Dr Margo Huxley
Visiting Research Fellow 2009–2011
School of Geography
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Email: m.huxley@qmul.ac.uk
Research Interests
My interests are broadly in the fields of urban geography and urban planning, approached from critical social, cultural and historical perspectives. A somewhat eclectic academic background in humanities, urban planning, and geography, combined with experience of (among other endeavours) town and regional planning practice, have led to research projects and publications relating to gender and the built environment, foreign investment in central city property, and more recently, development of the Foucauldian notion of governmentality and critiques of planning history and planning practice.
I also have been actively involved in PhD workshops, particularly in relation to planning, analysing and writing up thesis research.
Some of my current interests include exploring the intersections of post-colonial, development and urban geographies of spatial planning in the global ‘West’ and ‘South’.
Other Positions
Editorial Boards: Urban Policy and Research; International Planning Studies
From 2011: International Editorial Board, CRU/Beyond (Italy)
Essays Editor, Planning Theory
Other Interests
Long standing association with London Women and Planning Forum
Sheffield Jazz Committee
Portland Works Committee, Sheffield
Selected Publications
‘A history of the ‘nudge.’’ Contribution to Intervention Section on Libertarian Paternalism and Political Geography: beginning a critical dialogue, Political Geography, forthcoming 2011.
With Melanie Lombard, ‘Self-made cities: ordinary informality?’ Contribution to Interface Section on Informality, Planning Theory and Practice, forthcoming March 2011.
Problematising Planning: critical and effective genealogies, in Healey, P. and Hillier, J. (eds) 2010 The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: conceptual challenges for spatial planning, Ashgate, Farnham: 135-158.
Space and Government: governmentality and geography, Geography Compass, 2008, 2/5: 163-168.
Planning, space and government, in Cox. K. Robinson, J. and Low, M. (eds) 2008 Handbook of Political Geography, Sage, London: 123-140.
Geographies of governmentality, in Crampton, J. and Elden, S. (eds) 2007 Space, Knowledge, Power: Foucault and Geography, Ashgate, London: 185-204.
Spatial Rationalities: Order, Environment, Evolution and Government, Social and Cultural Geography, 2006, 7, 5: 771-787.
‘This suburb is of value to the whole of Melbourne’: Save Our Suburbs and the struggle against inappropriate development, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Working Paper No. 6, Melbourne, 2002: also at http://www.sisr.net/publications/workingpapers/wp6_huxley.pdf
Governmentality, gender and planning: a Foucauldian perspective, in P. Allmendinger and M. Tewdwr-Jones (eds) 2002 Planning Futures: new directions for planning theory, Routledge, London: 136-153.
The suburbs strike back: culture, place and planning in an Australian city, in D. Hedgecock, J. Little, I. Alexander and O. Yiftachel (eds) 2001 The Power of Planning: spaces of control and transformation, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands: 103-116.