MARK PURCELL

Department of Urban Design and Planning

University of Washington

Box 355740, Gould 410

Seattle WA 98195

Tel.  (206) 543-8754

Fax. (206) 685-9597

E-mail: mpurcell@u.washington.edu

Web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/mpurcell

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                   

1998	PhD	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

CURRENT RESEARCH                                                                              

· Urban politics, planning, and policy, especially democracy, participation, and citizenship

· Urban social movements, especially Los Angeles and Seattle

· Political theory

· Neoliberal globalization in cities

· The politics of scale and the re-scaling in the global political economy

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Books:

Purcell, M. (2008) Recapturing Democracy: Neoliberalization and the Struggle for Alternative Urban Futures. New York: Routledge.

Journal Articles:

* refereed articles

# invited articles

#	2008 forthcoming PDF	Purcell, M. Toward agonism in the study of urban politics.  Urban Geography.
*#	2007 PDF	Purcell, M. City-Regions, Neoliberal Globalization, and Democracy: A Research Agenda. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(1): 197-206.
*	2007 PDF	Purcell, M. Skilled, cheap, and desperate: Non-tenure-track faculty and the delusion of meritocracy. Antipode 39(1): 121-143.
*	2006 PDF	Purcell, M. and B. Born (equal authors) Avoiding the local trap: Scale and Food Systems in Planning Research.  Journal of Planning Education and Research 26(2): 195-207.
*	2006 PDF	Purcell, M. Urban Democracy and the Local Trap. Urban Studies 43(11):1921-1941.
*	2005 PDF	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 PDF	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: 607-624.
*	2005 PDF	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 PDF	Purcell, M. Regionalism and the liberal-radical divide. Antipode 36(4): 760-765.
*#	2004 (publication date 2002) PDF	Purcell, M.  Excavating Lefebvre: the right to the city and its urban politics of the inhabitant.  Geojournal 58(2-3): 99-108.
*	2003 PDF	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 PDF	Purcell, M. Islands of practice and the Marston/Brenner debate: Toward a more synthetic critical human geography. Progress in Human Geography 27(4): 317-332.
#	2003 PDF	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 PDF	Purcell, M. Politics in global cities: Los Angeles charter reform and the new social movements.  Environment and Planning A 34(1): 23-42.
*	2002 PDF	Purcell, M.  The state, regulation, and global restructuring: reasserting the political in political economy.  Review of International Political Economy 9(2): 284-318.
*	2001 PDF	Purcell, M. Metropolitan Political Reorganization and the Political Economy of Urban Growth: The Case of San Fernando Valley Secession. Political Geography 20(5): 101-121.
*	2001 PDF	Purcell, M. Neighborhood Activism Among Homeowners as a Politics of Space. Professional Geographer 53(2): 178-194.
*	2000 PDF	Purcell, M. The Decline of the Political Consensus for Urban Growth: Evidence from Los Angeles. Journal of Urban Affairs 22(1): 85-100.
*	1998 PDF	Purcell, M.  A Place for the Copts: Imagined Territory and Spatial Conflict in Egypt. Ecumene 5(4): 432-451.
*	1997 Paper offprints available	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:

#	2008 Forthcoming	Purcell, M. Autobiography. In R. Kitchin and N. thrift, eds. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier.
#	2008 Forthcoming	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.
*#	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, IGU.

Reviews and Other Articles:

#	2008 forthcoming	Review of Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography, edited by Jeremy Crampton and Stuart Elden. For Social & Cultural Geography.
#	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.
#	2003 PDF Scroll to p. 1381	Review of Global networks, linked cities by Saskia Sassen.  American Journal of Sociology 108(6): 1381-1382.
#	2002 PDF Scroll to p 250	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 PDF Scroll to p. 156	Review of From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory edited by Michael Dear. Growth and Change 33(1): 156-159.
#	2001 PDF Scroll to p. 251	Review of Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization, and Social Struggles by Roger Keil.  Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19(2): 251-252.
#	2000 PDF Scroll to p. 362	Review of The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspective Two Decades Later, edited by Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Professional Geographer 52(2):362-363.
	1997 PDF	Review of The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles by William Fulton. Political Geography 18(3): 389-391.
#	1997 PDF	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 HTML	Purcell, M.  Divorce, California-style. In These Times 21(3): 18-20, 36.

Papers and Panels:

#		2008	Panelist in an “Author meets critics” session for Recapturing Democracy, by Mark Purcell, 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, of a panel session on the Status of Democracy in Geographic Research 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.
#		2007	Urban Movements and the Right to the City. Paper given 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.
#		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.
		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.
#	2007			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			Commentator in session on Robert Beauregard’s When America Became Suburban, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, organized by Robert Lake, San Francisco, April.
		2006			Resisting Neoliberalization: Democracy and the Hope for an Alternative Urban Future.  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 the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Kansas City, October 27-30.
	2005				Scale, urban democracy, and the right to the city. Towards a political economy of scale: a studies in political economy conference. York University, Toronto, February 3-5.
	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. Workshop for 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).
#	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-IBG Conference, Glasgow, August.
#	2003-2004				Panel member, Diversity, Citizenship, and Global Education Consensus Panel, a project of the Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington, organized by James Banks.  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 21-23.
	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 (University of Washington), Deborah Martin (University of Georgia), Sarah Elwood (DePaul University), and Eugene McCann (Ohio State University)
	2002				Co-organizer with Chris Brown (University of Kansas) and Garth Myers (University of Kansas) of session titled "Political Ecology and the Politics of Scale" for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
	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 of the 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, and 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 presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February.  Urban Politics in Geography VI: Making spaces of citizenship--Spatializing Urban Politics—session 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.
	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.

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005-present	Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
	Courses taught:	Community, Environment, and Planning 301 (15 students) Community, Environment, and Planning 461 (15 students) Urban Design and Planning 598D, Urban Democracy (12 students) Community, Environment, and Planning 120 (35-40 students)
2003-2005	Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington