Since 2000, most of my work has been focused on globalization. I teach a large introductory course on the topic at UW (GEOG/SIS 123), and I am publishing 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.

My current research explores the ways in which the verticalization of global health initiatives has come together with the global spread of market-based governance to produce a series of geographical targeting and enclaving effects in global health practices. This evolving research agenda is also in turn linked to my work as Director of the Global Health Minor at UW and co-instructor with Professor Steve Gloyd of Introduction to Global Health (GH 101/ GEOG 180).

Matthew Sparke, with Dimitar Anguelov, "H1N1, Globalization and the Epidemiology of Inequality," accepted and forthcoming in Health and Place, 2011. PDF

Matthew Sparke, with Tim Bunnell, James Sidaway and Carl Grundy-Warr, “Geographies of power in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle,” in Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Taylor, P. J. and Witlox, F. (eds) International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Edward Elgar. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2011, “The Look of Surveillance Returns,” in Martin Dodge, ed. Classics in Cartography, New York: Wiley. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2011, "Seattle's Cascadia Connections," AAG Newsletter, 46, 3. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2011, "Global Geographies," in Michael Brown and Richard Morrill, eds. Seattle Geographies, Seattle: University of Washington Press. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2011, A review of G. Spivak, Other Asias, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, for Cultural Geographies. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2010, How is globalization transforming the borders of national identity? In Solem, M., Klein, P., Muñiz-Solari, O., and Ray, W., eds., AAG Center for Global Geography Education. LINK

Matthew Sparke, 2010, "Global Seattle," AAG Newsletter LINK

Matthew Sparke, 2009, “Unpacking economism and remapping the terrain of global health,” in Adrian Kay and Owain Williams, editors, Global Health Governance: Transformations, Challenges and Opportunities Amidst Globalization, New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 131 – 159. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2009, “On denationalization as neoliberalization: Biopolitics, class interest and the incompleteness of citizenship,” Political Power and Social Theory, v. 20: 287 – 300. PDF

Matthew Sparke, 2009, “Triangulating Globalization,” an essay review of S. Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton: Princeton University Press, Journal of Historical Geography, 35: 376–381. 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, 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 “Political Geographies of Globalization: (2) Governance,” Progress in Human Geography, 30, 2 1–16. 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, 2004 “Political Geographies of Globalization: (1) Dominance,” Progress in Human Geography, 28, 6 777–794. 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