Ruth Panelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 77632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Panelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Panelli |
| SIGNATURE | PANELLI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 567 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
A Companion to Social Geography
Companion to Social Geography
Timely Partnerships? Contrasting Geographies of Activism in New Zealand and Australia
Analyses of activism have inspired geographers for many years, but most of this work has focused on relatively short time-frames, events and struggles. This paper suggests that there is much to be gained from a greater engagement with issues of time and time—spaces. It outlines and applies the contrasting conceptions of chrono/ chora and kairo/ topos notions of time—space as potentially useful ways to interrogate geographies of activism. The pape…
Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics: Young people’s fears and hopes
Beyond foodscapes: Considering geographies of Indigenous well-being
More-than-human social geographies: Posthuman and Other Possibilities
While ‘the social’ is problematized in diverse ways in current geographical debates this report reflects on the ongoing relevance of social geographies, especially those that attend to the complexity and interconnectivity of life. This review outlines three ways in which society-nature relations are being interrogated via: poststructural, posthuman and Indigenous foci. It concludes that important questions of social difference and unequal power r…
De-centring White ruralities: Ethnic diversity, racialisation and Indigenous countrysides
Using Fiction to Make Meaning in Research With Young People in Rural New Zealand
In research with young people about their experiences of rural and urban environments, the authors were struck by how participants in their rural case study used fiction to explain their experiences. The participants' use of fiction lead the authors to an additional rich vein of empirical material and analysis not foreseen at the beginning of the research. The authors outline the young people's use of fiction to frame their understanding of stere…
Managing the Woman Issue: The Australian State and the Case of Women in Agri-Politics
Recent international accounts of gender and governance have highlighted complexities surrounding the political mobilization of women on the one hand, and the reconfiguration of the state on the other. The trajectories taken by women's movements have intersected and interacted with a rapidly changing political opportunity structure and with increasingly unfavourable shifts in dominant discourses. In the past, Australia has been heralded as a woman…
Social geographies: Encounters with Indigenous and more-than-White/Anglo geographies
The Victorian Women on Farms Gatherings: A Case Study of the Australian “Women in Agriculture” Movement
This article provides a case study of the Victorian Women on Farms Gatherings (WOFG) to redress the lack of attention political historians have paid to farm women. Using materials collected by Museum Victoria, we trace the reasons for farm women's activism during the latter part of the twentieth century, and document the activities and outcomes of the Gatherings held annually since 1990. Our study demonstrates that farm women see politics as mult…
Placing Well-Being: A Maori Case Study of Cultural and Environmental Specificity
Beyond Bluff oysters? Place identity and ethnicity in a peripheral coastal setting
Time–space geometries of activism and the case of mis/placing gender in Australian agriculture
Geographies of activism draw on many traditions but few have charted social movements over time. This paper suggests that the consideration of action over time not only enhances our understanding of the degree of social change that occurs, but also the way activists’ interests are acknowledged, or contained, by those they seek to influence. The paper reviews existing literature and proposes the adoption of a particular conceptualization of time–s…
Questioning community as a collective antidote to fear: Jean‐Luc Nancy's ‘singularity’ and ‘being singular plural
Community has long been a key academic concept and lay narrative, especially in commentaries of rural as opposed to urban life. Although community is proffered as an antidote for a plethora of emotional, social and policy challenges in contemporary Western societies, we argue that it is problematic. Previously, we suggested that community is a device mobilised in response to fears surrounding finitude. In this paper, we again draw on Nancy's theo…
Outback' Romance? A Reading of Nature and Heterosexuality in Rural Australia
This article examines the relationship between the sexuality and understandings of nature. Employing a case of 'romance' in 'outback' Australia, we dissolve the boundaries between 'nature' and 'society' to show some of the varied ways in which the construction and performance of heterosexuality is shaped by (and is integral to) dominant ways of knowing nature. In practical terms, we draw on a reality TV series in which single men in 'outback' Aus…
New directions on gender and environment: A review essay
