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Biography
Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer in the Discipline of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on environmental justice in the Anthropocene; geographies of extinction, and urban planning in more-than-human cities. She is particularly interested in how cultural methodologies such as storytelling, visual methods and cultural memory can be used to address current social and environmental challenges.
A/Prof Houston is the Director of the Master of Planning, Co-Director of the Faculty of Arts Environmental Humanities Research Group and a founding member of the Shadow Places Network, an international environmental humanities initiative funded by the Swedish government's Seedbox.
A/Prof Houston's teaching and research is focused on creating more caring and just multispecies cities and societies. Recent projects include an ARC Discovery Project [2015-2019] Enabling Innovation in Local Climate Adaptability. With A/Prof Andrew McGregor, she has formed a Multispecies Geographies research group that explores just climate transitions in urban and rural food systems and the development of critical frameworks for multispecies justice.
A/Prof Houston currently teaches in the following units:
- GEOP3090 Thinking Space
- GEOP3030 Liveable Cities: Infrastructure, Mobilities and Place-making
- GEOP8075 Planning, Development & Assessment
- GEOP8090 Gateway to the Planning Profession
Education/Academic qualification
Geography, PhD, University of Southern California
Award Date: 12 May 2006
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Projects
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Social Experiments in Urban Food: Investigating Environmental Food Networks in Sydney
1/01/16 → …
Project: Research
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Enabling Social Innovation for Local Climate Adaptability
Houston, D., Hillier, J., Steele, W., Byrne, J. & MacCallum, D.
14/04/15 → …
Project: Research
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Valuing Adaptive Re-use of Heritage Buildings
Houston, D., McNeill, D., Dowling, R. & Rogers, D.
16/06/17 → …
Project: Research
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MQSN: Plant-based Meat Pilot Research Project
McGregor, A., Houston, D., Rickards, L. & Goodman, M.
1/01/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Crisi ambientale e cambiamento climatico: un osservatorio per la mobilitazione sociale e le nuove forme di attivismo digitale
Fuller, S., Houston, D., McGregor, A., McLean, J., Miller, F. & Roelofsen, M.
1/06/20 → 31/08/21
Project: Teaching
Research Outputs
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Delivering the discipline: teaching geography and planning during COVID-19
Fuller, S., Ruming, K., Burridge, A., Carter-White, R., Houston, D., Kelly, L., Lloyd, K., McGregor, A., McLean, J., Miller, F. P., O'Gorman, E., Suchet-Pearson, S., Taylor, H., Walkerden, G., Williams, M. & Ziller, A., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Geographical Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Planning in the shadow of extinction: Carnaby's Black Cockatoos and urban development in Perth, Australia
Houston, D., 2021, In: Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. 16, 1, p. 43-56 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus) -
The biopolitics of cattle methane emissions reduction: governing life in a time of climate change
McGregor, A., Rickards, L., Houston, D., Goodman, M. K. & Bojovic, M., 17 Feb 2021, In: Antipode. 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A manifesto for shadow places: re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change
Potter, E., Miller, F., Lövbrand, E., Houston, D., McLean, J., O'Gorman, E., Evers, C. & Ziervogel, G., 2 Dec 2020, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A to Z of shadow places concepts
Miller, F. P., Houston, D. & Potter, E., 28 Oct 2020Research output: Non-traditional research output › Digital or Visual products
Open Access
Activities
- 2 Editorial work
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Dialogues in Human Geography (Journal)
Donna Houston (Member of editorial board)
2020 → 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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Geohumanities (Journal)
Donna Houston (Member of editorial board)
2019 → 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work