C Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7242-8255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 760 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Making laws, making waves: New oceanic legal spaces and conditions for conflict in Australia's offshore wind regulation
Notwithstanding the substantial social science literature on energy transitions, little attention has been paid to the role of lawmaking and its spatial implications for governing how infrastructure lands in place. Adopting a legal geographic approach and engaging with Jessop's strategic relations theory, we address these gaps through a case study of Australia's offshore wind sector. Documentary analysis and statutory interpretation methods are u…
Heavy metal: Government bailouts, transition deal-making and the dilemmas of industrial decarbonisation in regional Australia
Selling scarcity: Reflexive green accumulation in the acoustic guitar industry
This paper conceptualizes profit opportunities in markets for high-value products where resource scarcity is acute, trade in biotic material increasingly regulated, and consumer environmental concern magnified: what we call reflexive green accumulation. We do so from the example of acoustic guitar manufacturing, a timber-dependent industry both grappling with scarcity and regulation, and willing to acknowledge the gravity of forest over-exploitat…
Home–neighbourhood: A material–affective infrastructure for the creative city
Debates on the relationship between urban spaces and creative industries have traversed multiple dimensions and spatialities. Yet, with some notable exceptions, analytical focus rarely lands on domestic space. This article engages with the domestic geographies of creative work in the city to explore the growing centrality of home both as a locus for this work and as material–affective infrastructure sustaining creative production. Drawing on long…
Critical Geographies of Green Hydrogen Transitions
Green hydrogen has been touted as “the holy grail of decarbonization” (Scita et al. 2020) due to its perceived versatility and promise as a viable alternative for difficult to decarbonize sectors, including shipping, trucking, aviation, iron and steel, and chemicals. Despite such optimism, many green hydrogen projects have recently failed. Beyond technical analysis in engineering and economics disciplines, geographers ask pertinent questions abou…
Frederick David Carr. Being and Becoming: Human Transformation in the Letters of Paul
Resourcing GPNs: Multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis
There is a tendency in global production network (GPN) analyses to primarily focus on manufacturing and distribution, rather than tracking back to their raw material origins. This risks missing important insights at a time when the sourcing of key energy transition materials (ETMs) has become an area of acute geopolitical-economic importance. This article investigates efforts to facilitate the production and processing of ETMs in Australia, and s…
Gaslighting Urban Planning? On Risk, Public Participation, and the Evolving Structures of Social Licence to Operate
This paper explores how coalitions of state, finance, and capital actors safeguard accumulation and monopolistic structural conditions while gesturing towards more inclusive cities, through what is described as gaslighting. Gaslighting is the manipulation of circumstances to sow doubt, normalising systemic oppression whilst invalidating testimonial capacities of the oppressed. Proponents of urban development deals require certainty. However, with…
Writing the Field: Situational Strategies in Multi‐Sited Research
How might travel for research conducted slowly across dispersed places unlock insights and find its way into our writing? Concomitantly, how can our writing respond practically to ethical concerns to situate knowledge beyond rhetorical or ritualistic performances of ‘positionality’? We respond by outlining a methodological approach to open‐ended, multi‐sited research that foregrounds ‘situations’ as analytic and writerly anchors for reflexive inq…
Lived experiences of the x-minute creative city: Front and back spaces of creative work
Popular culture and tourism: Conceptual Advances and Future Directions
Maritime Port Geographies: Materiality, Labour, and Statecraft in Global Crisis Context
This paper surveys geographical research on ports, and traces three emerging directions: materiality, maritime labour, and statecraft. Amidst the rescaling of global value chains, the fragmentation of production, the rise of cargo-mobilities and accompanying labour regimes, researchers have emphasised containerisation, the rise of logistical systems, and the power of lead shipping firms in driving port interchangeability. Yet, multiple crises and…
Follow the labour process: Constructing explanations and making a difference through multi-sited ethnographic methods
This Exchanges commentary adds to recent dialogue in economic geography on how methodological approaches, explanatory goals and political standpoints intersect. Drawing lessons from collaborative projects that have sought to understand the concrete, place-based experiences of labouring in industries amidst capitalist and environmentally induced restructuring, we describe and advocate for a multi-sited ethnographic approach that we call 'following…
Green hydrogen regions: Emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition
This paper analyses the discursive and material politics of energy transition, focusing on promotion of Australian industrial regions as ‘green hydrogen hubs’. Regions are key spatial imaginaries in transition projects promoted by state-capitalist coalitions. First-to-market investments target regions with suitable infrastructures and workforces, anticipating future decarbonised energy markets. Yet, far from an orderly transition, such projects c…