Creating Collaborative Living History The Case of the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering Heritage Collection
The recognition and conservation of contemporary history is a growing interest of both professional and lay communities. In creating archives and cultural collections of local and wider interest, collaborative partnerships can produce rich and innovative constructions of history. This paper outlines the development of the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering Heritage Collection which involves a collaborative partnership committed to the appropriate…
Access to rural health services: Research as community action and policy critique
Directions to enlarge our worlds? Social and cultural geography in New Zealand: Country report
For a relatively small country, New Zealand is striking for its successive migrations and complex cultural politics. Following earlier arrivals of Maori, Abel Tasman ‘discovered’ the country in 164
Women's fear of crime: A rural perspective
Teaching Research Through Field Studies: A Cumulative Opportunity for Teaching Methodology to Human Geography Undergraduates
Notwithstanding its iconic status within geography, the debate continues about how fieldwork should be taught to undergraduate students. The authors engage with this debate and argue that field studies should follow the teaching of research methodology. In this paper they review relevant literature on the place of fieldwork in geography training, the importance of problem solving and the challenges of group learning. Drawing on these themes they …
Catchment contrasts: Comparing young people’s experiences and knowledge of a river environment
This beats a cake stall: Farm women's shifting encounters with the Australian state
English The mid-1990s saw Australian farm women benefit from affirmative government policies at both state and federal levels. Numerous avenues developed for the increased recognition and participation of women in rural industries and policy circles. This article traces the subsequent decade, noting the political and gender relations that have seen the policy climate cool. It analyses the discursive shift in policy from affirmative action to main…
Why Community? Reading Difference and Singularity with Community
Geographers have increasingly recognised that communities are not homogeneous social formations but contain great diversity and are meaningful in a variety of material, relational and political ways. This has resulted in the apparently contradictory notion of "community with difference"; that community may be performed even while heterogeneity and disagreement are present. But geographers have yet to address satisfactorily the question of why com…
More-than-human social geographies: Posthuman and Other Possibilities
While ‘the social’ is problematized in diverse ways in current geographical debates this report reflects on the ongoing relevance of social geographies, especially those that attend to the complexity and interconnectivity of life. This review outlines three ways in which society-nature relations are being interrogated via: poststructural, posthuman and Indigenous foci. It concludes that important questions of social difference and unequal power r…
De-centring White ruralities: Ethnic diversity, racialisation and Indigenous countrysides
Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics: Young people’s fears and hopes
Social geographies: Encounters with Indigenous and more-than-White/Anglo geographies
Young rural lives: Strategies beyond diversity
Time–space geometries of activism and the case of mis/placing gender in Australian agriculture
Geographies of activism draw on many traditions but few have charted social movements over time. This paper suggests that the consideration of action over time not only enhances our understanding of the degree of social change that occurs, but also the way activists’ interests are acknowledged, or contained, by those they seek to influence. The paper reviews existing literature and proposes the adoption of a particular conceptualization of time–s…
Claiming space and community: Rural women’s strategies for living with, and beyond, fear
Women's fear of crime: A rural perspective
Making Space: Women's urban and rural activism and the Australian state
Recent discussions of political actions have emphasised the ways that strategic use of spaces, places and various spatial scales helps to constitute activist practice. Advancing their interests involves activists in spatial practices that seek simultaneously to achieve cohesion and identity for their group, and to negotiate the shifting 'opportunity structures' of their context. In this article, the authors use examples of Australian women's acti…
Beyond Bluff oysters? Place identity and ethnicity in a peripheral coastal setting
Outback' Romance? A Reading of Nature and Heterosexuality in Rural Australia
This article examines the relationship between the sexuality and understandings of nature. Employing a case of 'romance' in 'outback' Australia, we dissolve the boundaries between 'nature' and 'society' to show some of the varied ways in which the construction and performance of heterosexuality is shaped by (and is integral to) dominant ways of knowing nature. In practical terms, we draw on a reality TV series in which single men in 'outback' Aus…
