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I am an interdisciplinary teacher and researcher working at the intersection of human geography and development studies. My research focuses on the spatial, ideological, and insurrectional dimensions of the political ecology of development in the urban Anthropocene. I address these themes through critical investigations of extractivist, infrastructural, and urbanizing megaprojects, and ethnographic explorations of the radical political possibilities that can emerge amidst the violence, failure, and contestation of such projects. I have conducted field research in Mexico, Uganda, Ghana, Ecuador, and Peru. My theoretical and methodological influences include historical geographical materialism, the psychoanalytic critique of ideology, gonzo journalism, surrealism, and psychogeography.  

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Office: F21 Thoday Building, ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG

• Professional: HEA Fellow
• PhD: International Politics
• MA: International Relations
• PGDip: International Political Economy
• BA: Philosophy

I am module organizer for:

DXX-2007: People, Space, and Identity

DXX-3013: Critical Human Geographies

I also teach on:

DXX-2001: Sustainable Development

DXX-3004: Sustainable Communities

• Utopian infrastructural and urbanizing megaprojects
• Political ecologies of extractivist development
• Ideological legitimations of inequality and unsustainability
• Planetary urbanization under conditions of socioecological breakdown
• Subaltern utopias, spontaneous uprisings, urban revolutions
• Critical theory, experimental methods, creative writing

Current and Past Research Projects

• 2019-2023: The City at the End of the World (active)
• 2017-2019: Insurgent Universality on the Extractive Frontier (The University of Manchester - completed)
• 2014-2016: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon (The University of Manchester - completed)
• 2011-2014: The Global Governance of Everyday Life in sub-Saharan Africa (The University of Manchester - completed)
• 2006-2009: Contested Regional Developments in Southern Mexico (The University of Manchester - completed)

I have supervised five students to completion, on topics including the spatiality of labour struggles in China; resettlement schemes in Mozambique; the politics of face-to-face development fundraising in the UK; and the political ecology of wind farms and ecosystem services in Mexico.

I am interested in supervising research students in the following areas: political ecologies of extractivism, infrastructural megaprojects, planetary urbanization, subaltern urbanism, ideology critique, utopias, uprisings, insurrectional movements, political economy of Latin America.   

2025

• Published
  Wilson, J., 19 Mar 2025, In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 49, 2, p. 229-245
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• E-pub ahead of print
  Wilson, J., 13 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 6 Jun 2024, Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds : Alternative Political Projects After the Sovereign State. Casero, J. L. & Urabayen, J. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 193-206
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 27 Sept 2024, In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 46, 1, p. 138-156 19 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 2024, In: Cultural Geographies. 31, 1, p. 67-80
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

• Published
  Wilson, J., Feb 2023, In: City Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 27, 1-2, p. 39-55
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., Mar 2023, In: Urban Studies. 60, 4, p. 718-733
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 26 Sept 2023, Clickbait capitalism: Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century. Samman, A. & Gammon, E. (eds.). Manchester University Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 28 Feb 2023, Routledge.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 2023, Amazonia, caucho, historia: ensayos desde la floresta Iquitos. Vilchez Vela, P. (ed.). Tierra Nueva
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 21 Mar 2023, In: Space and Culture. p. 1-12
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• Published
  Wilson, J., 6 May 2022, In: Nordia Geographical Publications. 51, 2, p. 153-162
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 30 May 2022, In: Capitalism Nature Socialism. 33, 3, p. 120-137
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 1 Mar 2022, In: Hyphen. 3, 1
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• Published
  Wilson, J., 28 Sept 2021, Yale University Press.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 20 May 2021, Postcapitalist Futures: Political Economy Beyond Crisis and Hope. Fishwick, A. & Kiersey, N. (eds.). Pluto Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2020

• Published
  Wilson, J., 1 May 2020, In: Comparative Education Review . 64, 2
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• Published
  Wilson, J., 29 Nov 2019, Zizek Studies: The Greatest Hits (So Far). Gunkel, D. J. & Taylor, P. A. (eds.). Peter Lang
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2018

• Published
  Wilson, J., Jan 2018, Public Space Unbound: Urban emancipation and the post-political condition. Routledge
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 1 Sept 2018, Psychoanalysis and the GlObal. Kapoor, I. (ed.). University of Nebraska Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., Jan 2018, Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. Wiegratz, J., Martiniello, G. & Greco, E. (eds.). Bloomsbury, p. 127-142
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., 22 Feb 2018, In: Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Wilson, J., Jan 2018, In: Harvard Design Magazine. 45, p. 132-140
  Research output: Contribution to journal ›