The tourist pose: Aesthetic Labour, Social Media, and New Gendered Tourism Geographies
Infrastructural gaslighting and the crisis of participatory planning
This paper traces and critiques gaslighting - the manipulation of circumstances by elite actors to sow doubt or confusion in residents over what is 'real' - as an affective experience of infrastructure planning. Predominantly observed within intimate relationships, scholars now identify gaslighting as a structural condition that manipulates whole communities and reproduces systemic oppression. We concur, extending analysis to the realm of urban i…
The Place-based Work of Global Circulation: Maritime Workers, Collaboration, and Labor Agency at the Seaport
How does place influence the work of global circulation, and how might that work enroll hitherto overlooked modes of collaboration, power, and agency?Geographers recentering labor in analyses of global production and circulation emphasize the laborcapital relation and employer control versus employee resistance.This can limit empirical and political prospects.Instead, we foreground two additional relationships: collaborative relationships of trus…
The Post-Pandemic Central Business District (CBD): Re-Imagining the Creative City
After central business districts (CBD) emptied from COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and widespread working-from-home, culture and creativity feature prominently within recovery strategies, enrolling the arts and events to enliven urban precincts and attract people back into city centres. We draw upon resilience theory and creative city policymaking to critique present formulations of CBD revitalisation, and suggest alternatives. Despite overtures to …
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance
In this commentary, we argue that augmented concepts and research methods are needed to comprehend hybrid urban governance reconfigurations that benefit market actors but eschew competition in favour of deal-making between elite state and private actors. Fuelled by financialisation and in response to planning conflict are regulatory reforms that legitimise opaque alliances in service of infrastructure and urban development projects. From a specif…
Animating historical resource geographies: Encountering the guitar's North American material traces
Revisiting 'Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar
Struggles over Skills: Lived Experiences of Evolving Technologies and Gendered Hierarchies at Work
How are skills struggled over in occupations transforming through evolving technologies? This article contributes a feminist labor geography perspective amidst reinvigorated interest in skills. Within economic geography, human capital approaches view skills as resources measurable through quantitative proxies. Such analyses reveal place-based endowments and skills mismatches but, unable to capture lived experience or uneven power relations, overl…
The Paradox of Sonship: Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Dr. R. B. Jamieson contends Hebrews and the ecumenical creeds “tell essentially the same story about the same Jesus” (p. 43). Jamieson is a PhD graduate of Cambridge University serving as associate pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. His six classical Christological concepts presented in The Paradox of Sonship reconcile the Hebrews Epistle with the ecumenical creeds to retrieve a robust elaboration of the Son’s identity and the story of salvat…
Jeffrey A. D. Weima, The Sermons to the Seven Churches of Revelation: A Commentary and Guide
Jeffrey A. D. Weima’s The Sermons to the Seven Churches of Revelation (hereafter referred to as SSCR) is his most current volume in a line of books he has written on New Testament–related topics. Weima previously authored Paul the Ancient Letter Writer: An Introduction to Epistolary Analysis in 2016 and published commentaries on 1 and 2 Thessalonians. He holds a ThM from Calvin Theological Seminary and a PhD from Wycliffe College, University of T…
Writing economies and economies of writing
Our introduction to the Exchanges section unpacks the two terms, writing economies and economies of writing, as well as previewing the subsequent nine papers included within the section. We contend first, that the economy cannot exist until it is first written about - 'writing economies'. Here a variety of dates have been suggested as to its first written representation, from roughly 2500 hundred years ago to a mere hundred years. Second, we argu…
We do not want to leave our land’: Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of ‘climate refugees’
Geographies of tourism: (Un)ethical Encounters
In this report I focus on encounter, and the manner in which tourism catalyses entanglements of people, places and identities. Antecedent were earlier theories of the tourist gaze, and critiques of tourism as neocolonialism. One response was the emergence of an ethical tourism industry — branded as such because of commitments to pay decent wages, respect local cultures and tread lightly on nature. While the ethical tourism industry has made strid…
Becoming differently modern: Geographic contributions to a generative climate politics
Anthropogenic climate change is a quintessentially modern problem in its historical origins and discursive framing, but how well does modernist thinking provide us with the tools to solve the problems it created? On one hand even though anthropogenic climate change is argued to be a problem of human origins, solutions to which will require human actions and engagements, modernity separates people from climate change in a number of ways. On the ot…
Creative Small Cities: Rethinking the Creative Economy in Place
