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Personal profile
Biography
Biography
Jessica McLean does research on how humans, more-than-humans, environments and technologies interact to produce geographies of change. Her research focuses on digital technologies, water politics, climate action and activism. She is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University where she is Deputy Director of Outreach and Engagement and teaches Anthropocene politics and Indigenous geographies. In 2019, her book Changing Digital Geographies: Technologies, Environments and People was published and she is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Geography and Society journal.
Teaching
Units I convene in 2020:
GEOP2030 The Colonial Present
GEOP4080 Planning Experience
FOAR7005 Living in the Anthropocene
Units to which I make significant contributions:
GEOP3000 Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
FOAR705 Digital Humanities
Research student supervision
I am currently taking on new PhD and Masters of Research students in the following areas:
- Digital technologies - including digital sustainability, digital justice, feminist digital action, digital geographies, gender and the digital.
- Water cultures - urban and rural contexts, Indigenous knowledges and rights with respect to water, power and water cultures.
- Anthropocene studies - climate change, water dilemmas, justice in the Anthropocene.
Current HDR students:
Corrinne Sullivan: An investigation of Indigenous Australian Sex Workers
Sarah Prebble: Digitally-mediated human-nature relationships in sustainable Cities: Urban Forest governance in Melbourne and Sydney
Education/Academic qualification
Geography, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney
Environment and Development Studies, PGrad Certificate, The University of Melbourne
Geography, PhD, University of Sydney
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Network
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Projects
Harming/restoring waters: Researching water cultures along the Cudgegong and Goulburn Rivers.
McLean, J., Miller, F. & O'Gorman, E.
1/01/15 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Research Outputs
Changing digital geographies: technologies, environments and people
McLean, J., 2020, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 267 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Cultural turn
Maalsen, S. & McLean, J., 2020, Encyclopedia of human geography. Kobayashi, A. (ed.). 2nd ed. Elsevier, Vol. 3. p. 117-121 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary/reference book
A feminist perspective on digital geographies: activism, affect and emotion, and gendered human-technology relations in Australia
McLean, J., Maalsen, S. & Prebble, S., 4 May 2019, In : Gender, Place and Culture. 26, 5, p. 740-761 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Citations
(Scopus)
Country without rain
McLean, J., 2019, NGV Magazine, 16, p. 76-80 5 p.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
Decolonising strategies and neoliberal dilemmas in a tertiary institution: nurturing care-full approaches in a blended learning environment
McLean, J., Graham, M., Suchet-Pearson, S., Simon, H., Salt, J. & Parashar, A., May 2019, In : Geoforum. 101, p. 122-131 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prizes
Activities
GeoJournal (External organisation)
Jessica McLean (Member)20 Jan 2016
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Geographical Society of NSW (External organisation)
Jessica McLean (Member)1 Jan 2016
Activity: Membership › Membership of council
Institute of Australian Geographers (External organisation)
Jessica McLean (Member)1 Jan 2014
Activity: Membership › Membership of network