{"title":"共存与合作:我们研究所2023年在珀斯举行的会议","authors":"Elaine Stratford","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.12617","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>I am writing this editorial on a very wintery day in Hobart, Tasmania, after returning from a convivial and interesting week at the Institute of Australian Geographers’ annual conference, held on unceded lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation at the Bentley campus of Curtin University in Perth. Organised by a team from Curtin and the University of Western Australia and led by Tod Jones and Kirsten Martinus, the conference theme was <i>coexistence, collaboration, and geography</i>. For Jones and Martinez, “the theme recognises that the planet’s health and the human race’s survival are inextricably linked and that research outcomes are enriched by diverse partnerships and the contribution of individuals from many specialities” (see Miller, <span>2023</span>). In 220 sessions over four days, over 235 attendees from 13 nations met in pre-conference workshops, plenaries, and study group and independent sessions to deliberate on that theme and other concerns central to our discipline and the professions it underpins. We were all privileged to be welcomed to Country by Kim Collard, an Elder and Balladong/Wilmen man of the Noongar Nation, who spoke to us about NAIDOC Week, the lands upon which we were meeting, and the special meeting of song lines on the Bentley campus. I note in passing and with gratitude that Wiley has selected three of our journal’s articles to feature in its own NAIDOC tribute (see here; Clements et al., <span>2023</span>; Rawluk et al., <span>2023</span>; Rogers et al., <span>2023</span>).</p><p>The team at <i>Geographical Research</i>, supported by Wiley and the Institute’s Council again hosted two lectures in Perth. First, Professor Mark Gahegan gave the Wiley Lecture, and it was riveting. A computer scientist and geographer based at the University of Auckland, Mark’s research includes geovisualisation, spatial analysis, geocomputation, and remote sensing. On this occasion, he shared fascinating insights on ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) and, crucially, invited geographers to apply our interdisciplinarity capacities to help ensure AI futures involve empowering outcomes. Second, Dr Emma Ligtermoet gave the Fay Gale Memorial Lecture, and it was just as compelling. A CSIRO post-doctoral fellow and human-environment geographer from the University of Western Australia and Australian National University, Emma investigates how people navigate social-ecological change in freshwater and coastal environments. In this instance, her focus was on collaborative work in Pilbara communities committed to deepening coexistence work between Country and people.</p><p>Thanks to Connor Goddard (Curtin) and Linda Wilson (University of Western Australia), I was privileged to host a conversation about writing and publishing with a group of around 50 higher degree research candidates. Some of the topics we explored included (a) why publishing matters intrinsically, strategically, and tactically; (b) how writing helps academics think, feel, speak, read, and plan careers—and how we can write and still balance work and life; (c) what it means to start the writing and publishing journey; (d) how a little insider knowledge about the higher education sector and academic practice can help that journey; and (e) why journal publishing matters but is not the whole story. At the end of our conversation, I elicited feedback and ideas about what else we can do to support candidates. Among the ideas are the following: What is the lived experience of sustained writing like in terms of process? How can we start and continue to write while living with the realities of precarious and challenging employment contexts? Does everything we write have to be accessible to the general public? How can we better reach out to diverse publics? What are the blessings and challenges of co-authorship and how do we retain agency in those relationships? How can I become a remarkable editor of my own writing? These are intriguing questions indeed, and I hope we can begin to address some of them in our webinars, co-hosted by the Institute and Wiley (see here for past episodes).