Ms Maeve Powell1 1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia   Geographers, sociologists and anthropologists have long argued for a collective ‘right to the city’. This concept has been applied to topics such as political movements, race, and gender and sexuality. There...

Ms Charity Edwards1,2 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia   Contemporary understandings of the Southern Ocean are eclipsed by ‘wilderness’ aspirations, diminishing our capacity to recognise human-driven processes in, and increasing urbanisation of, the Antarctic. This, despite...

Ms Anna Carlson1, Mr Max Mitropoulos1 1University Of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia   In this paper, we draw on the theoretical framework outlined above to critically examine the (continuing) operation of Boundary Streets in our home context of Brisbane. Using Boundary...

Dr Naama Blatman-thomas1 1The University Of Sydney   Repossession of land by Indigenous people is commonly understood as a legal act that unfolds within the confines of state apparatuses. But for many Indigenous urbanites, legal repossession is both impossible and...

Ms Rebecca Hingley1 1UTAS (IMAS), Hobart, Australia   While a few attempts have been made to investigate the relationship between Antarctic geopolitics and Antarctic material heritage, the manipulation of the continent’s official Historic Sites and Monuments (HSMs) by political actors...

Mr Paul Dornan1 1Swinburne University Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia   With neoliberalism established as global political and economic orthodoxy, the public space has come under increasing threat. Collective social organizations, such as those that feature in many of the world’s...

Prof. Elizabeth Leane2, Dr Hanne Nielsen1, Dr Chloe Lucas3, Assoc. Prof. Juan Francisco Salazar4, Ms Doita Datta1 1School of Humanities, University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 3School of Land and...

A/Prof. Kristian Ruming1, A/Prof. Kathy Mee2, Prof Pauline McGuirk3 1Macquarie UniversityDepartment of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University 2Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle 3Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space,...

Dr Emma Power1 1Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia   Growing numbers of older people face ongoing residential moves due to economic disadvantage and housing precarity. For these people moving house can be a regular and ongoing experience that is both...

Dr Meg Mundell1 1Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia   How do people who have experienced homelessness understand and conceptualise “home”? This paper presents initial findings from the research project “We Are Here: Writing Place”, which explores understandings of place amongst people...