People/Place Relations
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The aim of this seminar is to discuss the difficulties, modalities, or impossibilities by which we can represent borders in their complexity (breaking up, flexibility, punctiform, virtual, etc.), asymmetrical experience, and the new modes... more
While sense of place has been increasingly used in planning literature over the last five decades, its conceptualisation varies by discipline and theoretical orientation, with disjointed elements. This study develops a three-theme... more
Résumé La recherche géographique sur la non-voyance et la malvoyance tend à se focaliser sur les difficultés et les peurs rencontrées par les non-voyants dans leurs pratiques de mobilité, les excluant a priori d’autres types de... more
There has been little direct attention paid in Australia to the phenomenon of low fertility among women graduates. Yet it was already observed a hundred years ago, when almost half of the first genera-tions of female university graduates... more
Ross MacGregor recently published an article in People and Place 1 which was highly critical of our study 2 of the socio-economic effects of forcible separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from their parents and communities.... more
Whenever we hear the word 'place', we immediately recognize an inconspicuous 'image', that isn't just visual imagery, but a memory that is embodied within ourselves. It is this memory that roots all us people to the world and gives an... more
The article is an attempt to make sense of the different interdisciplinary perspectives associated with people’s attachment to places with a view to construct a holistic template for understanding people-place relationships and... more
Large-scale renewable energy and associated technologies (RET), such as high voltage power lines (HVPL), often meet opposition from the local communities living nearby. Research has suggested that one of the main aspects that might... more
Enrolments by international students in Australian universities have boomed over recent years, especially in postgraduate courses. In many cases these students struggle to meet the standard that their teachers expect. This is often... more
Though the local population was small in the 19th century, much biodiversity in Australia and other sparsely populated regions was lost. This was because burgeoning numbers in Europe demanded products from large tracts of land overseas.... more
... Bob Birrell and Lesleyanne Hawthorne Until the late 1990s the Australian Government's medical workforce policy focussed on limiting reliance on overseas ... well short of the numbers needed to cover the growth in demand for the... more
For many Australian practitioners of alternative spiritualities, ‘nature’ and the non-human environment are alive with significance: they embody a universal divine ‘spirit’ that is both independent of, and continuous with, individual... more