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Biography
Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer. Her research focuses on environmental justice in climate-changing worlds; 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 Chair of the Discipline of Geography and 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 Linkage Project [2021-2024] ‘The Power of Public Spaces to Connect Communities and Places’ and 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
- GEOP8075 Planning, Principles & Places
Education/Academic qualification
Geography, PhD, University of Southern California
Award Date: 12 May 2006
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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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LP21: The power of public spaces to connect communities and places
Houston, D., Lloyd, K., Williams, M., Lloyd, J., Butler-Bowdon, C., Fishburn, K., Kombumerri, D. & Gordon, V.
6/02/23 → 6/02/26
Project: Research
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'Growing Food and Density Together': Enabling Sustainable Urban Transformation through Local Food Production
Houston, D., Ghosh, S., Mann, A. & McGregor, A.
1/08/17 → …
Project: Research
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Cities in COVID-19: reconsidering urban form, mobility, housing and planning in Australasia
Swapan, M. S. H., Alam, A., Rogers, D., Houston, D., Lobo, M. & Nasreen, Z., 2023, In: Urban Policy and Research. 41, 1, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Legal pluralism on Dyarubbin: Country-as-Lore/Law in Western Sydney, Australia
Darug Ngurra, Dadd, L., Norman-Dadd, C., Narwal, H., Glass, P., Suchet-Pearson, S., O'Gorman, E., Houston, D., Graham, M., Scott, R. & Lemire, J., 12 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geohumanities. 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Plant-based food politics: veganism, quiet activism and small businesses in Sydney’s foodscapes
McGregor, A., Houston, D., Dilworth, T-L. & Bojovic, M., 3 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Social and Cultural Geography. 18 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., Mar 2022, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 5, 1, p. 272-292 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Centring, rather than connecting with, nature
Hillier, J. & Houston, D., 2022, 10th State of Australasian Cities National Conference, 1-3 December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. State of Australasian Cities National Conference, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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