Questioning community as a collective antidote to fear: Jean‐Luc Nancy's ‘singularity’ and ‘being singular plural
Community has long been a key academic concept and lay narrative, especially in commentaries of rural as opposed to urban life. Although community is proffered as an antidote for a plethora of emotional, social and policy challenges in contemporary Western societies, we argue that it is problematic. Previously, we suggested that community is a device mobilised in response to fears surrounding finitude. In this paper, we again draw on Nancy's theo…
A Community Issue? Rural Women's Feelings of Safety and Fear in New Zealand
Following previous geographies of gender and fear this article is stimulated by the dominance of urban accounts of women's experience of safety and fear in different ‘private’ and ‘public’ spaces1 This work is based on an article presented at the ‘Emotional Geographies’ conference (Lancaster University, September 2002). . We argue that rural and emotional geography perspectives on these issues provide new directions for both a feminist critique o…
Access to rural health services: Research as community action and policy critique
Why Community? Reading Difference and Singularity with Community
Geographers have increasingly recognised that communities are not homogeneous social formations but contain great diversity and are meaningful in a variety of material, relational and political ways. This has resulted in the apparently contradictory notion of "community with difference"; that community may be performed even while heterogeneity and disagreement are present. But geographers have yet to address satisfactorily the question of why com…
Destabilizing Dualisms: Young People's Experiences of Rural and Urban Environments
This article challenges two representations: one of rural communities as inclusive, closer to nature and therefore ideal places for young people to grow up in and the concomitant representation of urban areas as the antithesis of community, as alienating, distanced from nature and therefore not ideal for young people to grow up in. The results are presented from both rural and urban case studies, giving particular attention to young people's expe…
Teaching Research Methodology to Geography Undergraduates: Rationale and practice in a human geography programme
In human geography, apart from a small selection of informative textbooks, scholars have remained relatively quiet on the matter of curriculum design and teaching programmes that would provide this experience. Instead, attention has been devoted to specific, individual research skills or selected intersections between teaching and research. In contrast, this paper argues that it is important to consider how we might best teach research methodolog…
The Reinvention of Tirau: Landscape as a Record of Changing Economy and Culture
Recent attention to rural revivals and place-specific economic activity has supported studies of 'culture economies' and local identity formation in different western settings. This paper builds on these analyses of rural change to extend debate and present a New Zealand case. While recent works within rural studies have been important for exploring the intersection between economic and cultural values and processes, we argue that additional atte…
We make our own fun: Reading the politics of youth with(in) community
Drawing on recent research that has highlighted both the heterogeneity and agency of youth, this paper reports on how young people experience and negotiate social relations and everyday spaces in a rural community. Taking a case from New Zealand, we consider the sites, activities and social negotiations young people encounter when considering their experiences of 'community'. These experiences include engagements with the social relations and spa…
Narratives of Community and Change in a Contemporary Rural Setting: The Case of Duaringa, Queensland
Contemporary rural communities are being affected by a range of changes and processes in Australia, including major changes in demographic patterns; the organisation and performance of primary industries; levels of government support for economic and social infrastructure; and wider developments in technology and changing socio‐cultural values. The impact of these processes has been felt unequally and small communities which have had a traditiona…
Using Fiction to Make Meaning in Research With Young People in Rural New Zealand
In research with young people about their experiences of rural and urban environments, the authors were struck by how participants in their rural case study used fiction to explain their experiences. The participants' use of fiction lead the authors to an additional rich vein of empirical material and analysis not foreseen at the beginning of the research. The authors outline the young people's use of fiction to frame their understanding of stere…
Timely Partnerships? Contrasting Geographies of Activism in New Zealand and Australia
