{"title":"Geographies, mobilities and politics for disabled people: power-assisted device practice","authors":"T. Harada, G. Waitt","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2187512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2187512","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, key findings are presented from an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project that investigated the geographies, mobilities and politics for disabled people who roll powered assisted devices (wheelchairs and mobility scooters). We offer a spatial framework to think about the politics of exclusion/inclusion from public space along three dimensions: as a distributed institutional decision-making process, as personal, and as an event/journey. We recruited 68 disabled people to collaborate in a multi-stage, mixed-method qualitative project from 2020–2022. Four themes emerged from our thematic analysis of everyday power-assisted device practices that offer insights to what enables or constrains access to public space: the desire for social connections and independence, normative assumptions of standing design, the built form when going places (steps, gutters and stairs) alongside the interdependencies of various care and transport networks. We point to the implications for policy, planning and future research.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48029301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility as a service, platform uses and social innovation: lessons from South America","authors":"Luis Hernando Lozano Paredes","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2182734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2182734","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Platforms are becoming integral elements of urban transport systems, and more recently, platform technology has dominated the debate in implementing Mobility as a Service (MaaS) structures. However, for all the arguments on the impact of platforms on the future of work, and the deterministic technological nature of MaaS discourse, little attention is paid to social engagement and how people use these technologies. This research focuses on how entrepreneurial communities using platforms can challenge preconceptions around what constitutes MaaS and introduce a narrative for achieving mobility justice goals. This paper seeks to broaden the discussion around designing a MaaS policy to include consideration of how urban and regional residents incorporate platforms into everyday mobility practices, and what this might mean for mobility justice. People’s everyday engagement with a range of mobility options and platforms provides insight into how MaaS policy may foster equitable transport outcomes for groups that may be overlooked, marginalised or unrecognised in wider debates. This research from South America which utilises a human-centred approach has significance for other contexts such as Australia, to inform future policy directions which aim to promote mobility justice values.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48010778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobilities and Immobilities in Tuvalu: an unexpected pandemic experience?","authors":"Carol Farbotko","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2179333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2179333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tuvalu was the last country to experience Covid-19, with no community transmission prior to November 2022, yet remains most well-known for its exposure to climate change. The pandemic presents an opportunity to challenge narratives of both displacement and disease risk, and advance understanding of mobility justice. During the pandemic, Tuvaluan’s internal migration to cultural lands revived a sense of community, strengthened cultural relations and provided an opportunity to reinvigorate customary forms of self-sufficiency.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43558650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility justice after climate coloniality: mobile commoning as a relational ethics of care","authors":"M. Sheller","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2178247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2178247","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This conceptual article argues for linking the concept of mobility justice to an analysis of climate coloniality and then seeks to build on recent feminist, Indigenous and Black studies of climate ethics. More just, equitable, and sustainable futures call for more than decarbonization or low carbon transitions. Situating the climate crisis within deeper political ecologies of colonialism, extractivism, and racial capitalism, the argument centers relational co-becoming, anti-extractivism, and mobile commoning as crucial to climate ethics that are inclusive of Indigenous and Afro-descendent cosmologies, as well as respectful of non-human mobilities and webs of life. Finally, it turns toward feminist, decolonial, Black, and Indigenous relational ontologies of transmotion and mobile commoning as a needed step beyond the existing global mobility regimes and toward the intentional decolonizing of extractive mobilities that have led to the contemporary climate crisis. The conclusion joins others in advocating for an ethics of care and for social science approaches that can coalesce the growing conversations on these issues across North America, Latin America, Australia, Oceania, Africa and beyond.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48698933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remittances for marriage: quality of life changes among seasonal worker households in Timor-Leste","authors":"A. Wu, A. McWilliam","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2174597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2174597","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Australian Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) has offered opportunities for Timorese citizens to engage in farm labour and hospitality jobs in rural Australia for periods of six months. Savings and remittance from this work offers a powerful and self-directing development tool that could improve living standards for participating households. In this paper, we argue that remittances invested in social relationships through ceremonies and customary exchange are beneficial for building enhanced social and financial capital in Timorese society. Cash contributions to support household consumption, purchase domestic appliances, education costs of siblings, house construction, ceremony costs and bridewealth (barlake) demands, are all important aspects of contemporary social life in Timor-Leste that are sustained by labour migration remittances. Social networking is thus crucial for enabling access to better resources and opportunities in Timor-Leste and remittances that focus on social relationship maintenance are therefore highly significant. Potentially they provide the ability for some return workers to afford higher bridewealth demands and in the process facilitate social mobility for seasonal workers while advancing a broader quality of life.