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
2020	The Boys in the Band: once banned in Australia, this pre-gay liberation story is now a fond, funny Netflix remake Published In The Conversation
2019	Bohemian Rhapsody and the tale of the tragic queen Published In History Australia
2019	Happy Sad Man: a small, gentle, important film that reveals the vulnerability of men Published In The Conversation
2019	Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone? Published In The Conversation
2019	Remembering and forgetting 1974: the 2011 Brisbane floods and memories of an earlier disaster Published In Geographical Research
2018	Big city gaybourhoods: where they come from and why they still matter Published In The Conversation
2018	Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them Published In The Conversation
2018	Listening and learning: giving voice to trans experiences of disasters Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography
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
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
2018	RuPaul’s Drag Race is still figuring out how to handle gender and race Published In The Conversation
2017	Disasters, Queer Narratives, and the News: How Are LGBTI Disaster Experiences Reported by the Mainstream and LGBTI Media? Published In Journal of Homosexuality
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
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
2017	Straight disasters: the (hetero)sexual geographies of Hollywood disaster movies Published In GeoJournal: an international journal on human geography and environmental sciences
2017	The Safe Schools Program and Young People's Sexed and Gendered Geographies Published In Australian Geographer
2017	The road to same-sex marriage support has been long - and the fight isn’t over yet Published In The Conversation
2017	With Moonlight’s Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs Published In The Conversation
2016	'The greatest loss was a loss of our history': natural disasters, marginalised identities and sites of memory Published In Social and Cultural Geography
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
2016	Why are we still scared of seeing two men kissing? Published In The Conversation
2015	Life in the gayborhood: Safety, difference and change in the urban gay neighbourhood Published In Australian Review of Public Affairs
2015	Watching Men Kissing Men: The Australian Reception of the Gay Male Kiss On-Screen Published In Journal of the History of Sexuality
2014	Book review: The End of Homosexual? Published In Queensland Review
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
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
2014	The LGBTI community in the 2011 Queensland floods: marginality, vulnerability and resilience Published In LES Online
2013	The activist cinema-goer: Gay liberation at the movies Published In History Australia
2012	The emerald city of Oz: The city of Sydney as a gay space in Australian feature films Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema
2010	Taking the Word ‘Out’ West: Movie reception and gay spaces Published In Participations: journal of audience and reception studies

Book

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

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
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
2016	Sexuality Published In Identity and Belonging Publisher London, United Kingdom
2015	Queer Geography Published In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Publisher Amsterdam, Netherlands
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
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
2012	Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters Published In Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand Publisher London, United Kingdom
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

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
2020	The Boys in the Band: once banned in Australia, this pre-gay liberation story is now a fond, funny Netflix remake Published In The Conversation
2019	Bohemian Rhapsody and the tale of the tragic queen Published In History Australia
2019	Happy Sad Man: a small, gentle, important film that reveals the vulnerability of men Published In The Conversation
2019	Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone? Published In The Conversation
2019	Remembering and forgetting 1974: the 2011 Brisbane floods and memories of an earlier disaster Published In Geographical Research
2018	Big city gaybourhoods: where they come from and why they still matter Published In The Conversation
2018	Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them Published In The Conversation
2018	Listening and learning: giving voice to trans experiences of disasters Published In Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography
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
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
2018	RuPaul’s Drag Race is still figuring out how to handle gender and race Published In The Conversation
2017	Disasters, Queer Narratives, and the News: How Are LGBTI Disaster Experiences Reported by the Mainstream and LGBTI Media? Published In Journal of Homosexuality
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
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
2017	Straight disasters: the (hetero)sexual geographies of Hollywood disaster movies Published In GeoJournal: an international journal on human geography and environmental sciences
2017	The Safe Schools Program and Young People's Sexed and Gendered Geographies Published In Australian Geographer
2017	The road to same-sex marriage support has been long - and the fight isn’t over yet Published In The Conversation
2017	With Moonlight’s Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs Published In The Conversation
2016	'The greatest loss was a loss of our history': natural disasters, marginalised identities and sites of memory Published In Social and Cultural Geography
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
2016	Why are we still scared of seeing two men kissing? Published In The Conversation
2015	Life in the gayborhood: Safety, difference and change in the urban gay neighbourhood Published In Australian Review of Public Affairs
2015	Watching Men Kissing Men: The Australian Reception of the Gay Male Kiss On-Screen Published In Journal of the History of Sexuality
2014	Book review: The End of Homosexual? Published In Queensland Review
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
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
2014	The LGBTI community in the 2011 Queensland floods: marginality, vulnerability and resilience Published In LES Online
2013	The activist cinema-goer: Gay liberation at the movies Published In History Australia
2012	The emerald city of Oz: The city of Sydney as a gay space in Australian feature films Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema
2010	Taking the Word ‘Out’ West: Movie reception and gay spaces Published In Participations: journal of audience and reception studies

Book

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

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
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
2016	Sexuality Published In Identity and Belonging Publisher London, United Kingdom
2015	Queer Geography Published In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Publisher Amsterdam, Netherlands
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
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
2012	Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters Published In Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand Publisher London, United Kingdom
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

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

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Selected Publications

Journal Article

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Chapter

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Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

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Orcid Id

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Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Service

Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

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Orcid Id

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