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BOOKS / MONOGRAPHS:

Gibson, C, Farbotko, C, Gill, N, Head, L and Waitt, G (2013) Household sustainability: challenges and dilemmas in everyday life, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK

Warren, A and Gibson, C (2013) Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity and Cultural Heritage in Hawai’i, California and Australia, University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii

Gibson, C (ed) (2012) Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative Industries, Routledge, London and New York  ISBN13: 978-0-415-69668-5

Gibson, C and Connell, J (2012) Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia, Ashgate, Farnham  ISBN: 978-0-7546-7526-6

Gibson, C and Connell, J (eds) (2011) Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, Channel View, Bristol  ISBN: 978-1-84541-166-4 (Pbk); 978-1-84541-167-1 (Hbk)

Gibson, C and Connell, J (2005) Music and Tourism, Channel View Press, Clevedon and Buffalo, NY, and University of Toronto Press, Toronto ISBN: 1-873150-93-8 (Hbk); 1-873150-92-x (Pbk); 1-873150-94-6 (Elec.)

Dunbar-Hall, P and Gibson, C (2004) Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney and University of Washington Press, Seattle ISBN: 0 86840 622 8

Connell, J and Gibson, C (2003) Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place, Routledge, London and New York ISBN: 0 4151-7027 3 (Hbk); 0415170281 (Pbk)

Gibson, C (2000) Decentred sounds: systems of provision for popular music and a regional music industry, PhD thesis, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney

McGregor, A; Gibson, C; Miller, F; and Sharma, K (1998) Thinking About Forests: Community Attitudes Towards Forests in NSW, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra

Pritchard, B and Gibson, C (1996) The Black Economy: Regional Development Strategies in the Northern Territory, North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University and the Northern Land Council, Darwin ISBN: 0 7315-2534 5
 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Gibson, C (2012) ‘Cultural Economy: Achievements, Divergences, Future Prospects’, Geographical Research, 50, 3, 282–290 (Invited essay for 50th Anniversary of Geographical Research)

Gibson, C, Brennan-Horley, C, Laurenson, B, Riggs, N, Warren, A, Gallan, B and Brown, H (2012) ‘Cool places, creative places? Community perceptions of cultural vitality in the suburbs’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 15, 3, 287-302

Gibson, C, Carr, C and Warren, A (2012) ‘A country that makes things?’, Australian Geographer, 43, 2, 109-113.  (Inaugural Thinking Space essay in Australian Geographer)

Gibson, C, Gallan, B and Warren, A (2012) ‘Engaging creative communities in an industrial city setting: a question of enclosure’, Gateways: International Journal of Community Research & Engagement, 5, 1-15

Gorman-Murray, A, Waitt, G and Gibson, C (2012)‘Chilling out in ‘cosmopolitan country’? Urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a ‘lesbian and gay rural idyll’, Journal of Rural Studies, 28, 69-79.

Head, L and Gibson, C (2012) ‘Becoming differently modern: geographic contributions to a generative climate politics’, Progress in Human Geography, DOI: 10.1177/0309132512438162

Klocker, N, Gibson, C and Borger, E (2012) ‘Living together, but apart: Material geographies of everyday sustainability in extended family households’, Environment and Planning A, 44, 2240-2259

Waitt, G, Caputi, P, Gibson, C, Farbotko, C, Gill, N, Head, L and Stanes, E (2012)‘Sustainable Household Capability: Which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability?’, Australian Geographer, 43, 1, 51-74.

