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Conventional approaches to waste reduction focus on getting individuals to change their attitudes and behaviours, often through actions like recycling.

Bins lined up ready for collection
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This guide to the Wellington region in Aotearoa New Zealand documents a range of innovative initiatives helping activate and maintain transitions in ecological, energy, economic, community and built environment.

Cover of the book Transitions in Action, shows an estaurine reserve and redevelopment in Wellington
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This article came out of many years of thinking and talking together about our earlier work in an urban youth garden in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. We were really interested in the way youth talked about the changes in themselves as people who could learn to care for each other and shared spaces (commons). We had the opportunity to publish in a special issue of Cities on storying the 'counter-city', so we used our thinking

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We wrote this piece about JK Gibson-Graham's thinking on space and place. It is an updated version of Wendy Larner's earlier chapter.

Cover of the book "Key thinkers in Space and Place"
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I wrote this piece for a special issue on emerging methodologies in care and care-giving in Asia Pacific. In it, I reflect on some of the embodied aspects of ethnographic methods that we sometimes overlook. I use Anna Tsing's idea of awkward engagements, but apply it as an embodied method for sensing and responding to different pluriversal realities. The context is myself as a Pākehā New Zealand European person doing research work in the