Understood as a physical threat to human and non-human health, pollution attracts considerable at... more Understood as a physical threat to human and non-human health, pollution attracts considerable attention in the form of management regimes, public controversy and technical discourses of risk
Background – the last 50 years transition from welfare states underpinned by public spending, to... more Background – the last 50 years transition from welfare states underpinned by public spending, towards ‘free-market’ capitalism characterised by upward redistribution and concentration of wealth within a small elite. strengthening links between super-rich elites and governments and ‘neofeudal’ dynamics of inheritance and exclusion. nature conservation has become politically important, first addressed by the creation of public reserves managed and financed by governments, and later addressed by the establishment of private conservation reserves. How has the privatisation of public resources shaped the creation and management of protected areas? We test the hypotheses that, in Australia, there has been: deliberate disablement by governments of public conservation efforts in favour of private endeavours or no endeavours whatsoever; A diversion of public funds from public protected areas to private protected areas.
Rather than being a self-evidently discrete object, housing composes a myriad of component parts;... more Rather than being a self-evidently discrete object, housing composes a myriad of component parts; an assemblage of materials, affects, ideas and finances that only come together through collaboration. While drawing our focus to the quotidian, this foregrounding of the materiality of housing is not a petition for the specific or the everyday. It is rather to open up the house as a site that mediates between the particular and the systemic. This always processual site is a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive, financial, environmental and political worlds. In these spaces the cultural activity and meaning of being at home is inseparable from the techniques, technologies and objects of housing. To encounter the house and home as a site of interleaving and entangling, then, is to unbound it in two directions at once: towards the concrete, the intimate and the experiential; and, towards the general, the institutional and the collective. This unbounding not only makes visible the continuities and inter-dependencies that exist across the diverse range of professions and disciplines that participate in the design, construction, investment, exchange, management and representation of housing. It also highlights the irreducible capacity for novel configurations of human dwelling. This collection embarks on the bi-fold motion of unbounding housing and home. Specifically, it interrogates the coproduction of the materials, meanings and practices of dwelling and worlds of finance, nature and power. Our interest is to explore the making and unmaking of political, economic and environmental relations in and through housing and home. Throughout the text, contributors broadly focus on hybrid objects of inquiry, including that of housing/home. We do so to explicitly challenge the traditional bounding of housing research with technical questions of matter, finance and policy (housing) and symbolic questions of meaning, identity and selfhood (home) (Jacobs and Malpas 2015; Jacobs and Smith 2008). That is, we seek to keep open the possibility of home as a physical and institutional manifestation, and the cultural and psychological possibilities of ‘feeling at home’ (Easthope 2004, 136) as a single question
This article investigates the different ways that uncertainty is understood and approached across... more This article investigates the different ways that uncertainty is understood and approached across design disciplines. Structural attitudes toward uncertainty are assessed in design thinking literature before other possible ways of viewing uncertainty in the design process are introduced. Uncertainty is then presented as a source of epistemological difference between design disciplines, and this difference is explicated through a project that uses literature survey and analytical diagramming to map differences between discipline attitudes to uncertainty. Our review identifies uncertainty as a prevalent source of discipline difference with the goal of better describing barriers, and effective responses to them, in inter- and trans-disciplinary design agendas.
In pancreatic islets stimulated with carbamylcholine (carbachol), hydrolysis of both phosphatidyl... more In pancreatic islets stimulated with carbamylcholine (carbachol), hydrolysis of both phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) and phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate (Ptd-InsP2) occurs and can be measured as the inositol monophosphates Ins(1)P1, or Ins(4)P1, respectively (Biden, T. J., Prugue, M. L., and Davison, A. G. M. (1992) Biochem. J. 285, 541-549). Our current aim was to establish whether these two events were independently regulated. Rats islets were labeled with either [3H]inositol or [3H]arachidonic acid for measurement of InsP1s by high performance liquid chromatography or diacylglycerol by TLC, respectively. The rise in Ins(1)P1 due to carbachol (1 min) was inhibited by 50% by concomitantly raising extracellular KCl ([K+]e) from 6 to 30 mM, thereby depolarizing the islets. Similar results, obtained in the absence of extracellular Ca2+, exclude the involvement of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. Conversely, hyperpolarization, by lowering [K+]e to 3 mM, increased by 30% the rise in Ins(1)P1. In fact, over the [K+]e range of 3 to 48 mM, stimulated Ins(1)P1 accumulation was directly proportional to the calculated membrane potential. In contrast, raising [K+]e from 6 to 48 mM exerted no significant effect on carbachol-stimulated Ins(4)P1 levels, and both Ins(1)P1 and Ins(4)P1 were unaffected in the absence of carbachol. The rises in Ins(1)P1 (but not Ins(4)P1) were also inhibited by depolarization with the sodium pump inhibitor, ouabain, or the K+ channel blocker, tolbutamide. Stimulated diacylglycerol accumulation and insulin secretion (20 min) showed a biphasic dependency on [K+]e, being less pronounced at 6 mM than at either 3 or 30 mM KCl. This reflects a selective potentiation of PtdIns and PtdInsP2 hydrolysis, due, respectively, to hyperpolarization and the gating of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels. The differential regulation of these two hydrolytic events is probably important for independent control of the activation of protein kinase C and Ca2+ mobilization and might play a role in modulating the secretory response in vivo.
Urban governance in Western societies is increasingly shaped by awareness of the importance of tr... more Urban governance in Western societies is increasingly shaped by awareness of the importance of trees in maintaining the environmental function and social livability of cities. Records of change in urban forest composition on public land are generally good. However, a great proportion of trees in western cities occur on private land, where such changes are poorly-documented. The study authors trialed the use of size class analysis, a technique widely used to deduce the dynamics of natural forests, to determine change in the private urban forest. From a sample of blocks in ten suburbs of the Australian cities of Melbourne and Hobart, in which most dwellings have front and back gardens, researchers assessed the implications of changes for the functionality of the urban forest. The height class distributions of a large number of front garden tree taxa were classified. Although the factors affecting height class distributions differ between a natural and an urban forest, those distributi...
Abstract The process of learning about climate change is not simply cognitive. It is also an emot... more Abstract The process of learning about climate change is not simply cognitive. It is also an emotional encounter that may have enduring effects. To date, little research has attended to the emotional significance of childhood learning experiences of climate change in adult lives and in social responses to climate change. We report a qualitative study exploring the variety, complexity, and the post-school significance of affective experiences of climate change schooling. We interviewed 21 young adults (18–24 years) in Tasmania, Australia, with diverse educational backgrounds and diverse levels of interest in and opinions about climate change. Applying an interpretivist framework, we analysed the tangled and interrelated emotions evident in participant reflections on educational encounters with climate change. Three overarching themes were identified: 'stripped of power', 'stranded by the generation gap' and 'daunted by the future'. In contrast to discourses of education as empowering, a majority of participants (n = 16) told of feeling disempowered by their educational encounters with climate change. They described being overwhelmed by an experience of limited agency and power. Participants also identified a generational gap that left them feeling abandoned by older adults, with associated feelings of anger and betrayal. Finally, affective experience of climate change schooling had ongoing significance for participants as they sought to make life choices in the shadow of a frightening future. These findings provide insight into the interaction of facts and feelings in public engagements with climate change. A lack of integration of cognitive and affective experience in climate change schooling may have lasting effects in adult attitudes and behaviours, and related social dynamics of distrust and division, related to this issue. In this study, young adult participants recounted childhood experiences of being powerless, betrayed and afraid in learning about climate change as significant formative encounters in their ongoing understanding of climate change.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2018
Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not ... more Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not express concern about this issue as unwitting victims of their own or others’ biases. Characterised as apathy, ignorance, scepticism or denial, absence of concern about climate change has been presented as being rooted in an individual’s lack of considered engagement with scientific reasons for concern. This ‘concern deficit’ is framed as a problem to be addressed through policy, education and communication that seeks to maximise concern about climate change. In contrast, we conceptualise unconcern about climate change as an expression of focal life concerns that are incommensurable with dominant narratives of climate change. Originating in active cognitive, social and experiential processes, we regard unconcern about climate change as inseparable from the lived contexts in which it is expressed and irreducible to the attitudes or attributes of individuals. Using narrative analysis of re...
