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In this article, on behalf of The Shadow Places Network, we outline a working manifesto of politics and practice. We mobilise the format of the manifesto to speak to an uncertain and damaged future, to begin to imagine other possible worlds. For feminist philosopher Val Plumwood, whose thinking inspires this network, shadow places are the underside of the capitalist fantasy, ‘the multiple disregarded places of economic and ecological support’. In turning towards shadow places, and the unjust and unsustainable processes that produce them, we call for an environmental humanities that reaches beyond abstraction, fosters new responsibilities, considers the uncomfortable, and generates reparative possibilities and alternative futures. We aim to continue to trace out a world of shadow places. We acknowledge that these shadow places cannot be known in full, but through a willingness to engage in careful conversation with the beings and places harmed by (or strategically shielded from) processes of the Anthropocene, we can learn how to relate to each other and these places in more just ways. Recognising that shadow places are impermanent and contingent, this working manifesto does not look to predetermine or prescribe but rather invites conversation, encounter and exchange. In so doing we choose to contribute to making different worlds possible by pursuing new collaborations, new methods and new politics.

Background: The early stages of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic left many hospital systems devoid of personal protective equipment. Community-driven groups manufactured Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as a form of temporary replacement until supply could increase to frontline healthcare workers. The purpose of this study was to survey hospital systems in Alabama and Mississippi who requested and received PPE to determine recipient opinions concerning community involvement.Methods: A 15-question Qualtrics survey was distributed to hospital systems who requested and received community-generated PPE (CGPPE) from the group known as Alabama Fighting COVID. 275 responses were gathered over a period of 6 months.Results: Survey data showed that most respondents from healthcare and healthcare-associated professions responded that wearing community generated personal protective equipment provided them with the perception of added protection (55.31% of participants selected either “Agree” or “Strongly Agree”), and that it improved their outlook and desire to work during the pandemic (51.77% of participants selected either “Agree” or “Strongly Agree”).Conclusions: Most respondents reported that wearing community generated personal protective equipment not only provided them with the perception of added protection, but that it improved their outlook and desire to work during the pandemic. With these responses in mind, our study raises questions concerning whether local CGPPE distribution could improve well-ness outcomes of healthcare workers (HCWs) not only in relation to decreased viral transmission, but also in favorable psychosocial health assessments. Further implications for research concerning community involvement during future medical crises are indicated, especially with the current rise of the delta variant strain.

The stories that emerge when thinking about, and with, rivers capture human and more-than-human connections and disarticulations. The changes over time and space that rivers and their catchments ma...

Automation and privatisation of the Australian visa processing system may produce digital injustices. As of late 2018, the federal government is pursuing automation and privatisation of visa processing to increase revenue, but this move will cut at least 3000 jobs and, given other experiences in automation and privatisation processes pursued by the government, is likely to produce serious errors. Automation of visa processing is under consideration and it may involve the use of artificial intelligence to facilitate decision-making on visas, drawing on digital tools to achieve this end. At this stage, the exact form of privatisation and automation for Australian visa processing is not yet decided. A digital justice lens is used to analyse some of the issues associated with uncritically pursuing ‘disruptive’ technologies.

New learning and teaching methods such as 'blended learning' are increasingly promoted within higher education institutions. Such methods – especially those which replace slow scholarship and/or people with digital technologies – run the risk of reinforcing neoliberal learning spaces and perpetuating processes of 'deep colonization' (Rose, 1996). We argue that these new learning and teaching methods must be grounded in critical pedagogies to avoid extending neoliberal agendas in the university context. Furthermore, we propose these methods require careful student and teacher reflection, coupled with conscientious attempts at decolonising existing educational institutions and pedagogies (Radcliffe, 2017). In this article we explore the intersections and disconnections between critical pedagogy, attempts at decolonising the classroom, and flexible learning approaches like blended learning. We draw on our collective experiences as both teachers and students who are continuously learning – learning-teachers and learning-students – within the context of a higher level subject entitled 'Rethinking Resource Management' which is taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. A blended learning approach is practiced by the learning-teachers of this course, in an effort to situate their responsibilities and shift their pedagogy towards decolonizing approaches. In this dialogue between learning-teachers and learning-students, we argue that while blended learning can provide opportunities to improve learning experiences and support decolonising pedagogies, constraints that arise from a neoliberal university context, such as the reframing of students as clients and the prioritisation of money-saving approaches, can moderate such promise. Further, decolonising education requires more than what can be delivered by blended learning approaches in isolation. They also fundamentally require a careful reconfiguration of responsibilities in a relational and multidirectional manner, of learning-teachers, learning-students and the broader learning-institution context. So while the learning-teachers' efforts at decolonising the classroom and better engaging with learning-students remain partial, they are deeply valued by many learning-students and are important tentative contributions towards nurturing more 'care-full' decolonising learning spaces. The article offers a critical discussion of the issues raised in a dialogue between learning-teachers and learning-students of Rethinking Resource Management, and considers what we can contribute to broader debates in decolonising learning, the blended learning trend and structural changes in universities. We offer this instance of care-full teaching and learning as a case study that emphasises dialogue, in multiple modes, to renegotiate power relations, and to advocate caution in moves toward top-down entrenchment of digital teaching modes.

