Ms Claire Collie1 1University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia   Distinct urban morphologies emerged in conjunction with an overriding shift to neoliberal urbanism. Melbourne’s compact city planning imaginary represents both a driver and a product of these urban transformations, with inequality...

A/Prof. Wendy Steele1, Dr Ilan Wiesel2, Dr Cecily Maller1 1Centre for Urban Research, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2School of Geography, Melbourne, Australia   In this paper we engage the twin concepts of ‘the stray’ and ‘the friend’ for developing empathetic imaginings...

Mr Brad Jessup1 1The University of Melbourne   This paper concerns a conflict over a statue built by a wealthy landowner in the Margaret River wine making region in contravention of the Western Australian Planning and Development Act 2005. Despite...

Dr Christoph Rupprecht1 1Research Institute For Humanity And Nature, Kyoto, Japan   Cities are built entirely around human needs, including harnessing non-humans for ecosystem services in the form of green infrastructure. This anthropocentrism extends to the concept of sustainability itself...

Dr Yamini Narayanan1 1Deakin University   India’s intriguing status as among the world’s largest milk producer, beef exporter, and one of the top leather producers – industries which are substantially sustained by the mass slaughter of bovines – implausibly coexists...

Dr David Turton1 1Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia   Landholder compensation is a critical part of Australia’s coal seam gas sector. One way to explore this – and the legal geography and distributive justice...

Dr Max Kelly1 1Deakin University, , Australia   Despite a heavy reliance on draft animal power, donkeys are not traditional animals in Malawi. Currently, there are approximately 15,000 donkeys in Malawi, many descending from 300 donkeys imported in the late...

Prof. Allison Williams1, Ms.  Kaelan Brooke2 1McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada 2McMaster University , Hamilton , Canada   Research in therapeutic landscapes recognizes wilderness spaces as promoting health and well-being. Beginning with Palka’s work (1999) concerning Alaska’s Denali National Park, the...

A/Prof Tod Jones1, Transpiosa Riomandha2, Hairus Salim3 1Curtin University, Perth, Australia 2LIKE Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 3Institute for the Study of Islam and Society (LKIS), Yogyakarta, Indonesia   The International Telecommunication Union estimates 51.2 percent of the global population used the...

Ms Emma Sheppard-Simms1 1University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia   From the 19th Century onwards, many Australian islands were employed as places of institutional incarceration, including prisons, asylums, Indigenous reserves, internment camps and quarantine stations. The people who were imprisoned on...