</p><p>Last but not least, I am delighted to report that the 2022 Wiley prize recipients for highly esteemed papers were also announced at the conference dinner. The three papers, all available in our journal website, are by Hine et al. (<span>2022</span>), Roelofsen and Carter-White (<span>2022</span>), and Tan and Liu (<span>2022</span>). Our warmest congratulations to all three writing teams, and our thanks to Wiley as well.</p><p>As has become a practice for our journal, we begin this third issue of the year with a commentary by one of our associate editors, Clare Mouat (<span>2023</span>). Her focus is upon the ways in which regenerative—indeed loving—interventions are urgently needed to support radically positive pedagogies, policies, and geographical practices. Pushing back against tendencies to despair, Mouat invites readers to consider love as a critical lens in contemporary geography and to interrogate what that might mean in methodological terms for research, learning and teaching, and engagement. We would welcome more work on such agendas in this journal.</p><p>Next is an important and deeply synthesising editorial by Rogers and Kearnes (<span>2023</span>), included in this issue but/and/also fronting our recent virtual issue on COVID-19—a collection of papers published since the pandemic’s outbreak that have been brought together in one convenient place. Beyond summarising the 18 papers included in the virtual issue, Rogers and Kearns carefully show how different papers are aligned to particular themes related to the geographies of COVID-19 mobilities COVID-19 governance; the urban geographies of the pandemic; its material geographies; its spatio-temporalities; and its pedagogic affects and effects. These foundational papers will be added to in coming months as we finalise a second tranche of papers on “legacies and anticipatory geographies of the pandemic including a few papers already published in the journal and assigned to issues but not yet in a virtual issue.”</p><p>In this third issue, we also feature our 2022 Wiley Lecture, given by Gemma Sou (<span>2023</span>) and entitled “Communicating climate change with comics: life beyond apocalyptic imaginaries.” This paper includes both sophisticated analysis of complex challenges related to climate change and a video abstract that bring to life Sou’s comics and conceptual and empirical insights about the power of anti-essentialist representations of people’s experiences of extreme weather events.</p><p>A series of fascinating original articles follow Sou’s work. We lead with “Tomorrow’s country: practice-oriented principles for Indigenous cultural fire research in south-east Australia” by Andrea Rawluk et al. (<span>2023</span>). The paper models how a group of Indigenous and settler academics, practitioners, and experts have worked to identify a range of practice-oriented principles to support cultural fire management and research. Those principles include trust, reciprocity, and an acknowledgement of power relations and differing values.</p><p>Consideration is then given by Ryan van den Nouwelant et al. (<span>2023</span>) to crucial questions about “Private rental investment and socio-spatial disadvantage in Sydney, Australia.” The work is based in Sydney, Australia, and focuses on small-scale rental property owners who, over the period from 1991 to 2016, sought high rental yields from low capital outlays. Analysing the spatial correlation between tenure and suburbanisation, the authors show how owners’ actions are linked both to uneven growth rates of private rental and to region’s geographies of social disadvantage.