Emily Potter
Biographic Data
| ID | 208970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Potter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Potter |
| SIGNATURE | POTTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4171-3002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing into the Outside: Odours and Affective Atmospheres in Jennifer Mills’ Speculative Fiction
In this article, we analyse two novels by Australian author Jennifer Mills in the context of broader scholarship in the environmental humanities on odour, breath, smog cultures, transcorporeality and environmental affect, with attention to the intersectional impacts of environmental violence. Mills’ novels Dyschronia (2018) and The Airways (2021) present atmospheres as highly affective interfaces of the Anthropocene, with a particular emphasis on…
The original ‘secret spot’ on the edge of the desert: Negotiations and contestations of place at Cactus Beach SA
The original ‘secret spot’ on the edge of the desert: negotiations and contestations of place at Cactus Beach SA
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism
Magic, Manufacturing and Memorialising
Practices of Belonging through the Past and the Present
Mapping Shadows of the Bight: A road trip residency
In August 2023, a collective of arts and humanities scholars undertook a mobile residency on the Far West Coast of South Australia, along the Great Australian Bight. Moving through deeply storied country that is largely marginal and neglected in the cultural and political imaginary, and negotiating our relation to this displacement as settler-colonial scholars with the privilege of mobility, the residency sought creative and critical approaches t…
Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit
This article examines the issues involved in publicly funded regional arts initiatives, through two contrasting examples of art works that creatively repurpose grain silos in rural Australia: the Silo Art Trail in north-west Victoria, and the silo art practices of the small town of Natimuk in the same region. Via desktop analysis supported by observation and interviews, we consider these initiatives in the context of a turn to arts-led regenerati…
Seeking Greener Pages: An Analysis of Reader Response to Australian Eco-Crime Fiction
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Untangling the importance of dynamic and thermodynamic drivers for wet and dry spells across the Tropical Andes
Andean vegetation and agriculture depend on the patterns of rainfall during the South American monsoon. However, our understanding on the importance of dynamic (upper-level wind circulation) as compared to thermodynamic (Amazon basin moisture) drivers for Andes rainfall remains limited. This study examines the effect of these drivers on 3–7 day wet and dry spells across the Tropical Andes and assesses resulting impacts on vegetation. Using reanal…
Knowledges, Practices, Values, Affects
Icons, Landmarks, Archives and Polls: Australian Studies Now
Spectral Histories and Material Legacies
From Spiritualists to Flat Whites
Australian Studies in Uncertain Times
A manifesto for shadow places: Re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change
In this article, on behalf of The Shadow Places Network, we outline a working manifesto of politics and practice. We mobilise the format of the manifesto to speak to an uncertain and damaged future, to begin to imagine other possible worlds. For feminist philosopher Val Plumwood, whose thinking inspires this network, shadow places are the underside of the capitalist fantasy, 'the multiple disregarded places of economic and ecological support'. In…
Recognizing the Mallee: Reading Groups and the Making of Literary Knowledge in Regional Australia
Drawing on fieldwork in the Victorian Mallee region of Australia, this article explores the ways in which reading groups can elicit rich information about the relationship between literature, reading, and place. The study found that book group participants “recognized” the Mallee in the texts under discussion and engaged in their own forms of place knowledge and “history‐telling” in response, making corrections to, and even rejecting, literary re…
Assembling Australia: Histories, Materials and Labours
This issue of the Journal of Australian Studies leads us towards a rich mix of contested, forgotten or untold histories across 19th- and 20th-century Australia. A range of cultural artefacts is cen
Land, Sky, Identity and Myth: Making and Unmaking Australian Imaginaries
Our first issue of 2021 brings with it the charge of a new year, a ticking over of the clock from the now infamous 2020. For many, this year is already no easier than the last, and the challenges o
Dark Histories in the Archive: Fragmentation, Silence and Fresh Imaginings
A Talented Daughter of the Mallee’: Myra Morris Meets Regional Readers
Myra Morris (1893â 1966) was a prolific author of poems, short stories, novels and childrenâ s books. Best known for her short stories, which were published in a wide array of Australian periodicals, Morrisâ novels have been less celebrated. This article considers The Wind on the Water (1938) set at the â Four Mileâ hotel near â Brownâ s Townâ in the Mallee region, which was serialised in the Australian Womenâ s Weekly and as a popular ABC radio …
Legacies in Anxious Times: Race, Protest, Justice
Contesting imaginaries in the Australian city: Urban planning, public storytelling and the implications for climate change
In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant consequence for diverse, inclusive and climate change-responsive urban environments. Urban planning in the modern global city commonly deploys imaginaries in line with neoliberal logics, and this article t…
