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Out in the regions : queer film festivals, community-building and the cultivation of creative talent in regional Victoria

- Benson, Chloe

Authors: Benson, Chloe
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 351-368
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Description: Queer Film Festivals (QFFs) have tended to be linked with major capital cities in Australia. This reflects wider global trends, as well as the symbolic metropolitan/nonmetropolitan divide that has long-permeated the queer imaginary (Weston, K., GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 2:253-277, 1995; Halberstam, J., In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York University Press, New York, 2005). Yet, events like Bendigo Queer Film Festival and Geelong Pride Film Festival are demonstrating that QFFs are not only viable in regional areas, but that their various initiatives and activities also foster important benefits for regional LGBTI+ wellbeing. Examining these events and their contributions to community-building, networking and the cultivation of creative talent, this chapter demonstrates that the tendency to overlook regional areas in the study of queer cinema and film festivals risks reifying limiting narratives that dichotomise regional and urban queer experiences.
Description: Queer Film Festivals (QFFs) have tended to be linked with major capital cities in Australia. This reflects wider global trends, as well as the symbolic metropolitan/nonmetropolitan divide that has long-permeated the queer imaginary (Weston, K., GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 2:253-277, 1995; Halberstam, J., In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York University Press, New York, 2005). Yet, events like Bendigo Queer Film Festival and Geelong Pride Film Festival are demonstrating that QFFs are not only viable in regional areas, but that their various initiatives and activities also foster important benefits for regional LGBTI+ wellbeing. Examining these events and their contributions to community-building, networking and the cultivation of creative talent, this chapter demonstrates that the tendency to overlook regional areas in the study of queer cinema and film festivals risks reifying limiting narratives that dichotomise regional and urban queer experiences. © The Author(s) 2020.

Collective hope and action in a time of transition : kitchen table conversations with Gippsland sustainability change agents

- Green, Monica, McClam, Sherie

Authors: Green, Monica , McClam, Sherie
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 223-251
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Description: This chapter stems from a broader research initiative involving a collective of eight Australian and US academics investigating the conditions that affect Education for Sustainability (EfS) educators’ capacity for agency. As part of the wider collective, the two authors of this chapter (one Australian and the other American) collaborated on a small study that examined how sustainability and climate change advocates and educators in Gippsland, Victoria, gain traction in effecting change. Study participants were recruited from two regional committees-RCE Gippsland (Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development) and the GCCN (Gippsland Climate Change Network)-who each mobilise and disseminate sustainability and climate change information across the region. Using a narrative ethnographic methodology to explore participant perceptions of how they effect change in the region, the authors facilitated two conversational dialogues around two distinctive farmhouse kitchen tables in West Gippsland. Drawing on theories of new materialism and the concept of collective hope, this chapter engages with conversational vignettes generated via the agency of the kitchen tables and shared food. Emergent themes explored in the chapter include the work of EfS change agents and the importance of ‘the collective’ to deal with the challenges and tensions associated with creating change in the regions. © The Author(s) 2020.

The dynamics of place-based virtual communities : social media in a region in transition

- Smith, Naomi, Yell, Susan

Authors: Smith, Naomi , Yell, Susan
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 203-222
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Description: Social media is a key platform through which communities can organise, connect and communicate. As such we argue that it can provide insight into how regional places and communities are imagined through digital platforms. Social media platforms like Facebook provide a way for researchers to map the virtual geography of real places. Often place-based community activity on social networks sites is a response to transition and change. Social media provides us with a way to assess and measure the community’s response to change and crisis. This chapter will explore the ways in which digital social research methods can enhance understandings of place-based regional identities during and after times of crisis. We examine a case study from the Latrobe Valley in regional Victoria to consider how Facebook in particular provides a window to the complicated affective relationships to place that emerge in times of crisis and strife. © The Author(s) 2020.

Located research: regional places, transitions and challenges

- Campbell, Angela, Duffy, Michelle, Edmondson, Beth

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.

