Kevin Gould (Ph.D. University of British Columbia, 2009)

Assistant Professor

Concordia University
Department of Geography, Planning and Environment
H1255-13
Tel: (514) 848-2424 ext. 5480
Fax: (514) 848-2032
kgould (a) alcor.concordia.ca

Opportunities for graduate students to work on funded project: Race, Nation and Cold War Militarization in Latin America

Education / Bio

Dr. Gould completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2009. His dissertation analyzes the material and ideological production of a rural land market in contemporary Guatemala. He comes to Concordia from Dartmouth College where he was a research fellow with the Geography Department and the Joan Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. Dr. Gould has broad research interests in critical development studies, political ecology, and economic geography. His current work examines how race, nature, and markets are produced through economic development policies.

Selected Publications

1. Gould, K. A. (under review). Performing cadastral culture: land market geographies in the making in Petén, Guatemala. Submitted to Economic Geography.
2. Estrada, A. I. and Gould, K. A. (under review). Murals, photographs, stencils: resisting enforced disappearance on the walls of Guatemala City, 2004-2005. Submitted to ACME: an international E-journal for critical geographies.
3. Dempsey, J., Gould, K. A., Sundberg, J. 2011. Changing land tenure, defining subjects: neoliberalism and property regimes on Native reserves. In Re-Thinking the Great White North: race, nature and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada. Eds. A. Baldwin, A. Kobayashi, and L. Cameron. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
4. Gould, K. A. 2010. Anxiety, epistemology, and policy research "behind enemy lines." Geoforum. 41: 15-18.

Selected Conference Presentations

1. Panel organizer with David Lansing. 2011. Critical perspectives on performativity: performing economic geographies. Association of American Geographers Annual conference.
2. Panel organizer with Nicole Becker. 2011. Critical Geographies of Environmental Impact Assessment. Association of American Geographers Annual conference.
3. Gould, K. A. 2010. Roads of war, roads to whiteness: military-led development and eugenics in 1960s Guatemala. Latin American Studies Association meeting. Toronto, Canada.
4. Gould, K. A. 2010. The everyday neoliberal state in Petén, Guatemala. Annual conference of the American Association of Geography, Washington, D.C.
5. Gould, K. A. 2009. Outside the market?: biodiversity and parks in the context of conservation and development programs. Panel presentation. Annual conference of the American Association of Geography, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Research Projects

"Roads of war, roads to whiteness: counter-insurgency, nationalism, and military-led economic development in Guatemala." FQRSC, Establishment of New Researchers Grant.

With Drs. Gonzalo Lizardo and Lisa Bernstein. University Institute for Vulnerability and Sustainable Reconstruction. FQRSC Team Grant.

Professional Affiliations

Association of American Geographers

Latin American Studies Association

Current Students

Name	Degree	Research Area
Chris Reid	MSc	The making of land markets in Nisga'a territory, British Columbia.
Michelle Braiden	MSc	Social and material production of international borders and boundaries.
Kayleigh McSwain	MSc	Cultural politics of community agriculture in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Katherine Riel	MSc	Sustainability assessment as neoliberal practice.
Alex Matak	BA (Honours)	The spaces of neoliberalism and student resistance at Concordia.