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MARK PURCELLDepartment of Urban Design and Planning

University of WashingtonBox 355740, Gould 410

Seattle WA 98195

Tel. (253) 987-6332Fax. (206) 685-9597

E-mail: [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2014-present Associate Chair, Department of Urban Design & Planning, University of Washington

2013-present Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington

2005-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington

2003-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington

1999-2003: Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Washington

1998-1999: Lecturer, Department of Geography, UCLA

1995-1998: Undergraduate Academic Counselor, Department of Geography and College of Letters and Sciences, UCLA.

1993-1995 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, UCLA

EDUCATION

1998 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (Geography)Dissertation: “Power in Los Angeles: Homeowners Associations, Urban Politics, and the Production of Urban Space”

1995 MA University of California, Los Angeles (Geography)Thesis: “Egypt’s Coptic Christians: Contested Creations of Place in the Struggle for Survival”

1992 BA Duke University (Russian) Magna Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa

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CURRENT RESEARCH

Urban politics and planning Political theory and democracy Urban political movements, especially for a right to the city

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Awards for Research

2014 The Ken Young Best Paper Prize, awarded yearly to the best paper published in the journal Policy & Politics, published by Policy Press.

Books

2013 Purcell, M. The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy. Wiley-Blackwell: London.

2008 Purcell, M. Recapturing democracy: neoliberalization and the struggle for alternative urban futures. Routledge: New York.

Journal Articles

* refereed # invited

*# 2017 Purcell, M. and B. Born, “Planning in the spirit of Deleuze and Guattari? Considering community-based food projects in the United States and Mexico” Urban Geography 38(4): 521-536.

# 2017 Purcell, M. “For John Dewey (and very much also for contemporary critical theory)” Urban Geography 38(4):495-501.

*# 2016 Purcell, M. “For Democracy: Publics without the State” Planning Theory Published online DOI: 10.1177/1473095215620827

*# 2015 Purcell, M. and S. Tyman, “Cultivating Food as a Right to the City,” Local Environment,20(10): 1132-1147.

*# 2014 Purcell, M. “Ranciere and Revolution” Space & Polity 18:2: 168-181.

*# 2013 Purcell, M. Possible Worlds: Henri Lefebvre and the Right to the City. Journal of Urban Affairs 36(1): 141-154.

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*# 2013 Purcell, M. The Right to the City: the struggle for democracy in the urban public realm. Policy & Politics 41(3): 311-328.

Winner of the Ken Young Prize for Best Article Published in Policy & Politics in 2013.

*# 2013 Purcell, M. To Inhabit Well: Counter-hegemonic movements and the right to the city. Urban Geography 34(4): 560-574.

* 2013 Purcell, M. “A New Land: Deleuze and Guattari and Planning,” Planning Theory and Practice, 13(1): 20-38.

*# 2012 Purcell, M. Gramsci Is Not Dead: For a ‘Both/And’ Approach to Radical Geography. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 11(3).

# 2012 Purcell, M. Frankenstein is dead, a response to Richard Day. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 11(3).

*# 2011 Purcell, M. The Right to the City and Contemporary Urban Movements, for Les Cahiersde la Cambre, nº 11. Editors: Ilaria Boniburini (University of Florence), Luisa Moretto (Institut Supérieur d’Architecture La Cambre), Harry Smith (Heriot-Watt University) and Judith Le Maire (Institut Supérieur d’Architecture La Cambre).

* 2009 Purcell, M. Hegemony and difference in political movements: articulating networks of equivalence. New Political Science 31(3): 291-318.

* 2009 Purcell, M. Resisting neoliberalization: Communicative Planning or Radical DemocraticMovements? Planning Theory 8(2): 140-165.

# 2009 Purcell, M. Le droit à la ville et les mouvements urbains contemporains. Rue Descartes 63: 40-50.

*# 2007 Purcell, M. City-Regions, Neoliberal Globalization, and Democracy: A Research Agenda. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(1): 197-206.

* 2007 Purcell, M. Skilled, cheap, and desperate: Non-tenure-track faculty and the delusion of meritocracy. Antipode 39(1): 121-143.

* 2006 Purcell, M. and B. Born (equal authors) Avoiding the local trap: Scale and Food Systemsin Planning Research. Journal of Planning Education and Research 26(2): 195-207.

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* 2006 Purcell, M. Urban Democracy and the Local Trap. Urban Studies 43(11):1921-1941.

* 2005 Purcell, M. and Brown, J. (equal authors): Against the local trap: scale and the study of environment and development. Progress in Development Studies. 5(4): 279-297.

* 2005 Purcell, M. and Brown, J. (equal authors) There’s nothing inherent about scale: Political ecology, the local trap, and the politics of development in the Brazilian Amazon.Geoforum 36(5): 607-624.

* 2005 Purcell, M. (first author) and Nevins, J. Pushing the boundary: state restructuring, state theory, and the case of U.S.-Mexico border enforcement in the 1990s. Political Geography 24(2): 211-235.

