Dr Japhy Wilson

Lecturer in Human-Environment Interactions

japhy.wilson@bangor.ac.uk

Dr Japhy Wilson

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, Bangor, 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.   

2026

  • Published
    Wilson, J., Mar 2026, The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre. Schwarze, T. & Dawson, M. (eds.). Anthem Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 6 Mar 2026, In: Antipode. 58, 2, e70139.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 7 Apr 2026, In: CITY: City Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 30, 1-2, p. 651-655
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • E-pub ahead of print
    Wilson, J., 3 Aug 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Rethinking Marxism. p. 479-495
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2025

  • Published
    Wilson, J., 14 Jan 2025, In: The Conversation.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • 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
  • E-pub ahead of print
    Wilson, J., 3 Nov 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. p. 1-24 24 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Jun 2025, Rupture Press. 176 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › 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 › Article › peer-review

2017

  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Bayón Jiménez, M., 1 Oct 2017, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 35, 5, p. 836-854
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Bayón Jiménez, M., 1 May 2017, Editorial Abya Yala.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Jan 2017, In: Journal of Agrarian Change. 17, 1, p. 122-143
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Apr 2017, In: Journal of Latin American Geography . 16, 1, p. 177-184
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Bayón Jiménez, M., 13 Jun 2017, In: Antipode. 50, 1, p. 233-254
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Bayón Jiménez, M., 1 May 2017, In: Geoforum. 81, p. 55-65
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Bayón Jiménez, M., 1 Jul 2016, In: CITY: City Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. p. 350-367
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Bayón Jiménez, M., 1 Jun 2016, In: Ecologia Politica.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., Jan 2016, Handbook of Neoliberalism. Springer, S., Birch, K. & MacLeavy, J. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Jan 2016, In: Development and Change. 47, 1, p. 3-28
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

  • Published
    Wilson, J., 12 May 2015, In: Globalizations. 12, 4, p. 645-659
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Sachs, J., 31 Jul 2015, In: Human Geography. 8, 2, p. 103-110
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Bayón Jiménez, M., 30 Nov 2015, In: Human Geography. 8, 3, p. 1-23
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., Bayón Jiménez, M. & Diez, H., 1 Nov 2015, Biopiratería: La biodiversidad y los conocimientos ancestrales en la mira del capital. Abya Yala, p. 267-278
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 11 May 2015, In: Spectrum: Journal of Global Studies. 7, 1, p. 78-90
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., Bayón Jiménez, M. & Diez, H., 1 May 2015, In: Revista Economía. 67, 105, p. 29-58
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Jan 2015, In: International Journal of Zizek Studies. 9, 2
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Swyngedouw, E., Apr 2015, The Post-Political and Its Discontents, Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2014

  • Published
    Wilson, J., 30 Oct 2014, In: Third World Quarterly. 35, 7, p. 1144-1161
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., Jan 2014, Verso.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Jan 2014, In: The Journal of Peasant Studies . 4, 1
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Swyngedouw, E., Jul 2014, The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh University Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Swyngedouw, E., 1 Jul 2014, The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics . Edinburgh University Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J. & Swyngedouw, E., Jul 2014, Edinburgh University Press.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 6 Jan 2014, In: Antipode. 46, 1, p. 301-321
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Mar 2014, In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 38, 2, p. 516-538
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2013

  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Aug 2013, In: Space and Culture. 16, 3, p. 364-380
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Mar 2013, In: Latin American Perspectives. 40, 2, p. 218-236
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2011

  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Jul 2011, In: New Political Economy. 16, 3
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Wilson, J., 1 Dec 2011, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 29, 6, p. 993-1009
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2025

  • “Roadkill: The Extended Urbanization of Cannibal Capitalism in the Peruvian Amazon†paper delivered as part of the Spatialising Urban Crisis workshop at the University of Manchester (June, Manchester, UK).

    26 Jun 2025 →

    Links:

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

  • Lecture delivered to the Bangor Geographical Society (January, Bangor, UK). By invitation.

    2025

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2024

  • ''Trade Seduction: Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Trade†discussant for a lecture by Gavin Fridell as part of the Global Political economy seminar series at the University of Manchester (September, Manchester, UK).

