Thursday, 6th July
The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2023
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Art Class at Sunrise - 418.204
7:00AM - 9:00AM
Thursday, 6th July
Plenary: Associate Professor Thom van Dooren - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
9:00AM - 9:50AM
Thursday, 6th July
The craft of poisoning: learning not to eat cane toads
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Thom van Dooren
Morning Tea
9:55AM - 10:20AM
Thursday, 6th July
Urban Geographies of Coexistence, Collaboration, and Complicity - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
10:25AM - 11:25AM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Natalie Osborne
Running for good health: Can the mobilities turn keep up?
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Peter Hallahan
Bodies on the line: Gender, joy and road safety
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Amelia Thorpe
Investigating the energy practices of culturally and linguistically diverse student communities
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Theresa Harada
The politics of community infrastructure - 418.203:ST
10:25AM - 11:25AM
Thursday, 6th July
Chairs: Ellen van Holstein & Philippa Chandler
Infrastructure for waiting together: Australian community centres in the suburbs
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Ellen van Holstein
(Un)belonging in queer community infrastructures
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Jinwen Chen
Community infrastructure for thriving regions: A mana whenua perspective
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Haupai Montgomery
Think-practice geographies - 418.208:ST
10:25AM - 11:25AM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh
Glissant’s ‘One-World’: towards an
Opacitic-Geography
in the Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
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Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh
Art at the end of coal: marking the closure of Liddell Power Station
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Penny Dunstan
Unpacking social diversity in cities: towards a post-multicultural paradigm
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Nicolas Guerra-Tao
Impactful economic geographies: on engagement, external partnerships, and ethics - 418.302:ST
10:25AM - 11:25AM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Chris Gibson
Experimentation and enactive research in uncomfortable boundary spaces
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Nick Lewis
Institute of Australian Geographers Equity Reference Group - 418.304:ST
10:25AM - 11:25AM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Michele Lobo
Geographies of sustainability science - 418.206:ST
10:25AM - 11:25AM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Natasha Pauli
Innovation for coastal resilience in Australia: status, barriers, and exemplars
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Carmen E Elrick-Barr
The Fabulous Five: Engaging the public on marine protected areas
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Melissa Nursey-Bray
Co-designing a vision for the Latrobe Valley’s mine lands:
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Jessica M Reeves
Urban Geographies of Coexistence, Collaboration, and Complicity - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
11:35AM - 12:55PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Natalie Osborne
Cottonopolis Collective: Building collaborations to confront Manchester’s complicity in frontier agriculture of Nerang River, Gold Coast, Queensland.
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Alison Browne
Data for housing justice? Doing quantitative research at the activist-scholar interface
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Alistair Sisson
Housing settlement trajectories of humanitarian visa holders in Australia 2017-2022
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Karien Dekker
How the planning process shifts understandings of property: the ‘rezoned property’ as a site of ontological security
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Charlie Gillon
The politics of community infrastructure - 418.203:ST
11:35AM - 12:55PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chairs: Ellen van Holstein & Philippa Chandler
Microspheres of autonomy: The evasive self-governance of hybrid ride-hailing communities in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Luis Hernando Lozano Paredes-Martinez
Towards a just energy transitions future: the role of place-attachment and energy justice in Australian community renewable energy projects
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Rachel Walters
People as Electrical Infrastructure: choreographies of energy access in off-grid communities in Ghana
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Paul Munro
Wet markets as community infrastructure in Vietnam, Kenya, and the Philippines: Exploring the impact of Covid-19 biosecurity politics and policies
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Cecily Maller
Think-practice geographies - 418.208:ST
11:35AM - 12:55PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh
Conversations on Eco-Anxiety: Collaborative Writing as a Tool for Reflection and Action in Geography
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Malcolm Johnson
Autobiography as a mode of social and political expression
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Nazanin Hosseinpour
Affected by James Dean after Gilles Deleuze: cinematic expressionism, imagination, and affection; or liveness then, watching now, event always.
