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books

 

Rousell, D., Williams, N., & Jayasinghe, T. (in press, 2026). Process and Place: A Field guide to Speculative Research. Routledge. 

 

Rousell, D., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. (2023). Climate Change Imaginaries: Posthuman research playspaces. Routledge.

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Burnard, P., MacKinlay, L., Rousell, D., & Dragovic, T. (Eds.) (2022). Doing rebellious research in and beyond the academy. Brill. 

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Lasczik, A., Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Rousell, D., Irwin, R., & Lee, N. (Eds). (2022). Walking with A/r/tography. Palgrave.

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Rousell, D. (2021). Immersive cartography and post-qualitative inquiry: A speculative adventure into research-creation. Routledge.

 

book chapters 

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Rousell, D., de Freitas, E., & Trafi-Prats, L. (2025). Making memories of the future: Re-assembling Vertov’s kino-cinema for the digital age. In Hickey-Moody, A., Coombs, G., & Willcox, M. Creative Interventions in Method and Practice. University of Edinburgh Press. 
 

Rousell, D., Mayes, E., & Verlie, B. (2024). Atmospheres of youth climate justice activism. In Cuervo, H., Wyn, J., & Cahill, H. (Eds.)., Handbook of Childhood and Youth Studies (2nd Edition). Springer. 
 

Rousell, D., Wijisinghe, T., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. (2024). General ecology and speculative pedagogies: Youth digital media practices for climate justice. In Beach, R., & Smith, B. (Eds.). Youth created media on the climate crisis: Hear our voices (pp. 60-80). Routledge. 
 

Hickey-Moody, A., & Rousell, D. (2024). Affective Attachments to Carbon within Youth Cultures. Towards Posthumanism in Education, 181-196.

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Rousell, D., Wijesinghe, T., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. (2023). General Ecology and Speculative Pedagogies: Youth Digital Media Practices for Climate Justice. In Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis (pp. 60-80). Routledge.

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Rousell, D., Gallagher, M., & Wright, M. (2022). Becoming listening bodies: Sensing the affective atmospheres of the city with young children. In Williams, N., & Keating, T. (Eds.). Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics (pp. 251-268). Palgrave. 

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de Freitas, E., Trafi-Prats, L., Rousell, D., and Hohti, R. (2022). A poetics of opacity: 
Towards a new ethics of participation in gallery-based art projects with young people. In L. Trafi-Prats and Varella, A. (eds). Becoming Lively in the City: Essays on the Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics of Visual Participatory Arts-Based Research. Routledge. 

Rousell, D., Ryan, E., Bauer-Nilsen, B., Lai, R. (2022). Animist pedagogies and the endings of worlds: Rituals for the pluriverse. In Burnard, P., MacKinlay, L., Rousell, D., & Dragovic, T. (Eds.) Doing rebellious research in and beyond the academy (pp. 263-281). Brill.

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Rousell, D. (2022). Doing rebellious theory and methodology in the afterward: Going all city. In Burnard, P., MacKinlay, L., Rousell, D., & Dragovic, T. (Eds.) Doing rebellious research in and beyond the academy (pp. 243-262). Brill.

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MacRae, T., Rousell, D., & Ungley, P. (2022). Surfacing the image-inary: Exchanging sensations of time through art, media, and pedagogy. In Burnard, P., MacKinlay, L., Rousell, D., & Dragovic, T. (Eds.) Doing rebellious research in and beyond the academy (pp. 300-327). Brill.

 

Rousell, D., & Hickey-Moody, A. (2021). Symbolic forms of expression: Toward speculative practices in community arts education. In L Burgess & N. Addison (eds)., Debates in Art and Design Education. Routledge. 

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de Freitas, E., & Rousell, D. (2021). Atmospheric intensities: Skin conductance and the collective sensing body. In Fritsch, J., Thomsen, B., and Kofoed, J. (Eds.), Affects, Interfaces, Events. Imbricate! Press. 

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Widdop-Quintin, H., Piersol, L., Rousell, D., & Russell, J. (eds.) (2020). The ChildhoodNature Companion: Art, writing, and research by children and young people (Handbook Section). In Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Malone, K., and Barrett-Hacking, E. (eds.), Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. The Netherlands: Springer.

 

Rousell, D., & Williams, D. (eds.) (2020). Ecological Aesthetics and childhoodnature research (Handbook Section). In Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Malone, K., and Barrett-Hacking, E. (eds.), Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. The Netherlands: Springer

 

Rousell, D., Laszcik, L., Irwin, R., & Cook, P. (2020).  Propositions for an environmental arts pedagogy: A/r/tographic experimentations with movement and materiality. In Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Malone, K., and Barrett-Hacking, E. (eds.), Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. The Netherlands: Springer.

 

Rousell, D., & Cutter-Mackenzie, A. (2020). Uncommon Worlds: Towards an ecological aesthetics of childhood in the Anthropocene. In Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Malone, K., and Barrett-Hacking, E. (eds.), Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. The Netherlands: Springer.

