Expert Profile

Lisa Law

Areas of Expertise	Cultural tourism Natural hazard/disaster mitigation and recovery Planning Public Health
Organization	James Cook University (Cairns)
Position	Senior Lecturer
Email Address	Lisa.Law@jcu.edu.au
Phone Number	7 40421389
Mobile	0427-688946
Qualifications	BA (Hons) (UWO) PhD (ANU)
Biography	Broadly speaking I am a cultural geographer with interests in the relation between people, place and knowledge/power in Southeast Asia. My research crosses a broad spectrum of social and urban issues, including: global discourses of health promotion, the changing meanings of public space, embodied experiences of migration and (more recently) cinematic constructions of the region. My research draws on feminist and postcolonial theory to help explicate a range of intensively researched empirical sites. I am currently developing a new project on Australian Tropical Geographies which links a rejuvenated national interest in Australia's 'tropical footprint' with academic debates that critically interrogate the production and circulation of tropical knowledges through the 19th and 20th centuries. In a postcolonial context of multiculturalism and regional connectedness, I am interested in how Australian tropical futures might be enmeshed with Southeast Asia.
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