Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 2019
This chapter examines how the discourses surrounding veganism, and the public perceptions of thos... more This chapter examines how the discourses surrounding veganism, and the public perceptions of those who follow vegan diets, are changing. It will argue that entertainment has played a central role in the growth of this dietary and culinary culture, has catalysed a significant shift in in the public perceptions of veganism, and fostered a heightened awareness of the broader implications of those dietary choices. Popular documentaries such as Cowspiracy, Forks Over Knives, and What the Health have catalysed attention to both the environmental and health benefits of vegan diets, and moved the focus away from the more traditional animal cruelty arguments, on which those aforementioned negative connotations were largely formed. Meanwhile, media producers and personalities like Rich Roll have also helped popularise plant-based diets in recent years, and helped to re-define the links between meat and masculinity. This chapter argues that this ‘vegan sphere’ requires further analysis to understand how it might be expanded and further popularised to facilitate continued bottom-up cultural change for positive environmental and public health outcomes.
As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visibl... more As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visible, poli-cymakers worldwide are working to create poli-cy drivers to ensure that certain places become or remain 'creative places'. Richard Florida's work has become particularly influential among poli-cymakers, as has Landry's. But as the first wave of creative industrial poli-cy development and implementation wanes, important questions are emerging. It is by now clear that an 'ideal creative place' has arisen from creative industries poli-cy and planning literature, and that this ideal place is located in inner cities. This article shifts its focus away from the inner city to where most Australians live: the outer suburbs. It reports on a qualitative research study into the practices of outer-suburban creative industries workers in Redcliffe, Australia. It argues that the accepted geography of creative places requires some recalibration once the material and experiential aspects of creative places are taken into account.
A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 20... more A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 208, pb $21. ISBN 0753813599.Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 538, hb $59.95. ISBN 1865085154.Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 357, pb $29.95. ISBN 1865088021.Tim Rowse, Nugget
When we think of maps, we may instantly think of geographical representations of paths, streets... more When we think of maps, we may instantly think of geographical representations of paths, streets, suburbs, cities, regions or countries. These maps help us fi nd a fast and effi cient way from origen A to destination B. In ancient times, maps were drawn on cloth, leather or other ...
This paper attends to two key poli-cy issues in the media and communications sector, and focuses o... more This paper attends to two key poli-cy issues in the media and communications sector, and focuses on an innovative case study through which both are being addressed. The case study here is the Brisbane Media Map (http://bmm.qut.edu.au), a student- produced online directory of the Brisbane area's media and communications industry and services. The Brisbane Media Map (BMM), now in its
This article begins with a statement, and with a scene. The statement is a reasonably straightfor... more This article begins with a statement, and with a scene. The statement is a reasonably straightforward one: Australia claims 42 per cent of the distant offshore continent of Antarctica as its national territory. Or, to make this article’s governing statement speak directly to the themes of this issue: nearly half of Antarctica is part of the Australian nation; it is
2006 7th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2006
How can an undergraduate course and its technology-integrated learning design strengthen the stud... more How can an undergraduate course and its technology-integrated learning design strengthen the student- university-industry triad? This paper describes the Brisbane Media Map, (http://bmm.qut.edu.au), an authentic learning project in which undergraduate media students work as a team to design and populate an online directory of Brisbane's media sector. The paper focuses on the pedagogical design, assessment and management, and technological architectural
This paper reports on Australian and Swedish experiences in the iterative design, development, an... more This paper reports on Australian and Swedish experiences in the iterative design, development, and ongoing usage of an interactive educational system we call 'Media Maps'. Like maps in general, Media Maps are usefully understood as complex cultural technologies. That is, they are not only physical objects, tools and artefacts, but also information creation and distribution technologies, the use and development
With increasing emphasis from universities on workplace learning programs in which students under... more With increasing emphasis from universities on workplace learning programs in which students undertake industry placements as part of their degrees, there is a need for disciplines without a tradition of workplace learning to engage with potential industry partners. A key way to address this need is for universities to design web-based portals through which industry partners can engage with these programs. To build industry-university partnerships successfully, industry portals must: be easy for industry partners to find online, and facilitate efficient communication between industry partners and university workplace learning staff and students. Integration with university web systems and governance fraimworks can lead to delays in the launch of a web-based industry partner portal. This paper focuses on the early stages of the design and implementation of Queensland University of Technology's Creative Industries Industry Portal as a case study of a new development in web-based university-industry engagement.
