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Carol Farbotko

Position: Associate Research Fellow
Room: 41.G19
Phone No: +61 2 4221 4284
Email: carolf@uow.edu.au

AUSCCER

Research Interests

I am a human geographer interested in relationships between people and their environments. My work is broadly concerned with issues of engagement, communication, culture, risk, power and justice in contexts of environmental change. I explore these issues among households, communities, in governance and in public arenas.

My research interests include:

• Climate change and the media
• Fossil fuel cultures
• Climate change geopolitics
• Sea level rise and climate refugees
• Environmental activism
• Sustainable transport
• Cultural geographies of islands, coasts and industrial cities

Publications

Farbotko, C (2010). Environmental Refugees. Encyclopedia of Geography, Warf B (ed) Sage, in press.

Farbotko, C (2009). ‘The global warming clock is ticking so see these places while you can’: voyeuristic tourism and model environmental citizens on Tuvalu’s disappearing islands. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, in press.

Farbotko, C (2008). Saving Tuvaluan Culture from Imminent Danger. Sang-Saeng 21: 11-13.

Farbotko, C (2005) Tuvalu and climate change: constructions of environmental displacement in the Sydney Morning Herald. Geografiska Annaler B 87(4): 279-294.

Conference papers

Farbotko, C (2007). Beacons of stability amid territorial disorientation. Paper presented to Postcolonial Islands: Geographic, Theoretical and Human Conference 21-23 September Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Farbotko, C (2007). Climate change tourism: voyeurism in the colonial present. Paper presented to Imperial Curiosity: Objects, Representations, Knowledges Conference 27-29 June Hobart, Australia.

Farbotko, C (2006). Imaginative islographs of Tuvalu. Paper presented to Isolation: Disconnection, solitude and seclusion in a connected world conference 14-16 December Hobart, Australia.

Farbotko, C (2006). Climate change, identity and ecocolonialism in Tuvalu. Paper presented to International Small Island Studies Association Conference IX 31 July-2 August Maui, USA.

Farbotko, C (2006). The construction of atoll space: exploring the meaning of climate change in popular culture. Paper presented to International Small Island Studies Association Conference IX 31 July-2 August Maui, USA.

Farbotko, C (2005). Tuvalu, climate change and possibilities for legal redress. Paper presented to 17th International Clean Air and Environment Conference 3-6 May Hobart, Australia.

Farbotko, C (2004). Sinking islands? Tuvalu and climate change in the Sydney Morning Herald. Paper presented to International Small Island Studies Association Conference VIII 1-7 November Kinmen Island, Taiwan.

Abbreviated CV

I completed a PhD in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania. My dissertation was titled Representing climate change space: islographs of Tuvalu. Focusing on disappearing islands, I examined how public debate and policy on climate change shapes and is shaped by cultural practices and perceptions of islandness, justice, nature, belonging, scale and place. I have been employed in a variety of tutoring and research positions in geography, environmental planning, cultural studies and economics in Australia and Tuvalu.