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Jo Gillespie, PhD Candidate

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Jo holds degrees in Arts (Geography Honours) and Law. Jo returned to study to pursue a PhD based at the World Heritage site of Angkor Archaeological Park, Cambodia. Drawing on her background in the legal profession Jo is pursuing research which is designed to assess the impact of the World Heritage classification on local communities. Jo is tracing how the ideals of protection enunciated in the World Heritage Convention transcend scales and are translated into local land use laws. The influence of the legally plural landscape setting, the relative importance of security of tenure and the process of territorialisation are themes explored in this research. The analysis is also concerned with the complex relationship between law and geography and contributes to a growing literature in the field of legal geography.

Jo’s research is supported by the Australian Research Council funded “Living with Heritage” Linkage Project.

Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Bruce
Assoc. Supervisor: Dr Timothy Stephens (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney)

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Selected publications

  • Moylan, E., and Gillespie, J., (in prep), Understanding modern settlement patterns at Angkor, Cambodia: a resource for landscape planning.
  • Gillespie, J. and Bruce, E., (in prep), The role of buffer zones in addressing heritage management objectives: a case study in the Angkor World Heritage Site.
  • Gillespie, J., (2009), Protecting World Heritage: Regulating ownership and land use at Angkor Archaeological Park, Cambodia, Vol 15, Issue 4, International Journal of Heritage Studies, pp. 338 – 354.
  • Gillespie, J., (2009), Book Review: ETHNOGRAPHY AND LAW, edited by E. Darian-Smith, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, 2007, in The Australian Journal of Anthropology.
  • Gillespie, J., (2007), Book Review: INNOVATIVE COMMUNITIES. PEOPLE-CENTRED APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE ASIA–PACIFIC REGION edited by Jerry Velasquez, Makiko Yashiro, Susan Yoshimura and Izumi Ono (United Nations University Press, Tokyo, New York, Paris, 2005, in Asia-Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol.10, Issues 3 & 4, pp. 303 – 307.