Rebecca Goodbourn

My work adds to criminological scholarship concerned with the use and design of space, specifically focusing on what is missed in much of this literature - the embodied sensory experience of everyday life.  My thesis is the first in-depth analysis of experience in the laneways in Melbourne’s Central Business District. 

I explore issues of waste management and conceptions of excess; experiences of nature in urban spaces; perceptions and understandings of femininity in the city; movement and mobility (both bodily movement as well as economic flows); urban tourism; surveillance practices; drug use; and the concepts of camping and inhabitation, as embodied in numerous protests, as an alternative approach to the organisation of public spaces. 

In all of these themes, my main approach is to look at sensory and physical experiences to explore broader issues of regulation and inequality, and to show how these issues materially affect people in the everyday.edit