Understood as a physical threat to human and non-human health, pollution attracts considerable at... more Understood as a physical threat to human and non-human health, pollution attracts considerable attention in the form of management regimes, public controversy and technical discourses of risk
Background – the last 50 years transition from welfare states underpinned by public spending, to... more Background – the last 50 years transition from welfare states underpinned by public spending, towards ‘free-market’ capitalism characterised by upward redistribution and concentration of wealth within a small elite. strengthening links between super-rich elites and governments and ‘neofeudal’ dynamics of inheritance and exclusion. nature conservation has become politically important, first addressed by the creation of public reserves managed and financed by governments, and later addressed by the establishment of private conservation reserves. How has the privatisation of public resources shaped the creation and management of protected areas? We test the hypotheses that, in Australia, there has been: deliberate disablement by governments of public conservation efforts in favour of private endeavours or no endeavours whatsoever; A diversion of public funds from public protected areas to private protected areas.
Rather than being a self-evidently discrete object, housing composes a myriad of component parts;... more Rather than being a self-evidently discrete object, housing composes a myriad of component parts; an assemblage of materials, affects, ideas and finances that only come together through collaboration. While drawing our focus to the quotidian, this foregrounding of the materiality of housing is not a petition for the specific or the everyday. It is rather to open up the house as a site that mediates between the particular and the systemic. This always processual site is a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive, financial, environmental and political worlds. In these spaces the cultural activity and meaning of being at home is inseparable from the techniques, technologies and objects of housing. To encounter the house and home as a site of interleaving and entangling, then, is to unbound it in two directions at once: towards the concrete, the intimate and the experiential; and, towards the general, the institutional and the collective. This unbounding not only makes visible the continuities and inter-dependencies that exist across the diverse range of professions and disciplines that participate in the design, construction, investment, exchange, management and representation of housing. It also highlights the irreducible capacity for novel configurations of human dwelling. This collection embarks on the bi-fold motion of unbounding housing and home. Specifically, it interrogates the coproduction of the materials, meanings and practices of dwelling and worlds of finance, nature and power. Our interest is to explore the making and unmaking of political, economic and environmental relations in and through housing and home. Throughout the text, contributors broadly focus on hybrid objects of inquiry, including that of housing/home. We do so to explicitly challenge the traditional bounding of housing research with technical questions of matter, finance and policy (housing) and symbolic questions of meaning, identity and selfhood (home) (Jacobs and Malpas 2015; Jacobs and Smith 2008). That is, we seek to keep open the possibility of home as a physical and institutional manifestation, and the cultural and psychological possibilities of ‘feeling at home’ (Easthope 2004, 136) as a single question
This article investigates the different ways that uncertainty is understood and approached across... more This article investigates the different ways that uncertainty is understood and approached across design disciplines. Structural attitudes toward uncertainty are assessed in design thinking literature before other possible ways of viewing uncertainty in the design process are introduced. Uncertainty is then presented as a source of epistemological difference between design disciplines, and this difference is explicated through a project that uses literature survey and analytical diagramming to map differences between discipline attitudes to uncertainty. Our review identifies uncertainty as a prevalent source of discipline difference with the goal of better describing barriers, and effective responses to them, in inter- and trans-disciplinary design agendas.
