JANE MARGARET JACOBS
16 July 2014
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 2 May 1958
Gender: Female
Citizenship: Australian and British
Current professional address
Professor of Urban Studies, Director of Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College, 6 College Avenue
East, #B1-01, Singapore, 138614. Telephone +65 83399106, Fax +65 67736932.
Email: [email protected]
Current personal address
29 Dairy Farm Road, 01-06, Singapore, 679049. Phone: 66012820; Mobile: 81680526. Email:
[email protected]
Academic Training
• 1987-1990: PhD, Department of Geography, University of London. The Politics of the Past:
Heritage and Urban Redevelopment in the City of London and Spitalfields.
• 1981-1983: Masters of Arts, University of Adelaide, Australia. The Politics of Land Rights in ‘nontraditional’ Aboriginal Communities.
• 1980: Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Adelaide, Australia.
• 1976-78: Bachelor of Arts (Ordinary), University of Adelaide, Australia.
Academic Positions
• 2012-present: Professor of urban Studies and Director of Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Singapore.
• 2011-2012: Senior Visiting Fellow, National University Singapore.
• 2005-2011: Chair Cultural Geography, School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh.
• 2003-2005: Reader, Institute of Geography, The University of Edinburgh.
• 2002-2003: Lecturer, Institute of Geography, The University of Edinburgh.
• 2001-2002: Associate Professor/Reader, SAGES, The University of Melbourne.
• 1998 - 2000: Senior Lecturer, Geography, The University of Melbourne.
• 1993-1996: ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne.
• 1991-1993: Temporary Lecturer, Department of Geography, The University of Melbourne.
• 1990-1991: Temporary Lecturer, Department of Geography, University College London.
• 1984-1987: Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Adelaide.
Major funded research: Career total: £434,076.00.
• Asian Urbanisms (2012-15) Yale-NUS Start-Up Grant (S$40,000).
• Advancing Postcolonial Geography: an international symposium (2012-13) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research Grant, National University of Singapore. Held with James Sidaway and Woon Chih Yuan
(S$19,180).
• Red Road in a Box: Producing social history video assets for Glasgow Museums (2010), College of Humanities
and Social Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Knowledge Transfer Grant, Principal
Investigator. (£5,000).
• Difference and Repetition: An Investigation of the residential high-rise as a global form (2004-2007). Principal
Investigator, with Prof. Stephen Cairns, Architecture, University of Edinburgh (APN18420:
£253,426).
• Way-finding in non-places (2005-6). Co-investigator with Professor Richard Coyne (PI) (Architecture,
Edinburgh), and Co-investigators: Prof. Robin Williams (RCSS, Edinburgh), Prof. Ewan Klein
(Infomatics, Edinburgh), Prof. Elisabeth Davenport (International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier
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University), Prof. Stephen Cairns (Architecture, Edinburgh). (AHRC Network Grant, Design
in the 21st Century £50,000).
Deconstructing the Residential High-rise (2002). Principal Investigator (University of Edinburgh Alumni
Development Grant: £1,000).
Rethinking the Residential High-rise (1993-95). Principal Investigator (Australian Housing and Urban
Research Institute: A$3,500).
The Reconciliation Audit: (1998-2002) Principal Investigator with Prof. Marcia Langton (Geography and
Environmental Studies, The University of Melbourne). (Small Australian Research Council:
A$9,000).
Discourses of the Aboriginal Sacred (1992-1998) Principal Investigator with Prof. Ken Gelder (English
with Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne). (Small Australian Research Council: A$13,000
+ A$12,000).
Aboriginality in Architecture (1996-7) Principal Investigator with Prof. Kim Dovey (Architecture, The
University of Melbourne). (Small Australian Research Council A$12,000).
Cities of Difference (1995-1997) Principal Investigator with Prof. Ruth Fincher (Planning, University of
Melbourne). (Unfunded).