    Sep 2024

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

  • Plenary paper delivered at the international conference “The Transcalar Politics of Urban Development†held at University College London (July, London, UK). By invitation, expenses paid.

    29 Jul 2024 – 31 Jul 2024

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • “Iquitos, capital del Antropocenoâ€

    Keynote speech delivered as part of the conference “Urbanización, transformaciones territoriales y crisis socio-eco-sistemicas en la (Pan)Amazonia†at Instituto SINCHI in Leticia, Colombia with all expenses paid.

    7 Jul 2024 – 8 Jul 2024

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • Paper delivered as part of the workshop “Enjoying Environmental Change in Catastrophic Times: A Lacanian-Marxist Expedition†at the University of Manchester (March, Manchester, UK). By invitation, expenses paid.

    15 Mar 2024

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Lecture delivered as part of the Development Geographies seminar series at the University of Sheffield (January, Sheffield, UK). By invitation, expenses paid.

    2024

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2023

  • “Gonzo Geography on the Extractive Frontier†keynote speech delivered as part of the conference on “Radical Ways of Studying Extractivisms and Alternativesâ€, University of Helsinki, (October, Helsinki, Finland). By invitation, expenses and fee paid.

    25 Oct 2023

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • “Gonzo Geography on the Extractive Frontier†keynote speech delivered as part of the conference on Radical Ways of Studying Extractivisms and Alternativesâ€, University of Helsinki, (October, Helsinki, Finland). By invitation, expenses and fee paid.

    25 Oct 2023

    Links:

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • Paper delivered at the colloquium “Planetary Urbanisation: Agenda for Research and Actionâ€, ETH Zurich (October, Zurich, Switzerland) By invitation, expenses paid.

    18 Oct 2023 – 20 Oct 2023

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Paper delivered as part of a series of panels on Emancipatory Infrastructures, annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society, August, London, UK, via Zoom). By invitation.

    29 Aug 2023 – 1 Sep 2023

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Lecture delivered as part of the Environmental Humanities seminar series, University of Athens, (June, Athens, Greece, via Zoom). By invitation.

    23 Jun 2023

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Paper delivered as part of the Places of Climate Change (PloCC) seminar series at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ (Bangor, May, UK). By invitation.

    24 May 2023

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2022

  • Keynote lecture delivered at the 2nd International Conference of the Peruvian Amazon, Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP), (November, Iquitos, Peru). By invitation.

    28 Nov 2022 – 2 Dec 2022

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Invited paper delivered virtually via Zoom for the Hyphen Journal Issue 3 Launch Event (Ecologies). Organised by the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM).

    10 Mar 2022

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Invited guest lecture and book launch delivered virtually via Zoom as part of the Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory series hosted by King's College London. By invitation.

    23 Feb 2022

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2021

  • ‘Neither Growth nor Degrowth: Apocalyptic Utopianism in the City at the End of the World', paper delivered at the 8th International Degrowth Conference: Caring Communities for Radical Change, August, The Hague, Netherlands.

    Aug 2021

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • Paper delivered virtually via Zoom at the 25th Annual Alternative Futures and Popular Protest (AFPP) Conference, hosted by the University of Manchester.

    7 Jun 2021 – 9 Jun 2021

    Links:

    Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

Publications

Single authored monographs

(2023) Extractivism and Universality: Inside an Uprising in the Amazon Abingdon: Routledge (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism series).

(2021) Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon New Haven: Yale University Press (Yale Agrarian Studies Series).

(2014) Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid London and New York: Verso (Counterblasts series).

Co-authored monograph

(2017) La selva de los elefantes blancos: megaproyectos y extractivismos en la Amazonia ecuatoriana Quito: Abya Yala (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

Co-edited volume

(2014) The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (co-edited with Erik Swyngedouw).

Articles in peer reviewed journals

(2023) “Apocalypse and Utopia in the Salvagepunk Metropolis†City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 27:1-2, 39-55.

(2023) ‘Apocalyptic Urban Surrealism in the City at the End of the World’ Urban Studies 60:4, 718-733.

(2023) ‘The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene’ Space and Culture (Early View).  

(2022) ‘Space Out of Joint: Absurdist Geographies of the Anthropocene’ cultural geographies (Early View). 