*# 2004 Purcell, M. Regionalism and the liberal-radical divide. Antipode 36(4): 760-765.

* 2003 Purcell, M. Citizenship and the right to the global city: reimagining the capitalist world order. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27(3): 564-590.

* 2003 Purcell, M. Islands of practice and the Marston/Brenner debate: Toward a more syntheticcritical human geography. Progress in Human Geography 27(4): 317-332.

# 2003 Purcell, M. (with D. Martin and E. McCann). Space, scale, governance, and representation: contemporary geographical perspectives on urban politics and policy. Journal of Urban Affairs 25(2): 113-121.

*# 2002 Purcell, M. Excavating Lefebvre: the right to the city and its urban politics of the inhabitant. Geojournal 58(2-3): 99-108.

* 2002 Purcell, M. Politics in global cities: Los Angeles charter reform and the new social movements. Environment and Planning A 34(1): 23-42.

* 2002 Purcell, M. The state, regulation, and global restructuring: reasserting the political in political economy. Review of International Political Economy 9(2): 284-318.

* 2001 Purcell, M. Metropolitan Political Reorganization as a Politics of Urban Growth: The Case of San Fernando Valley Secession. Political Geography 20(5): 101-121.

* 2001 Purcell, M. Neighborhood Activism Among Homeowners as a Politics of Space. Professional Geographer 53(2): 178-194.

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* 2000 Purcell, M. The Decline of the Political Consensus for Urban Growth: Evidence from Los Angeles. Journal of Urban Affairs 22(1): 85-100.

* 1998 Purcell, M. A Place for the Copts: Imagined Territory and Spatial Conflict in Egypt. Cultural Geographies 5(4): 432-451.

* 1997 Purcell, M. Ruling Los Angeles: Neighborhood Movements, Urban Regimes, and the Production of Space in Southern California. Urban Geography 18(8): 684-704.

Book Chapters


# Forthcoming

Purcell, M. “Possible Worlds: Henri Lefebvre and the Right to the City.” In C. Silver, R. Freestone, C. Demaziere, eds. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, vol. 6. Routledge. Reprint of: Purcell, M. Possible Worlds: Henri Lefebvre and the Rightto the City. Journal of Urban Affairs 36(1): 141-154.

# 2016 Purcell, M. “Our New Arms” in The Handbook of Neoliberalism, edited by Simon Springer, Kean Birch, and Julie MacLeavy, Routledge.

*# 2016 Purcell, M. “Urban Democracy Beyond Deleuze and Guattari” in Deleuze and the City, edited by Hélène Frichot, Jonathan Metzger, and Catharina Gabrielsson, Edinburgh University Press.

# 2015 Purcell, M. “Equality at the Beginning: Ranciere and Democracy Today,” chapter in preparation for Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Transnational World, edited by Faranak Miraftab, Ken Salo and David Wilson, Taylor & Francis.

# 2015 Purcell, M. “Seeking (and Finding) Democracy” in Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Nahid Konak and Rasim Özgür Dönmez, Lexington Books.

# 2014 Mason, K. and Purcell, M. “Fuller Geographies: Solidarity And Defence Of The Self” forthcoming in The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting. HammerOn Press.

# 2012 Purcell, M. Riscoprire Lefebvre: Il Diritto alla Città e la Politica Urbana dell’Abitante. In V. Bindi and S. Susanna, Eds. Babel2: Diritto alla Città Rome: Fortepressa, pp. 57-83. [Italian translation of “Excavating Lefebvre: the right to the city and its urban politics of the inhabitant.”]

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# 2012 Purcell, M. Insistent democracy: neoliberal governance and popular movements in Seattle. In M.P. Smith and M. McQuarrie, Eds. Remaking urban citizenship: organizations, institutions, and the right to the city, New Brunswick: Transactions Publishers, pp. 173-190.

# 2011 Purcell, M. Neoliberalization and Democracy. In S. Fainstein and S. Campbell, Eds. Readings in Urban Theory. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 42-54.

# 2009 Born, B. and M. Purcell, Avoiding the local trap: Scale and Food Systems Research. In D. Gimlin and D. Inglis, Eds. The Globalization of Food. New York: Berg, pp. 117-138.

# 2009 Purcell M. Autobiography. In R. Kitchin, and N. Thrift, Eds. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 234-239.

# 2007 Brown, J., M. Purcell, and S. Desposato. Problems of Scale. In P. Robbins, Ed. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Sage Publications. pp. 1566-1569.

*# 2004 Purcell, M. Globalization, urban enfranchisement, and the right to the city: towards an urban politics of the inhabitant. In D. Wastl-Walter, L. Staeheli, and L. Dowler, Eds. Rights to the city. Rome: International Geographical Union and Società Geografica Italiana, pp. 11-24.

Reviews and Other Articles


# 2014 “On democracy, revolution, and opening out onto the world” response to reviews of my book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, by Marco Allegra, Solomon Benjamin, Deborah Martin, Melis Oguz, and Simon Springer, in the journal Dialogues in Human Geography 4(1): 83-85.