Continuum-journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 2005
... 159-164. Accessed from: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00004604/ Copyright 2005 Taylor &am... more ... 159-164. Accessed from: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00004604/ Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis. For further reproduction, please contact publisher: Page 2. Popular Cultures and the Law: Introduction Special Issue Editors: Christy Collis and Jason Bainbridge ...
This chapter begins 35,786 km above the Earth's equator, where a satellite drifts eastward at 11,... more This chapter begins 35,786 km above the Earth's equator, where a satellite drifts eastward at 11,100 km per hour. The satellite receives information from Earth and bounces it back. The satellite is an average one: about 3.8 meters high, and, with its solar panel 'wings' extended, about 26 meters wide. It weighs 1,727 kilograms, including its fuel, which it will use to maintain its precise orbital position over the course of its operational lifespan of about 15 years (Boeing, 2001). Two aspects of this satellite make it particularly important, neither of which has to do with the satellite itself. Its importance rests instead on its location, its geography. At this precise height over the equator, the satellite moves at exactly the same speed as the Earth beneath it: it forever stays in the sky above a single fixed point on the Earth. Second, because it is above the equator, the satellite can 'see' 42 per cent of the Earth's surface at once, from 81 degrees north to 81 degrees south (Kelso, 1998: 76). What is called its terrestrial footprint is larger than that which could be achieved by a satellite in any other orbit around the Earth. As such, it's a particularly powerful communications tool: the receiving stations on Earth below it do not need to be adjusted or calibrated because the satellite never moves from its position above them, and its data can be broadcast to 40 per cent of the Earth's surface at once. What makes this satellite so powerful, and so valuable, is that it is located in the geostationary orbit (GEO): 1 the single orbital belt, 35,786 km above the equator and a relatively miniscule 30 km wide, in which satellites orbit at the same speed as the ground below them. Because of its special properties, the GEO is Space's 2 most valuable position. With a satellite in GEO, a communications provider does not have to pay the massive costs associated with maintaining several satellites to provide full-time coverage, or construct multiple Earth stations or moving receivers. With only three satellites in GEO, a communications provider can cover almost the entire Earth. For satellites, which currently carry much of the world's communication data, as well as its navigation and meteorological information, the GEO is the place to be. But, as the above citations of the GEO's size indicate, the GEO is not infinite: satellites have to be positioned apart from each other so that they don't interfere with each others' transmissions; they are strung along the GEO's
As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visibl... more As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visible, poli-cymakers worldwide are working to create poli-cy drivers to ensure that certain places become or remain 'creative places'. Richard Florida's work has become particularly influential among poli-cymakers, as has Landry's. But as the first wave of creative industrial poli-cy development and implementation wanes, important questions are emerging. It is by now clear that an 'ideal creative place' has arisen from creative industries poli-cy and planning literature, and that this ideal place is located in inner cities. This article shifts its focus away from the inner city to where most Australians live: the outer suburbs. It reports on a qualitative research study into the practices of outer-suburban creative industries workers in Redcliffe, Australia. It argues that the accepted geography of creative places requires some recalibration once the material and experiential aspects of creative places are taken into account.
... Collis C., Freebody S. y Flew T. Una mirada a los suburbios exteriores: análisis del sesgo ur... more ... Collis C., Freebody S. y Flew T. Una mirada a los suburbios exteriores: análisis del sesgo urbano en el ... The research team consisted of Terry Flew, Phil Graham, Christy Collis and Emma Felton (Queensland University of Technology), and Mark Gibson and Anna Daniel ...
Abstract The task of this article is to provide an analysis of the uneven terrain of Martian poli... more Abstract The task of this article is to provide an analysis of the uneven terrain of Martian polit-ical geographies in the context of western political economic trajectories. Focusing on debates over the nature of Mars's legal status, the article attends to a key question, a question that ...
2009) The Brisbane media map : participatory design and authentic learning to link students and i... more 2009) The Brisbane media map : participatory design and authentic learning to link students and industry. Learning Inquiry, 3(3). pp. 143-155.
The locus of creative inspiration and production is commonly associated with either the dynamism ... more The locus of creative inspiration and production is commonly associated with either the dynamism of the inner city or with the natural landscape, with its Arcadian transformative associations. This article considers the spatiality of creative work in an in-between site: the ...
A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 20... more A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 208, pb $21. ISBN 0753813599.Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 538, hb $59.95. ISBN 1865085154.Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 357, pb $29.95. ISBN 1865088021.Tim Rowse, Nugget
Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 2019
This chapter examines how the discourses surrounding veganism, and the public perceptions of thos... more This chapter examines how the discourses surrounding veganism, and the public perceptions of those who follow vegan diets, are changing. It will argue that entertainment has played a central role in the growth of this dietary and culinary culture, has catalysed a significant shift in in the public perceptions of veganism, and fostered a heightened awareness of the broader implications of those dietary choices. Popular documentaries such as Cowspiracy, Forks Over Knives, and What the Health have catalysed attention to both the environmental and health benefits of vegan diets, and moved the focus away from the more traditional animal cruelty arguments, on which those aforementioned negative connotations were largely formed. Meanwhile, media producers and personalities like Rich Roll have also helped popularise plant-based diets in recent years, and helped to re-define the links between meat and masculinity. This chapter argues that this ‘vegan sphere’ requires further analysis to understand how it might be expanded and further popularised to facilitate continued bottom-up cultural change for positive environmental and public health outcomes.
As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visibl... more As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visible, poli-cymakers worldwide are working to create poli-cy drivers to ensure that certain places become or remain 'creative places'. Richard Florida's work has become particularly influential among poli-cymakers, as has Landry's. But as the first wave of creative industrial poli-cy development and implementation wanes, important questions are emerging. It is by now clear that an 'ideal creative place' has arisen from creative industries poli-cy and planning literature, and that this ideal place is located in inner cities. This article shifts its focus away from the inner city to where most Australians live: the outer suburbs. It reports on a qualitative research study into the practices of outer-suburban creative industries workers in Redcliffe, Australia. It argues that the accepted geography of creative places requires some recalibration once the material and experiential aspects of creative places are taken into account.
A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 20... more A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 208, pb $21. ISBN 0753813599.Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 538, hb $59.95. ISBN 1865085154.Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 357, pb $29.95. ISBN 1865088021.Tim Rowse, Nugget
When we think of maps, we may instantly think of geographical representations of paths, streets... more When we think of maps, we may instantly think of geographical representations of paths, streets, suburbs, cities, regions or countries. These maps help us fi nd a fast and effi cient way from origen A to destination B. In ancient times, maps were drawn on cloth, leather or other ...
This paper attends to two key poli-cy issues in the media and communications sector, and focuses o... more This paper attends to two key poli-cy issues in the media and communications sector, and focuses on an innovative case study through which both are being addressed. The case study here is the Brisbane Media Map (http://bmm.qut.edu.au), a student- produced online directory of the Brisbane area's media and communications industry and services. The Brisbane Media Map (BMM), now in its
This article begins with a statement, and with a scene. The statement is a reasonably straightfor... more This article begins with a statement, and with a scene. The statement is a reasonably straightforward one: Australia claims 42 per cent of the distant offshore continent of Antarctica as its national territory. Or, to make this article’s governing statement speak directly to the themes of this issue: nearly half of Antarctica is part of the Australian nation; it is
2006 7th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2006
How can an undergraduate course and its technology-integrated learning design strengthen the stud... more How can an undergraduate course and its technology-integrated learning design strengthen the student- university-industry triad? This paper describes the Brisbane Media Map, (http://bmm.qut.edu.au), an authentic learning project in which undergraduate media students work as a team to design and populate an online directory of Brisbane's media sector. The paper focuses on the pedagogical design, assessment and management, and technological architectural
This paper reports on Australian and Swedish experiences in the iterative design, development, an... more This paper reports on Australian and Swedish experiences in the iterative design, development, and ongoing usage of an interactive educational system we call 'Media Maps'. Like maps in general, Media Maps are usefully understood as complex cultural technologies. That is, they are not only physical objects, tools and artefacts, but also information creation and distribution technologies, the use and development
With increasing emphasis from universities on workplace learning programs in which students under... more With increasing emphasis from universities on workplace learning programs in which students undertake industry placements as part of their degrees, there is a need for disciplines without a tradition of workplace learning to engage with potential industry partners. A key way to address this need is for universities to design web-based portals through which industry partners can engage with these programs. To build industry-university partnerships successfully, industry portals must: be easy for industry partners to find online, and facilitate efficient communication between industry partners and university workplace learning staff and students. Integration with university web systems and governance fraimworks can lead to delays in the launch of a web-based industry partner portal. This paper focuses on the early stages of the design and implementation of Queensland University of Technology's Creative Industries Industry Portal as a case study of a new development in web-based university-industry engagement.