</p><p>In work by Angus Dowell et al. (<span>2023</span>), readers are next invited to consider “Experimentation as infrastructure: enacting transitions differently through diverse economy-environment assemblages in Aotearoa New Zealand.” Their study deploys social studies of economisation and marketisation (SSEM) to consider economic development initiatives in New Zealand. Importantly, it taps into geographers’ interests in experimentation, agency, and practice in relation to emergent forms of environmental economy.</p><p>Then, Maria Ribeiro et al. (<span>2023</span>) report on work to understand the “Spatial and temporal dynamics of the urban heat island effect in a small Brazilian city” of Sacramento in western Minas Gerais. Noting how urban growth and climate change are predicted to increase substantial warming in inland cities, they deploy a local climate zone (LCZ) system approach to data about the city’s climate and weather. In the process, they identify factors driving thermal changes and argue that the approach is replicable in other South American cities so that urban planning can account for emergent challenges across the region.</p><p>Last, Busola Adedokun et al. (<span>2023</span>) document how, on the Central Plateau of Tasmania, there has been “A long entanglement with nature: flyfishers in the wild.” Flyfishers there can be described as having “membership” of groups with varied motivations and attitudes related to their social, trophy, outdoor enthusiast, and hunter-gatherer proclivities. Overarching those differences, however, is a common love of wild nature; a concern for the negative effects of social and environmental challenges such as weeds, dogs, trampling, and fire; and a preparedness to help keep such areas unspoiled. Such qualities suggest they have potential to support park management.</p><p>As always, thanks to everyone on the team, our board, our reviewers, authors, publisher, and Institute. And that, as they say, is that … until our final issue of 2023, due in November. 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Organised by a team from Curtin and the University of Western Australia and led by Tod Jones and Kirsten Martinus, the conference theme was <i>coexistence, collaboration, and geography</i>. For Jones and Martinez, “the theme recognises that the planet’s health and the human race’s survival are inextricably linked and that research outcomes are enriched by diverse partnerships and the contribution of individuals from many specialities” (see Miller, <span>2023</span>). In 220 sessions over four days, over 235 attendees from 13 nations met in pre-conference workshops, plenaries, and study group and independent sessions to deliberate on that theme and other concerns central to our discipline and the professions it underpins. We were all privileged to be welcomed to Country by Kim Collard, an Elder and Balladong/Wilmen man of the Noongar Nation, who spoke to us about NAIDOC Week, the lands upon which we were meeting, and the special meeting of song lines on the Bentley campus. I note in passing and with gratitude that Wiley has selected three of our journal’s articles to feature in its own NAIDOC tribute (see here; Clements et al., <span>2023</span>; Rawluk et al., <span>2023</span>; Rogers et al., <span>2023</span>).