Michelle Duffy
Biographic Data
| ID | 169984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Duffy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Duffy |
| SIGNATURE | DUFFY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9749-0311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 408 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Dancing up Dharug: Caring as country through dancing on/with/as dirt
Ballet in a Box: Iso-Ballet, Lockdown, and the Reconstruction of the Domestic Space
In the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the principal mitigation strategies were physical distancing and the dramatic restriction of socializing with others. The absence of live performances meant arts institutions had to reconsider their relationship with audiences and thoroughly rethink what they do. While many institutions uploaded videos of past performances, some dance companies created new performances specifically for online media that…
The social justice issues of smoke im/mobilities
In 2014, the Hazelwood mine fire burned for 45 days.Local communities were impacted by smoke and ash, and there were reports of raised carbon monoxide levels.Local news and social media reported residents experiencing numerous physical symptoms of smoke inhalation, including bleeding noses, coughing, wheezing and chest tightness.Paper masks to filter particulate matter were made available to residents to wear outside.The dust and ash constantly s…
Region power for mobilities research
In this Thinking Space essay, we explain why the COVID-19 pandemic makes mobilities research more important than ever. In a time when mobilities have been reconfigured so dramatically, perhaps even leading people to value mobility differently, we need concepts and theories that can help us to attend to and navigate this new situation. Our contention is that mobilities research must recentre the region. Building on earlier work in the mobilities p…
Thank You to Reviewers
Who has the right to the rural? Place framing and negotiating the Dungog festival, New South Wales, Australia
Many small towns are using festivals and events as a way to boost tourism, by packaging and marketing existing festivals or by creating new events and festivals to attract tourists and the economic impact that they bring. However, increased mobility and migration, including amenity and lifestyle migrants, are changing the composition of many rural and regional centres, bringing both welcome diversity and potentially less welcome intrusion into es…
Twenty years on: Reflections on the journeys travelled and future directions for tourist studies
Editorial
Future trajectories of festival research
In their editorial for the first issue of Tourist Studies, Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang made us aware that tourism research had shifted to an exploration of the extraordinary everyday where ‘more or less everyone now lives in a world rendered or reconfigured as interesting, entertaining and attractive – for tourists’. From our standpoint 20 years later, we suggest this particular departure point has important insights to offer our understanding…
Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice: Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019
This paper stems from cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration between community music and human geography which sought to interrogate and understand claims of social sustainability and social change often cited in evaluation reports of community music projects. The lead authors (Parks and Cassidy) took this dialogue forward by organising a geography conference session which incorporated an instant choir workshop to test how we might ‘do’ so…
Located Research: Regional places, transitions and challenges
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…
Becoming Reading Group: Reflections on assembling a collegiate, caring collective
In neoliberalising universities, collegial and collective practices such as reading groups are often positioned by students, staff and managers as less important than meeting individual KPIs (such as producing research publications, seeking research grants, or meeting the increasing demands of producing quality teaching outcomes.) However, reading groups can be vital for cultivating caring collectives and spaces of collegiality. In this paper we …
Thank You to Guest Reviewers
Sounding Places: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Sound and Music
This collection brings together the work of scholars from around the world who contribute to the ongoing efforts across the field of sound studies and auditory culture to theorize the more-than-representational role of sound and music in assembling various forms of social life: in the forming of communities and places of belonging, in habitual bodily practices, in movements and rhythms, in the performance of culture and identity in places, and in…
Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales
This paper seeks to better understand the lively city with reference to recent analysis of sonic affects, bodily sensations and emotions. The notion of ‘hearing contacts’, as it is usually deployed in discussion of the lively city, emphasises the social interactions with other people in a rather narrow anthropocentric way. Yet, it overlooks the diversity of felt and affective dimensions of city sounds. This paper takes up this challenge by bringi…
Thank You to Guest Reviewers
Emotional and affective geographies of sustainable community leadership: A visceral approach
In this paper, we aim to better understand what mobilises people into being and becoming named as leaders in sustainability in the places where they live. Our premise is that action for sustainability originates with passionate individuals who lead action at the local level. We present our analysis of a walking sensory ethnography conducted in 2012 undertaken as part of exploratory research on adaptation to climate change in the coastal town of D…
Music
Geography's interest in music arises out of an interest in how we make sense of our place in the world. Music can represent notions of identity and connect us to our different communities. Yet music is not a benign cultural object. Rather its acoustic properties are attributed certain ideological meaning, hence the meaning of music and designations of noise and sound are expressions of power. Recent geographical work has focused on music as a pro…
