Cultural Environmental Research: The Missing Link in Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainabiity

The force of Varroa: Anticipatory experiences in beekeeping biosecurity

Catherine Phillips

2020-05-01

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

Everyday weather-ways: Negotiating the temporalities of home and work in Melbourne, Australia

E de Vet, L Head

2020-01-01

Although a number of researchers have responded to calls to better understand human experiences of weather in the context of a cha..

Keeping the heart a long way from the brain: The emotional labour of climate scientists

Lesley Head, Theresa Harada

2017-08-01

This paper contributes to increased understanding of emotions and climate change through a study of the emotional management strat..

Why stop at response?

L Head

2017-07-01

The broad question around which I frame my dialogue with Briassoulis’s paper is, why stop at response? I consider this question wi..

The social dimensions of invasive plants

Lesley Head

2017-06-06

Invasive plants pose a major environmental management issue. Research into the social dimensions of this issue has flourished over..

A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response

L Head, C Gibson, N Gill, C Carr, G Waitt

2016-12-01

Cultural change is critical to climate change responses, but the in-depth qualitative research that investigates culture is necess..

Governing invasive plants: Policy and practice in managing the Gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus) - Bushfire nexus in northern Australia

L Head, J Atchison

2015-09-01

Predicted nonlinear changes in the Anthropocene will challenge the extent to which environmental issues are governable. Climate ch..

The Anthropoceneans

L Head

2015-08-01

What does it mean for us to be citizens of the Anthropocene, both individually and collectively? This essay tries to answer that q..

Living with invasive plants in the anthropocene: The importance of understanding practice and experience

L Head, BMH Larson, R Hobbs, J Atchison, N Gill, C Kull, H Rangan

2015-07-01

The role of humans in facilitating the rapid spread of plants at a scale that is considered invasive is one manifestation of the A..

The distinctive capacities of plants: Re-thinking difference via invasive species

L Head, J Atchison, C Phillips

2015-07-01

The lower status of plants relative to animals, one of the defining characteristics of Western thought, is under challenge from di..

Entangled invasive lives: Indigenous Invasive Plant Management in northern Australia

L Head, J Atchison

2015-06-01

This article explores the entanglement of two kinds of invasive lives in northern Australia: invasive plants, and the enduring lif..

From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills

C Gibson, L Head, C Carr

2015-03-04

Households within affluent countries are increasingly prominent in climate change adaptation research; meanwhile, social and cultu..

Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places

L Head, J Atchison, C Phillips, K Buckingham

2014-11-17

Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human–plant relations. However, until recently, that tradition ..

Contingencies of the anthropocene: Lessons from the ‘Neolithic’

L Head

2014-08-01

The emerging Anthropocene concept contains two conceptual challenges: its developing narrative tends to present a teleological vie..

Climate change and Australia

L Head, M Adams, HV Mcgregor, S Toole

2014-01-01

Australia has had a variable and mostly arid climate as long as humans have been on the continent. Historically observed trends to..

Following beekeeping: More-than-human practice in agrifood

C Phillips

2014-01-01

Ongoing losses of pollinators challenge agrifood futures and highlight the need to examine beekeeping practices, and yet social sc..

Zones of friction, zones of traction: The connected household in climate change and sustainability policy

L Head, C Farbotko, C Gibson, N Gill, G Waitt

2013-12-01

Households are increasingly addressed as a focus of environmental policy, with varying degrees of success in achieving more sustai..

Decentring 1788: Beyond Biotic Nativeness

L Head

2012-05-01

The usefulness of the concept of biotic nativeness has been challenged in both the social and natural sciences, for different reas..