Feminist digital geographies are an important part of the digital turn currently underway in geographic scholarship. At the same time, feminist movements are taking advantage of, and emerging from,...

COVID‐19 has radically changed the higher education sector in Australia and beyond. Restrictions on student movement (especially for international students) and on gatherings (which limited on‐campus sessions) saw universities transition to fully online teaching modes almost overnight. In this commentary, we reflect on this transition and consider the implications for teaching the disciplines of geography and planning. Reflecting on experiences at the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University, we explore a series of challenges, responses and opportunities for teaching core disciplinary skills and knowledge across three COVID‐19 moments: transition, advocacy, and hybridity. Our focus is on the teaching of core disciplinary skills and knowledge and specifically on geographical theory, methods, and fieldwork and professional practice skills. In drawing on this case from Macquarie University, we offer insights for the future of teaching geography and planning in universities more broadly.

Around the world, digital geographies have been renegotiated in the COVID-19 pandemic, from increased surveillance with digital devices to facilitation of new spatial boundaries for work and recreation. Digital storytelling has emerged as a ubiquitous way to communicate care, and sometimes enact harm, at multiple scales during COVID-19. Digital technologies are allowing people to share narratives and experiences that capture how they adapt, recover, and resist the damaging aspects of health and economic crises via digital technologies. We focus on care to appreciate the diverse ways that humans and more-than-humans are coproducing digital geographies while facilitating narratives that maintain and repair our worlds so we can live as well as possible. But harm is also facilitated by digital storytelling and considering how the same technologies facilitate opposite processes makes for challenging digital spaces and analysis. A digital geographic approach helps to read the effects of these changes as it uses an integrated lens on spatial and justice issues. As the boundaries between public and private places have blurred with spatial and physical distancing, digital devices are mediating, enabling, and constraining forms of care and harm with a new intensity.

TPS8597 Background: Anti–PD-(L)1-directed therapy following radiotherapy or following concurrent chemoradiation is associated with significantly longer PFS and OS in patients with advanced or metastatic NSCLC, including those with locally advanced inoperable tumors. KEYNOTE-867 (NCT03924869) evaluates the efficacy and safety of SBRT with or without pembrolizumab in patients with unresected stage I or II NSCLC. Methods: In this phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled study, approximately 530 adult patients with previously untreated, unresected, histologically/cytologically confirmed stage I or II (T1 to limited T3, N0, M0) NSCLC are randomized 1:1 to receive thoracic SBRT to primary tumors for ≤2 wk (Table) and either pembrolizumab 200 mg or placebo every 3 wk for 17 cycles (approximately 1 year) or until disease recurrence, development of unacceptable AEs, SBRT not started for any reason, or study withdrawal. Randomization is stratified by disease stage (I vs II), ECOG PS (0 or 1 vs 2), geographic region (East Asia vs non-East Asia), and reason for not receiving surgery (medically inoperable vs refused surgery). Imaging assessment by blinded independent central review (BICR) occurs at 12 wk (≥10 wk after SBRT completion), followed by every 16 wk for 3 y, and then every 6 mo. Primary endpoints are event-free survival (EFS) by BICR and OS. Secondary endpoints include time to death or distant metastases and safety; exploratory endpoints are time to subsequent treatment, disease-specific survival, and time to recurrence/progression on subsequent line of therapy. AEs are monitored throughout the trial until 30 d after last dose (90 for serious AEs) and graded according to NCI CTCAE version 4.0. EFS and OS are analyzed by the nonparametric Kaplan-Meier method, treatment differences by stratified log-rank test, and hazard ratios by stratified Cox proportional hazard model with Efron's method of tie handling. Enrollment started on June 17, 2019, and is ongoing at 168 sites around the world. Clinical trial information: NCT03924869. [Table: see text]

In this article the authors extend the concept of the museum and its collecting practices to record collections, and position record collections as musical archives that are representative of our p...

