Elaine Stratford
Biographic Data
| ID | 641903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Stratford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Stratford |
| SIGNATURE | STRATFORD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6273-493X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 412 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 93 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Transforming the public university, reframing trust: Sociospatial politics and the gifting of university landholdings
Universities increasingly rely on land assets alongside enrolments, fees, loan schemes, and public funding. Resistance has intensified where universities seek to redevelop or repurpose campuses on land granted, transferred, or viewed as gifted for educational purposes. Using Australia’s University of Tasmania (UTAS) as an intrinsic case, this paper examines how land, trust, and governance can be contested during organizational and institutional t…
Academic freedom, corporate higher education, and the place of the university
Universities are undergoing major transformations in response to diverse, conflicting pressures. This article analyses one such case: the University of Tasmania’s transformation agenda and public and academic reactions to it that were strong enough to prompt a state parliamentary inquiry. Drawing on qualitative analysis of 151 written submissions to that Inquiry, we ask: What is the university as an idea? How are academic freedom and autonomy und…
Mobility matters: Effects of campus location on travel burden and educational equity in a regional city
Mobility affects higher education, shaping student aspirations and educational attainment, and staff capacities for teaching and research. Studies suggest that commuting burdens—such as longer travel distances and commute times—can lead to lower completion rates for students and reduced workplace satisfaction and productivity for staff. Such outcomes affect life course opportunities for individuals, and can negatively affect communities and socie…
Elemental exposure: Ontolocational politics and the limits of negative ontology
This commentary responds to Özge Can Doğmuş's account of vanishing lakes and the negative ontology of space. It argues that the article's powerful treatment of absence, withdrawal, and finitude can be extended by bringing negative ontology into conversation with ontolocational politics and elemental thinking. Ontolocational politics, my term, specifies how exposure to finitude is patterned across place, infrastructure, social position, and the li…
Decolonizing conservation? Australian government discourses on the Indigenous Protected Areas program 2000–2023
Indigenous nature conservation programs are lauded as a step towards decolonizing nature. Created in 1997, Australia's Indigenous Protected Areas program has produced the world's largest Indigenous conservation estate. Yet little research has critically explored exactly how the program aligns the interests of Indigenous peoples with the settler colonial state and nature conservation actors. We address that gap here by using a Foucauldian discours…
Indigenous peoples and nature conservation: Lessons from 25 years of Australian biodiversity strategy
Indigenous peoples play a central role in Australian national biodiversity conservation, even as they continue to resist marginalization and dispossession by the settler colonial state. Foucauldian discourse analysis of national strategic documents on biodiversity conservation from 1999 to 2024 reveals changes in government discourses, ambitions, and mechanisms for inclusion. Our analysis identifies an emergent process within biodiversity strateg…
Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair
The Palgrave Series in Elemental Thinking explores how elemental forces shape the ways we live, think, feel, and act.Such forces include earth, air, fire, water, metal, wood, ice, and void, but others also exist, and all are worthy of sustained inquiry.On that understanding, the series is grounded in the idea that elements influence what lives are possible and affect how those lives unfold -in our bodies, social settings, environs, and worlding p…
Displaced: Removing the Colonized
Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists
Navigating higher education reforms and reinventing the discipline across sectors
Geography is undergoing significant change in response to widespread higher education reforms. In this commentary, I reflect on how the discipline’s visibility and geographers’ security and sense of purpose are being reshaped by the likes of programme closures, organisational restructures, or pressures to mould academic priorities to others’ imperatives. These dynamics constitute a background condition that invites deep reflection about where and…
Dr Julie Davidson (1949-2024)
Dr Julie Davidson, Senior Research Fellow in Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania, passed away in October 2024. Julie’s academic career spanned more than 40 years and was marked by a sustained commitment to environmental governance, resilience, and sustainability; the transformative power of education; and the social dimensions of place-based change. A deeply respected and admired colleague, mentor, and collaborator, …
Proxy wars, the parklet, and the university: Challenges for urban design