Analyses of activism have inspired geographers for many years, but most of this work has focused on relatively short time-frames, events and struggles. This paper suggests that there is much to be gained from a greater engagement with issues of time and time—spaces. It outlines and applies the contrasting conceptions of chrono/ chora and kairo/ topos notions of time—space as potentially useful ways to interrogate geographies of activism. The pape…
Directions to enlarge our worlds? Social and cultural geography in New Zealand: Country report
For a relatively small country, New Zealand is striking for its successive migrations and complex cultural politics. Following earlier arrivals of Maori, Abel Tasman ‘discovered’ the country in 164
This beats a cake stall: Farm women's shifting encounters with the Australian state
English The mid-1990s saw Australian farm women benefit from affirmative government policies at both state and federal levels. Numerous avenues developed for the increased recognition and participation of women in rural industries and policy circles. This article traces the subsequent decade, noting the political and gender relations that have seen the policy climate cool. It analyses the discursive shift in policy from affirmative action to main…
It's your whole way of life really”: Negotiating work, health and gender
Making Space: Women's urban and rural activism and the Australian state
Recent discussions of political actions have emphasised the ways that strategic use of spaces, places and various spatial scales helps to constitute activist practice. Advancing their interests involves activists in spatial practices that seek simultaneously to achieve cohesion and identity for their group, and to negotiate the shifting 'opportunity structures' of their context. In this article, the authors use examples of Australian women's acti…
Narratives of Community and Change in a Contemporary Rural Setting: The Case of Duaringa, Queensland
Contemporary rural communities are being affected by a range of changes and processes in Australia, including major changes in demographic patterns; the organisation and performance of primary industries; levels of government support for economic and social infrastructure; and wider developments in technology and changing socio‐cultural values. The impact of these processes has been felt unequally and small communities which have had a traditiona…
Young rural lives: Strategies beyond diversity
We make our own fun: Reading the politics of youth with(in) community
Drawing on recent research that has highlighted both the heterogeneity and agency of youth, this paper reports on how young people experience and negotiate social relations and everyday spaces in a rural community. Taking a case from New Zealand, we consider the sites, activities and social negotiations young people encounter when considering their experiences of 'community'. These experiences include engagements with the social relations and spa…
Gender research in rural geography
This review examines the development of research on gender within the broad arena of rural studies. It does so through four main themes: community, work, environment and sexuality. Drawing on work from a range of Western countries, the review shows how an early reluctance to engage with feminist research and work on gender more broadly has given way to a highly active, diverse and rich research direction in rural studies. The review selectively c…
It's your whole way of life really”: Negotiating work, health and gender
Teaching Research Methodology to Geography Undergraduates: Rationale and practice in a human geography programme
In human geography, apart from a small selection of informative textbooks, scholars have remained relatively quiet on the matter of curriculum design and teaching programmes that would provide this experience. Instead, attention has been devoted to specific, individual research skills or selected intersections between teaching and research. In contrast, this paper argues that it is important to consider how we might best teach research methodolog…
The Reinvention of Tirau: Landscape as a Record of Changing Economy and Culture
Recent attention to rural revivals and place-specific economic activity has supported studies of 'culture economies' and local identity formation in different western settings. This paper builds on these analyses of rural change to extend debate and present a New Zealand case. While recent works within rural studies have been important for exploring the intersection between economic and cultural values and processes, we argue that additional atte…
Destabilizing Dualisms: Young People's Experiences of Rural and Urban Environments
This article challenges two representations: one of rural communities as inclusive, closer to nature and therefore ideal places for young people to grow up in and the concomitant representation of urban areas as the antithesis of community, as alienating, distanced from nature and therefore not ideal for young people to grow up in. The results are presented from both rural and urban case studies, giving particular attention to young people's expe…
A Community Issue? Rural Women's Feelings of Safety and Fear in New Zealand