Postcolonialism and the city (1993-1996). Principal Investigator (Three Year Australian Research
Council Postdoctoral Fellowship: Year One A$49,018; Year Two A$50,630; Year Three A$50,630).
Research Supervision Summary (PhD and MPhil only): Career total 24 (14 completions)
University of Edinburgh (2002-2012)
• Nicolai Stefanovics 2009-2013: Everyday settlement in HafenCity, Open ESRC competition/School.
• Lakhbir Jassal 2009-2013: The cultural politics of death among British Asians. Overseas Research
Studentship/School. Awarded 2013.
• Sophie Cranston 2010- 2013: The Transnational recruitment industry and the cultivation of transnational
subjectivities ESRC, University of Edinburgh. Awarded 2014.
• Graeme Ferguson 2010-2013: Townscape as a transnational urban knowledge. AHRC.
• Junxi Qian 2010-2012: Public Space in Chinese Cities. Chinese Scholarship, University of Edinburgh.
Awarded 2012.
• Hannah Steinmetz 2009-2012: Architecture, Atmosphere and Actor Network Theory. External
supervisor/examiner University of Constance, Germany. Awarded 2012.
• Andrew Wilbur 2008-2012: Slow Food Movement in Italy. Joint with University of Glasgow. Awarded
2012.
• Chris Ellis 2008-2012: Postcolonial Costa Rica. ESRC Open Competition studentship.
• Lesley Gallacher 2005 - 2010: Space and subjectivity in the pre-school. ESRC Studentship. Awarded 2010.
• Peter Geoghagen 2004-2008: Beyond Orange and Green? Multiculturalism and Sectarianism in Northern Ireland
School Studentship. Awarded 2009.
• Charlotte Chambers 2004 - 2008: Bounding the Lagoon: Resource management Penryn, Cook Islands. ORS
and University Studentship. Awarded 2008.
• Deborah Thien 2002 - 2004: A Feminist Geography of Women’s Strategies for Mental Health in Remote
Locations: The case of Shetland Island, Scotland. Commonwealth Scholarship. Awarded 2004.
• Cate Turk 2002 - 2005: World Heritage and Local Knowledge. Commonwealth Scholarship. Awarded
2005.
University of Melbourne (1991-2002)
• Sarah Ewing 1994–6: It's in your hands: an assessment of Landcare in Victoria. Awarded 1996.
• Christina Jarvis 1995–2000: If Descartes Swam with Dolphins: Marine Animal Tourism and the Culture/Nature
Divide. Awarded 2000.
• Goa Jia 1996–2001: Chinese Students and Refugee Status. Awarded 2001
• Wendy Shaw 1996–2001: Colonial nostalgias and urban transformation: new racism and inner city. Awarded
2002.
• Michelle Duffy 1998–2001: Music Festivals and a Sense of Place. Awarded 2002
• Kate Kerkin 1996–2002: Difference by Design: urban design and diversity. Awarded 2003
• Amanda Claremont 1998–2003: White Interiors: The Orchard in Australia. Awarded 2003.
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Rachel Hughes 1997–2006: Death Tourism in Cambodia. Awarded 2006.
Haydie Gooder 1997–2010: Sorry People: Non-Aboriginal involvement in Reconciliation. Awarded 2010.
Recent Key Administrative Experience
• 2012–present: Director of Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
• 2012–present
• 2012–2014: Chair, Library and Educational Resources Committee, Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
• 2010–2011: Head, Human Geography Group, University of Edinburgh.
• 2010/11: Director, MSc City, postgraduate taught, University of Edinburgh.
• 2005–2008: Deputy Director (Social Science), School Graduate Organisation Policy Committee,
University of Edinburgh.
• 2002–2008: Postgraduate Coordinator, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh.
• 2002–2008: Director, Masters by Research Human Geography, University of Edinburgh.
• 2005–2007: Chair, Research Ethics Committee, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.
• 1999–2002: Associate Director/Acting Director, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, The University of
Melbourne.
• 1995–2002: Member, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee, The University
of Melbourne.
