Publications
Refereed publications
2022
Cupples J (2022) Development and Decolonization in Latin America, 2nd edition. London: Routledge.
Glynn, K. and Cupples, J. (2022) Stories of decolonial resilience. Cultural Studies (online early, available open access)
2021
Cupples J., Incer Medina G., Larios I., and Lee D. (2021) Mapeo de actores en la Costa Caribe Norte de Nicaragua: Un análisis según el género y la identificación étnica y cultural. Universitas Humanística 90: 1-16.
Cupples J., van der Horst, D., Rzedzian, S., Wilson, M. and Staddon, S. (2021) Climate Change and Social Justice: Reflections on COP26 from the Geographies of Social Justice Research Group. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.
2020
Cupples J (2020) Love in the time of Covid-19: Or, Nicaragua, the strange country where children still go to school. Journal of Latin American Geography 19(3): 323-333.
Cupples J (2020) No sense of place: Geoscientisation and the epistemic erasure of geography. New Zealand Geographer 76(1): 3-13.
Cupples J and Glynn K (2020) Drone queen of the homeland: The gendered geopolitics of TV drama in the age of media convergence. In A Datta, P Hopkins, P, L Johnston, E Olsen, and M J Silva, (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies. London: Routledge, pp.476-489.
2019
Cupples J, Palomino-Schalscha M and Prieto M (eds) (2019) The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. London: Routledge.
Cupples J and Glynn K (2019) The celebritization of indigenous activism: Tame Iti as media figure. International Journal of Cultural Studies 22(6): 770–787.
Cupples J, Prieto M and Palomino-Schalscha (2019) Latin American development: Editors’ introduction. In J Cupples, M Prieto and M Palomino-Schalscha (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. London: Routledge, pp. 1-12.
Bush D, Bush S, Cayasso-Dixon K, Cupples J, Gleghorn C, Glynn K, Henríquez Cayasso G, Lee D, Moreno Rojas C, Perea Lemos R, Ribeiro R and Valencia Z (2019) Afro-Latino-América: Black and Afro-descendant rights and struggles. In J Cupples, M Prieto and M Palomino-Schalscha (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. London: Routledge, pp. 236-251.
Cupples J and Slater T (eds) (2019) Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues. London: Rowman & Littlefield International. (Transforming Capitalisms)
Cupples J and Glynn K (2019) Popular religiosity and struggles for urban justice in Mexico: A decolonial analysis of Santa Muerte. In J Cupples and T Slater (eds) Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues. London: Rowman & Littlefield International. (Transforming Capitalisms)
Cupples J (2019) Conclusion: Urban research and the pluriverse: Analytical and political lessons from scholarship in varied margins. In J Cupples and T Slater (eds) Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues. London: Rowman & Littlefield International (Transforming Capitalisms)
Cupples J (2019) Thinking ontologically and making do with development: A response to Escobar. Geoforum 101: 215-217
2018
Cupples J and Glynn K (2018) Luchas costeñas por los derechos territoriales y el control de los emergentes espacios mediáticos de Nicaragua. Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 44: 1-24
Cupples J and Glynn K (2018) Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice. Springer: Cham, 82pp
Cupples J and Grosfoguel R (2018) Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University. London: Routledge, 282pp
Cupples J (2018) Introduction: Coloniality resurgent, coloniality interrupted. In J Cupples and R Grosfoguel (2018) Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University. London: Routledge, pp.1-22.
2017
Adams P, Cupples J, Glynn K, Jansson A and Moores S (2017) Communications/Media/Geographies. London: Routledge, 224pp.
