Associate Professor
LLB(Otago)
MPlan(Otago)
PhD (Otago)
Richardson Building, room 4C12
Office Hours: Email for an appointment
Tel +64 3 479 3068
Email sophie.bond@otago.ac.nz
Teaching
- ENVI 111 Environment and Society
- ENVI 211 Environmental History of New Zealand
- GEOG 280 Research Methodology in Human Geography
- GEOG 380 Field Research Studies (Arts)
- GEOG 376 Geographies of Contestation, Action and Change
- GEOG 463 Geographies of Justice
Research interests
- Community responses to and engagement in issues associated with increased flood events and sea-level rise associated with climate change;
- Climate justice;
- Democratic engagement and an ethic of care;
- Spaces of democracy, contestation, resistance and the formation of collectivities in response to environmental and/or social change;
- Social sustainability, intergroup relationships, ‘community’ and identity formation;
- Autonomous geographies and alternative economies;
- Urban sustainability and participation in planning processes;
- Qualitative and feminist methodologies, poststructural approaches, political ecology, discourse theory.
Potential student projects
I am interested in supervising students on projects that relate to any of the above themes, or more specifically:
- environmental politics of extractive industries in Aotearoa New Zealand, particularly in relation to fossil fuels or intensified agriculture and water management
- responsibility for climate justice (in global north)
- environmental activism and climate justice
- community development for climate change adaptation (in global north)
- community engagement in climate change adaptation governance
Postgraduate supervision
Current doctoral supervision
- Jule Barth (Geography University of Otago): Political Subjectivities, Knowledge and Care.
- Rachel Yzelman (Geography University of Otago): Former Refugees Settling Well: An ethic of care?
- Nadia Tenouri (Geography University of Otago): Gender and conservation.
- Elizabeth Soal (Geography University of Otago): Collaborative catchment management.
- Kyle Matthews (Education University of Otago - Co-Supervisor with Karen Nairn): Radical youth activities and hope.
- Sarah Harrison (Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Otago): Health impacts of increased flooding and SLR from climate change, co-supervisor with Alex MacMillan and Janet Stephenson
Current Master's supervision
- Rebecca Kennedy-Perkins (Geography University of Otago): Should we give a poo? Farming and Climate Change Mitigation
Completed PhDs
- Taimaz Lariman (2018) (Geography University of Otago): Defining the Social Dimensions of Urban Sustainability. (Secondary Supervisor).
- Rini Astuti (2016) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): REDD+ Governmentality: Governing Forest Power and Politics in Indonesia. (Secondary Supervisor).
- Morten Gjerde (2015) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): Urban Design Guidance and Control. (Secondary Supervisor).
- Gradon Diprose (2015) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): Beyond waged work: the everyday politics of alternative socio-economic practices.
- Amanda Thomas (2014) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): Accessing Nature: The battle of Huruni (which received the NZGS President’s Award for Best Thesis 2014).
Completed Master's
- Neelum Patel (2019) (MA Geography, University of Otago): Male Advocacy as a Means to Address Gender Based Violence in Post-Conflict Bougainville
- Charlotta Heyd (2018) (MPlan, University of Otago): Community Engagement in the Context of Increased Flooding
- Livi Whyte (2018) (MPlan, University of Otago): Co-Housing and Sustainability
- Nathaniel Christensen (2017) (MA Geography University of Otago): The Sharp Edge of Precarity: Homelessness in Aotearoa/New Zealand and a framework of multiple precarities.
- Holly McGrouther (2016) (MPlan University of Otago): Public Participation in Resource management Hearings: post-politics in planning?
- Nyssa Payne-Harker (2016) (MPlan University of Otago): Shared Spaces or Contested Places? Examining the role of Kāi Tahu Whānui in Port Chalmers and Bluff.
- Madeline Hall (2016) (MA University of Otago): From Producers to Polluters: Farmers’ experiences in the Lake Taupo Water Quality Trading Programme. (Secondary Supervisor).
- William Harrington (2014) (MPlan University of Otago): Irrigation for the sake of irrigation: Situating the Social Effects of Large Scale Irrigation Projects within New Zealand’s Neoliberal Planning System.
- Benjamin Speedy (2013) (MEnvSt Victoria University of Wellington): Seizing the Opportunity? CO2 emissions from land transport and the redevelopment of Christchurch.
- Cristian Leaman (2013) (MDevSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Encounters of Neoliberalism and Nature in the Chilean Context. A case study of the Nuble River.
- Lillian Fougere (2013) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Democracy, Disagreement and Environmentalists’ Participation: A case study of coal mining on conservation land.
- Raven Cretney (2013) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Community Resilience from the Bottom Up: A place based perspective of grass roots community resilience.
- Emma Moon (2013) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Youth and Climate Change Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Camilla Morley (2011) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Motivating Public Transport Use: Travel behaviour and integrated ticketing for Greater Wellington.
- Benjamin Barrett (2011) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Sustainable Development Narratives in New Zealand Business.
Publications
Bond, S., Thomas, A., & Diprose, G. (2020). Making and unmaking political subjectivities: Climate justice, activism, and care. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45, 750-762. doi: 10.1111/tran.12382
Bond, S., & Barth, J. (2020). Care-full and just: Making a difference through climate change adaptation. Cities, 102, 102734. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102734
Bond, S., Diprose, G., & Thomas, A. C. (2019). Contesting deep sea oil: Politicisation--depoliticisation--repoliticisation. Environment & Planning C, 37(3), 519-538. doi: 10.1177/2399654418788675
Bond, S. (2019). A democratic ethos. In Antipode Editorial Collective. (Ed.), Keywords in radical geography: Antipode at 50. (pp. 14-19). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781119558071
Bond, S. (2011). Negotiating a 'democratic ethos': Moving beyond the agonistic-communicative divide. Planning Theory, 10(2), 161-186. doi: 10.1177/1473095210383081