Journal Work
• 2014–to date: Editorial Board, Geographical Research.
• 2011–2013: Co-Editor, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
• 2009–2013: Co-Editor, Scottish Geographical Journal.
• 1995–to date: Editorial Board, Cultural Studies Review.
• Past Boards: Social and Cultural Geographies, Transactions IBG (NS), Gender, Place and Culture, Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space, Annals, Association of American Geographers, Antipode.
Key invited plenary, keynote addresses
• July 2014: ‘Architecture & Geography’ Social and Cultural Geography International Advanced
Workshop, Chinese Geographical Society, Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an.
• November 2013: Moderator and Discussant: Mobilities of Design: Transnational Transfers in Asian
Architecture and Urban Planning, 1960-Present, Future Cities Lab, ETH-Singapore, Singapore.
• June 2013: ‘Liberal Arts in Asia’ Australian Academy of the Social Sciences Fay Gale Annual Lecture Series.
Lecture 1, University of Melbourne, Lecture 2, University of Adelaide.
• September 2012: ‘Relational urbanism’. Invited Plenary, Territorial Encounters, Second FCL
Conference, ETH-Zürich, Hönggerberg campus.
• September 2012: ‘Unmaking Cities’. Invited Plenary, Future Cities: Technology, Environment and Change.
Academia Engelberg Congress, Switzerland.
• July 2010: ‘City Unbound Revisited’: Keynote Address, Urban Geography Study Group, NZ/IAG
Annual Conference, Christchurch.
• March 2010: ‘Building events’, Special Seminar Series on Urban Ethnographies, Department of Ethnology,
Humboldt University Berlin.
• 2009: ‘Re-viewing materialities’, Keynote Address, Visuality / Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and
Practice, organizers Gillian Rose and Divya Tolia-Kelly.
• 2006: ‘Postcolonial materialities: Or, the Politics of Making Big Things Small, and Small Things Big’
Annual Alexander von Humboldt Lecture in Human Geography. University of Nijmegen.
• 2005: ‘A geography of big things’, Cultural Geographies Annual Lecture, AAG, Denver.
• 2005: ‘The high-rise leap: suicide and modernity in post-independence Singapore’, Landscape
Conference in honour of Barbara Bender, Department of Anthropology, University College London.
• 2002: ‘The high-rise leap’, Gordon Manley Annual Lecture, Geography, Royal Holloway, University of
London.
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2000: ‘The Global Domestic’, Architectures of Globalization. University of California, Berkeley.
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2000: ‘The Global Domestic’, 7th International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Italy.
2000: ‘Postcolonialism and the city’, National Planning History Conference, Adelaide Australia.
2000: ‘Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a postcolonial nation’, address to RGS/IBG as
sponsored guest of the Cultural and Historical Geography Study Group, RGS/IBG.
1999: ‘Postcolonialism and the city’, Dean's Visiting Fellow in the Department of Geography, Queens
University, Kingston, Ontario.
1997: ‘Postcolonialism and the city’, Department of Anthropology Seminar, University of Chicago.
Peer review activity
• AHRC College Review Board (2006 to present).
• Reviewer of academic papers for: Australian Geographical Studies, Annals, AAG.; Social and Cultural
Geography; Ecumene/Cultural Geographies; Gender Place and Culture; Environment and Planning A & D;
Transactions IBG, Urban Studies, Acme, Annals AAG.
• Book Proposal Reviewer for: Routledge, Althone Press, Guilford, Sage, Blackwells.
External Examiner responsibilities
• 2008- 2010: external Examiner, Undergraduate programme, Queen Mary College, University of
London.
• 2002-2006: External Examiner, Masters by Research, Cultural Geography, Royal Holloway,
University of London.
• 2004-2006: External examiner, Undergraduate programme in Geography, University of Dundee.
• ongoing: PhD Examinations (n=12): urban studies, cultural geography, cultural studies and heritage.