Gallan B and Gibson C (2011) New dawn or new dusk? Beyond the binary of day and night, Environment and Planning A, 43, 11, 2509 – 2515

Warren, A and Gibson, C (2011) Blue-collar creativity: reframing custom-car culture in the imperilled industrial city, Environment and Planning A, 43, 11, 2705-2722

Gibson, C, Head, L, Gill, N and Waitt, G (2011) ‘Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36, 1, 3-8

Duffy, M, Waitt, G, Gorman-Murray, A and Gibson, C (2011) ‘Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces’, Emotion, Space and Society, 4, 17-24

Robinson, D and Gibson, C (2011) ‘Governing knowledge: discourses and tactics of the European Union in trade-related intellectual property negotiations’, Antipode, early view online; 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00860.x

Gibson, C (2010) ‘Geographies of tourism: (un)ethical encounters’, Progress in Human Geography, 34, 4, 521-527

Gibson, C, Brennan-Horley, C and Warren, A (2010) ‘Geographic information technologies for cultural research: cultural mapping and the prospects of colliding epistemologies’, Cultural Trends, 19, 4, 325–348

Jayne, M, Gibson, C, Waitt, G and Bell, D (2010) ‘The cultural economy of small cities’, Geography Compass, 4, 9, 1408-1417

Gibson, C (2010) ‘Creative geographies: tales from the ‘margins’’, Australian Geographer, 41, 1, 1-10 [Special issue, “Creativity in ‘peripheral’ places: redefining the creative industries”, edited by Chris Gibson]

Gibson, C (2010) ‘Obama’s post-imperial America? A view from the south’, Political Geography, 29, 1, 10-13 [Special symposium, “Interventions on the meanings of the Obama presidency for US relations with global regions”, with Maano Ramutsindela, Takashi Yamazaki and Virginie Mamadouh. Delivered as the Political Geography Annual Plenary Lecture at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers]

Gibson, C, Luckman, S and Willoughby-Smith, J (2010) ‘Creativity without borders? Re-thinking remoteness and proximity’, Australian Geographer, 41, 1, 25-38

Gibson, C, Waitt, G, Walmsley, J and Connell, J (2010) ‘Cultural festivals and economic development in regional Australia’, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 29, 3, 280-293

Brennan-Horley, C, Luckman, S, Gibson, C and Willoughby-Smith, J (2010) ‘Putting maps back into ethnographic mapping: GIS, ethnography and cultural research - a case study’, The Information Society, 26, 2, 92-103

Duffy, M, Waitt, G, Gorman-Murray, A and Gibson, C (2010) ‘Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces’, Emotion, Space and Society, published online first May 3, doi: 10.1016/j.emospa.2010.03.004

Gorman-Murray, A, Brennan-Horley, C, McLean, K, Waitt, G and Gibson, C (2010) ‘Mapping same-sex couple family households in Australia’, Journal of Maps, 186-196

Gibson, C (2009) ‘Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods’, Progress in Human Geography, 33, 4, 527-534
                                                                                                                                      
Gibson, C (2009) ‘Place and music: performing ‘the region’ on the New South Wales Far North Coast’, Transforming Cultures eJournal, 4, 1, 60-81

Brennan-Horley, C and Gibson, C (2009) ‘Where is creativity in the city? Integrating qualitative and GIS methods’, Environment and Planning A, 41, 11, 2595 – 2614
                                                                           
Luckman, S, Gibson, C and Lea, T (2009) ‘Mosquitoes in the mix: how transferable is creative city thinking?’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 30, 70-85

McGregor, A and Gibson, C (2009) ‘Musical work in a university town: the shifting spaces and practices of DJs in Dunedin’, Asia-Pacific Viewpoint 50, 3, 277-288

McNamara, K and Gibson, C (2009) ‘‘We do not want to leave our land’: Pacific representatives at the United Nations resist the category of ‘climate refugee’, Geoforum, 40, 475-483

Waitt, G and Gibson, C (2009) ‘Creative small cities: rethinking the creative economy in place’, Urban Studies, 46, 5&6, 1223-1246
Gibson, C (2008) ‘On the overland trail: sheet music, masculinity and travelling ‘country’’, M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture, 11, 5, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/82

Gorman-Murray, A, Darian-Smith, K and Gibson, C (2008) ‘Scaling the rural: reflections on rural cultural studies’, Australian Humanities Review, 45, 37-52 http://epress.anu.edu.au/ahr/045/pdf/essay03.pdf