Cupples J (2017) Desenvolvimento rural em El Hatillo, Nicarágua: Gênero, neoliberalismo e risco ambiental. Em J M Silva, M J Ornat e A Baptista Chimin Junior (Orgs) Geografias Feministas e das Sexualidades: Encontros e Diferenças. Uvuranas: Todapalavra, pp. 83-108 (Portuguese translation of 2004 journal article)
Cupples J and Glynn K (2017) Cultural studies. In Richardson D, Castree N, Goodchild M F, Kobayashi A, Liu W and Marston R (ed) The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell
2016
Cupples J and Glynn K (2016) Neoliberalism, surveillance and media convergence. In Springer S, Birch K and MacLeavy J (eds) The Handbook of Neoliberalism. London: Routledge, pp. 161-175
Vine N and Cupples J (2016) Intersectional geopolitics, transgender advocacy and media convergence. In G Brown and K Browne (eds) The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. London: Routledge, pp. 117-128
2015
Glynn K and Cupples J (2015) Negotiating and queering US hegemony in TV drama: Popular geopolitics and cultural studies. Gender, Place and Culture 22(2): 271-287
Mains S, Cupples J and Lukinbeal C (eds) (2015) Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media. Dordrecht: Springer
Mains S, Cupples J and Lukinbeal C (2015) Introducing mediated geographies and geographies of media. In S Mains, J Cupples and C Lukinbeal (eds) Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media. Dordrecht: Springer, pp.3-19
Cupples J (2015) Development communication, popular pleasure and media convergence. In S Mains, J Cupples and C Lukinbeal (eds) Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media. Dordrecht: Springer, pp.351-366
2014
Cupples J and Glynn K (2014) Indigenizing and decolonizing higher education on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35(1): 56-71
Cupples J and Glynn K (2014) The mediation and remediation of disaster: Hurricanes Katrina and Felix in/and the new media environment. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 46(2): 359-381
Cupples J and Kindon S (2014) Returning to university and writing the field, in Scheyvens R (ed) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed. London: Sage, pp. 236-252
Kindon S and Cupples J (2014) Anything to declare?: The politics and practicalities of leaving the field, in Scheyvens R (ed) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed. London: Sage, pp. 217-235
Cupples J (2014) Bodies. In P Adams, J Craine and J Dittmer (eds) The Ashgate Research Companion to Media Geography. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 171-184
Sinreich L and Cupples J (2014) Collaborating with a muddy road and an ailing forest: The construction of ecological citizenship in San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua. Journal of Latin American Geography 13(3): 63-85
2013
Cupples J (2013) Latin American Development. London: Routledge, 278pp
Cupples J and Glynn K (2013) Postdevelopment television? Cultural citizenship and the mediation of Africa in contemporary TV drama. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(4): 1003-1021
Cupples J and McDowell N (2013) Gender. In Rapaport M (ed) Environment and Society in the Pacific Islands, 2nd ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp.182-191
2012
Cupples J (2012) Boundary crossings and new striations: When disaster hits a neoliberalising campus. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37(3): 337–341
Cupples J and Pawson E (2012) Giving an account of oneself: The PBRF and the neoliberal university. New Zealand Geographer 68(1): 14-23
Cupples J (2012) Wild globalization: The biopolitics of climate change and global capitalism on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography 44(1): 10-30
Springer S, Chi H, Crampton J, McConnell F, Cupples J, Glynn K, Warf B and Attewell W (2012) Leaky geopolitics: The ruptures and transgressions of WikiLeaks. Geopolitics 17(3): 681-711
Cupples J (2012) Shifting networks of power in Nicaragua: Relational materialisms in the consumption of privatized electricity. In Zimmerer K (ed) New Geographies of Energy. New York: Routledge (reprint of 2011 journal article)
2011
Cupples J (2011) Shifting networks of power in Nicaragua: Relational materialisms in the consumption of privatized electricity. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101(4): 939-948
Glynn K and Cupples J (2011) Indigenous mediaspace and the production of (trans)locality on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. Television and New Media 12(2): 101-135
