Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I welcome requests for PhD supervision for projects that meet at least one (or ideally more than one) of the following criteria:
Drawing on a cultural studies, feminist or decolonial theoretical orientation
Involving work on Indigenous and Afrodescendant activism, especially that involving film or media
Involving work on the new media environment (media convergence, mediation of disaster or conflict, role of television in the new media environment, popular geopolitics)
Involving work in Latin America (especially Central America, Mexico and Colombia) or in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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 harms, elections, neoliberalism and Indigenous and Afrodescendant media. She has also written about TV drama and popular geopolitics. 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, Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice (Springer 2018); Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship and Media Convergence (2025, Rutgers University Press); 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). As a humanities scholar badly located in a School of Geosciences in a College of Science and Engineering, she also writes about "geoscientization" and the negative consequences that result from co-locating human geographers with geoscientists.
She is a member of Creole Connections, a collaborative AHRC-funded project that maps the cultural, geopolitical and familial connections between the San Andrés Archipelago, the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, and mainland Colombia. She is also an executive producer on a forthcoming feature film Cordillera de Fuego, directed by Jayro Bustamante.
Development and Decolonization in Latin America
Researching with Media
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/jcupples
http://juliecupples.wordpress.com/
http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=5A_aalIAAAAJ&hl=en
Member of the University of Edinburgh Latin America Executive
Year 4 cohort lead
Undergraduate dissertation convenor
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Gleghorn, C. (Organiser), Ribeiro, R. (Organiser) & Cupples, J. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Calderon, E. (Presenter), Cupples, J. (Organiser) & Slater, T. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Cupples, J. (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Cupples, J. (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Cupples, J. (Member)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
Cupples, J. (Recipient), 16 Oct 2022
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
Anglia, U. (Co-investigator), MacKenzie, L. (Co-investigator), Calder, E. (Principal Investigator), Cupples, J. (Principal Investigator), Stuart, N. (Co-investigator) & Phillips, J. (Co-investigator)
Project: Research
Calder, E. (Principal Investigator), Bell, A. (Co-investigator), Cupples, J. (Co-investigator), Doherty, R. (Co-investigator), Gioli, G. (Co-investigator) & Stuart, N. (Co-investigator)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
MacKenzie, L. (Co-investigator), Calder, E. (Principal Investigator), Stuart, N. (Co-investigator), Cupples, J. (Co-investigator), Phillips, J. (Co-investigator) & Anglia, U. (Co-investigator)
1/05/20 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
Garcia Ferrari, S. (Principal Investigator), Cupples, J. (Co-investigator) & Calder, E. (Co-investigator)
1/04/19 → 30/06/19
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Garcia Ferrari, S. (Principal Investigator), Cupples, J. (Co-investigator) & Calder, E. (Co-investigator)
1/03/19 → 30/06/19
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
25/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
21/06/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities