Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Prof. Louise Johnson

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Position Professor
Email louise.johnson@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 522 73375
Campus Geelong
Location Geelong and Burwood
Role and profile Associate Professor Louise Johnson is a human geographer with particular research interests in the social consctuction of space. She has published extensively on the ways in which gender relations and economic restructuring have interacted in manufacturing workplaces but also on how gender is inscribed into the design and use of shopping centres, houses and neighbourhoods.

Current work is on how the arts are valued in a regional centre, on the nature of cultural capital and how it contributes to regional regeneration in cities around the world as well as on the gendering of domestic spaces and the contemporary Australian suburb.

Dr Johnson can supervise students in the areas of regional restructuring, domestic space, housing and suburbs and in the economic, social and spatial impact of the cultural industries.

Professional Activities
Dr Johnson is a member of the Geography and Gender Group of the International Geographical Union and is active in the Cultural Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geogrpahers.

She is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Gender, Place and Culture, The Canadian Geographer, the New Zealand Geographer and ACME (an on line radical geography journal).

She also reviews regularly for Urban Policy and Research, Geographical Research and for Australian Geographical Studies.

Consultancies
Worked with Dr Iain Butterworth and Ms Melissah Edwards on a Healthy Region Business Plan for the G21 Geelong Region Alliance (2007)

A member for two years (2000-2002) of the Victorian Government's Infrastructure Planning Council.

Consulted to the National Wool Museum on its contribution to Cultural TOurism in the Geelong Region (2004)

"Laurimar Development Workshop",examining ways of improving the design of the 3 000
lot suburban subdivision in the Plenty Corridor, Melbourne (1995)

"Why regions matter for employment services" Pamphlet and paper
for Barwon employment Services and Training (1997)

Keynote Addresses
"Oracles of Delfin: Women and suburban development" Portraits of Planning
and as a "Major Speaker" "Principles of Planning: Responsive
Development for Diverse Communities", Adelaide, 1995.

Private interests: Public development, Address to the Second
Dockland Forum, Melbourne, Feb 1998

Research Interests

  • The nature of Australian cities and suburbs,
    The structure and gendering of domestic space
    New perspectives on Australian planning history
  • Neighbourhood design and women's lived experience
  • Cultural capital and the value of the arts internationally
  • Gendering of regional shopping centres.
  • Economic and social restructuring of Australian regions, especially Geelong.
  • Women's work, both paid and non-paid.
    • Teaching responsibilities Australian Studies, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Urban Policy and Planning
    Research interests ARC on "Quantifying and qualifying cultural capital in one regional centre" (2000-2003)
    Special Editions of Gender, Place and Culture on "Savouring the Kitchen" 2006
    Books in preparation:
    Cultural Capitals - The arts and urban regeneration (Ashgate Publishing, London)
    Planning Australia - New Perspectives
    Research link View Deakin associated research data
    Publications

    Johnson, L. (2009) 'Cultural Capitals: Revaluing The Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces' Ashgate

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    22nd April 2013