My research examines the cultures and politics of human-shark encounter and shark hazard management.
Sharks have become the focus of intense public and policy debate in recent years. Published in Scottish Geographical Journal Water places: cultural, social and more-than-human geographies of nature Just add water: colonisation, water governance, and the Australian inland Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Published in Environment and Planning C: Government and PolicyĪrts-science collaboration, embodied research methods, and the politics of belonging: 'SiteWorks' and the Shoalhaven River, Australiaīottles, bores, and boats: agency of water assemblages in post/colonial inland AustraliaĪ beautiful soaking rain: environmental value and water beyond Eurocentrism Urban water governance failure and local strategies for overcoming water shortages in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Transforming shark hazard policy: learning from ocean-users and shark encounter in Western Australia Gibbs L 2018 'Shores: Sharks, Nets and More-Than-Human Territory in Eastern Australia' in Peters K, Steinberg P and Stratford E (Eds) Territory Beyond Terra Rowman & Littlefield International, LondonĬamel country: Assemblage, belonging and scale in invasive species geographies Published in Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities Pratt S, Marambio C, Quigley K, Hamylton S, Gibbs L, Vergés A, Adams M, Barcan R, Neimanis A (2020) 'Fathom' Environmental Humanities 12(1) 173–8 Īnimal geographies I: Hearing the cry and extending beyond Williams K, Hamylton S, Ihlein L & Gibbs L (2020) ‘Sustaining the seas through interdisciplinary songwriting’ in Probyn E, Johnston K & Lee N (Eds) Sustaining the Seas: oceanic space and the politics of care. Rowman & Littlefield International, London & New York, pp281–92 ( /ISBN/9781786612830/Sustaining-Seas-Oceanic-Space-and-the-Politics-of-Care) Gibbs L, Fetterplace L, Rees M, Hanich Q (2020) 'Effects and effectiveness of lethal shark hazard management: the Shark Meshing (Bather Protection) Program, NSW, Australia' People and Nature 2(1) 189–203 Gibbs L (2020) 'Agency in human–shark encounter' Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space Gibbs L (2020) 'Animal Geographies II: killing and caring (in times of crisis)' Progress in Human Geography
Gibbs (2020) ‘Oceans’ An A–Z of Shadow Places Concepts Hamylton S, Gibbs L, Williams K & Ihlein L (2020) ‘Can interdisciplinary insights encourage a meaningful response to the climate crisis? Narratives from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’ GeoHumanities 6(2) 394-412 I draw on concepts and methods from cultural geography, more-than-human approaches, environmental governance, and interdisciplinary scholarship.Įxamples of my current research projects are listed below, under 'Research overview'.Īdams K, Gibbs L, Knott N, Broad A, Hing M, Taylor M, Davis A (2020) ‘Coexisting with sharks: a novel, socially acceptable and non-lethal shark mitigation approach’ Scientific Reports 10, 17497