# 2014 Purcell, M. “For a Politics We Have Yet to Imagine,” Space & Polity, 18(2): 117-121. Introduction to a special issue of the journal on the thought of Jacques Ranciere.

*# 2013 Purcell, M. “Seeking Democracy,” article for the online version of the journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, posted June 13. http://societyandspace.com/material/discussion-forum/forum-on-turkey/purcell/

# 2013 “Manging Ourselves” response to reviews by Stuart Elden, Ian Buchanan, and Mark Edward of my book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, in the journal Global Discourse 3(3-4): 532-534.

# 2013 Review of Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life, and the Right to the City by Chris Butler. In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

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# 2013 Review of Seeking Spatial Justice, by Edward Soja. In Human Geography, forthcoming.

# 2012 Schools of our own. Part of a Symposium on the ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security’ by the Participatory Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, published on AntipodeFoundation.org, October 15.

# 2012 Review of State, Space, World, by Henri Lefebvre, edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden. Social and Cultural Geography 13(2).

# 2011 Review of Seeking Spatial Justice, by Edward Soja. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101(3).

# 2011 Review of Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities are Changing the World, by Jeb Brugmann. Dialogues in Human Geography 1(2).

# 2008 Review of Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography, edited by Jeremy Crampton and Stuart Elden. For Social & Cultural Geography 9(6): 734-736.

# 2007 The past, and future, of urban democracy. Review of When America Became Suburban,by Robert Beauregard. Review symposium with multiple contributors and a response by the author. For Urban Geography 28 (5): 491-494.

# 2005 Review of Key Thinkers on Space and Place edited by Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, and Gill Valentine. Review symposium with multiple contributors and a response by the editors. For Environment and Planning A 37(1): 177-180.

2005 Review of The right to the city: social justice and the fight for public space by Don Mitchell. Antipode 37(1).

# 2003 Review of Global networks, linked cities by Saskia Sassen. American Journal of Sociology 108(6): 1381-1382.

# 2002 Review of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s global cities by Janet Abu-Lughod. For Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20(2): 250-252.

# 2002 Review of From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory edited by Michael Dear. Growth and Change 33(1): 156-159.

# 2001 Review of Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization, and Social Struggles by Roger Keil. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19(2): 251-252.

# 2000 Review of The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspective Two Decades Later, editedby Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Professional Geographer 52(2):362-363.

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1997 Review of The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles by William Fulton. Political Geography 18(3): 389-391.

# 1998 Review of Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States by Edward Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder. Urban Affairs Review 33(5): 725-727.

1997 Review of Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities by Jon Teaford. Urban Geography 18(4): 370-371.

1996 Purcell, M. Divorce, California-style. In These Times 21(3): 18-20, 36.

Papers, Panels, and Invited Lectures * refereed # invited

# 2016 Panelist in roundtable session “Cities Of Hope? Urban Organizing In A Global And Precarious World,” organized by Sara Hinkley, University of California, Berkeley for the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, October.

# 2016 “For John Dewey (and also for Contemporary French and Italian Critical Theory),” paper presented at the Urban Geography Plenary Lecture session, keynote by Robert Lake, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March.

# 2016 “Everyday Code: The Right to Information in the Struggle for Democracy,” paper presented at the session “An Informational Right to the City,” organized by Mark and Joe Shaw at Oxford University, for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March.

# 2016 “For a Right to the City,” presentation for the Oxford City Debates session, “Urban Governance and Its Discontents,” St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, February.

# 2015 “Democracy and the City,” Address for the event: Transversal Ecologies—Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design, at the School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, December.

# 2015 “Democracy Against, Beyond, and Without the State,” Plenary Address at the Policy & Politics Annual Conference, Bristol.

* 2014 “Planning, Deleuze and Guattari, and the Alternative Food Movement,” paper for the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia, October.

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# 2014 “Lefebvre, Space, and Property” panel presentation at “This Land is Your Land: RemakingProperty After Neoliberalism” conference at Harvard Law School, April, other panelists were Michael Hardt and Irina Ceric.

*# 2013 “Deleuze & Guattari, Lefebvre, and Radical Democracy,” paper for the Sixth International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Lisbon, July.

*# 2013 Paper for the roundtable “Where is the Public Interest in Public Participation?” organized by Malcolm Tait, University of Sheffield, for the Joint AESOP/ACSP Congress, Dublin, July.

2013 With Branden Born, “Budding Rhizomes: Planning, Deleuze & Guattari and the Food Movement,” Joint AESOP/ACSP Congress, Dublin, July.

# 2013 “The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy” Lecture given to the University of Victoria's Cascadia Sustainability Field School, Seattle, May.

2013 “David Foster Wallace and Radical Democracy,” paper presented at the pre-conference of the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.