Festival Encounters: Theoretical Perspectives on Festival Events
Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional significance, and they are also important parts of community building. This book focuses on these small-scale, non-metropolitan events (i.e. rural, regional and peri-urban) to explore the complex relationships between place, community and identity and the ways in which festival events bring these into…
Let's Have Some Music: Sound, Gender and Car Mobility
This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasures associated with listening to sound/music during short car trips. The first part of the paper reviews the recent literature on ‘feelings for cars’. We highlight why gender is often absent from the literature before offering a conceptual lens drawing on geographical femi…
Envy at Work and in Organizations
Competition for resources, recognition, and outcomes is a fact of life in organizational life. When one falls short in comparison to colleagues or subordinates, feelings of envy may arise. Envy is ubiquitous and painful fueled by inferiority, hostility, and resentment. At the same time envy is also a socially adaptive emotion signaling competitive disadvantages that must be dealt with. How people cope with envy at work continues to be a debated t…
Practices of emotional and affective geographies of sound
Making sense of sound: Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool
Writing difference differently
This paper investigates the writing of situated knowledge and explores the possibilities of enacting difference by writing differently. We present a selection of research stories in which carrier bags, sounds, baskets, gardens and potatoes are interpreted less as objects of research or metaphors to aid in analysing phenomena, than as mediators of the stories. Our stories emphasise the ontological politics of engaging with and representing the rel…
The Art of Doing (Geographies of) Music
Like every other work of art, music has become the stuff of social research: it has been interrogated for its economy, its politics, and its role in elaborating human life. Music has its geographies too: its cultural landscapes; its positioning in a soundworld; its embodiment; its materiality. But, intriguingly, until recently musical methodologies have remained half formed, fragmentary, hidden, elusive, out of sight, beyond words. This is partly…
Home sounds: Experiential Practices and Performativities of Hearing and Listening
We argue that a closer attention to the everyday visceral experiences of hearing and listening offers new insights into geographies of home and practices of sustainability. We suggest that this approach is significant to understanding how sound helps to assemble and reassemble the relationships that comprise home. We concentrate on a group of 10 amenity-led migrants in their ‘new coastal home’ in Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia. Each partici…
Performing identity within a multicultural framework
The role of music in community festivals is often to assist in constructing a particular identity of place, and music functions in such instances as a means to provide a sense of belonging for participants. However, multicultural festivals complicate any simple relationship between place and identity, because such festivals demonstrate the heterogeneous state of both identity and place. Anxieties that arise around issues of cultural authenticity …
Making sense of sound: Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool
Lines of drift: Festival Participation and Performing a Sense of Place
It's funny how the difference in each nation organised a different rhythm almost. The beat, the beat is different, it's much faster here than in the States. Mainly in bush music it's like that, if you call it bush music. You know this, this lagerphone? Well this lagerphone beat is usually much faster than you would hear in America, that's the way we felt it when we first arrived. Now it's fine, it fits, you know! But for some reason, it didn't qu…
Let's Have Some Music: Sound, Gender and Car Mobility
This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasures associated with listening to sound/music during short car trips. The first part of the paper reviews the recent literature on ‘feelings for cars’. We highlight why gender is often absent from the literature before offering a conceptual lens drawing on geographical femi…
Listening and tourism studies
Practices of emotional and affective geographies of sound
Writing difference differently
This paper investigates the writing of situated knowledge and explores the possibilities of enacting difference by writing differently. We present a selection of research stories in which carrier bags, sounds, baskets, gardens and potatoes are interpreted less as objects of research or metaphors to aid in analysing phenomena, than as mediators of the stories. Our stories emphasise the ontological politics of engaging with and representing the rel…
Emotional and affective geographies of sustainable community leadership: A visceral approach
In this paper, we aim to better understand what mobilises people into being and becoming named as leaders in sustainability in the places where they live. Our premise is that action for sustainability originates with passionate individuals who lead action at the local level. We present our analysis of a walking sensory ethnography conducted in 2012 undertaken as part of exploratory research on adaptation to climate change in the coastal town of D…
The Requirement of Having a Body
In a project that explores the role affect plays in processes of place-making, children aged 10-12 were asked to record meaningful sounds about their home spaces. This focus on sound and listening reminds us that the body is very much entangled in, and indeed fundamental to, processes of subjectivity and place-making. The methodologies used in this work are, therefore, about techniques of researchingthroughbodies, rather than an examinationaboutb…
Future trajectories of festival research