</p><p>The team at <i>Geographical Research</i>, supported by Wiley and the Institute’s Council again hosted two lectures in Perth. First, Professor Mark Gahegan gave the Wiley Lecture, and it was riveting. A computer scientist and geographer based at the University of Auckland, Mark’s research includes geovisualisation, spatial analysis, geocomputation, and remote sensing. On this occasion, he shared fascinating insights on ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) and, crucially, invited geographers to apply our interdisciplinarity capacities to help ensure AI futures involve empowering outcomes. Second, Dr Emma Ligtermoet gave the Fay Gale Memorial Lecture, and it was just as compelling. A CSIRO post-doctoral fellow and human-environment geographer from the University of Western Australia and Australian National University, Emma investigates how people navigate social-ecological change in freshwater and coastal environments. In this instance, her focus was on collaborative work in Pilbara communities committed to deepening coexistence work between Country and people.</p><p>Thanks to Connor Goddard (Curtin) and Linda Wilson (University of Western Australia), I was privileged to host a conversation about writing and publishing with a group of around 50 higher degree research candidates. Some of the topics we explored included (a) why publishing matters intrinsically, strategically, and tactically; (b) how writing helps academics think, feel, speak, read, and plan careers—and how we can write and still balance work and life; (c) what it means to start the writing and publishing journey; (d) how a little insider knowledge about the higher education sector and academic practice can help that journey; and (e) why journal publishing matters but is not the whole story. At the end of our conversation, I elicited feedback and ideas about what else we can do to support candidates. Among the ideas are the following: What is the lived experience of sustained writing like in terms of process? How can we start and continue to write while living with the realities of precarious and challenging employment contexts? Does everything we write have to be accessible to the general public? How can we better reach out to diverse publics? What are the blessings and challenges of co-authorship and how do we retain agency in those relationships? How can I become a remarkable editor of my own writing? These are intriguing questions indeed, and I hope we can begin to address some of them in our webinars, co-hosted by the Institute and Wiley (see here for past episodes).</p><p>Last but not least, I am delighted to report that the 2022 Wiley prize recipients for highly esteemed papers were also announced at the conference dinner. The three papers, all available in our journal website, are by Hine et al. (<span>2022</span>), Roelofsen and Carter-White (<span>2022</span>), and Tan and Liu (<span>2022</span>). Our warmest congratulations to all three writing teams, and our thanks to Wiley as well.</p><p>As has become a practice for our journal, we begin this third issue of the year with a commentary by one of our associate editors, Clare Mouat (<span>2023</span>). Her focus is upon the ways in which regenerative—indeed loving—interventions are urgently needed to support radically positive pedagogies, policies, and geographical practices. Pushing back against tendencies to despair, Mouat invites readers to consider love as a critical lens in contemporary geography and to interrogate what that might mean in methodological terms for research, learning and teaching, and engagement. We would welcome more work on such agendas in this journal.</p><p>Next is an important and deeply synthesising editorial by Rogers and Kearnes (<span>2023</span>), included in this issue but/and/also fronting our recent virtual issue on COVID-19—a collection of papers published since the pandemic’s outbreak that have been brought together in one convenient place. Beyond summarising the 18 papers included in the virtual issue, Rogers and Kearns carefully show how different papers are aligned to particular themes related to the geographies of COVID-19 mobilities COVID-19 governance; the urban geographies of the pandemic; its material geographies; its spatio-temporalities; and its pedagogic affects and effects. These foundational papers will be added to in coming months as we finalise a second tranche of papers on “legacies and anticipatory geographies of the pandemic including a few papers already published in the journal and assigned to issues but not yet in a virtual issue.”</p><p>In this third issue, we also feature our 2022 Wiley Lecture, given by Gemma Sou (<span>2023</span>) and entitled “Communicating climate change with comics: life beyond apocalyptic imaginaries.” This paper includes both sophisticated analysis of complex challenges related to climate change and a video abstract that bring to life Sou’s comics and conceptual and empirical insights about the power of anti-essentialist representations of people’s experiences of extreme weather events.</p><p>A series of fascinating original articles follow Sou’s work. We lead with “Tomorrow’s country: practice-oriented principles for Indigenous cultural fire research in south-east Australia” by Andrea Rawluk et al. (<span>2023</span>). The paper models how a group of Indigenous and settler academics, practitioners, and experts have worked to identify a range of practice-oriented principles to support cultural fire management and research. Those principles include trust, reciprocity, and an acknowledgement of power relations and differing values.</p><p>Consideration is then given by Ryan van den Nouwelant et al. (<span>2023</span>) to crucial questions about “Private rental investment and socio-spatial disadvantage in Sydney, Australia.” The work is based in Sydney, Australia, and focuses on small-scale rental property owners who, over the period from 1991 to 2016, sought high rental yields from low capital outlays. Analysing the spatial correlation between tenure and suburbanisation, the authors show how owners’ actions are linked both to uneven growth rates of private rental and to region’s geographies of social disadvantage.</p><p>In work by Angus Dowell et al. (<span>2023</span>), readers are next invited to consider “Experimentation as infrastructure: enacting transitions differently through diverse economy-environment assemblages in Aotearoa New Zealand.” Their study deploys social studies of economisation and marketisation (SSEM) to consider economic development initiatives in New Zealand. Importantly, it taps into geographers’ interests in experimentation, agency, and practice in relation to emergent forms of environmental economy.</p><p>Then, Maria Ribeiro et al. (<span>2023</span>) report on work to understand the “Spatial and temporal dynamics of the urban heat island effect in a small Brazilian city” of Sacramento in western Minas Gerais. Noting how urban growth and climate change are predicted to increase substantial warming in inland cities, they deploy a local climate zone (LCZ) system approach to data about the city’s climate and weather. In the process, they identify factors driving thermal changes and argue that the approach is replicable in other South American cities so that urban planning can account for emergent challenges across the region.</p><p>Last, Busola Adedokun et al. (<span>2023</span>) document how, on the Central Plateau of Tasmania, there has been “A long entanglement with nature: flyfishers in the wild.” Flyfishers there can be described as having “membership” of groups with varied motivations and attitudes related to their social, trophy, outdoor enthusiast, and hunter-gatherer proclivities. Overarching those differences, however, is a common love of wild nature; a concern for the negative effects of social and environmental challenges such as weeds, dogs, trampling, and fire; and a preparedness to help keep such areas unspoiled. 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我在塔斯马尼亚州霍巴特一个寒冷的冬日写这篇社论,刚刚结束澳大利亚地理学家协会在珀斯科廷大学本特利校区举行的努加族Whadjuk族未被割让土地上举行的一个愉快而有趣的星期的年会。会议由科廷大学和西澳大利亚大学的一个团队组织,由托德·琼斯和克尔斯滕·马提努斯领导,主题是共存、合作和地理。琼斯和马丁内斯认为,"这一主题认识到,地球的健康与人类的生存有着密不可分的联系,各种伙伴关系和许多专业人士的贡献丰富了研究成果"(见Miller, 2023年)。在为期四天的220次会议中,来自13个国家的235多名与会者参加了会前研讨会、全体会议、学习小组和独立会议,讨论了这一主题以及对我们的学科及其所支撑的专业至关重要的其他问题。我们都很荣幸地受到了Kim Collard的欢迎,Kim Collard是Noongar民族的巴拉东/威尔曼族长老,他向我们讲述了NAIDOC周,我们聚会的土地,以及在宾利校园举行的歌曲歌词特别会议。我顺便注意到,怀著感激之情,Wiley选择了我们杂志的三篇文章作为其NAIDOC致敬文章(见这里;克莱门茨等人,2023;Rawluk et al., 2023;Rogers et al., 2023)。在Wiley和研究所理事会的支持下,地理研究所的研究小组再次在珀斯举办了两场讲座。首先,马克·加希根教授做了威利讲座,非常吸引人。马克是奥克兰大学的计算机科学家和地理学家,他的研究包括地理可视化、空间分析、地理计算和遥感。在这次活动中,他分享了关于ChatGPT和人工智能(AI)的精彩见解,更重要的是,他邀请地理学家运用我们的跨学科能力,帮助确保人工智能的未来带来更大的成果。第二,Emma Ligtermoet博士做了Fay Gale纪念演讲,同样引人注目。来自西澳大利亚大学和澳大利亚国立大学的CSIRO博士后研究员和人类环境地理学家Emma调查了人们如何在淡水和沿海环境中应对社会生态变化。在这种情况下,她的重点是皮尔巴拉社区的合作工作,致力于深化国家与人民之间的共存工作。感谢康纳·戈达德(科廷大学)和琳达·威尔逊(西澳大利亚大学),我有幸主持了一场关于写作和出版的对话,与大约50名更高学位的研究候选人进行了交谈。我们探讨的一些主题包括:(a)为什么发行具有内在、战略和战术意义;(b)写作如何帮助学者思考、感受、说话、阅读和规划职业生涯,以及我们如何在写作的同时保持工作和生活的平衡;(c)开始写作和出版之旅意味着什么;(d)对高等教育部门和学术实践的一些内幕知识如何有助于实现这一目标;(5)为什么期刊出版很重要,但不是全部。在我们谈话的最后,我得到了一些反馈和想法,关于我们还可以做些什么来支持候选人。这些观点包括:从过程的角度来看,持续写作的生活体验是什么样的?在不稳定和充满挑战的就业环境中,我们如何开始并继续写作?我们写的所有东西都必须对公众开放吗?我们怎样才能更好地接触到不同的公众?合作的好处和挑战是什么?我们如何在这些关系中保持能动性?我怎样才能成为自己作品的杰出编辑?这些确实是有趣的问题,我希望我们可以在由研究所和Wiley共同主办的网络研讨会上开始解决其中的一些问题(参见这里的过去剧集)。最后但并非最不重要的是,我很高兴地报告,2022年Wiley奖的高声望论文获得者也在会议晚宴上宣布。这三篇论文均可在我们的期刊网站上找到,作者分别是Hine等人(2022)、Roelofsen和Carter-White(2022)以及Tan和Liu(2022)。我们向三个写作团队表示最热烈的祝贺,同时也感谢Wiley。正如我们杂志的惯例一样,我们以我们的一位副编辑Clare Mouat(2023)的评论开始今年的第三期。她的重点是,我们迫切需要再生的——实际上是充满爱心的——干预措施,以支持激进的积极教学法、政策和地理实践。 为了抵制绝望的倾向,穆阿特邀请读者将爱视为当代地理学的一个关键镜头,并询问这在研究、学习、教学和参与的方法论术语中可能意味着什么。我们欢迎本刊就此类议程开展更多工作。接下来是罗杰斯和卡恩斯(2023年)的一篇重要而深刻的综合社论,收录在本期中,但/和/也在我们最近关于covid -19的虚拟期刊上——自大流行爆发以来发表的论文合集,已汇集在一个方便的地方。除了总结虚拟期刊中包含的18篇论文外,罗杰斯和卡恩斯还仔细展示了不同的论文如何与与COVID-19流动性和COVID-19治理的地理位置相关的特定主题保持一致;大流行的城市地理位置;它的物质地理;其spatio-temporalities;以及它对教学的影响和效果。这些基础论文将在未来几个月内添加,因为我们将完成第二批关于“大流行的遗产和预期地理位置”的论文,其中包括一些已经在期刊上发表的论文,并已分配到问题中,但尚未在虚拟问题中发表。在这第三期中,我们还特别介绍了2022年的威利讲座,由杰玛·苏(2023年)主持,题为“用漫画传达气候变化:超越世界末日想象的生活”。本文包括对与气候变化相关的复杂挑战的复杂分析,以及一段视频摘要,该视频摘要将苏的漫画以及关于人们对极端天气事件经历的反本质主义表现的力量的概念和经验见解带入生活。一系列引人入胜的原创文章紧随Sou的工作。我们以Andrea Rawluk等人(2023)的“明天的国家:澳大利亚东南部土著文化火灾研究的实践导向原则”为主导。本文模拟了一群土著和定居者学者、从业者和专家如何努力确定一系列以实践为导向的原则,以支持文化火灾管理和研究。这些原则包括信任、互惠、承认权力关系和不同的价值观。然后,Ryan van den Nouwelant等人(2023)考虑了关于“澳大利亚悉尼私人租赁投资和社会空间劣势”的关键问题。这项工作以澳大利亚悉尼为基地,重点关注1991年至2016年期间寻求从低资本支出中获得高租金收益的小规模租赁业主。作者分析了租赁权和郊区化之间的空间相关性,展示了业主的行为是如何与私人租赁的不平衡增长率和社会劣势地区的地理位置联系在一起的。在Angus Dowell等人(2023)的作品中,接下来邀请读者考虑“实验作为基础设施:通过新西兰奥特罗阿不同的经济环境组合以不同的方式实现转型”。他们的研究部署了经济化和市场化(SSEM)的社会研究,以考虑新西兰的经济发展举措。重要的是,它挖掘了地理学家在实验、代理和实践方面的兴趣,这些都与环境经济的新兴形式有关。然后,Maria Ribeiro等人(2023)报告了关于了解米纳斯吉拉斯州西部萨克拉门托“巴西小城市城市热岛效应的时空动态”的工作。他们注意到城市增长和气候变化将如何加剧内陆城市的大幅变暖,因此采用了当地气候区(LCZ)系统方法来处理城市气候和天气数据。在此过程中,他们确定了驱动热变化的因素,并认为这种方法可以在其他南美城市复制,以便城市规划可以考虑整个地区的紧急挑战。最后,Busola Adedokun等人(2023)记录了在塔斯马尼亚的中央高原上,“与自然的长期纠缠:野外的飞鱼”。那里的飞钓者可以被描述为具有不同动机和态度的群体的“成员”,这些动机和态度与他们的社交、战利品、户外爱好者和狩猎采集者倾向有关。然而,超越这些差异的是对野生自然的共同热爱;关注社会和环境挑战的负面影响,如杂草、狗、践踏和火灾;并准备帮助保护这些地区不受破坏。这些品质表明它们有潜力支持公园管理。与往常一样,感谢团队中的每一个人,我们的董事会,我们的审稿人,作者,出版商和研究所。就像他们说的,直到11月我们2023年的最后一期。在那之前,请注意安全。
Coexistence and collaboration: Our Institute’s 2023 conference in Perth
I am writing this editorial on a very wintery day in Hobart, Tasmania, after returning from a convivial and interesting week at the Institute of Australian Geographers’ annual conference, held on unceded lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation at the Bentley campus of Curtin University in Perth. Organised by a team from Curtin and the University of Western Australia and led by Tod Jones and Kirsten Martinus, the conference theme was coexistence, collaboration, and geography. For Jones and Martinez, “the theme recognises that the planet’s health and the human race’s survival