Bruce Braun

Geography, Environment & Society

478 Social Sciences Building

267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

• Geosocial formations; geontology; extraction and extractive capital
• Green urbanism and apparatuses of government: critical studies of urban sustainability; urban resilience as mode of government; design activism
• The politics of 'life': political rationality and biological existence; the securitization of biological life; biosecurity and empire
• Philosophy and geography: humanism and posthumanism; new materialisms
• Ecopolitics : environmental social movements; nature, environmentalism and difference; colonialism and environmentalism

Prospective students:
If you are interested in working with me, please send me a short cv and statement of your research interests.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

PhD: Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 1996

Specialties

eco-politics
political ecology
geopolitics of biosecurity
social and political theory
green urbanism
Anthropocene in social, political and ecological thought
biopolitics and the city

Publications

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Publications

Braun, Bruce and Sarah Whatmore, eds. 2010. Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy and Public Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 319pp.
Anderson, Kay and Bruce Braun, eds. 2008. Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography. Contemporary Foundations in Space and Place Series (general editor, John Agnew). 2008. London: Ashgate. 604pp.
Braun, Bruce. 2002. The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on Canada’s West Coast. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 347pp
Elizabeth Johnson, Eli Meyerhoff and Bruce Braun (in press). “Time and the University.“ ACME: An International E-Journal For Critical Geographers.
Braun, Bruce. 2008. “Thinking the city through SARS: bodies, topologies, politics.“ In Harris Ali and Roger Keil, eds. Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 250-266.
Braun, Bruce. 2008. “Inventive life“ Progress in Human Geography, vol. 32: pp. 667 - 679.
Braun, Bruce. 2007. “Biopolitics and the molecularization of life.“ Cultural Geographies, 14: 6-28. [Revised version reprinted in Richard Peet, Paul Robbins and Michael Watts, eds. In Press. Global Political Ecology. London: Routledge].
Braun, Bruce, 2014. “A new urban dispositif? Governing life in the age of climate change.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32, 49-64.
Wakefield, Stephanie and Bruce Braun, 2014. “Governing the resilient city.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32, 4-11.
Braun, Bruce, 2013. “Power over life: biosecurity as biopolitics.” In Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker and Sarah Taylor, eds., Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases. Earthscan, pp 45-57.
Braun, Bruce. 2010. “The case of the missing present in Mannahatta.“ Cartographica, 45, 4, 248-252.

Awards

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Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

GEOG 3376: Polical Ecology of North America
GEOG 8001: Nature-Society Proseminar
GEOG 8980: Technology and Biopolitics
GEOG 4002: Environmental Thought and Practice
GEOG 1301: Our Globalizing World