Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2021.1920088
M. Rahnama, R. Wyatt
ABSTRACT Melbourne is one of the most livable cities in the world and it is expected to become a global city of opportunities by 2050. These features along with some of the challenges Melbourne will face with in the future, necessitate land use change simulations. Therefore, land use changes in north Melbourne with an area of 2,425.42 km2 during 2014–2019 and its future changes until 2030 and 2050 have been simulated. Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) neural networks were used along with Markov chain model in ArcGIS and TerrSet software. Results showed that while proportions of residential and industrial–commercial land uses increased from 35.90% (870.70 km2) in 2014 to 38.53% (934.50 km2) in 2019, that of forest and agricultural-grassland decreased from 62.86% (1,524.01 km2) in 2014 to 57.76% (1,400.99 km2) in 2019. Similarly, the simulation results show that residential and industrial–commercial land use will increase to 42.86% (1,037.139 km2) and 44.53% (1,079.99 km2) by 2030 and 2050, respectively. In the same period, forest and grassland-agricultural land uses are respectively expected to decline from 53.53% (1298.53 km2) to 51.76% (1255.49 km2). Spatial changes will occur mostly in the north and northwest of the Melbourne.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2021.1911455
M. Cruickshank
ABSTRACT This article contributes to literature on housing affordability and the ways in which neoliberalism has inflected debates related to the issue through a textual analysis of the property market advice manual, Smashed Avocado: How I Cracked the Property Market and You Can Too by Australian author, [Haddow, Nicole. 2019. Smashed Avocado: How I Bought Into the Property Market and You Can Too. Carlton: Nero]. The text is significant in demonstrating the mediation of neoliberal constraints via self-help/how-to property guides which orient millennials’ inwards, presenting a reading of ‘the self’ as problem and solution, while leaving market orthodoxies undisturbed. In highlighting discourses of individualism, self-responsibility, internalised governmentality, and the classed subjectivities offered in the text, this paper extends existing knowledge by mapping the convergence of neoliberal sensibilities with housing-related self-help literature targeting millennial women. While Smashed Avocado elides classed inequalities between women, and operates within the logics of capitalism, it nonetheless an important site of analysis for thinking through mediated geographies of millennial’s evolving relationship to housing unaffordability in the Australian market.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2021.1916196
Ju‐Han Zoe Wang, J. Connell
ABSTRACT Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) from overseas have been a valuable source of employment in rural and regional Australia. This is one significant part of a growing resort to temporary migration to meet employment problems especially in regional areas. Little is known about the experience and contribution of Asian WHMs despite the presence of significant numbers, especially from Taiwan. Most Taiwanese WHMs are young educated women who have moved in search of cultural experiences and reasonable incomes. Analysis of media reports in Australia and Taiwan reveals an entirely negative perception of such migrants and their everyday circumstances that denies diversity, agency and contribution to regional economies. Taiwanese media are more likely to focus on exploitation. Being a WHM provides a distinctive transnational experience balancing travel as a cultural experience with a marginal employment experiences. New research is required to redress this limited context and evaluate the actual significance of these substantial temporary migrant flows.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2021.1917133
D. Freeman, B. Williamson, J. Weir
ABSTRACT Aboriginal peoples’ fire management practices captured global attention during the Australian 2019–20 ‘Black Summer’, as a possible method to mitigate bushfire risk; however, these ‘cultural burns’ are no straightforward matter for public sector practice. As the slow, retrospective work to address historical and contemporary discrimination is imperfectly underway, we explore a cultural burning program supported by a government agency in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). In this paper, two co-authors share their experiences helping create a cultural burning program as Aboriginal people but not as Traditional Custodians. We document the steps taken to build support, create opportunities and engage Ngunnawal and Ngambri Traditional Custodians, and identify early positive results and challenging matters being generated. We demonstrate that rather than being restricted by public sector bureaucracy, the ACT cultural burning program has leveraged policy and entwined itself around the machinery of government in a way that accesses resources, creates opportunities and is slowly but surely changing public sector practice. Nonetheless, this is a journey of iteratively learning. It remains that more substantive measures are needed to recognise Traditional Custodianship if the current cultural burning program is to become a more substantial expression of Aboriginal peoples’ cultural land management.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2021.1910111
C. Arnold, J. Atchison, Anthony McKnight
ABSTRACT Studies of Indigenous connections to the environment highlight that reciprocal relationships between humans and the nonhuman world are known to significantly influence human health and wellbeing. This paper builds upon existing approaches to understanding Country from Indigenous and more-than-human geographies, in order to explore the Yuin concept of oneness – an ontological view of relationships which acknowledges the co-creation of wellbeing between trees and people. Attributing sentience and autonomy to plants has been part of diverse Indigenous traditions for millennia, and yet within Western knowledge frameworks, the personification and anthropomorphism in such traditions continues to be viewed as limiting. Taking a decolonising approach, we set aside this deficit model in order to learn and then share what is gained by yarning with trees. We document a journey of the self and the rekindling of the lead authors' Aboriginal identity whereby Yuin knowledge and respectful ways of researching are placed at the centre of knowledge exploration and production. Through a personal journey focused on wellbeing, we show how trees communicate and how they are seen within the self. Accordingly, we demonstrate how the Yuin ontology of oneness transformed an individual's wellbeing, and provides opportunities to heal personal relations with the more-than-human world.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2020.1862735
