Dr Lisa Law
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Position: Senior Lecturer, Centre for Tropical Urban and Regional Planning, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Qualifications: BA (Hons)(UWO, Urban Development), PhD (ANU, Human Geography) |
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A2-218 Cairns |
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+61-7-4042-1389 |
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+61-7-4042-1284 |
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Teaching
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EV1006: Dynamic Futures
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EV2301: Urban Geography & Design
Research
Dr Lisa Law is a cultural geographer with interests in the relation between people, place and knowledge/power – mostly in Southeast Asia. Prior to commencing her appointment at James Cook University, she was employed at the Australian National University, the University of Western Sydney, the National University of Singapore and the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Her 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. She is author of Sex work in Southeast Asia: The place of desire in a time of AIDS (Routledge), and co-editor of Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian identities in art, media and popular culture (Pluto Press, with Ien Ang and Mandy Thomas) and a special issue of Urban Studies titled “Contested Landscapes, Asian Cities” (with Lily Kong). She has written in refereed journals and books and has served on the editorial boards of Communal/Plural: Journal of Transnational and Cross-cultural Studies and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Dr Law's research and writing draws on feminist and postcolonial theory to help explicate a range of intensively researched empirical sites.
Lisa is 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. Her emphasis thus far has focused on issues to do with the circulation of ideas to do with tropical architecture/urban design and multicultural perspectives on the tropical food industry. In a postcolonial context of multiculturalism and regional connectedness, she is interested in how Australian tropical futures might be enmeshed with Southeast Asia.
Selected Publications
Rigg, Jonathan, Carl Grundy-Warr, Lisa Law and May Tan-Mullins (2008) ‘Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint 49(2):137-54.
Law, Lisa, Tim Bunnell and Chin-Ee Ong (2007) ‘The Beach, the gaze and film tourism’, Tourist Studies 7(2):145-168.
Bunnell, Tim, Lily Kong and Lisa Law (2005) ‘ Social and cultural geographies of Southeast Asia’, Social and Cultural Geography 6(1):135-149.
Law, Lisa (2005) ‘Home cooking: Filipino women and geographies of the senses in Hong Kong’, in David Howes (ed) Empire of the senses, Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
Law, Lisa (2003) ‘Dancing on the bar: Sex, money and the uneasy politics of third space’, in Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift (eds) The Blackwell cultural economy reader, Oxford: Blackwell.
Kong, Lily and Lisa Law (eds) (2002) Contested landscapes, Asian cities. Special issue of Urban Studies 39(9).
Law, Lisa (2000) Sex work in Southeast Asia: The place of desire in a time of AIDS, London and New York: Routledge.
Ang, Ien, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas (eds) (2000) Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian identities in art, media and popular culture, Pluto Press Australia.