Whether advocating creativity as a means to place competition or critiquing the social dislocations that stem from creativity-led urban regeneration, research about the creative economy has tended to assume that large cities are the cores of creativity. That many workers in `creative' industries choose to live and work in small urban centres is often overlooked. In this context, this article aims to recover within debates the importance of size, …
Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’: Place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions
Geographies of tourism: Critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods
In my previous report, I alluded to the contradictory situation where tourism appears marginal to debates about ‘criticality’ and ‘relevance’ in human geography, while simultaneously tourism geographers have been doing precisely the kinds of research that commentators have claimed are needed. Accordingly, in my second and third progress reports, I aim to draw attention to critical tourism geographies
Locating geographies of tourism
This is the first of three progress reports on geographies of tourism. Although articles on tourism have appeared previously in this journal (eg, Mansfeld, 1990; Squire, 1994; Crang, 1997; Del Casino and Hanna, 2000), and over 20 years ago reports were written on recreation and leisure (see Patmore, 1977; 1978; 1979; Patmore and Collins, 1980; 1981), systematic progress reports on tourism have been absent until now. In this report, I attempt two …
Critical tourism studies: New Directions for Volatile Times
Key themes in critical tourism geographies are reviewed and future research agendas suggested in light of a growing global sense of ecological and political-economic instability. Three cross-cutting threads in critical tourism studies are proposed as frames to recalibrate existing knowledges. Following theorisation of the Anthropocene as humans exceeding planetary thresholds, each frame encircles a key excess unleashed in the context of tourism t…
Chilling out in ‘cosmopolitan country’: Urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a ‘lesbian and gay rural idyll’
Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia
Examining a database of 2,856 festivals in Australia and survey results from 480 festival organizers, we consider how nonmetropolitan cultural festivals provide constraints as well as opportunities for economic planners. Cultural festivals are ubiquitous, impressively diverse, and strongly connected to local communities through employment, volunteerism, and participation. Despite cultural festivals being mostly small-scale, economically modest af…
A Queer Country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town
The present paper examines the complex politics of gay/lesbian belonging through a case study of Daylesford, Victoria, an Australian country town. It contributes to two research bodies: gay/lesbian rural geographies and the politics of belonging. Daylesford hosts ChillOut, Australia's largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which provides a telling context for investigating gay/lesbian belonging in rural Australia. We use qualitative data from the 20…
Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes
Geography in Higher Education in Australia
This article discusses the current state of the geography discipline in higher education institutions in Australia. Geography in Australia is vulnerable—and perhaps more so than in many of the other countries covered in this special issue. Reasons for this are discussed. Amidst description of a series of struggles, this article also seeks to highlight some of the complexities and contradictions of the Australian situation. The importance of teasi…
Less talk more drone: Social research with UAVs
There is a growing body of work in geography and sociology on the impact of drones on warfare, surveillance and civil protest. This paper assesses the challenges of using drones for teaching human geography and spatial social sciences. Affordable and expensive drones are now available in the market place; however, there has been next to no reflection on how drones might impact upon the social sciences as a research tool. Yet, unmanned flying vehi…
Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene
In the present article, we seek to bring critical attention to the idea of ‘scene’ in relation to musical activity in Darwin, an iconic northern, remote, (post)colonial city. The idea of ‘scenes
Singing about nations within nations: Geopolitics and identity in Australian indigenous rock music
2000). Singing about nations within nations: Geopolitics and identity in Australian indigenous rock music. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 24, Popular Music and National/Ethnic Identity, pp. 45-73
Sustainable Household Capability: Which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability
This paper presents a framework for analysing which households are doing ‘their bit’ for sustainability in an era of climate change, using a two-stage cluster analysis of sustainable household capabilities. The framework segments households by their reported level of commitment to ‘pro-sustainability’ practices common to conventional government policies. Results are presented from a large-scale survey of Wollongong households, New South Wales, Au…
Commentary
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance
In this commentary, we argue that augmented concepts and research methods are needed to comprehend hybrid urban governance reconfigurations that benefit market actors but eschew competition in favour of deal-making between elite state and private actors. Fuelled by financialisation and in response to planning conflict are regulatory reforms that legitimise opaque alliances in service of infrastructure and urban development projects. From a specif…
Unsolicited urbanism: Development Monopolies, Regulatory-Technical Fixes and Planning-as-Deal-Making
