Full Description
This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues. Three themes are advanced here: Place and change, Transition and resilience, and Challenges for the future. Contributors embrace frameworks of co-design and transdisciplinary practice to build communities of practice in response to lived experience in regional contexts. Their work highlights the strategic importance of a regional focus at a time when global connectivity and mobility is increasing and the complexity of 'wicked' problems demands more than one approach or solution. Such complex problems require nuanced, and at times 'bespoke' methodological approaches to better understand and support not just regional adaptation, resilience and transformation, but to manage all these things at a time when change is everywhere.
Contents
1 Introduction.- 2 Regional contexts and regional research.- PART 1 PLACE AND CHANGE.- 3 Yenama Budjari Gumada, walk with good spirit as method - co-creating local environmental stewards on/with/as Darug Ngurra.- 4 Redefining landscape art.- 5 Kristin Linklater, finding the natural voice, in Orkney.- 6 Local values driven change management and leadership from the regions: Ballarat and UNESCO's HUL approach.- 7 The role of festival networks in community building.- 8 Leadership: Untapping the secret to regional wellbeing, belongingness and resilience.- PART 2 TRANSITION AND RESILIENCE.- 9 Mental Health and Mining: Research Challenges and Influences.- 10 A coalition of hope! A regional governance approach to Indigenous Australian cultural wellbeing.- 11 Real and virtual communities of practice: a case study from the Outer Hebrides.- 12 The dynamics of place-based virtual communities: Social media in regions.- 13 The significance of collaborative approaches and 'collective hope' in Gippsland during a time of regional transition.- 14 Constructing the 'Green Metropolis Ruhr' - Post-industrial greening narratives between regional transition and social distinction.- PART 3 CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE.- 15 Watery Places: stories of environmental and community renewal.- 16 Tidal Cultures in North Australia.- 17 Researching opportunities and disadvantage in regions.- 18 Energy, households and regions: feminist methodologies for transdisciplinary research.- 19 Out in the Regions: Queer Film Festivals, Community-Building and the Cultivation of Creative Talent in Regional Victoria.- 20 The Dialectics of Community and Government.
