Macquarie University Faculty of Science
Department of Environment and Geography - Human Geography
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BSc (Hons, Class 1) (Macq) MPA (Harvard)ProfileRobyn Dowling is an urban and cultural geographer. Her primary research interests are in cultures of cities, and in particular the ways gender and class identities overlap in the everyday lives of urban residents. She has a special interest in the cultural geographies of Sydney, but has also undertaken research in Canada. Robyn's secondary research interests are in retailing, and especially the interconnections of culture and capital in contemporary retailing strategies. Robyn has recently completed an Australian Research Council funded project entitled 'Reinterpreting Suburbia'. This focuses on the nature of 'home' in contemporary Sydney, using qualitative research with householders in suburban Sydney to outline people's creations of style, fashion, home and family. This material forms part of her recently published book 'Home' (Routledge), co-authored with Professor Alison Blunt of the University of London. This book also develops a new critical geography of home the multi-scalar nature of its home and its political, social and cultural importance. Robyn's current research is the Sydney Neighbourhood Project that explores the contours of privatisation and privatism in residential life in Sydney. Also funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, and in collaboration with Professor Pauline McGuirk of the University of Newcastle and Dr Rowland Atkinson of the University of Tasmania, this research is aimed at extending understandings of this new form of residential neighbourhood. It also explores the changing governance processes in Australian cities and the ways 'community' is drawn upon and constructed through these processes. Robyn supervises a number of higher degree research students and welcomes enquiries from those interested in postgraduate study in the broad fields of urban and cultural geography. Publications
Books (E1)Blunt, A. and Dowling, R . ( 2006) Home , London: Routledge Articles in refereed journals (C1)McGuirk, P. and Dowling, R . 2007 "Understanding master-planned estates in Australian cities: a framework for research" Urban Policy and Research 25,1, pp.21-38. Fagan, R. and Dowling, R . 2005 "Neoliberalism and suburban employment: western Sydney in the 1990s" Geographical Research , 43,1, pp.71-81 McNeill, D., Dowling, R . and Fagan, F. 2005 "Sydney/Global/City: an exploration" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , 29, 4, pp.935-944. Dowling, R . 2005 "Social and cultural geography in Australia", Social and Cultural Geography , 6,5, pp.767-775. Dowling, R . 2005 "Residential building in Australia, 1993-2003", Urban Policy and Research , 23,4, pp.444-461. Mee, K. and Dowling, R (2003) Reading Idiot Box: films, reviews and the relationship between social worlds and cultural products, Social and Cultural Geography , 4, (2), 185-200. Creese, G. and Dowling, R (2001) Gender and immigration in Sydney and Vancouver, Progress in Planning , 55, 153-162. Bridge, G. and Dowling, R (2001) Microgeographies of retailing and gentrification, Australian Geographer , 32, (1), 93-107. Dowling, R (2000), Cultures of mothering and car use in suburban Sydney: a preliminary investigation, Geoforum , 31, (3), 345-353. Dowling, R (1999) Classing the body, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 17, (5), 511-514 Dowling, R Gollner, A and O'Dwyer, B (1999) A Gender Perspective on Urban Car Use: A Qualitative Case Study, Urban Policy and Research , 17, (2), 101-110. Dowling, R., 1998, "Neotraditionalism in the suburban landscape: cultural geographies of exclusion in suburban Canada" Urban Geography , 19,2, pp.105-22. Dowling, R ., 1998, "Gender, class and home ownership: placing the connections", Housing Studies , 13, 4, pp.471-486. Dowling, R . and P.M.McGuirk, 1998, "Gendered geographies in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific" Australian Geographer , 29,3, pp.279-291. Dowling, R . 1997, "Planning for culture in Australia" Australian Geographical Studies , 35,1, pp.23-31. Dowling, R ., 1996, "Symbolic constructions of place in suburban Surrey British Columbia", Canadian Geographer , 40,1, pp.70-75. Dowling. R . and G. Pratt, 1993, "Home truths: recent feminist constructions", Urban Geography , 14,5, pp.467-75. Dowling, R . 1993, "Femininity, place and commodities: a retail case study", Antipode , 25,3, pp.295-319.Refereed book chapters (B1)Dowling, R. 2005 "Power, ethics and subjectivity in qualitative research" in I Hay (ed) Qualitative Methods in Human Geography , second edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.19-29. Dowling, R (2001) The revitalization of retailing in central and inner Sydney in J Barrett and C Butler-Bowdon (eds) Debating the City: An Anthology , Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 193-203. Dowling, R (2000) Power, ethics and subjectivity in qualitative research in I Hay (ed) Qualitative Methods in Human Geography , Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 23-36. Dowling, R and Mee, K (2000) Tales of the City: Western Sydney at the end of the millenium in J Connell (ed) Sydney: The Emergence of a World City, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 273-291. Dowling, R ., 1998, "Suburban stories, gendered lives: thinking through difference" in R. Fincher and J. Jacobs, editors, Cities of Difference , New York: Guilford
Refereed conference papers (E1)Dowling, R . and P. M c Guirk, (2006) 'Master-Planned Estates and Suburban Complexity' in After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney , the e-Proceedings of the 2005 'Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation' Conference ( http://www.uws.edu.au/research/researchcentres/ccr/publications#5 ) Dowling, R (2003) Gendered and feminist geographies in Australia, Geography's New Frontiers, Sydney: Geographical Society of New South Wales Incorporated . Lyth-Gollner, A. and Dowling, R (2002) The implications of household form, gender, and parenting cultures for car use and urban transport policy: a Sydney case study, Papers of the 25th Australasian Transport Research Forum Canberra , 2-4 October 2002, sect. 7. Mee, K. and Dowling, R (2000) Working-class masculinity, suburbia and resistance: David Caesar's Idiot Box, Habitus 2000: A Sense of Place Conference Proceedings, School of Architecture, Construction and Planning, Curtin University of Technology.
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