Publications / CV
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A. Scholarly Books
Lobo M, 2009, Reimagining Citizenship in Suburban Australia: Voices from Dandy, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Köln (Published PhD thesis).
B. Edited Books
Lobo, M., Marotta, V. & Oke, N. (eds.) 2011, Intercultural Relations in a Global World, Common Ground Publishing, Champaign.
Mansouri, F., & Lobo, M. (eds.) 2011, Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking through the Lens of Social Inclusion, Routledge, London.
C. Refereed Journal Articles
Rodriguez Castro, L, Barry, K, Bhattacharya, D, Pini, B, Boyd, C, Ben, D, Bayes, C, Berger, B. N, Narayan, P, Lobo, M, Ginsberg, N, Hine, A 2022. Editorial introduction: geography and collective memories through art. Special Issue: ‘Geography and Collective Memories Through Art’, Australian Geographer https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2052556, pp. 1-19
Lobo, M, Alam, A, Bandyopadhay, S. 2022 Tiger atmospheres and co-belonging in mangrove worlds, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, p. 1-22. DOI: 10.1177/25148486221079465
Lobo, M & Hine, A 2022. Storying Strata: Entangling Coal and Energy Futures in Australia and India, Geopolitics, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2040485
Lobo, M. 2021. Breathing spaces of fearlessness and generosity in the Anglophone/Western university, Geographical research 60 (1), 126-137 (open access - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1745-5871.12491
Lobo, M. 2021. Straying Beyond the Well-worn Path: Fighting for Racial Justice and Planetary Justice, Special Issue: 20th Anniversary, Strange Encounters by Sara Ahmed, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42 (1), 33-45
Barry, K, Duffy, M, Lobo, M. 2021 Speculative listening: melting sea ice and new methods of listening with the planet, Global Discourse: An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs, 11(1-2), 115-129.
Lobo, M, Bedford, L, Bellingham, RA et al (2021) Earth unbound: Climate change, activism and justice, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53 (14), 1491-1508.
Lobo, M. 2021. Living on the Edge: Precarity and Freedom in Darwin, Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Special Issue: Unsettled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of ‘Temporariness’ Among Migrants and Asylum Seekers (eds) E Chacko and M Price, 47(20), 4615-4630.
Lobo, M, Duffy, M, Witcomb, A, Brennan-Horley, C & Kelly, D et al. 2020. ‘Practising lively geographies in the city: encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, doi:10.1080/03098265.2020.1712684.
Lobo, M 2020. ‘Recomposing aesthetic anxiety and perforating suburban infrastructures: informal religious meeting places in Melbourne’, Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 1-17.
Lobo, M & Barry, K 2019. ‘Transgressing borders with participatory video technologies: Reflections on creative knowledge production with asylum seekers in Australia’, Borderlands, vol. 2, no. 18, pp. 8-36, doi:10.21307/borderlands-2019-009.
Lobo, M 2019. ‘Minority struggles and quiet activism: experiences of Indian-Australian women’, Economic and Political Weekly, LIV, pp. 47-53.
Yazdani, N & Lobo, M 2019. ‘Entanglements with the ‘Sea’: Persian poetry and diasporic Iranian Literature in Australia’, Anthropology of the Middle East, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 97-114.
Zhang, V., Kelly, D., Rodriguez Castro, L., Edensor, T., Lobo, M., Adamczyk, E., Barry, K., Bissell, D., Buckle, C., Dorignon, L., Hughes, A., Iaquinto, B., Kennedy, M., McKay, C., Ratnam, C. & Wolifson, P. 2019. ‘Experiential attunements in an illuminated city at night: a pedagogical writing experiment’, Geohumanities, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 468-495.
Lobo, M. 2019. Encountering the city: Haptic images of suburban Darwin. Area Special Issue: Entangled Bodies and Visual Ethnographies: Encounters in a More-than-Human World (eds) S Kindon and M Lobo Area journal. DOI: 10.1111/area.12530.
