This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues. Three themes are advanced here: Place and change, Transition and resilience, and Challenges for the future. Contributors embrace frameworks of co-design and transdisciplinary practice to build communities of practice in response to lived experience in regional contexts. Their work highlights the strategic importance of a regional focus at a time when global connectivity and mobility is increasing and the complexity of ‘wicked’ problems demands more than one approach or solution. Such complex problems require nuanced, and at times ‘bespoke’ methodological approaches to better understand and support not just regional adaptation, resilience and transformation, but to manage all these things at a time when change is everywhere.
Author(s): Angela Campbell, Michelle Duffy, Beth Edmondson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 410
Tags: Human Geography
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction (Leigh Sullivan)....Pages 1-4
Regional Contexts and Regional Research (Angela Campbell, Michelle Duffy, Beth Edmondson)....Pages 5-11
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
Yanama Budyari Gumada, Walk with Good Spirit as Method: Co-creating Local Environmental Stewards on/with/as Darug Ngurra (Darug Ngurra, Uncle Lex Dadd, Paul Glass, Aunty Corina Norman-Dadd, Paul Hodge, Sandie Suchet-Pearson et al.)....Pages 15-37
Animating Frankenstein Lands: The Place of Landscape Art in Post-mining Lands (Penny Dunstan)....Pages 39-54
Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice, in Orkney (Angela Campbell)....Pages 55-69
Local Innovation and Leadership from Regional Victoria: The City of Ballarat and UNESCO’s Historic Urban Landscape Approach (Susan Fayad, Lisa Kendal)....Pages 71-88
The Role of Festival Networks in Regional Community Building (Judith Mair, Michelle Duffy)....Pages 89-116
Leadership: Untapping the Secret to Regional Wellbeing, Belonging and Resilience (Geraldine Jones, Kathleen A. Moore, Damian Morgan)....Pages 117-132
Front Matter ....Pages 133-133
Mental Health and Mining: Research Challenges and Influences (Carole L. James, Jane Louise Rich, Brian Kelly)....Pages 135-152
A Coalition of Hope! A Regional Governance Approach to Indigenous Australian Cultural Wellbeing (Anne Poelina)....Pages 153-180
Real and Virtual Communities of Practice: A Case Study from the Outer Hebrides (Simon Bradley, Anna Wendy Stevenson)....Pages 181-202
The Dynamics of Place-Based Virtual Communities: Social Media in a Region in Transition (Naomi Smith, Susan Yell)....Pages 203-222
Collective Hope and Action in a Time of Transition: Kitchen Table Conversations with Gippsland Sustainability Change Agents (Monica Green, Sherie McClam)....Pages 223-251
Inventing the Green Metropolis Ruhr, Germany: Postindustrial Greening Narratives and Critical History Culture (Pia Eiringhaus)....Pages 253-277
Front Matter ....Pages 279-279
Watery Places: Stories of Environmental and Community Renewal (Jessica Reeves, Fern Hames, Michelle Graymore)....Pages 281-302
Tidal Country and Cultures in Northern Australia (David Kelly, Michele Lobo)....Pages 303-318
Vulnerable Researchers: Opportunities, Challenges and Collaborative Co-design in Regional Research (Beth Edmondson)....Pages 319-334
Energy, Households, and Regions: Feminist Methodologies for Transdisciplinary Research (Gordon Waitt)....Pages 335-350
Out in the Regions: Queer Film Festivals, Community-Building and the Cultivation of Creative Talent in Regional Victoria (Chloe Benson)....Pages 351-368
The Dialectics of Community and Government (Sally Weller)....Pages 369-386
Back Matter ....Pages 387-396
