Events
2011
Enlivening Situated Knowledge Workshop
CURS (UoN) and School of Environment, University of Auckland
Researchers from CURS have been collaborating with colleagues from the School of Environment, University of Auckland, under the working title of SKCAN (Situated Knowledge Collective Auckland and Newcastle).
SKCAN—17 human and physical geography staff and postgraduate students—met on 8-9 February in
Auckland to progress discussions on the significance and potency of situated knowledge in the
Australasian context. The workshop is part of a long term professional commitment to share our common interest in performance and performativity of human and non-human actors. The workshop focused on establishing a broad genealogy of ideas relating to situated knowledge, geographical initiatives in the name of situated knowledge, and knowledge production principles guiding the 'doing' of situated knowledge.
From the discussion ‘SKCAN’ was coined to evoke the idea of multiple dimensions and directions of situated knowledge production. A copy of the reading list used at the workshop is available. For more information contact: Dr Karen Fisher k.fisher@auckland.ac.nz, Prof Richard Le Heron r.leheron@auckland.ac.nz, Prof Pauline McGuirk pauline.mcguirk@newcastle.edu.au or Dr Kathy Mee kathy.mee@newcastle.edu.au.
Outcomes:
SKCAN convened a series of session at the IAG’s annual conference in Wollongong, July 3-6, with over a dozen papers presented, alongside a panel discussion and a special presentation by Associate Professor Eugene McCann (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver). Eugene was hosted by the Urban Geography Study group. For the full session program go to http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/2011/iag/program/index.htm.
Papers presented by CURS include:
Baker T (2011) Methodological challenges for situating mobile policy knowledge, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Wollongong, July
Instone L (2011) On spears and carrier bags: Story-telling practices for situated knowledges, Writing difference differently Panel Presentation, Geography at the edge: IAG Annual Conference Wollongong, July
Lloyd K, Wright S, Suchet-Pearson S, Burarrwanga L and Hon. Bawaka Country (2011) ‘We’re a part of it’: knowledge making and cosmos nurturing with Bawaka country, North East Arnhem Land, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Wollongong, July
Mee KJ and McGuirk PM (2011) Spatial data analysis project: Performing situated knowledge, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Wollongong, July
SKCAN (2011) Journeying towards propositions about situated knowledge practices, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Wollongong, July
SKCAN (2011) Kitchen stories: An introduction to the Situated Knowledge Production Sessions, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Wollongong, July
SKCAN (2011) Writing difference differently, Panel discussion featuring Lesley Instone, Sarah Wright, Michelle Duffy and Eugene McCann, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Wollongong, July
Suchet-Pearson S, Lloyd K, Wright S, Burarrwanga L and Hon. Bawaka Country (2011) ‘Nature, the land, can understand’: Yolngu country, more-than-human agency and situated engagement in natural resource management, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Wollongong, July.
Williams M (2011) Situating everyday practices of care and justice in inner city community organisations, Institute of Australian Geographers Annual Conference, Wollongong, July