Changes in government funding to universities require that they pursue new opportunities. Some respond by moving campus operations from suburbs to inner cities. Some draw on temporary and tactical urbanism to enhance placemaking and accessibility. In the process, they must acquire and hold a social licence, which is not guaranteed. This research involved analysing such outcomes in an in-depth account of one university’s attempt to develop a tempo…
What impedes and enables flourishing among early career academics
Early career academics face a rapidly changing higher education sector and too little is known about what helps them flourish in the profession. This paper responds to that gap by reporting research undertaken in a single or intrinsic case study of one Australian university. We invited participation from a full cohort of 1019 academics in one large College. Of those, 41 early career academics or ECAs and 45 more senior academics or MSAs engaged i…
Whose rights to the city? Parklets, parking, and university engagement in urban placemaking
Streetscapes are among the urban geographies shaped by people's belonging in place and movements through the spaces-between.Such geographies give expression to powerful ideas about rights to the city.Witness international PARK(ing) Day, during which people playfully reclaim on-street parking areas by displacing vehicles and creating parklets.Yet, parklets have been criticised when their installation results in long-term loss of parking spaces.The…
For everything there is a season
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How can local government be better supported to collaborate for community health and wellbeing
Collaboration is a key strategy among local governments as expectations of the sector grow and resources to meet them fall short. Thus, more research is needed to consider how local governments can be supported to collaborate with others, not least for community health and wellbeing outcomes. In an earlier study, we explored inter‐municipal cooperation using social network analysis and local government perspectives on community health and wellbei…
Im/mobilising bus travel as an infrastructure of care: Student Experiences in a Mid-Size City
Many universities are transforming campuses by responding to globally significant, locally specific, economic, political, and social imperatives. Some are implementing urban and regional transformations in higher education delivery to increase student access and diversity. Their success can depend upon infrastructures provided by other parties. Public transport is an example. Transit accessibility and equity affect quality of life, livelihoods, l…
Feeding ourselves and our geographical futures
Late last year, it was gently suggested to me that I take some leave. In fact, it was suggested that my leave liability might be worth reducing significantly and, generously, I was given until December 2025 to get there. I love my work, but I appreciate that the advice given was important. So I took a full month from mid-December 2023 to mid-January 2024 and gardened, went on a small beach holiday with family and friends, and immersed myself in l…
Why this journal and our partners invest time in webinars
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Nurturing a new generation of geographers
The first week of July was a busy time for those attending the Institute of Australian Geographers’ conference in Adelaide, South Australia. Like all such meetings of our community I have attended, it was characterised by collegial warmth, interesting presentations, and opportunities to mingle during breaks, social events, and field trips. Huge thanks to the organisers and Council for your efforts. Later in the week, Iain Hay powerfully appealed …
Inter‐municipal cooperation and local government perspectives on community health and wellbeing
Globally, local governments face increasing service delivery demands and citizen expectations, including in relation to community health and wellbeing. Inter‐municipal cooperation is one strategy to respond to those demands. In Australia, however, there is limited empirical research about the types of inter‐municipal cooperation local governments engage in and about their perspectives on community health and wellbeing. Without such knowledge, lim…
Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation
The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles…
Coexistence and collaboration: Our Institute’s 2023 conference in Perth
I am writing this editorial on a very wintery day in Hobart, Tasmania, after returning from a convivial and interesting week at the Institute of Australian Geographers’ annual conference, held on unceded lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation at the Bentley campus of Curtin University in Perth. Organised by a team from Curtin and the University of Western Australia and led by Tod Jones and Kirsten Martinus, the conference theme was coe…
Th Anniversary Virtual Issue
Our anniversary editorial celebrates 60 years of the journal and presents 60 papers, all of them in one virtual issue. We lead with a long commentary on the decadal plan for geography outlined by Steve Turton and Alaric Maude and invite reflection on progress. That crucial agenda paper is followed by editorials from three of our ten virtual issues—these on bushfires, biogeographies, and the inaugural Festschrift for Ruth Fincher. We also feature …
Geography: Do we advocate enough for the discipline and profession in terms of public policy
We are close on two quarters through 2023! The time has gone remarkably quickly and felt slightly disjointed. Perhaps that is because of the pattern of austral academic rhythms—leave-taking over summer, grant writing, preparing for semester one, and Easter and school holiday breaks in April. Or perhaps it is simply because academic life is busy. Either way, work related to the journal continues apace and that includes both our publication and our…
Governance Principles for Natural Resource Management
Sustainable natural resource use and management make novel demands on governance arrangements, the design of which requires normative guidance. Although governance principles have been developed for diverse contexts, their availability for sustainable natural resource governance is so far limited. In response, we present a suite of governance principles for natural resource governance that, while developed in an Australian multilevel context, has…
Envisioning the archipelago
Certain limitations arise from the persistent consideration of two common relations of islands in the humanities and social sciences: land and sea, and island and continent/mainland. What remains largely absent or silent are ways of being, knowing and doing—ontologies, epistemologies and methods—that illuminate island spaces as inter-related, mutually constituted and co-constructed: as island and island. Therefore, this paper seeks to map out and…
Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility
New evidence is emerging to suggest that climate change mobility is giving effect to changing forms of island identity among Tuvaluans and i-Kiribati. This nascent shift prompts a number of questions addressed in this paper. What, for example, does climate change migration mean for island identity and its geographic performance? How does the spatialization of identity inform shared experiences of climate change, and how does identity assist in th…
On the edge: A tale of skaters and urban governance
The 'problem' of skating has been conflated with a 'problem' with young people in public spaces, reflecting a rise in fear of crime from the mid-twentieth century and referencing more general questions about public space and citizenship. My task in this paper is to highlight some of the tensions between skating and urban governance in Franklin Square, Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania in Australia. This task is indebted to ideas about governan…
Tuvalu, Sovereignty and Climate Change: Considering Fenua, the Archipelago and Emigration
Tuvalu is a Pacific atoll nation-state that has come to stand for predicaments implicating climate change, forced emigration and resettlement, and loss of territory and sovereignty. Legal and policy remedies seek to address such challenges by radically reframing how sovereignty is conceived. Drawing on literary and legal theory, we seek to extend such work in the terms of cultural geography and anthropology by considering how the archipelago and …
Multi-level Environmental Governance: Lessons from Australian natural resource management
The region has become a significant scale of governance for the implementation of public policy, including natural resource management (NRM). A community-based regional NRM governance model has been adopted by the Australian government in partnership with Australian state and territory governments. There have been persuasive advocates of this approach both within community organisations and government. Proponents point to advantages such as the c…
Islandness and struggles over development: A Tasmanian case study
En(gender)ing the debate about water’s management and care – views from the Antipodes
Technologies of agency and performance: Tasmania Together and the constitution of harmonious island identity
Critical artistic interventions into the geopolitical spaces of islands
Something about the apparent romanticism of islands prompts creative reflections such as those comprising visual artworks in the Dis-covery exhibition touring Australia for 2 years from 2011. The exhibition forms the basis for this paper, written by its progenitor and curatoran artist, and its essayista cultural geographer. The curatorial premise was that islands and island cultures are at risk from global and multinational forces, as well as fro…
Belonging as a Resource: The Case of Ralphs Bay, Tasmania, and the Local Politics of Place
This paper seeks to contribute to the theorization of belonging as a resource on which people draw in the local politics of place-especially in contestations over ecological space and decisions about land use that resonate at many scales and across many domains. The task is advanced with reference to a controversial development proposal to build a marina and residential subdivision on estuarine mudflats near a seaside dormitory suburb in the capi…
The Idea of the Archipelago: Contemplating Island Relations
Creative, innovative, and timely research on islands and island futures is warranted and pressing, not least because island(er)s are poorly served by established tropes of them as subordinate to continents or mainlands. Opportunities exist to provide a more thoroughgoing account of island life and island relations, and the seven papers in this special issue address that task. In works that consider islands in the Timor Sea, the Caribbean, the Pac…
Isolation as disability and resource: Considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the ‘New Tasmania’
The peoples and governments of island nation-states appear to use isolation as a jurisdictional resource to address the challenges of economic globalization. This tactic is pronounced in relation to tourism and property developments, which have the potential to be especially internally divisive. But what of sub-national island jurisdictions? Australia's foundation is, in part, indebted to British colonial ideas about a commonwealth of increase: i…
Gardens and the Bush: Gardeners’ Attitudes, Garden Types and Invasives
Garden plants that invade native vegetation can be a threat to native ecosystems. The species composition of gardens near the bush in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is shown to relate to environmental variation and the attitudes of gardeners to their recreation, to native plants and to the bush. Four types of gardens are discriminated: the species‐poor shrub garden; the local native garden; the woodland garden; and the gardenesque. A group of garden…
Rethinking the Geographies of Walkability in Small City Centers
What can be learned from conversations about walkability per se and specific ideas about the embodied geographies of walking? In this article, we work with the idea of a walking assemblage and the related concept of territory to clarify how social and material entities might promote or impede journeys on foot. Our analysis is grounded in ethnographic data collected about everyday walking among twenty-five residents in the center of Wollongong, a …
Young islanders, the meteorological imagination, and the art of geopolitical engagement
There is scant literature analysing how young islanders regard climate change, particularly in terms of resilience, agency and a geopolitical aesthetic. To address that gap, this paper offers a theoretical framework and empirical example responding to such issues. The work's theoretical foci are upon the role of the artist as interlocutor; the importance of arts practices in encouraging children to participate in climate change debates and action…
Insights and principles for supporting social engagement in rural older people
Staying socially engaged is known to improve health and longevity in older people. As the population ages, maintaining levels of social engagement among older people becomes increasingly important. Nevertheless, advancing age brings with it many challenges to social engagement, especially in rural areas. A three-year Australian Research Council Linkage Project sought to improve understandings of age-related triggers to social disengagement in six…
Relational spaces and the geopolitics of community participation in two Tasmanian local governments: A case for agonistic pluralism
The ‘success’ of sustainability is often premised on public participation and consensus among members of diverse communities. An analysis of two experiments in participatory governance in Tasmania underpinned by explicit commitments to sustainability and by tacit investments in deliberative democracy allows detailed reflection on claims about the efficacy of deliberative democracy, and encourages speculation about whether and to what extent an al…
Walking city streets: Spatial qualities, spatial justice, and democratising impulses
Walking fosters self‐efficacy, empathy, and connection, and large and small democratic actions. Such capacity seems especially the case when walking is attended by certain spatial qualities that engender, for instance, physical accessibility, a capacity to socialise, a sense of safety, or a pleasing aesthetic. Sometimes, adverse spatial alternatives dominate and then – at very least – indifference seems to loom large and spatial injustices prevai…
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
Im/mobilising bus travel as an infrastructure of care: Student Experiences in a Mid-Size City
Many universities are transforming campuses by responding to globally significant, locally specific, economic, political, and social imperatives. Some are implementing urban and regional transformations in higher education delivery to increase student access and diversity. Their success can depend upon infrastructures provided by other parties. Public transport is an example. Transit accessibility and equity affect quality of life, livelihoods, l…
Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation
The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles…
A relational approach to walking: Methodology, metalanguage, and power relations
To better understand walking practices and the power relations informing them, Mattias Kärrholm and colleagues argue for a relational methodology and metalanguage. In the process, they propose a threefold approach: (a) identify different walking assemblages; (b) investigate how diverse types of walking assemblage relate in series; and (c) study how certain objects can gather or bind series together and act as boundary objects. In this article, we…
Feminizing risk at a distance: Critical observations on the constitution of a preventive technology for HIV/Aids
