Ruth Fincher

Biographic Data

ID363965
NAMERuth Fincher
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMEFincher
SIGNATUREFINCHER R
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0003-3651-7805
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS66
TOTAL CITATIONS457
AUTHOR COUNT65
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX12

  • Janice Edith Jones Monk (13.03.1937–12.07.2024)

    Richard Howitt, Ruth Fincher et al.ARTICLEAustralian Geographer2024

  • Obituary: Janice Monk

    Open AccessRuth Fincher, Richard Howitt et al.ARTICLEGeographical Research2024Cited by: 3References: 8

    Jan Monk, when visiting Sydney and surrounds, 2005 (photo: Bruce Ryan). Acclaimed Australian-American feminist geographer Janice Edith Jones Monk (13 March 1937–12 July 2024) has died in her adopted hometown of Tucson, Arizona. Jan was a beloved colleague and friend to many geographers, not just in her two countries of Australia and the USA but in many other countries as well. We write here to record some of her many achievements and to convey a …

  • Epilogue: Throwntogetherness in the hostile encounters of migrants in cities

    Ruth FincherARTICLECity2022References: 3

    This epilogue provides an extended conclusion to the Special Feature’s consideration of what happens in the lives of migrants and refugees when they are ‘throwntogether’ in certain urban places with colonial pasts and hostile social and political environments. The contemporary literature on urban encounters across difference pays homage to Doreen Massey’s concept of ‘throwntogetherness’ - her idea that places are fields of multiple interactions, …

  • 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

    M Lobo, Jayani Bonnerjee et al.ARTICLEAustralian Geographer2021

    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

  • G J (Geoff) Missen

    Open AccessRuth Fincher, M Webber et al.ARTICLEGeographical Research2020

  • Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities

    Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson et al.BOOKEveryday Equalities2019

  • Iris Marion Young and urban geographies of difference

    Kurt Iveson, Ruth Fincher et al.ARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…2018Cited by: 4References: 2

    This paper examines the impact of Iris Marion Young’s work on the field of geography. We discuss two matters that were elucidated by Iris Marion Young, and that have been taken up, repeatedly and as foundational insights, by urban and social geographers and urban planning scholars. These are (1) Young’s conception of justice and its central relationship to social difference and (2) Young’s attention to the city as a particular kind of social form…

  • Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation: Insights from marginal rural Australian communities

    Open AccessSonia Graham, Jon Barnett et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 12References: 6

  • Remembering Graeme Hugo, Population Geographer

    Ruth FincherARTICLEAustralian Geographer2016Cited by: 2References: 13

    Graeme Hugo was a population geographer, his academic training having been both in geography and demography. He was widely published, internationally renowned and appreciated over many decades, as

  • Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene

    Deborah Rose, J K Gibson-Graham et al.BOOKManifesto for Living in the…2015

    The recent 10,000 year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cities, numerous technological revolutions, and the emergence of modernity is now over. We accept that in the latest phase of this era, modernity is unmaking the stability that enabled its emergence. Over the 21st century severe and numerous weather disasters, scarcity of key resources, major changes in environments,…

  • Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise

    Ruth Fincher, Jon Barnett et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2015Cited by: 7References: 34

    Local residents, businesspeople, and policymakers engaged in climate change adaptation often think differently of the time available for action. Their understandings of time, and their practices that invoke time, form the complex and sometimes conflicting temporalities of adaptation to environmental change. They link the conditions of the past to those of the present and the future in a variety of ways, and their contemporary practices rest on su…

  • Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference?

