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The 2019 Institute of Australian Geographers Conference was held at Wrest Point Hotel, Hobart, 9th – 12th July 2019.

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WEDNESDAY 10 JULY 2019

 

SESSION	TITLE	PRESENTER	PRESENTATION PDF
Indigenous Peoples’ knowledges and rights: emerging, diverging, converging research methods/practices	Indigenous communities in disaster resilience: Lessons from Newar communities in Nepal’s earthquake recovery	Ayusha Bajracharya
Mobilising colours in geographical research: vibrancies, saturations and more-than-visual methods	Between Colour and Chromatic Perception: exploring the tensions through movement	Diti Bhattacharya
Mobilising colours in geographical research: vibrancies, saturations and more-than-visual methods	AIRPORT COLOUR Re-imagining airport space through the application and manipulation of colour, via physical and digital surfaces	Clare Booker
Health Geography	John Snow would not be able to solve the Cholera epidemic with 21st century privacy laws!	Neil Coffee
A global Concept in local Contexts: Local understandings of sustainable development and its practice	Biodiversity on the fringe: the importance of local land use planning in achieving effective biodiversity conservation outcomes	Nikki Den Exter
Experiments in green finance	‘Broccoli Bonds’, Composting and Urban Food	Gradon Diprose
Geographies of participation: practices, publics, power, and politics	Examining public participation in New Zealand and the implications for resource management decisions and outcomes	Ronlyn Duncan
Geospatial analysis of ecosystem and landform change	Patterns of vegetation and landscape change before and after rabbit eradication on subantarctic Macquarie Island	Nick Fitzgerald
Geographies of participation: practices, publics, power, and politics	Community-based adaptation in practice: insights from coastal communities in Bangladesh	Md Masud All Kamal
Health Geography	The experience of living on contaminated land and its effect on mental health and notions of home	Rupert Legg
Health Geography	“I used to be a gardener”: Communal gardens as conduits for Age Care residents to activity, identity, and to others	Pauline Marsh
Energy Geographies: climate change, conflict and governance	The ‘discretionary principle’: understanding the implications of government policy for developing unconventional gas and oil in Australia and the UK	Bridie Meyer-McLean
Geographies of participation: practices, publics, power, and politics	A Manifesto for Shadow Places to re-imagine and co-produce connections for justice in an era of climate change	Fiona Miller
Geospatial analysis of ecosystem and landform change	The influence of satellite imagery on landscape perception	Daisy San Martin Saldias
Geographies of participation: practices, publics, power, and politics	Reimagining the city as a commons: local stakeholders’ visions and practices for creating Sydney as a Sharing City	Inka Santala
Food Possibilities	Wine, Relationships and Stories	Amie Sexton
Geographies of participation: practices, publics, power, and politics	Participatory Politics: Social Innovation for Climate Adaptation at the Local Scale	Wendy Steele
Experiments in green finance	Climate finance, justice, and the Green Climate Fund: More than rhetoric?	Pia Treichel

 

