Julie Cupples

Cultural geography, media and cultural studies, Latin American studies, decolonial theory

BA First Class Honours, University of Bradford

MA with distinction, Newcastle University

PhD, University of Canterbury

Julie Cupples is a Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies. Her work spans cultural geography, media and cultural studies, and Latin American studies. She has been working in Nicaragua and other parts of Latin America since 1990 and has published on questions of development/postdevelopment, gender and sexuality, disasters and environmental risk, elections, municipal governance, neoiiberalism and Indigenous and Afrodescendant media. She is the author of Latin American Development (Routledge 2013) and Development and Decolonization in Latin America (Routledge 2022), the co-author of Communications/Media/Geographies 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), The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (Routledge 2019) and Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality (Rowman and Littlefield 2019). 

Fieldwork Foundations: Cape Town

Development and Decolonization in Latin America

Researching with Media

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Member of the University of Edinburgh Latin America Executive