Cupples J (2011) Cyclists, environmentalists and equitable urban ecologies: A response to Koglin. Area 43(2): 228–230
2010
Cupples J and Larios I (2010) A functional anarchy: Love, patriotism and resistance to free trade in Costa Rica. Latin American Perspectives 37(6): 93-108
Cupples J and Thompson L (2010) Heterotextuality and digital foreplay: Cell phones and the culture of teenage romance. Feminist Media Studies 10(1): 1-17
Cupples J (2010) Debt and debt crisis. In Warf B (ed) Encyclopedia of Geography. London: Sage, pp. 688-691
2009
Cupples J (2009) Remaking the Anglophilic city: Visual spectacles in suburbia. New Zealand Geographer 65(1): 23-34
Cupples J and Glynn K (2009) Editorial: Counter-cartographies: New (Zealand) Cultural Studies/Geographies and the City. New Zealand Geographer 65(1) 1-5
Cupples J and Glynn K (2009) Counter-cartographies: New (Zealand) Cultural Studies/Geographies and the City. Special issue of the New Zealand Geographer 65(1)
Cupples J (2009) Rethinking electoral geography: Spaces and practices of democracy in Nicaragua. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34(1): 110-124
Cupples J (2009) Culture, nature and particulate matter: Hybrid reframings in air pollution Atmospheric Environment 43 (1): 207-217 (invited article)
Cupples J (2009) Resistance. In Kitchin R and Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 370-375
2008
Cupples J and Ridley E (2008) Towards a heterogeneous environmental responsibility: Sustainability and cycling fundamentalism. Area 40(2): 254-264
Thompson L and Cupples J (2008) Seen and not heard: Text messaging and digital sociality. Social and Cultural Geography 9(1): 95-108
Cupples J (2008) Nicaragua. In Gritzner C (ed) Earth. Sydney: Millennium House, p.98
Cupples J (2008) Costa Rica. In Gritzner C (ed) Earth. Sydney: Millennium House, p.99
2007
Cupples J, Glynn K and Larios I (2007) Hybrid cultures of postdevelopment: The struggle for popular hegemony in rural Nicaragua. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4): 786-801
Cupples J, Guyatt V and Pearce J (2007) “Put on a jacket, you wuss”: Cultural identities, home heating and air pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand. Environment and Planning A 39(12): 2883-2898
Cupples J (2007) Espacialidades de género y legados revolucionarios en la Nicaragua neoliberal: Una interpretación geográfica de la transición de estado. Política y Gestión 10: 125-155
Cupples J (2007) Gender and Hurricane Mitch: Reconstructing subjectivities after disaster. Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management 31(2): 155-175
Cupples J (2007) Rural development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, neoliberalism and environmental risk. In Moseley W, Lanegran D and Pandit K (eds) The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings. Malden: Blackwell, pp.319-330 (reprint of 2004 journal article)
2006
Cupples J (2006) Between maternalism and feminism: Women in Nicaragua’s counter-revolutionary forces. Bulletin of Latin American Research 26(1): 83-103
2005
Cupples J and Larios I (2005) Gender, elections, terrorism: The geopolitical enframing of the 2001 Nicaraguan elections. Political Geography 24(3): 317-339
Cupples J (2005) Love and money in an age of neoliberalism: Gender, work and single motherhood in post-revolutionary Nicaragua. Environment and Planning A 37(2):305-322
2004
Cupples J (2004) Rural development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, neoliberalism and environmental risk. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 25(3): 343-357
Cupples J (2004) Counter-revolutionary women: Gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua. Gender and Development 12(3): 8-18
Cupples J (2004) Counter-revolutionary women: Gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua. In Sweetman C (ed) Gender, Peacebuilding and Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxfam, pp. 8-18 (reprint of 2004 journal article)
Cupples J (2004) Debt. In Forsyth T (ed) Encyclopedia of International Development. London: Routledge, pp.130-131
Cupples J (2004) Debt crisis. In Forsyth T (ed) Encyclopedia of International Development. London: Routledge, pp. 131-134
Cupples J (2004) Domestic violence, in Forsyth T (ed) Encyclopedia of International Development. London: Routledge, pp.165-167
Cupples J (2004) HIPC initiative, in Forsyth T (ed) Encyclopedia of International Development. London: Routledge, p.314
2003
Cupples J and Kindon S (2003) Far from being ‘home alone’: The dynamics of accompanied fieldwork. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 24(2): 211-228
