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Associate Professor Kelly Frances Dombroski

Contact

Department: School of Earth and Environment

Direct Dial: +64 3 3694101

Office: Beatrice Tinsley Rm 313

Languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin)

I provide well organised classes drawing on best practice pedagogies. My research is community-driven and globally recognised.
About
Research / Creative works
Supervision
Networks
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Methods & Equipment

Fields of Research

  • Diverse Economies and solidarity economy
  • Community Economies
  • Development and postdevelopment thinking
  • Feminist geography and theory
  • China and Southeast Asia
  • Care work
  • Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Researcher Summary

My research work is in community development in Asia-Pacific. I use qualitative research methods to investigate diverse economies and community economies, the things people do to support their livelihoods that are usually ignored by economists. I publish in the areas of feminist geography, community economies, diverse economies, and urban commons.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Anthropology and Archaeology: Anthropology
  • Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies
  • Development Studies: Development Studies
  • Health and Health Sciences: Critical Health Studies
  • Human Geography: Human Geography
  • Indigenous Studies: Indigenous Studies
  • Region: Asia; Australasia; East Asia
  • Resilience: Social: Health and Wellbeing; People and Community

Resources

  • Personal Website
  • Community Economies Profile

Prizes and Awards

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    Distinction
  • College of Science Emerging Research Award ( 2017 - present )
  • President's Award for Emerging Research in Geography ( 2017 - present )
  • University of Canterbury Teaching Award ( 2020 - present )
  • Fellowship
  • Erskine Fellow ( 2018 )
  • Fellow of the New Zealand Geographical Society ( 2020 - present )
  • Visiting Fellow, Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University ( 2018 )