The flipped classroom approach, a form of blended learning, is currently popular in education praxis. Initial reports on the flipped classroom include that it offers opportunities to increase student engagement and build meaningful learning and teaching experiences. In this article, we analyse teacher and student experiences of a trial flipped classroom application in a third year undergraduate human geography course that challenges conventional thinking and practice in resource management, including an explicit focus on the marginalization of Indigenous knowledges in that context. The flipped classroom trial included empirical research with teachers and students to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of this mode of learning. Interviews, focus groups, surveys, reflections and participant-observation activities were conducted before, during and after the course. The research shows that this particular implementation of the flipped classroom approach generated multiple experiences for teachers and s...

The hydro-social cycle has offered a productive analytical framework for understanding human-water relations in a range of contexts within geography. While there is emerging use of assemblage thinking in this area, there is substantial scope to connect human-water relations to this literature. Further, the way culture is situated within hydro-social analyses invites closer examination. This article offers a critical examination of water cultures, as produced through assemblages in the Ord catchment, northern Australia, to tease out the ways in which power circulates in this context, and to trace the historical trajectories that have led to tensions between current water cultures. Indigenous water cultures are resilient to multiple impositions of colonising and neoliberal water cultures in the Ord, and Miriuwung Gajerrong peoples continue to assert their rights to water irrespective of a lack of broader recognition. An assemblage approach to water cultures shows that what is conceptualised by some as appropriate water policy is embedded within colonial and neoliberal practices.

Wheelchair durability and maintenance condition are key factors of wheelchair function. Durability studies done with double drum and drop testers, although valuable, do not perfectly imitate conditions of use. Durability may be harvested from clinical records; however, these may be inconsistent because protocols for recording information differ from place to place. Wheelchair professionals with several years of experience often develop a good eye for wheelchair maintenance condition. The Wheelchair Components Questionnaire for Condition (WCQc) was developed as a professional report questionnaire to provide data specifically on the maintenance condition of a wheelchair. The goal of this study was to obtain preliminary test-retest reliability and internal consistency for the WCQc. Participants were a convenience sample of wheelchair professionals who self-reported more than two years' of wheelchair experience, and completed the WCQc on the same wheelchair twice. Results indicated preliminary reliability and internal consistency for domain related questions and the entire questionnaire. Implications for rehabilitation The WCQc, if administered routinely at regular intervals, can be used to monitor wheelchair condition and alert users and health professionals about the need for repair or replacement. The WCQc is not difficult to use, making early monitoring for wear or damage more feasible. The earlier a tool can detect need for maintenance, the higher likelihood that appropriate measures may be employed in a timely fashion to maximize the overall durability of wheelchairs and minimize clinical complications. Keeping wheelchairs appropriately maintained allows users to minimize effort expended when using them, and maximize their function. It also lowers the risk of injury due to component failure. When assessing groups of similar wheelchairs, organizations involved in funding wheelchairs can use data from the WCQc to make purchase decisions based on durability, and manufacturers can use WCQc data for responsive design change.

Learning from women leaders in Australia has gained attention as a national political issue since the election of Julia Gillard as our first female Prime Minister in 2010. In parallel with her period in office, a growth in feminist action and practice has been evident, in institutions and interventions such as ‘Destroy the Joint’, a group that agitates for an end to sexism and misogyny in multiple spaces. This article examines shifts in gendered leadership and activism, in online and offline spaces, especially with respect to learning from women’s experiences in leadership, and we consider the implications of gendered politicking on planning issues. Drawing on empirical quantitative and qualitative data from an online survey of nearly 900 Destroy the Joint participants, this article looks at some impacts of national female leadership on Australian governance and what people believe should happen to achieve gender equality, in planning and political representation contexts. We argue that discourses...