Summary of Courses Taught (1990-present)
Comparative Social Institutions (UG, 2013)
Urban Ecologies (PG, scheduled start 2011)
Researching the city (PG, 2008- present)
Qualitative Approaches to the City (Honours, 2006 – present)
Postcolonial Geographies (UG, 1998-2002)
Methodological Debates in Human Geography (PG, 2005-present)
Urban Cultures (Honours, 2006 – present)
Social and Cultural Geography (UG, 2002-present)
The Mobile World: Geographies of Migration and Tourism (UG, 1999-2007)
Philosophy and Methodology: Foundations (UG, 2002-2004)
Landscapes of Power: Cultural Geography (UG, 1990-2001)
Society and Environment (UG, 1994-2001)
Australia in Asia? (UG, 1995-2001)
Famine in the Modern World (UG, 1991-1995)
New Cultural Geographies (UG, 1991)
4 PUBLICATIONS
Books and Collections
CAIRNS, S. and JACOBS, J.M. 2014 Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture. MIT Press.
GELDER K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1998 Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and identity in a postcolonial nation. University
of Melbourne Press, Melbourne.
FINCHER, R. and JACOBS, J.M. (eds) 1998 Cities of Difference. Guilford, New York City: x + 322pp.
JACOBS, J.M. 1996 Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City. Routledge, London and New York.
JACOBS, J. M. and GALE, F. 1994 Tourism and the Protection of Aboriginal Cultural Sites. Australian Heritage
Commission, Canberra: xii+146pp.
GALE, F. and JACOBS, J.M. 1987 Tourists and the National Estate: Procedures to Protect Australia's Heritage,
Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra: viii+116 pp.
Websites and Artefacts
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S., STREBEL, I. 2008 High-rise Project Website.
http://www.ace.ed.ac.uk/highrise/
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S., STREBEL, I., Lee, H-S 2011 Red Road in a Box. Memory artefact produced for
Glasgow Museums.
Refereed Journal Articles
STREBEL, I. and JACOBS, J.M. 2013 Houses of Experiment: High-rise housing and the will to
laboratorization, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38 (2), 450-470. Themed issue on
Laboratorization and the City edited by Andrew Karvonan and Bas van Huer.
STREBEL, I. and JACOBS, J.M. 2013 People and buildings: Pearl Jephcott and the science of life in high
flats, Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge 7, 14-35.
JACOBS, J.M. and LEES, L. 2013 Defensible space on the move: Revisiting the urban geography of Alice
Coleman, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37 (5), 1559-1583. Themed issue on
Urban Planning Terrains: Relational Histories and Practices of Circulating Knowledge edited by
Susan Moore and Andrew Harris.
JACOBS, J.M. 2012, Comparing Comparative Urbanisms, Urban Geography, 33(6), 904-914. Themed Issue
on Comparative Urbanism edited by Jennifer Robinson and Colin McFarlane.
JACOBS, J.M. 2012 Property and Propriety: (Re)making the space of indigeneity in Australian cities,
Postcolonial Studies 15(2), 143-147. Special Issue: Making Indigenous place in the Australian city.
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S. and STREBEL, I. 2012, Doing Building Work: Methods at the Interface of
Geography and Architecture, Journal of Geographical Research 50 (2), 126-140.
JACOBS, J.M. 2012, Urban Geography I: Still thinking cities relationally, Progress in Human Geography, 36,
413-422.
JACOBS, J.M. 2009 Sophisticated Geographies, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 8(1),
http://www.acme-journal.org/contents.html.
5 JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S., STREBEL, I. 2008 Windows: Re-viewing Red Road, Scottish
Geographical Journal, Centenary Special Issue, 124 (2-3), 165-184.
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S. AND STREBEL, I. 2008 Doing building work: The un-making of Red Road,
Docomomo: International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings and Sites and Neighbouroods of
the Modern Movement, 39, 48-52.
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S. 2008 The modern touch: Interior design and modernisation in postindependence Singapore, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning A, 40 (3), 572 – 595.
