Publications

Atchison, J., 2025. Conservation and geography I. Getting into the weeds; the “new” conservation and invasive species management. Progress in Environmental Geography, p.27539687251320672.

Atchison, J., Savige, T., Simon, B. and Taylor, E., 2025. Looking for Marai ‘on-the-fly’: mobile more-than-human methods for cultural landscape mapping with Gajerrong Country. Cultural Geographies, p.14744740241310236.

Atchison, J., Foster, R. and Bell-James, J., 2024. Blue carbon as just transition? A structured literature review. Global Sustainability, 7, p.e27.

Atchison, J., Pickerill, J., Arnold, C., Gibbs, L.M., Gill, N., Hubbard, E., Lorimer, J. and Watson, M., 2024. Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding. People and Nature, 6(2), pp.458-473.

Pande, R., Atchison, J.M., Bissell, D., Maller, C., Walker, G. and Hitchings, R., 2024. The Unsettling Outdoors: Environmental Estrangement in Everyday Life, by Russell Hitchings. London: Wiley, RGS-IBG Book Series 2021 176 pp., 51.95 paperback (ISBN:978-1-119-54915-4); 124.95 hardback (ISBN: 978-1-119-54912-3). Social & Cultural Geography, 25(3), pp.513-523.

Atchison, J., Crystal., A. and Butler, L., 2023. Plants Matter: Exploring the Becomings of Plants and People by Luci Attala and Louise Steel, eds. Cardiff, UK: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, University of Wales Press, 2023. 224 pp.£ 60.00 cloth (ISBN 9781837720484);£ 60.00 PDF (ISBN 9781837720491); £ 60.00 electronic (ISBN 9781837720507)

Atchison, J. and Pilkinton, M., 2022. Abject life and disaster: Opportunity and invasive species governance following the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires. Political Geography, 99, p.102774.

Gill, N., Chisholm, L., Atchison, J., Graham, S., Hawkes, G., Head, L. and McKiernan, S., 2022. Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management. Conservation Biology, 36(6), p.e13929.

Macreadie, P.I., Robertson, A.I., Spinks, B., Adams, M.P., Atchison, J.M., Bell-James, J., Bryan, B.A., Chu, L., Filbee-Dexter, K., Drake, L. and Duarte, C.M., 2022. Operationalizing marketable blue carbon. One Earth, 5(5), pp.485-492.

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Conference Presentations

2025

Atchison, J. (presenting author), T. Savige, B. Simon and E. Taylor. Mapping with Country; more-than-human methods for cultural landscape mapping. More-than-human mappings – Livingmaps Network Conference April 24-26, London, UK.

2024

Atchison, J. (presenting author), T. Savige, B. Simon and E. Taylor, in association with Kallum Clarke from Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation. Acknowledging and recognising Indigenous knowledge and expertise in weed management. International Association for Society and Natural Resources Conference, June 23-27, 2024, Cairns, Australia.

Atchison, J. (presenting author), T. Savige, B. Simon. ‘Cattle own this area’: The spatial politics of pastoral intensification, biosecurity and colonial control in Northern Australia. Planet of weeds workshop, September 3-4, Alfred Deakin Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

2023

Atchison, J. 2023. Transforming invasive plant management. Presentation to the ‘Buffel Legends’ working group. Online, March 2023.

Atchison, J. (presenting author), Thomas Savige, Bernadette Simon and Eli Taylor. 2023. Cultural mapping workshop: ‘Looking for Marai’. Presented to the human geography research group Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. May, 2023.

Atchison, J. (presenting author), Thomas Savige, Bernadette Simon and Eli Taylor. Looking for Marai. Mobile methods for cultural landscape mapping ‘on the fly’. Institute of Australian Geographers Conference. Perth, July, 2023.

2022

Atchison, J. 2022. Materialising urgency; emergent dimensions of plant time in times of crisis. Oral presentation to the International Geographical Union meeting. Paris, July 2022.

2021

Graham, S., Z. Ma, J. Atchison, T. Howard, N. Gill, L. Head, A. Metcalf and T. Bach. 2021. Measuring the successes and failures of invasive species management; panel session. American Association of Geographers Conference. Online, April. 2021

Atchison, J. (presenting author) and M. Pilkinton. 2021. Abject life and disaster: opportunity and invasive species governance following the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires. Keynote presentation to Abject Lives Symposium hosted by the Research Group in Human Geography Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Online, June, 2021.

Atchison, J. (presenting author) and M. Pilkinton. 2021. Abject life and disaster: opportunity and invasive species governance following the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires. Institute of Australian Geographers Conference. Online, July, 2021.

Atchison J., and J. Pickerill. 2021. Future landscape sustainability’s? Questions of rewilding, invasive species management and peopled environments. AREA (ACCESS Researcher Exchange Alliance) workshop. Online, November 2021.