In this chapter, McLean examines the trajectories of social and cultural interventions in digital spaces, and their backlashes, to trace emergent lines of multiply located feminist revitalisations. From #everydayfeminism to #MeToo, these moments are often growing from social media conversations, again speaking to more-than-real possibilities. The digital has afforded spaces for feminist activism that has produced a range of costs and benefits; people and institutions are using digital technologies for reproducing and also challenging sexist and misogynistic behaviours and systems. The tools that facilitate digital feminist action are nominally global but they are not necessarily universally accessible, so limits and differences exist in terms of how well people are able (and willing) to engage with, and commit to, digital activism for feminist ends. Further, geographic contexts are crucial in shaping what feminist action emerges in the digital, and what transformations are made possible from such work.

Digital geographies are formed by interactions of corporations, individuals, governments and hybrid institutions. This chapter examines how corporations are making claims of sustainability despite little evidence to support these, and what green IT may offer in changing human and more-than-human relations. McLean offers an analysis of a segment of Australian digital technologies that is relevant beyond this context as the capitalist systems that underpin these digital technologies are mirrored in similar ways around the world. This chapter focuses on telecommunication companies and data server companies rather than the whole digital ecosystem. Ethical decision-making in digital technologies surrounding sustainability questions is often left up to individual corporations or consumers to regulate and manage—despite the opportunities that governments could pursue by expanding measures such as energy consumption information on devices and broadband usage. It seems that debates about Artificial Intelligence are dominating questions of sustainability in the digital technologies literature.

The more-than-real is remade in particular places and with specific human-technology relations. McLean draws on her experience at a conference on ‘Human Rights and Technology’ (2018) run by the Australian Human Rights Commission in this chapter. This narrative of the Conference shows how there is an increasing awareness of human rights issues arising from digital technologies and that some parts of the Australian government are pushing back against unconscious adoption of digital technologies. At the same time, discussions of environmental sustainability and the nuances of digital geographies beyond Artificial Intelligence are marginal in this context. The more-than-real can obscure nuance and collapse differences in the production of grand narratives about the potential threats from digital technologies.

While digital spaces are facilitating sexism and misogyny, feminist activism is also taking advantage of digital affordances to counter these. This chapter focuses on Australian digital feminist spaces that encompass a range of initiatives, ranging from activist groups in social media to chat bots to support women trying to leave abusive relationships. The more-than-real aspects of digital spaces, including the environmental problems that these produce and may ameliorate, present complex issues for trying to improve these technologies. Importantly, digital feminist activists are aware of the environmental costs and benefits of digital technologies and offer sophisticated reflections on how these dilemmas are approached in the Australian context.

This chapter canvasses some ways in which Indigenous peoples are using the possibilities of digital spaces to achieve their political, social, cultural and justice-based concerns. Three main aspects of how Indigenous peoples are using the digital follow. First, McLean examines political activism in social media and how colonial powers are challenged through creative campaigns. Discussion then moves to how identity is produced through digital engagements before examining the ways in which the digital (re)produces and amplifies aspects of colonization that are, in turn, frequently challenged by Indigenous peoples and groups from the Global South. The geographic scope of this article is broad, drawing on cases from settler colonial states including Australia and Canada, to peoples and places experiencing neocolonialism via digital technologies.

The conclusion summarises how McLean has shown how the more-than-real is worked with, and against, by a range of individuals and organisations. I was privileged to learn from Indigenous scholars, people with disabilities, feminists, bureaucrats, activists, environmentalists, lawyers, digital justice activists, human rights advocates, and technology innovators in this research. Future research could centre queer and LGBTQIA+ perspectives, and the experiences of migrants and refugees with respect to digital (in)justices and the more-than-real. In the style of Haraway (1998), this book is a partial perspective on digital geographies that does not attempt to be all-encompassing or universal in any way. The limitations of the arguments in this book also arise from McLean’s privileged positioning in the Global North. By bringing together stories from a broad range of digital justice areas, she hopes to have furthered our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of digital geographies in multiple contexts and, following Sedgwick, in a nondualistic way.

