Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)
AUSCCER
HAPPENINGS 2012
Newly published by Prof Chris Gibson in the online newspaper The Conversation: Once a cultural icon, is Australia's surfboard industry destined to disappear?
Congratulations to Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt on the publication of this new book:
Tourism and Australian beach culture: revealing bodies
AUSCCER this week launched its Discussion Papers Series at a Uni in the Brewery presentation by Lesley Head.
AUSCCER Discussion Papers are intended as a forum for the dissemination of research by Centre staff. They
are peer‐reviewed internally, and provide a means to inform public debate and policy conversations.
In Discussion Paper #1, Lesley Head asks whether, after a decade of drought and a couple of wet years, we have changed our cultures of urban water?
In Discussion Paper #2, Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson look beyond the high dollar in debate about the future of Australian manufacturing, using the example of the surfboard industry.
Congratulations to Chris Gibson on the release of his new book, April 2012; Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia, Ashgate, 2012
Congratulations to Emily O'Gorman on the release of her new book.
Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (CSIRO Publishing, August 2012).
The book examines the flood history of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Seminar - Thursday Feb 16, 2012, 12:30-1:30pm, Room: 41.157
Dr Rebecca Lawrence
Umeå University, Sweden
“The Curious Double Life of the Swedish Sami Parliament: Self-Determining Parliament or Government Agency?”
The Swedish Sami Parliament is both a representative body elected by the indigenous Sami people and a government agency under the Swedish state. Since its inception, this construction has been critiqued by the Sami people and Swedish governmental commissions alike: the Sami Parliaments dual roles are seen to be in fundamental conflict with one another. This presentation provides the first empirical study of the political and practical consequences of these conflicting roles. Using in-depth interviews with politicians and civil servants at the Sami Parliament, representatives of Sami organisations, and civil servants at the Swedish ministries, the presentation provides an analysis of the extent to which the Sami Parliament is able to perform its role as a government agency. I argue that the dual roles of the Sami Parliament create problems not only for the decision making powers of the Parliament as a government agency, but also constitute a structural obstacle to Sami self-determination.
Seminar - Thursday Feb 2, 2012, 12:30-3pm, Room: 41.153
Professor Richard Peet
Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA
"Inequality, Finance Capital and Crisis"
Dr Elaine Hartwick
Framingham State University, USA
“Commodity Chains and Consumer Politics”
Dick Peet is Professor of Geography at Clark University, USA, and currently editor of the journal Human Geography (http://www.hugeog.com/). He was editor of Antipode from 1970-1985 and Economic Geography from 1992-1998.
Assoc. Professor Elaine Hartwick is Chair of the Department of Geography at Framingham State University, USA. With Dick Peet she is the author of Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives (Guilford, 2nd ed 2009).
