'Let's have some music': A visceral approach to automobility
- Authors: Waitt, Gordon , Harada, Theresa , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Mobilities Vol.12, no.3 (2017), p.324–342
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- Description: This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasures associated with listening to sound/music during short car trips. The first part of the paper reviews the recent literature on ‘feelings for cars’. We highlight why gender is often absent from the literature before offering a conceptual lens drawing on geographical feminist thinking to consider sound/music, feelings, gender and mobility. We draw on driving ethnographies to explore the role of sound/music in how gender is assembled with the flow of connections between bodies, spaces and affects/emotions. Considering the contextual pleasures of listening to sound/music on these trips and emergent gender subjectivities we provide a more nuanced interpretation of why people choose to drive cars. To conclude, we point to the implications for applied research for new context-specific transport and climate change policy.
Affect and emotion in children’s place-making
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Space, Landscape, and Environment : Geographies of Children and Young People Chapter 18 p. 379-400
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Affective listening
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Culture, Politics, ethics: Interdisciplinary perspectives p. 145-159
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- Description: There has been much research on festivals as events that celebrate identity and community, but in my research I have focused on the ways such music events offer an intensification of connections - social, cultural, political, musical, emotional - because of the ways in which we experience music. This paper explores the cultural work of the community music festival and the ethics implicit in listening in terms of co-performance–a ‘doing with’ that is a deep commitment–in which we were not separate from the event, but swept into its intellectual, emotional and performative practices
Bodily rhythms: corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle , Waitt, Gordon , Gorman-Murray, Andrew , Gibson, Chris
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Emotion, Space and Society Vol. 4, no. 1 (2011), p. 17-24
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- Description: This article examines what an embodied sense of rhythm can add to understandings of the relationship between festival spaces and people. Insights are given to how the rhythmic qualities of sound help orientate bodies in festival spaces, and how bodies produce festival space through embodied responses to the rhythmic qualities of sound. Our interpretation draws on extending examples of how researchers are using their bodies as ‘instruments of research’ by reflecting on a project conducted on rural festivals in Australia. We explore the different embodied rhythmic sound qualities of two parades held in the twin towns of Daylesford–Hepburn Springs, Victoria: the Swiss–Italian Festa and the ChillOut, pitched as Australia’s largest lesbian and gay rural festival. We pay close attention to how the rhythmic qualities of sounds trigger embodied responses. Incorporating the embodied knowledge of bodily rhythms triggered by sounds is a crucial component to understanding the analysis of festival spaces as sites-of-belonging.
Characteristics and future intentions of second homeowners: a case study from Eastern Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Osbaldiston, Nicholas , Picken, Felicity , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events Vol. 7, no. 1 (2014), p. 62-76
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- Description: Underpinning much of the literature surrounding lifestyle migration, counter-urbanisation and second-home use is the question of motivations and future intentions. In this paper, we explore the characteristics and orientations for future use of land by second-home owners in two locales in Victoria Australia, Phillip Island and Inverloch. Using both qualitative and quantitative survey data we find that there are three areas of second-home governance which ought to be considered strongly for future planning in these areas, health, roads and infrastructure and climate change or sustainability. Using data from permanent residents and second-home owners from these areas in collaboration with demographic data, we argue that underlining these areas is a primary concern, that of ageing. However, while these issues burn brightly for both users of property in these places, the ability for the local government authorities to deal with them is limited because of a lack of resources.
Collective grief and Australian natural disasters
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle , Yell, Susan
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Emotions and Social Change: Historical and sociological perspectives Chapter 6 p. 159-184
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Community events and social justice in urban growth areas
- Authors: Mair, Judith , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events Vol. 7, no. 3 (2015), p. 282-298
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- Description: Community festivals appear to be proliferating, partly in response to local government social justice policy imperatives around strengthening sense of community among their constituents. This has led to policies that encourage participation by all so as to minimise social isolation, increase opportunities for interaction and facilitate greater understanding of difference, as well as the maintenance of minority cultural practices [Lee, I., Arcodia, C., & Jeonglyeol Lee, T. (2012). Benefits of visiting a multicultural festival: The case of South Korea. Tourism Management, 33, 334–340]. However, community is a contested and multifaceted term, and sense of community is intangible and therefore hard to measure. Taking a case study approach, this paper examined two community festivals in the growth corridor in the south-east of Melbourne, Australia; one a long-running grassroots festival celebrating the rural traditions of the area and the other a new festival designed and staged by the local authority to address their community strengthening objectives. The findings of the study show that both councils accept within their policies that festivals and events have strong connections with community and identity. However, their focus on a place-based definition of community and a relatively narrow view of what constitutes community has led to limited success in achieving their objectives. © 2015 Taylor & Francis.
Developing a regional resilience monitor
- Authors: Lawton, Alan , Valenzuela, Ernesto , Duffy, Michelle , Morgan, Damian , Joiner, Therese
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Technical report , Research Report
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- Description: This study develops a Regional Resilience Monitor (RRM) which will enable the measurement of changes over time in a number of key dimensions for the well-being of regional Australia. Resilience is defined as the capacity of a local community to respond to, and anticipate economic, social and environmental change and to adapt, plan and transform itself for the future. Regional Resilience – in terms of health and well-being, productivity and economic growth, managing risk, and capturing opportunities for sustainable environments and human systems – has been identified as a key strategic priority for Australia, as it has been for a number of other countries. The RRM is made up of six interlocking elements that, together, form a holistic tool and provide a composite measure. These elements are: 1. Economic Health 2. Human Capital 3. Social Well-being 4. Liveability 5. Entrepreneurialism 6. Social Capital and Social Networks The first four elements can be measured using existing data and we identify those data sources. Elements 5 and 6 can be measured using a combination of existing data and, respectively, a newly developed regional entrepreneurship survey and a newly conceived social network analysis. The RRM was developed in, and for, the Latrobe Valley and the wider Gippsland region but can be ‘rolled out’ across regional Victoria as a whole and across regional Australia.