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Edited Volumes
  • Gibson-Graham JK; Dombroski K (Ed.) (2020) The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Journal Articles
  • Do Thi H. and Dombroski K. (2022) Diverse more-than-human approaches to climate change adaptation in Thai Binh, Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 63(1): 25-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12329.
  • Dombroski K., Duojie C. and McKinnon K. (2022) Surviving well: From diverse economies to community economies in Asia-Pacific. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 63(1): 5-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12337.
  • Olin CV., Berghan J., Thompson-Fawcett M., Ivory V., Witten K., Howden-Chapman P., Duncan S., Ka'ai T., Yates A. and O'Sullivan KC. (2022) Inclusive and collective urban home spaces: The future of housing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Wellbeing, Space and Society 3 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2022.100080.
  • Yates A., Dombroski K. and Dionisio R. (2022) Dialogues for well being in an ecological emergency: Wellbeing-led governance frameworks and transformative Indigenous tools. Dialogues in Human Geography http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20438206221102957.
  • Peryman PB. and Dombroski K. (2021) Cultivating, Havening. E-Flux Architecture (June 2021).
  • Yates AM. (2021) Transforming geographies: Performing Indigenous-Maori ontologies and ethics of more-than-human care in an era of ecological emergency. New Zealand Geographer 77(2): 101-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12302.
  • Dombroski K. (2020) Past caring? Women, work and emotionBarbaraBrookes, JaneMcCabe and AngelaWanhalla (eds.). Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2019. 288 pp. 978‐1‐98‐853134‐2. New Zealand Geographer 76(1): 87-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12254.
  • Dombroski K., Diprose G., Sharp E., Graham R., Lee L., Scobie M., Richardson S., Watkins A. and Martin-Neuninger R. (2020) Food for people in place: reimagining resilient food systems for economic recovery. Sustainability (Switzerland) 12(22): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12229369.
  • Healy S., Scobie M. and Dombroski K. (2020) Grounded! COVID-19 and Recovering Postcapitalist Possibility in Place. Rethinking Marxism: a journal of economics, culture and society.
  • Rogers D., Herbert M., Whitzman C., McCann E., Maginn PJ., Watts B., Alam A., Pill M., Keil R. and Dreher T. (2020) The City Under COVID-19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 111(3): 434-450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12426.
  • Adams-Hutcheson G., Bartos AE., Dombroski K., Le Heron E. and Underhill-Sem Y. (2019) Feminist geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand: cultural, social and political moments. Gender, Place and Culture 26(7-9): 1182-1197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1558180.
  • Chitondo M. and Dombroski K. (2019) Returning water data to communities in Ndola, Zambia: A case study in decolonising environmental science. Case Studies in the Environment 3(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001552.
  • Dombroski K., Diprose G. and Boles I. (2019) Can the commons be temporary? The role of transitional commoning in post-quake Christchurch. Local Environment 24(4): 313-328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2019.1567480.
  • McKinnon K. and Dombroski K. (2019) Ethnography In and With Bodies Embodied Learning and the Academic Life. Commoning Ethnography 2(1): 11-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/ce.v2i1.5697.
  • Dombroski K. and Do HT. (2018) The affect of effect: affirmative political ecologies in monitoring climate change adaptation interventions. Nordia Geographical Publications Yearbook 47(5): 7-20.
  • Dombroski K., Watkins AF., Fitt H., Frater J., Banwell K., Mackenzie K., Mutambo L., Hawke K., Persendt F. and Turković J. (2018) Journeying from “I” to “we”: assembling hybrid caring collectives of geography doctoral scholars. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 42(1): 80-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2017.1335295.
  • Dombroski KF. (2018) Learning to be affected: Maternal connection, intuition and "elimination communication". Emotion, Space and Society 26: 72-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.09.004.
  • Dombroski KF. (2018) Thinking with, dissenting within: care-full critique for more-than-human worlds. Journal of Cultural Economy 11(3): 261-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1427614.
  • Gibson K., Astuti R., Carnegie M., Chalernphon A., Dombroski K., Haryani AR., Hill A., Kehi B., Law L. and Lyne I. (2018) Community economies in Monsoon Asia: Keywords and key reflections. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 59(1): 3-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12186.
  • Diprose G., Dombroski K., Healy S. and Waitoa J. (2017) Community Economies: Responding to questions of scale, agency, and Indigenous connections in Aotearoa New Zealand. Counterfutures: Left Thought and Practice Aotearoa (4): 167-184.
  • Yamashita A., Gomez C. and Dombroski K. (2017) Segregation, exclusion and LGBT people in disaster impacted areas: experiences from the Higashinihon Dai-Shinsai (Great East-Japan Disaster). Gender, Place and Culture 24(1): 64-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1276887.