The worldly text and the production of more-than-literary place: Helen Garner's Monkey Grip and Melbourne's 'inner north
Literature about place is frequently conceived by writers and readers as a response to, or a reproduction of, place. This essay is an intervention in disciplinary and interdisciplinary conceptualisations of literature and place where the text is positioned as a product of place. Our objective here is to provide an account of how literature might produce place, or more specifically, an account of how certain literary texts contribute to the produc…
De l'eau mise en bouteille. Chapitre 1
Plastic Water s'attelle à comprendre l'émergence et le succès d'un marché de l'eau conditionnée en bouteilles plastique, en considérant la bouteille d'eau comme un objet ouvert, non achevé, et toujours intriqué dans une situation. L'ouvrage s'intéresse à dévoiler le rôle de la matérialité - les propriétés spécifiques de la bouteille plastique - dans la constitution des marchés à partir d'un travail de terrain réalisé dans trois mégapoles asiatiqu…
L'eau en bouteille: Marchés, matérialité et bio politiques. Introduction
Plastic Water s'attelle à comprendre l'émergence et le succès d'un marché de l'eau conditionnée en bouteilles plastique, en considérant la bouteille d'eau comme un objet ouvert, non achevé, et toujours intriqué dans une situation. L'ouvrage s'intéresse à dévoiler le rôle de la matérialité - les propriétés spécifiques de la bouteille plastique - dans la constitution des marchés à partir d'un travail de terrain réalisé dans trois mégapoles asiatiqu…
A manifesto for shadow places: Re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change
In this article, on behalf of The Shadow Places Network, we outline a working manifesto of politics and practice. We mobilise the format of the manifesto to speak to an uncertain and damaged future, to begin to imagine other possible worlds. For feminist philosopher Val Plumwood, whose thinking inspires this network, shadow places are the underside of the capitalist fantasy, 'the multiple disregarded places of economic and ecological support'. In…
Contesting imaginaries in the Australian city: Urban planning, public storytelling and the implications for climate change
In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant consequence for diverse, inclusive and climate change-responsive urban environments. Urban planning in the modern global city commonly deploys imaginaries in line with neoliberal logics, and this article t…
Introduction: Making Indigenous place in the Australian city
n\t\t\t\t\tThis introductory essay situates this special issue's concerns in the context of Indigenous cultural centre design in settler-colonial Australia. Given the very small number of Indigenous architects in Australia, architectural facilities for Indigenous communities are routinely designed by non-indigenous architects. The implications of this are significant. Given the often complex social, historical and political ambitions that are inv…
Climate change and non-Indigenous belonging in postcolonial Australia
n\t\t\t\t\tThe constitution of climate change as an ‘emergency’ invites an appeal to sovereign power that is troubling in the context of Australia’s colonial history. Climate change is an unsettling and dispossessing force that, while unprecedented in many ways, can be situated among a series of environmental and social crises that have shaped a discourse of anxious or insecure non-Indigenous belonging in this country. This discourse seeks to ren…
A sustainable practice: Rethinking nature in cultural research
n\t\t\t\t\tI start this paper with a question that is also a provocation: how sustainable is a cultural studies that does not take account of nature? What I propose is that before we speculate on how this field can engage with the environmental concerns that face us this question must first be asked. For what cultural studies can offer in the face of ecological stress, I will argue, is circumscribed by its own traditions. If the logics or concept…
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism
Mapping Shadows of the Bight: A road trip residency
In August 2023, a collective of arts and humanities scholars undertook a mobile residency on the Far West Coast of South Australia, along the Great Australian Bight. Moving through deeply storied country that is largely marginal and neglected in the cultural and political imaginary, and negotiating our relation to this displacement as settler-colonial scholars with the privilege of mobility, the residency sought creative and critical approaches t…
A Talented Daughter of the Mallee’: Myra Morris Meets Regional Readers
Myra Morris (1893â 1966) was a prolific author of poems, short stories, novels and childrenâ s books. Best known for her short stories, which were published in a wide array of Australian periodicals, Morrisâ novels have been less celebrated. This article considers The Wind on the Water (1938) set at the â Four Mileâ hotel near â Brownâ s Townâ in the Mallee region, which was serialised in the Australian Womenâ s Weekly and as a popular ABC radio …
The worldly text and the production of more-than-literary place: Helen Garner's Monkey Grip and Melbourne's 'inner north
Literature about place is frequently conceived by writers and readers as a response to, or a reproduction of, place. This essay is an intervention in disciplinary and interdisciplinary conceptualisations of literature and place where the text is positioned as a product of place. Our objective here is to provide an account of how literature might produce place, or more specifically, an account of how certain literary texts contribute to the produc…
Waste Matter: Potatoes, Thing-Power and Biosociality
