Dr Kathryn Ferguson

Australian Postdoctoral Fellow

Kathryn Ferguson

ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia (2007-2009)

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Research Interests

The way we think about a place affects the way we treat a place.  However, the reciprocal relationships forged between places, people, imagination, and culture are dynamic, complex, multi-layered, rarely stable, and never univocal or homogeneous.  Thus, Kathryn’s research brings into play an unusually wide range of critical theories, intellectual models, and disciplinary approaches to investigate how places come to be known and narrativised in specific and oft-times contradictory ways.  Refusing the false dichotomies of science/society and nature/culture, her scholarship has examined an eclectic set of controversial sites.  Recently, she has come to question the changing place of the Great Barrier Reef in the Australian national landscape, and the constitution of the Reef as a national icon.

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