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S., STREBEL, I. 2007 ‘A tall story…but, a fact just the same’: The Red Road
high-rise as a black box, Urban Studies, 44(3), 609-629.
JACOBS, J.M. 2006 A geography of big things, Cultural Geographies, 13 (1), 1-27.
JACOBS, J.M. and NASH, C. 2003 Too little, too much: cultural feminist geographies, Gender Place and
Culture, 10 (3), 265-280.
JACOBS, J.M. 2003 Home Rules. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS, 28 (3), 259-263.
GOODER, H. and JACOBS, J.M. 2000 ‘On the borders of the unsayable’: the apology in postcolonizing
Australia. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2 (2), 230-248.
JACOBS, J. M. 2000 Difference and its other, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS, 25(4), 403407.
GELDER, K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1999 Promiscuous Sacred Sites: Reflections on Secrecy and Scepticism in
the Hindmarsh Island Affair, Australian Humanities Review. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR
ANDERSON, K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1999 Geographies of publicity and privacy: Residential activism in
Sydney in the 1970s. Environment and Planning A, 1017-1030.
ANDERSON, K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1997 From urban Aborigines to Aboriginality in the city: one path
through the history of Australian cultural geography, Australian Geographical Studies, 35 (1), 12-22.
JACOBS, J. and JACKSON, P. 1996 Postcolonialism and the politics of race, Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space. 14 (4), 1-4.
HUGGINS, J. HUGGINS, R. and JACOBS, J.M. 1995 Kooramindanjie: Place and the Postcolonial, History
Workshop Journal, 39, 165-181.
GELDER, K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1995 Uncanny Australia, Ecumene: Culture, Meaning, Environment, 2 (2), 116138.
GELDER, K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1995 Uncanny Australia, UTS Review, 1 (2), 156-175.
GELDER, K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1995 Talking out of place: authorising the Aboriginal sacred in Australia',
Cultural Studies, 151-160.
JACOBS J.M. 1995 'That dangerous fantasy of authenticity': commentary on a reconciliation place-making
project in Australia, Ecumene: Culture, Meaning, Environment, 2(2), 211-214.
JACOBS, J.M. 1994 Negotiating the heart: "heritage", redevelopment and identity, Environment and Planning
D: Society and Space, 12, 751-772.
JACOBS, J. M. 1994 Western desires and indigenous knowledges. Meanjin, 53 (2): 305-314.
JACOBS. J.M. 1993 The city unbound: qualitative approaches to the city, Urban Studies, 30 (4/5), 823-846.
JACOBS, J.M. 1989 Politics and the cultural landscape: The case of Aboriginal land rights, Australian
Geographical Studies, 26(2), 249-263.
GALE, F. and JACOBS, J.M. 1987 Aboriginal art: Australia's neglected inheritance, World Archaeology, 19(2),
226-235.
GALE, F. and JACOBS, J.M. 1986 Identifying high-risk visitors at Aboriginal art sites. Rock Art Research, 3(1),
3-12.
Editorials for Refereed Journals
SIDAWAY, J.D, WOON, C.Y. AND JACOBS, J.M. 2014 Planetary Postcolonialism, Singapore Journal of
Tropical Geography, 25 (1), 4-21.
JACOBS, J.M. AND MERRIMAN, P. 2011 Practising architectures, Social and Cultural Geographies 12 (3),
211-222. Editorial for theme issue on geography and architecture.
JACOBS, J.M., SMITH, S. J. 2008 Living room: rematerialising home, Environment and Planning A, 40 (3),
515 –519. Editorial for theme issue on materiality and the home.
JACOBS, J.M. 2003 Home Rules. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS, 28 (3) 259-263.
JACOBS, J. M. 2000 Difference and its other, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS, 25 (4): 403407.
6 JACOBS, J.M. 1996 Speaking always as geographers, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 14
(4): 379-383. Editorial for special issue on Deleuze, co-produced with Meaghan Morris.
