Bryan, Joe | CU Experts

Research

research overview

Dr. Bryan's research is focused on indigenous politics in the Americas, with a particular emphasis on land claims and participatory mapping. His work uses qualitative methods to engage the connections between resources, rights, and race, and contributes broadly to the fields of development studies, political ecology, and critical cartography.

keywords

critical cartography, participatory mapping, indigenous politics in the Americas, political ecology, development geography, human rights

Publications

selected publications

book
- Weaponizing Maps Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas 2015
chapter
- Counter-mapping development. 263-272. 2018
- Trust us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the discursive economy of empire. 350-368. 2018
- Oil, indigeneity, and dispossession. 157-168. 2017
- Indigeneity. 531-544. 2015
- Participatory Mapping. 249-262. 2015
- Abordajes hacía la cartografía participativa. 49-74. 2012
- The World that We Want is One Where Many Fit. 218-219. 2005
- Cultures of Diversity: Agricultural Biodiversity in Indigenous Communities. 34-52. 1995
journal article
- Geography and the Military: Notes for a Debate. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 506-512. 2016
- War without end? Military humanitarianism and the limits of biopolitical approaches to security in Central America and the Caribbean. Political Geography. 33-42. 2015
- Reading Stuart Elden's The Birth of Territory. Political Geography. 93-101. 2015
- Reading Joel Wainwright's Geopiracy. Human Geography: a new radical journal. 75-78. 2014
- Cartografia Social y las luchas para territorio y recursos en América Latina. Cuadernos de Geografía : Revista Colombiana de Geografía. 193-209. 2013
- Heading Frickey's Call: Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty, and International Law. American Indian Law Review. 393-401. 2013
- Rethinking Territory: Making Sense of Latin America's Territorial Turn. Geography Compass. 215-226. 2012
- Maps and power. Political Geography. 236-238. 2011
- Discussion: Responses to the Bowman Expedition editorials. Political Geography. 110-110. 2011
- Cartografías del colonialismo: mapeo indígena en Nicaragua. Boletín de la Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica. 1-1. 2011
- Walking the line: Participatory mapping, indigenous rights, and neoliberalism. Geoforum. 40-50. 2011
- Force multipliers: Geography, militarism, and the Bowman Expeditions. Political Geography. 414-416. 2010
- Remapping New Guinea: Review Essay on Stuart Kirsch's Reverse Anthropology and Paige West's Conservation is our Government Now. Pacific Studies. 68-84. 2010
- Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize. cultural geographies. 153-178. 2009
- Where would we be without them? Knowledge, space and power in indigenous politics. Futures. 24-32. 2009
- Dilemmas of Indigenous Land Rights in the Case of Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua. 22-22. 2006
- Imagined Regional Communities: Integration and Sovereignty in the Global South. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 123-124. 2003

Teaching

courses taught

GEOG 3812 Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean (Spring 2019)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Spring 2019)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2019)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Spring 2019)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Spring 2019)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2019)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2019)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Fall 2018)
GEOG 4812 Environment and Development in South America (Fall 2018)
GEOG 5632 Development Geography (Fall 2018)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Fall 2018)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Fall 2018)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Fall 2018)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Fall 2018)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2018)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Summer 2018)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Summer 2018)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Summer 2018)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Summer 2018)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Summer 2018)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Summer 2018)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Spring 2018)
GEOG 3930 Internship (Spring 2018)
GEOG 5662 Seminar: Topics in Economic Geography (Spring 2018)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2018)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Spring 2018)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Spring 2018)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2018)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2018)

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 2007
M.A., University of California-Berkeley 2001
B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz 1996

International Activities

global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)

Americas Transnational Region
Belize Country
Chile Country
Mexico Country
Nicaragua Country
North America Continent
central America Transnational Region

Other Profiles

ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8398-6191

CU Experts

Bryan, Joe Associate Professor

Positions

Research Areas

Research

research overview

keywords

Publications

selected publications

book

chapter

journal article

Teaching

courses taught

Background

education and training

International Activities

global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)

Other Profiles

ORCID iD