This chapter gives an overview to how digital rights are understood in Australia and investigates if these are in relationship to notions of environmental sustainability. More-than-real spaces can produce atomized framings of human-environmental connections and dissociate campaigns for digital rights from other struggles. By presenting perspectives from digital rights activists and narratives of social and cultural digital interventions, this chapter shows how environmental concerns are not always sidelined, and that more needs to be done to strengthen digital rights claims. The more-than-real is not a fixed, static space but full of possibilities and heterogeneities, similar to non-digital spaces (Massey 2005). McLean argues that if we perceive the ongoing expansion of digital technologies in our everyday lives as having space for conversations around digital rights, then there is also space for bringing environmental sustainability along for that troublesome ride.

People with disabilities often bear the burden of asking digital corporations and governments using digital technologies to provide universal access. The shine of the more-than-real quickly dulls in this respect as people who already experience exclusions from digital technologies also have to find avenues for change from within these same digital geographies. This chapter describes how people with disabilities are remaking digital geographies and how far governments and corporations have to go to achieve digitally just spaces.

This chapter offers a provocation of how emotions emerge, conflict and stay with us, in the digital Anthropocene. Emotion and affect in the digital Anthropocene are tricky agents of change that can concretise the abstractions that produce the weird worlds we co-produce. The digital Anthropocene is a way to think about the digital technologies that have enabled the naming of, and that are in part producing, the global environmental crises we live in and with. The more-than-real helps to read these mixed terrains and shows that sublime moments, of beauty and terror, are a part of these fraught digital geographies.

The shimmering facades of the digital and the Anthropocene are intertwined in increasingly compelling ways. This chapter frames digital geographies in relation to how the Anthropocene is critiqued, as well as how the digital is crucial in making the Anthropocene. Weird solidarities introduce the chapter as a way to frame the strange affiliations and unexpected alliances that are emerging in the digital Anthropocene. Categories of real/not-real and human/natural are morphing, in part due to digital Anthropocenes. What we once took for granted as fact-based seems less reliable, while humans and non-humans are finding avenues for intervention in creative channels.

Micro-geographies of disruption in the Anthropocene reveal important and surprising links between desire – to do something – and economic rationalist discourse and practice. This chapter examines how climate action is proceeding in Australia from the perspectives of those working within that sector. The mobilisation of emotion to activate social and political change is a focus, as well as critical reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of digital campaigning. McLean analyses how people who are seeking transformations of, and in, digital spaces frame these more-than-real environments.

Digital spaces are providing new opportunities for exploring gender and sexual identities in disruptive, playful ways. Digital spaces are also supporting social movements to achieve anti-sexism and pro-diversity goals. In this chapter, we analyse recent digital activism that has supported substantial changes in social, political and cultural contexts, by examining Destroy the Joint, an online feminist group that targets sexism and misogyny in its activism. A case study analysis of how it approached the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey in 2017 allows us to trace how emotions and affect circulate to propel digital feminism, and reflect on their geographies of disruption with respect to social norms. The discussions that play out, and are at play, in digital feminism enable participants to occupy and remake spaces.

These are uncertain times in the Anthropocene, where the health and resilience of all urban inhabitants should be key themes for cities striving for sustainability. To this end, local councils in Australia are applying digital technologies with increasing complexity as components of their urban forest management. This paper applies a more-than-human lens to analyse Australian local council urban forest policies, documents and project information for their inclusion and application of digital technologies. In this scoping review, digital geographies informed data collection to answer questions about the type, use and ownerships of tree data, and more-than-real and ‘lively data’ concepts were employed to extend their discussion. Our analysis found that local government policies focused on general urban tree data and canopy percentages and utilised this data to justify and create policy and program parameters. There was a general lack of more-than-human considerations beyond the focus on trees in creating and designing smart urban forests, but it is unclear whether this was due to technical limitations, council desires or other factors. Challenges identified for successful outcomes included balancing priorities, access to resources and information, technological constraints, and community factors such as capacity to engage and cultural values. Digital technologies that facilitate smart urban forests tended to reinforce and re-solidify Western values. However, strengths of current applications are also evident, and we explore how they provide more-than-real possibilities for human-nature relationships to deepen and foster collaborations between disparate groups and entities in urban environments. Greater consideration and acknowledgment of the more-than-human and understanding of the more-than-real in co-creation and co-design of digital technologies and their applications may facilitate more positive outcomes for human and non-human urban inhabitants.