Distance is a key idea in contemporary literatures on geography and the government of risk,and it is central to the work presented in this paper, which focuses on Western mediarepresentations of an innovative first-generation non-contraceptive microbicide, Carraguard.A preventive technology that has been developed under the auspices of the USPopulationCouncil andtheBill andMelindaGates Foundation,Carraguardis represented inthe media in ways that …
Co - Producing Mobilities: Negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
Ideology, Environment and Legislation: South Australian Attitudes to Vegetation
The paper addresses one possible manifestation of the interface between geographical concerns and the law. A brief discussion about aspects of law, images, attitudes and ideology is presented. A broad historical survey of legislation from the South Australian Parliament pertaining to vegetation illustrates that elements of the law, statutes in this case, can be usefully applied to studying geographical problems such as environmental management. I…
Happy anniversary? A retrospective on the 1983 women's studies campaign at the flinders university of South Australia
Gender and Environment: Some preliminary questions about women and water in the South Australian context
This paper speculates on three issues about the relationship between women and water, focusing on the context of South Australia, a particularly dry part of the world. First, it is suggested that gender affects our connections to environmental resources, in this instance to water. Second, it is noted that currently unexamined archival material exists for the South Australian situation and that the analysis of this material may shed light on the r…
Memory Work, Geography and Environmental Studies: Some Suggestions for Teaching and Research
In geography and environmental studies, the subjective and objective are often pitted one against the other, and we are often required to divorce the personal and anecdotal from our formal production of knowledge. I question the sense of this practice. First, I examine a method of self-exploration, known as memory work. I then describe how this method can be used in teaching and research to help us explore how we make and give meaning to place. B…
Health and nature in the 19th century Australian women's popular press1
A biopolitics of population decline: The Australian women's sphere as a discourse of resistance
Population decline at the last fin de sià ̈cle produced considerable debate among scholars, bureaucrats, and politicians. Material about this issue in the popular press of the day is also significant, allowing reflection on colonial attitudes toward the feminine, the home, and nature. Some commentators argued that these three were enduringly interconnected, and were critical to understanding both population decline and the decline of the populati…
Three ecofeminists speak on women, peace and nature
Chris Corrin (ed.), Women in a Violent World: Feminist Analyses and Resistance Across Europe (Edinburgh University Press) Edinburgh, 1996 (reviewed by Julie Davidson). Karen J. Warren and Duane L. Cady (eds), Bringing Peace Home: Feminism, Violence and Nature (Indiana University Press) Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1996 (reviewed by Elaine Stratford). Karen J. Warren (ed.), Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (Indiana University Press) Bloomingto…
The Production of Climbing Landscapes‐as‐Texts
Climbing landscapes are represented by climbers in a highly textualised manner. In particular, published climbing guidebooks record the name and graded level of difficulty of each climbing route, and details which link those routes to the ‘identity’ of the first ascendant(s). Climbing landscapes can then literally be read as if they were texts. These landscapes provide a spatial record of, and may ultimately naturalise and commemorate, the first‐…
Gender, place and travel: The case of Elsie Birks, South Australian pioneer
In 1894, a young South Australian teacher named Elsie Birks travelled from metropolitan Adelaide to the margins of the Riverland with her family to establish a utopian socialist settlement. From 1894 to 1897 she kept diaries of her life in Murtho, and wrote numerous letters to friends and family—colourful observations of her community, and how constituted itself and its place. Here I present an analysis of these documents, and other letters penne…
The Millennium Project on Australian Geography and Geographers: An Introduction and Agenda
On the edge: A tale of skaters and urban governance
The 'problem' of skating has been conflated with a 'problem' with young people in public spaces, reflecting a rise in fear of crime from the mid-twentieth century and referencing more general questions about public space and citizenship. My task in this paper is to highlight some of the tensions between skating and urban governance in Franklin Square, Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania in Australia. This task is indebted to ideas about governan…
Relational spaces and the geopolitics of community participation in two Tasmanian local governments: A case for agonistic pluralism
The ‘success’ of sustainability is often premised on public participation and consensus among members of diverse communities. An analysis of two experiments in participatory governance in Tasmania underpinned by explicit commitments to sustainability and by tacit investments in deliberative democracy allows detailed reflection on claims about the efficacy of deliberative democracy, and encourages speculation about whether and to what extent an al…
Gardens and the Bush: Gardeners’ Attitudes, Garden Types and Invasives
Garden plants that invade native vegetation can be a threat to native ecosystems. The species composition of gardens near the bush in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is shown to relate to environmental variation and the attitudes of gardeners to their recreation, to native plants and to the bush. Four types of gardens are discriminated: the species‐poor shrub garden; the local native garden; the woodland garden; and the gardenesque. A group of garden…
Technologies of agency and performance: Tasmania Together and the constitution of harmonious island identity
Isolation as disability and resource: Considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the ‘New Tasmania’
The peoples and governments of island nation-states appear to use isolation as a jurisdictional resource to address the challenges of economic globalization. This tactic is pronounced in relation to tourism and property developments, which have the potential to be especially internally divisive. But what of sub-national island jurisdictions? Australia's foundation is, in part, indebted to British colonial ideas about a commonwealth of increase: i…
The Unesco Biosphere Reserve Program in Australia: Constraints and opportunities for localized sustainable development
Since their creation under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program in 1976, biosphere reserves have provided an international framework for linking protected areas with their associated working landscapes. In Australia, twelve biosphere reserves were added to the World Network between 1977 and 1982. That initial flurry of activity has been followed by twenty…
En(gender)ing the debate about water’s management and care – views from the Antipodes
Islandness and struggles over development: A Tasmanian case study
Feminizing risk at a distance: Critical observations on the constitution of a preventive technology for HIV/Aids
Distance is a key idea in contemporary literatures on geography and the government of risk,and it is central to the work presented in this paper, which focuses on Western mediarepresentations of an innovative first-generation non-contraceptive microbicide, Carraguard.A preventive technology that has been developed under the auspices of the USPopulationCouncil andtheBill andMelindaGates Foundation,Carraguardis represented inthe media in ways that …
Multi-level Environmental Governance: Lessons from Australian natural resource management
The region has become a significant scale of governance for the implementation of public policy, including natural resource management (NRM). A community-based regional NRM governance model has been adopted by the Australian government in partnership with Australian state and territory governments. There have been persuasive advocates of this approach both within community organisations and government. Proponents point to advantages such as the c…
Spatial anxieties and the changing landscape of an Australian airport
International trends in airport privatisation and commercialisation have prompted claims that changes to aviation business disrupt local place attachments, social and economic activities, and planning regimes. This paper reflects on such matters with reference to a proposal for major commercial development at Hobart International Airport in Tasmania. First, we outline provisions under the Australian Government's Airports Act 1996 that exempt airp…
Belonging as a Resource: The Case of Ralphs Bay, Tasmania, and the Local Politics of Place
This paper seeks to contribute to the theorization of belonging as a resource on which people draw in the local politics of place-especially in contestations over ecological space and decisions about land use that resonate at many scales and across many domains. The task is advanced with reference to a controversial development proposal to build a marina and residential subdivision on estuarine mudflats near a seaside dormitory suburb in the capi…
Governance Principles for Natural Resource Management
Sustainable natural resource use and management make novel demands on governance arrangements, the design of which requires normative guidance. Although governance principles have been developed for diverse contexts, their availability for sustainable natural resource governance is so far limited. In response, we present a suite of governance principles for natural resource governance that, while developed in an Australian multilevel context, has…
Envisioning the archipelago
Certain limitations arise from the persistent consideration of two common relations of islands in the humanities and social sciences: land and sea, and island and continent/mainland. What remains largely absent or silent are ways of being, knowing and doing—ontologies, epistemologies and methods—that illuminate island spaces as inter-related, mutually constituted and co-constructed: as island and island. Therefore, this paper seeks to map out and…
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
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