This article identifies the evolution of, and critiques, unsolicited urbanism-a project of city-shaping favouring powerful market actors but inconsistent with the neoliberal tenet of competition. Marked by predetermined outcomes, unsolicited urbanism legitimates secretive monopolies over specific sites and the normalization of planning-as-deal-making. Such features are not uncommon globally, as circuits of capital seek rent opportunities latent i…
Keeping time with trees: Climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future
Green hydrogen regions: Emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition
This paper analyses the discursive and material politics of energy transition, focusing on promotion of Australian industrial regions as ‘green hydrogen hubs’. Regions are key spatial imaginaries in transition projects promoted by state-capitalist coalitions. First-to-market investments target regions with suitable infrastructures and workforces, anticipating future decarbonised energy markets. Yet, far from an orderly transition, such projects c…
Decolonizing the production of geographical knowledges? reflections on research with indigenous musicians
This paper contributes to debates on decolonizing geography, by reflecting on the ethical and political considerations involved in research on indigenous music in Australia. The research collaboration involved two non‐indigenous researchers—an academic geographer and a music educator—engaging with indigenous music and musicians in a number of ways. The paper reflects on these engagements, and draws attention to a series of key binaries and bounda…
Subversive sites: Rave culture, spatial politics and the internet in Sydney, Australia
‘Rave’ subcultures have emerged over the last ten years in Sydney, mobilizing spatial practices and dance styles that originated in Europe and North America. As these dance cultures diversify and fragment, the internet is increasingly being used as a means of organizing rave activities, publishing information about artists, DJs and record labels, and, in more radicalized fragments of the scene, is imbued with meaning—as a ‘web’ to support illegal…
Theorising tourism in crisis: Writing and relating in place
Recent headline events – most notably the COVID-19 pandemic – have illustrated the fragility of tourism capitalism, prompting forward-looking analyses among critical scholars. While grappling with political and philosophical implications, commentaries have tended towards the prescriptive and general: contemplating the collapse of tourism as-we-know-it, and foregrounding opportunities to reconstitute more sustainable, resilient and inclusive forms…
Subversive sites: Rave culture, spatial politics and the internet in Sydney, Australia
‘Rave’ subcultures have emerged over the last ten years in Sydney, mobilizing spatial practices and dance styles that originated in Europe and North America. As these dance cultures diversify and fragment, the internet is increasingly being used as a means of organizing rave activities, publishing information about artists, DJs and record labels, and, in more radicalized fragments of the scene, is imbued with meaning—as a ‘web’ to support illegal…
Singing about nations within nations: Geopolitics and identity in Australian indigenous rock music
2000). Singing about nations within nations: Geopolitics and identity in Australian indigenous rock music. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 24, Popular Music and National/Ethnic Identity, pp. 45-73
The relationship between attitudes, demographic factors and perceived consumption of meats and other proteins in relation to the BSE crisis: A regional study in the United Kingdom
This study investigates changes in perceived consumption, beliefs and attitudes about beef and other proteins over three time periods that included much major media coverage of BSE-related issues. Demographic, consumption frequency of meat and other proteins and attitude scales relating to beef and BSE were administered to a sample of 1065 shoppers as they left a supermarket. Significant changes in most of the consumption measures were found over…
Privileging the Participant: The Importance of Sub-Group Analysis in Social Welfare Evaluations
The British Army, French Farmers and the War on the Western Front 1914-1918
The British Army, French Farmers and the War on the Western Front 1914–1918 Get access Craig Gibson Craig Gibson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 180, Issue 1, August 2003, Pages 175–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/180.1.175 Published: 01 August 2003
Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’: Place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions
Introduction: Doing cultural geography
(2004). Introduction: Doing cultural geography. Australian Geographer: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 123-130
Resident Attitudes to Farmland Protection Measures in the Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales
In-migration to popular ‘sea change’ and ‘tree change’ regions has produced conflicts between rural land users. In the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, new residential developments have been built on much of what was previously prime agricultural land, while farmers (in particular, those negatively affected by the deregulation of the dairy industry) have sought to secure retirement incomes by subdividing land for sale. Although develope…
Decolonizing the production of geographical knowledges? reflections on research with indigenous musicians
This paper contributes to debates on decolonizing geography, by reflecting on the ethical and political considerations involved in research on indigenous music in Australia. The research collaboration involved two non‐indigenous researchers—an academic geographer and a music educator—engaging with indigenous music and musicians in a number of ways. The paper reflects on these engagements, and draws attention to a series of key binaries and bounda…
