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 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