Dr Celia Mcmichael1, Dr Carol Farbotko2 1The University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 2CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia   This paper will investigate the effects of sea-level rise, and associated policies, on the everyday lives of people in Fiji and Tuvalu. The everyday...

Dr Scott McKinnon1, Dr Christine Eriksen2 1University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia 2University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia   This paper explores the significance of lost belongings and discovered ‘treasures’ in the burnt out rubble of homes destroyed by bushfire. Drawing on...

Prof. Gordon Waitt1, Mr Hayden Cahill1, Professor Ross Gordon2 1Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space; School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, 2Queensland University of Technology Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia...

Ms Lynette Spence1 1RMIT, Melbourne, Australia   Adults, through deed and word, can construct childhood as an imaginative worlding of past times and places. When these imaginative worlds are read within the Romantic legacy – as nature/culture and past/present dualisms...

Dr Lisa Stafford1, Assoc. Professor Jenene Burke2, Professor Simon  Darcy3, Mr  Matthew  Ahmadi1, Professor Stewart Trost1 1Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 2Federation University, Ballarat, Australia, 3University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia   Emerging scholarship in disabled childhood geographies, along...

Ms Francesca Sidoti1 1Western Sydney University   Conceptualizations of place as an ‘event’ ask us to consider the idea that human movement occurs in relation with the multiple dynamic processes that comprise a place (Casey, 1993; Casey, 1996; Massey, 2005,...

Ms Ella Horton1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia   Disadvantage in Australia is geographically distributed (Randolph & Tice, 2017), and there is increasing evidence that outlying suburbs with high concentrations of social housing experience even higher rates. Suburbs such as...

Dr Natalie Osborne1 1Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia   Insert for yourself a sentence on the latest ecological and/or social crisis as a topic sentence for this abstract – the speed at which things unravel makes any reference to a particular...

Dr Leah Gibbs1, Dr Sarah  Hamylton2, Ms Kim Williams3, Dr Lucas Ihlein3 1School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2School of Environmental, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong,  3School of the Arts, English and Media,...

Mr Francisco Gelves-Gómez1, Associate Professor  Jennifer  Carter2, Professor Ruth Beilin3, Dr Shannon Brincat2 1Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia, 2School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia, 3School of Ecosystem and...