Luckman, S, Gibson, C, Willoughby-Smith, J and Brennan-Horley, C (2008) 'Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 22, 5, 623-637

Gibson, C (2008) 'Locating geographies of tourism', Progress in Human Geography, 32, 3, 407-422

Gibson, C (2008) 'Youthful creativity in regional Australia: panacea for unemployment and out-migration?', Geographical Research, 46, 2, 183-195 (Special issue of Geographical Research on rural youth out-migration, co-edited by Chris Gibson and Neil Argent)

Gibson, C and Argent, N (2008) 'Getting on, getting up and getting out? Broadening perspectives on 'rural youth migration', Geographical Research 46, 2, 135-138 (Special issue of Geographical Research on rural youth out-migration, co-edited by Chris Gibson and Neil Argent

Gibson, C. Dufty, R. Phillips, S. and Smith, H (2008) 'Counter-geographies: the campaign to prevent closure of agricultural research stations in New South Wales, Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, 24, 351-366

Gorman-Murray, A. Waitt, G and Gibson, C (2008) 'A queer country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town', Australian Geographer, 39, 2, 171-191

Connell, J and Gibson, C (2008) ‘Exotic journeys: music, record covers and vicarious tourism in post-war Hawai’i’, Journal of Pacific History, in press

McNamara, K and Gibson, C (2008) ‘Sustainability in practice? A macro-scale profile of tourist accommodation facilities in Australia’s coastal zone’, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 16, 2, in press

Homan, S and Gibson, C (2007) 'Popular music: networks, industries and spaces', Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, 123 (May), 61-64

Gibson, C (2007) ‘Music festivals: transformations in non-metropolitan places, and in creative work’, Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, 123 (May), in press.

Lawrence, R and Gibson, C (2007) ‘Government, culture and colonialism: Shared Responsibility Agreements in Australian Aboriginal Communities’, Cultural Studies, 21, 4/5, in press

Duffy, M, Waitt, G and Gibson, C (2007) “Get into the groove’: the role of sound in creating a sense of belonging in street parades’, Altitude, v8 http://www.altitude21c.com/ (special issue: Popular Music, Practices and Formations, Ed. Sarah Baker). ISSN 1444-1160

Gibson, C (2007) ‘Geography in Higher Education in Australia’ Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 31, 1, 97-119 [special symposium, The Place of Geography in Higher Education]

Gibson, C and Connell, J (2007) ‘Music, tourism and the transformation of Memphis’, Tourism Geographies, 9, 2, 160-190

Brennan-Horley, C, Connell, J and Gibson, C (2007) ‘The Parkes Elvis Revival Festival: economic development and contested place identities in rural Australia’, Geographical Research, 45, 1, 71-84

McGregor, A, Gibson, C and Miller, F (2007) ‘Babes in the woods’: geographers reflect on their participation in a forest consultancy project, Geography, 92, 1, 48-56.

Gibson C (2006) ‘Decolonising the production of geographical knowledges? Reflections on research with Indigenous musicians’, Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography, 88, 277-284 [special Issue, Indigenous Geographies]

Gibson, C (2006) ‘The Cultural Research Network: possibilities for a rhizomic future for geography in Australia?’, Geographical Research, 44, 4, 418-421

Gibson, C and Brennan-Horley, C (2006) ‘Goodbye pram city: beyond inner/outer zone binaries in creative city research’, Urban Policy and Research, 24, 4, 455-471

Gibson, C and Dufty, R (2006) ‘Affordable housing for the arts? Local housing markets, affordability and creative city strategies’, HousingWorks: Journal of the Australasian Housing Institute, 4, 1, 25-29

Barnes, K, Waitt, G, Gill, N and Gibson, C (2006) ‘Community and nostalgia in urban revitalisation: a critique of urban village and creative class strategies as remedies for social ‘problems’’, Australian Geographer, 37, 3, 335-354

Kong, L, Gibson, C, Khoo, L-M and Semple, A-L (2006) ‘Knowledges of the creative economy: a geography of diffusion and adaptation in Asia’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 47, 2, 173-194