THURSDAY 11 JULY 2019

SESSION	TITLE	PRESENTER	PRESENTATION PDF
Geographies of Energy Access, Poverty, and Justice	The perplexing persistence of the development community’s faith in market-based energy access projects in the global South	Jonathan Balls
Environmental management in dynamic social-ecological systems	Farmers conserving biodiversity: the complexity of perceptions and outcomes in the McLaren Vale, South Australia	Douglas Bardsley
#Metoo: Exploring everyday negotiations of gender, space and place	Transnational social spaces and its implications on social inclusion for high skilled NESB women	Prabha Bogoda Arachchige
Emotional Geographies of Migration	Exploring belonging in regional resettlement: An examination of Syrian refugees’ resettlement experience on the island of Newfoundland, Canada	Sarah Burrage
Health Geography	Is physical activity higher among public transport or motor vehicle users in a regional setting?	Verity Cleland
Research assemblages: thinking through the production of research	GoProing: Becoming participant/researcher	Susannah Clement
Embodying Nature Protection	The Role of Emotional Experiences on a World Heritage Reef in Facilitating Conservation Outcomes	Freya Croft
Co-producing Critical Development Geographies	Educated migrants mobilising rural and urban identities in north Indi	Andrew Deuchar
Health Geography	Using structural equation modelling to explore the pathways linking the neighbourhood built environment and child body size: a cross-sectional study	Victoria Egli
Environmental management in dynamic social-ecological systems	An exploration of perceptions and connections to nature (Auckland, New Zealand)	Lissy Fehnker
#Metoo: Exploring everyday negotiations of gender, space and place	Gendered Subjectivities and Climate Change Adaptation Processes in Ghana’s Central Region: Moving Toward More Equitable Adaptation Decision-Making and Outcomes	Alicea Garcia
Decolonising the University: Theory and praxis	Challenging the Colonial Legacy of/at Macquarie	Richard Howitt
Disruption, transformation and innovation in the peripheries	Divergence and convergence in a second city: The case of Geelong, Victoria	Louise Johnson
Spatialities of educational engagement	Mapping social enterprise wellbeing outcomes using qualitative GIS: comparing three cases	Peter Kamstra
Environmental management in dynamic social-ecological systems	Eastern honeybee beekeeping in Japan and its socio-ecological context: a transdisciplinary, more-than-human journey	Christoph Rupprecht
Animal urban geographies of the Global South: Making spaces for, with and by non-humans	Multispecies Cities: Challenging anthropocentrism through more-than-human speculative fiction, public health and transdisciplinarity	Christoph Rupprecht
Geographies of Energy Access, Poverty, and Justice (EJP – IGU YEGC joint session)	A Solar Convergence: The Geographies of Solar Household Systems in Malawi	Shanil Samarakoon
Coasts and Wetlands	A swell-dominated shoreline reaches climate-induced recessional tipping point at Ocean Beach, Tasmania	Chris Sharples
Developments in Geographies by, for and on behalf of Indigenous peoples	Bringing Indigenous Standpoints to Trans Geographies	Corrinne Sullivan
Coasts and Wetlands	Species richness and composition of farm dams in southeast Tasmania	Fang Zhao

 

FRIDAY 12 JULY 2019

SESSION	TITLE	PRESENTER	PRESENTATION PDF
Attending to divergence in participatory processes of decision making	Public Participation in the Digital Age: Social Media Reactions about an Iconic Species	Montannia Chabau-Gibson
All at Sea? Established and emerging concepts and practices in marine governance	Narratives enabling ecosystem based management: reworking public conversations	Alison Greenaway
Housing and Home	Sustainable Heritage and ‘Shop-Top living’: Case Studies	Katrina Hill
Housing and Home	The role of place in policy responses to address disadvantage experienced by social housing residents	Ella Horton
Attending to divergence in participatory processes of decision making	Risk as collectively produced: advancing empirical understandings of human-human interactions that affect risk	Peter Kamstra
Attending to divergence in participatory processes of decision making	Alternatives to consensus decision-making in New Zealand’s freshwater collaboration	Nicholas Kirk
New geographies of environmental sustainability, risk and resilience	Resilience offers escape from trapped thinking on poverty alleviation	Steven Lade
‘Abundant Futures’: The ethico-political potential of thinking with race	Dazzling Worlds: Radiations from the Indian Ocean Edge	Michele Lobo
Housing and Home	The shared (room) house: A social and material assemblage	Zahra Nasreen
Emerging geographies of protected areas	The rise and role of Indigenous Protected Areas in Australia. Divergence or convergence with settler colonialism?	Lydia Schofield
New geographies of environmental sustainability, risk and resilience	Vulnerability as a means of developing agency	Tim Smith
‘Abundant Futures’: The ethico-political potential of thinking with race	White space and urban belonging: a scoping review	Iris Levin
Geographies of Conflict	Competing conflicts in coastal climate change adaptation: rethinking binaries	Tayanah O’Donnell
Urban environmental transformations in the Asia Pacific	Using social media to assess spatial and temporal patterns of use: Investigating what makes a cities identity	Jesse Raneng
All at Sea? Established and emerging concepts and practices in marine governance	Can a heterogeneous community grant a social licence? NZ survey on aquaculture	Jim Sinner
Landscape narratives	Using narratives of a sustainable landscape to inform product design: A tool helping transition farms to a low carbon future	Cara Stitzlein
Geographies of Conflict	Neighbourly compensations: lawyers, parliamentary submissions and coal seam gas in Australia	David Turton