Brendan Gleeson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 715808 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brendan Gleeson |
| PRENOMES | Brendan |
| SOBRENOME | Gleeson |
| ASSINATURA | GLEESON B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7264-7397 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 393 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Cultural pluralism and inclusive urban revitalisation
Repairing disability access in competitive environments
In many countries around the world, individualised budgets are replacing ‘block funding’ as the primary way in which disability service provision is funded. These models assume that dynamics of competition improve services for people with disabilities. This article presents the findings of research on the accessibility and inclusiveness of mainstream services for people with intellectual disabilities in four Australian cities in the wake of the r…
Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’
‘Mainstreaming’ and ‘Choice and control’ agendas have played a dominant role in shaping disability policy and advocacy in many countries since the 1970s, however scholarship is yet to critically explore the tensions and synergies between the two. ‘Mainstreaming’ is the aspiration to move people with disability out of ‘specialist’ spaces designed specifically for them, and into ‘mainstream’ spaces open to people of all abilities. ‘Choice and contr…
Three modes of inclusion of people with intellectual disability in mainstream services
This paper examines the adjustments made to include people with intellectual disabilities in mainstream services. Drawing on in-depth interviews with both people with intellectual disabilities and mainstream service managers in four urban regions in Australia, the paper points to three modes of practice that are operationalised, to different degrees, when people with intellectual disabilities seek access to mainstream services: a commitment and a…
Fragmentation and urban knowledge
Silo-ed thinking, fragmented knowledge systems and short-termism remain key challenges in transforming urban systems and policy making towards more sustainable and resilient cities. Innovative strategies and actions which seek to drive agendas of change are often stuck in established and inflexible planning or policy structures. Complex issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss or socio-economic disparities require the attention of a varie…
More‐than‐care
This paper offers more-than-care as a framework for analysing how vulnerability emerges in the lives of people with intellectual disability beyond relations of care. More-than-care detaches vulnerability from the identity category of disability. It provides a framework for conceptualising vulnerability in an unequal, neoliberalising, and ableist world and sheds new light on the ever-evolving constitution of vulnerability and disability. This inte…
People with intellectual disability and the digitization of services
Grave Matters
Suburban Practices of Energy Descent
This article proceeds on the basis that the cost of energy will rise in coming years and decades as the age of fossil energy abundance comes to an end. Given the close connection between energy and economic activity, we also assume that declining energy availability and affordability will lead to economic contraction and reduced material affluence. In overconsuming and overdeveloped nations, such resource and energy “degrowth” is desirable and ne…
Urban Awakenings
Degrowth in the Suburbs
Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks
Networked urban governance is emerging as a major feature of metropolitan strategy and activity. The field of urban studies is yet to deeply engage in the debates on the new forms of cross national networking that are potentially framing and reframing urban governance and strategy. Yet this dimension of urban governance can no longer go unnoticed. In this article we draw together insights from the extant literature into a research agenda on recon…
Institutional Adjustments and Strategic Planning Action
This paper provides a critical analysis of the way that practice-based strategic planning in terms of disaster risk reduction occurs, highlighting the drivers and facilitators of change. It documents these in the context of other governmental systems. Examination the changes to wildfire planning policy in Victoria, Australia, following the 2009 Bushfire Season, provides an explanation of the realpolitik of policy formation, management and change,…
Variations on a collaborative theme
Urban governance in Melbourne is a relative outlier compared to the recent experience of austerity politics in many European and North American cities, which has produced extreme programmatic reductions linked to deepening social crises, such as worsening health outcomes. Instead, the Australian experience post the global financial crisis (GFC) demonstrates the enduring normalization of fiscal conservatism and targeted social protectionism in the…
Iris Marion Young and urban geographies of difference
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…
Metropolitan Strategies and Climate Governance
In the new millennium, cities have become an emerging force among new forms of subnational climate governance. Of interest is how cities act unilaterally and directly in this new climate politics via the provision of relevant tools. Since metropolitan planning strategies have been considered as important mechanisms for achieving urban sustainability in this period, this research has sought to investigate the importance of these master plans in th…
Urban studies after the age of the city
For some time now, the field of urban studies has been attempting to figure the urban whilst cognisant of the fact that the city exists as a highly problematic category of analysis. In this virtual special issue, we draw together some examples of what we call urban concepts under stress; concepts which appear to be reaching the limits of their capacity to render knowable a world characterised by the death of the city and the ascent of multi-scala…
Interrogating Urban Climate Leadership
This article considers the rapid evolution and increased prominence of the C40 Cities Climate Change Leadership Group and its commitment to the development of a new style of thinking, and possibly a new urban construct. This new construct is not yet understood, perhaps due to the fact that it is an inchoate ideal being forged through the work of the network for the future of our cities. Such an assessment is well situated within the political eco…