Cupples J (2003) Honduras, in Walter L, Lind A (eds) The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide. Central and South America. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, pp.313-333
Cupples J and Kindon S (2003) Returning to university and writing the field, in Scheyvens R and Storey D (eds) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. London: Sage, pp. 217-231
Kindon S and Cupples J (2003) Anything to declare?: The politics and practicalities of leaving the field, in Scheyvens R and Storey D (eds) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. London: Sage, pp. 197-215
2002
Cupples J (2002) The field as a landscape of desire: Sex and sexuality in geographical fieldwork. Area 34(4): 382-390
2001
Cupples J (2001) Flexible mothering: Articulating rights and negotiating ideologies in Nicaragua. Development 44(2): 23-27
Cupples J and Harrison J (2001) Disruptive voices and boundaries of respectability in Christchurch, New Zealand Gender, Place and Culture 8(2): 189-204
1999
Cupples J (1999) Families and feminism: Engendering public discourse in Nicaragua. Hemisphere 9(1): 22-25
1992
Cupples J (1992) Ownership and privatisation in post-revolutionary Nicaragua. Bulletin of Latin American Research 11(3): 295-306
Professional and non refereed publications
Cupples J (2017) Tame Iti’s media journey flips notions of violence. Newsroom 20 June https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@future-learning/2017/06/20/34878/tame-iti-vic
Cupples J (2017) Tenure loss will hit NZ. Otago Daily Times 17 February https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/tenure-loss-will-hit-nz
Cupples J (2010) New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2010. New Zealand Geographer 66(3): 229
Cupples J (2010) Relational ontologies, power relations and media convergence. In Specialist Meeting, Upham Hotel, 13-14 December, Santa Barbara: University of California-Santa Barbara, Center for Spatial Studies. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/spatio-temporal/docs/Cupplesposition.pdf
Cupples J (2007) The role of long-term observers/El papel de los observadores a largo plazo. In The Carter Center (ed) Observing the 2006 Nicaragua Elections/Observación Electoral Nicaragua. 2006 Atlanta: The Carter Center http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/nicaragua_election_final06.pdf
Cupples J and Vine P (1992) Nicaragua: Viva la confusion. Peace Courier 7: 12
Book reviews
Greed C, Cahill C, Brown L, Cupples J and Jarvis H (2011) Review symposium of Cities and Gender. Gender, Place and Culture 18(2): 295-302
Cupples J (2009) Review of Borland K Unmasking Class, Gender and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival. Bulletin of Latin American Research 28(4): 571-573
Cupples J (2006) Review of Bennett V, Davila-Poblete S and Nieves Rico M (eds) Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 63(2): 313-314
Cupples J (2005) Feminism, Geography and Chandra Mohanty. Review of Mohanty C T, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity Durham, Duke University Press. Electronic Book Review posted (20/04/05 www.electronicbookreview.com
Cupples J (2003) Review of Gregor T A and Tuzin D (eds) Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: Progress in Development Studies 3(4): 349-364
Cupples J (2002) Review of Longhurst R Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries. New Zealand Geographer 58(2): 79-80
Creative works
Bein R, Wilkie R, Lovell W G, Doolittle B, Biles J, Offen K, Taylor M, Perreault T, Mamini R, Watkins C, Coles A, Magalhães F, Bono F, García Sarduy Y, Brannstrom C, Cueva Alegría D, Madsen K D, Smith J S, Duchicela S, Ruiz J, Conway-Gómez K, Vergara-Arribas N, Siobhan S, Correia J E, Choy-Gómez J, Coatar Peter P, Brasher J, Cupples J, Zayonc D, Vila Benites G and Wood Dickerson (2020) 50 years of fieldwork in Latin America [photo]. Journal of Latin American Geography 19(1): 115-131
Espinosa L, Calder E, Langmuir A, Cupples J and Escobar Wolf, R. (2019) Fuego Volcano: Community Recovery and Dynamic Risk in Guatemala [Film], University of Edinburgh https://vimeo.com/366975534?ref=tw-share
Cupples J and Brosnan M (2005) Nicaragua and the Politics of Coffee [Film]. Department of Geography, University of Canterbury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cas8q_lfjBU&list=PLbYsFPqvHzAnkKMy3qiVmdbXYVXqHThju&index=26&t=1s
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