Dr Meg Mundell1 1Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC   This paper explores the how of literary wheres: the “backstage” work of conjuring place in textual form. While geography and literary studies have long been in fruitful dialogue, the emergent discipline of...

Dr Lisa Stafford1 1Queensland University of Technology It is hard not to find some reference to how being involved in public discourse and policy is every citizen’s fundamental right. Yet, exercising this right is privileged for only a certain few. ...

Mr Xavier Goldie1 1The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Considerable research has examined the relationships between queer communities and the city, particularly within a qualitative, North American context. As an extension of my work providing the first quantitative treatment of...

Travis Young Penn State University   As Australian cities increase in population and area, the contrast between urban and rural is diminishing. This growth has led to changes in the demographic and socioeconomic structure of the suburbs and small towns...