Kevin Grove

Kevin Grove is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, USA. His work critically examines resilience, human-environment relations, and disaster governance through interdisciplinary lenses spanning geography, anthropology, and political theory.

• Academic Affiliation: Florida International University, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies
• Research Focus: Biopolitics, postcolonial urbanism, energy insecurity, and the politics of resilience in the Caribbean and U.S. contexts

In his book Resilience (Key Ideas in Geography, 2018), Grove traces resilience to cybernetic behavioral science, neoliberal economics, and modernist design, arguing that resilience thinking prioritizes a pragmatic “will to design” over traditional critique. His recent Google Scholar publications (2025–2023) explore spatial stigma in Puerto Rican physician migration, energy independence in disaster zones, reparative governance frameworks, and the intersection of race with resilience planning in Miami. These works reflect his ongoing interest in decolonial approaches to urban experimentation and the ethics of disaster management.