Since 2000, most of my work has been focused on globalization. I teach a large introductory course on the topic at UW (click 123 for info), and I am writing a textbook entitled Introduction to Globalization for Blackwell-Wiley. Based on research funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, I have also authored another book and a number of articles for academic journals on related themes: including the ways in which globalization processes are remaking nation-states, the links between globalization and American dominance, and the impact of economic interdependency on border regions. Some of these publications are listed below, including my most recent writing on globalization and global health.

Matthew Sparke, 2009, "From ghost maps to model maps" and other online posts on global health at http://globalhealthspace.blogspot.com/

Matthew Sparke, forthcoming, "Unpacking economism and remapping the space of global health," in Owain Williams and Adrian Kay, editors, Global Health Governance: Transformations, Challenges and Opportunities Amidst Globalization, London: Palgrave. PDF

Matthew Sparke, forthcoming, “Triangulating Globalization,” an essay review of Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, for the Journal of Historical Geography. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2008, "Mapping Global Mountains Beyond Local Mountains:
Globalization and Paul Farmer’s Reframing of Care," originally prepared as teaching notes for when Tracy Kidder's, Mountains Beyond Mountains was set as a Common Book for the University of Washington. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2008, Mismapping 2020, Vreng, July, 2008: 18 - 24. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2008, “Political Geographies of Globalization (3): Resistance,” Progress in Human Geography, 32 (1): 1 – 18. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2006 “Political Geographies of Globalization: (2) Governance,” Progress in Human Geography, 30, 2 1–16. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2004 “Political Geographies of Globalization: (1) Dominance,” Progress in Human Geography, 28, 6 777–794. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2007, “Everywhere but always somewhere: Critical geographies of the Global South,” The Global South, 1(1): 117 – 126. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2007, "Geopolitical Fear, Geoeconomic Hope and the Responsibilities of Geography," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97 (2): 338 – 349. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2007, “Acknowledging Responsibility For Space,” an essay review of For Space by Doreen Massey, London: Sage, 2005, Progress in Human Geography 31 (3): 7 -15. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2006 “A neoliberal nexus: Economy, security and the biopolitics of citizenship on the border,” Political Geography, 25, 2, 151 - 180. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2005, "Empire's Geography: War, Globalization and American Imperialism," from Matthew Sparke, In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State, chapter 5: 239 - 312. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2003, with Sue Roberts and Anna Secord, "Neoliberal Geopolitics" Antipode, 35, 5: pages 886 – 897. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2002, “Not a State, but a State of Mind: Cascading Cascadias and the Geo-Economics of Cross-Border Regionalism,” in Markus Perkmann and Ngai-Ling Sum, eds, Globalisation, Regionalisation and Cross-border Regions, New York: Palgrave Publishers, pages 212 - 240.PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2000, “Chunnel Visions: Unpacking the Anticipatory Geographies of an Anglo-European borderland,” Journal of Borderland Studies, XV,1, pages 2 – 34. PDF