Abstracts
The conference booklet, containing abstracts and general information, is available for download here [pdf format 521 kb]
Dr Fiona Allon, University of Western Sydney: Water is the New Oil?: how to reconcile new values and old habits
Claudia Baldwin, University of the Sunshine Coast: Eliciting values using photovoice for consensus building in water planning
Sarah Bell, University College London (UK): The driest continent and the greediest water company: drought in Sydney and London
Dr Annie Bolitho: Aquifier
Dr Frances Bonner, University of Queensland: Waterwise advice on television gardening programs
Associate Professor Shelley Burgin, Basant Maheshwari, Tony Webb, Samsul Huda, Roger Packham, Qaiyum Parvez and Gary Wallac, University of Western Sydney: A systems approach for water use and management in Peri-Urban Landscapes: connecting science and cultural dimensions for sustainability
Robyn Bushell and Bruce Simmons, University of Western Sydney: The development of a methodology to understand the relationship between community values and economic development
Dr Allison Cadzow, University of Technology, Sydney: Water Flexibility - Vietnamese women's experiences of migrancy, gender relations & rivers in Sydney & Vietnam
Bhakti Lata Devi, Zoë Sofoulis and Carolyn Williams, University of Western Sydney: Putting the Users into End Use Analysis: Rethinking Residential Landscape Water Demand Management
Dena Fam, University of Western Sydney: Design and cultural acceptability of waterless toilets
Professor Heather Goodall, University of Technology, Sydney: Women, Race and Rivers in Western NSW
Kate Harriden, The Australian National University: Wasted Resource? Perceptions of Stormwater and its Management in Two Locations in Australia and Thailand
Associate Professor Gay Hawkins, University of New South Wales: From the Tap to the Bottle –the biopolitics and branding of bottled water
Kirsten Henderson, La Trobe University: Water as the Medium of Cultural Traffic: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Britt Jovanovski, University of Newcastle: Typology of Baths
Dr Damian Lucas, Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW), and Danielle Flakelar-Carney, Department of Environment and Climate Change: Incorporating Aboriginal cultural values in water management, western NSW
Dr Janet McDonald, University of Southern Queensland: Redeeming “Poo”woomba: Using Visual Arts and Theatre to Enable Cultural Engagement along the Balonne
Dr June Marks, Flinders University: Social and cultural constructions of risk: the experience of water recycling
Paul Mulley and Deborah Atkins, University of Western Sydney: It's not all technical, the process is just as important: A case study of the Sydney urban irrigation sector
Professor Phillip O’Neill, University of Western Sydney: The shift to procurement: legacies from economic classifications of infrastructure
Kim Satchell, Postgraduate Student, Southern Cross University: Making eco-sense of water: Surf Culture, Cultural Studies and the Eco-humanities
Professor Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University (UK): The Dynamics and Hydraulics of Everyday Life
Dr Zoe Sofoulis and Carolyn Williams, University of Western Sydney: From pushing atoms to growing networks: cultural and sociotechnical principles for water conservation
Polladach Theerappapisit, School of Social Sciences, UWS: Transforming Mekong’s Water Culture: Perceptions from the Ground
Dr Cameron Tonkinwise , University of Technology, Sydney: Shared Laundering: Designing Sustainability in relation to Historical Habits
Dr Kitty van Vuuren, University of Queensland: The role of the independent community press in the management of water
Associate Professor Stephen Wearing, University of Technology, Sydney: Masculinity, Ethnicity and “Power Recreation” on the Georges River
Jess Weir, The Australian National University: Cultural flows: traditional owners talking water in the Murray Darling Basin
Zoe Wilson, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa): Debates, Disconnections and Drowning: The politics of services and scarcities in post apartheid South Africa
Mateusz Wolnicki, University of Western Sydney: A Narrative Approach To Dealing With Conflict Over Intended Water Use - Paroo River Case Study
Dr Sam Wong, University of Leeds (UK): Researching public-private partnerships in water governance
Additional Abstracts
Due to various circumstances some of the presenters are unable to attend the conference but maintain a strong committment to the field. Their original abstracts and biographies appear below.
Dr Simone Blair, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne: Waterways: Water Lifestyles in Master Planned Communities
Dr Sue Jackson, Jon Altman, Joe Morrison and Michael Douglas, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems: Water and Indigenous people in north Australia: perspectives on an emerging research agenda
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, The Australian National University: Feminine Waterscapes: Rivers and the Everyday Life in Rural Bengal
Dr Emily Potter, University of Melbourne: Dancing in the Red Storm: Creative Research as a Response to Drought in the Murray Mallee
Dr Helen Sheil, Swinburne University, Melbourne: Water - a connecting link
Dr Don Thomson, Waterwatch Australia: Waterwatch: a practical example of a culturally-oriented strategy contributing to sustainability of catchments and water
Gail Tipa, Independent Researcher: Maori and Waterways: The Cultural Opportunity Assessment Tool
Deirdre Wilcock, Macquarie University: Integrating Cultural Mapping into NRM: Examining challenges to inclusive adaptive management