 

Rousell, D., & Williams, D. (2020). Ecological Aesthetics: New spaces, directions, and potentials. In Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Malone, K., and Barrett-Hacking, E. (eds.), Handbook on ChildhoodNature. The Netherlands: Springer.

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Cutter-Mackenzie, A., & Rousell, D. (2020). The Mesh of Playing and Researching in the Reality of Climate Change: Children’s Research Play Spaces. In Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Malone, K., and Barrett-Hacking, E. (eds.), Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. The Netherlands: Springer.

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Rousell, D., Lasczik, A., Irwin, R.L., Ellis, D., Hotko, K., & Peisker, J. (2019). Site/sight/insight: Becoming a socioecological learner through collaborative artmaking practices. In Cutter-Mackenzie, Lasczik, A., Logan, M. (eds.). Touchstones for deterritorialising socioecological learning: The Anthropocene, posthumanism, and commonworlds. Palgrave.

 

Rousell, D. (2019). Walking with Media: Towards a mixed reality pedagogy in university learning environments. In Schnadelbach, H., & Kirk, D. (eds.) People, Personal Data, and the Built Environment. Netherlands: Springer.

 

Rousell, D., Cutcher, A., & Irwin, R. (2018). Making-Lines: Movement, affect and aesthetic causality in arts-based educational research. In K. Snepvangers & S. Davis (eds.). Embodied and walking pedagogies engaging the visual domain: Research co-creation and practice. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Publishing.

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Rousell, D. (2017). Mapping the Data Event: A posthumanist approach to art|education|research in a regional university. In L. Knight & A. Cutcher (eds.). Arts, Research, Education: connections and directions. New York: Springer International Publishing.

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selected journal articles 

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Rousell, D., Zhang, B., Brown, S., Rook, S., Felix, J. J., Lester, B., Wu, J., & Tran-Dinh, H. M. (2026). Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: Transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts. Learning, Media and Technology, 1-18. 

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Rousell, D., & Lupton, D. (2026). Atmospheric Wellbeing: Sensing the More-Than-Human Dynamics of Air. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 26(1), 3-13. 

 

Verlie, B., Rousell, D., de Kleyn, L., Hartup, M., Rickards, L., St Clair, J., ... & Ofosu-Asare, Y. (2025). Between flood vulnerability and watery pedagogies: A critical review of children and young people’s voices and experiences. Geoforum, 166. 

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Rousell, D., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Desiring-futures in education policy: Assemblage theory, artificial intelligence, and UNESCO’s Futures of Education. Educational Review. 
 

Rousell, D., Hickey-Moody, A., & Aleksic, J. (2024). Intersectional and decolonial perspectives on an incorporeal materialism: Towards an elemental philosophy of art education. International Journal of Art and Design Education. 
 

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Rousell, D., Hill, C., Ryan, J., Harvey, M., Barns, S., Aleksic, J., & Boadu, G. (2025). Critical forest studies: Seeding a new field from underground to overstory. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1-15.

 

Rousell, D. (2024). Making a day out of records: Phonographic pedagogies of the Afro-sonic diaspora. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 1-21.

 

Rousell, D., & Hussey-Smith, K. (2024). Learning to Share the World: Reckoning With the Logistics of Whiteness in Public Galleries and Museums. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies.

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Rousell, D., & Tran, J. (2024). Thinking with forests as sentient societies: Toward an ethic and pedagogy of immanent care. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40(2), 258-275. 

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Rousell, D. (2023). Weaving the pluriverse: Childhood encounters with the underground worlds of Birrarung Marr. Children’s Geographies.

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Rousell, D., & Caicedo, A. (2022). Listening for futures along Birrarung Marr: Speculative immersive experience in environmental education. Australian Journal of Environmental Education.

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Rousell, D., Harris, D., Wise, K., Vagg, J., & Macdonald, A. (2022). Posthuman creativities: Democratising creative educational experience beyond the human. Review of Research in Education.

 

Harris, D., & Rousell, D. (2022). Pluralist ecologies and the question of how. Qualitative Inquiry. 

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Rousell, D. (2022). Accidental creatures: Whitehead’s creativity and the clashing intensities of more-than-human life. Qualitative Inquiry. 

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Hohti, R., Rousell, D., MacLure, M., & Chalk, H. (2021). Atmospheres of the Anthropocene: Sensing dis/inheritances in a university museum with young people. Children’s Geographies. 

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Rousell, D., & Chan, K. L. (2021). Activist ecologies of study in the learning city: Deformalisations of educational life. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1-21.

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Rousell, D., Wijesinghe, T., Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., & Osborn, M. (2021). Digital media, political affect, and a youth to come: rethinking climate change education through Deleuzian dramatisation. Educational Review, 1-21.

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Lasczik, A., Rousell, D., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. (2021). Walking as a radical and critical art of inquiry: Embodiment, place and entanglement. International Journal of education through art, 17(1), 3-11.

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Lacey, J., & Rousell, D. (2021). Autonomous bodies and tiny ecologies: Sifting through human(ist) remains. Journal of Posthuman Studies, 5(1),72-77. 