  • Diprose G. and Dombroski K. (2016) Diversifying and Moving Through the Hidden City: A commentary on Heather Hayward's 'Hidden City'. Enjoy: The Occasional Journal July 2016.
  • Dombroski K. (2016) Call and response: a reflection on Miranda Joseph’s Debt to Society from Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Cultural Economy 9(6): 604-610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2016.1172249.
  • Dombroski K. (2016) Hybrid activist collectives: reframing mothers’ environmental and caring labour. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 36(9-10): 629-646. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-12-2015-0150.
  • Dombroski K., Mckinnon K. and Healy S. (2016) Beyond the birth wars: Diverse assemblages of care. New Zealand Geographer 72(3): 230-239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12142.
  • Yates A. (2016) MAURI-ORA: Architecture, indigeneity, and immanence ethics. Architectural Theory Review 21(2): 261-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2017.1288638.
  • Dombroski KF. (2015) Multiplying possibilities: A postdevelopment approach to hygiene and sanitation in Northwest China. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 56(3): 321-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12078.
  • Farrelly T., Stewart-Withers R. and Dombroski K. (2014) Being There': Mothering and absence/presence in the field. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 11(2): 25-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol11iss2id281.
  • Dombroski K. (2013) Always engaging with others: Assembling an Antipodean, hybrid economic geography collective. Dialogues in Human Geography 3(2): 217-221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820613493155.
  • Dombroski K. (2011) Embodying Research: Maternal bodies, fieldwork, and knowledge production in northwest China. Graduate Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 7(2):19-29. 7(2): 19-29.
Chapters
  • Dombroski K. and Roelvink G. (2022) ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES: Navigating Research and Activism. The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography: 279-294. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003038849-25.
  • Haryani R. and Dombroski K. (2022) Arisan: Producing Economies of Care in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation: 168-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865629.003.0009.
  • Dombroski K. and Smith TSJ. (2021) Practicing wellbeing through community economies: an action research approach. In Searle B; Pykett J; Alfaro-Simmonds MJ (Ed.), A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research: 84-103.Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • McKinnon K., Healy S. and Dombroski K. (2021) CARE FROM THE BEGINNING: Birthing Collective Origins, Interdependent Cities, and New Community Economies. Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies: 24-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003031536-3.
  • Dombroski K. (2020) Caring labour: Redistributing care-work. In Gibson-Graham JK; Dombroski K (Ed.), The Handbook of Diverse Economies: 154-162. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Gibson-Graham JK. and Dombroski K. (2020) Introduction to diverse economies: Inventory as ethical intervention. In Gibson-Graham JK; Dombroski K (Ed.), The Handbook of Diverse Economies: 1-25. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Gibson-Graham JK., Cameron J., Dombroski K., Healy S., Community Economies Collective. and Miller E. (2020) Cultivating community economies: tools for building a liveable world. In Speth G; Courrier K (Ed.), The New Systems Reader Alternatives to a Failed EconomyRoutledge.
  • Healy S., Scobie M. and Dombroski K. (2020) Grounded! Covid-19 and recovering postcapitalist possibility in place. Pandemic and the crisis of capitalism: A Rethinking Marxism dossier.
  • Waitoa J. and Dombroski K. (2020) Working with Indigenous methodologies: Kaupapa Māori meets diverse economies. In Gibson-Graham JK; Dombroski K (Ed.), The Handbook of Diverse Economies: 502-510. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Community Economies Collective. (2019) Community Economy. In Antipode Editorial Collective; Jazeel T; Kent A; McKittrick K; Theodore N; Chari S; Chatterton P; Gidwani V; Heynen N; Larner W (Ed.), Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50: Ch 10-Ch 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119558071.
  • McKinnon K., Healy S. and Dombroski K. (2019) Surviving well together: post development, maternity care and the politics of ontological pluralism. In Klein E; Morreo CE (Ed.), Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies: 13. London: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429492136-15.
  • Dombroski KF., Healy S. and McKinnon KI. (2018) Care-full Community Economies. In Harcourt W; Bauhardt C (Ed.), Feminist Political Ecology and Economies of Care: 99-115. London: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315648743-6.
  • McKinnon K., Dombroski KF. and Morrow O. (2018) The Diverse Economy: Feminism, Capitalocentrism, and Postcapitalist Futures. In Elias J; Roberts A (Ed.), Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender: 335-350. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781783478842.00032.