Following previous geographies of gender and fear this article is stimulated by the dominance of urban accounts of women's experience of safety and fear in different ‘private’ and ‘public’ spaces1 This work is based on an article presented at the ‘Emotional Geographies’ conference (Lancaster University, September 2002). . We argue that rural and emotional geography perspectives on these issues provide new directions for both a feminist critique o…
Claiming space and community: Rural women’s strategies for living with, and beyond, fear
Women's fear of crime: A rural perspective
Teaching Research Through Field Studies: A Cumulative Opportunity for Teaching Methodology to Human Geography Undergraduates
Notwithstanding its iconic status within geography, the debate continues about how fieldwork should be taught to undergraduate students. The authors engage with this debate and argue that field studies should follow the teaching of research methodology. In this paper they review relevant literature on the place of fieldwork in geography training, the importance of problem solving and the challenges of group learning. Drawing on these themes they …
Catchment contrasts: Comparing young people’s experiences and knowledge of a river environment
This beats a cake stall: Farm women's shifting encounters with the Australian state
English The mid-1990s saw Australian farm women benefit from affirmative government policies at both state and federal levels. Numerous avenues developed for the increased recognition and participation of women in rural industries and policy circles. This article traces the subsequent decade, noting the political and gender relations that have seen the policy climate cool. It analyses the discursive shift in policy from affirmative action to main…
Why Community? Reading Difference and Singularity with Community
Geographers have increasingly recognised that communities are not homogeneous social formations but contain great diversity and are meaningful in a variety of material, relational and political ways. This has resulted in the apparently contradictory notion of "community with difference"; that community may be performed even while heterogeneity and disagreement are present. But geographers have yet to address satisfactorily the question of why com…
New directions on gender and environment: A review essay
Creating Collaborative Living History The Case of the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering Heritage Collection
The recognition and conservation of contemporary history is a growing interest of both professional and lay communities. In creating archives and cultural collections of local and wider interest, collaborative partnerships can produce rich and innovative constructions of history. This paper outlines the development of the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering Heritage Collection which involves a collaborative partnership committed to the appropriate…
Access to rural health services: Research as community action and policy critique
Directions to enlarge our worlds? Social and cultural geography in New Zealand: Country report
For a relatively small country, New Zealand is striking for its successive migrations and complex cultural politics. Following earlier arrivals of Maori, Abel Tasman ‘discovered’ the country in 164
The Victorian Women on Farms Gatherings: A Case Study of the Australian “Women in Agriculture” Movement
This article provides a case study of the Victorian Women on Farms Gatherings (WOFG) to redress the lack of attention political historians have paid to farm women. Using materials collected by Museum Victoria, we trace the reasons for farm women's activism during the latter part of the twentieth century, and document the activities and outcomes of the Gatherings held annually since 1990. Our study demonstrates that farm women see politics as mult…
Placing Well-Being: A Maori Case Study of Cultural and Environmental Specificity
Beyond Bluff oysters? Place identity and ethnicity in a peripheral coastal setting
Time–space geometries of activism and the case of mis/placing gender in Australian agriculture
Geographies of activism draw on many traditions but few have charted social movements over time. This paper suggests that the consideration of action over time not only enhances our understanding of the degree of social change that occurs, but also the way activists’ interests are acknowledged, or contained, by those they seek to influence. The paper reviews existing literature and proposes the adoption of a particular conceptualization of time–s…
Questioning community as a collective antidote to fear: Jean‐Luc Nancy's ‘singularity’ and ‘being singular plural
Community has long been a key academic concept and lay narrative, especially in commentaries of rural as opposed to urban life. Although community is proffered as an antidote for a plethora of emotional, social and policy challenges in contemporary Western societies, we argue that it is problematic. Previously, we suggested that community is a device mobilised in response to fears surrounding finitude. In this paper, we again draw on Nancy's theo…
Sociology (32 works) · Political science (22 works) · Rural development and sustainability (21 works) · Social science (17 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Politics (9 works)