McKinnon, Scott J.

Overview

Scott McKinnon is a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS), School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong.

His current research investigates the role of collective memory in Australian experiences of disaster.

Scott is a geographer and historian with a particular interest in geographies of memory and the ways in which the past is constructed and enacted in the present. He has pursued this core research interest across a range of subjects, including disasters research, cinema studies and historical geographies of sexuality and gender.

Member Of

Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Five days of swirling fury: Emotion and memory in newspaper anniversary reports of the 1974 Queensland floods Published In Emotion, Space and Society Volume 35 Altmetric
2019	Bohemian Rhapsody and the tale of the tragic queen Published In History Australia Volume 16 Pages 576 - 577 ISSN 1833-4881 Altmetric
2019	Happy Sad Man: a small, gentle, important film that reveals the vulnerability of men Published In The Conversation Volume 4 November Pages 1 - 4
2019	Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone? Published In The Conversation Volume 30 May Pages 1 - 3
2019	Remembering and forgetting 1974: the 2011 Brisbane floods and memories of an earlier disaster Published In Geographical Research Volume 57 Pages 204 - 214 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric
2018	Big city gaybourhoods: where they come from and why they still matter Published In The Conversation Volume 3 May Pages 1 - 6
2018	Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them Published In The Conversation Volume 5 April Pages 1 - 3
2018	Listening and learning: giving voice to trans experiences of disasters Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 25 Pages 166 - 187 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2018	Maintaining the school closet: the changing regulation of homosexuality and the contested space of the school in New South Wales, 1978–84 Published In Australian Geographer Volume 49 Pages 185 - 198 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2018	Negotiating difference across time: The temporal meanings of the Sydney mardi gras in lesbian and gay life narratives Published In Journal of Australian Studies Volume 42 Pages 314 - 327 ISSN 1444-3058 Altmetric
2018	RuPaul’s Drag Race is still figuring out how to handle gender and race Published In The Conversation Volume 28 June Pages 1 - 5
2017	Disasters, Queer Narratives, and the News: How Are LGBTI Disaster Experiences Reported by the Mainstream and LGBTI Media? Published In Journal of Homosexuality Volume 64 Pages 122 - 144 ISSN 0091-8369 Altmetric
2017	Problems and possibilities on the margins: LGBT experiences in the 2011 Queensland floods Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 24 Pages 37 - 51 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2017	Remembering an epidemic during a disaster: memories of HIV/AIDS, gay male identities and the experience of recent disasters in Australia and New Zealand Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 24 Pages 52 - 63 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2017	Straight disasters: the (hetero)sexual geographies of Hollywood disaster movies Published In GeoJournal: an international journal on human geography and environmental sciences Volume 82 Pages 503 - 515 ISSN 0343-2521 Altmetric
2017	The Safe Schools Program and Young People's Sexed and Gendered Geographies Published In Australian Geographer Volume 48 Pages 145 - 152 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2017	The road to same-sex marriage support has been long - and the fight isn’t over yet Published In The Conversation Volume 15 November Pages 1 - 4
2017	With Moonlight’s Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs Published In The Conversation Volume 2 March Pages 1 - 3
2016	'The greatest loss was a loss of our history': natural disasters, marginalised identities and sites of memory Published In Social and Cultural Geography Volume 17 Pages 1120 - 1139 ISSN 1464-9365 Altmetric
2016	Emergency management response and recovery plans in relation to sexual and gender minorities in New South Wales, Australia Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Volume 16 Pages 1 - 11 ISSN 2212-4209 Altmetric
2016	Why are we still scared of seeing two men kissing? Published In The Conversation Volume 16 June Pages 1 - 5
2015	Life in the gayborhood: Safety, difference and change in the urban gay neighbourhood Published In Australian Review of Public Affairs Volume April ISSN 1832-1526
2015	Watching Men Kissing Men: The Australian Reception of the Gay Male Kiss On-Screen Published In Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 24 Pages 262 - 287 ISSN 1043-4070 Altmetric
2014	Book review: The End of Homosexual? Published In Queensland Review Volume 21 Pages 109 - 110 ISSN 1321-8166 Altmetric
2014	Queer domicide: LGBT displacement and home loss in natural disaster impact, response, and recovery Published In Home Cultures: the journal of architecture, design and domestic space Volume 11 Pages 237 - 261 ISSN 1740-6315 Altmetric
2014	Queering disasters: On the need to account for LGBTI experiences in natural disaster contexts Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 21 Pages 905 - 918 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2014	The LGBTI community in the 2011 Queensland floods: marginality, vulnerability and resilience Published In LES Online Volume 6 Pages 4 - 20
2013	The activist cinema-goer: Gay liberation at the movies Published In History Australia Volume 10 Pages 125 - 143 ISSN 1833-4881 Altmetric
2012	The emerald city of Oz: The city of Sydney as a gay space in Australian feature films Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema Volume 5 Pages 307 - 319 Altmetric
2010	Taking the Word ‘Out’ West: Movie reception and gay spaces Published In Participations: journal of audience and reception studies Volume 7 Pages 341 - 359 ISSN 1749-8716

