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Investigating whiteness and research fatigue in the study of Pacific climate...
Post written by Dr Anja Kanngieser Part 1: Whiteness and research practices In this three part series I examine the impact of whiteness and research fatigue when considering climate change in the...
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The everyday lives of climate change: Encounters in Kiribati
Post written by Dr Anja Kanngieser Kiribati, one of the large ocean states most immediately threatened by the effects of climate change, is as remote as it is expansive. Comprising 33 atolls and reef...
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Climate change responses in the Pacific
Post written by Dr Theresa Harada I have just returned from Fiji where I was working with colleague Anja Kanngieser looking at on-the-ground responses to climate change in the region. It has been an...
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Postcard from the Pacific
Post by Dr Theresa Harada I am here in Fiji doing fieldwork on community led response to climate change and climate justice. For many of us in Australia, Fiji conjures up images of swaying palm trees,...
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Introducing Climates of Listening
By Anja Kanngieser This is the first blog post in a series dedicated to documenting fieldwork I am undertaking across Fiji and Micronesia in 2018. The blog posts will deal with a range of themes,...
View ArticleThe Truth About Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Noel Castree and Karen Renkema-Lang In recent months there’s been much talk about our so-called ‘post-truth era’. Wilful ignorance of the truth and the promotion of patently false claims have,...
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Transformative disaster
Winter in Wollongong is usually a fairly benign affair. Cool dry air, blue skies. But this past week we’ve had an east coast low that has brought severe weather warnings, heavy rain and localised...
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Would you like to share your views on climate change and the future?
AUSCCER’s Stephanie Toole is currently seeking residents from the Greater Sydney area who are willing to share their experiences of weather, thoughts about climate change and views on the future. The...
View ArticleSeven contributions of cultural research to the challenges of sustainability...
Lesley Head and Marie Stenseke (An abbreviated version of this paper was published in Swedish for World Science Day (14.11.14) as Head, L. and Stenseke, M. 2014 Humanvetenskapen står för djup och...
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Exploring climate change in culturally diverse Australian households
Australian residents, from a range of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, are being sought to help researchers at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research answer the following...
View ArticleGeoscientists: saints or sinners?
Professor Noel Castree has recently published in Nature Climate Change, a monthly journal dedicated to publishing the most significant and cutting-edge research on the science of climate change, its...
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Free download: Household Sustainability
Last year Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life was published. You can now download the Introduction of the book for free. The book is written by: Chris Gibson, Carol...
View ArticlePhD Scholarship – environmental knowledge and practice of migrant food growers
Project title: Exploring the environmental knowledges and practices of migrant food growers in urban and peri-urban NSW $AU25,392 per year (3 years max) A fully-funded PhD scholarship worth $AU25,392...
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Our most clicked posts in 2013
It’s been a busy year here and most AUSCCERites are now taking a well-deserved Christmas break. So for our final blog post of the year we’re revisiting some of our most clicked, read and shared pieces...
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Loving your monsters – the Climate Council and #Pinktober
Two particular monsters are in my consciousness at the moment, the newly formed Climate Council and #Pinktober. #Pinktober is a constellation of diverse consumerist activities to publicise and raise...
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Meet Professor Lesley Head
Professor Lesley Head The Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) is a teaching and research group focusing on cultural and social aspects of environmental issues. AUSCCER’s...
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High North
Post written by Michael Adams Linnaeus in Sámi dress, portrait by Martin Hoffman, 1737. Two hundred and eighty years ago, the founder of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, travelled from Luleå to...
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Transition, adaptation, metamorphosis: framing climate change and regional...
This is the third and final in a series of posts by AUSCCER’s Chris Gibson on climate change and regions, building on papers presented in recent weeks at the 4th International Conference on...
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Our most clicked posts in 2013
It’s been a busy year here and most AUSCCERites are now taking a well-deserved Christmas break. So for our final blog post of the year we’re revisiting some of our most clicked, read and shared pieces...
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Loving your monsters – the Climate Council and #Pinktober
Two particular monsters are in my consciousness at the moment, the newly formed Climate Council and #Pinktober. #Pinktober is a constellation of diverse consumerist activities to publicise and raise...
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