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JULIE CUPPLES University of Canterbury Email: [email protected]

Julie Cupples teaches Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersection of media studies, cultural studies, and development studies.

Professional Preparation: 1989 B.A. Hons, Modern Languages (German/Spanish), University of Bradford 1997 M.A. Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2002 Ph.D. Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Appointments: 2005--- Senior lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury 2002---2005 Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury 1990---1997 Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, University of Northumbria

Recent publications: Cupples J. (2011) Wild globalization: The biopolitics of climate change and global capitalism on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography (in press). Glynn K. and Cupples J. (2010) Indigenous mediaspace and the production of translocality on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. Television and New Media (in press). 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. (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 (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 scholarship. Atmospheric Environment 43 (1): 207---217. (invited article) 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., 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.

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Synergistic Activities 2010---2011 Visting Erskine fellowship at UC-Santa Barbara, Department of Film and Media Studies, to develop initiatives in media geography (December 2010 and January 2011) Editorial board member of Antipode and Dialogues in Human Geography Participant in recent initiatives to develop a geospatial research institute at the University of Canterbury Ongoing--- Collaborative research project on geographies of media convergence with Kevin Glynn (University of Canterbury), Lisa Parks (UC-Santa Barbara) and Paul C Adams (University of Texas) Ongoing--- Collaborative research with development NGOs and civil society organizations in Nicaragua (INGES, Coordinadora Civil) 2009--- Supervision of summer studentship on Maori Television 2009--- International associate, Victoria Institute for Linkages with Latin America (VILLA), Victoria University of Wellington 2008---2009 Consultancy with Yale Law School, Yale University. Expert witness in asylum hearing, New York 2006 The Carter Center, lead long term international election observer, Nicaraguan presidential elections 2006 2004--- Advisory board member, New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies (NZCLAS), University of Auckland 2001 The Carter Center, short term international election observer, Nicaraguan presidential elections 2001