Prof. Richie Howitt1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia   Macquarie University takes its name from a man known simultaneously as the early colony’s greatest colonial administrator, a key inspiration for Australia’s egalitarian ethos, the military strategist who authorised the Appin Massacre...

Dr Sharon McLennan1 1Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand   In her seminal work on de-colonising global citizenship Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti suggests educators need to ‘go up the river’ to the roots of global problems, to avoid perpetuating thin...

A/Prof. Haripriya Rangan1 1University Of Melbourne   In the concluding chapter of ‘The Wretched of the Earth’, Frantz Fanon exhorts his readers from the Third World to move beyond the conceits of European thinking and “reconsider the question of cerebral...

Dr Timothy Neale1 1Deakin University, Burwood, Australia   Established framings of collaborative or partnership relationships between Indigenous and (settler) state agencies typically position them as predetermined expressions of something innate rather than, as they are sometimes experienced by those involved,...

Dr Julian Yates1 1Monash University,    This talk explores the potential for collaborative planning processes of experiential future scenario-building to inform Indigenous water futures. Experiential future scenario building is a co-designed engagement approach for developing collective intelligence, imagination, and planning....

Dr Fiona Miller1, Dr  Emily Potter2, Assoc Prof Eva Lövbrand3, Assoc Prof Donna Houston1, Dr Jessica McLean1, Dr Emily O’Gorman1, The . Shadow Places Network4 1Department Of Geography And Planning, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2Literary Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia,...

Prof. Noel Castree1,2 1Manchester University, Oxford Road, England, 2University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia   As the human impact on the Earth escalates in scale, scope and magnitude, governments have come to rely ever more on various geosciences for expert knowledge...

Dr Paul McFarland1 1University Of New England, Armidale, Australia   Land is a finite resource. All land does not contain the same intrinsic qualities. The supply of high quality productive land with reliable supplies of natural resources is severely limited....

Mr Kavindra Paranage1 1Monash University, Clayton, Australia   While critical geographers and political ecologists have identified the capacity of water flows to both influence and be influenced by socio-political factors, this understanding of the hydrosociality of water has not been...

Dr Komali Yenneti1 1University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia   In the recent years, social issues around renewable energy implementation have been gaining prominence both in developed and developing countries. Though researchers in developed countries have started dealing with...