Margo Huxley

Short Biography

Margo Huxley is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Previously, she has been at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, the University of Melbourne, and the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia, teaching in urban studies, public policy and urban planning. She has a BA (English and History) from the Australian National University; a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne; and PhD in Geography from the Open University. Her research interests include historical examinations of spatial planning and land use control as forms of Foucauldian governmentality and technologies of subjectification; gender and the built environment; community activism, residential protest groups and resistance to urban development projects. Some indicative publications include: McLoughlin and Huxley (eds) (1986) Urban Planning in Australia: Critical Readings; ‘The suburbs strike back: culture, place and planning in an Australian city’, in Yiftachel et al. (eds) (2001) The Power of Planning: Spaces of Control and Transformation; ‘Spatial rationalities: order, environment, evolution and government’, Social and Cultural Geography, 7 May 2006; ‘Geographies of governmentality’, in Crampton and Elden (eds) (2007) Space, Power and Knowledge: Foucault and Geography.