Urban and regional geographer with research interests in cultural-economy, tourism, music and regional development. His most recent book is The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree (2021, Univ. of Chicago Press, with Andrew Warren).
Experience
–present
Professor of Human Geography, University of Wollongong
Education
2000
University of Sydney, PhD/Human Geography
Publications
2021
The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree, University of Chicago Press
2017
Outback Elvis: the Story of a Festival, its Fans, and a Town Called Parkes, NewSouth, Sydney
2014
Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
2012
Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative Industries, Routledge, London and New York
2012
Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia, Ashgate, Farnham
2011
Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, Channel View, Bristol
2009
Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries, Charles Darwin University
2005
Music and Tourism, Channel View, Clevedon
2004
Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney
2003
Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place, Routledge, London and New York
Grants and Contracts
2020
Continuity and change in the Australian industrial landscape
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2016
Urban cultural policy and the changing dynamics of cultural production
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2010
Crisis and change: cultural economic research on adaptability and sustainability
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2009
Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2009
Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2008
Cultural Asset Mapping for Planning and Development in Regional Australia
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
Professional Memberships
Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers
Fellow, Geographical Society of New South Wales
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Research Areas
Cultural Studies (2002)
Human Geography (1604)
Economic Geography (160401)
Recreation, Leisure And Tourism Geography (160402)
Social And Cultural Geography (160403)
Urban And Regional Studies (Excl. Planning) (160404)
Urban And Regional Planning (1205)
Honours
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia; Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers; Fellow of the Geographical Society of New South Wales