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- ItemCan the commons be temporary? The role of transitional commoning in post-quake Christchurch(2019-04-03) Dombroski K; Diprose G; Boles IIn recent work on commons and commoning, scholars have argued that we might delink the practice of commoning from property ownership, while paying attention to modes of governance that enable long-term commons to emerge and be sustained. Yet commoning can also occur as a temporary practice, in between and around other forms of use. In this article we reflect on the transitional commoning practices and projects enabled by the Christchurch post-earthquake organisation Life in Vacant Spaces, which emerged to connect and mediate between landowners of vacant inner city demolition sites and temporary creative or entrepreneurial users. While these commons are often framed as transitional or temporary, we argue they have ongoing reverberations changing how people and local government in Christchurch approach common use. Using the cases of the physical space of the Victoria Street site “The Commons” and the virtual space of the Life in Vacant Spaces website, we show how temporary commoning projects can create and sustain the conditions of possibility required for nurturing commoner subjectivities. Thus despite their impermanence, temporary commoning projects provide a useful counter to more dominant forms of urban development and planning premised on property ownership and “permanent” timeframes, in that just as the physical space of the city being opened to commoning possibilities, so too are the expectations and dispositions of the city’s inhabitants, planners, and developers.
- ItemCommunity economies: Responding to questions of scale, agency and indigenous connections in Aotearoa New Zealand(Counterfutures, 2017) Diprose GJ; Dombroski K; Healy S; Waitora J
- ItemCultivating community economies: tools for building a liveable world(Routledge, 2020-10-20) Gibson-Graham JK; Cameron J; Dombroski K; Healy S; Community Economies Collective; Miller E; Speth, G; Courrier, KAmid the failure of traditional politics and policies to address our fundamental challenges, an increasing number of thoughtful proposals and real-world models suggest new possibilities, this book convenes an essential conversation about ...
- ItemDelivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise(2019) Dombroski K; Diprose G; Conradson D; Healy S; Watkins A
- ItemDialogues for wellbeing in an ecological emergency: Wellbeing-led governance frameworks and transformative Indigenous tools(SAGE Publications, 2022-06-20) Yates A; Dombroski K; Dionisio RAt a time of ecological emergency there are pressing reasons to develop more responsive wellbeing-led governance frameworks that engage with both human and more-than-human wellbeing. Attempts to incorporate wellbeing indices into wellbeing-led governance include the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, the Gross National Happiness index of Bhutan, and a variety of emerging wellbeing-led governance frameworks in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Some of these frameworks have begun to include more-than-human wellbeing indices in their toolkit, but like many geographers and Indigenous scholars, we are wary of the dangers of universalising and abstractionist ‘indexology’ (Ratuva, 2016). In this paper, we review wellbeing-led governance frameworks with a view to more-than-human wellbeing and Indigenous knowledge. We outline an emerging pluriversal and prefigurative project where Indigenous scholars engage with partners in co-creation methods in place, incorporating Indigenous-Māori cultural perspectives into more situated and holistic wellbeing tools. We argue that while critique is important, so too is engaging in Indigenous-led research interventions fortransformative metrics and tools, particularlyin these times of socio-ecological crisis. As we ‘stay with’ this trouble (Haraway, 2018), we hope to contribute to a culturally specific place-based set of wellbeing indices and tools to inform wellbeing-led governance for more-than-human wellbeing.
- ItemDiverse more-than-human approaches to climate change adaptation in Thai Binh, Vietnam(Victoria University of Wellington and John Wiley and Sons Australia Ltd., 2022-04-01) Do Thi H; Dombroski KClimate change adaptation is a key shared endeavour of our time. In Thai Binh Province of Vietnam, rice farmers have been adapting to environmental change for generations and have developed sophisticated strategies of paying attention to non-human entities. Such strategies stand in stark contrast to modernist, developmentalist climate change adaptation interventions prioritising mastery and control over the environment. In this article, we think about farmers and other species ‘surviving well’ in the context of climate change adaptation in Thai Binh. We examine the strategies for adaptation already present and the implications of such strategies for climate change adaptation approaches in Vietnam and further afield. We argue that local practices of listening to non-human entities and imagining them as kin can challenge modernist developmentalist approaches to adaptation, providing innovative locally appropriate adaptations. Beyond this, such practices can lead the way in developing non-exploitative and mutually beneficial relationships in ‘more-than-human’ ecological communities for long-term survival.
- ItemECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES: Navigating Research and Activism(2022-01-01) Dombroski K; Roelvink GThis chapter focuses on a sub-field of economic geography that has activism at its core: community economies. We begin by situating community economies research within economic geography, in doing so placing our methodological discussion in the context of broader intellectual trends. The chapter then focuses on three challenges shaping community economies methodology today. In contextual challenges of uncertainty, we explore how community economies researchers are “staying with the trouble” (Haraway, 2016), rejecting simplification in favour of unknown yet hopeful possibility. Embracing our work as a ‘performative ontological practice', community economies research has a clear political agenda in this methodological ‘making of other worlds', one that is guided by ethical economic principles and practice. A central challenge in this work is how our methodology, and use of particular methods, is created and enacted with human and more-than-human others. This includes working with those of other intellectual traditions and different ontologies and well as more-than-human participants whose agency is often not recognized.
- ItemEthnography In and With Bodies: Embodied Learning and the Academic Life(Victoria University of Wellington, 2019-12-19) McKinnon K; Dombroski KThe body is a vital part of ethnographic experience and learning. This essay reflects on the complex work that the body does during ethnography, not just as an instrument for data collection, but as a means of collaboration, a site of embodied learning, and a conduit for connection and communication that is more-than-verbal. In this contribution we reflect on research engagements that have been profoundly embodied, involving deep embodied learning and communication, touch and connection in the contexts of childbirth, infant care, and midwifery. Building on experiences in China, Laos, New Zealand, and Australia, we discuss the richness and the challenges of consciously collaborating with, in, and via bodies and embodied communications. We also explore what might be learned from the embodied experience of ethnography that we can bring back into academic life: are there lessons we can learn from collaborating with bodies that can help us to thrive amongst the challenges of the neoliberal university?
- ItemFeminist geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand: cultural, social and political moments(2019-01-01) Adams-Hutcheson G; Bartos AE; Dombroski K; Le Heron E; Underhill-Sem YAotearoa New Zealand is a nation of promise, potential and enigma: it was the first country in the world where women gained the vote in 1893 and now boasts the youngest woman world leader in 2017. It is also a postcolonial nation where structural racism, homophobia, and sexism persist, yet it has also given legal personhood to a river. Our Country Report foregrounds Aotearoa New Zealand feminist geographic scholarship that responds to, reflects, and sometimes resists such contrasts and contradictions at the national scale. We employ the lens of the 2017 national election to critically engage with current gendered and indigenous politics in the country. Analyzing these politics through three ‘feminist moments,’ our paper highlights the breadth and scope of current Aotearoa New Zealand feminist geographic scholarship and directions.
- ItemJourneying from “I” to “we”: assembling hybrid caring collectives of geography doctoral scholars(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018-02) Dombroski K; Watkins AF; Fitt H; Frater J; Banwell K; Mackenzie K; Mutambo L; Hawke K; Persendt F; Turković J; Ko SY; Hart DCompleting a PhD is difficult. Add a major earthquake sequence and general stress levels become much higher. Caring for some of the nonacademic needs of doctoral scholars in this environment becomes critical to their scholarly success. Yet academic supervisors, who are in the same challenging environment, may already be stretched to capacity. How then do we increase care for doctoral scholars? While it has been shown elsewhere that supportive and interactive department cultures reduce attrition rates, little work has been done on how exactly departments might create these supportive environments: the focus is generally on the individual actions of supervisors, or the individual quality of students admitted. We suggest that a range of actors and contingencies are involved in journeying toward a more caring collective culture. We direct attention to the hybridity of an emerging ‘caring collective’, in which the assembled actors are not only ‘students’ and ‘staff’, but also bodies, technologies, objects, institutions, and other nonhuman actors including tectonic plates and earthquakes. The concept of the hybrid caring collective is useful, we argue, as a way of understanding the distributed responsibility for the care of doctoral scholars, and as a way of stepping beyond the student/supervisor blame game.