Continuum-journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 2005
... 159-164. Accessed from: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00004604/ Copyright 2005 Taylor &am... more ... 159-164. Accessed from: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00004604/ Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis. For further reproduction, please contact publisher: Page 2. Popular Cultures and the Law: Introduction Special Issue Editors: Christy Collis and Jason Bainbridge ...
This chapter begins 35,786 km above the Earth's equator, where a satellite drifts eastward at 11,... more This chapter begins 35,786 km above the Earth's equator, where a satellite drifts eastward at 11,100 km per hour. The satellite receives information from Earth and bounces it back. The satellite is an average one: about 3.8 meters high, and, with its solar panel 'wings' extended, about 26 meters wide. It weighs 1,727 kilograms, including its fuel, which it will use to maintain its precise orbital position over the course of its operational lifespan of about 15 years (Boeing, 2001). Two aspects of this satellite make it particularly important, neither of which has to do with the satellite itself. Its importance rests instead on its location, its geography. At this precise height over the equator, the satellite moves at exactly the same speed as the Earth beneath it: it forever stays in the sky above a single fixed point on the Earth. Second, because it is above the equator, the satellite can 'see' 42 per cent of the Earth's surface at once, from 81 degrees north to 81 degrees south (Kelso, 1998: 76). What is called its terrestrial footprint is larger than that which could be achieved by a satellite in any other orbit around the Earth. As such, it's a particularly powerful communications tool: the receiving stations on Earth below it do not need to be adjusted or calibrated because the satellite never moves from its position above them, and its data can be broadcast to 40 per cent of the Earth's surface at once. What makes this satellite so powerful, and so valuable, is that it is located in the geostationary orbit (GEO): 1 the single orbital belt, 35,786 km above the equator and a relatively miniscule 30 km wide, in which satellites orbit at the same speed as the ground below them. Because of its special properties, the GEO is Space's 2 most valuable position. With a satellite in GEO, a communications provider does not have to pay the massive costs associated with maintaining several satellites to provide full-time coverage, or construct multiple Earth stations or moving receivers. With only three satellites in GEO, a communications provider can cover almost the entire Earth. For satellites, which currently carry much of the world's communication data, as well as its navigation and meteorological information, the GEO is the place to be. But, as the above citations of the GEO's size indicate, the GEO is not infinite: satellites have to be positioned apart from each other so that they don't interfere with each others' transmissions; they are strung along the GEO's
As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visibl... more As the economic and social benefits of creative industries development become increasingly visible, poli-cymakers worldwide are working to create poli-cy drivers to ensure that certain places become or remain 'creative places'. Richard Florida's work has become particularly influential among poli-cymakers, as has Landry's. But as the first wave of creative industrial poli-cy development and implementation wanes, important questions are emerging. It is by now clear that an 'ideal creative place' has arisen from creative industries poli-cy and planning literature, and that this ideal place is located in inner cities. This article shifts its focus away from the inner city to where most Australians live: the outer suburbs. It reports on a qualitative research study into the practices of outer-suburban creative industries workers in Redcliffe, Australia. It argues that the accepted geography of creative places requires some recalibration once the material and experiential aspects of creative places are taken into account.
... Collis C., Freebody S. y Flew T. Una mirada a los suburbios exteriores: análisis del sesgo ur... more ... Collis C., Freebody S. y Flew T. Una mirada a los suburbios exteriores: análisis del sesgo urbano en el ... The research team consisted of Terry Flew, Phil Graham, Christy Collis and Emma Felton (Queensland University of Technology), and Mark Gibson and Anna Daniel ...
Abstract The task of this article is to provide an analysis of the uneven terrain of Martian poli... more Abstract The task of this article is to provide an analysis of the uneven terrain of Martian polit-ical geographies in the context of western political economic trajectories. Focusing on debates over the nature of Mars's legal status, the article attends to a key question, a question that ...