are inextricably linked and that research outcomes are enriched by diverse partnerships and the contribution of individuals from many specialities” (see Miller, 2023). In 220 sessions over four days, over 235 attendees from 13 nations met in pre-conference workshops, plenaries, and study group and independent sessions to deliberate on that theme and other concerns central to our discipline and the professions it underpins. We were all privileged to be welcomed to Country by Kim Collard, an Elder and Balladong/Wilmen man of the Noongar Nation, who spoke to us about NAIDOC Week, the lands upon which we were meeting, and the special meeting of song lines on the Bentley campus. I note in passing and with gratitude that Wiley has selected three of our journal’s articles to feature in its own NAIDOC tribute (see here; Clements et al., 2023; Rawluk et al., 2023; Rogers et al., 2023).
The team at Geographical Research, supported by Wiley and the Institute’s Council again hosted two lectures in Perth. First, Professor Mark Gahegan gave the Wiley Lecture, and it was riveting. A computer scientist and geographer based at the University of Auckland, Mark’s research includes geovisualisation, spatial analysis, geocomputation, and remote sensing. On this occasion, he shared fascinating insights on ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) and, crucially, invited geographers to apply our interdisciplinarity capacities to help ensure AI futures involve empowering outcomes. Second, Dr Emma Ligtermoet gave the Fay Gale Memorial Lecture, and it was just as compelling. A CSIRO post-doctoral fellow and human-environment geographer from the University of Western Australia and Australian National University, Emma investigates how people navigate social-ecological change in freshwater and coastal environments. In this instance, her focus was on collaborative work in Pilbara communities committed to deepening coexistence work between Country and people.
Thanks to Connor Goddard (Curtin) and Linda Wilson (University of Western Australia), I was privileged to host a conversation about writing and publishing with a group of around 50 higher degree research candidates. Some of the topics we explored included (a) why publishing matters intrinsically, strategically, and tactically; (b) how writing helps academics think, feel, speak, read, and plan careers—and how we can write and still balance work and life; (c) what it means to start the writing and publishing journey; (d) how a little insider knowledge about the higher education sector and academic practice can help that journey; and (e) why journal publishing matters but is not the whole story. At the end of our conversation, I elicited feedback and ideas about what else we can do to support candidates. Among the ideas are the following: What is the lived experience of sustained writing like in terms of process? How can we start and continue to write while living with the realities of precarious and challenging employment contexts? Does everything we write have to be accessible to the general public? How can we better reach out to diverse publics? What are the blessings and challenges of co-authorship and how do we retain agency in those relationships? How can I become a remarkable editor of my own writing? These are intriguing questions indeed, and I hope we can begin to address some of them in our webinars, co-hosted by the Institute and Wiley (see here for past episodes).
Last but not least, I am delighted to report that the 2022 Wiley prize recipients for highly esteemed papers were also announced at the conference dinner. The three papers, all available in our journal website, are by Hine et al. (2022), Roelofsen and Carter-White (2022), and Tan and Liu (2022). Our warmest congratulations to all three writing teams, and our thanks to Wiley as well.
