Keith Woodward
Assistant Professor of Geography
Education
PhD, University of Arizona, 2007
Research Areas
Social Theory
Site Ontology and the Recent Scale Debates
Radical, Critical, and Social Geography
Social Movements and Social Change
Geographies of Affect
The History of Geographic Thought
Current Research
Affect, Direct Action, and Political Ontology
Materialism, Events, and the Philosophy of Conditions
A joint-funded NSF-AHRC grant focusing on contemporary Art-Science collaborations
A book-length project, with Sallie Marston and John Paul Jones III, that develops the site ontology first introduced in our critique of the scale concept, "Human Geography Without Scale"
Courses Taught
Geog101: Introduction to Human Geography
Geog301: Geography of Social Organization: Collectivity, Autonomy and Social Change
Geog501: The History of Geographic Thought
Geog901: Space and Social Theory: Space, Affect, Percept (Spring 2011)
Geog901: Space and Social Theory: Things and Space (Spring 2012)
Geog901: Space and Social Theory: Anarchist Geographies (Spring 2013)
Geog901: Space and Social Theory: Mind and Ecology (Fall 2013)
Affiliations
The Havens Center
The Center for Visual Cultures
Human Rights Initiative
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Selected Publications
K. Woodward and M. Bruzzone. Under review. "Touching Lika a State," Antipode.
K. Woodward. Forthcoming. “Ethical Spaces,” In Introducing Human Geographies, 3rd ed., P. Cloke, P. Crang and M. Goodwin, eds. Oxon: Hodder Arnold.
K. Woodward. 2013. “Spacing Deconstruction,” In Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts, M. Caputi and V. Del Casino, eds. New York: Continuum, pp. 224-49.
M. Caputi, V. Del Casino, Jr., and K. Woodward. 2013. “Derrida, Deconstruction, and the University,” In Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts, M. Caputi and V. Del Casino, eds. New York: Continuum, pp. 13-36.
K. Woodward, J.P. Jones III, and Sallie A. Marston. 2012. "The Politics of Autonomous Space," Progress in Human Geography 36(2): 204-24.
K. Woodward. 2011. "Affective Life," In A Companion to Social Geography, V. Del Casino, R. Paneli, P. Cloke, and M. Thomas, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 325-25.
J.P. Jones III, S.A. Marston, and K. Woodward. 2011: "Scales and Networks," In A Companion to Human Geography, J.A. Agnew and J.S. Duncan, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 404-14.
K. Woodward, J.P. Jones III, and S.A. Marston. 2010. "Of Eagles and Flies: Orientations Toward the Micro," Area 42(3) 271-80.
K. Woodward. 2010. "Events, Spontaneity and Abrupt Conditions," In Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography, B. Anderson and P. Harrison, eds. Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 321-40.
K. Woodward and J. Lea. 2010. "Geographies of Affect," In The Sage Handbook of Social Geographies, S. Smith, R. Pain, S.A. Marston and J.P. Jones III, eds. London: Sage, pp. 154-75.
D. Mayer and K. Woodward. 2009. "Composition and Felt Geographies," Composing Other Spaces, J.P. Tassoni and D.R. Powell, eds. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, pp. 103-20.
D. Dixon, K. Woodward, and J.P. Jones, III. 2008. "On the Other Hand…Dialectics," Environment and Planning A, 40(11): 2549-61.
K. Woodward, J.P. Jones, III, and S.A. Marston. 2008. "Downsizing Wal-Mart: A Response to Prytherch," Urban Geography 29(1): 78-84.
J.P. Jones III, K. Woodward, and S.A. Marston. 2007. "Situating Flatness," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32(2): 264-76.
S.A. Marston, K. Woodward, and J.P. Jones, III. 2007. "Flattening Ontologies of Globalization: The Nollywood Case," Globalizations 4(1): 45-63. Reprinted in Cultures of Globalization: Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation, K. Archer, M.M. Bosman, M.M. Amen, and E. Schmidt, eds. London: Routledge, pp. 45-63.
C. Lukinbeal, C.B. Kennedy, J.P. Jones, III, J. Finn, K. Woodward, D.Nelson, Z.A. Grant, N. Antonopolis, A. Palos, and C. Atkinson-Palombo. 2007. "Mediated Geographies: Critical Pedagogy and Geographic Education," Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 69: 31-44.
S.A. Marston, J.P. Jones, III, and K. Woodward. 2005. "Human Geography without Scale," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30(4): 416-32. Reprinted in Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography, C. Philo, ed. Hampshire: Ashgate; Reprinted in Human Geography, Vol. III, D. Gregory and N. Castree, eds. London: Sage.
K. Woodward and J.P. Jones, III. 2005. "On the Border with Deleuze and Guattari," In B/ordering Space, H. van Houtum, O. Kramsch, and W. Zierhofer, eds. Hampshire: Ashgate, pp. 233-48.
Miscellaneous
M. Bruzzone, A.H. Neely, S. Peterson and K. Woodward. 2013. “The 2011 Wisconsin Protests,” In P.L. Knox and S.A. Marston, Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography, 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, pp 176-78.
K. Woodward. 2011. Commentary on Stuart Alexander Rockefeller’s “Flow,” Current Anthropology 52(4): 573-74.
D.P. Dixon, J.P. Jones, III, and K. Woodward. 2009.“Poststructuralism/Poststructuralist Geographies,” In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, R. Kitchen and N. Thrift, eds. London: Elsevier, pp. 396-407.
K. Woodward and J.P. Jones, III. 2009. “David Harvey,” In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 5, R. Kitchen and N. Thrift, eds. London: Elsevier, pp. 25-27.
K. Woodward and J.P. Jones, III. 2009. “Epistemology,” “Ontology,” “Postmodernism,” “Postmodernity,” “Poststructuralism,” In The Dictionary of Human Geography, D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts, and S. Whatmore, eds. (5th Edition). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, pp. 206-08; 511-13.
K. Woodward, J.P. Jones, III, and S.A. Marston. 2009. “Scale,” In The Dictionary of Human Geography, D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts, and S. Whatmore, eds. (5th Edition). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, pp. 664-66.
Graduate Students
M.S.
Marc Brakken (2012, Co-Advisor)
Mario Bruzzone (2012)
Heather Rosenfeld (Current)
Elsa Noterman (Current)
PhD
Mario Bruzzone (Current)
Marc Brakken (Current)
Charlie Carlin (Starts 2013, with Sarah Moore)
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
160 Science Hall
550 N. Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1491
Phone: (608) 262-0505
Fax: (608) 265-3991