Lobo, M. 2019. Affective Ecologies: Braiding urban worlds in Darwin, Australia. Geoforum Special Issue: Encountering NatureCultures in the Urban Anthropocene (eds) Louise Johnson, Michele Lobo, David Kelly. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.026.
Lobo, M. 2018. Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia. Special issue article: Urban friendship networks: Affective negotiations in the city (eds) L Kathiravelu and T Bunnell, Urban Studies, 1-16. DOI: 10.1177/0042098016686510.
Armillei, R., & Lobo, M, 2017. Parallel emergencies’ in Italy and Australia: Marginalised and racialised Romani and Aboriginal ‘camp dwellers’. Journal of Intercultural studies, 38 (5), pp. 560-575.
Kelly, D., and Lobo, M. 2017. ‘Taking it to the Street’: Reclaiming Australia, an optics from the Top End. Special Issue: 10 Years since Cronulla (eds) A Johns, A Harris and G Noble. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38 (3), pp. 365-380.
Lobo, M. 2016. Co-inhabiting public spaces: diversity and playful encounters in Darwin, Australia. Special issue: Animating Place (eds E Chacko, M Lobo and A Tay), Geographical Research 106(2), pp. 163-173.
Mansouri, F., Lobo, M & Johns, A. 2016. Grounding Religiosity in Urban Space: insights from multicultural Melbourne, Special Issue: The Geographies of Everyday Muslim Life in the West (eds) K Dunn and P Hopkins, Australian Geographer, 47:3, 295-310.
Lobo, M. 2015. Gestures of judgement and welcome in public spaces: hypervisible migrant newcomers in Darwin, Australia. Special Issue: Immigrant Identity and Place. Journal of Cultural Geography, 32(1), pp. 54-67.
Johns, A., Mansouri, F. & Lobo, M. 2015. Religiosity, citizenship and belonging: The everyday experiences of young Australian Muslims. Special Issue: The Muslim Question (eds) F Mansouri, M Lobo and A Johns. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 35 (2), pp. 171-190.
Andre, V., Mansouri, F & Lobo, M. 2015. A fragmented discourse of religious leadership in France: Muslim youth between citizenship and radicalisation. Special Issue: The Muslim Question (eds) F Mansouri, M Lobo and A Johns. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 35(2), pp. 296-313.
Lobo, M. 2015. Geopower in public spaces of Darwin, Australia: Exploring forces that unsettle phenotypical racism. Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Special Issue: Reconfiguring Anti-racism (ed) Y Paradies. Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (1-2), pp.68-86.
Vergani, M., Johns A, Lobo, M & Mansouri, F. 2015. Examining Islamic religiosity and civic engagement in Melbourne. Journal of Sociology,1-6. DOI: 10.1177/1440783315621167.
Lobo, M. 2014. 'Everyday multiculturalism: Catching the bus in Darwin, Australia'. Social & Cultural Geography, 15(7), pp. 714-729.
Lobo, M. 2014. Affective energies: Sensory bodies on the beach in Darwin, Australia. Emotion, Space and Society, 12, pp.101-109.
Lobo, M. 2014. Affective life: Rethinking the politics of mobility, displacement and refuge. Australian Journal of Political Science, 49(3), pp. 564-571.
Lobo, M. 2013. 'Reinscribing and inhabiting the city: Young women students from Asia make Melbourne home'. Geographical Research, 51 (2), pp. 153-158.
Lobo, M. 2013. 'Racialised bodies encounter the city: ‘long grassers’ and asylum seekers in Darwin'. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34(4), pp. 410-417.
Lobo, M., & Morgan, L. 2012. 'Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne', South Asian Diaspora, 4(2), pp. 123-137.
Lobo, M. 2010. 'Interethnic understanding and belonging in suburban Melbourne', Urban Policy and Research, 28(1), pp. 85-99.
Wulff, M., Champion, T. & Lobo, M. 2010. 'Household diversity and migration in mid-life: understanding residential mobility among 45-64 year olds in Melbourne, Australia', Population, Space and Place, 16(4), pp. 307-321.