Gibson, C (2005) ‘Recording studios: relational spaces of creativity in the city’, Built Environment, 31, 3, 258-273 [special issue, Music in the City]

Gibson, C, Dufty, R and Drozdzewski, D (2005) ‘Resident attitudes to farmland protection measures in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales’, Australian Geographer, 36, 3, 369-383

Gibson, C and Kong, L (2005) ‘Cultural economy: a critical review’, Progress in Human Geography, 29, 5, 541-561

Gibson, C and Klocker, N (2005) ‘The ‘cultural turn’ in Australian regional economic development discourse: neoliberalising creativity?’, Geographical Research, 43, 1, 93-102 [special issue, ‘Neoliberalism and Australia’s Regions’]

Gibson, C (2004) ‘On academic language, and publishing books: whither the bestseller?’, Australian Geographical Studies, 42, 3, 415-18 [review symposium: Don Watson’s ‘Death Sentence’]

Gibson, C, Costello, L and Hughes, R (2004) ‘Doing Cultural Geography’, Australian Geographer, 35, 2, 123-130

Gibson, C and Davidson, D (2004) ‘Tamworth, Australia’s ‘country music capital’: place marketing, rural narratives and resident reactions’, Journal of Rural Studies 20, 4, 387-404

Gibson, C and Dunbar-Hall, P (2004) ‘Mediating Aboriginal music: discussions of the music industry in Australia’, Perfect Beat: Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, 7, 1, 17-41

Gibson, C and Homan, S (2004) ‘Urban redevelopment, live music and public space: cultural performance and the re-making of Marrickville’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 10, 1, 69-86

Gibson, C and Klocker, N (2004) ‘Academic publishing as ‘creative’ industry, and recent discourses of ‘creative economies’: some critical reflections’, Area, 36, 4, 423-434

Gibson, C and Robinson, D (2004) ‘Creative networks in regional Australia’, Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, special issue, ‘Creative Networks’, 112, 83-100 [special issue: ‘Creative Networks’]

Gibson, C and Wiszniewski, I (2004) ‘Indonesia’s cultural economy: an economic geography using two secondary data sources’, Indonesian Journal of Geography, 36, 1, 1-24

Connell, J and Gibson, C (2004) ‘World Music: deterritorialising place and identity’, Progress in Human Geography, 28, 3, 342-361

Connell, J and Gibson, C (2004) ‘Vicarious journeys: travels in music’, Tourism Geographies, 6, 1, 2-25

Gibson, C (2003) ‘Digital divides in New South Wales: a research note on socio spatial inequality using 2001 census data on computer and internet technology’, Australian Geographer, 34, 2, 239-257

Gibson, C (2003) ‘Cultures at work: why ‘culture’ matters in research on the ‘cultural’ industries’, Social and Cultural Geography, 4, 2, 201-215 [special issue: ‘Culture Matters’]

Gibson, C and Connell, J (2003) ‘Bongo Fury: tourism, music and cultural economy at Byron Bay, Australia’, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography), 94, 2, 164-187

Gibson, C (2002) ‘Rural transformation and cultural industries: popular music on the New South Wales Far North Coast’, Australian Geographical Studies, 40, 3, 336-356

Gibson, C (2002) ‘Migration, music and social relations on the NSW Far North Coast’, Transformations, 2, 1-15

Gibson, C, Murphy, P, Freestone, R (2002) ‘Employment and socio-spatial relations in Australia’s cultural economy’, Australian Geographer, 33, 2, 173-189

Dunbar-Hall, P and Gibson, C (2000) ‘Singing about nations within nations: geopolitics and identity in Australian Indigenous rock music’, Popular Music and Society, 24, 2, 45-74.

