Selected Publications

If you are not able to access these and would like a copy, please send me an email at j.mullenite@chatham.edu and I’m happy to provide one.

Water and Infrastructure

Mullenite, J and K.M. Wijsman. 2023. “Book Review: Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn.” Journal of Anthropological Research 79(1): 121-124. https://doi.org/10.1086/723090

Mullenite, J. 2023. “Interview with Dan Jafee, author of UnbottledNew Books in Environmental Studies, September 17, New Books Network (Podcast) https://newbooksnetwork.com/unbottled

Mullenite, J. 2023. “Permanent Blight.” Home/Field https://www.homefieldanthro.org/2023/02/18/permanent-blight/

Mullenite, J. 2021. “Publicly Owned Private Spaces.” Society and Space https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/publicly-owned-private-spaces

Mullenite, J. 2020. “History, Colonialism, and Archival Methods in Socio-Hydrological Scholarship: A Case Study of the Boerasirie Conservancy in British Guiana” World 1(3): 205-215. https://doi.org/10.3390/world1030015

Mullenite, J. 2019. “‘A Mild Despotism of Sugar:’ Race, Labor, and Flood Control in British Guiana.” Geoforum 99: 88-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.12.009

Mullenite, J. 2019. “Infrastructure and Authoritarianism in the Land of Waters: A Genealogy of Water Control in Guyana.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109(2): 502-510. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1490635

Mullenite, J. 2015. “Historical Repetition and Development Narratives in Guyana’s Coastal Drainage and Irrigation System.” Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development 13(2): 126-139. https://doi.org/10.7916/consilience.v0i14.4679

Environmental Justice

Mullenite, J. 2024. The Politics of Urban Placemaking and the Archives of Public Space. Contemporary Sociology

Harris, D.M. and J. Mullenite. 2024. “Ruins and Ruination in Political Ecology.” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2024.2309628

Mullenite, J. 2020. “In Search of (Just) Climate Urbanism.” Environment and Society 11: 143-147. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2020.110109

Mullenite, J. 2020. “Every house a sanctuary: Fighting displacement on all fronts in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.” Radical Housing Journal 2(1): 181-184. https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2020/every-house-a-sanctuary/

Mullenite, J. 2017. “Can Climate Change Adaptation be a Desirable Goal?” Human Geography 10(2): 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/194277861701000207

Mullenite, J. 2016. “Book Review: Understanding Poverty and the Environment: Analytical Frameworks and Approaches by Fiona Nunan.” Progress in Development Studies 16(4): 370-371. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1464993416657631

Mullenite, J. 2015. “Book Review: The Political Ecology of the State: The Basis and the Evolution of Environmental Statehood by AAR Ioris.” Journal of Ecological Anthropology 17: 54-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2162-4593.17.1.8

Commons, Commoning, and Prefiguration

Mullenite, J. 2022. “Prefiguring Freedom in Caribbean Sugar Plantations.” In Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding social science concepts through illustrative vignettes, edited by Patricia Ballamingie and David Szanto. Ottawa, ON: Showing Theory Press. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/showingtheory/chapter/prefiguration/

Mullenite, J. 2021. “Toward Broader Anarchist Geographies: Space, Place, Nation, and State in Anarchist Writing and Scholarship” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 20(2): 206-213. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1949

Araujo, E., …, J. Mullenite, et al. 2017. “Beyond Electoralism: Reflections on Anarchy, Populism, and the Crisis of Electoral Politics.” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 16(4): 607-642. https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1571

Mullenite, J. 2016. “Resilience, Political Ecology, and Power: Convergences, Divergences, and the Potential for a Postanarchist Geographical Imagination.” Geography Compass 10(9): 378-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12279