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"193 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49117069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International students, intersectionality and sense of belonging: a note on the experience of gay Chinese students in Australia","authors":"Bin Wang, A. Gorman‐Murray","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2174652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2174652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay considers the experience of international students, contemplating their identity and agency in Australian society. Thinking through the potential experience of gay Chinese students, we argue that the community of international students is not homogenous. Working with and against the literature on studentification, we suggest more consideration should be given to the social and personal experience of students, not just their economic contribution to placemaking. The fluidity and dynamism of gay Chinese students’ identities reveals how geography plays an important role in shaping intersectionality. In this essay, we also question the generalised image of ‘Asian’ identity that is often used in academic approaches, and argue that geographers could make valuable contributions to the debate of intersectionality, by grounding the analysis in specific geographical contexts.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"115 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48396667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Engendering social inclusion and success for refugee women through place-based empowering practices’","authors":"Mandy Hughes, L. Whitaker, Barbara A. Rugendyke","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2022.2160047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2160047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47362112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The River Flowing through My Kitchen – a practice led inquiry into the aesthetic materiality binding body and world","authors":"Becky Nevin Berger","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2022.2140864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2140864","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The opaque, anthropocentric structure of the contemporary Australian single-family home focuses attention inward. Observing the continual movement of materials generating the home's stasis, reveals entanglement in vast assemblages of ecology and geography. Water's passage through the home becomes allegory for continuum of planet, place, home and body. This creative piece combines photography and writing to track this process through which the aesthetic continuum between the body and the worlds became tangible. It is contextualised through the tension carried from North East Victorian valleys settled by my Anglo-Celtic ancestors, and later flooded by the damming of the Murray and Mitta Mitta Rivers. Multi-artform practice combining photography, journaling, video, sculpture, drawing, and installation enabled practice-led examination of the tributaries to that embodied tension. I draw from artistic examples, such as Artist Marily Cintra's description of the painful generosity of rivers suspended in dams, pipelines, showers and dishwashers, or Noori Nuemark's ‘overhearing’ wherein additional sounds overlap with the focal object of listening. Through slow persistent ‘situated listening’ I attuned to water's flow through my home until one evening it spontaneously appeared, the river diverted and dreaming in the space between my kitchen and bathroom.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"89 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46950392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining flood plain development with geography at heart","authors":"Barbara A. Rugendyke, J. Vanclay","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2022.2146414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2146414","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Claims that the catastrophic flooding events of 2022 which devastated the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales were unprecedented are demonstrated here to be ill-informed. Additionally, flood mitigation efforts will not be able to protect Lismore and surrounding communities from the ravages of future floods. It is essential that geographical realities be at the heart of planning decisions to protect flood prone communities in future. The inescapable fact is that catastrophic floods will recur in the region. The lesson for this region, and for others throughout Australia which are subject to severe flooding, is that planned withdrawal of critical services, commercial premises and vulnerable housing from the flood plain is the only sure way to protect people, their homes and livelihoods from repeated devastation. Geography matters indeed.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48187055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redefining local social capital: the past, present and future of bowling clubs in Sydney","authors":"L. Heath, R. Freestone","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2022.2144257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2144257","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Bowling clubs have been local institutions in Australia for over 150 years. Once a booming pastime, the popularity of lawn bowls has waned and subsequently so has the number of clubs. Sydney has lost nearly half the number of clubs from 1980, many of them in the past decade. Drawing on Ray Oldenburg’s concept of the ‘third place’ as a vital and inclusive local social hub, this paper charts the evolving geography and governance of the bowling club in metropolitan Sydney from the nineteenth century. The focus of this paper is on closures and land use changes between 2005 and 2020 and projected trends. A crucial factor in securing more public-orientated redevelopment outcomes is land ownership. The findings highlight how closure and redevelopment mediated through the NSW planning system impacts the social capital of communities. Bowling clubs as third places constitute important informal social centres. While this legacy persists as they adapt to new societal trends, the decline in the number of traditional clubs suggest that without a wider appreciation of the distinctive character of the Australian ‘bowlo’, there is a risk of not only losing valued community infrastructure but a centrepiece of the Australian cultural landscape.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"173 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47793853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}