Emily Potter – Mallee Readings + Urban Studies Article

As part of their Reading/Writing the Mallee project, staff member Emily Potter and collaborator Brigid Magner (RMIT) recently ran a special community event in Boort, in North Central Victoria. Held on the evening of 21 March, the gathering was a community reading at Boort’s Railway Hotel, celebrating the little known Mallee novel The Wind on the Water, by Myra Morris.

Emily has also published a new article in the journal Urban Studies, titled “Contesting Imaginaries in the Australian City: Urban planning, storytelling and the implications for climate change”.  A glimpse from the abstract: “In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant consequence for diverse, inclusive and climate change-responsive urban environments.”

 

*Featured image Railway Hotel, Boort by Collywolly (CC BY-SA 4.0)