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Hickey-Moody, A., Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Rousell, D., & Hartley, S. (2021). Children’s Carbon Cultures. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, DOI: 1532708621997582. 
 

Rousell, D., Hohti, R., MacLure, M., & Chalk, H. (2020). Blots on the Anthropocene: Micropolitical interventions with young people in a university museum. Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies.

 

Rousell, D., & Diddams, N. (2020). Fielding hilarity: Sensing the affective intensities of comedy education and performance. Research in Drama Education .

 

Rousell, D. (2020). A map you can walk into: Immersive cartography and the speculative potentials of data. Qualitative Inquiry. 
 

de Freitas, E., Rousell, D., & Jaeger, N. (2019). Relational architectures and wearable space: The politics of ubiquitous sensation. Research  in Education. 

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Rousell, D. (2019). Inhuman forms of life: On art as a problem for post-qualitative research.

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

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Rousell, D. & Cutter-Mackenzie, A. (2018). The Parental Milieu: Biosocial connections with animals, technologies, and the Earth.  Journal of Environmental Education, 50(2), 84-96.

 

Rousell, D. (2018). Doing Little Justices: Speculative propositions for an immanent environmental ethics. Environmental Education Research. 

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Rousell, D., & Fell, F. (2018). Becoming a Work of Art: Collaboration, materiality and posthumanism in tertiary visual arts education. International Journal of Education Through Art [special issue on Speculative Realisms in Arts Education], 14(1), 91-110. 

 

Rousell, D., Cutter-Mackenzie, A., & Foster, J. (2017). Children of an Earth to Come: Speculative fiction, geophilosophy and climate change education research. Educational Studies, 53(6), 654-669.

 

McKnight, L., Rousell, D., Charteris, J., Thomas, K., & Burke, G. (2017). The invisible hand: Designing curriculum in the afterward. The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30(7), 635-655.

 

Rousell, D. (2016). Dwelling in the Anthropocene: Re-imagining university learning environments in response to social and ecological change. The Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 32(2) pp. 1-20.

 

Cutcher, L., Rousell, D., & Cutter-Mackenzie, A. (2015). Findings, Windings and Entwinings: Cartographies of collaborative walking and encounter. The International Journal of Education Through Art, 11(3) pp. 449-458.

 

Rousell, D. (2015). The Cartographic Network: Re-imagining university learning environments through the methodology of immersive cartography. UNESCO Observatory Multidisciplinary Journal in the Arts [Special issue on Critical Approaches to Arts-Based Research], 5(1), pp 1-33. 

 

​reports

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Rousell, D.¹, Robinson, M.², Opacin, N.³, Cassaignau, M.¹, Hernandez-Santin, C.¹, Hes, D.⁴, Crosby, G.⁵, Amati, M.¹, & Barns, S.¹ (2026). Regenerating and revaluing urban forests at scale: Research case studies [Public engagement report]. (D. Rousell & C. Hernandez-Santin, Eds.). RMIT University. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

¹ RMIT University ² Guardians of Earth ³ University of Melbourne ⁴ Independent researcher ⁵ Crosby Architects

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Download Full Report here.  

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exhibitions 

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Rousell, D., de Freitas, E., Trafi-Prats, L., & Hohti, R. (2019). Remixing Thick Time. Exhibition at Whitworth Gallery, in collaboration with Young Contemporaries (age 16-25). 

Rousell, D., Hohti, R., & Chalk, H. (2019). Inheriting the Anthropocene. Exhibition at Manchester Museum, in collaboration with the Young Adventurers (age 11-14). 

 
Rousell, D., & de Freitas, E. (2018). Superpositions.  Exhibition at Birley Art Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, in collaboration with Z-artists (age 5-13).

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selected conference papers

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de Freitas, E., Rousell, D., Trafi-Prats, L., & Hohti, R. (2019). Intensive atmospheres and ubiquitous sensation: Arts-based inquiry and new configurations of digital life (panel). European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Malta.   

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Trafi-Prats, L., Rousell, D., & Hohti, R. (2019). Decolonial childhood ecologies and pedagogies of sensation in the city (panel). European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Malta. 

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Rousell, D., de Freitas, E., Trafi-Prats, L., & Hohti, R. (2019). Remixing Thick Time: Alternative approaches to collaboration.  Complexity, Creativity, and Co-Production conference, Manchester Metropolitan University. 

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de Freitas, E., & Rousell, D. (2018). Atmospheric Intensities: Sensing the places and times of learning through bioaffective technologies. Affects/Interfaces/Events conference, Aarhus University.

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de Freitas, E., & Rousell, D. (2018). Sensor technologies and the future of ethnographic fieldwork. European Association of Social Anthropologists biannual conference, Stockholm University.

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Rousell, D. (2018). Tasting the data: Two problems for qualitative inquiry in the Datacene. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.

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Rousell, D., Gallagher, M., & Wright, M. (2017). Becoming Listening Bodies: Sound walking as a pedagogy of sensation. Conference on Arts-based and Artistic Research, Tate Gallery, Liverpool. 

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