Chris Gibson

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Urban and regional geographer with research interests in cultural-economy, sustainability, regional development, tourism, and music. Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His book The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree (Univ. of Chicago Press, with Andrew Warren), won the 2023 Woody Guthrie Award.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Human Geography, University of Wollongong

Education

  • 2000 
    University of Sydney, PhD/Human Geography

Publications

  • 2021
    The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree, University of Chicago Press
  • 2017
    Outback Elvis: the Story of a Festival, its Fans, and a Town Called Parkes, NewSouth, Sydney
  • 2014
    Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
  • 2012
    Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative Industries, Routledge, London and New York
  • 2012
    Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia, Ashgate, Farnham
  • 2011
    Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, Channel View, Bristol
  • 2009
    Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries, Charles Darwin University
  • 2005
    Music and Tourism, Channel View, Clevedon
  • 2004
    Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney
  • 2003
    Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place, Routledge, London and New York

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    Continuity and change in the Australian industrial landscape
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2016
    Urban cultural policy and the changing dynamics of cultural production
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2010
    Crisis and change: cultural economic research on adaptability and sustainability
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2009
    Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2009
    Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2008
    Cultural Asset Mapping for Planning and Development in Regional Australia
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers
  • Fellow, Geographical Society of New South Wales
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Research Areas

  • Cultural Studies (2002)
  • Human Geography (1604)
  • Economic Geography (160401)
  • Recreation, Leisure And Tourism Geography (160402)
  • Social And Cultural Geography (160403)
  • Urban And Regional Studies (Excl. Planning) (160404)
  • Urban And Regional Planning (1205)

Honours

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia; Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers; Fellow of the Geographical Society of New South Wales

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