Purpose A recent mainstream intervention in Australia involved the creation of a climate change communication institution, the Climate Council, from crowdfunding and support in social media. Such digital action invites further examination of supporters’ motivations. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the reported intentions and interests of the Climate Council’s supporters to gain a better understanding of mainstream climate change action in digital spaces. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on a survey that was undertaken by the Climate Council with their Founding Friends that sought to understand their motivations for supporting the institution. The survey received over 10,000 responses. From four selected questions, the paper considers all of the quantitative responses while a random sample of 100 responses was taken from the qualitative data. Findings The data show that most Climate Council supporters were motivated to maintain an institution that communicates the impacts of climate change while a minority desired more political engagement by the institution. The results capture an example of action with limited conscious activism. Originality/value Digital spaces fundamentally need the interconnections between people in order to function, in a similar way to physical spaces. Nonetheless, the power of online action, in all its contradictory forms, should not be overlooked in considering the range of possibilities available to those interested in effecting meaningful social change. Even mainstream interventions, as presented in this paper, that seem to disavow climate change activism on the whole, can nevertheless produce institutional changes that defy national governance shifts.

Collaborative online research offers opportunities and constraints for geographers. This article critically appraises a collaborative research process that we used to illuminate spatial and political dynamics of feminism contained within the online group ‘Destroy the Joint’ (DTJ). A mostly Australian initiative of over 74 000 Facebook members, DTJ aims to end sexism and misogyny in multiple ways. It operates as a meeting place, discussion forum, and umbrella organisation for numerous micro-campaigns that change in response to broader social, cultural and political contexts, and occur in online and offline spaces. We formed a collaborative research agreement with the moderators of DTJ to reflect on its work, asking participants to put themselves on a map and complete a survey. Participatory GIS and survey-based research operated in the real and the more-than-real spaces that contain paradoxical possibilities. We use the term more-than-real to highlight the excesses of digital spaces: the affect tha...

Background: Anti-PD-(L)1-directed therapy following radiotherapy or following concurrent chemoradiation is associated with significantly longer PFS and OS in patients with advanced or metastatic NSCLC, including those with locally advanced inoperable tumors. KEYNOTE-867 (NCT03924869) evaluates the efficacy and safety of SBRT with or without pembrolizumab in patients with inoperable stage I/IIA NSCLC. Trial Design: In this phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled study, approximately 530 adult patients with previously untreated, medically inoperable, histologically/cytologically confirmed stage I/IIA NSCLC are randomized 1:1 to receive thoracic SBRT to primary tumors for ≤2 wk (Table) and either pembrolizumab 200 mg or placebo every 3 wk for 17 cycles (approximately 1 year) or until disease recurrence, development of unacceptable AEs, SBRT not started for any reason, or study withdrawal. Randomization is stratified by disease stage (I/IIA), ECOG PS (0-1/2), and geographic region (East Asia/other). Imaging assessment by blinded independent central review (BICR) occurs at 12 wk (≥10 wk after SBRT completion), followed by every 16 wk for 3 y, and then every 6 mo. Primary endpoints are event-free survival (EFS) by BICR and OS. Secondary endpoints include time to death or distant metastases and safety; exploratory endpoints are time to subsequent treatment, disease-specific survival, and time to recurrence/progression on subsequent line of therapy. AEs are monitored throughout the trial until 30 d after last dose (90 for serious AEs) and graded according to NCI CTCAE version 4.0. EFS and OS are analyzed by the nonparametric Kaplan-Meier method, treatment differences by stratified log-rank test, and hazard ratios by stratified Cox proportional hazard model with Efron's method of tie handling. Enrollment started on June 17, 2019, at 131 sites. Table.Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy RegimenUnit Dose Strength(s)Peripheral tumors3×15 Gy or 3×18 Gy fractions (preferred regimens); 4×12 Gy or 5×10 Gy fractions (acceptable regimens)Tumors abutting the chest wall4×12 Gy fractions or 5×10 Gy fractionsCentral tumors5×10 Gy fractions Citation Format: Salma K. Jabbour, Baerin Houghton, Andrew G. Robinson, Xavier Quantin, Thomas Wehler, Dariusz Kowalski, Myung-Ju Ahn, Mustafa Erman, Giuseppe Giaccone, Hossein Borghaei, Jessica McLean, Jin Zhang, Fabricio Souza, Roy Decker. Phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled study of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) with or without pembrolizumab in patients with inoperable stage I/IIA non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC): KEYNOTE-867 [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research 2020; 2020 Apr 27-28 and Jun 22-24. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(16 Suppl):Abstract nr CT288.