Lobo, M. 2010. 'Negotiating emotions, rethinking Otherness in suburban Melbourne', Gender, Place and Culture, 17(1), pp. 99-114.
Lobo, M. 2010. 'Re-imagining citizenship in suburban Australia', Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA) e-journal, 6(1), pp. 1-13.
Wulff, M., & Lobo, M. 2009. 'The new gentrifiers: the role of households and migration in re-shaping Melbourne’s Core and Inner Suburbs', Urban Policy and Research, 27 (3), pp. 315-331.
D. Scholarly Book Chapters
Lobo, M 2020. ‘Choreographing Place: race, encounter and co-belonging in the Anthropocene’, in The Routledge Handbook of Place, (eds) Edensor, T, Kalandides, A and Kothari, U, Routledge, London, pp. 243-254.
Kelly, D & Lobo, M 2020, ‘Tidal Country and Cultures in Northern Australia’ in Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges, (eds.) Campbell, A, Duffy, M & Edmonson, B, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, pp. 303-318.
Lobo, M, Kelly, D, Wilson, H W (2020) ‘Participatory Approaches’ in Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students, (eds) Wilson, H W and Darling, J, Sage, London, pp. 130-142.
Lobo, M 2017, ‘Celebrating Indian Culture: Festival Spaces and Entangled Lives in Darwin, North Australia’ in Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora, (eds) Hegde, R S & Sahoo, A. Routledge, London, pp. 241-251.
Lobo, M. 2014. 'Negotiating Aboriginal Participation: Dilemmas and Opportunities,' in Insider Research on Migration and Mobility, (eds) Kirpitchenko, L & Voloder, L., Ashgate, pp. 21-36.
Kenny, S., & Lobo, M. 2014. 'Addressing Cultural differences: Whither Multiculturalism?' in Global Perspectives on the Politics of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century’, (eds) de B’beri, B. and Mansouri, F., Routledge: New York, pp. 105-123.
Lobo, M., & Mansouri, F. 2012. '“Hoop and Bridges”: Muslims and the Australian way of life', in Muslims in the West and the Challenge of Belonging, (eds.) Mansouri, F. and Marotta, V., Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, pp. 114-133.
Lobo, M. 2011. 'Whiteness in Australian suburbia', in Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking Through the Lens of Social Inclusion, (eds.) Mansouri, F. and Lobo, M., Ashgate Publishing Group, Surrey, pp. 91-102.
Mansouri, F., Lobo, M. & Latrache, R. 2011. 'Muslims and the Challenge of Social Inclusion: The case of Australia and France', in Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking Through the Lens of Social Inclusion, (eds.) Mansouri, F. and Lobo, M., Ashgate Publishing Group, Surrey, pp. 129-139.
Mansouri F, Lobo, M & Latrache, R 2011. ‘Negotiating Norms of Inclusion: Comparative Perspectives from Muslim Community Leadership in the West’ in Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking through the Lens of Social Inclusion, (eds) Mansouri, F & Lobo, M, Routledge, London, pp. 129-138.
Lobo, M., Marotta, N. & Oke, N. 2011. 'Introduction: Intercultural Relations in a Global World', in Intercultural Relations in a Global World, (eds) Lobo, M., Marotta, N. & Oke, N., Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, pp.1-10.
Mansouri, F., & Lobo, M. 2011. 'Social Inclusion: Exploring the Concept', in Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking Through the Lens of Social Inclusion, (eds.) Mansouri, F. and Lobo, M., Ashgate Publishing Group, Surrey, pp. 1-10.
Dharmalingam, A., Wulff, M. & Lobo, M. 2009. 'An Overview of Chinese Settlement in Melbourne, Australia: Implications for Chinese Settlement in Prato', in Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato, (eds.) Johanson, G. & Smith, R., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 3-24.
E. Refereed conference papers
Rudner, J., Butt, A & Lobo, M. 2017. Adjudicating Faith: 20 Years of Secular Decision-Making for Religious Spaces. Refereed conference paper presented at the State of the Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide, 28-30 November, 2017.
