Michelle Duffy

Home sounds: experiential practices and performativities of hearing and listening

We argue that a closer attention to the everyday visceral experiences of hearing and listening offers new insights into geographies of home and practices of sustainability. We suggest that this approach is significant to understanding how sound helps to assemble and reassemble the relationships that comprise home. We concentrate on a group of 10 amenity-led migrants in their ‘new coastal home’ in Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia. Each participant recorded a sound diary composed of their everyday sounds. Our interpretation explores the visceral connections in the processes of making bodies feel ‘at home’. First, we discuss how the rhythmic affordances of both human and non-human sounds help configure and reconfigure the spatiality and temporality of home. Second, our interpretation explores how sound is bound up with sustainability politics of homemaking. We investigate experiential practices and performativities of listening and hearing that may help constitute and reconstitute ‘a’ subject. This approach extends current thinking that encourages engagement with the corporeal, affective and emotional dimensions of home.

‘Let’s Have Some Music’: Sound, Gender and Car Mobility

Abstract This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasures associated with listening to sound/music during short car trips. The first part of the paper reviews the recent literature on ‘feelings for cars’. We highlight why gender is often absent from the literature before offering a conceptual lens drawing on geographical feminist thinking to consider sound/music, feelings, gender and mobility. We draw on driving ethnographies to explore the role of sound/music in how gender is assembled with the flow of connections between bodies, spaces and affects/emotions. Considering the contextual pleasures of listening to sound/music on these trips and emergent gender subjectivities we provide a more nuanced interpretation of why people choose to drive cars. To conclude, we point to the implications for applied research for new context-specific transport and climate change policy.

Characteristics and future intentions of second homeowners: a case study from Eastern Victoria, Australia

Underpinning much of the literature surrounding lifestyle migration, counter-urbanisation and second-home use is the question of motivations and future intentions. In this paper, we explore the characteristics and orientations for future use of land by second-home owners in two locales in Victoria Australia, Phillip Island and Inverloch. Using both qualitative and quantitative survey data we find that there are three areas of second-home governance which ought to be considered strongly for future planning in these areas, health, roads and infrastructure and climate change or sustainability. Using data from permanent residents and second-home owners from these areas in collaboration with demographic data, we argue that underlining these areas is a primary concern, that of ageing. However, while these issues burn brightly for both users of property in these places, the ability for the local government authorities to deal with them is limited because of a lack of resources.

Community events and social justice in urban growth areas

Community festivals appear to be proliferating, partly in response to local government social justice policy imperatives around strengthening sense of community among their constituents. This has led to policies that encourage participation by all so as to minimise social isolation, increase opportunities for interaction and facilitate greater understanding of difference, as well as the maintenance of minority cultural practices [Lee, I., Arcodia, C., & Jeonglyeol Lee, T. (2012). Benefits of visiting a multicultural festival: The case of South Korea. Tourism Management, 33, 334–340]. However, community is a contested and multifaceted term, and sense of community is intangible and therefore hard to measure. Taking a case study approach, this paper examined two community festivals in the growth corridor in the south-east of Melbourne, Australia; one a long-running grassroots festival celebrating the rural traditions of the area and the other a new festival designed and staged by the local authority to address their community strengthening objectives. The findings of the study show that both councils accept within their policies that festivals and events have strong connections with community and identity. However, their focus on a place-based definition of community and a relatively narrow view of what constitutes community has led to limited success in achieving their objectives.

Festivals and sense of community in places of transition: the Yakkerboo Festival, an Australian case study

1. Defining and exploring community festivals and events Allan Jepson & Alan Clarke 2. Organic Festivity: A Missing Element of Community Festival Vern Biaett 3. Experiencing Community Festivals and Events: Insights from Finnish Summer Festivals Maarit Kinnunen & Antti Haahti 4. Festivals and sense of community in places of transition: The Yakkerboo Festival, an Australian case study Michelle Duffy & Judith Mair 5. New and old tourism traditions - The case of Skieda in Livigno, Italian Alps Margherita Pedrana 6. Whose festival?: Examining questions of participation, access and ownership in rural festivals Jodie George, Rosie Roberts, & Jessica Pacella 7 . Whas Like Us? Scottish Highland Games in America and the Identity of the Scots Diaspora Jenny Flinn & Daniel Turner 8. Football on the Weekend: Rural Events and the Haitian Imagined Community in the Dominican Republic Nicholas Wise 9. Pride, Identity and Authenticity in Community Festivals and Events in Malta Vincent Zammit 10. The Importance of community events in nationalist oriented political environments: the case of Portuguese Estado Novo Candida Cadavez 11. Something Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Narratives of Sense of Place at a Community Multicultural Festival Kelley A. McClinchey 12. Open House Food Catering: Does It Destroy Local Culture and Traditions? A perspective from Malaysia Azilah Kasim, Mohamed Azlan Ashaari & Shahrul Aman Sabir Ahmad 13. Religion, Community and Events Rev. Ruth Dowson 14. Taste-ing Festivals: Understanding Constructions of Rural Identity through Community Festivals Jessica Pacella, Jodie George & Rosie Roberts 15. Swiss and Italian Identities: Exploring Heritage, Culture and Community in Regional Australia Leanne White 16. The Pozieres Son et Lumiere: Peace and memory after the Great War Caroline Winter 17. End of the rainbow? A review of community events in Liverpool W. Gerard Ryan 18. Exploring, defining and concluding upon community festivals and events Allan Jepson & Alan Clarke

Space–body–ritual: performativity in the city

methods. The findings are also somewhat underplayed and get lost in the rhetoric. I think the conclusion could have been more confident. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and I learned a lot from it that will inform myown researchwithwomenexpatriates inEastAsia.This is because the authors argue for an inclusive approach to women’s movement analysis that views all organisations as both legitimate and feminist, and because they call for majority women to reflect on their own whiteness, especially through the use of transversal politics and memory work.