# 2013 “The Will to Govern Ourselves,” presentation in a panel session on Global Urbanization and Local Politics in an Age of Austerity, organized by Deborah Martin and Gordon MacLeod for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.

# 2013 “Goodbye, Mr. Criticism,” paper presented in a session titled “Rising to the challenge: defining the contours of a new 21st century critical urban theory,” organized by Chris Baker and Justin Beaumont for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.

# 2013 “The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy,” lecture presented at the colloquium series of theDepartment of Geography at the University of Victoria, March.

# 2013 “The Right to the City,” lecture presented at the colloquium series of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, January.

# 2012 “The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy,” lecture presented at the colloquium series of thePh.D. Program in the Built Environment, University of Washington, March.

# 2012 “The Right to the City,” Keynote Lecture for the Conference “Shared Living in a Mixed City,” organized by the Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace and sponsored bythe Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem, November.

* 2012 “From Food Deserts to Just Deserts: Moving Food Planning to Democracy,” Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Cincinnati, November.

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# 2012 “Vitalism and puissance,” presentation in a panel session on Crisis, Protest, and Participation organized by Caitlin Cahill and Rachel Pain for the annual meeting ofthe Association of American Geographers, New York, February.

# 2012 “Lefebvre and Democracy,” paper presented in a session titled “From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution: Lefebvre Reconsidered,” organized by Andy Merrifield and Louis Moreno for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February.

# 2012 “Becoming Democratic,” paper for a panel session titled “Squatting and Social Centers: Resistance and Production of Critical Spaces,” organized by Pierpaolo Mudu and Miguel Martinez for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February.

# 2011 “Democracy and the Right to the City,” presentation at the Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, Philadelphia, October.

# 2011 “Democracy, Oligarchy, and Governance Change,” presentation at a World University Network seminar on the local public realm, held at Bristol University, Bristol, UK, September.

# 2011 “Democracy and the Right to the City” presentation in a panel session on The Right to the City in Comparative Perspective, organized by David Imbroscio, University of Louisville, for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, September.

# 2011 “Liberal Rights vs. the Right to the City” presentation in a workshop on Rights and the City: From Concept to Action, organized by Ron Vogel, University of Louisville and Martin Horak, University of Western Ontario, for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, September.

# 2011 “Beautiful Possibilities,” presentation in a panel discussion on Taking stock of space and social movements: what have we learned and who are we speaking to? Organized by Byron Miller and Walter Nicholls for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April.

# 2011 “Possible Worlds,” paper presented in a session on Rights, space, and places organized by James DeFilippis and David Imbroscio for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April.

# 2011 “Revolutionary Connections,” paper presented in a session on The right to nature/the right to the city: ideologies and practices of urban nature organized by Nik Janos and Hillary Angelo for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April.

# 2011 Discussant, The politics of the different city: change beyond consensus? Session organized by Mark Davidson and Deborah Martin for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April.

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# 2011 “For Gramsci (and others),” presentation in a panel discussion on Affinity and geography, organized by Soren Larsen and Jay T. Johnson for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April.

# 2011 Discussant, Right to the City: Seattle. Session organized by Kate Derickson and Peter Hossler for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April.

2010 “Post-Politics or Possible Worlds? Post-politica o mondi possibili?” For the conference Space and Power in Contemporary Italy, Scuola Superiore di Santa Chiara, Siena, Italy, October 19.

# 2010 Comments on Seeking Spatial Justice, by Ed Soja, offered as part of a review panel on the book organized by Mazen Labban and Miguel Kanai for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, March.

# 2010 “Revolutionary connections: Rancière and radical politics.” Session on Rancière organized by Nicholas Dahmann, USC, for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, March.

# 2009 “Democratization: Relentless and Radical.” Presentation given at What is the Common? An international conference held in Goteborg, Sweden, October.

#* 2009 “A Non-Hegemonic Politics?” Presentation given at a roundtable on the Right to the Just City, organized by Cuz Potter, Peter Marcuse, and Susan Fainstein, Washington, DC, October.

# 2009 “Urban movements and the right to the city.” Presentation given at The Right to the City: a Debate on the City and Political Movements, held at Het Blijvertje, Amsterdam, April.

# 2009 “Scale, the City, and Contemporary Urban Movements.” Lecture given at symposium on the Biopolitics of Scale organized jointly by the Berlage Institute and the Jan van Eyck Academie, held in Rotterdam, April.

# 2009 Panelist, “Anarchism, Autonomia, and the Spatialities of Revolutionary Politics and Theory.” Session organized by Nathan Clough and Renata Blumberg, University ofMinnesota, for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers Las Vegas, March.

2009 Panelist and organizer, “Right(s) to the City: taking account of current initiatives and debates.” Session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers Las Vegas, March. Other panelists were Peter Marcuse, Columbia University, Susan Fainstein, Harvard University, Jacqueline Leavitt, UCLA, Meghan Cope, University of Vermont, and Tony Samara, George Mason University.

