Michael Brown

Department

Geography

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Urban Research Interests

Recent historical geographies of queer politics and culture in 20th Century Seattle; Urban Political Geography; Urban Cultural Geography; Urban Public-Health Politics; sexuality and the body; Seattle

Publications

Michael Brown, 2009 "Public Health as urban politics, urban geography: Venereal biopower in Seattle 1943-1983,"Urban Geography, 30, pp. 1-29.

Michael Brown & Larry Knopp (2008) “Queering the map: the productive tensions of colliding epistemologies,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98, pp. 40-58.

Michael Brown (2008) “Working political geography though social movement theory: The case of gay and lesbian Seattle,” in K. Cox, M. Low & J. Robinson, eds. The Handbook of Political Geography (London: Sage), pp. 353-377.

Michael Brown (2006) “Sexual citizenship, political obligation, and disease ecology in gay Seattle, Political Geography, 25, pp. 874-898.

Michael Brown & Larry Knopp (2006) “Places or polygons: governmentality and sexuality in The Gay & Lesbian Atlas,Population, Space, and Place, 12, 223-242.

Michael Brown (2006) “A geographer reads Geography Club: Spatial metaphor and metonymy in sexual/textual space,” Cultural Geographies 14, p. 313-339.

Claire Rasmussen & Michael Brown(2005) “The body politic as spatial metaphor,” Citizenship Studies, 9, pp. 469-484.

Michael Brown, Larry Knopp & Richard Morrill (2005) “The culture wars as urban electoral politics: sexuality, race, and class in Tacoma,” Washington, Political Geography, 24, pp. 267-291.

Michael Brown (2004) “Between neoliberalism and cultural conservatism, spatial divisions and multiplications of hospice labor,” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 11, pp. 67-82.

Michael Brown 2004 “Claiming Space: An Historical Geography of Lesbian and Gay Seattle.” Map With the Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project. Seattle, WA: Girlie Press.

Michael Brown 2003 “Hospice and the spatial paradoxes of terminal care,” Environment & Planning A, 35, pp. 833-851.

1999 “Reconceptualizing public and private in urban regime theory: governance in AIDS politics,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 3, pp. 45-69.

Michael Brown (1997) “Radical politics out of place: the curious case of ACT UP Vancouver, in S. Pile & M. Keith, eds., Geographies of Resistance, (London: Routledge), pp. 152-167.

Michael Brown (1997) “The cultural saliency of radical democracy: moments from the AIDS Quilt, Ecumene, 4, pp. 27-45.

Michael Brown (1995), “Sex, scale, and the ‘New Urban Politics’: HIV-Prevention Strategies from Yaletown, Vancouver,” in D. Bell and G. Valentine Eds. Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities (London: Routledge) pp.245-263.

Michael Brown (1994), “The work of city politics: citizenship through employment in the local response to AIDS,”Environment and Planning A, 26, pp. 873-894.

Michael Brown (1992), “The possibility of local autonomy,” Urban Geography, 13, pp. 257-279.

William Meyer & Michael Brown (1989), “Locational conflict in a nineteenth-century city,” Political Geography Quarterly, 8, pp. 107-122.

Websites

http://faculty.washington.edu/michaelb/research.html ; http://faculty.washington.edu/michaelb/gay_history/map_index.html ; http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/lgbthistorynw/