Kaya Tatjana Barry
Interested in mobilities – geography – art – migration – tourism – air travel – birds – weather // DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith Uni, AU. she/her
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana Barry⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana Barry📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryThis is an important report by @kayatbarry.bsky.social & colleagues on just some of the issues faced by workers who come to Australia on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. Much room for improvement and government needs to take action. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryNew blog post. This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn. You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post. www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
- aannddd it is — saw the 1000th bus too!
- off to a good start with the rainbow cityglider arriving for the morning commute 🌈🚌
- Photos from the amazing "Yield" exhibition at Caboolture Regional Gallery, where a selection of my "Seasonal" photographs are showing. On until March 2026, do check out this amazing exhibition on colonial agricultural legacies! www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Galleries-Mu...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryToday's the last day to complete this short survey for the ARC about the use of AI in grant assessment. Survey link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryHere's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment": www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
- an 8 hour round trip to Gayndah on Monday, to install the next version of the "Seasonal" exhibition. Stay tuned for more photos after the opening this Saturday at 6pm!
- hello Newcastle! chasing the tail of this "bomb cyclone", ready for the Institute of australian geographer's conference! ‼️🌀⛈️✈️
- next week I'm showing a selection of weather warning diagrams (artworks) at University of Newcastle gallery. Maybe I've jinxed it, looking at the weather forecast... 🫣⛈️🌀
- NEW: "Seasonal excess: Moving with place and produce through creative fieldwork" out now, with my amazing collaborators Emily House and Willow Ross onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- brisbane's bus network will be overhauled next week! At major stations, extra staff at the platforms are announcing the changes, with calls like: "LAST CHANCE! to ride the 170, it will cease to exist next week!" 🚍
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana Barry#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities' by @kayatbarry.bsky.social This paper examines the experiences of seasonal migrants in horticultural communities in Queensland, Australia. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
- 8pm tomorrow night!! - listen to ABC Radio National Big Ideas for our public panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate" with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
- Listen in at 8pm tomorrow night! Our Canberra panel discussion: "We asked for workers and got people—inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate." Listen to ABC Radio National's Big Ideas with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryMore from Livingmaps Review 17! In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth. www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryCheck out this new paper out by @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Rafael Azeredo:
- How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- How did we become so reliant on backpackers for farm labour? Rafael Azeredo and I trace the evolution of the Aus Working Holiday Maker visa and the political push to repurpose rural tourism as essential labour. Out now in @tourismgeographies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryGreat to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- after three years of tramping around Queensland, having to move office coincides with the end of my fellowship project! Dismantling the postcard collection today... 🚅🍌🍊🍍🫐🐑🧳✈️
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryAs Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
- koala encounters! remember to slow down in the wet and during joey season! @griffith.edu.au
- NEW: The bohemian imaginary — my brilliant co-conspirator Peter Varley & I dreamt up this paper about how tourism is imagined, practiced, and fetishised in contemporary consumerist culture. #Debord #spectacle #tourism #mobilties #subcultures www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- interested in weather, seasons, or climate mobilities? in this paper I unpack assumptions about Western, colonialist weather ideals that underpin seasonal employment and migration
- NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryHere’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇
- Join us Thurs 13 March for a public panel discussion hosted by ABC Radio National's @natashamitchell.bsky.social about the experiences of workers from the Pacific in Australia. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...
- interested in #birds, #biosecurity, or #borders? my essay on continental scales and potential avian threats is now published in the latest issue of Australian Geographer, free to access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KGVWT... @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social
- peculiar little cyclone pictographic.. I like the way the rain drops are added in. (on a serious note — make sure you have an emergency kit, let's hope we don't need it)
- happy first day of autumn 🍂🌀
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryThe ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryAnd the thing is, the war never ended. The tactics just changed. 'More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryOur @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. We discuss new research with wonderful scholars from different disciplines: K. Brimblecombe-Fox, @emilyfaux.bsky.social, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social and @julietjfall.bsky.social. Join us in person or online. www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryWatch. Then vote wisely. No. Vote. Is. Ever. Wasted! Why? Preferential voting, of course. If you don't know how this *actually* works, watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley.... Thanks, @thejuicemedia.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryThoroughly enjoyed this workshop - great to see the essay in print! Read on for some reflections on the aesthetics of emergency (im)mobilities
- NEW: a creative essay "DRSABCD—RESUS IN AN EMERGENCY: A Collective Diagramming of Emergency (Im)mobilities" is now out in Mobility Humanities journal. Led by myself and Peter Adey, emerging from a workshop at Griffith Uni in 2023 journal-mobilityhumanities.com?ckattempt=1&...
