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Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

How biopolitical militarism in the U.S. obscures the domestic remains of war

Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today

Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid

A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

A collaborative digital infrastructure of nuclear public policy and public memory

National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service

Interdisciplinary arts/research platform, 2011-2018

On Telling Nuclear Stories: A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

How do nuclear materials produce and unsettle narrative itself? This forum reckons with the very nature of nuclear storytellin

Territories of Exaction: Austerity, Bias, Dross (in preparation)

How neoliberal financial and environmental crises unfold within longer colonial histories & political geographies of austerity

The Administrative Grotesquerie of Pandemic Revanchism: Propag(and)ating COVID-19 and the Operational Banalities of Alt-Health

A performative analysis of pandemic revanchism that throttles public discourse and reduces politics to conspiratorial tautolog

Interim Co-directors Krupar and Kanouse deliver the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service’s 10-year final report on Cold War legacies and the nuclear stockpile

2022 chapter in Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures—an international nuclear humanities reader

Brownfields as Climate Colonialism: Land Reuse and Antiracist Soil Exegesis

2022 chapter that considers the role of architecture in the racial politics and colonial violence of contaminated land redevel

Folklore of Operational Banality (FOOB) & the Biocratic Grotesque

2020 article in Environmental Humanities 12.2 on reductive policy and intimate forms of violence within medical administration

COVID ‘Death Pits’: US Nursing Homes, Racial Capitalism, and the Urgency of Antiracist Eldercare

2022 Politics & Space 40.5 article on how racial capitalism drives the chronic devaluation of nursing home residents & staff

Biocultures: A Critical Approach to Mundane Biomedical Governance

2021 article in Culture, Theory & Critique 61.1 - How biomedicine extends beyond the clinic, the hospital, and lab

“Abject Ontologies: Cancer and ‘Living On’”

2022 article in Journal of Medical Humanities 43.3 on cancer detection and treatment

2018 Theory, Culture & Society article

Theory, Culture & Society 35.2 article "Sustainable World Expo? The Governing Function of Spectacle in Shanghai and Beyond"

“Museum of Waste Memorandum,” featured in The New Inquiry “Trash” Issue 40 (2015)

This report discusses the feasibility of the Museum of Waste (MoW), a virtual museum of the residues & failures of capitalism

The Biopsic Adventures of Mammary Glam

Social Semiotics 22.5 article on breast cancer detection in the context of risk, biopolitics, and "cancer glam"

Green Death | Necro-ecologies of Whiteness

ARTICLE Shiloh Krupar, 2018, “Green Death: Sustainability and the Administration of the Dead,” cultural geographies 25.2,

“Waste Time: Excess Potential in Academic Production”

2019 book chapter in Slow Down: How the Arts and Humanities Can Reclaim the University from the Cult of Speed

Brownfields as Waste/Race Governance: U.S. Contaminated Property Redevelopment and Racial Capitalism

2022 Chapter on contaminated land reuse, racial capitalism, and antiracist soil exegesis, in the Handbook of Waste Studies

“Biofutures: Race and the Governance of Health”

2017 article in Society and Space 35.2 - recognized by the journal for open access in 2020 for its contributions to antiracism

“How To Be Uncertain, or, My Cold War Kitchen Cabinets”

Shiloh Krupar puts "hot spotting" to work in her own home as a modest creative & historical practice of demilitarization

Culture and Politics Faculty Research Seminar Series

Worldy Compositions:Humans and Non-Humans in the Making of Global Publics Georgetown Global Humanities Faculty Research Semina

“‘When Treating Patients Like Criminals Makes Sense’: Medical Hot Spotting, Race, and Debt”

2017 book chapter in Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine

“Hope Logics: Biomedicine, Affective Conventions of Cancer, and the Governing of Biocitizenry”

2014 article in Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 23.1

“Situated Spectacle: Cross-sectional Soil Hermeneutics of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo”

2015 book chapter in Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday

“The Biopolitics of Spectacle: Salvation and Oversight at the Post-military Nature Refuge”

2016 book chapter in the edited volume Global Spectacles

“Notes on the Society of the Brand [Spectacle]”

2012 chapter in The Handbook of Architectural Theory

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I am a geographer that examines the biopolitical administration of asymmetrical life, geographies of waste and vulnerability,

“MEMO: The EAGLE Collective”

2015 book chapter in Critical Landscapes: Art and the Politics of Land Use

“The Biomedicalization of War and Military Remains”

2013 article in Medicine, Conflict, and Survival 29.2

“Target: Biomedicine and Racialized Geo-body-politics”

2015 article in Occasion 8, Special Issue "Race, Space, Scale"

“Transnatural Ethics: Revisiting the Nuclear Cleanup of Rocky Flats, Colorado, through the Queer Ecology of Nuclia Waste”

2012 article in Cultural Geographies 19.3

“Where Eagles Dare: Remediating the Rocky Mountain Arsenal”

2007 article in Society and Space 25.2

“Map Power and Map Methodologies for Social Justice”

2015 article in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 16.2

“Alien Still Life: Distilling Toxic Logics at Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge”

2011 article in Society and Space 29.2

“Shanghaiing the Future: A De-tour of the Shanghai Urban Plan Exhibition Hall”

2008 article in Public Culture 20.2

“A Janitorial Junket: Sweeping the Debris of Shanghai’s Future”

2007 article in Radical History Review 98

“Excavating the Future: An Old Shanghai Miscellany”

2009 article in Liminalities 5.2

Introduction to the Antipode Book Forum on Kate Chandler’s Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare

2022 Antipode book review forum

2012 Social Semiotics Special Issue “The Body in Breast Cancer” – guest editor

Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, “Introduction,” in Social Semiotics 22.1, 1-141, Special Issue “The Body in Breast

“Introduction” for the Review Forum of Jenna Loyd’s 2014 Health Rights Are Civil Rights

Shiloh Krupar, 2015, “Introduction,” Review Forum of Jenna Loyd’s 2014 Health Rights Are Civil Rights (with Javier Arbon

2020 Commentary for AAG Review of Books Forum of “Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism” by Jesse Goldstein

2020 The AAG Review of Books 8.2

“The Fictional World of Absurdist Drama According to its Influence on Me”

2011 Society and Space 29.3

“Pred’s Workshop”

2007 Progress in Human Geography 31.6

Geography | AGG 2005-2008 The Activist Geographers Grouping (AGG) subconference series within the American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual conference

The Annual CULP Student Conference & Exhibition series (ongoing)

A CULTURE & POLITICS Guide to Writing

Link to the FULL “A Culture & Politics Guide to Writing” below:

CULP-316 Civic Geographies

CULP-345 Detouring the Global City