Faculty of Arts School of Social and Environmental Enquiry

Melbourne Human Geography Reading Group

 

Meetings are normally at 3.30pm on the last Friday of every month in the seminar room - B1.24 - in the basement of the SSEE building at 221 Bouverie Street. Everybody is welcome.

Suggestions for new readings should be sent to the conveners:

Elissa Sutherland: Elissa.Sutherland@arts.monash.edu.au

Michael Webber: mjwebber@unimelb.edu.au

 

Friday 1 June - commencing at 3.30pm

Discussion led by Priya Rangan of Oslender, Ulrich. 2007. "Spaces of terror and fear on Colombia's Pacific coast: the armed conflict and forced displacement among black communities", in Derek Gregory and Allan Pred (eds), Violent geographies: fear, terror, and political violence, New York: Routledge, pp.111-132

 

Friday 30 March - commencing at 3.30 pm

The Melbourne Human Geography Reading group will meet at 3:30 pm on Friday 30 March. The reading will be introduced by Christian Kull (Monash). Christian will introduce and lead discussion about the paper:
Unruh J D 2006 Land Tenure and the "Evidence Landscape" in Developing Countries /Annals of the Association of American Geographers/ 96(4), pp.754­772

 

In the past we used to put copies of the reading on this website, thus simplifying the task of getting hold of the paper. However, a publisher has objected to this, so I now have to leave you to get the paper through the University library. Sorry.

Elissa will send a reminder in due course. Please note that I shall be abroad from 13-27 march, so please do not send requests for copies to me. Ask Elissa instead!!!

Michael

 

Friday 16 February - commencing at 3.30 pm

Introduced by Elissa Sutherland (Monash)

Ian Cook et al. Geographies of food: following /Progress in Human Geography/ 30, 5 (2006) pp. 655-666.

Alex Hughes Geographies of exchange and circulation: transnational trade and governance /Progress in Human Geography /30, 5 (2006) pp. 635­643.

 

Friday 24 November - commencing at 3.30pm

Introduced by Christian Clark (Melbourne)

John Law 2004 After Method: Mess in Social Science Research London, Routledge:1-44 plus notes and references. For copyright reasons, this pdf is not available here. You may obtain a copy from Michael Webber by emailing a request to: mjwebber@unimelb.edu.au

 

Friday 27 October - commencing at 3.30pm

Introduced by Ruth Fincher (Melbourne)

Mitchell K 2004 'Geographies of identity: multiculturalism unplugged' Progress in Human Geography 28: 641-651

Goonewardena K and Kipfer S 2005 'Spaces of difference: reflections from Toronto on multiculturalism, bourgeois urbanism and the possibility of radical urban politics' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29: 670-678 - Download pdf

 

Friday 29 September

Introduced by Elif Kendirli (Melbourne)

D Massey - For Space - pp1-15, 62-89, 90-98 (optional), 99-103. For copyright reasons, this pdf is not available here. You may obtain a copy from Michael Webber by emailing a request to: mjwebber@unimelb.edu.au

 

Friday 25 August - commencing at 3.30pm

Introduced by Anthony Marcus (Melbourne)

S Houston, R Wright, M Ellis, S Holloway and M Hudson 2006. 'Places of possibility: where mixed-race partners meet' Progress in Human Geography 29(6): 700-717.

A Saldanha 2006. 'Reontologising race: the machinic geography of phenotype' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24: 9-24. Download pdf

 

Friday 28 July - commencing at 3.30pm

Introduced by Michael Webber (Melbourne)

J Johns 2006. 'Viceo games production networks: value capture, power relations and embeddedness' Journal of Economic Geography 6:151-180. Download pdf

 

Friday 26 May - commencing at 4.30pm

Introduced by Christian Clark (Melbourne)

M Lien 2005. '"King of fish" or "feral peril": Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon and the politics of belonging' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23: 659-671. Download pdf

 

Friday 28 April

Introduced by Adeline Tay (Melbourne)

C Barnett 2005. 'Ways of relating: hospitality and the acknowledgment of otherness' Progress in Human Geography 29(1):5-21.

 

Friday 31 March

Introduced by Mel Thomson (Melbourne)

S Hinchliffe, M Kearnes, M Degen and S Whatmore 2005. 'Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23: 643-658. Download pdf

B Braun 2005. 'Environmental issues: writing a more-than-human urban geography' Progress in Human Geography 29(5): 635-650.

 

Friday 17 February

Introduced by Prue Elletson (Melbourne)

C Minca (2005) 'The return of the Camp' Progress in Human Geography 29(4): 405-412.

D Gregory (2004) 'The angel of Iraq' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22:312-324. Download pdf

 

Friday 2 December

Introduced by Christian Kull (Monash)

D Mustafa (2005) 'The terrible geographicalness of terrorism: reflections of a hazards geographer', Antipode 31(1): 72-92. Download pdf

 

Friday 28 October

Introduced by Lisa Palmer (Melbourne)

Mustafa Dikec (2005) 'Space, politics and the political' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23: 171-188. Download pdf

 

Friday 26 August

Introduced by Priya Rangan (Monash)

Sharad Chari (2004) 'Provincializing capital: the work of an agrarian past in South Indian industry' Comparative Studies in Society and History 46(4): 760-785. Download PDF

 

Friday 29 July

Introduced by Elissa Sutherland (Monash)

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift (2005) 'What's Left? Just the Future' Antipode 37(2) (March 2005), 220-238. Download PDF

 

Friday 27 May

Introduced by Ruth Lane (RMIT)

Doreen Massey (2004) 'Geographies of responsibility' Geografiska Annaler B (Human Geography) 86(1):5-24 Download PDF

 

Friday 29 April

Introduced by Michelle Duffy

Hayden Lorimer, 'Cultural geography: the busyness of being more-than-representational', Progress in Human Geography (2005) 29(1): 83-94

John-David Dewsbury, 'Witnessing space: knowledge without contemplation', Environment and Planning A (2003) 35: 1907-1932 - Download PDF

And for those who would like to read a short primer on non-representational theory from the horse's mouth, then have a look at:

Nigel Thrift, 'Performance and ... ', Environment and Planning A (2004) 35: 2019-2024 - Download PDF

 

Friday 18th March

Introduced by Lauren Costello

Kay Anderson, 'White natures: Sydney's Royal Agricultural Show in post-humanist perspective', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 28.4 (2003) 422-441 - Download PDF

Noel Castree, 'Commentary: Nature is dead! long live nature!', Environment and Planning A 36 (2004), 191-194 - Download PDF.

 

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