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BOOKS / MONOGRAPHS:

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 (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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 
   

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