Catherine Phillips

Gratitude for and to nature: insights from emails to urban trees

Catherine Phillips, Elizabeth Straughan, Jennifer Atchison

Journal article  |  2023  |  SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Gratitude goes to the heart of discussions about ethics, care, and responsibility in a more-than-human world. Surprisingly, gratit..

The power of lament: Reckoning with loss in an urban forest

Catherine Phillips, Jennifer Atchison, Elizabeth Straughan

Journal article  |  2023  |  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE

This paper explores the lamenting for a street tree to better understand reactions to ecological loss. It responds to calls for so..

Finding comfort and conviviality with urban trees

Elizabeth Straughan, Catherine Phillips, Jennifer Atchison

Journal article  |  2022  |  CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES

This paper develops cultural geographic understandings of more-than-human comfort and conviviality by analysing emails sent to tre..

Greening home: caring for plants indoors

Catherine Phillips, Eily Schulz

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER

Plants are widely advocated as beneficial for indoor, urban environments; however, research into how people live with indoor plant..

Opportunities to advance food gardening in Melbourne: Findings from the 2020 National Pandemic Gardening Survey

Catherine Phillips, Olivia Dun, Ikerne Aguirre-Bielschowsky, Adrian Hearn, Chris Williams

Report  |  2021

A refrain of productivity and its interruptions: examining long-distance rail commuting in Australia

Gordon Waitt, Catherine Phillips

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOBILITIES

An important task of mobility scholars is to attend to how time and space are generated through mobilities. Building upon research..

The force of Varroa: Anticipatory experiences in beekeeping biosecurity

Catherine Phillips

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Rural Studies

In the last decade, in light of unexpected death and disappearance rates, pollinators (especially honey bees) have received increa..

Seeing the trees for the (urban) forest: more-than-human geographies and urban greening

Catherine Phillips, Jennifer Atchison

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER

Urban spaces have long been places to think through human relationships with nature. The recent shift in thinking from urban green..

Plant Geographies

Jennifer Atchison, Catherine Phillips

Book Chapter  |  2020

Nonhuman place

C Phillips, S Robertson

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter introduces the idea of nonhuman places, contributing to scholarship on place and more-than-human relations. It review..