- NEW: a creative essay "DRSABCD—RESUS IN AN EMERGENCY: A Collective Diagramming of Emergency (Im)mobilities" is now out in Mobility Humanities journal. Led by myself and Peter Adey, emerging from a workshop at Griffith Uni in 2023 journal-mobilityhumanities.com?ckattempt=1&...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana Barry‘Academics have accused the education minister of “arbitrary political interference” in the Australian Research Council’. Good to see this report on our academic open letter in support of @RandaAFattah which now has more than 700 signatures www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- a stack of new books! I'd better get reading..
- sydney train strike...
- Presenting at the Precarious Labour Geographies symposium today
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryGood to see our friends from @polgeographygroup.bsky.social on Bluesky!
- for those who are geographically inclined, the Cultural Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers now has a bluesky account! Follow us here -- @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social
- Join us — 13 March in Canberra for the launch of TEMPORARY: we wanted workers but we got people — an exhibition of images & stories of temporary migration from the Pacific to Australia. By Matt Withers, Kirstie Petrou, Jeanette Tanghwa, Ema Moolchand, and me. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...
- new neighbourhood watch member...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryThe biggest collection in the world of hotel door hangers, organised by country. www.flickr.com/photos/11068... The old ones are the best.
- really delighted to be giving a keynote at the Precarious Labour Geographies symposium next week. If you're in Sydney, register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/precarious...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryI made a starter pack of Human Geography Journals, for those of you (like me) for whom BSKY is a nice help in keeping up with the literature. Feel free to tip for me any journals I may have missed. go.bsky.app/Hw9i9brat://did:plc:mzboj3htn6uvh6y7hnp4l6vb/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lhdnf3ttef2i
- humid, hazy morning, with mackerel skies emerging. 25°C, feels like 29.6°C, 85% humidity
- A new report from Jobs and Skills Australia cites my research — on the urgent need for more affordable, available worker accommodation PALM & Working Holiday Maker visas, who are essential part of regional and rural communities. Report available here: www.jobsandskills.gov.au/publications...
- yeeha.. feels like 40°C
- Last week I spoke with community radio program The Wire about the legacy of backpackers and seasonal workers in Australia's regional and rural communities. Listen to the interview here: www.thewire.org.au/story/how-ba...
- summer reading. certainly the apt choice was "Fire Weather" – highly recommend
- NEW: remember Joe the pigeon, who supposedly flew to Australia all the way from the US? In this essay I explore Joe's legacy, his connection to practices of migration and detention, and the more-than-human mobilities that underpin biosecurity. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KGVWT...
- of interest to @acbsnetwork.bsky.social
- ABC Landline aired the story about my research on seasonal workers again today, see the news story online here: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
- good morning 2025, 26.6°C
- "how's those major revisions to the article going?" About as productive as an awkward puppy standing on a keyboard.
- campus is so lively this week! look who I ran into today
- look who I saw at campus today!!
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryWatch our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @kayatbarry.bsky.social talks to Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about her fascinating research on art and migration, including participatory photography to document the lives of migrant farming workers in Australia. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
- heading across Maiwar to UQ this arve, where I'll be talking about some of the tensions and politics of researching #art and #migration — link to join online below:
- Please join us in person or online for our next Visual Politics event: @kayatbarry.bsky.social discusses her ARC DECRA project on art, migration and community engagement. Wed 4 Dec 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Rm 501/39a. Zoom rego here: www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana BarryPlease join us in person or online for our next Visual Politics event: @kayatbarry.bsky.social discusses her ARC DECRA project on art, migration and community engagement. Wed 4 Dec 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). Rm 501/39a. Zoom rego here: www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...
- New: we look at the ongoing presence of Working Holiday Maker backpackers in rural Queensland, and the changes and contributions they have brought to country life. New from my ARC DECRA research, with the amazing Rafael Azeredo and Ben Iaquinto! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- storm season is here. Norman Creek, Greenslopes, ~50mm in 30mins
- Reposted by Kaya Tatjana Barryremember the reason for the season
- next week I'll be talking about art and migration at the amazing UQ Visual Politics seminar series — join us! online or in-person, details in link: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
- maybe of interest to @acbsnetwork.bsky.social