- ItemReturning water data to communities in Ndola, Zambia: A case study in decolonising environmental science(2019-12-31) Chitondo M; Dombroski KMany scientific research projects carried out in developing countries gather data and fail to return any summary of the findings to the community that provided the data. Residents from communities experiencing water issues are therefore deprived of effective participation in the use of findings, since communities might be seen as only a source of data. Indigenous writers have revealed the injustice of this reality and have suggested that this is typical of colonial or 'colonising' research methods. It is concerning because accessing research knowledge encourages communities to examine their issues and empowers them to formulate solutions. Inspired by decolonising methodologies, we explored different 'decolonising' approaches to returning research findings to participant communities using the results of a recent water research project conducted in Ndola, Copperbelt Province, Zambia. In this case study, we describe participant communities experience regarding access to research findings and conclude that face-to-face discussion is the preferred approach to returning water research findings in Ndola.
- ItemSeeing Diversity, Multiplying Possibility: My journey from post-feminism to postdevelopment with JK Gibson-Graham(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Dombroski K; Harcourt, W
- ItemSurviving well together: post development, maternity care and the politics of ontological pluralism(Routledge, 2019) McKinnon K; Healy S; Dombroski K; Klein, E; Morreo, CE
- ItemSurviving well: From diverse economies to community economies in Asia-Pacific(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022-04) Dombroski K; Duojie C; McKinnon K
- ItemThe affect of effect: affirmative political ecologies in monitoring climate change adaptation interventions(2018) Dombroski K; Do HTAll over the world, climate change adaptation interventions (CCAIs) are being implemented in a variety of ways, but mostly monitored using outcomes-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks that are prone to oversimplification and outside-imposed priorities and knowledges about climate change. Existing monitoring and evaluation practices can only provide results with reference to project goals and processes, and tend to be top-down and neo-colonial in method and scope. This means they may frequently miss unexpected or localised aspects of adaptation interventions, some of which may be useful beyond the local level. While it may be possible to just explore the neo-colonial aspects of this political ecology of monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation interventions in our fieldwork in Thai Binh Province of Vietnam, an affirmative political ecology also tries to identify and proliferate alternative possibilities for meaningful monitoring and evaluation of adaptation interventions. In this essay, we reflect on the ways in which our research into embodied knowledge in local level monitoring and evaluation in rural Thai Binh province of Vietnam could be understood as affirmative political ecology. Through paying attention to the embodied knowledges and the cares and concerns of farmers and ourselves as scholars, we can get at the physical and material changes in environment and livelihood, but also move beyond critique into rethinking how new worlds and ways of being in and with the more than human can emerge.
- ItemWhen Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment(University of Canterbury, 2018-04) Dombroski K; Diprose G; Conradson D; Healy S; Watkins AUrban communities around the world are using farming and gardening to promote food security, social inclusion and wellbeing. For Christchurch-based Cultivate, urban farms are not only physical places but also incorporate an innovative community economy premised on using common resources such as vacant urban land and green waste, to offer care for urban youth. Cultivate’s two urban farms are an important aspect of this care, for it is here that supportive and informally therapeutic environments are co-created and experienced by youth interns, urban farmers, trained social workers and volunteers. Cultivate’s urban farms are innovative examples of creative urban wellbeing initiatives that may be valuable for other organisations seeking to promote youth wellbeing and social development, both across New Zealand and further afield. To document and measure the holistic impact of Cultivate, we used a collaborative approach with Cultivate stakeholders to further develop an existing assessment tool: the Community Economy Return on Investment (CEROI). The project will finish in November 2018 with a series of workshops with urban designers to test and promote the use of the tool as a method for communicating the non-monetary return on investment to a wider community involved with other urban wellbeing projects.