  • Dombroski K. (2016) Seeing Diversity, Multiplying Possibility: My journey from post-feminism to postdevelopment with JK Gibson-Graham. In Harcourt W (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development: 312-328. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Anderson K., Cameron J., van Dooren T., Dombroski K., Fincher R., Gibson K., Graham J., Instone L., Iveson K. and Kato K. (2015) Manifesto for living in the Anthropocene. In Bird Rose D; Gibson K; Fincher R (Ed.), Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene: i-v. Brooklyn: Punctum Books.
  • Morrow O. and Dombroski K. (2015) Enacting a Postcapitalist Politics through the Sites and Practices of Life's Work. In Meehan K; Strauss K (Ed.), Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction: 82-98. Athens: University of Georgia Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt189tsnq.9.
  • Yates A. (2012) Oceanic spaces of flow. Architecture in the Space of Flows: 63-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203721018.
  • Yates A. (2012) Oceanic Spaces of Flow. Architecture in the Space of Flows: 63-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203721018-10.
  • Dombroski K. (2011) Awkward engagements in mothering: Embodying and experimenting in northwest China. In Walks M; McPherson N (Ed.), An Anthropology of Mothering: 49-63. Toronto: Demeter Press.
  • Dombroski K. (2010) Economy and Motherhood. In O'Reilly A (Ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Motherhood: 1:322-1:324. Los Angeles, London, Delhi: Sage.
  • Dombroski K. (2010) New Zealand. In O'Reilly A (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Motherhood: 2: 917-18. Los Angeles, London, Delhi: Sage.
  • Dombroski K. (2008) The whole nine villages: local-level development through mass tourism in Jiuzhaigou. In Connelll J; Rugendyke B (Ed.), Tourism at the Grass Roots: Visitors and Villagers in the Asia Pacific: 98-113. Abingdon: Routledge.
Reports
  • Dionisio R., Yates A., Yates-Francis A., Dailianis M., Berry R., Afoa E., Aurel Schnabel M., Austin P., Banwell K. and Barhava-Montieth G. (2019) Co-Ideated Research Directions Workshop Report: Research Deliverables & Investment Signals Process. In Co-Ideated Research Directions Workshop Report: Research Deliverables & Investment Signals Process.
  • Dombroski K., Diprose G., Conradson D., Healy S. and Watkins A. (2019) Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise. In Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise. [Final NSC11 Report for Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment].
  • Dombroski K., Diprose G., Conradson D., Healy S. and Watkins A. (2019) When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment. In When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment [NSC11 Milestone Report for Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment].
Film/Video
  • Dombroski K., Waliuzzaman SM. and Brosnan M.(2020) Hope Frustrated: Climate change adaptation in Lalua Bangladesh. Director, presenter: [Online Video]. 8.50 minutes.
  • Dombroski K., Waliuzzaman SM. and Brosnan M.(2020) Patuakhali Water Museum Bangladesh: A case study of community-led action. Director: [Online Video]. 4.19 minutes.
  • Dombroski K., Pem S. and Brosnan M.(2019) Water Resources in Bhutan -- challenges and hopes. Director and presenter: [Online Video]. 9.09 minutes.
  • Dombroski K., Haryani AR. and Brosnan M.(2018) Doing finance differently. Director and presenter: [Online Video]. 9.07 minutes.
  • Dombroski KF., Gibson K. and Brosnan M.(2015) New forms of commoning in a post-quake city. [Video].
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Healy S., Dombroski K., Diprose G., Conradson D., McNeill J. and Watkins A. (2019) More than monitoring: Developing impact measures for transformative social enterprise. In http://unsse.org/fr/knowledge-hub/more-than-monitoring-developing-impact-measures-for-transformative-social-enterprise-4/Geneva: United Nations.
  • Yates A. (2008) On nature, culture and sustainable design. In WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 114: 191-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/DN080201.
  • Dombroski KF. (2005) The Panya Dilemma: reconciling cultural change and empowerment in a Tibetan host community. In Auckland: University of Auckland.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Dombroski K. and Gibson-Graham JK. (2021) Inventory as Ethical Action: An introduction to (the handbook of) Diverse Economies. Massey University Palmerston North: DEVNET 2020 Development Matters, 1 Dec 2020-5 Feb 2021.
  • Dombroski K. (2020) The Great Debate: Are we on track to achieve the sustainable development goals in the next ten years? Massey University Palmerston North: DEVNET 2020 Development Matters:, 2-4 Dec 2020.
  • Dombroski KF., Diprose G., Healy S. and Conradson D. (2018) Cultivating Commoners. University of Auckland: New Zealand Geographical Society and Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 11-14 Jul 2018.
  • Dombroski KF., Do HT., Haryani AR., Liu A., Pem S. and Zhang T. (2018) Dissent from within: women’s care-work and economies in Bhutan, China and Indonesia. University of Sydney: Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, 3-5 Jul 2018.
  • Dombroski K. (2017) Learning to be Affected: Maternal Connection, intuition and ‘elimination communication’. Boston: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 5-9 Apr 2017.