The problem with not seeing waste as matter is that cultural frames, from moralism to green ideology, reduce it to an effect of human action and manipulation. If waste is 'socially constructed', if it is merely a product of human action and classification then its easy to imagine a future where new ecological practices render it redundant. It's also easy to use waste to reveal the logic or illogic of a culture, to diagnose the social through the …
Communicating Climate Change: Public Responsiveness and Matters of Concern
Since climate change captured global attention in the 1990s, the private individual, addressed as a member of a concerned public, has occupied a focal position in the discourse of environmental amelioration. Recently, a range of prominent books, films and television programs - for example, Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers (2005), Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and ABC TV's Carbon Cops (2007) - have promoted the role of the individual as …
Introduction: Doing Rural Cultural Studies
The guest editors of the Rural Cultural Studies section introduce the articles
Introduction: Doing Rural Cultural Studies
The guest editors of the Rural Cultural Studies section introduce the articles
The Ethics of Rural Place-Making: Public Space, Poetics, and the Ontologies of Design
The small settlement of Hopetoun in the Victoria's north-east - Mallee country - is oriented physically, economically and socially around Lake Laschelle. Large signs map the way for the tourist to its edge, where boat ramps and picnic sites await. And yet there is no water here and has been none for years. The presence of water in its absence is palpable. Over three years I followed water around the drought-ridden Mallee, a participant in a creat…
JAS review of books
Penelope Hetherington, Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth‐Century Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 2002, pp 256, pb $34.95, ISBN 1876268735. B W Higman, Domestic Service in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 304, hb $49.95, ISBN 0522850111. Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788–1840, Currency Press, 2002, pp 366, hb $49.95, ISBN 0958121303. Mimi…
Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia
Young offenders in New South Wales, Australia and the need for remedial sexual health education
The 2005–2008 Australian National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy identifies young people as a key target group in need of sexual health education, screening and management. For young people who are in contact with the New South Wales (NSW) juvenile justice system, a dire need for remedial sexual health education exists. NSW young offenders indicate initiation of sexual activity at a younger age than their peers, higher numbers of sexu…
A sustainable practice: Rethinking nature in cultural research
n\t\t\t\t\tI start this paper with a question that is also a provocation: how sustainable is a cultural studies that does not take account of nature? What I propose is that before we speculate on how this field can engage with the environmental concerns that face us this question must first be asked. For what cultural studies can offer in the face of ecological stress, I will argue, is circumscribed by its own traditions. If the logics or concept…
Communicating Climate Change: Public Responsiveness and Matters of Concern
Since climate change captured global attention in the 1990s, the private individual, addressed as a member of a concerned public, has occupied a focal position in the discourse of environmental amelioration. Recently, a range of prominent books, films and television programs - for example, Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers (2005), Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and ABC TV's Carbon Cops (2007) - have promoted the role of the individual as …
Naturecultures: Introduction
This collection of essays, grouped under the theme of 'Naturecultures', offers a range of approaches to a common concern: to decentre humans from our ontological, ethical-political and cultural stories. The imperative to think about non-human matter in ethical-political terms is fuelled by the environmental calamities currently facing the Earth. But it is inspired by the recognition that humans and non-humans are intimately bound in ways that put…
Climate Change and the Problem of Representation
How do we know climate change? How do we encounter its reality? This question brings to mind a history of scepticism and denial-those who ask 'where is the evidence?' against scientific efforts to model and map out predicted temperature rises. Yet the word prediction is telling here: how can you know something that is still unfolding? In order to respond to the manifesting consequences of environmental change, there is an imperative to capture an…
A new environmental design: Sustainable place making in postcolonial Australia
This paper seeks to expand on environmental design understood in purely instrumentalist terms. It argues that current environmental emergencies in Australia and elsewhere are requiring alternative strategies of response, and proposes the terrain of poetic work as offering new insights in the field of sustainability practice. It draws upon two place-making projects to advance a theory of environmental design that is poetically guided
Climate change and non-Indigenous belonging in postcolonial Australia
n\t\t\t\t\tThe constitution of climate change as an ‘emergency’ invites an appeal to sovereign power that is troubling in the context of Australia’s colonial history. Climate change is an unsettling and dispossessing force that, while unprecedented in many ways, can be situated among a series of environmental and social crises that have shaped a discourse of anxious or insecure non-Indigenous belonging in this country. This discourse seeks to ren…