Gibson, C and Dunbar-Hall, P (2000) ‘Nitmiluk’: place and empowerment in Aboriginal popular music, Ethnomusicology, 44, 39-64

Gibson, C (1999) ‘Rebuilding the Jawoyn Nation: regional agreements, spatial politics and Aboriginal self-determination in Katherine, NT’, Australian Aboriginal Studies 1, 10-25

Gibson, C (1999) ‘Cartographies of the colonial and capitalist state: a geopolitics of indigenous self-determination in Australia’, Antipode, 31, 1, 45-79

Gibson, C (1999) ‘Subversive sites: rave culture, spatial politics, and the internet’, Area, 31, 1, 19-33

Gibson, C (1998) ‘We Sing Our Home, We Dance Our Land’: Indigenous self-determination and contemporary geopolitics in Australian popular music, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 16, 163-184

REFEREED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS

Gorman-Murray, A. Waitt, G. and Gibson, C. (2007) Interrogating the politics of Gay/Lesbian belonging in an Australian country town: a case study of Daylesford, Victoria, and local responses to the ChillOut Festival, Papers of Applied Geography Conferences (Indianapolis, October 17-20), 30, 236-246 

Gorman-Murray, A, Waitt, G and Gibson, C (2007) ‘Chilling out in the country? Interrogating Daylesford as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’, in Naomi Stead and Jason Prior (eds), Queer Spaces: Centres and Peripheries – Conference Proceedings (University of Technology, Sydney, 20-21 February), e-Proceedings http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/conferences/queer_space/proceedings/rural_gorman-murray.pdf

Gibson, C and Brennan-Horley, C (2005) ‘An irregular geography: reading beyond outer/inner zone binaries in creative city research’, in Anderson, K, Dobson, R, Allon, F and Neilson, B (Eds) After Sprawl: Post-suburban Sydney. E-Proceedings of the ‘Post-Suburban Sydney: the City in Transformation’ conference, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, 22-23 November 2005, ISBN: 1 74108 149 1

Gibson, C and Klocker, N (2003) ‘Cultural industries and cultural policy: a critique of recent discourses in regional economic development’, in Gao, J, Le Heron, R and Logie, J (ed) Windows on a Changing World, NZ Geographical Society Conference Series No 22, Auckland, 131-135

Gibson, C (2003) ‘Reinventing rurality through ‘creativity’? The cultural industries in rural areas’, in Gao, J, Le Heron, R and Logie, J (ed) Windows on a Changing World, NZ Geographical Society Conference Series No 22, Auckland, 136-140

Gibson, C (2003) ‘New economic geographies’, in Garner, B (ed) Geography’s New Frontiers, The Geographical Society of New South Wales Conference Papers no. 17, University of New South Wales, 111-122

Gibson, C (2000) ‘Antipodean beats: a spatial politics of electronic music in Australia’, in Mitchell, T, Doyle, P and Johnson, B (eds) Changing Sounds: New Directions and Configurations in Popular Music, Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, 224-228

Gibson, C (1998) ‘‘Nitmiluk’: song-sites and strategies for Aboriginal empowerment’, in McDonell, J and Deves, M (eds) Land and Identity, Proceedings of the 1997 Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, University of New England, Armidale, 161-167

BOOK CHAPTERS

Gibson, C and Waitt, G (2012) ‘Urban cultural policy, city size and proximity’, in Silver, D and Grodach, C (eds) The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy, Routledge, New York, pp. 122-137

Gibson, C, Brennan-Horley, C and Luckman, S (2012) ‘(Putting) Mobile Technologies in Their Place: A Geographical Perspective’, in Wilken, R and Goggin, G (eds) Mobile Technologies and Place, Routledge, New York, 123-139

Gibson, C (2011) ‘Geographies of tourism: space, ethics and encounter’, in Wilson, J (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 55-60

Gibson, C, Waitt, G, Head, L and Gill, N (2011) Is It Easy Being Green? On the Dilemmas of Material Cultures of Household Sustainability, in Lane, R and Gorman-Murray, A (eds) Material Geographies of Household Sustainability, Ashgate, Aldershot, 19-33

Gibson, C and Stanes, E (2010) ‘Is Green the New Black? Exploring ethical fashion consumption’, in Lewis, T and Potter, E (eds) Ethical Consumption: a Critical Introduction Routledge, London and New York, 169-185

