John CameronJohn Cameron is an Australian writer, place activist and retired academic, having coordinated the PhD program in Social Ecology at the University of Western Sydney for many years. He has a background in geology, environmental economics, consciousnessstudies and Tibetan Buddhism. In 1995 he founded the Australian Sense of Place Colloquium, a gathering of place scholars, activists and creative artists, and convened five extended conferences in remote locations across the Australian continent. He edited and published some of the colloquium papers as Changing Places: Reimagining Australia (Sydney: Longueville Press, 2003). He has published over 30 book chapters and journal articles on sense of place and the place-responsive society. Since retiring from full-time academia, he has been actively engaged with his partner Victoria (Vicki) King in ecological restoration at 'Blackstone' on Bruny Island, Tasmania where they have planted 4000 native trees on their 55 acres. He is an Associate of the School of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania and co-founded the Bruny Island Environment Network. Read More Read Less