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Dr. Japhy Wilson is a Lecturer in Human-Environment Interactions at the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University. He holds a PhD in International Politics and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). His interdisciplinary research bridges human geography and development studies, focusing on the political ecology of development in the urban Anthropocene.
Wilson’s academic background includes a BA in Philosophy, an MA in International Relations, a PGDip in International Political Economy, and a PhD in International Politics. His research is deeply field-based, with extensive work conducted in Mexico, Uganda, Ghana, Ecuador, and Peru.
His research interests include utopian infrastructural megaprojects, political ecologies of extractivism, ideological legitimations of inequality, planetary urbanization, subaltern urbanism, and critical theory. Drawing on influences such as historical geographical materialism, psychoanalytic ideology critique, gonzo journalism, surrealism, and psychogeography, Wilson employs experimental and creative methodologies in his scholarship.
His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on the intersections of capitalism, urbanization, and ecological crisis in the Global South, particularly in the Amazon. Themes of surrealism, absurdity, and apocalyptic urbanism recur across his work, reflecting his innovative theoretical and methodological approach. He frequently publishes in leading journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning D, Urban Studies, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Wilson has supervised five postgraduate students to completion, with research topics spanning labor struggles in China, resettlement in Mozambique, development fundraising in the UK, and wind farm politics in Mexico. He welcomes new research students in areas related to extractivism, megaprojects, planetary urbanization, and critical Latin American studies.
He is the author of influential monographs including Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid (2014), Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon (2021), and Extractivism and Universality: Inside an Uprising in the Amazon (2023). His co-edited volume The Post-Political and Its Discontents (2014) with Erik Swyngedouw is a key text in critical political geography.
Wilson’s current research project, The City at the End of the World (2019–2023), investigates Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon as a site of zoonotic urbanization and surreal political ecologies under pandemic conditions.
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