DrMichele Lobo

Honorary Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Geographies of afffect, emotion and encounter

Race and Anthropocene Urbanism

Planetary geographies of co-belonging and multispecies justice (Indigenous,
diasporic, and southern ontologies)

Energy Politics, Activism and Climate Justice

Geopolitics of Fear: Mobility, Islam, Bordering practices and Carceral
Geographies

Whiteness, ethnicity, race and citizenship

The internationalisation of education and public diplomacy

Australia-India economic relations and diasporic institutions
Recent books

[Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural
Relations](http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409428800 )

[Intercultural Relations in a Global
World](http://ondiversity.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.190/prod.19)

[Reimagining Citizenship](http://www.amazon.ca/Reimagining-Citizenship-
Suburban-Australia-Michele/dp/3838301501 )

Knowledge Areas
Oceanic thinking and the Politics of Climate Change and Global Governance

Planetary geographies of co-belonging and multispecies justice (Indigenous,
diasporic, and southern ontologies)

Energy Politics, Activism and Climate Justice

Smart growth and Anthropocene Urbanism

Geopolitics of Fear: Mobility, Islam, Bordering practices and Carceral
Geographies

Geographies of Encounter: Everyday multiculturalism, nationalism and
cosmopolitanism

Geographies of displacement and dispossession

The internationalisation of education and public diplomacy

Australia-India economic relations and diasporic institutions

Geographies of difference and cultural politics - race, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality etc

Geography, Technology and the Digital Turn

Methods in Human Geography

Projects
My current project focuses on climate change and environmental justice with a
focus on Eastern India and Northern Australia.

Previous projects/ongoing research outcomes:

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/Australia-India Council Grant
(2017-2018) - Australia-India student mobility

Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
(2013-2016) - Encounter, affect and belonging in Darwin, Northern Australia

Australian Research Council Discovery Award (2013-2016) - Islamic Religiosity,
Belonging and Political Engagement - Melbourne, Paris and Detroit.

Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2013) - Intercultural encounters
and belonging in the Darwin- Palmerston Urban Area, Northern Australia.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Australia-India Student Mobility: Experiences, Lessons and Transformations
    27 Sep 2017 - 28 Feb 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    DFAT Australia-India Council Grants Program - $50,000.00
  • GRANT
    Islamic Religiosity and Challenge of Political Engagement and National Belonging in Multicultural Western Cities
    1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP130102601 - $277,693.52
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Shared belonging in Australia: public space and intercultural relations in suburban Darwin
    1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Michele Lobo
    ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - DE130100250 - $404,529.00