In pancreatic islets stimulated with carbamylcholine (carbachol), hydrolysis of both phosphatidyl... more In pancreatic islets stimulated with carbamylcholine (carbachol), hydrolysis of both phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) and phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate (Ptd-InsP2) occurs and can be measured as the inositol monophosphates Ins(1)P1, or Ins(4)P1, respectively (Biden, T. J., Prugue, M. L., and Davison, A. G. M. (1992) Biochem. J. 285, 541-549). Our current aim was to establish whether these two events were independently regulated. Rats islets were labeled with either [3H]inositol or [3H]arachidonic acid for measurement of InsP1s by high performance liquid chromatography or diacylglycerol by TLC, respectively. The rise in Ins(1)P1 due to carbachol (1 min) was inhibited by 50% by concomitantly raising extracellular KCl ([K+]e) from 6 to 30 mM, thereby depolarizing the islets. Similar results, obtained in the absence of extracellular Ca2+, exclude the involvement of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. Conversely, hyperpolarization, by lowering [K+]e to 3 mM, increased by 30% the rise in Ins(1)P1. In fact, over the [K+]e range of 3 to 48 mM, stimulated Ins(1)P1 accumulation was directly proportional to the calculated membrane potential. In contrast, raising [K+]e from 6 to 48 mM exerted no significant effect on carbachol-stimulated Ins(4)P1 levels, and both Ins(1)P1 and Ins(4)P1 were unaffected in the absence of carbachol. The rises in Ins(1)P1 (but not Ins(4)P1) were also inhibited by depolarization with the sodium pump inhibitor, ouabain, or the K+ channel blocker, tolbutamide. Stimulated diacylglycerol accumulation and insulin secretion (20 min) showed a biphasic dependency on [K+]e, being less pronounced at 6 mM than at either 3 or 30 mM KCl. This reflects a selective potentiation of PtdIns and PtdInsP2 hydrolysis, due, respectively, to hyperpolarization and the gating of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels. The differential regulation of these two hydrolytic events is probably important for independent control of the activation of protein kinase C and Ca2+ mobilization and might play a role in modulating the secretory response in vivo.
Urban governance in Western societies is increasingly shaped by awareness of the importance of tr... more Urban governance in Western societies is increasingly shaped by awareness of the importance of trees in maintaining the environmental function and social livability of cities. Records of change in urban forest composition on public land are generally good. However, a great proportion of trees in western cities occur on private land, where such changes are poorly-documented. The study authors trialed the use of size class analysis, a technique widely used to deduce the dynamics of natural forests, to determine change in the private urban forest. From a sample of blocks in ten suburbs of the Australian cities of Melbourne and Hobart, in which most dwellings have front and back gardens, researchers assessed the implications of changes for the functionality of the urban forest. The height class distributions of a large number of front garden tree taxa were classified. Although the factors affecting height class distributions differ between a natural and an urban forest, those distributi...
Abstract The process of learning about climate change is not simply cognitive. It is also an emot... more Abstract The process of learning about climate change is not simply cognitive. It is also an emotional encounter that may have enduring effects. To date, little research has attended to the emotional significance of childhood learning experiences of climate change in adult lives and in social responses to climate change. We report a qualitative study exploring the variety, complexity, and the post-school significance of affective experiences of climate change schooling. We interviewed 21 young adults (18–24 years) in Tasmania, Australia, with diverse educational backgrounds and diverse levels of interest in and opinions about climate change. Applying an interpretivist framework, we analysed the tangled and interrelated emotions evident in participant reflections on educational encounters with climate change. Three overarching themes were identified: 'stripped of power', 'stranded by the generation gap' and 'daunted by the future'. In contrast to discourses of education as empowering, a majority of participants (n = 16) told of feeling disempowered by their educational encounters with climate change. They described being overwhelmed by an experience of limited agency and power. Participants also identified a generational gap that left them feeling abandoned by older adults, with associated feelings of anger and betrayal. Finally, affective experience of climate change schooling had ongoing significance for participants as they sought to make life choices in the shadow of a frightening future. These findings provide insight into the interaction of facts and feelings in public engagements with climate change. A lack of integration of cognitive and affective experience in climate change schooling may have lasting effects in adult attitudes and behaviours, and related social dynamics of distrust and division, related to this issue. In this study, young adult participants recounted childhood experiences of being powerless, betrayed and afraid in learning about climate change as significant formative encounters in their ongoing understanding of climate change.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2018
Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not ... more Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not express concern about this issue as unwitting victims of their own or others’ biases. Characterised as apathy, ignorance, scepticism or denial, absence of concern about climate change has been presented as being rooted in an individual’s lack of considered engagement with scientific reasons for concern. This ‘concern deficit’ is framed as a problem to be addressed through policy, education and communication that seeks to maximise concern about climate change. In contrast, we conceptualise unconcern about climate change as an expression of focal life concerns that are incommensurable with dominant narratives of climate change. Originating in active cognitive, social and experiential processes, we regard unconcern about climate change as inseparable from the lived contexts in which it is expressed and irreducible to the attitudes or attributes of individuals. Using narrative analysis of re...
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