In their editorial for the first issue of Tourist Studies, Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang made us aware that tourism research had shifted to an exploration of the extraordinary everyday where ‘more or less everyone now lives in a world rendered or reconfigured as interesting, entertaining and attractive – for tourists’. From our standpoint 20 years later, we suggest this particular departure point has important insights to offer our understanding…
Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales
This paper seeks to better understand the lively city with reference to recent analysis of sonic affects, bodily sensations and emotions. The notion of ‘hearing contacts’, as it is usually deployed in discussion of the lively city, emphasises the social interactions with other people in a rather narrow anthropocentric way. Yet, it overlooks the diversity of felt and affective dimensions of city sounds. This paper takes up this challenge by bringi…
Sounding Places: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Sound and Music
This collection brings together the work of scholars from around the world who contribute to the ongoing efforts across the field of sound studies and auditory culture to theorize the more-than-representational role of sound and music in assembling various forms of social life: in the forming of communities and places of belonging, in habitual bodily practices, in movements and rhythms, in the performance of culture and identity in places, and in…
Negotiating the Geographies of Cultural Difference in Local Communities: Two Examples from Suburban Melbourne
This paper explores the ways in which cultural difference is negotiated in local communities through the practices and actions of local individuals, groups and the policies of local government. Cultural difference is commonly managed through policies such as multiculturalism, and critiques of such policies tend to be either in terms of celebratory discourses of inclusiveness, or in negative terms which argue that such policies reiterate models of…
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…
Region power for mobilities research
In this Thinking Space essay, we explain why the COVID-19 pandemic makes mobilities research more important than ever. In a time when mobilities have been reconfigured so dramatically, perhaps even leading people to value mobility differently, we need concepts and theories that can help us to attend to and navigate this new situation. Our contention is that mobilities research must recentre the region. Building on earlier work in the mobilities p…
The social justice issues of smoke im/mobilities
In 2014, the Hazelwood mine fire burned for 45 days.Local communities were impacted by smoke and ash, and there were reports of raised carbon monoxide levels.Local news and social media reported residents experiencing numerous physical symptoms of smoke inhalation, including bleeding noses, coughing, wheezing and chest tightness.Paper masks to filter particulate matter were made available to residents to wear outside.The dust and ash constantly s…
Becoming Reading Group: Reflections on assembling a collegiate, caring collective
In neoliberalising universities, collegial and collective practices such as reading groups are often positioned by students, staff and managers as less important than meeting individual KPIs (such as producing research publications, seeking research grants, or meeting the increasing demands of producing quality teaching outcomes.) However, reading groups can be vital for cultivating caring collectives and spaces of collegiality. In this paper we …
Sound Ecologies
Discussions about what constitutes 'the rural' invariably focus on notions of spatial location - of inhabiting spaces apart from that of the metropolitan. Deeply embedded in our images of what it means to be Australian, nonetheless our intellectual framing of 'the rural' as something outback and beyond has significant implications for our relations with these spaces. The relatively recent phenomenon of sea- and tree-changes has struck many unawar…
EC Environmental Policy and the Control of Water Pollution: The Implementation of Directive 76/464 in Perspective
Aural Understanding
A review of John Paul Lederach and Angela Jill Lederach, When Blood and Bones Cry Out: Journeys through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation
EC Environmental Policy and the Control of Water Pollution: The Implementation of Directive 76/464 in Perspective
Lines of drift: Festival Participation and Performing a Sense of Place
It's funny how the difference in each nation organised a different rhythm almost. The beat, the beat is different, it's much faster here than in the States. Mainly in bush music it's like that, if you call it bush music. You know this, this lagerphone? Well this lagerphone beat is usually much faster than you would hear in America, that's the way we felt it when we first arrived. Now it's fine, it fits, you know! But for some reason, it didn't qu…
Performing identity within a multicultural framework
The role of music in community festivals is often to assist in constructing a particular identity of place, and music functions in such instances as a means to provide a sense of belonging for participants. However, multicultural festivals complicate any simple relationship between place and identity, because such festivals demonstrate the heterogeneous state of both identity and place. Anxieties that arise around issues of cultural authenticity …
Negotiating the Geographies of Cultural Difference in Local Communities: Two Examples from Suburban Melbourne
This paper explores the ways in which cultural difference is negotiated in local communities through the practices and actions of local individuals, groups and the policies of local government. Cultural difference is commonly managed through policies such as multiculturalism, and critiques of such policies tend to be either in terms of celebratory discourses of inclusiveness, or in negative terms which argue that such policies reiterate models of…
The Art of Doing (Geographies of) Music
Like every other work of art, music has become the stuff of social research: it has been interrogated for its economy, its politics, and its role in elaborating human life. Music has its geographies too: its cultural landscapes; its positioning in a soundworld; its embodiment; its materiality. But, intriguingly, until recently musical methodologies have remained half formed, fragmentary, hidden, elusive, out of sight, beyond words. This is partly…