Dufty, R and Gibson, C (2010) ‘Shifting welfare, shifting people: rural development, housing and population mobility in Australia’, in Milbourne, P (ed) Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives, Emerald, UK, 173-197

Gibson, C (2009) ‘We Sing Our Home, We Dance Our Land’: Indigenous self-determination and contemporary geopolitics in Australian popular music, in Dodds, K (Ed) (2009) Geopolitics, Vol. 4, Sage, London

Connell, J and Gibson, C (2009) ‘Ambient Australia: music, meditation and tourist places’, in Johansson, O and Bell, T (eds) Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 67-88

Gibson, C, Brennan-Horley, C and Walmsley, J (2009) ‘Mapping vernacular creativity: the extent and diversity of rural festivals in Australia’ in Edensor, T, Leslie, D, Millington, S, and Rantisi, N (Eds) Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy, Routledge, London, pp. 89-105

Gibson, C (2009) ‘Human geography’, in Kitchin, R and Thrift, N (Eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 5, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 218-231

Gibson, C (2009) ‘Australasia’, in Kitchin, R and Thrift, N (Eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, Elsevier, Oxford, 225-233

Gibson, C (2009) ‘Scott, A’, in Kitchin, R and Thrift, N (Eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 10, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 46-49

Gibson, C and Waitt, G (2009) ‘Cultural Geography’, in Kitchin, R and Thrift, N (Eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 2, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 411-424

Gibson, C (2008) ‘Creative arts, people and places: which policy directions?’, in Andersen, L and Oakley, K (eds) Making Meaning, Making Money: Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the Creative Age, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 42-56

Gibson, C and Dunbar-Hall, P (2008) ‘Contemporary Aboriginal music’, in Homan, S & Mitchell, T (Eds) Sounds of then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, ACYS, Melbourne, pp.

Freestone, R and Gibson, C (2006) ‘The cultural dimension of urban planning strategies: an historical perspective’, in Monclus, J and Guardia, M (eds) Culture, Urbanism and Planning, Ashgate, Aldershot, 21-42 

Gibson, C (2006) ‘Unchanging places’, In Douglas, I, Huggett, R and Perkins, C (eds) Companion Encyclopaedia of Geography: From Local to Global, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 387-405

Gibson, C and Dunbar-Hall, P (2006) ‘Nitmiluk’: place, politics and empowerment in Aboriginal popular music, in Post, J (ed) Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Routledge, London, 383-400

Gibson, C (2006) ‘Sydney’s creative economy: social and spatial challenges’, in Randolph, B, Freestone, R and Butler-Bowdon, C (eds) Talking About Sydney: Population, Community and Culture in Contemporary Sydney, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney

Gibson, C and Connell, J (2004) ‘Cultural industry production in remote places: indigenous popular music in Australia’, in Power, D and Scott, A (ed) The Cultural Industries and The Production of Culture, Routledge, London and New York, 243-58

Gibson, C (2003) ‘Rainbow sounds: musical cultures of the Far North Coast’, in Wilson, H (ed) Belonging in the Rainbow Region: Cultural Perspectives on the North Coast of NSW, Southern Cross University Press, Lismore, 263-286

Gibson, C and Freestone, R (2002) ‘The cultural economic spaces of Sydney’, in Kim, WB and Yoo, JY (eds) Culture, Economy and Place: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements Research Report 15, Seoul, 141-178

Gibson, C (2001) ‘Appropriating the means of production: dance music industries and contested digital space’, in St John, G (ed) FreeNRG: Notes from the Edge of the Dance Floor, Common Ground, Melbourne, 237-255

Gibson, C, Murphy, P and Wu, CT (2001) ‘Towards an understanding of the urban cultural economy: an Australian perspective’, in Kim, WB (ed) The Culture and Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia, Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Seoul, 141-172

Murphy, P and Gibson, C (2001) ‘Capitalising on culture: emphases in Australian regional development’, in Kim, WB (ed) The Culture and Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia, Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Seoul, 191-216

