Bruce Braun

braun038@umn.edu

612-625-6349

Geography, Environment & Society

478 Social Sciences Building

267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Geography, Environment & Society

• Infrastructure, nature-as-infrastructure, destitution/dismantling of infrastructure
• Geosocial formations; geontoloty; extraction and extractive capital
• Green urbanism and apparatuses of government: critical studies of urban sustainability; urban resilience as mode of government; design activism
• Philosophy and geography: humanism and posthumanism; new materialisms
• Ecopolitics : environmental social movements; nature, environmentalism and difference; settler 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, 1996

Specialties

Ecopolitics
Political ecology
Infrastructure studies
Philosophy & Geography
Green Urbanism
Anthropocene in social, political and ecological thought

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.
Braun, Bruce. 2002. The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on Canada’s West Coast. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 347pp
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.
Thomas, Mary E. and Bruce Braun, Eds. Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Available Feb 2023.
Thomas, Mary E. and Bruce Braun. “Introduction: (Un)Settling the boom.” In Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Eds. Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Available Feb 2023
Braun, Bruce. “Crisis ordinariness: The Bakken boom in late capitalism.” In Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Eds. Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Available Feb 2023.
Lehman, Jessica and Bruce Braun. “On the ‘dark side’ of the boom: Narratives of social crisis and liberal arts of governance.” In Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Eds. Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Available Feb 2023.
Lunstrum, Elizabeth, Neel Ahuja, Bruce Braun, Rosemary Collard, Patricia J. Lopez and Rebecca WY Wong, 2021. “More-than-human and deeply human perspectives on COVID-19”. Antipode Braun, Bruce. 2019.
Fracking. Braun, Bruce.
Braun, Bruce, 2019. “Taking earth forces seriously”. In O. Saloojee, E. Scott and K. Lutsky, eds. Viscosity. Mobilizing Materialities. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Dept. of Architecture, 47-62.
Wakefield, Stephanie and Bruce Braun, 2019. “Oystertecture: infrastructure, profanation and the sacred figure of the human.” In Kregg Hetherington, ed. Infrastructure, Environment, Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 193-215.
Braun, Bruce and *Stephanie Wakefield, 2018. “Destituent power and common use: reading Agamben in the Anthropocene.” In Mat Coleman and John Agnew, eds. Geographies of Power. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Braun, Bruce, ed. 2016. Futures: Imagining Socio-Ecological Transformation. London: Routledge, 218pp.
Braun, Bruce. 2018. “Novos materialismos e economia política: levando a sério as forças da terra.” In: Marta I. M. et al., eds. Perspectivas de Natureza: Geografia, formas de natureza e política. São Paulo: Annablume, p. 43-60.
Nelson, Sara and Bruce Braun, 2017. “Autonomia in the Anthropocene”, South Atlantic Quarterly, 116, 2: 223-236.
Braun, Bruce, 2015. “From critique to experiment: political ecology in the Anthropocene”. Handbook of Political Ecology, edited by T. Perreault, G. Bridge and J. McCarthy. New York, Routledge, 102-114.
Braun, Bruce, 2015. “New materialisms and neoliberal natures.” Antipode, 47, 1: 1-14.
Castree, Noel and Bruce Braun, eds. 2001. Social Nature: Theory, Practice, Politics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 295pp.

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Courses

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