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# 2009 Discussant, “Theorizing the Spatialities of Contentious Politics.” Session organized by Walter Nicholls and Byron Miller for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers Las Vegas, March.

# 2009 Discussant, “The right to the city: from the right to occupy towards the right to 'survive'.” Session organized by Peter Hossler for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers Las Vegas, March.

# 2008 “The Right to the City and Urban Movements.” Paper presented at the Cascadia Critical Geographies Mini-Conference at the University of Washington, Tacoma, October 25.

# 2008 “The Right to the City, Equivalence, and Urban Movements.” Keynote address at a conference titled The Right To The City: New Challenges, New Issues. Funded by the European Science Foundation. Vadstena, Sweden, October.

# 2008 Panelist in an “Author meets critics” session for Recapturing Democracy, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers Boston, April. Panelists were Susan Fainstein, Harvard University; Eugene McCann, Simon Fraser University; Byron Miller, University of Calgary; and Clive Barnett, Open University.

2008 Organizer, with Kevin Ramsey, University of Washington, “Status of Democracy in Geographic Research.” Panel session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers Boston, April. Panelists were Byron Miller, University of Calgary; Barbara Cruikshank, University of Massachusetts; Clive Barnett, Open University; Murray Low, London School of Economics.

# 2008 “Hegemony and Difference in Political Movements: Imagining New Ways Forward.” Paper for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April.

# 2008 “Recapturing Democracy.” Presentation at a panel on Democratizing Science at the Science Studies Network Colloquium, University of Washington, January.

# 2007 “Urban Movements and the Right to the City.” Presentation at the Symposium on Economic Justice and the Right to the City, part of the Just Space(s) Exhibition at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, November.

2007 “Democratic Resistance in Seattle’s Duwamish River Cleanup.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 21 on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, Vancouver, BC, August.

2007 “Neoliberal governance and democratic resistance: Seattle’s Duwamish River cleanup.” Paper presented at the Urban Studies Symposium on Social Justice, Neoliberalism,and Cities at the University of British Columbia, May.

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# 2007 “A Right to the City.” Paper for the opening plenary session at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, April.

2007 “Neoliberal Governance and Democratic Resistance: Seattle’s Duwamish River Cleanup.” Paper for the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, April.

2007 Organizer of two panel sessions on “Non-tenure-track faculty in geography” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.

# Commentator in a session on Robert Beauregard’s When America Became Suburban, at theannual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, organized by Robert Lake, Rutgers University. San Francisco, April.

Panelist in a session on “Alternative Urban Futures” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, organized by Dave Jansson, San Francisco,April.

2007 “Neoliberal Governance and Democratic Resistance: Seattle’s Duwamish River Cleanup.” Paper for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.

* 2006 “Resisting Neoliberalization: Communicative Planning or Radical Democratic Movements?” Paper for the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Fort Worth, November.

# 2005 With Branden Born, University of Washington and Chris Brown, University of Kansas. “Urban Food Systems, Planning, and the Local Trap.” Paper given at the Geography Department Colloquium, University of Kansas, October.

2005 With Branden Born, University of Washington and Chris Brown, University of Kansas. “Urban Food Systems and the Local Trap.” Paper for the Annual Conference of theAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Kansas City, October.

2005 “Scale, urban democracy, and the right to the city.” Paper presented at Towards a Political Economy of Scale: Studies in Political Economy Conference. York University, Toronto, February.

2004 With Branden Born, University of Washington, Samina Raja, SUNY-Buffalo, Katy Mamen, International Society for Ecology and Culture, “Avoiding the Local Trap: A discussion of means and ends in food system action and research.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Community Food Security Coalition, Milwaukee, October.

2004 With Branden Born, University of Washington and Chris Brown, University of Kansas, “Urban Food Systems, Sustainability, and the Local Trap.” Paper for the International Geographical Union/RGS-IBG Conference, Glasgow, August. Session titled “Sustainable Ecologies of Global Cities,” organized by James Evans,University of Birmingham.

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# 2004 Panel member (with Jenny Robinson, Stephanie Pincetl, Eugene McCann, Helen Jarvis, Solomon Benjamin, Iwona Sagan, and Morshidi Sirat), “States, City-Regions, and Geographies of Social Reproduction.” Panel Discussion organized by Andrew Jonas and Kevin Ward for the Annual International Geographical Union/RGS-IBGConference, Glasgow, August.

# 2003 Panel member, “Diversity, Citizenship, and Global Education Consensus Panel,” a project of the Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington, organized by James Banks, University of Washington. Funded by the Spencer Foundation.

2003 With Chris Brown, University of Kansas. “Against the local trap: geographical scale in the study of land use and resource management.” Paper prepared for an International Conference on Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World. Copenhagen, Denmark, August.

2003 With Chris Brown, University of Kansas, “Against the local trap: scale and the study of environmental management.” Paper for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March. Session titled “Community, Collaboration and the Environment: assessing the new spaces and scales of environmental decision-making,” organized by Susanne Seymour, University of Nottingham and Randy Wilson, Gettysburg College.