Implosions /Explosions
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assem…
The Urban Condition
This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these threa…
What Role for Social Science in the 'Urban Age
There is growing recognition of a new human ascendancy: 'the urban age'. Rising interest in urbanism is evident in popular literature, the media and major global institutions. And yet, as with another great issue of the age, global warming, there is evidence that social science is being sidelined from a rapidly enlarging field of human concern. New urban knowledges are forwarded from the physical sciences and from popular commentary that are char…
Metropolitan governance in the urban age
Critical Commentary . The Urban Age
The challenge of application
Woods and Gardner (2011) open debate on the challenge of policy application by geographers. Their contribution begs extension to consider the shifting multi-scalar forces that condition the application of scholarship. These include both endogenous and exogenous influences. The former have evolved swiftly in recent decades with the rise of managerialism in the higher education sectors of western nations. Most recently the emergence and implementat…
The Great Risk Shift
This paper draws on critical securitisation theory to explore different constructions of housing risk within the Australian context. In particular, it is interested in how housing regulation has been variously constructed as an issue of national importance. To this end the paper has three key parts. First, the salience of securitisation framing theory is reviewed as a critical analytical lens that might have utility within the urban housing conte…
Remoralising Landscapes of Care
The policy and theoretical discourses of deinstitutionalisation have been centred on a fundamental normative polarity that opposes the 'dehumanising' institution to the more humane environment of community care. We reconsider this moral polarity by drawing upon three philosophical currents that emphasise the need for inclusive and compassionate governance. We argue that there are strong political - ethical and practical reasons why inclusive gove…
A Geography for Disabled People
Disability is a critical social issue, long neglected in geography. Given this, Golledge (1993) has made an important and timely call for a geography of and for disability which hopefully will catalyse debate on this important social issue amongst geographers. This paper engages Golledge's positivistic appreciation of disablement by arguing that disability is a form of oppression which is socio-spatially produced rather than naturally given. It s…
Critical Commentary . The Urban Age
Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks
Networked urban governance is emerging as a major feature of metropolitan strategy and activity. The field of urban studies is yet to deeply engage in the debates on the new forms of cross national networking that are potentially framing and reframing urban governance and strategy. Yet this dimension of urban governance can no longer go unnoticed. In this article we draw together insights from the extant literature into a research agenda on recon…
Community Attitudes Toward the Homeless
The question of community attitudes toward the homeless has received little systematic attention. Media accounts suggest a paradoxical situation, involving general communitywide support for programs to assist the homeless plus site-specific opposition to programs in many localities. In an attempt to illuminate this paradox, a content analysis of over 200 newspaper accounts of homelessness between 1985 and 1988 was undertaken. Opposition accounts …
Disability Studies
This paper presents an historical materialist view of recent accounts of disability in Western societies. This view is presented in two main parts: first, as an in-depth appraisal of the field of disability studies, and secondly, as an outline for an alternative, historical materialist account of disablement. The critical assessment of disability studies finds that recent accounts of disability are in the main seriously deficient in terms of both…
Interrogating Urban Climate Leadership
This article considers the rapid evolution and increased prominence of the C40 Cities Climate Change Leadership Group and its commitment to the development of a new style of thinking, and possibly a new urban construct. This new construct is not yet understood, perhaps due to the fact that it is an inchoate ideal being forged through the work of the network for the future of our cities. Such an assessment is well situated within the political eco…
Urban studies after the age of the city
For some time now, the field of urban studies has been attempting to figure the urban whilst cognisant of the fact that the city exists as a highly problematic category of analysis. In this virtual special issue, we draw together some examples of what we call urban concepts under stress; concepts which appear to be reaching the limits of their capacity to render knowable a world characterised by the death of the city and the ascent of multi-scala…
Urban research and child-friendly cities
Recent public debates about Australia's children and young people have begun to acknowledge the direct impact of urban development on their health and well-being. This paper reviews a broad range of trans-disciplinary literature addressing child-friendliness in contemporary Australian cities, drawing particular attention to the fact that even some of the most recognised texts on children and young people in Australia still make few references in …
Performance-Based Planning
This article examines the application of performance-based planning at the local level in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. A review of the literature finds that there have been few evaluations of performance-based planning, despite its being used by many governments. The authors provide a comparative review of the experiences of various jurisdictions in implementing this form of zoning and present observations on its relative streng…
Community care and disability
