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8 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Come on an audio field trip with leading geographers from the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space at the University of Wollongong. In each episode, we go knee deep into some of the forgotten corners of the Illawarra and beyond. We explore how places are transformed by humans and others. We think through questions like: what might a more sustainable future look like, as 'place' is affected by natural disasters and invasive species? What is our relationship with nature today? And what can Indigenous connections to country teach us about these places?
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Entanglements - Jenny Atchison - Urban Trees
September 08, 2021 00:50 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBMelbourne City Council assigned email addresses to the 70 000 urban trees living in the city so that the public could email the council any maintenance concerns abou th tetrees. But to the surprise of council workers the emails the trees received were surprisingly personal and even affectionate, with people expressing their gratitude and love for their local trees. In this latest Entanglements lecture, Dr Jenny Atchison a geographer with ACCESS has been part of a unique research project wit...
Entanglements - Chris Gibson + Andrew Warren - The Guitar
August 08, 2021 21:24 - 1 hour - 62 MBGuitars are now the world’s most popular musical instrument and an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favourite instrument was made, the wood that it’s made from, and how that wood affects the sound of the instrument. So what happens when two human geographers decide to follow that fascination around the globe and trace guitars all the way back to the tree? In this Entanglements lecture series recorded live at the Wollongong Art Gallery, Professor Chris Gibson and...
Geographers declare (a climate emergency)?
October 21, 2020 22:46 - 1 hour - 94.6 MBIn this special episode recorded live at the Geographers Declare Symposium, hosted by UOW’s ACCESS and the Geographical Society of NSW, Geographers from around Australia gathered to discuss how they would or should declare a ‘Climate Emergency’. The longevity and severity of the bushfires along Australia’s east coast this Summer prompted many local governments, industries, organisations, peak bodies and academics to declare a climate emergency and pledged to reduce their own emissions. ...
Entanglements - Michael Adams - Dirty Ecologies: The Black Marlin in Allens Creek
October 13, 2020 02:55 - 39 minutes - 31.7 MBThe Port Kembla steelworks loom large on the Illawarra landscape - a massive industrial complex employing thousands of people - so imagine the steelworkers' surprise when they saw a Black Marlin swimming in the creek that runs through the middle of the steelworks. What was it doing there? In this talk, Michael Adams explores the marginal environments of the Illawarra which have become home or refuge to a wide range of animals and even some people. Michael Adams is Associate Professor in h...
Entanglements: Leah Gibbs - On the Island; On the Water; Underwater
September 21, 2020 00:38 - 44 minutes - 35.7 MBAustralia’s Great Barrier Reef has become something of a poster child for contemporary climate change with mass coral bleaching events a very real example of the effects of warming ocean temperatures. In this talk, Dr Leah Gibbs views the Great Barrier Reef from three positions: on an island; on the water; and underwater. Dr Gibbs is Senior lecturer in Human Geography at the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space at the University of Wollongong. She visited and expl...
Allens' Creek
August 17, 2020 04:43 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBAllens Creek has been described as the worst creek in the Illawarra. It’s a dirty little creek that runs through the middle of an industrial estate at Unanderra on the New South Wales south coast. It reaches the sea at the Port Kembla steel works. So what makes this the worst creek in the Illawarra? Worst according to whom or what? And if it’s the worst why is there so much life growing and living on the banks of Allens Creek? Joining us on this field trip are Associate Professor Michae...
A new podcast on human geography coming soon ...
June 09, 2020 05:33 - 2 minutes - 2.3 MBComing soon a new podcast from the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space at the University of Wollongong. Each episode join a bunch of geographers as we go knee deep into some of the forgotten corners of the Illawarra and beyond. The podcast explores how places are transformed by humans and others and poses the questions: what might a more sustainable future look like as ‘place’ is affected by natural disasters and invasive species? What is our relationship with nat...
Entanglements - Vanessa Cavanagh
June 01, 2020 05:34 - 44 minutes - 35.7 MBFollowing the recent devastating bushfires in Australia, there has been a strong push from Indigenous groups to reignite cultural burning practices and take a more active role in hazard reduction burns. In European traditions it is often men seen at the bushfire front, fighting the fires. But in some Aboriginal nations, it is the women who are responsible for cultural burning and who knew how to manage the risks. As part of her PhD, Vanessa Cavanagh from the University of Wollongong is tr...