Festival and spectacle
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography Vol. , no. (2009), p.
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- Description: Encyclopaedia entry in The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography
Festivals and sense of community in places of transition: The Yakkerboo Festival, an Australian case study
- Authors: Mair, Judith , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Exploring Community Festivals and Events p. 54-65
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Festivals and sense of community: the Yakkerboo Festival, an Australian case study
- Authors: Mair, Judith , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Exploring community festivals and events Chapter 4 p. 54-65
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Home sounds: experiential practices and performativities of hearing and listening
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle , Waitt, Gordon
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Social & Cultural Geography Vol. 14, no. 4 (2013), p. 466-481
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- Description: We argue that a closer attention to the everyday visceral experiences of hearing and listening offers new insights into geographies of home and practices of sustainability. We suggest that this approach is significant to understanding how sound helps to assemble and reassemble the relationships that comprise home. We concentrate on a group of 10 amenity-led migrants in their ‘new coastal home’ in Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia. Each participant recorded a sound diary composed of their everyday sounds. Our interpretation explores the visceral connections in the processes of making bodies feel ‘at home’. First, we discuss how the rhythmic affordances of both human and non-human sounds help configure and reconfigure the spatiality and temporality of home. Second, our interpretation explores how sound is bound up with sustainability politics of homemaking. We investigate experiential practices and performativities of listening and hearing that may help constitute and reconstitute ‘a’ subject. This approach extends current thinking that encourages engagement with the corporeal, affective and emotional dimensions of home.
Images of home: A Sound based community cultural development research project for youth in Officer
- Authors: Merlino, Dean , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change p. 255-256
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Listening and tourism studies
- Authors: Waitt, Gordon , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Annals of Tourism Research Vol. 37, no. 2 (2010), p. 457-477
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- Description: Drawing upon critical social theory on embodiment this article offers a contribution to the field of tourist performance through a focus on listening. Research findings on a classical musical festival in Australia are presented to argue that exciting challenges are available to tourism research when closer attention is given to the sonic knowledge of listening. The article discusses the conceptual and methodological implications when attention turns to the ear and then describes how festival attendees listened offers insights to how they conceived of themselves in and through time and place. Taken together, listening bodies offers an exciting future research agenda for tourism studies.
Listening Assemblages: Re-sounding place and mapping the affects of sound
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari Chapter 9 p.190-203
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Listening for a change: Sound and agency at the urban/rural interface
- Authors: Merlino, Dean , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Instruments of Change: Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Australia-New Zealand 2010 Conference p. 71-76
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- Description: The town of Officer is situated some 50km southeast of Melbourne, Australia. Nestled quietly between the current southeast edges of Melbourne's suburban sprawl in Berwick and the satellite city of Pakenham, Officer was once a solidly rural space. The main street of the town is an uncomplicated stretch of the Princess Highway, connecting Melbourne on to the entire Gippsland region of Victoria. It is lined with shops selling garden supplies, timber, hardware, pumps and irrigation supplies, sheds and gazebos. Despite this relatively quaint and rural-based aesthetic, Officer is part of Australia's changing spaces. The population of Australian cities is growing rapidly, and Melbourne's suburbia pushes further out through its heavily populated growth corridors, spreading west, north and east. Spreading beyond Berwick, this urban sprawl has infiltrated Officer. Its once rich pasturelands and rural spaces are quickly being levelled and coated in asphalt and housing slabs. As with other growth corridors, individual wellbeing and a sense of community will be increasingly tested as infrastructure and human services lag behind population growth. These changes are particularly significant for young people. The current population of young people is expected to more than double in the next decade, but, as a local government reports suggest, there is an urgent need for improved infrastructure and initiatives that will recognise and assist young people in feeling "connected to their community through a sense of belonging and wellbeing." (Cardinia Shire Council 2007). This is our point of departure.
Located research: regional places, transitions and challenges
- Authors: Campbell, Angela , Duffy, Michelle , Edmondson, Beth
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges
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- Description: 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. © The Author(s) 2020.
Making sense of sound : Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle , Waitt, Gordon , Harada, Theresa
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Emotion, Space and Society Vol. 20, no. (2016), p. 49-57
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- Description: This paper offers a contribution to ongoing discussions of the role of sound for producing geographical knowledge. It is argued that sound is an inherent component of critical research of emotions, society and space. Yet we note that there is a lack of practical advice as to how this might come about. In this paper we offer a methodological approach for the analysis of sound that we term visceral sonic mapping to help critical geographers progress enlivening geography through recent rethinking of ‘the body’. First, we provide a progress report to chart theoretical and methodological approaches to sound within geography and cognate disciplines. We then sketch a theoretical understanding of the visceral and our visceral sonic mapping. To demonstrate how this method might be productively put to use we draw on empirical material from a driving ethnography that was undertaken in a regional Australian centre from 2010 to 2011. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
Mapping out the soundlines of new urban developments
- Authors: Duffy, Michelle , Merlino, Dean , Manning, Debra
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Technical report
- Relation: Ambiance
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- Description: Research Report
Mapping the sounds of home
- Authors: Mair, Judith , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: La petite musique des territoires: Arts, espaces et sociétés Chapter 4 p. 73-83
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