Listening and tourism studies
Sound Ecologies
Discussions about what constitutes 'the rural' invariably focus on notions of spatial location - of inhabiting spaces apart from that of the metropolitan. Deeply embedded in our images of what it means to be Australian, nonetheless our intellectual framing of 'the rural' as something outback and beyond has significant implications for our relations with these spaces. The relatively recent phenomenon of sea- and tree-changes has struck many unawar…
Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces
Space–body–ritual: Performativity in the city
The Requirement of Having a Body
In a project that explores the role affect plays in processes of place-making, children aged 10-12 were asked to record meaningful sounds about their home spaces. This focus on sound and listening reminds us that the body is very much entangled in, and indeed fundamental to, processes of subjectivity and place-making. The methodologies used in this work are, therefore, about techniques of researchingthroughbodies, rather than an examinationaboutb…
Home sounds: Experiential Practices and Performativities of Hearing and Listening
We argue that a closer attention to the everyday visceral experiences of hearing and listening offers new insights into geographies of home and practices of sustainability. We suggest that this approach is significant to understanding how sound helps to assemble and reassemble the relationships that comprise home. We concentrate on a group of 10 amenity-led migrants in their ‘new coastal home’ in Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia. Each partici…
Exploring Community Festivals and Events
Book abstract:This book for the first time explores the role and importance of ‘community’, ‘culture’ and its impact through festivals and events. Split into two distinct sections, the first introduces key themes and concepts, contextualises local traditions and culture, and investigates how festivals and events can act as a catalyst for tourism and create a sense of community. It then questions the social and political nature of festivals and co…
Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
In 1817, the Sydney Gazette carried a report on the annual “Congress” of the Parramatta Native Institution, established in 1814 by William and Elizabeth Shelley in the western reaches of Sydney, on the east coast of the Australian continent. The Congress was an annual event in which Aboriginal schoolchildren, dressed in white and led by Mrs. Shelley, were paraded around the grounds of the Institution. While the Shelleys had designed the ceremony …
Writing difference differently
This paper investigates the writing of situated knowledge and explores the possibilities of enacting difference by writing differently. We present a selection of research stories in which carrier bags, sounds, baskets, gardens and potatoes are interpreted less as objects of research or metaphors to aid in analysing phenomena, than as mediators of the stories. Our stories emphasise the ontological politics of engaging with and representing the rel…
Envy at Work and in Organizations
Competition for resources, recognition, and outcomes is a fact of life in organizational life. When one falls short in comparison to colleagues or subordinates, feelings of envy may arise. Envy is ubiquitous and painful fueled by inferiority, hostility, and resentment. At the same time envy is also a socially adaptive emotion signaling competitive disadvantages that must be dealt with. How people cope with envy at work continues to be a debated t…
Practices of emotional and affective geographies of sound
Making sense of sound: Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool
Music
Geography's interest in music arises out of an interest in how we make sense of our place in the world. Music can represent notions of identity and connect us to our different communities. Yet music is not a benign cultural object. Rather its acoustic properties are attributed certain ideological meaning, hence the meaning of music and designations of noise and sound are expressions of power. Recent geographical work has focused on music as a pro…
Festival Encounters: Theoretical Perspectives on Festival Events
Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional significance, and they are also important parts of community building. This book focuses on these small-scale, non-metropolitan events (i.e. rural, regional and peri-urban) to explore the complex relationships between place, community and identity and the ways in which festival events bring these into…
Let's Have Some Music: Sound, Gender and Car Mobility
This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasures associated with listening to sound/music during short car trips. The first part of the paper reviews the recent literature on ‘feelings for cars’. We highlight why gender is often absent from the literature before offering a conceptual lens drawing on geographical femi…
Thank You to Guest Reviewers
Emotional and affective geographies of sustainable community leadership: A visceral approach
In this paper, we aim to better understand what mobilises people into being and becoming named as leaders in sustainability in the places where they live. Our premise is that action for sustainability originates with passionate individuals who lead action at the local level. We present our analysis of a walking sensory ethnography conducted in 2012 undertaken as part of exploratory research on adaptation to climate change in the coastal town of D…
Thank You to Guest Reviewers
Sounding Places: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Sound and Music
This collection brings together the work of scholars from around the world who contribute to the ongoing efforts across the field of sound studies and auditory culture to theorize the more-than-representational role of sound and music in assembling various forms of social life: in the forming of communities and places of belonging, in habitual bodily practices, in movements and rhythms, in the performance of culture and identity in places, and in…
Sociology (28 works) · Political science (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (14 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (10 works) · Social science (9 works)