Keith Woodward
- Assistant Professor of Geography
Education
- PhD, University of Arizona, 2007
Research Areas
- Social Theory
- Site Ontology and the Recent Scale Debates
- Radical and Critical Geography, 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 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"
Selected Publications
- Woodward, K., J.P. Jones III, and S.A. Marston. Forthcoming. "Of Eagles and Flies: Orientations Toward the Micro," Area.
- Woodward, K. Forthcoming. "Events, Spontaneity and Abrupt Conditions," Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography, B. Anderson and P. Harrison, eds. Hampshire: Ashgate.
- Woodward, K. and J. Lea. 2009. "Geographies of Affect," In The Handbook of Social Geography, S. Smith, R. Pain, S.A. Marston and J.P. Jones III, eds. London: Sage, pp. 154-75.
- Mayer, D. 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.
- Dixon, D., K. Woodward, and J.P. Jones, III. 2008. "On the Other Hand…Dialectics," Environment and Planning A, 40(11): 2549-61.
- Woodward, K., J.P. Jones, III, and S.A. Marston. 2008. "Downsizing Wal-Mart: A Response to Prytherch," Urban Geography 29(1): 78-84.
- Jones, J.P. III, K. Woodward, and S.A. Marston. 2007. "Situating Flatness," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32(2): 264-76.
- Marston, S.A., 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.
- Lukinbeal, C., 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.
- Marston, S.A., 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.
- Woodward, K. 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.
Courses Taught
To be taught 2009-2010:
- Geog101: Introduction to Human Geography: Global Patterns and Processes
- Geog301: Geography of Social Organization: Collectivity, Autonomy and Social Change
- Geog501: The History of Geographic Thought
Contact Information
- Keith Woodward
- Department of Geography
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Science Hall
- 550 North Park Street
- Email: kwoodward@wisc.edu