Prof. Uma Kothari1 1University of Manchester, Manchester, UK   Sea mobilities have always connected people, places and things and the volume of goods conveyed by ship is ever-increasing. While the maritime transportation of goods has tended to focus on ships’...

Ms Jonna Laine1 1University Of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland   Ninety percent of the global transport is made by ships and about 20% of the 1.5 million seafarers come from The Philippines. Their existence and their life stories are unknown to...

Dr Maria Borovnik1 1Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand   Seafarers are exposed, enveloped and embedded in weather while working and travelling on tankers, cargo or containerships. In some cases, their journeys will go along extremely different weathers within only...

Ms Clare McCracken1 1Rmit Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia   On the 21st of July 2018, I boarded the ANL Wahroonga containership and steamed from Australia to China – dwelling in motion for 13 days.  The route roughly mirrored that of my...

Mr Lambert Rozema1, Ms Cristina Pinheiro2, Ms Ana Margerida Ferreira2 1Nhlstenden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 2Universidadeeuropeia, Lisbon, Portugal   Chromatic proposals for neighbourhoods often are aimed at establishing or maintaining the architectural identity of the place. This type of colour research suggests...

Dr Candice Boyd1, Ms Deborah Tout-Smith2 1School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2Society and Technology Department, Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia   Deborah Tout-Smith is Senior Curator, Home & Community, at Museums Victoria.  Her curatorial responsibilities include the museum’s...

Ms Diti Bhattacharya1 1Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia   This paper looks at the everyday spatial entanglements between colour, chromatic perception and the act of walking. I draw on two examples from a series autoethnographic observations carried out in Brisbane city,...

Dr Jen Southern1, Dr Rod  Dillon1 1Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K.   This paper, and the authors artwork para-site-seeing.org, uses the Leishmania parasite as a guide to multispecies travel. The parasites mobility ranges from micro-movements through the sandfly gut, to historical...

Ms Laura Parsons1 1De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom   There is, as yet, no common usage of the term ‘hidden culture’ within cultural geography scholarship, but there is considerable evidence that some culture remains in a hidden state (Crossick...

Dr Andrew Lapworth1 1University of New South Wales, Canberra, Canberra, Australia   Despite decades of critiques, the Freudian image of an interiorised, repressive, and individualized unconscious continues to exert a powerful stranglehold over contemporary geography. In this paper, I locate...