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Dr Nina Williams

Dr Nina Williams

Senior Lecturer
ʹڲƱ Canberra
School of Science

A cultural geographer by training, Nina's research is concept-led and revolves around theorising creativity in the context of art and design in conversation with ideas from process philosophy, speculative thinking and geophilosophy. Nina's work intersects with design studies and she has collaborated with design institutions and practitioners to understand how biomaterial and regenerative design practices challenge the idea that design is exclusively by and for humans. She is the co-editor (with Dr Thomas Keating) of the book Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022).

Nina obtained a BA (hons) in Geography at the University of Manchesterin 2011;anMSc in Human Geography: Society and Spaceat the University of Bristol in 2012; and aPhD in Human Geography at the University of Bristolin 2017. Before commencing her current role at ʹڲƱ Canberra in 2019, she workedas a Research Associate in Urban Livingin the department of Civil Engineeringat the University of Bristoland as a Lecturerin Human Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.
Phone
+61 2 5114 5039
E-mail
nina.williams@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2022
    , 2022, Speculative Geographies, Williams N; Keating T, (ed.), Springer Nature Singapore,
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Williams N; Keating T, 2022, 'From Abstract Thinking to Thinking Abstractions: Introducing Speculative Geographies', in Williams N; Keating T (ed.), Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 1 - 32,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Williams N, 2019, 'Non-Representational Theory', in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Second Edition), pp. 421 - 427,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Williams N, 2019, 'Reframing politics in art : from representational subjects to aesthetic subjectification', in Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics, Routledge
  • Edited Books | 2022
    Williams N; Keating TP, (ed.), 2022, Speculative Geographies: ethics, technologies, aesthetics, Palgrave Macmillan,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Cotsaftis O; Williams N; Chyon G; Sadar J; Va Pesaran DM; Wines S; Naarden S, 2023, 'Designing conditions for coexistence', Design Studies, 87,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gerlach J; Debaise D; Wiame A; Roberts T; Lapworth A; Dewsbury JD; Colebrook C; Williams N; Keating TP, 2023, 'Correction: Geophilosophy round table (Subjectivity, (2023), 30, 1, (91-106), 10.1057/s41286-023-00150-1)', Subjectivity, 30, pp. 112,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gerlach J; Debaise D; Wiame A; Roberts T; Lapworth A; Dewsbury JD; Colebrook C; Williams N; Keating TP, 2023, 'Geophilosophy round table', Subjectivity, 30, pp. 91 - 106,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Keating TP; Williams N, 2022, 'Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth', Subjectivity, 15, pp. 93 - 108,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Williams N; Burdon G, 2022, 'Writing subjectivity without subjecthood: the machinic unconscious of Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms', Social and Cultural Geography, 24, pp. 1403 - 1421,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Williams N, 2022, 'Waiting for Geotropic Forces: Bergsonian duration and the ecological sympathies of biodesign', Qualitative Inquiry, 28, pp. 1 - 10,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Patchett M; Williams N, 2021, 'Geographies of Fashion and Style: Setting the Scene', GeoHumanities, 7, pp. 198 - 216,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Williams N, 2021, 'The problem of critique in art-geography: five propositions for immanent evaluation after Deleuze', Cultural Geographies, 29,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Williams N; Collet C, 2020, 'Biodesign and the Allure of “Grow-made” Textiles: An Interview with Carole Collet', GeoHumanities, 7, pp. 1 - 13,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Williams N, 2020, 'Theorizing Style (In Three Sketches)', GeoHumanities, 7, pp. 1 - 18,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Williams N; Patchett M; Lapworth A; Roberts T; Keating T, 2019, 'Practising post-humanism in geographical research', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44, pp. 637 - 643,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Williams N, 2019, 'Listening', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44, pp. 647 - 649,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Cook S; Davidson A; Stratford E; Middleton J; Plyushteva A; Fitt H; Cranston S; Simpson P; Delaney H; Evans K; Jones A; Kershaw J; Williams N; Bissell D; Duncan T; Sengers F; Elvy J; Wilmott C, 2016, 'Co-Producing Mobilities: negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 40, pp. 340 - 374,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Williams N, 2016, 'Creative processes: From interventions in art to intervallic experiments through Bergson', Environment and Planning A, 48, pp. 1549 - 1564,
  • Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Williams N, 2014, Mapping in Momentum, The Walking Encyclopaedia Exhibition, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 07 February 2014 - 15 March 2014, at: https://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/2020/project_entry/the_walking_encyclopaedia_incl._paths_of_variable_resistance
    Curatorial Outputs | 2014
    Williams N, 2014, Sounding the City, exhibited at: The Edwardian Cloakroom Bristol, UK, 14 August 2014 - 16 August 2014

My Research Supervision

Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh'Lives, Lines and Lights: problematising geographic thinking with Deleuze and Guattari and Glissant'

Sabrina Shanto-'Harassment and the Emotional Geographies of Fear on Public Transport in Dhaka'

Christian Sirois -'The Yassification of the Balkans: Media, Perception, and Power '