Edited special issues (journals and book sections)
SIDAWAY, J.D, WOON, C.Y. AND JACOBS, J.M. 2014 Special Issue on Advancing Postcolonial
Geography, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 25 (1).
JACOBS J.M. and MERRIMAN, P. 2011 Special issue on Practising Architecture, Social and Cultural
Geography 12 (3).
JACOBS, J.M., SMITH, S. J. 2008 Special issue on materialities of housing and home, Environment and
Planning A, 40 (3) (papers by Susan Smith, Jane Jacobs, Robyn Dowling, Alison Blunt).
JACOBS, J.M. (section editor) 2002 After Empire, in The Handbook of Cultural Geography, Kay Anderson, Mona
Domosh, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift (eds). Sage: London. (papers by Dan Clayton, Anthony King
and Brenda Yeoh).
JACOBS, J.M. and MORRIS, M. (eds) 1996 Special issue of journal Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space, 14 (4), 123pp. (papers by Marcus Doel, Sandra Buckley, Brian Massumi, Meaghan Morris).
Chapters in Books
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S. AND STREBEL. I. 2012 Materialising vision, in G. Rose and D. Toiya-Kelly
(eds) Visuality/MaterialityI Images, Objects and Practices. Athlone. 133-152.
JACOBS, J.M., CAIRNS, S. AND STREBEL. I. 2011, Materialising vision: Performing a high-rise view, in
S. Daniels, D. DeLyser, J. Ketchum and D. Richardson, Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds:
Geography and the Humanities, Routledge: 256-268.
JACOBS, J.M. 2011 An Australian Jane Jacobs, in M. Page and T. Mennel (eds), Reconsidering Jane Jacobs,
APA Press: 37-42.
JACOBS J.M. and CAIRNS, S. 2011 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-rise Housing in Singapore, in
The New Companion to the City, S. Watson and G. Bridge (eds). Blackwell: 79-95.
JACOBS, J.M. 2008 Re-qualifying the city, in Maginn, P.J., Thompson, S.M. and Tonts, M. (eds) Qualitative
Urban Analysis: An International Perspective. Studies in Qualitative Methodologies 9, Elsevier: 241–249.
JACOBS, J.M. 2004 The global domestic, in The End of Tradition? N. Alsayyad (ed.). Routledge: 29–44.
JACOBS, J.M. 2004 Too many houses for a home: Narrating the house in the Chinese diaspora, in Drift:
Architecture and Migrancy, S. Cairns (ed.), Routledge: 164-183.
JACOBS, J.M. 2004 Postcolonial Geography, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences , Neil
J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds), Elsevier Ltd.: 11838-11841.
GOODER, H. and JACOBS, J.M. 2004 Belonging and non-belonging: The apology in a reconciling nation,
Postcolonial Geographies, A. Blunt and C. McEwan (eds), Continuum: 200-213.
JACOBS, J.M. 2002 After Empire, in The Handbook of Cultural Geography, K. Anderson, M. Domosh, S. Pile
and N. Thrift (eds). Sage: 345-353.
JACOBS, J.M. and FINCHER, R. and ANDERSON, K. 2002 Rescripting Cities with Difference, in
Understanding the City, C. Mele and J. Eade (eds). Blackwell: 27-48.
JACOBS, J.M. 2001 Hybrid Highrises, in Debating the City, J. Barrett and C. Butler-Bowden (eds) Historical
Houses Trust of NSW: 13-28.
DOVEY, K., LOCHERT, M. and JACOBS, J.M. 2000 Aboriginality and architecture, in White Papers/Black
Mark: Architecture, Race and Culture, L. Lokko (ed.). The Athlone Press: 25-37.
JACOBS. J.M. 2000 Conclusion from Edge of Empire, in The City Cultures Reader, eds, M. Miles, T. Hall and I.
Borden, Routledge: 69-73. Reprint.
JACOBS, J.M. 2000 Noir, in Cities AtoZ, eds, S. Pile and N. Thrift, Routledge: 186-189.
JACOBS, J.M. 2000 Sacredness, in Cities AtoZ, eds, S. Pile and N. Thrift, Routledge: 238-241.
JACOBS, J.M. 2000 Trails, in Cities AtoZ, eds, S. Pile and N. Thrift, Routledge: 265-267.
HUGGINS, J. and JACOBS, J.M. 2000 Kooramindanjie Place, in Placebound: Australian Feminist Geographies,
ed. L. Johnson, Oxford University Press: 167-181.
JACOBS, J.M. 1999 The Labour of Cultural Geography, in Australian Cultural Geographies, ed. E. Stratford,
Oxford University Press: 11-24.
GELDER, K. and JACOBS, J.M. 1999 The postcolonial ghost story, in Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis,
History, eds A. Stott, and P. Buse, Macmillan: 179-199.
JACOBS, J.M. and FINCHER. R. 1998 Introduction, in Cities of Difference, eds R. Fincher and J.M. Jacobs,
Guilford: 1-26.
7 JACOBS, J.M. 1998 Staging difference: Aestheticization and the Politics of Difference in
Contemporary Cities, in Cities of Difference, eds R. Fincher and J.M. Jacobs, Guilford: 252-279.
JACOBS, J.M. 1997 Resisting reconciliation, in Geographies of Resistance, eds S. Pile, M. Keith. Routledge: 6789.
JAMIESON, N. and JACOBS, J.M. 1996 The making of marginalisation: highrise living and social
polarisation, in Restructuring Difference: Social Polarisation and the City, eds K. Gibson et al., AHURI: 7592.
JACOBS, J.M. 1994 Earth Honouring: western desires and indigenous knowledges, in Writing Women and
Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies, eds . G. Rose and A. Blunt,, Guilford Publications, New
York: 195 -231.
JACOBS, J.M. 1994 The battle of Bank Junction: The contested iconography of capital, in Money, Power and
Space, eds S. Corbridge, R. Martin, and N. Thrift, Basil Blackwell, London: 356-382.
JACOBS, J.M. 1993 'Shake ‘im this country': the mapping of the Aboriginal sacred in Australia, in
Constructions of Race, Place and Nation, eds P. Jackson and J. Penrose, UCL Press: London. 100-118.
JACOBS, J.M. 1992 Cultures of the past and urban transformation: the Spitalfields Market redevelopment
in East London, in Inventing Places: Studies in Cultural Geography, eds K. Anderson, and F. Gale,
Longman Cheshire, Melbourne: 194-214.
JACOBS, J.M. 1989 "Women talking up big": Aboriginal women as cultural custodians, in Women, Rites and
Sites: Aboriginal Women's Cultural Knowledge, ed. P. Brock, Allen and Unwin, Sydney: 76-98.
JACOBS, J.M., LAURENCE, C.O. and THOMAS, F. 1988 "Pearls from the deep": re-evaluating the early
history of Colebrook Home for Aboriginal children, in Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions:
Ethnographic and Historical Studies, eds T. Swain and D. Bird Rose, The Australian Association for the
Study of Religions: Bedford Park, SA: 140-155.
JACOBS, J.M. 1988 The construction of identity, in Past and Present: The Construction of Aboriginality, ed. J.
Beckett, Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies, Canberra: 31-44.
GALE, F. and JACOBS, J.M. 1986 Aboriginal rock art: "threatened species" of the visual arts in Australia, in
Diversity Itself: Essays in Australian Arts and Culture, ed. P. Quartermaine, University of Exeter for
AmCAS: Devon, Exeter: 163-172.
Anthologised and reprinted articles / extracts, including works in translation
JACOBS, J.M. HUGGINS, J. and HUGGINS, R. (2008) Kooramindanjie: place and the postcolonial, in
Culture and Society: Critical Essays in Human Geography, eds. Nuala C Johnson. Series Ed. John Agnew.
Ashgate Publishing.
