Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Michelle Duffy is a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Head in Sociology at Monash University Gippsland. Prior to this, she taught Australian Studies at the Australian Centre, and Australian Indigenous Studies and Cultural Geography in the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry, University of Melbourne.
She is engaged in a number of research projects that explores the ways in which sound, listening, emotion and affect are significant to place-making and community building, with a particular focus on the cultural politics of emotion in a broader context of sustainability, resilience and rural Australia.
Research interests
1. the role emotions and affect play in processes of place-making - including social cohesion, wellbeing, inclusion and alienation
2. the cultural, social and physiological processes of listening
3. the cultural politics of emotion in a broader context of sustainability, resilience and rural Australia
Research area keywords
- place-making
- sound
- affect
- embodiment
- belonging
- place
- public space
- festivals
- community
- tourism studies social and cultural geography
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Baw Baw Quality of Life in: Participation and Community Involvement
Duffy, M., Chia, J. & Wood, P.
1/02/13 → 1/02/13
Project: Research
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Images of Home: Children's Creative Response to the Changing Landscape of Officer
Duffy, M., Bandt, R., Manning, D. & Merlino, D.
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (trading as VicHealth)
1/06/10 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
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Ballet in a box: iso-ballet, lockdown, and the reconstruction of the domestic space
Atkinson, P., Duffy, M. & Ailwood, J., 2023, In: GeoHumanities. 9, 2, p. 411-426 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Practising lively geographies in the city: encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops
Lobo, M., Duffy, M., Witcomb, A., Brennan-Horley, C., Kelly, D., Barry, K., Bissell, D., Buckle, C., Cretney, R., Harada, T., Fabian Hasna, M., Kon-yu, N., Shahani, F., Sumartojo, S., Van Holstein, E. & Wolifson, P., 2 Jul 2020, In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 44, 3, p. 406-426 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus) -
Thresholds of representation: Physical disability in dance and perceptions of the moving body
Duffy, M., Atkinson, P. & Wood, N., 15 Mar 2019, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts. Boyd, C. & Edwardes, C. (eds.). Gateway East Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 243-262 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Why Isn’t There a Plan? Community Vulnerability and Resilience in the Latrobe Valley’s Open Cut Coal Mine Town
Duffy, M., Wood, P., Whyte, S., Yell, S. & Carroll, M., 2017, Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience. Companion, M. & Chaiken, M. S. (eds.). 1st ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 207-217 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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The amplification of affect: Tension, intensity and form in modern dance
Atkinson, P. & Duffy, M. E., 17 May 2015, Modernism and Affect: Feeling in Modern Literature and Culture. Taylor, J. (ed.). Edinburgh UK: Edinburgh University Press, p. 94-110 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus)