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Andrew Gorman-Murray

Andrew Gorman-Murray

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
6360
World Ranking
4811
National Ranking
342

Overview

Andrew Gorman-Murray is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research addresses diverse topics within sociology, political science, geography, planning, and health professions. Key areas of investigation include homelessness and social issues, digital economy and work transformation, geographies of human-animal interactions, urban planning and governance, sharing economy and platforms, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, as well as spatial and cultural studies.

Their recent publications cover a range of sociocultural and geographical themes. Notable papers include:

  • "Coliving housing: home cultures of precarity for the new creative class" (2020), published in Social & Cultural Geography
  • "The Spatial Impacts of COVID-19 Restrictions on LGBTIQ Wellbeing, Visibility, and Belonging in Tasmania, Australia" (2021), published in Journal of Homosexuality
  • "The politics of stuckness: Waiting lives in mobile worlds" (2020), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "Losing Touch with People and Place: Labor Mobilities, Desensitized Bodies, Disconnected Lives" (2020), published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • "Friends disconnected: How mobile work transforms friendships through absence and presence" (2020), published in Area

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew Gorman-Murray include:

  • David Bissell
  • Elizabeth Straughan
  • Tegan L. Bergan
  • Emma Power
  • Elisabetta Crovara

Their work often appears in specialized academic journals focusing on geography and social sciences, with multiple publications in:

  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • Australian Geographer
  • Social & Cultural Geography
  • Journal of Homosexuality
  • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

Andrew Gorman-Murray's research sits at the intersection of urban studies, social psychology, and general health professions, emphasizing the spatial and social dynamics of contemporary life. The studies explore how various populations experience place and mobility, particularly under conditions of social precarity and changing work environments. Their work addresses the impacts of digital transformations and pandemic-related restrictions on community belonging and wellbeing, especially among marginalized groups such as LGBTIQ communities.

Best Publications

  • Intimate mobilities: emotional embodiment and queer migration

    Andrew Gorman-Murray

  • Cities and Sexualities

    Philip Hubbard;Andrew Gorman-Murray;Catherine J Nash

  • Rethinking queer migration through the body

    Andrew Gorman-Murray

  • Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces

    Michelle Duffy;Gordon R Waitt;Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Chris Gibson

  • Queering the family home: narratives from gay, lesbian and bisexual youth coming out in supportive family homes in Australia

    Andrew Gorman-Murray

  • Masculinity and the Home: a critical review and conceptual framework

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray

  • LGBT Neighbourhoods and 'New Mobilities': Towards Understanding Transformations in Sexual and Gendered Urban Landscapes.

    Catherine J. Nash;Andrew Gorman‐Murray

  • Homeboys: uses of home by gay Australian men

    Andrew Gorman-Murray

  • Queering disasters: On the need to account for LGBTI experiences in natural disaster contexts

    Dale Dominey-Howes;Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Scott J McKinnon

  • Beyond men and women: a critical perspective on gender and disaster.

    J.C. Gaillard;Kristinne Sanz;Benigno C. Balgos;Soledad Natalia M. Dalisay

  • The globalization of sexuality

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  • Queer-Friendly Neighbourhoods: Interrogating Social Cohesion across Sexual Difference in Two Australian Neighbourhoods:

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Gordon R Waitt

  • 'The guys in there just expect to be laid': Embodied and gendered socio-spatial practices of a 'night out' in Wollongong, Australia

    Gordon R Waitt;Loretta Jessop;Andrew W Gorman-Murray

  • Gay and Lesbian Couples at Home: Identity Work in Domestic Space

    Andrew Gorman-Murray

  • Reconciling self: gay men and lesbians using domestic materiality for identity management

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray

  • A Queer Country? A case study of the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Gordon R Waitt;Christopher R Gibson

  • Contesting domestic ideals: queering the Australian home

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray

  • Queer Domicide: LGBT Displacement and Home Loss in Natural Disaster Impact, Response, and Recovery

    Andrew W Gorman-Murray;Scott J McKinnon;Dale Dominey-Howes

  • Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand

    Chris Brickell;Mark Seymour;Sandy Callister;Andrew Gorman-Murray

  • Reconfiguring Domestic Values: Meanings of Home for Gay Men and Lesbians

    Andrew Gorman‐Murray

  • Challenging heteronormativity in tourism studies: locating progress:

    Gordon R Waitt;Kevin Markwell;Andrew W Gorman-Murray

  • Masculinities and Place

    Andrew Gorman-Murray;Peter E Hopkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
Dale Dominey-Howes
Dale Dominey-Howes University of Sydney
Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia
Phil Hubbard
Phil Hubbard King's College London

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