    Open AccessRuth Fincher, Kurt Iveson et al.ARTICLEProgress in Planning2014

  • Local values for fairer adaptation to sea-level rise: A typology of residents and their lived values in Lakes Entrance, Australia

    Open AccessSonia Graham, Jon Barnett et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2014Cited by: 25References: 3

  • Time stories: Making sense of futures in anticipation of sea-level rise

    Open AccessRuth Fincher, Jon Barnett et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2014Cited by: 27References: 17

  • The social values at risk from sea-level rise

    Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2013Cited by: 10References: 45

  • Postgraduate Educational Practice in Australian Geography: Change and Stasis

    Ruth FincherARTICLEJournal of Geography in Higher…2012Cited by: 2References: 3

    Within Australia most Departments of Geography have been merged with programmes in Environmental Studies or Earth Sciences, and have been cast as multidisciplinary contributors to the increasingly vocational concerns of universities. One outcome is that named Geography programmes for postgraduates are not growing in institutional prominence in Australian universities. In such a situation, relatively few new innovations in the training specificall…

  • Justice and Injustice in the City

    Open AccessRuth Fincher, Kurt IvesonARTICLEGeographical Research2012Cited by: 17References: 19

    Following a recent growth of interest in questions of justice and the city, this paper considers how the work of contemporary critical urbanists compares with earlier accounts of urban justice and injustice. Our purpose in making this comparison is to consider how scholars concerned with justice and injustice in the city might better articulate the conceptual relationship between justice-thinking and (in)justice-documenting in their writings abou…

  • Enacting separate social worlds: ‘International’ and ‘local’ students in public space in central Melbourne

    Open AccessRuth Fincher, Kate ShawARTICLEGeoforum2011Cited by: 28References: 6

  • Population Growth in Australia: Views and Policy Talk for Possible Futures

    Open AccessRuth FincherARTICLEGeographical Research2011Cited by: 4References: 7

    Debates about population growth and the policies that might direct it have occurred from time to time in Australia and have always received publicity. This paper explores two facets of Australia's recent discourse about population growth. First, it identifies the major scholarly work of the last two decades that analyses the significance of population growth in Australia, this work seeking to provide an alternative to diverse popular and populist…

  • Cosmopolitan or ethnically identified selves? Institutional expectations and the negotiated identities of international students

    Ruth FincherARTICLESocial & Cultural Geography2011Cited by: 13References: 36

    The identities of young people, including students, are influenced by their institutional contexts. In central Melbourne over the past decade, international students largely from Southeast Asia have been presented with the expectations of universities in which they are enrolled and churches with which many are affiliated. But the subject positions offered to students by universities and churches diverge: universities expect of their students cros…

  • The political economy of the local state

    Ruth FincherCHAPTERNew models in geography2010

  • University students and the ‘creative city’

    Kate Shaw, Ruth FincherARTICLEJournal of Policy Research in…2010

    In the last decade, city governments throughout the world have pursued various prescriptions for a ‘creative city’ with varying degrees of success. In Melbourne, strategies have included a revitalised arts policy, liberalisation of liquor laws, an increase in ‘al fresco’ dining and the encouragement of celebrity architects in the design and development of new buildings and precincts. Although Richard Florida’s notion of a ‘creative class’ actuall…

  • Tangible transnational links in the houses of Italian immigrants in Melbourne

    Open AccessIris Levin, Ruth FincherARTICLEGlobal Networks2010Cited by: 9References: 19

    The transnational immigrant home is understood analytically, in an extensive literature, as a mobile construct that is not necessarily confined in its application to a single locale or building. The home has significant symbolic meaning for transnationals, as well as referring to their places of residence. In this study, however, we explore the physical structure of the transnational immigrant home and its materiality - the house. We examine two …

  • The Choice Agenda in Disability Housing Provision

    Ilan Wiesel, Ruth FincherARTICLEHousing Studies2009Cited by: 2References: 14

    The notion of choice is emerging as fundamental to new approaches to the provision of housing for people with intellectual disabilities. In order to achieve a more coherent and informed understanding of choice as a basis for theory, policy and practice in housing for people with intellectual disabilities, what is necessary is a clearer understanding of the complexities and tensions inherent in the idea of choice and their implications. Therefore,…

  • The Unintended Segregation of Transnational Students in Central Melbourne

    Open AccessRuth Fincher, Kate ShawARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2009Cited by: 50References: 20

    Links between the rapid growth of tertiary students resident in a city and that city's gentrification have recently been proposed in a UK-based literature about 'studentification'. These analyses frame student subjectivity, identity, and experience in particular ways-students are agents of urban change, propelling shifts in neighbourhood housing and entertainment submarkets in a manner that local host communities often resent. Consideration of th…