Introduction: Making Indigenous place in the Australian city
n\t\t\t\t\tThis introductory essay situates this special issue's concerns in the context of Indigenous cultural centre design in settler-colonial Australia. Given the very small number of Indigenous architects in Australia, architectural facilities for Indigenous communities are routinely designed by non-indigenous architects. The implications of this are significant. Given the often complex social, historical and political ambitions that are inv…
Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction
Preface by Mike Featherstone Part 1: Introduction 1. Introducing Ethical Consumption Tania Lewis and Emily Potter Part 2: Politics 2. What's Wrong with Ethical Consumption? Jo Littler 3. The Simple and the Good: Ethical Consumption as Anti-Consumerism Kim Humphery 4. Fair Trade in Cyberspace: The Commodification of Poverty and the Marketing of Crafts on the Internet Tim Scrase 5. Neo-liberalism, the 'Obesity Epidemic' and the Challenge to Theory …
Ethical Consumption
A not-so-quiet revolution seems to be occurring in wealthy capitalist societies - supermarkets selling ‘guilt free’ Fairtrade products; lifestyle TV gurus exhorting us to eat less, buy local and go green; neighbourhood action groups bent on ‘swopping not shopping’. And this is happening not at the margins of society but at its heart, in the shopping centres and homes of ordinary people. Today we are seeing a mainstreaming of ethical concerns arou…
Waste Matter: Potatoes, Thing-Power and Biosociality
The problem with not seeing waste as matter is that cultural frames, from moralism to green ideology, reduce it to an effect of human action and manipulation. If waste is 'socially constructed', if it is merely a product of human action and classification then its easy to imagine a future where new ecological practices render it redundant. It's also easy to use waste to reveal the logic or illogic of a culture, to diagnose the social through the …
De l'eau mise en bouteille. Chapitre 1
Plastic Water s'attelle à comprendre l'émergence et le succès d'un marché de l'eau conditionnée en bouteilles plastique, en considérant la bouteille d'eau comme un objet ouvert, non achevé, et toujours intriqué dans une situation. L'ouvrage s'intéresse à dévoiler le rôle de la matérialité - les propriétés spécifiques de la bouteille plastique - dans la constitution des marchés à partir d'un travail de terrain réalisé dans trois mégapoles asiatiqu…
L'eau en bouteille: Marchés, matérialité et bio politiques. Introduction
Plastic Water s'attelle à comprendre l'émergence et le succès d'un marché de l'eau conditionnée en bouteilles plastique, en considérant la bouteille d'eau comme un objet ouvert, non achevé, et toujours intriqué dans une situation. L'ouvrage s'intéresse à dévoiler le rôle de la matérialité - les propriétés spécifiques de la bouteille plastique - dans la constitution des marchés à partir d'un travail de terrain réalisé dans trois mégapoles asiatiqu…
Legacies in Anxious Times: Race, Protest, Justice
Contesting imaginaries in the Australian city: Urban planning, public storytelling and the implications for climate change
In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant consequence for diverse, inclusive and climate change-responsive urban environments. Urban planning in the modern global city commonly deploys imaginaries in line with neoliberal logics, and this article t…
The worldly text and the production of more-than-literary place: Helen Garner's Monkey Grip and Melbourne's 'inner north
Literature about place is frequently conceived by writers and readers as a response to, or a reproduction of, place. This essay is an intervention in disciplinary and interdisciplinary conceptualisations of literature and place where the text is positioned as a product of place. Our objective here is to provide an account of how literature might produce place, or more specifically, an account of how certain literary texts contribute to the produc…
Recognizing the Mallee: Reading Groups and the Making of Literary Knowledge in Regional Australia
Drawing on fieldwork in the Victorian Mallee region of Australia, this article explores the ways in which reading groups can elicit rich information about the relationship between literature, reading, and place. The study found that book group participants “recognized” the Mallee in the texts under discussion and engaged in their own forms of place knowledge and “history‐telling” in response, making corrections to, and even rejecting, literary re…
Assembling Australia: Histories, Materials and Labours
This issue of the Journal of Australian Studies leads us towards a rich mix of contested, forgotten or untold histories across 19th- and 20th-century Australia. A range of cultural artefacts is cen
Land, Sky, Identity and Myth: Making and Unmaking Australian Imaginaries
Our first issue of 2021 brings with it the charge of a new year, a ticking over of the clock from the now infamous 2020. For many, this year is already no easier than the last, and the challenges o
Dark Histories in the Archive: Fragmentation, Silence and Fresh Imaginings
A Talented Daughter of the Mallee’: Myra Morris Meets Regional Readers
Myra Morris (1893â 1966) was a prolific author of poems, short stories, novels and childrenâ s books. Best known for her short stories, which were published in a wide array of Australian periodicals, Morrisâ novels have been less celebrated. This article considers The Wind on the Water (1938) set at the â Four Mileâ hotel near â Brownâ s Townâ in the Mallee region, which was serialised in the Australian Womenâ s Weekly and as a popular ABC radio …
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (13 works) · History (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Environmental ethics (10 works)