Lobo, M. 2015. Exploring cultures of belonging in Darwin, Australia. Refereed conference proceedings, State of the Australian Cities Conference, Gold Coast, 9-11, Dec 2015.
Johns, A., & Lobo, M. 2014 ‘It’s about freedom’: Contesting dominant representations of devout Muslim women in thespace of the nation. Refereed conference paper presented at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Melbourne, 25-28, November, 2013.
Lobo, M. 2013. Darwin After Dark: Illuminating suburban atmospheres. Refereed conference proceedings, State of the Australian Cities Conference, Sydney, 27-29, November, 2013.
Mansouri, F., & Lobo, M. 2011. Intercultural Harmony and Understanding in the City of Whittlesea. Refereed conference paper presented at the State of the Australian Cities Conference, Melbourne, 29 November- 2 December, 2011.
Lobo, M. 2009, Negotiating cultural difference in everyday life: some insights for inclusionary local governance. Refereed conference paper presented at the State of the Australian Cities Conference, Perth, November 24-27, 2009.
F. Other: Including Non-traditional outputs, Editorials, Reviews, Reports, Exhibitions
Lobo, M. 2021. Decolonising governance: archipelagos and excessive thought. Editorial, Critical Dialogues Book Review Forum, Carter, P (2019) Decolonising Governance: Archipelagic Thinking, London: Routledge, Postcolonial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2021.1986940, pp. 1-4.
Lobo, M. 2021. Decoloniality: seeding pluriversal imaginaries, Editorial, Critical Dialogues Book Review Forum, Mignolo, W and Walsh, C. E. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis, Postcolonial Studies, doi: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1751424, pp. 1-4.
Lobo, M (with Moore, G). 2020. Tidal Choreography, 3D animated film, screened at the 2020 Association of American Geographers Conference (AAG Shorts, 2020) in the category Environment. The film is hosted on the platform Vimeo https://vimeo.com/374575983/ https://www.filmgeographies.com/?s=tidal+choreography
Lobo, M, Rubis, J .2020. AZ of Shadow Places Concepts. https://www.shadowplaces.net/concepts
Latham, A, Edensor, T, Hopkins, D, Fitt, H & Lobo, M et al. 2020, ‘Commuter Lives: a review symposium on David Bissell’s Transit Lives’, Geographical Research, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 94-106.
Alic, D, Tewari, S & Lobo, M 2019, ‘Multicultural Architecture Workshop, Deakin University, Melbourne’, Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 424-426
Johnson, L, Lobo, M & Kelly, D 2019, ‘Editorial: Encountering naturecultures in the urban Anthropocene’, vol. 106, pp. 358- 362, DE130100250 (2013-2016).
Larsen, S, Lobo, M & Maddrell, A 2019, ‘Commentary: Refreshing methods: reflections and provocations’, Social and Cultural Geography, doi:10.1080/14649365.2019.1697461
Lobo, M 2018, ‘Duress: hope in toxic landscapes and carceral archipelagos, Editorial: Critical Dialogues Book Review Forum, Stoler, A L (2016) Duress: imperial durabilities in our times, Durham: Duke University Press’, Postcolonial Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 512-514
Mansouri, F, Lobo, M, Turner, B & Johns, A 2017, ‘Islamic Religiosity in the West: Belonging and Political Engagement in Multicultural Cities’, pp. 1–143.
Lobo, M 2015, ‘Laminations: a geopoetics of urban becoming’, Creative group installation, workshop, presentation and publication, Northern Research Futures Collaborative Network/Charles Darwin University, Darwin, 15 October 2015.
Lobo, M 2011, ‘Book review: The Sage Handbook of Social Geographies (eds) SJ Smith, R Pain, SA Marston and JP Jones III’, New Zealand Geographer, vol. 1, no. 67, pp. 63-64.
Lobo, M 2009, ‘Social inclusion in local places’, SA Geographer, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 24-29