B. Comber
ABSTRACT This article argues that geographical theories are generative when to comes to understanding how educational disadvantage is produced and reproduced across generations. Spatial theories can inform critical interrogation of the ways in which students and their families from particular places, such as communities of poverty are represented in the media. Yet spaces and places can also become rich curricular resources when treated as assets for designing and enacting pedagogies of care and belonging.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2020.1866278
Carrie Wilkinson, S. Clement
ABSTRACT Over the last two decades ‘climate emergency’ has grown from a little-known term to a mainstream public issue. In Australia, the term gained traction during the 2019-2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires. The (un)natural disaster prompted local governments, industries, peak bodies and academic collectives to ‘declare’ a climate emergency and call for immediate action on climate change. We note, however, that there has been no declaration from geographers in Australia. As a discipline whose members are embedded in research, teaching and advocacy about climate change – and the interlinked crises of biodiversity loss and environmental and social justice – we found this surprising. It is self-evident that climate change matters to geographers. So, is a declaration of a climate emergency from the discipline necessary? In writing this piece we reflect on our experiences of the 2019–2020 summer and conversations with fellow geographers, to consider what a declaration of an emergency does, who it is for and what actions it might mobilise. In conclusion, we call on geographers in Australia to declare an emergency which foregrounds the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and social (in)justice. The detail of what this declaration says and means in practice is open for discussion. We ask many questions throughout this paper as a way to invite you – our fellow geographers – to join us in this conversation.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2020.1846260
E. Stratford, S. Stewart, Kitty te Riele, Phillipa Watson
ABSTRACT The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership was established in 2010 to support teaching quality and leadership in schools and initial teacher education programs. Early on it produced seven Australian Professional Standards for Teachers affecting professional knowledge, professional practice, and professional engagement. Standard 4 is part of professional practice and requires teachers to create and maintain supportive and safe school learning environments. We propose that Standard 4 has implications geographers have yet to fully consider, and here our aim is to surface and examine its latent spatialities. We conceive of supportive and safe learning environments as crucial infrastructures of care that can be made more legible using established spatial typologies. To support this proposition, we draw on empirical evidence from a study of literacy teaching practice in Tasmanian government schools and of initial teacher education programs. Here, we focus on how participants described the importance of school learning environments for students' educational attainment and social and emotional wellbeing. We conclude that spatial lenses are important in thinking about these environments and could effectively support teachers to demonstrate career-long and increasingly sophisticated capacities to perceive, use, create, and help others make the most of such spaces for diverse learning outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2020.1853655
Ryan Jones
ABSTRACT Australian governments are increasingly enrolling ecological restoration and urban afforestation to address climate change and support the transition towards sustainability. While policymakers warm to these ‘nature-based solutions’, their successful implementation will depend on the public’s capacity to care for trees and spaces of (urban) nature. This underscores the importance of understanding what drives people to voluntarily care for trees and (urban) natures on public and private land. In conversation with existing research on urban forestry and environmental volunteerism, this paper tests the proposition that attention to atmospheres could enrich our knowledge of the forces that mediate care and volunteer motivation. Its novel empirical contribution is a description of the aesthetic, affective and semiotic contours of two arboreal atmospheres called grace and vibrancy. The paper concludes by reflecting on the connection between these atmospheres and participants’ capacity to care for the urban forest. It argues atmosphere could be a richly generative concept and offers some provisional conclusions about the empirical, methodological and theoretical value it can bring to geographical-led studies of urban forestry and environmental volunteerism.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2020.1849978
J. van Staden, Fiona M. Haslam Mckenzie
ABSTRACT In 2008, the Western Australian State Government initiated its Royalties for Regions Program to fund its regional development mandate. The program, an outcome of an electoral commitment, reallocated 25% of the state’s prodigious mineral royalties to non-metropolitan regions, with supporters applauding the improved regional conditions and critics claiming fiscal irresponsibility. Numerous reviews, mostly qualitative, were undertaken, but the state’s Auditor-General asserted that the program remained unmeasured. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the program’s outcomes as framed by the state’s regional development policies. It investigates the program’s influence on populations in small local governments (with fewer than 5,000 residents), where its effect would be most prominent, to determine whether the program prompted population growth. The research uses census data to examine how these municipalities’ population growth deviated from their projected growth while discounting for major resource projects – the mainstay of these local governments. The research concludes that the sampled populations typically declined more than projected. Discussion follows, questioning whether government investment and interventionist policies in regional development can achieve population growth in regional settings.
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