Doctor Andrew Gorman-Murray

Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray

Lecturer, Geography and Urban Studies

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• Grants / Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Memberships and Engagement

Biography

Andrew Gorman-Murray is a Lecturer in Social Sciences, and part of the Geography and Urban Studies Teaching and Research Group. He joined UWS in July 2011, and was previously a Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Wollongong (2006-2011). His PhD (Macquarie University, 2006) examined critical geographies of sexuality and home.

Andrew is a social, cultural and political geographer whose research has focused on geographies of gender and sexuality and the politics of belonging. His specific interests include: sexualities; masculinities; home, housing and belonging; same-sex families; non-traditional households; lesbian and gay identity politics; sexuality and planning; neighbourhoods and place-making; material culture studies; emotional geographies; migration; festivals and tourism; rural cultural studies; social and cultural dimensions of climate change and sustainable living. He is interested in both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

He has published an edited collection with Dr Ruth Lane (RMIT University) on Material Geographies of Household Sustainability (Ashgate, 2011). He is currently completing an edited collection with Professor Barbara Pini (Curtin University) and Dr Lia Bryant (University of South Australia) on Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography (Lexington, 2012), and writing a book on Geographies of Sexualities Down Under: Lesbian and Gay Spatialities in Australia (Ashgate, 2012).

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Social and Cultural Geography; Gender, Sexuality and Space; Urban Studies; Rural Studies; Geographies of Home

Grants / Current Projects

2009-2012: Men on the home front: spatialities of domesticity and masculinity (ARC Discovery Grant)

2009-2011: Geographies of same-sex couple family households in Australia (GeoQuest Strategic Grant)

2008-2010: Culture and climate change: snow conditions in Australia (GeoQuest Grant)

2007-2010: 'Doing' rural cultural studies (2 ARC Cultural Research Network Grants)

2006-2009: Daylesford ChillOut Festival: sexual minorities, rural change, and belonging (ARC Discovery Grant, post-doctoral position)

2005-2009: Home and away: sexual minorities in Townsville (GeoQuest Grant, with Gordon Waitt)

2003-2009: Queering home, domesticating deviance: geographies of sexuality and home in Australia (PhD and subsequent outputs, with support from Macquarie University and the University of Wollongong)

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Selected Publications

Books:

Lane, R. and Gorman-Murray, A. (eds.) (2011) Material Geographies of Household Sustainability, Ashgate, Farnham.

Chapters:

Gorman-Murray, A. (2012) Liminal subjects, marginal spaces and material legacies: older gay men, home and belonging, in Y. Taylor & M. Casey (eds.) Queer Presences and Absences: Time, Future and History, Palgrave Macmillan, in press.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) Meanings of home: gender dimensions, in S. J. Smith (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, Oxford, in press.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) Experiencing home: sexuality, in S. J. Smith (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, Oxford, in press.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) Queerying planning in Australia: the problems and possibilities of multiscalar governance for LGBT sexual minorities, in P. Doan (ed.) Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice, Ashgate, Farnham, in press.

Gorman-Murray, A. and Brennan-Horley, C. (2011) The geography of same-sex families in Australia: implications for regulatory regimes, in P. Gerber & A. Sifris (eds.) Current Trends in the Regulation of Same-Sex Relationships, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 48-64.

Waitt, G. and Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) ChillOut: a festival 'out' in the country, in C. Gibson & J. Connell (eds.) Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, Channel View, Clevedon, pp. 209-226.

Gorman-Murray, A., Johnston, L. and Waitt, G. (2010) Queer(ing) communication in research relationships: a conversation about subjectivities, methodologies and ethics, in K. Browne & C. J. Nash (eds.) Queering Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theory and Social Science Research, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 97-112

Journal Articles:

Gorman-Murray, A. (2012) Queer politics at home: gay men’s management of the public/private boundary, New Zealand Geographer 68 (2), in press.