# 2003 Panel Member (with Susan Ruddick, Michael Brown, Cheryl Gowar, Engin Isin, Byron Miller), “Urbanizing Neoliberalism III: Globalism, Citizenship & Spatial Justice.” Panel discussion organized by Scott Salmon for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March.

2002 “The right to the city, urban democracy, and the end of capitalism.” Paper for Rights to the City conference, Rome, May-June.

2002 “The right to the city as a politics of scale: marginalization, enfranchisement, and urban inhabitance.” Paper for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March. Session titled “Urban Governance, Alternative Forms of Decision-Making, and the Production of Urban Space,” organized by Mark Purcell, Deborah Martin, University of Georgia, Sarah Elwood, DePaul University, and Eugene McCann, Ohio State University.

2002 With Chris Brown, University of Kansas, “Rescaling political ecology:The scalar politics of development in the Brazilian Amazon.” Paper for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.

2002 Co-organizer with Chris Brown, University of Kansas and Garth Myers, University of Kansas of a session titled “Political Ecology and the Politics of Scale” for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers.

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2002 Co-organizer with Deborah Martin, University of Georgia, Sarah Elwood, DePaul University, and Eugene McCann, Ohio State University of a session titled “Urban Governance, Alternative Forms of Decision-Making, and the Production of Urban Space” for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.

2002 Co-organizer with Andrew Jonas, University of Hull, and Roger Keil, York University of two sessions titled “Governing Los Angeles and Beyond” for the annual meeting ofthe Association of American Geographers.

2001 Co-organizer with Deborah Martin, Eugene McCann, Michael Brown, and Lynn Staeheli of seven sessions on “Urban Politics in Geography.” Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February.

Urban Politics in Geography I: Globalization and regional governance Urban Politics in Geography II: State Devolution and the Politics of Place Urban Politics in Geography III: Neighborhood activism and urban politics Urban Politics in Geography IV: Discourse, ideology, symbol in urban politics Urban Politics in Geography V: Political geographies of care Urban Politics in Geography VI: Making spaces of citizenship--Spatializing Urban

Politics (session organized primarily by Lynn Staeheli) Urban Politics in Geography VII: Making spaces for citizenship--Transnational

Spaces (session organized primarily by Lynn Staeheli)

2001 “Regional Citizenship, Globalization, and the Local State in Los Angeles.” Paper presentedat the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February. Session titled “Urban Politics in Geography VI: Making spaces of citizenship--Spatializing Urban Politics,” organized by Lynn Staeheli.

# 2000 Panel member (with Peter Jackson, Audrey Kobayashi, Joe Darden, Gerald Thomas), “The Invisibility of Whiteness in Geographic Research on Race.” Panel discussion at annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April.

2000 “Neighborhood Activism Among Homeowners as a Politics of Space: Evidence from Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the finals of the Nystrom Competition, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April.

1999 “The Breakup of Los Angeles and the Politics of Urban Growth.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, May.

1998 “The collapse of the growth machine in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Fort Worth, TX, April.

1998 “The collapse of the growth machine in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March.

1997 “Who produces space in Los Angeles?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, April.

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1997 “Who produces space in Los Angeles? Social movements and the structure of the urban regime.” Paper presented at the Western Geography Graduate Student Conference, Tucson, AZ, February.

1996 “Contested Visions of Place: Copts, Muslims, and the State in Egypt.” Invited lecture at UCLA’s von Grunenbaum Center for Middle Eastern Studies, July.

1996 “Egypt’s Coptic Christians: Resistance, Repression, and Place in the Struggle for Survival.”Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April.

Grants for Research

2011 College of Built Environments, Office of the Dean, Funding for Publication Support, $2,500.

2006 McKinley Faculty Research Support Fellowship, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington, $5,000.

2004 Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington, Title: Neoliberal Globalization And Urban Democracy In Seattle.$21,000.

2001 Pilot grant from the Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies, University of Washington. Title: Educating citizens: Global restructuring and the public sphere in Seattle area schools, with Tom Stritikus, School of Education, University of Washington. $1,200.

Awards at UCLA

2000 Finalist, J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award.

1999 Urban Geography Specialty Group Dissertation Competition, Honorable Mention.

1997 Fellow, UCLA university-wide Collegium of University Teaching Fellows. Declined in order to accept Dissertation Year Fellowship.

Grants at UCLA

1997 University-wide Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, $15,000.

1997 Dissertation Research Stipend, Department of Geography, UCLA, $5,000 (declined to accept Dissertation Year Fellowship).

