Melissa Wright

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Titles and Affiliations
Department Head, Geography

Research Summary

Studies the dynamics linking political, cultural and economic processes. Research has focused on the emergence of an international social movement that protests violence against women along the Mexico-U.S. border.

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Recent Publications

Necropolitics, border walls, and a murder of jim and juan crows in the americas

Wright, M. W., 2024, In: Critical Philosophy of Race. 12, 1, p. 24-50 27 p.

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Border Thinking, Borderland Diversity, and Trump’s Wall

Wright, M. W., Mar 4 2019, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109, 2, p. 511-519 9 p.

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Visualizing a country without a future: Posters for Ayotzinapa, Mexico and struggles against state terror

Wright, M. W., Jun 2019, In: Geoforum. 102, p. 235-241 7 p.

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Against the Evils of Democracy: Fighting Forced Disappearance and Neoliberal Terror in Mexico

Wright, M. W., Mar 4 2018, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108, 2, p. 327-336 10 p.

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Epistemological Ignorances and Fighting for the Disappeared: Lessons from Mexico

Wright, M. W., Jan 1 2017, In: Antipode. 49, 1, p. 249-269 21 p.

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The Gender, Place and Culture Jan Monk Distinguished Annual Lecture: Gentrification, assassination and forgetting in Mexico: A feminist Marxist tale

Wright, M. W., Jan 2014, In: Gender, Place and Culture. 21, 1, p. 1-16 16 p.

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Feminicidio, narcoviolence, and gentrification in Ciudad Juárez: The feminist fight

Wright, M. W., 2013, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 31, 5, p. 830-845 16 p.

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THE 2010 ANTIPODE RGS-IBG LECTURE Wars of Interpretations

Wright, M. W., Jun 2012, In: Antipode. 44, 3, p. 564-580 17 p.

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Necropolitics, narcopolitics, and femicide: Gendered violence on the Mexico-U.S. border

Wright, M. W., 2011, In: Signs. 36, 3, p. 707-731 25 p.

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Gender and geography II: Bridging the gap - feminist, queer, and the geographical imaginary

Wright, M. W., Feb 2010, In: Progress in Human Geography. 34, 1, p. 56-66 11 p.

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Geography and gender: Feminism and a feeling of justice

Wright, M. W., 2010, In: Progress in Human Geography. 34, 6, p. 818-827 10 p.

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The power of numbers

Castree, N. & Wright, M. W., 2009, In: Antipode. 41, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.

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Gender and geography: Knowledge and activism across the intimately global

Wright, M. W., Jun 12 2009, In: Progress in Human Geography. 33, 3, p. 379-386 8 p.

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Justice and the geographies of moral protest: Reflections from Mexico

Wright, M. W., 2009, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 27, 2, p. 216-233 18 p.

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Craven emotional warriors

Wright, M. W., Jun 2008, In: Antipode. 40, 3, p. 376-382 7 p.

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