Book

Year	Title
2016	Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, memory and the history of a gay male community Publisher Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect ISBN 9781783205967 Pages 250

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	‘Does it matter?’: Relocating fragments of queer heritage in post-earthquake Christchurch Published In Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Pages 239 - 252 ISBN 9781138208162
2016	Masculinity, sexuality and disaster: unpacking gendered LGBT experiences in the 2011 Brisbane floods in Queensland, Australia Published In Men, Masculinities and Disaster Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Pages 128 - 139 ISBN 9781138934177
2016	Sexuality Published In Identity and Belonging Publisher London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan Pages 57 - 70 ISBN 9781137334923
2015	Queer Geography Published In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Publisher Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Pages 759 - 764 ISBN 9780080970868 Edition 2 Altmetric
2014	The Curious Case of Cruising: Debating gay male identity and visibility via the movies Published In Acts of Love and Lust: Sexuality in Australia from 1945-2010 Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 77 - 94 ISBN 9781443856515
2013	Musicals are Gay: A brief history of gay men, Hollywood divas and movie musicals Published In Intimacy, Violence and Activism: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Australasian History and Society Publisher Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing Pages 105 - 118 ISBN 9781922235084
2012	Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters Published In Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand Publisher London, United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris Pages 225 - 230 ISBN 9781848859432
2011	'... And the Theatre was Full of Poofs, and I Thought it was Fantastic': Researching the history of gay men and the movies Published In Out Here: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI Publisher Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing Pages 201 - 216 ISBN 9781921867002

Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Oral History NSW Vice President 2015 -

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Pride History Group Vice President 2011 -

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8903-7824 (confirmed)

Member Of

Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Five days of swirling fury: Emotion and memory in newspaper anniversary reports of the 1974 Queensland floods Published In Emotion, Space and Society Volume 35 Altmetric
2019	Bohemian Rhapsody and the tale of the tragic queen Published In History Australia Volume 16 Pages 576 - 577 ISSN 1833-4881 Altmetric
2019	Happy Sad Man: a small, gentle, important film that reveals the vulnerability of men Published In The Conversation Volume 4 November Pages 1 - 4
2019	Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone? Published In The Conversation Volume 30 May Pages 1 - 3
2019	Remembering and forgetting 1974: the 2011 Brisbane floods and memories of an earlier disaster Published In Geographical Research Volume 57 Pages 204 - 214 ISSN 1745-5863 Altmetric
2018	Big city gaybourhoods: where they come from and why they still matter Published In The Conversation Volume 3 May Pages 1 - 6
2018	Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them Published In The Conversation Volume 5 April Pages 1 - 3
2018	Listening and learning: giving voice to trans experiences of disasters Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 25 Pages 166 - 187 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2018	Maintaining the school closet: the changing regulation of homosexuality and the contested space of the school in New South Wales, 1978–84 Published In Australian Geographer Volume 49 Pages 185 - 198 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2018	Negotiating difference across time: The temporal meanings of the Sydney mardi gras in lesbian and gay life narratives Published In Journal of Australian Studies Volume 42 Pages 314 - 327 ISSN 1444-3058 Altmetric
2018	RuPaul’s Drag Race is still figuring out how to handle gender and race Published In The Conversation Volume 28 June Pages 1 - 5
2017	Disasters, Queer Narratives, and the News: How Are LGBTI Disaster Experiences Reported by the Mainstream and LGBTI Media? Published In Journal of Homosexuality Volume 64 Pages 122 - 144 ISSN 0091-8369 Altmetric
2017	Problems and possibilities on the margins: LGBT experiences in the 2011 Queensland floods Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 24 Pages 37 - 51 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2017	Remembering an epidemic during a disaster: memories of HIV/AIDS, gay male identities and the experience of recent disasters in Australia and New Zealand Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 24 Pages 52 - 63 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2017	Straight disasters: the (hetero)sexual geographies of Hollywood disaster movies Published In GeoJournal: an international journal on human geography and environmental sciences Volume 82 Pages 503 - 515 ISSN 0343-2521 Altmetric
2017	The Safe Schools Program and Young People's Sexed and Gendered Geographies Published In Australian Geographer Volume 48 Pages 145 - 152 ISSN 0004-9182 Altmetric
2017	The road to same-sex marriage support has been long - and the fight isn’t over yet Published In The Conversation Volume 15 November Pages 1 - 4
2017	With Moonlight’s Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs Published In The Conversation Volume 2 March Pages 1 - 3
2016	'The greatest loss was a loss of our history': natural disasters, marginalised identities and sites of memory Published In Social and Cultural Geography Volume 17 Pages 1120 - 1139 ISSN 1464-9365 Altmetric
2016	Emergency management response and recovery plans in relation to sexual and gender minorities in New South Wales, Australia Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Volume 16 Pages 1 - 11 ISSN 2212-4209 Altmetric
2016	Why are we still scared of seeing two men kissing? Published In The Conversation Volume 16 June Pages 1 - 5
2015	Life in the gayborhood: Safety, difference and change in the urban gay neighbourhood Published In Australian Review of Public Affairs Volume April ISSN 1832-1526
2015	Watching Men Kissing Men: The Australian Reception of the Gay Male Kiss On-Screen Published In Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 24 Pages 262 - 287 ISSN 1043-4070 Altmetric
2014	Book review: The End of Homosexual? Published In Queensland Review Volume 21 Pages 109 - 110 ISSN 1321-8166 Altmetric
2014	Queer domicide: LGBT displacement and home loss in natural disaster impact, response, and recovery Published In Home Cultures: the journal of architecture, design and domestic space Volume 11 Pages 237 - 261 ISSN 1740-6315 Altmetric
2014	Queering disasters: On the need to account for LGBTI experiences in natural disaster contexts Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography Volume 21 Pages 905 - 918 ISSN 0966-369X Altmetric
2014	The LGBTI community in the 2011 Queensland floods: marginality, vulnerability and resilience Published In LES Online Volume 6 Pages 4 - 20
2013	The activist cinema-goer: Gay liberation at the movies Published In History Australia Volume 10 Pages 125 - 143 ISSN 1833-4881 Altmetric
2012	The emerald city of Oz: The city of Sydney as a gay space in Australian feature films Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema Volume 5 Pages 307 - 319 Altmetric
2010	Taking the Word ‘Out’ West: Movie reception and gay spaces Published In Participations: journal of audience and reception studies Volume 7 Pages 341 - 359 ISSN 1749-8716

Book

Year	Title
2016	Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, memory and the history of a gay male community Publisher Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect ISBN 9781783205967 Pages 250

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	‘Does it matter?’: Relocating fragments of queer heritage in post-earthquake Christchurch Published In Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Pages 239 - 252 ISBN 9781138208162
2016	Masculinity, sexuality and disaster: unpacking gendered LGBT experiences in the 2011 Brisbane floods in Queensland, Australia Published In Men, Masculinities and Disaster Publisher Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Pages 128 - 139 ISBN 9781138934177
2016	Sexuality Published In Identity and Belonging Publisher London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan Pages 57 - 70 ISBN 9781137334923
2015	Queer Geography Published In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Publisher Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Pages 759 - 764 ISBN 9780080970868 Edition 2 Altmetric
2014	The Curious Case of Cruising: Debating gay male identity and visibility via the movies Published In Acts of Love and Lust: Sexuality in Australia from 1945-2010 Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Pages 77 - 94 ISBN 9781443856515
2013	Musicals are Gay: A brief history of gay men, Hollywood divas and movie musicals Published In Intimacy, Violence and Activism: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Australasian History and Society Publisher Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing Pages 105 - 118 ISBN 9781922235084
2012	Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters Published In Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand Publisher London, United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris Pages 225 - 230 ISBN 9781848859432
2011	'... And the Theatre was Full of Poofs, and I Thought it was Fantastic': Researching the history of gay men and the movies Published In Out Here: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI Publisher Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing Pages 201 - 216 ISBN 9781921867002

Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Oral History NSW Vice President 2015 -

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Pride History Group Vice President 2011 -

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8903-7824 (confirmed)

McKinnon, Scott J. Dr

Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Overview

Overview

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Service

Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Service

Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Identity

Orcid Id

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