The Urban and Culture Research Group explores diverse urban experiences in multiple ways. It highlights its interdisciplinary nature by engaging disciplines such as sociology, economics, history, geography, anthropology, management, public policy, cultural studies and other related areas. With a particular focus on the East Asian Region, especially Greater China Region studies (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), this research group highlights its particularities by comparatively conducting research by engaging existing research across different countries to push forward the theoretical boundary, it also carries out cross-disciplinary research to inform and influence debates on a broad range of issues on urban environments. The group’s three main strands of research are: urban development, which focuses on processes such as urbanization, economic growth, and social change; urban sustainability, addressing the environmental, social, and economic aspects of maintaining sustainable urban spaces; and cultural and economic transformations, which examine how tourism, culture, and economic activities influence and reshape urban environments and their management.
John C. Ryan is a writer, teacher, critic, and ethnographer. His current affiliations are Adjunct (Honorary) Associate Professor at Southern Cross University and Adjunct (Honorary) Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia. He has held academic positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University (2012–15) and University of New England, Australia (2017–20). He also served as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (2015–20).
His work comprises 18 academic books (authored and edited), 44 book chapters, 86 refereed journal articles, 16 refereed conference publications, and 82 conference and symposia presentations. He has published in high-impact journals such as Educational Theory and Philosophy, Australian Humanities Review, Continuum, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Global Media Journal, Oral History Australia Journal, Media International Australia, and TEXT; and with Bloomsbury, Brill, McGill-Queen’s, NewSouth Books, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, SUNY Press, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and University of Washington. To date, his research has attracted $218,350 US in competitive international funding.
His poetry and non-fiction have been published internationally by Fremantle Press, Margaret River Press, Arc Poetry Magazine, Australian Geographic, Axon, Cordite Poetry Review, and Griffith Review. Reviews of my work have appeared in Australian Poetry, Sydney Morning Herald, The Conversation, and Weekend Australian.
Virtual/Visiting Fellows 2023-24
Michele Lancione
Michele Lancione is full Professor of Geography at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. Co-founder and editor of the Radical Housing Journal and corresponding editor at IJURR, his work focuses on radical forms of inhabitation and housing struggles (through a five-year European Research Council project). With AbdouMaliq Simone, he has founded and co-directs the new Beyond Inhabitation: A Collective Study Lab (https://beyondinhabitation.org/). His latest books include Grammars of the Urban Ground (Duke University Press, ed with Ash Amin), Global Urbanism (Routledge, ed with Colin McFarlane) and the recent monograph For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press).
The Urban and Culture Research Group explores diverse urban experiences in multiple ways. It highlights its interdisciplinary nature by engaging disciplines such as sociology, economics, history, geography, anthropology, management, public policy, cultural studies and other related areas. With a particular focus on the East Asian Region, especially Greater China Region studies (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), this research group highlights its particularities by comparatively conducting research by engaging existing research across different countries to push forward the theoretical boundary, it also carries out cross-disciplinary research to inform and influence debates on a broad range of issues on urban environments. The group’s three main strands of research are: urban development, which focuses on processes such as urbanization, economic growth, and social change; urban sustainability, addressing the environmental, social, and economic aspects of maintaining sustainable urban spaces; and cultural and economic transformations, which examine how tourism, culture, and economic activities influence and reshape urban environments and their management.
Members
Virtual/Visiting Fellows 2022-23
John C. Ryan
John C. Ryan is a writer, teacher, critic, and ethnographer. His current affiliations are Adjunct (Honorary) Associate Professor at Southern Cross University and Adjunct (Honorary) Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia. He has held academic positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University (2012–15) and University of New England, Australia (2017–20). He also served as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (2015–20).
His work comprises 18 academic books (authored and edited), 44 book chapters, 86 refereed journal articles, 16 refereed conference publications, and 82 conference and symposia presentations. He has published in high-impact journals such as Educational Theory and Philosophy, Australian Humanities Review, Continuum, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Global Media Journal, Oral History Australia Journal, Media International Australia, and TEXT; and with Bloomsbury, Brill, McGill-Queen’s, NewSouth Books, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, SUNY Press, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and University of Washington. To date, his research has attracted $218,350 US in competitive international funding.
His poetry and non-fiction have been published internationally by Fremantle Press, Margaret River Press, Arc Poetry Magazine, Australian Geographic, Axon, Cordite Poetry Review, and Griffith Review. Reviews of my work have appeared in Australian Poetry, Sydney Morning Herald, The Conversation, and Weekend Australian.
Virtual/Visiting Fellows 2023-24
Michele Lancione
Michele Lancione is full Professor of Geography at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. Co-founder and editor of the Radical Housing Journal and corresponding editor at IJURR, his work focuses on radical forms of inhabitation and housing struggles (through a five-year European Research Council project). With AbdouMaliq Simone, he has founded and co-directs the new Beyond Inhabitation: A Collective Study Lab (https://beyondinhabitation.org/). His latest books include Grammars of the Urban Ground (Duke University Press, ed with Ash Amin), Global Urbanism (Routledge, ed with Colin McFarlane) and the recent monograph For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press).