Julie Cupples

Julie Cupples (she/her/Ella) is a Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies who works in Latin America and Aotearoa New Zealand and with media organizations and media texts. She is the author or editor of eight books the most recent of which is Development and Decolonization in Latin America (Routledge, 2022). Her research includes questions of decolonial theory; development/postdevelopment; gender and sexuality; disasters and environmental risk; elections; geographies of neoliberalism; critical university studies; geopolitical and convergent television; and Afrodesendant and Indigenous media. A full list of publications can be found here: https://juliecupples.wordpress.com/publications-4/

Key research interests include:

• development/post-development
• gender and sexuality
• disasters and environmental risk
• elections
• municipal governance
• neoliberalism
• and indigenous media

Current and notable research projects/ publications:

She is the author of Latin American Development (Routledge 2013), the co-author of Communications/Media/Geographies (Routledge 2017) and Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice (Springer 2018), and the co-editor of Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media (Springer 2015), Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University (Routledge 2018) and the Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (Routledge 2019). Her current research involves collaboration with indigenous and Afro-descendant broadcasters in Central America, Colombia and Aotearoa New Zealand and with survivors of the eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala. She is also a co-editor of the Transforming Capitalism book series published by Rowman and Littlefield.