(2022) ‘“We Are All Indigenous!â€: Insurgent Universality on the Extractive Frontier’ Capitalism Nature Socialism 33:3, 120-137.

(2022) ‘The Insurgent Universal: Between Eurocentric Universalism and the Pluriverse’ Nordia Geographical Publications 51:2, 153-162.

(2018) ‘Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21st Century Socialism’ Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 50:1, 233-254 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2018) ‘The Eco-City that Didn’t Exist’ Harvard Design Magazine 45, 132-140.

(2018) ‘Sabotage of Development: Subverting the Censorship of Renegade Research’ Journal of Extreme Anthropology 2:1, 1-23.

(2017) ‘Fantastical Materializations: Interoceanic Infrastructures in the Ecuadorian Amazon’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35:5, 775-796 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2017) ‘The Nature of Post-Neoliberalism: Building Bio-Socialism in the Ecuadorian Amazon’ Geoforum 81, 55-65 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2017) ‘Perplexing Entanglements with a Post-Neoliberal State’ Journal of Latin American Geography 16:1, 177-184.

(2017) ‘Paradoxical Utopia: The Millennium Villages Project in Theory and Practice’ Journal of Agrarian Change 17:1, 122-143.  

(2016) ‘Black Hole Capitalism: Utopian Dimensions of Planetary Urbanization’ City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 20:3, 250-267 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2016) ‘The Village that Turned to Gold: A Parable of Philanthrocapitalism’ Development and Change 47:1, 3-28.

(2016) ‘Fantasías interoceánicas y lo real del capital: El corredor Manta-Manaos en Ecuador’ Ecología Política 51 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2016) ‘Posneoliberalismo y urbanización planetaria en la Amazonia ecuatoriana’, Revista Economía 67: 109, 29-59 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón and Henar Diez).

(2015) ‘Concrete Jungle: The Planetary Urbanization of the Ecuadorian Amazon’ Human Geography 8:3, 1-23.

(2015) ‘The Joy of Inequality: The Libidinal Economy of Compassionate Consumerism’ International Journal of Zizek Studies 9:2, 1-26.  

(2015) ‘A Strange Kind of Science: Making Sense of the Millennium Villages Project’ Globalizations 12:4, 645-659.

(2015) ‘Neoliberal Nightmares’ Spectrum: Journal of International Studies 7:1, 78-90.

(2014) ‘Fantasy Machine: Philanthrocapitalism as an Ideological Formation’ Third World Quarterly 35:7, 1144-1161.

(2014) ‘The Shock of the Real: The Neoliberal Neurosis in the Life and Times of Jeffrey Sachs’, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 46:1, 301-321.

(2014) ‘Model Villages in the Neoliberal Era: The Millennium Development Goals and the Colonization of Everyday Life’ Journal of Peasant Studies, 41:1, 107-125.

(2014) ‘The Violence of Abstract Space: Contested Regional Developments in Southern Mexico’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31:2, 516-538.

(2013) ‘The Urbanization of the Countryside: Depoliticization and the Production of Space in Chiapas†Latin American Perspectives, 40:2, 218-236.

(2013) ‘“The Devastating Conquest of the Lived by the Conceivedâ€: The Concept of Abstract Space in the Work of Henri Lefebvre’ Space and Culture 16:3, 364-380.

(2011) ‘Notes on the Rural City: Henri Lefebvre and the Transformation of Everyday Life in Chiapas, Mexico’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29, 993-1009.

(2011) ‘Colonising Space: The New Economic Geography in Theory and Practice’, New Political Economy 16:3, 373-397.

Edited book chapters

(2023) ‘Chronicle of an Insurgent Utopia’ in Julia Urabayen and Jorge León Casero, Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds. Alternative Political Projects After the Sovereign State London: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

(2023) ‘Enjoying Inequality’ in Amin Samman and Earl Gammon eds. Clickbait Capitalism Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming).  

(2023) ‘Prólogo’ in Percy Vílchez, Ensayos reunidos Iquitos: Tierra Nueva (forthcoming).

(2021) ‘The Distance Between Two Dreams: Post-Neoliberalism and the Politics of Awakening†in Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersley (eds.) Post-Capitalist Futures: Political Economy Beyond Crisis and Hope London: Pluto Press.