Arguments to globalise digital ecosystems are emerging, in part seeking to enable a unified approach for global environmental crises. Primarily these calls are being made for increased availability of open data and to facilitate networking of organisations more effectively. It is hoped that by creating more open data then better environmental decision-making will follow, but these propositions tend to operationalise digital solutionism. I argue that, despite these optimistic gestures, it is unlikely that greater data sharing and open digital ecosystems will significantly recast the conditions of the Anthropocene, and that such efforts may even further entrench the conditions of this troubling epoch. This commentary offers a discourse analysis of recent wishful thinking on digital ecosystems from the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 2019) and considers the implications of frontier orientations towards digital technologies and geographies. The frontier thinking that underpins arguments for more integrated digital ecosystems reflects ecomodernist approaches and perpetuates technological solutionism.

The Anthropocene, as a notion and a discursive field, is generating productive academic and broader debate. In this article, I analyse the creation of a crowdfunded climate change institution in Australia – the Climate Council – as an instance of everyday activism in the Anthropocene, and partly a function of the more-than-real. The more-than-real refers to the digital space that bore the Climate Council’s creation, and situates this spontaneous climate change activism. The broader context of this transformation included an abnormally hot spring season, a turn to conservative federal government, and already-active social media spaces. As an exploratory case study that introduces an example of activism steeped in desire, this research situates mainstream climate change activism squarely within the Anthropocene notion, where a large group of disaffected individuals transformed an organisation that they perceived as valuable. This type of climate change activism can be read as a productive possibility of the Anthropocene, and unsettles narratives of inevitable environmental devastation, while simultaneously raising questions of whether the Anthropocene concept can or should include digital spaces. The discourses working in, through and around the Climate Council transformation in the more-than-real are read as a disruption of the Anthropocene that may generate productive possibilities.

The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) is promoted as a useful way to centre development on the needs of those who are most vulnerable, but is critiqued for inflexibility and ignoring important power relations. In light of the rigidities in using a formulaic SLA, this conceptual paper suggests a practical suite of tools that are in use in livelihoods research and development practice, and refocuses them to include adaptive strategies of vulnerable peoples to resource management pressures. The Pentagon Prison of five capitals can overwhelm both the researcher and researched and while possibly useful in identifying livelihoods gaps, misses all-encompassing power relations, and reduces complexities to quantitative units. In arguing for a shift from the Pentagon Prison of SLA towards a flexible livelihoods trajectory approach, in particular for a research project on livelihood adaptations in Lao PDR, I identify a feasible research and development approach that more meaningfully reflects the lives of those participating in that research. I propose that the livelihood trajectories approach opens up the way data are gathered and can lead to holistic understandings of the complex realities of peoples' adaptive strategies, incorporating strategies from short to long term, and proactive, reactive and inactive techniques.

In the context of continuing pressures from managerialist and neoliberal drivers of university reform in Australia, Macquarie University’s recent undergraduate curriculum innovation, based on “People,” “Planet,” and “Participation,” has resulted in the embedding and integration of experiential learning in its curriculum and institutional framework. Such an approach challenges academic and administrative staff, students, and partners in industry, the community and public sector settings, to engage and collaborate across significant boundaries. This article outlines the scope and nature of the curriculum reform, then considers the way geographers have both shaped and responded to the opportunities it created. In so doing, it proposes a number of challenges and recommendations for geographers who might seek to extend their longstanding commitment to field-based learning through similar reforms. In this regard, the discipline of geography and its tendency to engage with the “field” can offer much in f...

The policy framework claiming to support Indigenous people in remote parts of Australia is in disarray with Commonwealth, state and territory governments proposing closure of remote communities on a range of economic and social policy grounds, but facing significant criticism on economic, environmental, social and cultural grounds. Western Australia's proposal to close 150 remote communities, announced in late-2014, is reviewed and found to reveal a profound failure of geographical literacy.