Dr John Carr1 1University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia   Building upon a growing literature that seeks to locate political identity partially within human neurological physiology, this paper illustrates the possibility that longstanding spatio-political tensions between “left” and “right”...

Prof. Joseph M. Cheer1 1Wakayama University, Japan, Wakayam-shi, Japan, 2Monash University, Clayton, Australia   The term geographies of marginalisation is invoked to highlight the under acknowledged and sparsely examined occurrence of modern slavery practices in global travel supply chains. Modern...

Dr Alison L Browne1, Dr  Russell Hitchings2, Dr  Tullia Jack3 1University Of Manchester, United Kingdom, 2University College London, United Kingdom, 3Lund University, Sweden   Drawing on two recent papers in Geoforum and Journal of Sustainable Tourism we propose that the...

Dr Maartje Roelofsen1 1Department Of Geography And Planning, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia   This presentation aims at exploring practices of data activism and data resistance in the digitally-enabled economies of tourism, drawing empirically on the short-term rental platform Airbnb. Since...

Miss Victoria Radnell1, Associate Professor Victoria Peel2, Professor Graham Currie3, Associate Professor Megan Farrelly1 1School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, 2School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, 3Public Transport Research Group, Monash University, Clayton,...

Ms Laine Young1, Dr Alison Blay-Palmer1 1Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada   This presentation explores the author’s dissertation research with urban growers in Quito, Ecuador. Quito’s urban agriculture (UA) project, AGRUPAR, is wildly successful in promoting urban food growth, equity,...

Dr Debarati Sen1 1Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, USA   What is their relationship to gendered militarized labor, everyday entrepreneurialism and contemporary development practices? This  question gains salience in contemporary India where autonomy movements (with a development focused agenda) have entered...

Dr Maree Pardy1 1Deakin University, Geelong, Australia   Intersectionality is now axiomatic to feminist theory and increasingly to policy and practice. One of the most productive theoretical critiques of applied intersectionality is its tendency to become trapped within the logic...

Prof. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt1 1The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia   Contemporary Gender and Development (GAD) analytical frameworks have predominantly been based on a sex-based binary interpretation. Intersectionality, described as a ‘The greatest contribution [of feminist theorists] to social science...

Dr Shaun French1 1University Of Nottingham   Meteorological and aquatic metaphors are frequent narrative devices in accounts of global finance and crisis.  Little critical attention has, however, been paid to the ways in which images of weather and water saturate...