(2020) ‘The Joy of Inequality: The Libidinal Economy of Compassionate Consumerism’ in David J Gunkel and Paul A Taylor (eds) Zizek Studies: The Greatest Hits (So Far) New York: Peter Lang.

(2018) ‘Neoliberal Neverland: The Millennium Villages Project in Uganda’ in Elisa Greco et al eds. Neoliberal Uganda London: Zed.

(2018) ‘Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of God’ in Ilan Kapoor ed. Psychoanalysis and the Global University of Georgia Press.

(2018) ‘Amazon Unbound: Utopia and Emancipation under Conditions of Planetary Urbanization’ in Sabine Knierbein and Tihomir Viderman eds. Public Space Unbound. Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition London: Routledge.

(2017) ‘Neurotic Neoliberalism and the Economics of Anxiety’ in Emmy Eklund, Emmanuel Pierre-Guitett and Andreja Zhevnik eds. Politics in Times of Anxiety New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

(2017) ‘Anamorfosis del capital: agujeros negros, monstruos góticos, y la voluntad de dios’, López Andrade et al. eds. Desafíos del pensamiento crítico: memorias del décimo congreso ecuatoriano de sociología y política Quito: Universidad Central de Ecuador.

(2016) ‘Naturaleza: Ikiam’ in Alberto Acosta and Esperanza Martínez eds. Biopirateria Quito: Abya Yala.

(2016) ‘Neoliberal Gothic’ in The Handbook of Neoliberalism, Simon Springer, Kean Birch, and Julie MacLeavy eds. London: Routledge.   

(2014) ‘The Jouissance of Philanthrocapitalism’, in Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw eds. The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

(2014) ‘Seeds of Dystopia: Post-Politics and the Return of the Political’ – co-authored with Erik Swyngedouw, in Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw eds. The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

(2014) ‘There Is No Alternative’ – co-authored with Erik Swyngedouw, in Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw eds. The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

(2014) ‘Insurgent Architects and the Spectral Return of the Urban Political’ in Jonathan Metzger, Philip Allmendinger and Stijn Oosterlynck eds. Displacing the Political: Democratic Deficits in Contemporary European Territorial Governance London: Routledge.  

(2014) ‘Plan Puebla Panama: The Violence of Abstract Space’, in Ãkos Moravánszky, Christian Schmid and Lukasz Stanek eds. Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture London: Routledge.

(2013) ‘¿Cómo pensar el espacio capitalista? Henri Lefebvre, el Plan Puebla Panamá, y las Ciudades Rurales’ in Mariflor Aguilar Rivero, Olinca Valeria Avilés Hernández, and Carlos Andrés Aguirre Ãlvarez eds., Depredación: Ciudades Rurales, Comunidades Intervenidas y Espacios en Conflicto Mexico City: UNAM.

(2012) ‘Ciudades Rurales’, in Carolina Sánchez, ed. Estado del Desarrollo Económico y Social de los Pueblos Indígenas de Chiapas, Mexico City: UNAM.

(2011) ‘Contesting the Plan Puebla Panama: Henri Lefebvre and the Politics of Space in Southern Mexico’ in Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios ed. Planes Geoestratégicos, Desplazamientos Y Migraciones Forzadas En El Ãrea Del Proyecto De Desarrollo e Integración de Mesoamérica Colombia: Universidad de Antioquia.

Working papers

(2016) “Ikiam: The Nature of Biosocialism†CENEDET Working Paper #8 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2016) “Millennium Cities: Staging the Origins of Twenty-First Century Socialism†CENEDET Working Paper #7 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2015) “Manta-Manaus: Interoceanic Fantasies and the Real of Planetary Urbanization†CENEDET Working Paper #4 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón).

(2015) “Post-Neoliberalism and Planetary Urbanization in the Ecuadorian Amazon†CENEDET Working Paper #1 (co-authored with Manuel Bayón and Henar Diez).

Book reviews

(2021) “Review: Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador†Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

(2016) “Review: Mustafa Dikec, Space, Politics and Aesthetics†Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

(2015) “Extended Review: Jeffrey Sachs, The Age of Sustainable Development†Human Geography.

(2014) “Review: Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment†Antipode: A Radical Journal