cities of Whiteness
List of Figures. List of Boxes. Introduction. 1. Encountering Cities of Whiteness. Journeying to Inner Sydney. Cities as Cultural Constructions ~ Gentrification and Urbanism. The Birth of Whiteness Scholarship. Cities of Neo-colonial Whiteness. 2. (Post)colonial Sydney. From Dangerous to Endangered City. Securing Whiteness in the Paradoxical City. Conclusions. 3. 'The Good Old Days'. Heritage Dreaming. Performing Sydney Heritage. Activating Herit…
Riotous Sydney
This paper interrogates the reactions to three riotous events that occurred in 2004 and 2005 in neighbourhoods of Sydney, Australia. At Redfern and Cronulla, the riots appeared to be 'race' related, whereas the Macquarie Fields incidents represented an apparent 'class war'. Parallels between Redfern and Macquarie Fields were also drawn because of the identification of similar circumstances of poverty and dispossession. By delving into the populis…
The Challenges of and from Indigenous Geographies
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Indigeneity as a Relational Construct Storytelling as Transcultural Research Conclusion: Implications for Openly Transcultural Research References
Researcher journeying and the adventure/danger impulse
Many geographers carry out research in locations away from home. In the name of fieldwork we sometimes travel out of our comfort zones. And then there are those of us who travel to places that are ‘dangerous’, where we engage in adventures while carrying out research. This paper reflects on the lure of the remote or unusual research destination for researchers who venture to ‘foreign’ or unfamiliar places. By turning the research lens on our own …
Auto-ethnography and autobiography in geographical research
Fibro Dreaming
New Urbanism has been appropriated in an Australia context and deployed in the marketing of a peri-urban housing development on the far north coast of New South Wales. Mimicking the ‘neo-traditional’ focus in the US, developers offered a resurrection of quintessential Australian beach house architecture ‘lost’ through the suburbanisation of the coast. Symbolic references to a more ‘authentic’ past, represented in the built form, were contemporise…
For menopause geographies
Redfern as the Heart(h)
Before the arrival of the 'white fella' over 200 years ago, the Gadigal people and others of the Eora Darug occupied the place where the city of Sydney now stands. At the heart of this second tier global city, the inner-city suburb of Redfern has become a mainstay of urban Aboriginal identity. Yet, this troubled and stigmatised focal point of populist media representations and government policy does not reflect the diversity of urban Aboriginal l…
Misrepresentation in tsunami warning signage
Living with the Anthropocene blues
Limited by imagination alone
Introduction: The politics and practice of open embraceThese are exciting times for cultural geography, especially in the often-under-sung realm of methods: spurred by rapidly developing theoretical engagements and pursuit of creative opportunities, our research methods are now as varied as imaginations allow.Through challenges and innovations in methods, cultural geography has flourished-cultural geographers have embraced not only a proliferatio…
Big data and the historical sciences
Environmental crisis, narcissism and the work of grief
This article explores the relationship between environmental crisis, narcissism and the work of grief. In the first section, we provide an overview of the way narcissism has re-emerged in recent scholarship within cultural geography and environmental psychology. Developing and in part challenging the normative focus on selfish, self-destructive consumption that we identify as a major strand in the literature, we draw out themes of daunting loss. …
Land-beach-risk-scape
This article considers risk-taking associated with the popular leisure activity of beach going in Australia. It investigates the risk-taking proclivities and cultural protocols in Australian beach use which, to date, have received little research attention. Drawing on the testimonies of beachgoers, we provide a discussion on how risk can be both voluntary as well as accidental at the Australian beach. While accidental risk-taking can be attribute…
After Nulla
After the riots at Cronulla, I wrote about the separation of that event as a one-off in popular imaginings, while others were riotous flashpoints. The tricky manoeuvres of whiteness include its capacity to produce cultures of racialisation that demonise some, while exonerating the riotous behaviours of others. Aboriginal commentaries on the events at Cronulla were scarce, at that time. Since then, Aboriginal artists have provided commentary on th…
Measuring the Strength of Human-Animal Bonds in Zoos
Repeated interactions within individual human and animal dyads can lead to the establishment of human–animal relationships (HARs), which may vary in quality from good to bad, defined in terms of the positivity (e.g., friendly contact, play) or negativity (e.g., aggression) of the interactions on which they are based. Particularly good HARs can be regarded as Human– Animal Bonds (HABs) if they are reciprocal and promote wellbeing in both parties. …
Trashion treasure
As the saying goes, one person's trash is another's treasure. Analyses of current reuse movements focus generally on a politics of uncoupling from capitalist consumption traps and commodity fetishism. The perspective presented here considers other motivations by tracing desires for specific kinds of objects, from the past. I consider current reuse debates from a subcultural perspective, of inner-urban living in the late 1970s and 1980s. With the …
Comparing and combining ethnographic records with active Māori histories to provide insights on tsunami hazard
Tectonic hazards have profoundly influenced Māori relationships with, and understandings of, the environment, with oral histories and ethnographic records referencing recurring encounters with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis across Aotearoa-New Zealand. This research works alongside members of the Māori kin-group Ngāti Kuri to deliberate and compare active oral histories with two ethnographic records that potentially refer to ancest…
Childhood hazard encounters at Australian beaches and their influence on attachment behaviours in adulthood
In‐depth interviews with beach users indicate that early memories of the Australian beach space underpin pleasures derived from re‐experiencing childhood hazard encounters. The importance of reliving remembered affects is demonstrated to underpin place attachment and identity. Experiences of the sublime in nature also work to enamour beachgoers to revisit beaches despite early encounters with hazards that, in other environments, might allay re‐us…
Overseas tourists negotiating risk at Australian beaches
Beachgoing experiences are highly desirable among international tourists visiting Australia. Beach use has been popularised in the contemporary Australian imaginary influencing how locals behave at the beach and setting an example to visitors. Many of the behaviours that Australian beach users’ display can be classed as risky. How and why tourists enact certain risky behaviours in their attempts to comply with beach going norms in Australia is no…
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