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JD Dewsbury
Ways of Movement are Ways of Thinking, Project Investigative Methodology
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Stephanie Parker
Decarbonising global production chains - 418.302:ST
11:35AM - 12:55PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chairs: Chris Gibson & Kirsten Martinus
The quest of Australian junior miners in finding critical minerals in Latin America
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Adriana Nunez-Picado
Transitioning out of coal-fired power: lessons from South Australia’s automotive sector closure experience
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Vigya Sharma
Towards a collaborative, circular economy approach to place-making: A case study of the Australian red meat processing industry
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Ian Kininmonth
Transformative change in the agricultural sector: value creation, value capture and the decarbonisation agenda
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Kirsten Martinus
New directions in Political Geography - 418.304ST
11:35AM - 12:55PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Marilu Melo Zurita
Transnationalism, porous borders, and notions of womanhood: Brazilian women’s lived experiences of gender in Australia.
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Flavia Dr Bellieni Zimmermann
Kabaddi and Khalistan - Punjabi sport and the diasporic liberation movements.
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Damien Laing
The political economy of adaptation finance: increasing justice to reflect increasing need?
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Pia Treichel
Globalisation, Resistance and Corruption: the case of the Philippines Rice Industry
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Grant W Walton
Exploring the spatial dimensions of culture and Country through GIS, remote sensing, and spatial analysis - 418.206:ST
11:35AM - 12:55PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Bryan Boruff
Looking for Marai: mobile methods for cultural landscape mapping ‘on the fly’
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Jennifer Atchison
GIS and spatial analysis to support mana whenua (Indigenous) aspirations for thriving regions
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Jesse Whitehead
Earth Observation tools for monitoring water resource use in Sub-Sahara Africa: Past, Present and Future
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Samuel SA Adelabu
Mapping Wirlomin –
Dwoort Baal Kaat
– Indigenous data sovereignty and decolonising the map
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Samya Jabbour
Lunch
12:55PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
Plenary: Dr Charishma Ratnam - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
The places, practices, and politics of home for refugees and asylum seekers.
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Charishma Ratnam
Geographies of Children and Young People Study Group - 418.204
1:10PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
GIScience, Spatial Analysis and Modelling Study Group - 418.205
1:10PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights Study Group - 418.207
1:10PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
Rural Geography Study Group - 418.305
1:10PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
Political Geography Study Group
1:10PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
Heads of Geography Meeting - 418.306
1:10PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
Rethinking collaboration in a more-than-human world - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
1:55PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Tom Roberts
Mutualistic Collaborations on Australian Heritage Breed Farms
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Catie Gressier
Multispecies urban planning: approaches to coexistence with the Flying-Fox
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Paul Smith
Living and working in collaborative harmony: a case study of commercial migratory beekeeping in the south west of Western Australia
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Linda E Wilson
Thinking with touch in the multispecies city: Towards a more-than-human conceptualisation of urban wellbeing.
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Helga Simon
Making kin through swimming and surfing
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Rebecca Olive
Worlds of Work - 418.203:ST
1:55PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: David Bissell
The politics of flexibility: desensitisation and temporalities of flexible work arrangements
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Elisabetta Crovara
Reflections from the office: How the digital remote working revolution is transforming Australian Homes
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Elizabeth Straughan
Emotional geographies of pandemic creative work: on islanding as a vernacular response to crisis
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Chris Brennan-Horley
Contact tracers: Spaces of care and control
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Philippa Chandler
China Water Network – new environmental geographies of China - 418.206:ST
1:55PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Sarah Rogers
Everyday geographies of water in China
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Alison L Browne
Unpacking (Un)even Waterscapes: Everyday Geographies of Water Infrastructures, Practices and Governances in urban Changsha, China
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Dongyang Mi
Critical hydropolitics in China and beyond
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Sarah Rogers
Environmental justice and flooding adaptation response: Case study of Ningbo, China
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Zhi LIU
Socio-metabolic practices and heterogeneous sanitation infrastructure in urbanizing China
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Qi Liu
New and emerging research in cultural geography - 418.302:ST
1:55PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Kaya Barry
Imaginaries of escape: A discourse analysis of the Tasmanian archive in the climate crisis
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Alexander L Burton
Global Environmental Justice: Understandings beyond the human
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Danika P Hotham
Related food, mobility, and housing: Implications for a climate-friendly change of everyday life practices
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Caroline Samson
Unravelling clothing waste – messiness and some preliminary findings
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Grace Martini
Unsettling settlement in contemporary Australia
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Eliza Crosbie
How to walk together: implementing joint management of conservation estates for the benefit of communities and Country - 418.304ST
1:55PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Tod Jones
Barriers and enablers to Aboriginal employment in the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
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Colin B Ingram
A changing landscape: The Growth of Aboriginal Joint Management of the Western Australian Conservation Estate
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Roy Jones
The pressures within a changing landscape: How joint management is changing conservation management in Western Australia
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Tod Jones
Finding resonance between farming stewardship and First Nations custodianship
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Rebecca Cross
Tjukurrpa Kurranyu: Putting Tjukurrpa in Front to nurture people and country, Pila Nature Reserve, far eastern Western Australia.
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Jan Turner
Geographies of sustainability science - 418.208:ST
1:55PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Natasha Pauli
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests on abandoned agricultural land in rural Nepal
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Nicola McGunnigle
Beyond conservation: Perceived benefits and costs from protected area management in Nepal
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KAMAL THAPA
Can we creatively foster climate resilient communities from the home garden?
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Hannah Thwaites
Afternoon Tea
3:35PM - 3:55PM
Thursday, 6th July
Urban Geographies of Coexistence, Collaboration, and Complicity - 418.208:ST
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Natalie Osborne
Identifying the Urban Impacts of Climate Change
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Carolina Contreras
Housing for Reciprocity: Housing Organisations Seeking out Just Social Relations Among Diverse Residents
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Talia Melic
The politics of community infrastructure - 418.203:ST
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chairs: Ellen van Holstein & Philippa Chandler
Thinking Carefully: Zara’s House as a Community Infrastructure
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Jean-Louise Olivier
Community festivals as infrastructures of care
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Michelle Duffy
Doing things differently: care and control in local community infrastructures during the pandemic
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Kathy J Mee
Elemental borders: materialities, flows and politics - 418.206:ST
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Ari Jerrems
Drowned, burned, buried, expired: The elemental geographies of self-sacrifice
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Elaine Stratford
Re-enchanting air: More-than-human relations in urban health across the longue durée
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Cecily Maller
The biosolids conundrum and its elemental politics
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Patrick Bonney
Mobile bodies in urban spaces- 418.302:ST
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Kaya Barry
Fluid Urbanism(s): Embodied Mobilities and Water Ecologies in the City
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Maya Costa-Pinto
The Affective Intensities of (Dis)comfort on Public Transport in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Sabrina Shanto
Antipodean Abolition Geography & New directions in Political Geography - 418.304ST
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chairs: Rachel Hughes & Marilu Melo Zurita
A factory behind bars: City-making and Parramatta Gaol in the late 1800s
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Naama Blatman
Transitional or abolitionist? Reparative justice and the settler state
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Rachel B Hughes
The camp and the negation of coexistence
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Richard Carter-White
Beyond proximate causes: Understanding extreme events - 418.208:ST
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Chair: Phil McManus
Hell and high water: How does media coverage link anthropogenic climate change and extreme weather related events?
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Phil McManus
Living with long disasters: compounding impacts of the 2022 floods for communities in NSW
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Fiona Miller
NGO Responses to Climate Change Vulnerability in China
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Zoe Wang
Fay Gale Memorial Lecture
5:20PM - 6:20PM
Thursday, 6th July
Finding the balance between critique and action: ECR reflections on knowledge co-production across three cases
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Emma Ligtermoet
Conference Dinner
7:00PM - 10:45PM
Thursday, 6th July
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