Dr Chris Gibson
Geography Program, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales
International Linkages
National University of Singapore Academic Research Funded project, 'Cultural economies in the Asia-Pacific region' by Chris Gibson and Lily Kong
Publications
Books
Gibson, C and Connell, J (2004) Music and Tourism: Culture, Economy and Place, Channel View Press, Clevedon (in press)
Dunbar-Hall, P and Gibson, C (2004) Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney (in press)
Connell, J and Gibson, C (2003) Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place, Routledge, London and New York
Chapters in Books
Gibson, C and Connell, J (2004) 'Cultural industry production in remote places: indigenous popular music in Australia', for Power, D and Scott, A (ed) The Cultural Industries and The Production of Culture, Routledge, London and New York (in press)
Gibson, C (2003) 'Rainbow sounds: musical cultures of the Far North Coast', in Wilson, H (ed) Belonging in the Rainbow Region: Cultural Perspectives on the North Coast of NSW, Southern Cross University Press, Lismore, 263-286
Gibson, C (2003) 'Reinventing rurality through 'creativity'? The cultural industries in rural areas', in Le Heron, R and Gao, J (ed) Windows on a Changing World, proceedings of the New Zealand Geographical Society 22nd conference Auckland, New Zealand July 11 2003 (in press)
Gibson, C and Klocker, N (2003) 'Cultural industries and cultural policy: a critique of recent discourses in regional economic development', in Le Heron, R and Gao, J (ed) Windows on a Changing World, proceedings of the New Zealand Geographical Society 22nd conference Auckland, New Zealand July 11 2003 (in press)
Gibson, C and Connell, J (2000) 'Artistic dreamings: tinseltown, sin city and suburban wasteland', in Connell, J (ed) Sydney: the Evolution of a World City, Oxford University Press, Sydney, 292-318
Refereed Articles
Gibson, C and Homan, S (2004) 'Urban redevelopment, live music and public space: cultural performance and the re-making of Marrickville', International Journal of Cultural Policy (in press)
Connell, J and Gibson, C (2004) 'World Music: deterritorialising place and identity', Progress in Human Geography (in press)
Connell, J and Gibson, C (2004) 'Vicarious journeys: travels in music', Tourism Geographies (in press)
Gibson, C (2003) 'Cultures at work: why 'culture' matters in research on the 'cultural' industries', Social and Cultural Geography, 4, 2, 201-215
Gibson, C (2003) 'The digital divide in New South Wales: a research note on socio spatial inequality using 2001 census data on computer and internet technology', Australian Geographer, 34, 2, 239-257
Gibson, C (2003) 'New economic geographies', in Garner, B (ed) Geography's New Frontiers, The Geographical Society of New South Wales, Gladesville, 111-122
Gibson, C and Connell, J (2003) 'Bongo Fury: tourism, music and cultural economy at Byron Bay, Australia', Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography), 94, 2, 164-187
Gibson, C (2002) 'Rural transformation and cultural industries: popular music on the New South Wales Far North Coast', Australian Geographical Studies, 40, 3, 336-356
Gibson, C (2002) 'Migration, music and social relations on the NSW Far North Coast', Transformations, 2, 1-15
Gibson, C, Murphy, P, Freestone, R (2002) 'Employment and socio-spatial relations in Australia's cultural economy', Australian Geographer, 33, 2, 173-189
Gibson, C and Dunbar-Hall, P (2000) 'Nitmiluk': place and empowerment in Aboriginal popular music, Ethnomusicology, 44, 1, 39-64
Gibson, C (1999) 'Rebuilding the Jawoyn Nation: regional agreements, spatial politics and Aboriginal self-determination in Katherine, NT', Australian Aboriginal Studies 1, 10-25
Gibson, C (1999) 'Cartographies of the colonial and capitalist state: a geopolitics of indigenous self-determination in Australia', Antipode, 31, 1, 45-79
Gibson, C (1999) 'Subversive sites: rave culture, spatial politics, and the internet', Area, 31, 1, 19-33
Current Research Interests
geographies of cultural industries (focus on popular music)
place identity and cultural politics
cultural industries and economic development strategies
information industries in regional areas
Aboriginal cultural industries
cultural tourism and place identities