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Words and weeds in Sweden
Late summer landscape at Vrångö, in Göteborg’s southern archipelago. I am back in Göteborg (Gothenburg) as Visiting Professor in the Unit for Human and Economic Geography at the University of...
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Reflections from the fire front and research in its ashen wake
By Christine Eriksen and Trent Penman Bushfire is a constant and ongoing part of Australian history, ecology and culture. The love of a sunburnt country, the beauty and terror of fire, and the filmy...
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Let the sea reclaim the pools?
I’ve just returned from the beach. Made my usual, favourite stop at the ocean pool. One of Wollongong’s series of bathing pools cut into the rock platform in the mid- to late-19th Century. Today saw a...
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AUSCCER welcomes Noel Castree
This week we have been very excited to welcome Prof Noel Castree and family to Wollongong. Noel has joined AUSCCER to help create the new Department of Geography and Sustainable Communities, in UOW’s...
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Meeting my book critics at the AAG 2014
Writing my first book was an incredible experience. Empowering when words flowed. Exhilarating when thoughts came together coherently on paper. Frustrating when nothing seemed to make sense – in my...
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‘Getting stuff done’ on a bicycle
I love bicycles. Such simple, efficient, elegant machines. ‘The pinnacle of human endeavour’ according to my companion; I think he’s right. So I’m excited that Wollongong City Council is undertaking a...
View ArticleWhy gender matters in emergency management
Gender is a matter of social relations—i.e. social structures with enduring or widespread patterns, rather than an expression of dichotomous biology. Social characteristics, such as gender, cannot be...
View ArticlePregnancy, motherhood and firefighting
“When I decided to make this profession my career I cried because at that point in time [early 1980s] every woman who got pregnant or got married left the profession. Then I had to deal personally with...
View ArticleSeven contributions of cultural research to the challenges of sustainability...
Lesley Head and Marie Stenseke (An abbreviated version of this paper was published in Swedish for World Science Day (14.11.14) as Head, L. and Stenseke, M. 2014 Humanvetenskapen står för djup och...
View ArticleReflections from AAG 2015 on the notion of slow scholarship
“So the issue,” writes Martell, “is not speed, but control over speed. … In effect what slow is reintroducing is being human and well-being.” The above quote is one of the arguments presented in a...
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The heat on winter warming: why cultural geography can help energy policy makers
Post by Gordon Waitt How Australian homes are heated in winter is of recent policy interest because of greenhouse gas emissions, fuel poverty and public health risks. Policy initiatives around winter...
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