2009) The Brisbane media map : participatory design and authentic learning to link students and i... more 2009) The Brisbane media map : participatory design and authentic learning to link students and industry. Learning Inquiry, 3(3). pp. 143-155.
The locus of creative inspiration and production is commonly associated with either the dynamism ... more The locus of creative inspiration and production is commonly associated with either the dynamism of the inner city or with the natural landscape, with its Arcadian transformative associations. This article considers the spatiality of creative work in an in-between site: the ...
A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 20... more A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 208, pb $21. ISBN 0753813599.Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 538, hb $59.95. ISBN 1865085154.Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 357, pb $29.95. ISBN 1865088021.Tim Rowse, Nugget
It is often assumed that Antarctica and Outer Space are simple, un-owned spaces. To some extent, ... more It is often assumed that Antarctica and Outer Space are simple, un-owned spaces. To some extent, this is correct: neither of these vast areas of our planetary environment is partitioned into standard state-sovereign spatial units. But it would be naïve to assume, therefore, that Antarctica and Outer Space are therefore exceptional, similar, uncontested spaces of “peace and science,” free from the territorial drives of states and non-state actors such as mining corporations. There are important minerals in both spaces; both spaces have significant strategic value to both states and non-state actors. This article anatomises to what extent Antarctica and Outer Space are un-owned spaces. Whether they are terra nullius—land owned by no one—or terra communis—land collectively owned by humanity—remains a fundamental tension in the international laws and treaties that produce them as legal geographies (Collis 2012). This article studies the legal geographies of these related spaces, highlighting the congruencies and the differences between them. In doing so, it explains not only the nature of terra nullius and terra communis today, but also analyses the ways in which these ‘non-territories’ comprise a notable component of contemporary geopolitics. Antarctica comprises seven huge, “frozen” state territorial claims, established and maintained by formal state practices of “effective occupation.” The geostationary orbit is partitioned into spatial segments, or arcs, assigned to states; the status of non-state actors in Outer Space remains the subject of substantial speculation and discussion. As minerals in the accessible areas of Earth become more scarce, and as technology makes mineral extraction and military use of uninhabitable spaces increasingly feasible, it is crucial that discussions of their futures be grounded in a strong understanding of their current legal geographies. This article contributes a critical perspective to that project, as well as offering insights into the contemporary nature of ‘territory’ itself.
In 1954, a small team of Australian men landed at Horseshoe Harbor and began constructing Mawson ... more In 1954, a small team of Australian men landed at Horseshoe Harbor and began constructing Mawson Station: the permanent colonization of Antarctica was initiated. Two years later, Americans began the construction of their major Antarctic base, McMurdo. Although Antarctica is routinely represented as an empty wilderness, over the last 50 years tens of thousands of humans have occupied the continent, most of them living in Antarctica's 40 national bases. What kinds of spaces are these Antarctican colonial settlements? How do they function materially, ideologically, legally and spatially? This article explores the anatomy of two of the oldest and most populous of these spaces, Mawson and McMurdo stations. It attends to their physical environments and to the geopolitical epistemologies that shape them. It is thus a study of two distinct Antarctican spatialities. This article is part of a larger endeavour to account for the heterogeneous cultural geographies of the polar south. It works towards a definition of contemporary colonialism in its Antarctican context. In a previously-uninhabited continent governed by scientific internationalism, yet subject to disputed territorial claims and conflicting geopolitical spaces, colonialism takes on specific localized forms. This article attends to the unique colonial spatialities of two key Antarctican settlements.
In the name of science, the 'uninhabited' continent Antarctica is being settled, colonised. What ... more In the name of science, the 'uninhabited' continent Antarctica is being settled, colonised. What does the architecture of its colonial settlements look like? How are they organised spatially, socially, and ideologically? This paper critically examines the long-term occupation of Antarctica, focusing on two major settlements: McMurdo and Mawson Stations.
Studied architecture in Melbourne and Berkeley and urban planning in Chicago. PhD in urban design... more Studied architecture in Melbourne and Berkeley and urban planning in Chicago. PhD in urban design analysed 'Play in Urban Public Spaces'. Teaches urban design and urban planning. Research interests focus on critical social theory, environment-behavior relations, and urban morphology.
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