Institute for Global Studies
214 Social Sciences
269 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9007
Fax: 612-626-2242
E-mail: igs@umn.edu

Bruce Braun

625-6349
Geography 478 Social Science

Department Affiliations

Narrative

Research interests:

  • The politics of 'life' : political rationality and biological existence; the securitization of biological life; biosecurity and empire; biology and virtuality
  • The political life of objects: the place of technoscience in social and political life; cultural geography and materiality
  • The animal and the human : the animal in social and political thought; configurations of humans and animals in an age of biosecurity
  • Philosophy and geography: humanism and posthumanism; philosophies of corporeality and materiality; concepts of life and nature; ontology; the body in political theory
  • Ecopolitics : environmental social movements; nature, environmentalism and difference; colonialism and environmentalism

I am currently reading writers such as Georgio Agamben, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault; Felix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, Benedictus de Spinoza, and Isabelle Stengers.

Current supervisions:

I am working with doctoral students working on science, modernity and the nation; sovereignty, territory and conservation; sleep medicine and biopolitics; biotechnology and plant genetic resources; the right to politics of immigrants in Europe; environmental democracy and political theory; the politics of community in Chile; the cultural economy of counterfeit goods; sovereign power and reproductive health; biomimicry and the military.

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


Specialties

  • colonial and postcolonial geographies
  • eco-politics
  • political ecology
  • race and nature
  • geopolitics of biosecurity
  • biotechnology and biopolitics
  • posthumanism and geography
  • social and political theory

Awards

  • McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2001

Courses Taught

  • GEOG 3376: Polical Ecology of North America
  • GEOG 4002: Social theory and the environment
  • GEOG 8001: Nature-Society Proseminar
  • GEOG 8980: The Political Life of Things: Technoscientific Objects and the Constitution of Common Worlds
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