As has become a practice for our journal, we begin this third issue of the year with a commentary by one of our associate editors, Clare Mouat (2023). Her focus is upon the ways in which regenerative—indeed loving—interventions are urgently needed to support radically positive pedagogies, policies, and geographical practices. Pushing back against tendencies to despair, Mouat invites readers to consider love as a critical lens in contemporary geography and to interrogate what that might mean in methodological terms for research, learning and teaching, and engagement. We would welcome more work on such agendas in this journal.
Next is an important and deeply synthesising editorial by Rogers and Kearnes (2023), included in this issue but/and/also fronting our recent virtual issue on COVID-19—a collection of papers published since the pandemic’s outbreak that have been brought together in one convenient place. Beyond summarising the 18 papers included in the virtual issue, Rogers and Kearns carefully show how different papers are aligned to particular themes related to the geographies of COVID-19 mobilities COVID-19 governance; the urban geographies of the pandemic; its material geographies; its spatio-temporalities; and its pedagogic affects and effects. These foundational papers will be added to in coming months as we finalise a second tranche of papers on “legacies and anticipatory geographies of the pandemic including a few papers already published in the journal and assigned to issues but not yet in a virtual issue.”
In this third issue, we also feature our 2022 Wiley Lecture, given by Gemma Sou (2023) and entitled “Communicating climate change with comics: life beyond apocalyptic imaginaries.” This paper includes both sophisticated analysis of complex challenges related to climate change and a video abstract that bring to life Sou’s comics and conceptual and empirical insights about the power of anti-essentialist representations of people’s experiences of extreme weather events.
A series of fascinating original articles follow Sou’s work. We lead with “Tomorrow’s country: practice-oriented principles for Indigenous cultural fire research in south-east Australia” by Andrea Rawluk et al. (2023). The paper models how a group of Indigenous and settler academics, practitioners, and experts have worked to identify a range of practice-oriented principles to support cultural fire management and research. Those principles include trust, reciprocity, and an acknowledgement of power relations and differing values.
Consideration is then given by Ryan van den Nouwelant et al. (2023) to crucial questions about “Private rental investment and socio-spatial disadvantage in Sydney, Australia.” The work is based in Sydney, Australia, and focuses on small-scale rental property owners who, over the period from 1991 to 2016, sought high rental yields from low capital outlays. Analysing the spatial correlation between tenure and suburbanisation, the authors show how owners’ actions are linked both to uneven growth rates of private rental and to region’s geographies of social disadvantage.
In work by Angus Dowell et al. (2023), readers are next invited to consider “Experimentation as infrastructure: enacting transitions differently through diverse economy-environment assemblages in Aotearoa New Zealand.” Their study deploys social studies of economisation and marketisation (SSEM) to consider economic development initiatives in New Zealand. Importantly, it taps into geographers’ interests in experimentation, agency, and practice in relation to emergent forms of environmental economy.
Then, Maria Ribeiro et al. (2023) report on work to understand the “Spatial and temporal dynamics of the urban heat island effect in a small Brazilian city” of Sacramento in western Minas Gerais. Noting how urban growth and climate change are predicted to increase substantial warming in inland cities, they deploy a local climate zone (LCZ) system approach to data about the city’s climate and weather. In the process, they identify factors driving thermal changes and argue that the approach is replicable in other South American cities so that urban planning can account for emergent challenges across the region.
Last, Busola Adedokun et al. (2023) document how, on the Central Plateau of Tasmania, there has been “A long entanglement with nature: flyfishers in the wild.” Flyfishers there can be described as having “membership” of groups with varied motivations and attitudes related to their social, trophy, outdoor enthusiast, and hunter-gatherer proclivities. Overarching those differences, however, is a common love of wild nature; a concern for the negative effects of social and environmental challenges such as weeds, dogs, trampling, and fire; and a preparedness to help keep such areas unspoiled. Such qualities suggest they have potential to support park management.
As always, thanks to everyone on the team, our board, our reviewers, authors, publisher, and Institute. And that, as they say, is that … until our final issue of 2023, due in November. Until then, stay safe and well.