Louise Johnson (geographer)

Louise Clare Johnson, (born in 1953) is an Australian geographer and academic. Specializing in gender geography, she is interested in urban and post-colonial developments in Australia. Her theoretical contributions to gender geography, post-colonial geography and city-building in Australia were recognized in 2011 with the Australian International Medal.[1] She is Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, at University of Melbourne.[2]

Biography

Louise Johnson was born in 1953. She studied art at the University of Sydney and earned a doctorate in 1992 at Monash University. She is Honorary Professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University.[3]

Johnson's research focuses on the planning of Australia taking into account gender and the post-colonial context.[3][4][5]

During her doctorate, she took a feminist approach to the textile industries in Geelong. According to the contributions of feminist geography, spaces are gendered and surrounded by power issues that privilege men. It analyzes in the region the impacts in economic and social geography of technological developments. It also shows a mobilization of culture and cultural heritage to promote the redevelopment of deindustrialized cities. She participates in the conceptualization, the popularization of studies on gender or including the body, with several retrospectives on these concepts and the tools mobilized. [6][7]

Her research opens up debates on the conception and use of the city according to gender.[8]

She then studied housing (microgeography), shopping malls, in residential and suburban areas of Australia.[8][9]

Johnson is a member of several committees of international journals: Women's Studies International Forum (1986-1997), Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (1993-2006), New Zealand Geographer (1998-2009), An Online Journal of Critical Geography (since 2001) and Canadian Geographer (2002-2004).[8]

Works
  • Tanja Luckins, David Walker and Louise Johnson, The story of Australia: a new history of people and place, 2022 (ISBN 978-1-032-02950-4, 978-1-76029-708-4, OCLC 1237693927)
  • Louise C. Johnson, Cultural capitals: revaluing the arts, remaking urban spaces, Ashgate Pub, 2009 (ISBN 978-0-7546-4977-9, 978-0-7546-8917-1, OCLC 503604816)
  • Louise Johnson, Gaslight Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1984 (ISBN 978-0-86861-359-8, OCLC 29005831)
  • Louise Johnson and Jane M. Jacobs, Placebound: Australian feminist geographies, Oxford University Press, 2000 (ISBN 978-0-19-553566-2, OCLC 45655265)

References
  1. "Louise Clare Johnson". The Conversation. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  2. Denby, Claire (2021-03-29). "Professor Louise Johnson". Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  3. "Louise Johnson". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  4. Al-Hin, Moss/Falconer (2008). Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-3829-0.
  5. Nelson, Lise; Seager, Joni (2008-04-15). A Companion to Feminist Geography. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-3736-2.
  6. "Introduction : le lieu à l'épreuve du genre et des classes populaires". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  7. Brankovich, Jasmina (2000). "Book review: Placebound: Australian Feminist Geographies". ISSN 1325-1848. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. "Associate Professor Louise Johnson (Australia-International Medal) Citation". www.iag.org.au. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  9. Leyshon, Andrew; Lee, Roger; McDowell, Linda (2011-03-04). The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-84860-114-7.
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