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Chris Gibson

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Geography geek. Guitar nerd. Deputy Director @ACCESS_GEOG. Fellow @AcadSocSci. Editor @ProgHumGeog. He/him.
Wollongong, New South Wales scholars.uow.edu.au/chris-gibson Joined April 2012
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In 2023, @AW_Geo and I were on the water at Port Kembla, with marine pilots who dock massive ships. One described their work being like a dance choreographer. We explore that idea further in our new paper on mobilities work amidst environmental risk: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com Marine pilots and the choreographic work of seaport mobilities Research on cargomobilities has emphasised containerisation, algorithmic management, and the cost-driven calculus of logistics firms. Less visible is the necessary human labour that coordinates car...
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The neighbourhood cafe is an Australian institution, linked to migrant histories and local culture. Could it also prove an unheralded source of grassroots material resource circularity? Our new paper explores this possibility: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @NicoleTCook @ACCESS_GEOG
www.tandfonline.com More-than-transactional circular economies: the café-urban farm nexus and emergent regional food... As governments encourage circular economy (CE) initiatives, markets for waste recirculation are taking shape. But implementation is in its infancy and material circuits are emergent. Early food was...
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Our new paper reveals the hidden work, and workers, who keep our economy circulating at seaports. Place, risk, and oceanic forces shape workers' everyday tasks, agency, and capacities to collaborate. @AW_Geo @ACCESS_GEOG tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com The Place-based Work of Global Circulation: Maritime Workers, Collaboration, and Labor Agency at... How does place influence the work of global circulation, and how might that work enroll hitherto overlooked modes of collaboration, power, and agency? Geographers recentering labor in analyses of g...
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Is infrastructure planning subject to gaslighting?@CrystalLegacy1 @DallasRogers101 and I respond in our new @envplana article. Participation processes mask elite deal-making and invalidate the public's sensed convictions, resulting in confusion and shame. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…
journals.sagepub.com Infrastructural gaslighting and the crisis of participatory planning - Crystal Legacy, Chris... This paper traces and critiques gaslighting – the manipulation of circumstances by elite actors to sow doubt or confusion in residents over what is ‘real’ – as ...
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Fun fact: I get seasick just looking at the Manly ferry! @AW_Geo nevertheless managed to get me on pilot ships in Port Kembla to learn from skilled on-the-water workers who choreograph port mobilities. Our paper telling their story was published today: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com The Place-based Work of Global Circulation: Maritime Workers, Collaboration, and Labor Agency at... How does place influence the work of global circulation, and how might that work enroll hitherto overlooked modes of collaboration, power, and agency? Geographers recentering labor in analyses of g...