1997 Henry Bruman Fellowship for Cultural and Historical Geography, Department of Geography, UCLA, $1,500.

1993 Fellowship for Arabic Language Study, University of Texas at Austin.

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1992 UCLA University Fellowship for Graduate Study, $13,000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington

CEP 200 Introduction to Community, Environment, and Planning Taught: Spring 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009 Enrollment: 20-30 Existing course for which I developed entirely new content and

substantially revised in 2007

Summary of Student Evaluations:Year “The course as a

whole was:”Median Score for a scale of 0-5

2006 4.22007 4.02009 4.7

CEP 301 The Idea of Community Taught: Fall 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,

2012, 2013, 2014 Enrollment: 15-25 Existing course for which I developed (with Chris Campbell)

entirely new content and substantially revised several times

Summary of Student Evaluations:2003 3.92004 4.12005 3.92010 4.4

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CEP 461 Identity and Ethics Taught: Winter 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,

2013, 2014, 2015 Enrollment: 15-25 Existing course for which I develop new content each time in

collaboration with students



2006 4.12014 4.3

URBDP 200 Introduction to Urbanization Taught: Spring 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Enrollment: 50-150 New course for which I developed the content



2012 4.12013 4.52014 3.9

URBDP 567 Urban Democracy Taught: Spring 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 Enrollment: 6-12 New course for which I developed the content



2005 3.92006 4.52010 4.82011 4.9

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URBDP 592 Planning Theory Taught: Winter 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Enrollment: 5-9 Existing course for which I developed new content



2010 4.3201120122013 4.3

CEP 302 Environmental Response Taught: Winter 2004 Enrollment: 15 Existing course for which I developed (with Cindy Updegrave)

entirely new content

CEP 303 Social Structures and Processes Taught: Spring 2004, 2005 Enrollment: 15 Existing course for which I developed (with Chris Campbell)

entirely new content and then substantially revised (with Marty Curry)



2004 3.8

CEP 498 Survey of Community Service Taught: Spring 2009 Enrollment: 13 New course developed by Bryan Yoon, with my supervision

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Courses in the Department of Geography, University of Washington

GEOG 100 Introduction to Geography Taught: Fall 2000, 2001, 2002; Winter 2001, 2002, 2003;

Spring 2001, 2002, 2003 Enrollment: 400-600 Existing course for which I developed entirely new content



F2000 3.37W2001 4.08S2001 3.61F2001 3.43W2002 3.64S2002 3.5F2002 4.0W2003 4.1

GEOG 301 Cultural Geography Taught: Fall 2000, 2001, 2002; Spring 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Enrollment: 40 Existing course for which I developed entirely new content



S2000 4.53F2000 4.75S2001 4.55S2002 4.7F2002 4.8S2003 4.2

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GEOG 200 Social Geography Taught: Winter 2000 Enrollment: 90 Existing course for which I developed entirely new content



2000 3.98

GEOG 277 Urban Geography Taught: Fall 1999 Enrollment: 62 Existing course for which I developed entirely new content



1999 4.06

Courses in the Department of Geography, UCLA

GEOG 3 Cultural GeographyTaught: Winter 1999Enrollment: 40Existing course for which I developed entirely new content

GEOG 150 Urban GeographyTaught: Fall 1998Enrollment: 120Existing course for which I developed entirely new content

GEOG 156 Los AngelesTaught: Summer 1998Enrollment: 11Existing course for which I developed entirely new content

GEOG 191 CaliforniaTaught: Summer 1998Enrollment: 14Existing course for which I developed entirely new content

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Advising in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington

Ph.D. Committees

Completed

Luc de Montigny, “Discarded needles and the urban environment : a spatial analysis of attractors, deterrents and disposal options,” Ph.D. in Urban Planning, 2008, committee member.

Kevin Ramsey, “Adapting (to) the climate crisis : urban environmental governance and the politics of mobility in Seattle,” Ph.D. in Geography, 2009, member of committee.

Cheryl Gilge, Ph.D. in Built Environment, 2014, member of committee.

Current Keith Harris, Built Environment, Chair Shannon Tyman, Built Environment, Co-Chair James Thompson, Built Environment, Chair Susmita Rishi, Interdisciplinary Design and Planning, Chair Amy Dobrowolsky, Buit Environment, Chair Michael Bowman, Education Megan Horst, Interdisciplinary Design and Planning

Masters of Urban Planning Committees

Stan May, “Gaining effective voice : officials listen when community groups use GIS,” 2005, chair of committee.

Matt Hoffman, “Bringing publicly owned brownfields to the private market in the State of Washington,” 2006, chair of committee.

C.J. Gabbe, “Bridging the digital divide in public participation : the roles of infrastructure, hardware, software and social networks in Helsinki's Arabianranta and Maunula,” 2006, chair of committee.

Weston Brinkley, “From Ladder to Lattice: A Consideration of Activation in Urban Environmental Stewardship and Citizen Participation,”2010, chair of committee.

Amanda Snypp, “Public Participation Tools in Megaprojects to Increase Public Acceptance and Support: A Lesson in What Not to Do in Airport Expansions from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Third Runway,” 2011, chair of committee

Derrick Hiebert-Flamm, “Reducing Vulnerability through Public Participation in Hazard Mitigation: Strategies, Practices, and Lessons Learned from Everett's Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Process,” 2011, chair of committee

Michael Ward, 2012, committee member Joseph Rubin, Masters, Jackson School of International Studies, committee member Travis English, Masters in Urban Planning, committee member Lana Alisdairi, Masters in Urban Planning, chair Ross McFarland, Masters in Urban Planning, chair Cory Castagno, Masters in Urban Planning, committee member

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BA Senior Projects in Community Environment and Planning Sylvia Tatman-Buruss Phillip Mason Mia Thompson Conan Storlie Jonathan Houston Amalia Gonzalez-Kahn Ben Morgen

Independent Studies David Palaita, 3 credits, Department of Geography, 2003 Katherine Romano, 3 credits, Department of Geography, 2003 Allison Laredo, 3 credits, Department of Geography, 2003 Joseph Boyle, 3 credits, Department of Geography, 2003 Summer Howe, 3 credits, Department of Geography, 2003 Justin Mellon, 3 credits, Department of Geography, 2003 Galina Brown, 3 credits, Department of Geography, 2003 Ben Piggot, 6 credits, Department of History, 2003 Sarah Short, 5 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Leea Brady, 2 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Andrea Carter, 2 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Frances Bresnahan, 4 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Clayton Christopherson, 4 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Madalynn Spiller, 4 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Jason Airey, 4 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Mikhail Khachiyants, 2 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Adam Brown, 4 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Jonas Sayer, 2 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Sarah Devlin, 5 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Mia Thompson, 4 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 Noa Ginger, 3 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2007 David Moore, 10 credits, Department of Geography, 2008, 2009 Bryan Yoon, 2 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2009 Raffaela Oeler, 4 credits, Community, Environment, and Planning, 2009 Amy Dobrowolsky, Ph.D. in the Built Environment 2011 James Thompson, 2 credits, Ph.D. in the Built Environment 2011 Shannon Tyman, 4 credits, Ph.D. in the Built Environment 2011 Daniel Coslett, 3 credits, Ph.D. in the Built Environment 2011 Cheryl Gilge, 3 credits, Ph.D. in the Built Environment 2011 Keith Harris, 10 credits, Ph.D. in the Built Environment 2012 Colin Morgan-Cross, 3 credits, Masters of Urban Planning, 2012 Cory Castagno, 3 credits, Masters of Urban Planning, 2014

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Awards for Teaching

2012 Finalist for University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington

2004 Finalist for University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington

2003 Departmental Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Geography, University of Washington

DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

MemberSteering Committee of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design & Planning, 2005-2011

MemberDepartmental Review Committee for Reappointment of Assistant Professor Manish Chalana, 2010

MemberCollege of Built Environments, Gould Court Renovation Advisory Committee

ChairCommittee on Undergraduate Education, Department of Urban Design and Planning, 2009-2010

ChairCommittee on Departmental Guidelines for Tenure, Promotion, and Merit Review, Department of Urban Design and Planning, 2009-present

ChairCommittee on Departmental Guidelines for Hiring non-Academic Faculty, Department of Urban Design and Planning, 2009-present

MemberCommittee on Student Admissions for the Masters of Urban Planning degree in the Department ofUrban Design and Planning, 2009-2014

Member College Council, the representative body of the faculty in the College of Built Environments, 2011-2014

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS

North American EditorSpace and Polity, 2007-present

Editorial Board Member Planning Theory, 2010-presentPolicy & Politics, 2013-presentPlanning Theory and Practice, 2014-present

Co-editorSpecial issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs with Deborah Martin (University of Georgia) and Eugene McCann (Ohio State University) on urban politics, 2003.

Co-organizerConference on the Right to the City, funded by the European Science Foundation. Vadstena Sweden, October, 2007.

MemberAssociation of American GeographersAssociation of Collegiate Schools of PlanningUrban Affairs Association

Review of Candidates for Tenure & PromotionBryn Mawr, 2007George Mason University, 2010Ohio University, 2011

Referee ACME, 2015Antipode 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2016Area 2011Contemporary Political Theory, 2016Dialogues in Human Geography 2010Environment and Planning A, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013Environment and Planning D 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014Geoforum, 2010International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015Journal of Historical Geography, 2000Journal of Planning Education and Research 2008Journal of Urban Affairs 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2012Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 2013Journal of Urban History, 2013Journal of Urbanism, 2013Legal Geographies, 2009, 2015Mobilization, 2002New Political Science, 2009

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Palgrave Publishing, 2014, 2015Planning Theory, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015Planning Theory and Practice 2010Policy and Politics, 2014Political Geography 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011Prentice Hall, 2001Routledge, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015Sage Publications, 2005, 2009Social and Cultural Geography 2006, 2010, 2012Space & Polity, 2013, 2014Temple University Press, 2001Theory, Culture, and Society, 2015Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2010, 2011, 2012Urban Affairs Review 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007Urban Geography 2001, 2002Urban Studies 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015University of California Press, 2012, 2013Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, 2014

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