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Dr Japhy Wilson

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japhy.wilson@bangor.ac.uk

Dr Japhy Wilson

Overview

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.  

Additional Contact Information

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýjaphy.wilson@bangor.ac.uk

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

Qualifications

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

Teaching and Supervision

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

Research Interests

  • 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)

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

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.   

Publications

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 ›