This article considers the distinctive injustices experienced by disabled people and assesses recent institutional strategies which have sought to reduce these inequities and exclusions. A principle of ‘enabling justice’ is proposed. This is to emphasize that the attainment of a just society which respects social difference is dependent upon the creation of human environments which satisfy the material and cultural needs of all who occupy them. T…
Critical Commentary. Waking from the Dream
Climate change and energy insecurity are grave threats to the stability and sustainability of human society. This paper considers the meaning of this globally manifest, yet regionally differentiated, ecological threat for Australia's urban system. It also considers the twin ecological peril of oil depletion, whose impacts may intensify to great effect the social stresses likely to emerge as climates warm. The paper intervenes in the debate that t…
Disability and the Open City
For at least three decades, the issue of physical accessibility has been a focus of analysis amongst some spatial scientists, including geographers, urban planners and architects. Whilst such 'conventional' access studies have assumed an important role as policy evaluation/ critique, their theoretical significance has been extremely limited. The understanding of accessibility, and the highly contested set of policy fields that regulates this, wou…
The geography of mental health in Dunedin, New Zealand11An earlier version of this paper was presented to the 1995 New Zealand Geographical Society Conference
People with intellectual disability and the digitization of services
Desocializing space
This paper addresses the public realm and considers its contemporary context in an important Australian region, Western Sydney. Although problematized by social theory in recent years, my base position is the Habermasian premise that a public realm is critical to the healthy functioning of liberal democracies, such as Australia. This paper has three specific aims. First, I note the erosion of the public realm in an important Australian region, We…
Sustainable management and the market
What Role for Social Science in the 'Urban Age
There is growing recognition of a new human ascendancy: 'the urban age'. Rising interest in urbanism is evident in popular literature, the media and major global institutions. And yet, as with another great issue of the age, global warming, there is evidence that social science is being sidelined from a rapidly enlarging field of human concern. New urban knowledges are forwarded from the physical sciences and from popular commentary that are char…
Ecosocialization or Countermodernization? Reviewing the Shifting ‘Storylines’ of Transport Planning
In recent decades, in most western countries, conventional transport planning has encountered growing social opposition from environmentalists and increasing scientific criticism on the grounds of its unsustainability. In some places, including the United Kingdom, the assumptions, beliefs and values (‘storylines’) about transport have shifted to some degree away from the car in favour of public and slow forms of transport. The article elaborates …
Fragmentation and urban knowledge
Silo-ed thinking, fragmented knowledge systems and short-termism remain key challenges in transforming urban systems and policy making towards more sustainable and resilient cities. Innovative strategies and actions which seek to drive agendas of change are often stuck in established and inflexible planning or policy structures. Complex issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss or socio-economic disparities require the attention of a varie…
More‐than‐care
This paper offers more-than-care as a framework for analysing how vulnerability emerges in the lives of people with intellectual disability beyond relations of care. More-than-care detaches vulnerability from the identity category of disability. It provides a framework for conceptualising vulnerability in an unequal, neoliberalising, and ableist world and sheds new light on the ever-evolving constitution of vulnerability and disability. This inte…
Iris Marion Young and urban geographies of difference
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…
Domestic space and disability in nineteenth-century Melbourne, Australia
Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’
‘Mainstreaming’ and ‘Choice and control’ agendas have played a dominant role in shaping disability policy and advocacy in many countries since the 1970s, however scholarship is yet to critically explore the tensions and synergies between the two. ‘Mainstreaming’ is the aspiration to move people with disability out of ‘specialist’ spaces designed specifically for them, and into ‘mainstream’ spaces open to people of all abilities. ‘Choice and contr…
Three modes of inclusion of people with intellectual disability in mainstream services
This paper examines the adjustments made to include people with intellectual disabilities in mainstream services. Drawing on in-depth interviews with both people with intellectual disabilities and mainstream service managers in four urban regions in Australia, the paper points to three modes of practice that are operationalised, to different degrees, when people with intellectual disabilities seek access to mainstream services: a commitment and a…
Community Attitudes Toward the Homeless
The question of community attitudes toward the homeless has received little systematic attention. Media accounts suggest a paradoxical situation, involving general communitywide support for programs to assist the homeless plus site-specific opposition to programs in many localities. In an attempt to illuminate this paradox, a content analysis of over 200 newspaper accounts of homelessness between 1985 and 1988 was undertaken. Opposition accounts …
The Nimby syndrome and community care facilities
(1994). The NIMBY syndrome and community care facilities: A research agenda for planning. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 105-118
Disability
Many people believe that discriminatory social attitudes are the fundamental cause of disablement. In this view, attitudinal change is regarded as the key to the emancipation of disabled people from the social oppression of disability. However, historical materialists, such as Abberley (1991a) and Oliver (1990), have rejected psychological accounts of disability on the ground that they fail to recognise the socio‐economic causes of disablement. T…
Sustainable management and the market
A Geography for Disabled People
Disability is a critical social issue, long neglected in geography. Given this, Golledge (1993) has made an important and timely call for a geography of and for disability which hopefully will catalyse debate on this important social issue amongst geographers. This paper engages Golledge's positivistic appreciation of disablement by arguing that disability is a form of oppression which is socio-spatially produced rather than naturally given. It s…
The Perils of Market Environmentalism
Community Care
Disability Studies
This paper presents an historical materialist view of recent accounts of disability in Western societies. This view is presented in two main parts: first, as an in-depth appraisal of the field of disability studies, and secondly, as an outline for an alternative, historical materialist account of disablement. The critical assessment of disability studies finds that recent accounts of disability are in the main seriously deficient in terms of both…
Community care and disability
This article considers the distinctive injustices experienced by disabled people and assesses recent institutional strategies which have sought to reduce these inequities and exclusions. A principle of ‘enabling justice’ is proposed. This is to emphasize that the attainment of a just society which respects social difference is dependent upon the creation of human environments which satisfy the material and cultural needs of all who occupy them. T…
Justice in and to the Environment
As the world moves towards increasing rather than reducing inequality, the question of justice forces itself on to the political agenda. But that agenda is also shaped today by people's growing fears for the future of the planetary environment. In this paper we explore the connection between just distributions of environmental values-justice in the environment-and the just relationship between humanity and nature-justice to the environment. We di…
A Place on Earth
(1998). A Place on Earth: Technology, Space, and Disability. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 87-109
The geography of mental health in Dunedin, New Zealand11An earlier version of this paper was presented to the 1995 New Zealand Geographical Society Conference
Situating Justice in the Environment
The rubric of sustainable development has now gained wide theoretical and political acceptance in the global community. However, after the Rio Declaration, each nation must now confront the specific question of how to decide between those industries and activities that are sustainable and those that are not when conflicting social and ecological interests are at stake. Any fundamental change to resource allocation will have social distributional …
Geographies of Disability
This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disability and a new disability model * case studies to explore how the transition to capitalism disadvantaged disabled people * an exploration of the Western city and the policies of community care and accessibility …
Recovering a ‘Subjugated History’
The paper explores physically disabled people’s experiences of institutions in the industrial city, focusing on the case of nineteenth‐century Melbourne. Here ‘institutions’ refers to the panoply of public, semi‐public, private and charitable places that were established in industrial cities to house, and frequently confine, a diverse estate of poor, ill, elderly, disabled and otherwise socially dependent persons. The aim of this paper is to retr…
Disability, Geography and Ethics
Annus Horribilis
Domestic space and disability in nineteenth-century Melbourne, Australia
Disability and the Open City
For at least three decades, the issue of physical accessibility has been a focus of analysis amongst some spatial scientists, including geographers, urban planners and architects. Whilst such 'conventional' access studies have assumed an important role as policy evaluation/ critique, their theoretical significance has been extremely limited. The understanding of accessibility, and the highly contested set of policy fields that regulates this, wou…
Ecosocialization or Countermodernization? Reviewing the Shifting ‘Storylines’ of Transport Planning
In recent decades, in most western countries, conventional transport planning has encountered growing social opposition from environmentalists and increasing scientific criticism on the grounds of its unsustainability. In some places, including the United Kingdom, the assumptions, beliefs and values (‘storylines’) about transport have shifted to some degree away from the car in favour of public and slow forms of transport. The article elaborates …
Remoralising Landscapes of Care
The policy and theoretical discourses of deinstitutionalisation have been centred on a fundamental normative polarity that opposes the 'dehumanising' institution to the more humane environment of community care. We reconsider this moral polarity by drawing upon three philosophical currents that emphasise the need for inclusive and compassionate governance. We argue that there are strong political - ethical and practical reasons why inclusive gove…
Justice, Society and Nature
Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice of global institutions, the authors trace the layered structure of the philosophy of justice as it applies to environmental and ecological issues. Philo…
Learning About Regionalism from Europe
This paper critically analyses the European Union's regional policy framework and considers its implications for Australia's multi‐level governance system. The analysis is made with reference to the ‘new regionalist’ debates in Europe and North America that have asserted the importance of regional economic development in the context of globalisation. New regionalism's advocacy of ‘economic normalisation’ as a leading regional policy aim is critic…
The Difference That Planning Makes
Contested Housing Landscapes? Social Inclusion, Deinstitutionalisation and Housing Policy in Australia
Deinstitutionalisation is represented as a major step toward social inclusion through the resettlement of disabled people residing in segregated large‐scale institutions into community‐based homes. By promoting the right to live in ordinary community residential settings, deinstitutionalisation fundamentally changes both the support services and housing arrangements of former institutional residents. In Australia, as in many western countries, de…
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