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Kaya Tatjana Barry

@kayatbarry.bsky.social
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Interested in mobilities – geography – art – migration – tourism – air travel – birds – weather (she/her)

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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
‼️(a little late, but here is the big news) -- The Encyclopedia of Mobilities - is published! Edited by Peter Adey, Weiqiang Lin and myself, it was a delight to work with so many amazing authors and contributors from across the world! www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Emily House and I have been hunting for the Big Strawberry 🍓 and tracing the history of the Ekka's strawberry sundaes alongside farming in southeast Queensland. Here's our latest research online: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/farm-ga...
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From the farm gate to the Ekka strawberry sundae – a search for the Big Strawberry
For more than 70 years, Queenslanders have flocked to the Ekka to enjoy one of its best known icons – the strawberry sundae. The design is simple: a wafer cone filled with strawberry ice cream, a laye...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.
A man standing up in a crowded room of people sitting. He is dressed in workman's clothes and has his head raised as if speaking up when not necessarily belonging there.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
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1) Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area
Han Cheng,  Deen Sharp

2) Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations
Aya Nassar

3) Constructing and contesting meta-geographies in Russian area studies debates
Vera Smirnova

4) Geography and area studies as critical bedfellows? The view from Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh

5) Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography
Han Cheng

6) Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa
Maano Ramutsindela

7) Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities
Kaya Barry

8) Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis
Zuhri James

9) Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining
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1) Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi-species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion
Amy Robson

2) Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers
Austin Read

3) Infra-culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast
Julian Clark

4) Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality
Jonathan Darling,  Andrew Burridge

5) On the natural border: A bio-geo-political reading
Matteo Proto,  Francesco Buscemi

6) Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London
Saskia Papadakis

7) Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK
Sarah M. Hughes

8) On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics
Charlotte Veal

9) High-resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India
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1) Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities?
David McCollum

2) The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic
Alison Stenning,  Wendy Russell

3) Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough
Victoria J. E. Jones

4) What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home
David Bissell,  Elisabetta Crovara,  Andrew Gorman-Murray,  Elizabeth Straughan

5) Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention

6) Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis
Ankit Kumar,  Chandni Singh,  Lauren Hermanus,  Lalitha Kamath,  Wangui Kimari,  Mark Pelling,  Harriet Bulkeley
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Cheryl @aggerchez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This is an important report by @kayatbarry.bsky.social & colleagues on just some of the issues faced by workers who come to Australia on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. Much room for improvement and government needs to take action. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Thousands have left Pacific worker scheme and are stuck in visa limbo
Pacific Islanders have been leaving Australia's guest worker scheme, a decision that breaches their visa conditions and leaves them "extremely vulnerable".
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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New blog post. This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn. You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post. www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
aannddd it is — saw the 1000th bus too!
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
off to a good start with the rainbow cityglider arriving for the morning commute 🌈🚌
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Photos from the amazing "Yield" exhibition at Caboolture Regional Gallery, where a selection of my "Seasonal" photographs are showing. On until March 2026, do check out this amazing exhibition on colonial agricultural legacies! www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Galleries-Mu...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Today's the last day to complete this short survey for the ARC about the use of AI in grant assessment. Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Here's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment": www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
an 8 hour round trip to Gayndah on Monday, to install the next version of the "Seasonal" exhibition. Stay tuned for more photos after the opening this Saturday at 6pm!
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
hello Newcastle! chasing the tail of this "bomb cyclone", ready for the Institute of australian geographer's conference! ‼️🌀⛈️✈️
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
next week I'm showing a selection of weather warning diagrams (artworks) at University of Newcastle gallery. Maybe I've jinxed it, looking at the weather forecast... 🫣⛈️🌀
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
NEW: "Seasonal excess: Moving with place and produce through creative fieldwork" out now, with my amazing collaborators Emily House and Willow Ross onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
brisbane's bus network will be overhauled next week! At major stations, extra staff at the platforms are announcing the changes, with calls like: "LAST CHANCE! to ride the 170, it will cease to exist next week!" 🚍
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' by @kayatbarry.bsky.social This paper examines the experiences of seasonal migrants in horticultural communities in Queensland, Australia. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Kaya Barry (2025) entitled 'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' with a red banner at the top.
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
8pm tomorrow night!! - listen to ABC Radio National Big Ideas for our public panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate" with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate - ABC listen
Who picks and processes those yummy strawberries you're about to put in your shopping trolley, or the crisp veggies you might stir-fry tonight? Did you know it could be a nurse or a police officer fro...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Listen in at 8pm tomorrow night! Our Canberra panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people—inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate." Listen to ABC Radio National's Big Ideas with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate - ABC listen
Who picks and processes those yummy strawberries you're about to put in your shopping trolley, or the crisp veggies you might stir-fry tonight? Did you know it could be a nurse or a police officer fro...
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
More from Livingmaps Review 17! In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth. www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
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Cultural Geography Australia @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Check out this new paper out by @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Rafael Azeredo:
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The tourism-migration nexus: working holiday visa politics and repurposing tourists as labour
The ‘working holiday’ model of youth mobility has evolved alongside backpacking in recent decades. Increasingly, backpackers on working holidays are seen as a potential labour source in many nation...
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Ari Jerrems @arijerrems.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more-than-military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwe...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
after three years of tramping around Queensland, having to move office coincides with the end of my fellowship project! Dismantling the postcard collection today... 🚅🍌🍊🍍🫐🐑🧳✈️
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Umut Ozguc @umutozguc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
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Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration
Get tickets on Humanitix - Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration . Online. Wednesday 16th April 2025. Find event information.
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
koala encounters! remember to slow down in the wet and during joey season! @griffith.edu.au
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
NEW: The bohemian imaginary — my brilliant co-conspirator Peter Varley & I dreamt up this paper about how tourism is imagined, practiced, and fetishised in contemporary consumerist culture. #Debord #spectacle #tourism #mobilties #subcultures www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The bohemian imaginary in the society of the spectacle
The emancipatory promise of bohemia as a realm of free expression is inextricably woven into the desires and dreams of tourism. The bohemian drive for…
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
interested in weather, seasons, or climate mobilities? in this paper I unpack assumptions about Western, colonialist weather ideals that underpin seasonal employment and migration
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Among growing attention to weather in geography, the seasons have been largely overlooked. Seasonal concerns underpin not only the weather, but also migration flows, tourism and trade, farming, and a...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇
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“Under the ARC board’s proposals, most stand-alone fellowships would be replaced by “embedded fellowships” funded through other grant schemes and capped at two years. “Traditional four-year fellowships concentrate a significant amount of funds on a small number of individual researchers,” a discussion paper explains.
Observers fear this could inadvertently deny many ECRs a toehold in academia because current fellowship schemes such as the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Decra) and the mid-career Future Fellowships are available to researchers without positions at universities.
This could change under the proposals. The discussion paper implies that recipients of embedded fellowships must already be in “the university workforce” – suggesting that ECRs must obtain employment in the sector before gaining eligibility for ARC grants.
That is an “unrealistic” expectation, according to Sharath Sriram, president of Science and Technology Australia. “The assumption is all those who apply are already…in academic roles. That might have been true in the 1990s. It’s not the case anymore.
“There’s no stability of employment for people until they are six, seven years out of their PhDs. Universities often use success in grants and fellowships to determine who to employ.”
A researcher who monitors grant schemes, using the social media handle “ARC Tracker”, was unconvinced that the proposals would improve opportunities for ECRs.
They said changes to fellowship schemes needed to avoid closing “pathways” for young researchers and leaving them “overshadowed by the established group leaders”.
ARC Board chair Peter Shergold acknowledged the fellowship changes as one of the “stings in the tail” of his proposals, but said a primary goal of his reforms was “contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers”.
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Join us Thurs 13 March for a public panel discussion hosted by ABC Radio National's @natashamitchell.bsky.social about the experiences of workers from the Pacific in Australia. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...
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Temporary: We wanted workers but we got people
Images and stories of temporary labour migration from the Pacific.
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Join us Thurs 13 March for a public panel discussion hosted by ABC Radio National's @natashamitchell.bsky.social about the experiences of workers from the Pacific in Australia. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...
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Temporary: We wanted workers but we got people
Images and stories of temporary labour migration from the Pacific.
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
interested in #birds, #biosecurity, or #borders? my essay on continental scales and potential avian threats is now published in the latest issue of Australian Geographer, free to access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KGVWT... @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social
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Coming in to land? More-than-human mobilities, biosecurity, and practices of coexistence
Geographies of more-than-human relations have flourished in the past decade, offering innovative methodological and conceptual approaches to studying how humans are entangled with an array of anima...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
peculiar little cyclone pictographic.. I like the way the rain drops are added in. (on a serious note — make sure you have an emergency kit, let's hope we don't need it)
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
happy first day of autumn 🍂🌀
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
Table from page 25 of the proposed restructure of ARC grants. Back text on white background, with the table delineated by a dark blue header row and alternating light and very light blue rows.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
And the thing is, the war never ended. The tactics just changed. 'More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows
‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. We discuss new research with wonderful scholars from different disciplines: K. Brimblecombe-Fox, @emilyfaux.bsky.social, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social and @julietjfall.bsky.social. Join us in person or online. www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows
‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Watch. Then vote wisely. No. Vote. Is. Ever. Wasted! Why? Preferential voting, of course. If you don't know how this *actually* works, watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley.... Thanks, @thejuicemedia.bsky.social.
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Honest Government Ad | Preferential Voting
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Bronte Alexander (she/her) @brontealexander.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Thoroughly enjoyed this workshop - great to see the essay in print! Read on for some reflections on the aesthetics of emergency (im)mobilities
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
NEW: a creative essay "DRSABCD—RESUS IN AN EMERGENCY: A Collective Diagramming of Emergency (Im)mobilities" is now out in Mobility Humanities journal. Led by myself and Peter Adey, emerging from a workshop at Griffith Uni in 2023 journal-mobilityhumanities.com?ckattempt=1&...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
‘Academics have accused the education minister of “arbitrary political interference” in the Australian Research Council’. Good to see this report on our academic open letter in support of @RandaAFattah which now has more than 700 signatures www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Education minister accused of ‘political interference’ over review of funding for prominent pro-Palestinian academic
Jason Clare has asked Australian Research Council board to investigate $870,000 grant to Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has faced criticism for controversial comments
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
a stack of new books! I'd better get reading..
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
sydney train strike...
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Presenting at the Precarious Labour Geographies symposium today
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Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Good to see our friends from @polgeographygroup.bsky.social on Bluesky!
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
for those who are geographically inclined, the Cultural Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers now has a bluesky account! Follow us here -- @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social
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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Join us — 13 March in Canberra for the launch of TEMPORARY: we wanted workers but we got people — an exhibition of images & stories of temporary migration from the Pacific to Australia. By Matt Withers, Kirstie Petrou, Jeanette Tanghwa, Ema Moolchand, and me. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...
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Temporary: We wanted workers but we got people
Images and stories of temporary labour migration from the Pacific.
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