Margreet Drijfhout1, Dave Kendal2, Pete Green1 1La Trobe University, 2University of Tasmania The management of overabundant koala populations in southern Australia is controversial. While culling is regularly to manage overabundant kangaroos and possums, culling is rarely considered in managing...
- July 8, 2019
Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran Australia is currently undergoing a major transformation in the electricity sector involving decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation. This talk focuses on the central role of the state in the making, managing and unmaking of markets for electricity. Sangeetha...
- July 5, 2019
Distinguished Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick The transition from neoliberalism to neofeudalism is well underway in most western societies. The diversion of resources to an undemocratic elite has not been as blatant since the 19th century, social mobility is stagnating, surveillance...
- July 4, 2019
Dr Gregory Lehman The University of Melbourne Considerable attention has been paid to the artist John Glover’s depiction of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, and his paintings have become emblematic of the colonial landscape of Van Diemen’s Land. However, Glover’s landscape...
- July 3, 2019
Jeff Malpas Despite Immanuel Kant’s role as the pioneer of modern academic geography, the engagement by contemporary philosophers with the intellectual landscape of geography is slight. Contemporary geographers, on the other hand, seem to make frequent forays into philosophical territory,...
- July 2, 2019
Wiley has partnered with The Royal Geographical Society (including IBG) to digitise and conserve the two-million-piece collection spanning over 500 years of travel and exploration, research and thought. This session discusses the Wiley relationship with the RGS, the digitisation process...
- June 28, 2019
Dr Lisa Stafford Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD Ethics is a critical frame guiding researchers to ensure participants are researched appropriately and respectfully. Researchers advocating for participant-led or co research with marginalised groups know too well the significance...
- June 25, 2019
Dr Sangeetha Chandrashekeran The polarisation of political debate around decarbonising Australia’s electricity sector has obscured a significant development: the actually existing, if unexpected, convergence of ideas around the role of the state in the political economy of energy. After...
- June 17, 2019
Prof Elizabeth Leane2, Dr Hanne Nielsen1, Dr Chloe Lucas3, A/Prof.Juan Francisco Salazar4, Ms Doita Datta1 1School of Humanities, University Of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia 2Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia 3School of Land and...
- June 13, 2019
Dr Alison Greenaway1, Raewyn Peart2, Lara Taylor1 1Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand 2Environmental Defence Society, Auckland, New Zealand Ecosystem-based management has been proposed as a more effective way of addressing complex environmental challenges in the marine environment....
- June 13, 2019