Gorman-Murray, A., Waitt, G. and Gibson, C. (2012) Chilling out in cosmopolitan country? Urban/rural hybridity and the construction of Daylesford as a 'lesbian and gay rural idyll', Journal of Rural Studies 28, in press.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) Economic crises and emotional fallout: work, home and men’s senses of belonging in post-GFC Sydney, Emotion, Space and Society 4 (4), in press.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) 'This is disco-wonderland!' Gender, sexuality and the limits of gay domesticity on The Block, Social and Cultural Geography 12 (5): 435-453.

Waitt, G. and Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) Journeys and returns: home, life narratives and remapping sexuality in a regional city, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35, in press.

Waitt, G. and Gorman-Murray, A. (2011) 'It’s about time you came out': sexualities, mobility and home, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 42, in press.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2010) An Australian feeling for snow: towards understanding cultural and emotional dimensions of climate change, Cultural Studies Review 16 (1): 60-81.

Gorman-Murray, A., Brennan-Horley, C., McLean, K., Waitt, G. and Gibson, C. (2010) Mapping same-sex couple family household in Australia, Journal of Maps v2010: 382-392.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2009) Intimate mobilities: emotional embodiment and queer migration, Social and Cultural Geography 10 (4): 441-460.

Gorman-Murray, A. and Waitt, G. (2009) Queer-friendly neighbourhoods: interrogating social cohesion across sexual difference in two Australian neighbourhoods, Environment and Planning A 41 (12): 2855-2873.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2008) Queering the family home: narratives from gay, lesbian and bisexual youth coming out in supportive family homes in Australia, Gender, Place and Culture 15 (1): 31-44.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2008) Reconciling self: gay men and lesbians using domestic materiality for identity management, Social and Cultural Geography 9 (3): 283-301.

Gorman-Murray, A., Waitt, G. and Gibson, C. (2008) A queer country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town, Australian Geographer 39 (2): 171-191.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2008) Masculinity and the home: a critical review and conceptual framework, Australian Geographer 39 (3): 367-379.

Gorman-Murray, A., Darian-Smith, K. and Gibson, C. (2008) Scaling the rural: reflections on rural cultural studies, Australian Humanities Review 45: 37-52.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2008) Before and after climate change: the snow country in Australian imaginaries, (opens in a new window) M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture 11 (5).

Gorman-Murray, A. (2007) Rethinking queer migration through the body, Social and Cultural Geography 8 (1): 105-121.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2007) Reconfiguring domestic values: meanings of home for gay men and lesbians, Housing, Theory and Society 24 (3): 229-246.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2007) Contesting domestic ideals: queering the Australian home, Australian Geographer 38 (2): 195-213.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2006) Homeboys: uses of home by gay Australian men, Social and Cultural Geography 7 (1): 53-69.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2006) Queering home or domesticating deviance? Interrogating gay domesticity through lifestyle television, International Journal of Cultural Studies 9 (2): 227-247.

Gorman-Murray, A. (2006) Gay and lesbian couples at home: identity work in domestic space, Home Cultures 3 (2): 145-168.

Refereed Conference Papers:

Gorman-Murray, A. (2010) Materialising masculinity: men and interior design, in M. Taylor, G. Lee & M. Lindquist (eds.) Interior Spaces in Other Places: IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association) Symposium, (opens in a new window) IDEA and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

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Memberships and Engagement

National Editor, GEOview: Online Undergraduate Review of Geography and Environmental Studies (2010-)

Editorial board member, Revista Latinoamericana de Geografia e Gênero (Latin American Journal of Geography and Gender) (2009-)

Co-Convenor, Institute of Australian Geographers’ Cultural Geography Study Group (2009-)

Secretary, Institute of Australian Geographers’ Legal Geography Study Group (2009-)

Fellow of the Institute of British Geographers

Memberships and affiliations

• Institute of Australian Geographers
• New South Wales Geographical Society
• Association of American Geographers
• Institute of British Geographers
• ARC Cultural Research Network
• Centre for Research on Men and Masculinities, University of Wollongong
• Making Home Network, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Regional Food Research Network Australasia
• The Australian Sociological Association Cultural Sociology Thematic Group
• Social Science History Association
• Association for Qualitative Research

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