Gibson, C and Connell, J (2000) ‘Artistic dreamings: tinseltown, sin city and suburban wasteland’, in Connell, J (ed) Sydney: the Emergence of a World City, Oxford University Press, Sydney, 292-318

Botsman, P and Gibson, C (1996) ‘Working Australia’, in Evatt Foundation The State of Australia, Evatt Foundation, Sydney, 11-29

STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT REPORTS

Pepper, A, Gibson, C, Brown, H and Brennan-Horley, C (2006) Thirlmere Railway Museum – Cultural Planning Stage 1 (Railcorp Residual Management Project), Railcorp, Sydney

Stewart, A, Brennan-Horley, C and Gibson, C (2006) Parkes Elvis Revival Festival: Visitor Survey Results 2006, Parkes City Council, Parkes

Brennan-Horley, C, Gibson C and Connell, J (2003) Parkes Elvis Revival Festival Results of Visitor Survey 2003, Parkes City Council, Parkes

McGregor, A; Gibson, C; Miller, F; and Sharma, K (1997) Thinking About Forests: Community Attitudes Towards Forests in the Eden CRA Region, RFA Report #1, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra

McGregor, A; Gibson, C; Miller, F; and Sharma, K (1997) Thinking About Forests: Community Attitudes Towards Forests in the South CRA Region, RFA Report #2, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra

McGregor, A; Gibson, C; Miller, F; and Sharma, K (1997) Thinking About Forests: Community Attitudes Towards Forests in the Lower North East CRA Region, RFA Report #3, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra

McGregor, A; Gibson, C; Miller, F; and Sharma, K (1997) Thinking About Forests: Community Attitudes Towards Forests in the Upper North East CRA Region, RFA Report #4, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra

McGregor, A; Gibson, C; Miller, F; and Sharma, K (1997) Thinking About Forests: Community Attitudes Towards Forests in NSW, RFA Report #5, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra

Gibson, C (1997) Economic Impacts of Native Title, Northern Land Council, Darwin

Pritchard, B and Gibson, C (1996) “Bottom up in the Top End”: Regional Development Strategies and the Aboriginal Economy in the Northern Territory, Evatt Foundation and the Northern Land Council, Sydney

OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS

McGuirk, P. Dowling, R. Gibson, C. Iveson, K and Mee, K (2007) 'Urban vitality, culture and the public realm', in Atkinson, R. Dalton, T. Norman, B. and Wood, G. (eds) Urban45: New Ideas for Australia's Cities, University of tasmania and RMIT, Melbourne, pp. 51-54

Gibson, C (2006) ‘Which demographic? A social geography of cultural spaces in the city’, Museums Australia, www.museumsaustralia.org.au

Gibson, C, Allen, K, Lee, V, and Mirow, K (2004) ‘Experiential learning in the field: measuring the economic impacts of a music festival in regional Australia’, Geography Bulletin, 36, 3 18-27

Freestone, R and Gibson, C (2004) ‘City planning and the cultural economy’, paper presented at the City Futures conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, 10 July, 2004 available online, UIC website: http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/cityfutures/program.html

Connell, J and Gibson, C (2004) ‘Music and tourism: the blues, the bizarre, and big business’, Geodate, 17, 2, 1-5

Connell, J and Gibson, C (2003) ‘The sound and space of music’, Geodate, 16, 2, 7-10

Gibson, C (2001) ‘Appropriating the means of production: dance music industries and contested digital space’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, available online: 4 Corners documentary website, http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/dance/music/02gibson.htm

Gibson, C (2001) ‘On the efficacy of the ‘cultural turn’: reflections on geographies of popular music’, Research Paper No. 8/2001, Centre for Urban and Regional Research, University of Newcastle

Gibson, C and Myers, C (2000) ‘Digital dreamtime’, Chaos Magazine, 16, 8

Connell, J and Gibson, C (1997) ‘Popularising geography through popular culture’, Synergy, 6, 6

Last reviewed: 1 November, 2012

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