Ms Kaylene Tan1 1University of Melbourne, BRUNSWICK, Australia   This paper explores the intersection between food, senses and place through the street food snack of satay. In Singapore, the dish of skewered meat is synonymous with The Satay Club, originally...

Dr Rosie Welch1 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia   In recent years there has been a groundswell of interest for Australian native foods in culinary and cultural industries. Alongside this, recent school curriculum reform in Australia has developed explicit learning descriptors...

Dr Kelly Donati1 1William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, Australia   The doctrine of terra nullius renders the Australian landscape as a blank canvas on which colonial narratives of conquest are inscribed. Within its logic, British agricultural practices and capitalist concepts of...

Ms Liz Charpleix1 1University Of New England, Armidale, Australia   Problems relating to water, including scarcity, equitable access for humans and non-humans, pollution and environmental concerns, are globally prevalent in the Anthropocene period. The dominant paradigm for valuing water is...

Ms Nicola Perry1 1University Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia   Place-based agency has been recognised as contributing to the creation and enactment of environmental law (Bartel, 2018). Using preliminary fieldwork conducted in the Riverland area of South Australia along the Murray...

Dr Lesley Crowe-delaney1 1Curtin   Is there a possibility that tourists when disappointed by nature, can become litigious? Chinese academics believe there is accountability when nature does not perform. This paper looks at the issue of a host country, Japan...

Dr Iris Levin1, Dr Tracy Castelino 1Swinburne University Of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia, 2ShantiWorks, Richmond, Australia   Recently, emerging research has focused on urban belonging to capture the capacity of the city and its public spaces in enhancing the sense of...

A/Prof. Donna Houston1 1Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia   Haraway once wrote that there will be “no nature without justice”. On a planet burdened and shaped by the uneven geographies and accumulative violence of climate change, mass extinction, and ‘chemical...

Dr Andrew Burridge1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia   In both the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Melbourne Cup, protestors from the Whistle-blowers, Activists and Citizens Alliance (WACA) have taken direct action to disrupt the event, drawing attention to the...

Dr Michele Lobo1 1Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia   In the Manifesto for Abundant Futures, Collard et al (2014) argue that the advent of the Anthropocene is a ‘spark’ that can light a fire in our imaginaries for enacting pluriversal worlds....