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Located Research

Regional places, transitions and challenges

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Fills a gap in the literature concerning the complexities of regions in transition and their importance in the 21st century as indicators of broader potential social and economic disruption and renewal
  • Incorporates interdisciplinary knowledge and perspectives to provide important and timely contributions as to what regions are understood to be, and their wider significance
  • Offers diverse perspectives by researchers and their lived experience in regional communities and environments across disciplines spanning social sciences, environmental science, critical indigenous studies, art practice and pedagogy, tourism, health and cultural geography
  • Identifies an emerging ‘landscape of practice’ in regional research, and translates ‘knowledgeability’ from local to global contexts
  • Draws attention to the ethical role of the researcher within regional communities and environments, not as a separate observer, but as an embedded and active agent across a range of human and non-human elements

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Introduction

    • Leigh Sullivan
    Pages 1-4
  3. Regional Contexts and Regional Research

    • Angela Campbell, Michelle Duffy, Beth Edmondson
    Pages 5-11
  4. Place and Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Yanama Budyari Gumada, Walk with Good Spirit as Method: Co-creating Local Environmental Stewards on/with/as Darug Ngurra

      • Darug Ngurra, Uncle Lex Dadd, Paul Glass, Aunty Corina Norman-Dadd, Paul Hodge, Sandie Suchet-Pearson et al.
      Pages 15-37
    3. The Role of Festival Networks in Regional Community Building

      • Judith Mair, Michelle Duffy
      Pages 89-116
    4. Leadership: Untapping the Secret to Regional Wellbeing, Belonging and Resilience

      • Geraldine Jones, Kathleen A. Moore, Damian Morgan
      Pages 117-132
  5. Challenges for the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
    2. Watery Places: Stories of Environmental and Community Renewal

      • Jessica Reeves, Fern Hames, Michelle Graymore
      Pages 281-302
    3. Tidal Country and Cultures in Northern Australia

      • David Kelly, Michele Lobo
      Pages 303-318

About this book

This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues. Three themes are advanced here: Place and change, Transition and resilience, and Challenges for the future. Contributors embrace frameworks of co-design and transdisciplinary practice to build communities of practice in response to lived experience in regional contexts. Their work highlights the strategic importance of a regional focus at a time when global connectivity and mobility is increasing and the complexity of ‘wicked’ problems demands more than one approach or solution. Such complex problems require nuanced, and at times ‘bespoke’ methodological approaches to better understand and support not just regional adaptation, resilience and transformation, but to manage all these things at a time when change is everywhere.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Arts Academy, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Australia

    Angela Campbell

  • Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

    Michelle Duffy

  • Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation University Australia, Churchill, Australia

    Beth Edmondson

About the editors

Angela Campbell is a Senior Lecturer at the Arts Academy, Federation University, Australia where she teaches into the Performing Arts program. Her research and published work in theatre and performance has been both practical and theoretical and has investigated performance from the archives, site-specific theatre, the politics and poetics of place, intercultural theatre, Indigenous theatre, contemporary paradigms and practices in theatre and performance, and practice led research.


Michelle Duffy is an Associate Professor in Human Geography, in the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include community resilience, wellbeing, and sustainability; the significance of emotion and affect in creating notions of belonging and exclusion; the role of art and sound practices in creating and/or challenging notions of identity and belonging in public spaces and public events; and an exploration of the body as a means of embodied, emotional and affective communication.


Beth Edmondson has lived and work in regional locations for most of her life. As a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia, she engages in co-designed research in Gippsland Victoria. She is Series Editor of the Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability series.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Located Research

  • Book Subtitle: Regional places, transitions and challenges

  • Editors: Angela Campbell, Michelle Duffy, Beth Edmondson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9694-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9693-0Published: 11 December 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9696-1Published: 02 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9694-7Published: 29 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 396

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Geography, Environmental Sociology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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