  • Dombroski K. (2017) Teaching Diverse Economies [Invited panel contributor]. Boston: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
  • Dombroski K. and Haryani RA. (2017) Arisan: rotating credit societies in Indonesia. Western Sydney University: Keywords in Monsoon Asia Workshop.
  • Dombroski KF., McKinnon K. and Healy S. (2017) The geopolitics of birth: from territory to commons. Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University: Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities, 25 Jan 2018.
  • Mutambo L., Delikostidis I., Dombroski K. and Reitsma F. (2017) Exploring potentials of Crowdsourcing for Spatial Data Infrastructures in Developing Countries. Christchurch: NZ Geospatial Research Conference, 4-5 Dec 2017.
  • Dombroski K. (2016) Gendered Geographies of Academic Work [Invited Speaker on Panel]. Dunedin: New Zealand Geographical Society Conference.
  • Dombroski KF. (2016) Feminism, Mothering, and Caring for Others. University of Canterbury: UC FEMSOC 3rd Annual Feminist Conference, 17 Sep 2016.
Oral Presentations
  • Dombroski K. (2020) Generation Equality: Equality, diversity and care work for everyone. Pemberton Gardens, Prebbleton: Keynote, UN Aotearoa International Women’s Day Brunch.
  • Yates A., Dombroski K. and Dionisio R. (2020) Huritanga: Towards Socio-ecological Wellbeing-led Urban Systems in an Era of Emergency. Duke University/Zoom: Humanities Unbounded Revaluing Care Lab, 16 Nov 2020.
  • Dombroski K., Conradson D., Diprose G., Healy S. and Watkins A. (2018) Cultivating Urban Commons for Youth Wellbeing. Jahngirnagar University, Bangladesh: Jahangirnagar University Department of Planning Seminar Series, 18 Apr 2018.
  • Dombroski K., Liu A., Haryani RA., Do HT., Zhang T. and Pem S. (2018) Rethinking Economy with Asia: Moving from homo economicus to homines curans. Ernest Rutherford, University of Canterbury: 2018 Geography Seminar Series, 23 Jul 2018.
  • Dombroski KF., Healy S., Diprose G. and Conradson D. (2018) From Homo Economicus to Homines Curans: Cultivating Commoners in an Urban Farm. Royal Society Te Aparangi, Wellington: Towards Sustainability Transitions in the Anthropocene: beyond behaviour change, 06 Aug 2018.
  • Dombroski KF. (2017) Caring collectives: Holistic supervision and NZAid-funded scholars. University of Canterbury: Diversity Festival: Equity and Diversity, research and teaching in the College of Science, 04 Aug 2017.
  • Dombroski KF. (2017) The geopolitics of birth, or, how I became a feminist. Heaton Intermediate School: Kāhuarau: Pregnancy, Birth and the Making of a Mother, 24 Oct 2017.
  • Dombroski K. (2016) Breastfeeding as cultural practice: Comparing Australian, Chinese and New Zealand breastfeeding practices and beliefs [Invited 3 city speaking tour plenary speaker]. Novotel Sydney, Perth Convention Centre & Adelaide Convention Centre: Australian Breastfeeding Association 2016 Health Professionals Seminar Series, Breastfeeding: Making Connections.
  • Dombroski K. (2016) Colostrum avoidance, or qi depletion? Newborn breastfeeding practices in Chinese families [Invited 3 city speaking tour, plenary speaker]. Adelaide Convention Centre, Perth Convention Centre, Novotel Sydney: Australian Breastfeeding Association 2016 Health Professional Seminar Series, Breastfeeding: Making Connections.
  • Dombroski K. (2015) Managing Maternity-Related CV Gaps. Multiple virtual locations at New Zealand Universities: Women and Gender in Geography Research Network Seminar.
  • Dombroski K. (2015) Situated Birth. Western Sydney University: Diverse Practices of Maternity and Birthing, Towards a Logic of Good Care, Research Grant Workshop.
  • Dombroski KF. (2015) Choice vs Care: Incorporating care into our choice focussed health care system. The Birthing Room, Christchurch, New Zealand: The Revolutionary Round Table.
  • Dombroski K. (2013) Diverse economies in Northwest China [Invited plenary speaker]. Peking University, Beijing: Social/ Solidarity Economies in China and the World.
  • Dombroski K. (2013) What the body knows: considering culture and embodiment in breastfeeding knowledges (Plenary speaker). Conference Centre, New South Wales: Australian Breastfeeding Association NSW Counsellors Conference.
Discussion/Working Papers
  • Dombroski K. (2006) Reconciling Tourism, Cultural Change and Empowerment in a Tibetan Host Community. Centre for Indigenous Governance and Development, Massey University.
Other
  • Dombroski K. (2020) Throwntogetherness: a juxtaposition of previously unrelated trajectories. https://throwntogetherness.com/: Wordpress. [blog, 75 articles averaging 1500 words each, with more than 11,000 visitors with 24,000 views and 399 regular followers].
  • Dombroski K. (2020) What other countries can teach us about ditching disposable nappies. The Conversation https://theconversation.com/what-other-countries-can-teach-us-about-ditching-disposable-nappies-114604: [electronic].
  • Dombroski K. and Kienja K. (2018) Sanitation and Culture. Tui Motu(May 2018): 4-5. Tui Motu. [Print Magazine].
  • Dombroski KF. and Healy S. (2018) Surviving Well Together. Tui Motu Interislands[Print magazine] 223: 4-5.
  • Gibson-Graham JK., Cameron J., Dombroski K., Healy S., Miller E. and Community Economies Collective. (2017) Cultivating Community Economies: Tools for building a liveable world. In Next Systems Project The Democracy Collaborative.

Student Supervision

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  • PhD - Boles I: Cohousing as a Catalyst for Social Regeneration: An Approach to Foster Commoning in New Brighton, Christchurch.
  • PhD - Garcia D: HOW TO MAKE A MAPMAKER An Ethnography of a Geographic Information System
  • PhD - Haryani RA: Redefining Women’s Participation in Leadership on Disaster Preparedness and Response in ASEAN - Case studies: Indonesia and the Philippines
  • PhD - Lila L: Community economies, work and the commons
  • PhD - Wragg U: Gender, power and land innovation: The case of the Cook Islands and Fiji
  • Completed
  • PhD - Do HT: Embodied Knowing for Climate Change Adaptation Interventions: Moving beyond monitoring and evaluation in Thai Binh, Vietnam. (2019)
  • PhD - Dorji C: Decent Livelihoods: Toward Sustainable and Equitable Rural Lives for Tibetan Peasants (2021)
  • PhD - Hasan MM: Youth Participation and Green Space in Dhaka
  • PhD - Liu A: An ordinary China: Reading ‘small-town youth’ for difference in a northwestern county town (2021)
  • PhD - Mutambo L: Crowdsourcing a Spatial Data Infrastructure (2020)
  • PhD - Sepie A: Entangled fields: decolonisation, worldviews and knowledge (2018)
  • PhD - Waliuzzaman S: A Commoning Perspective on Urban Informal Settlements in Dhaka: A case study of Kallyanpur Slum (2020)
  • PhD - Weastall LM: Canterbury farmers' traditional ecological knowledge (2020)
  • Masters - Asmarani P: The contribution of local farmers’ markets to social resilience. (2022)
  • Masters - Chitondo M: Bringing data back to community after completion of research: A case study of Ndola, Copperbelt Province, Zambia (2017)
  • Masters - Chitondo M: Bringing data back to the community after completion of research: A case study of Ndola, Copperbelt Province, Zambia. (2017)
  • Masters - Goburdhone S: People Plants and Soil: An Ethnography of Urban Farming in Christchurch, New Zealand (2021)
  • Masters - Kienja K: Perceptions of informal settlement dwellers on urban waterways and their impacts on water quality for downstream users: case study of Nairobi (2017)
  • Masters - Pem S: Understanding local perceptions and values towards Thimphu River, Bhutan (2018)
  • Honours - Barnes M: Barriers Preventing Decentralised Urban Composting Initiatives in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington (2021)
  • Honours - Jones S: The ethical issues with the Earthquake Comissions insurance policy, EQCover (2015)
  • Honours - Pickering E: Diverse Economies in Xinjiang (2015)

Affiliations

  • Community Economies Collective (CEC) (Community Organisation/NGO): Member
  • DevNet - The Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies Network (Professional Organisation): Member

Future Research

  • Diverse economies in Asia-Pacific
  • Community economies theory
  • Commons and commoning
  • Wellbeing economies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific
  • Postdevelopment approaches to social change
  • Feminist and postcolonial action research

Key Methodologies

  • Qualitative Research
  • Assets Based Community Research
  • Ethnography
  • Action Research
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