Geography in Higher Education in Australia
This article discusses the current state of the geography discipline in higher education institutions in Australia. Geography in Australia is vulnerable—and perhaps more so than in many of the other countries covered in this special issue. Reasons for this are discussed. Amidst description of a series of struggles, this article also seeks to highlight some of the complexities and contradictions of the Australian situation. The importance of teasi…
Counter-geographies: The campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia
Locating geographies of tourism
This is the first of three progress reports on geographies of tourism. Although articles on tourism have appeared previously in this journal (eg, Mansfeld, 1990; Squire, 1994; Crang, 1997; Del Casino and Hanna, 2000), and over 20 years ago reports were written on recreation and leisure (see Patmore, 1977; 1978; 1979; Patmore and Collins, 1980; 1981), systematic progress reports on tourism have been absent until now. In this report, I attempt two …
A Queer Country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town
The present paper examines the complex politics of gay/lesbian belonging through a case study of Daylesford, Victoria, an Australian country town. It contributes to two research bodies: gay/lesbian rural geographies and the politics of belonging. Daylesford hosts ChillOut, Australia's largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which provides a telling context for investigating gay/lesbian belonging in rural Australia. We use qualitative data from the 20…
Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene
In the present article, we seek to bring critical attention to the idea of ‘scene’ in relation to musical activity in Darwin, an iconic northern, remote, (post)colonial city. The idea of ‘scenes
Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia
Examining a database of 2,856 festivals in Australia and survey results from 480 festival organizers, we consider how nonmetropolitan cultural festivals provide constraints as well as opportunities for economic planners. Cultural festivals are ubiquitous, impressively diverse, and strongly connected to local communities through employment, volunteerism, and participation. Despite cultural festivals being mostly small-scale, economically modest af…
Geographies of tourism: Critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods
In my previous report, I alluded to the contradictory situation where tourism appears marginal to debates about ‘criticality’ and ‘relevance’ in human geography, while simultaneously tourism geographers have been doing precisely the kinds of research that commentators have claimed are needed. Accordingly, in my second and third progress reports, I aim to draw attention to critical tourism geographies
Creative Small Cities: Rethinking the Creative Economy in Place
Whether advocating creativity as a means to place competition or critiquing the social dislocations that stem from creativity-led urban regeneration, research about the creative economy has tended to assume that large cities are the cores of creativity. That many workers in `creative' industries choose to live and work in small urban centres is often overlooked. In this context, this article aims to recover within debates the importance of size, …
We do not want to leave our land’: Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of ‘climate refugees’
Geographies of tourism: (Un)ethical Encounters
In this report I focus on encounter, and the manner in which tourism catalyses entanglements of people, places and identities. Antecedent were earlier theories of the tourist gaze, and critiques of tourism as neocolonialism. One response was the emergence of an ethical tourism industry — branded as such because of commitments to pay decent wages, respect local cultures and tread lightly on nature. While the ethical tourism industry has made strid…
Geographic Information Technologies for cultural research: Cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies
This article discusses potential applications of Geographic Information Technologies in cultural research - amidst concern that confusion surrounds what these technologies are, and how they might be used. We discuss the adoption of Geographic Information Technologies in our own cultural research projects, motivated by empirical shortcomings with existing creative industries and cultural planning research methods, coupled with a desire to more ful…
Chilling out in ‘cosmopolitan country’: Urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a ‘lesbian and gay rural idyll’
Insulin resistance changes proportionally to adiposity after a stress test in obese humans
Governing Knowledge: Discourses and Tactics of the European Union in Trade-Related Intellectual Property Negotiations
With global shifts in the format of international trade negotiations—from multilateral to bilateral and regional fora—possibilities for the unequal exercise of power have amplified. At risk are the trade-related interests of “developing” economies, as well as public policy issues like access to medicines. In response we analyse some of the emerging governmental approaches currently being employed for trade-related intellectual property (IP) rules…
Commentary
A Country that Makes Things
The announcement in August 2011 that BlueScope Steel was about to close one of its Port Kembla blast furnaces and cease steel exports quickly spurred public debate, not just about steel but about the very future of manufacturing in Australia. With an elevated Australian dollar, job losses have followed in garment-making, car manufacturing and aluminium smelting. Even the iconic Australian fly-spray Mortein is now heading for offshore production. …
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