JACOBS, J.M. (2008) Earth Honouring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges, in Environment: Critical
Essays in Human Geography eds. K. Anderson and B.P. Braun. Series Ed. John Agnew. Ashgate
Publishing.
JACOBS, J.M. 2002 From Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City’, in The Blackwell City Reader, eds G. Bridge
and S. Watson, Blackwell Publishing. 542-548.
JACOBS, J.M. 2002 (Post)Colonial Spaces, in The Spaces of Postmodernity: Readings in Human Geography, eds
Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. Reprint on request, extract from
Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism in the City. 192-200.
JACOBS, J.M. 2002 Earth honouring: western desires and indigenous knowledges, in Anthology of Feminist
Geography, Hiroo Kamiya (ed.) Kokon Shoin, Tokyo. Japanese translation, reprinted on request. 184216.
JACOBS, J.M. 2001 Espaces (Post)coloniaux, in Géographies Anglo-saxonnes. Tendances Contemporaines. Belin,
Paris. French translation, reprinted on request, extract from Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City.
73-93.
JACOBS, J.M. 2000 Conclusion, from Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City in The City Cultures Reader, eds
M. Miles, T. Hall, and I. Borden, Routledge. 69-73.
JACOBS, J.M. 1999 Negotiating the heart: place and identity in the post-imperial city, in City Worlds, eds D.
Massey, J. Allen and S. Pile, Routledge with The Open University. Reprint on request, extract from
original article for text in Understandings Cities course of The Open University: 137-156.
HUGGINS, J. HUGGINS, R. and JACOBS, J.M. 1997 Kooramindanjie: Place and the Postcolonial, in
Memories and Dreams, eds R. White, and P. Russell, Allen and Unwin: St Leonards, NSW. pp 229245. Reprinted, on request, from History Workshop Journal, 39.pp 165-181. Additional reflective piece
written to introduce the reprinted version: 227-228.
8 Book, art and architecture reviews
CAIRNS, S. and JACOBS, J.M. 2002 Radar Urbanity: Review of Duxton Plain Housing Competition,
Architecture Australia, 91 (6), 32-4.
JACOBS, J. M. 2001 Touching pasts. Symposium on Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island
by Daniel Clayton, Antipode 33 (4): 730-734.
JACOBS, J. M. 1999 Review of Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction by L. Gandhi, Australian Journal of
Political Science 34 (3): 476-477.
JACOBS, J.M. 1998 Review of Re-presenting the city: Ethnicity, capital and culture in the 21st century metropolis by A.
D. King,, Area 30 (1): 91-92.
JACOBS, J.M. 1997 The consequences of ruins: Contemplations on social memory and loss of place in
Australia. Review of From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory by Chris Healy and Returning
to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places by Peter Read, Journal of Historical Geography, 23 (4): 550-505.
JACOBS, J.M. 1995 Review of Place Culture Representation by James Duncan David Ley, Progress in Human
Geography, 19 (2): 292-293.
JACOBS, J.M. 1994 Review of New words, new worlds: reconceptualising social and cultural geography – conference
proceedings by Chris Philo, Antipode 26 (1): 103-106.
JACOBS, J. M. 1993 Review of The Place of Geography by Tim Unwin, Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space, 11 (5): 608-610.
Other Edited Collections
GIBSON, K., HUXLEY, M., CAMERON, J., COSTELLO, L., FINCHER, R., JACOBS, J., JAMIESON,
N., JOHNSON, L. and PULVIRENTI , M. (eds) 1996 Restructuring Difference: Social Polarisation and the
City. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Working Paper Series, 6. Melbourne:
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute: viii+ 114pp.
JACOBS, J.M. and LIEPINS, R. (eds) 1994 Rural Women: Exploring Research Agendas. Department of
Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne: Research Paper 1. 45pp.
Articles in Unrefereed Journals
JACOBS, J.M. 1999 Touring knowledges: A short report on a short visiting scholarship at CAS. CAS Update.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore: 10-11.
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