Watery places: Stories of environmental and community renewal

- Reeves, Jessica, Hames, Fern, Graymore, Michelle

Authors: Reeves, Jessica , Hames, Fern , Graymore, Michelle
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 281-302
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Description: Not only is water essential to life, it also has the ability to heal; connecting ecosystems with community for mutual renewal. Here we focus on three regional centres in Victoria, Australia, where water systems have been severely impacted, causing vulnerability to environmental health and social fabric. Each case study shows fractured communities finding a connection to place through the vitality-not just the amenity-of water. The Black Saturday wildfires of 2009 left the community of Marysville devastated. The waterways also suffered from severely degraded water quality. Whereas people may choose to walk away, fish cannot. The first case study involves a partnership between state government authorities and community to move a threatened population of Barred Galaxias to safer waters, return them to their home two years later, rehabilitate habitat, and grow advocacy. This is a story of entwined ecological and community renewal. Maryborough, once a bustling regional centre, suffered from the double impact of economic downturn and the Millennial Drought (2000-2010). The drinking water quality decreased so significantly, that one of Victoria’s most disadvantaged communities no longer trusted what came out of the tap. An examination of this breakdown in trust enabled the local water authority to explore ways to rebuild confidence and reconnect people to town water. The Morwell River has been significantly modified by the coal mines and power stations of the Latrobe Valley. The closure of the Hazelwood Power Station in 2017 now provides an opportunity to give this river back to the community. This final study looks at the potential of ‘rewilding’ the Morwell River to return environmental and cultural heritage, and develop economic, social and educational outcomes. © The Author(s) 2020.

Kristin linklater, freeing the natural voice, in Orkney

- Campbell, Angela

Authors: Campbell, Angela
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 55-69
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Description: This chapter is based on an interview with Kristin Linklater, master voice teacher for over 50 years in the United States and widely known internationally. On retiring as Emerita Professor after 16 years at Columbia University in New York, Kristin returned to her island birthplace on the Mainland, Orkney, north of Scotland to set up the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre (KLVC). The KLVC opened in 2014 and has offered residential workshops for students from over 35 different countries led by Kristin and increasingly by her fellow teachers and colleagues. The interview explores practice as research, charting how her teaching has developed since her return to her birthplace, drawing students and colleagues from around world to form a workshop laboratory and ‘community of practice’ on this remote island. It highlights how a particular regional landscape, Orkney, has shaped her and how, after returning to live there after 70 years of living away, Kristin is beginning to shape Orkney. © The Author(s) 2020.

Vulnerable researchers : opportunities, challenges and collaborative co-design in regional research

- Edmondson, Beth

Authors: Edmondson, Beth
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 319-334
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Description: Co-designed research is rightly promoted as offering opportunities for vulnerable or marginalised groups and communities to become co-designers in research, rather than subjects of it. There are well-documented benefits in bringing diverse perspectives and experiences into research dialogues. Ensuring that researchers are not detached observers is integral to these processes. However, in adopting these research approaches, researchers can be exposed to the circumstantial vulnerabilities of others and their emotions in navigating them. These intersecting relationships alter the perspectives of researchers. Through them, researchers are no longer detached from the experiences of their research participants, nor from the systemic and structural conditions that underpin them. This chapter provides personal reflections upon some of the challenges and privileges of co-designed research focused on improving health outcomes in the Inner Gippsland and Latrobe City regional communities. © The Author(s) 2020.

Regional contexts and regional research

- Campbell, Angela, Duffy, Michelle, Edmondson, Beth

Authors: Campbell, Angela , Duffy, Michelle , Edmondson, Beth
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 5-11
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Description: Recognising opportunity and acknowledging the challenges of conducting research outside of highly resourced major metropolitan centres is strategically important at a time when global connectivity and mobility are increasing and the complexity of “wicked” problems demands more than one approach or solution. Addressing these wicked problems increasingly requires transdisciplinary approaches to better understand and support adaptation and transformation. Expertise in regional research enhances our understanding of how knowledge is constructed and emerges across a range of environments and communities, wherever they are found and however they might be defined. © The Author(s) 2020.

Leadership : untapping the secret to regional wellbeing, belonging and resilience

- Jones, Geraldine, Moore, Kathleen, Morgan, Damian

Authors: Jones, Geraldine , Moore, Kathleen , Morgan, Damian
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 117-132
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Description: The importance of the lived, performed, felt and experienced modes of place and community made available through the festival means acknowledging the ways in which a festival can engage us within networks of emotion and affect that can heighten feelings of belonging or exclusion. A ‘successful’ festival in terms of social connectedness is one that brings about a feeling of togetherness, a collective joy that transforms individuals into a community. Yet, festivals also offer opportunities for developing new networks or revitalising existing ones via social capital. Drawing on research carried out in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, this chapter focuses on identifying the networks and ties between a range of actors and stakeholders in the community in the context of the Dungog Arts Festival. © The Author(s) 2020.

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