Kevin A. Gould, PhD
Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
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S-H 1255-13 Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. |
| Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 5480 |
| Email: | kevin.gould@concordia.ca |
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Dr. Kevin Gould's research explores the politics of environmental and economic policy-making in the Americas. He is particularly interested in policies authorized by technical knowledge, and his current research examines how military experts framed development projects during the Cold War in ways that favored elites and reified exclusionary visions of race, nation, and nature. Building on new economic geography and political ecology literature, Dr. Gould's work investigates the politics of market-assisted land reform, post-disaster reconstruction, and Cold War infrastructure development. Through his research, he seeks to challenge the often violent transnational processes and epistemologies that connect Canada, the United States and Guatemala. Before arriving at Concordia University, Dr. Gould received his Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia (2009) and spent one year as a research fellow at Dartmouth College.
I am willing to supervise theses in the fields of political ecology and critical geography. Students interested in working on the political ecology of post-disaster reconstruction, broadly defined, are encouraged to apply as are students who would like to carry out field work or archival research in Latin America.
Professional affiliations
Association of American Geographers
Canadian Association of Geographers
Latin American Studies Association
Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Latin American Studies Network of Montreal
Research projects
Selected publications
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Gould, K. A. 2018. The old militarized humanitarianism: contradictions of counterinsurgent infrastructure in Cold War Guatemala. Critical Military Studies, 4(2): 140-160.
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Gould, K. A., M. Magdalena Garcia, and Jacob AC Remes. 2016. "Beyond natural-disasters-are-not-natural": the work of state and nature after the 2010 earthquake in Chile." Journal of Political Ecology 23: 94-114.
- Gould, K. A. 2014 Everyday expertise: land regularization and the conditions for land grabs in Petén, Guatemala. Environment Planning A, 46(10): 2353-2368.
- Gould, K. A. and Estrada, I. A. 2014. Framing disappearance: H.I.J.O.S., public art and the making of historical memory of the Guatemalan civil war. Special Issue on Enforced Disappearance. ACME: International Journal of Critical Geography, 13(1): 100-134.
- 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.
- Gould, K. A. 2010. Anxiety, epistemology, and policy research "behind enemy lines." Geoforum. 41: 15-18.
Selected conference presentations
- Gould,K. A. 2017. Extra-legal properties of Guatemalan land markets. International conference: Geographies of Markets. Karl Polanyi Instituteof Political Economy at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
- Gould, K. A. 2015. Whitening infrastructures: race and nation in Cold War Guatemala. Intersections Seminar Series, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto.
- Gould, K. A. 2015. Emplaced histories of calculable land: the (un)making of a geodetic grid in northern Guatemala. Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago.
- Gould, K. A. 2015. Entangled (post)colonialisms: military-led development in 1960s Guatemala. 7th International conference of critical geography, Ramallah, Palestine.
- Gould, K. A. 2014. Territorization and conterinsurgent pacification in the north of Guatemala during the Cold War. Presentation for Peace and Territorialization diploma program at the Universidad National de San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala (Spanish).
- Gould, K. A. 2012. The future of higher education in North America: strategies for solidarity and struggle (panelist). 19th Annual Conference on Critical Geography. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. November 2-4, 2012.
- Gould, K. A. and Becker, N. 2012. Session Organizers. Powers of Environmental Impact Assessment. Annual conference of the American Association of Geography, New York City.
- Gould, K. 2011. Do economists make markets, race and nation? Second Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, San Diego, California.
- Panel organizer with David Lansing. 2011. Critical perspectives on performativity: performing economic geographies. Association of American Geographers Annual conference.
Teaching
Courses taught
Geography 210: Geography of global change
Geography 220: Space, place and identity
Geography 300: Environment: cultural and historical perspectivesGeography 400: Political ecology
Geography 418: Postcolonial geography
Geography 605: Graduate methodology seminar: Geography Worlds
Current Graduate Student Supervision
Noah Cannon, MSc:
Historical and economic geographies of Canada's community well being index
Masters students (graduated)
Kayleigh McSwain (2017) Whiteness and the politics of local food movement in Halifax, N.S.
Gwen Muir (2015) Temporary labor recruitment in Guatemala for Quebec agroindustry
Barbara Bottini-Havrillay (2015) Politics of road-building in Cold War Guatemala
Michelle Braiden (2014) Discourse and dispossession in the Chaco War, Bolivia
William Zullo (2014) Spaces of transgender youth in Montreal*
Julie Montigney (2013) Spaces of queer youth in Montreal*
* co-advised with Dr. Julie Podmore
Honors students
Devon McKellar (2019) TBA
Daniel Belvas (2019) TBA
Montserrat Hernandez (2015) The path to sustainability: implementation of ecotechniques in a rural Mexican community
Noah Cannon(2014) The well-being index and Canadian First Nations
Angharad Wylie (2013) Alternative economies in Halifax, Novo Scotia
Alex Matak (2012) Neoliberalism within: Concordia’s student movement
Julia de Montigny (2011) What spaces exist for queer youth? On institutional discourses and regulatory imaginations
Alexander Pinheiro (2010) The Montreal BIOBUS Project: Simple, Pure, Green?
Masters in Environmental Assessment, selected internship reports
Couturier Gilles (2015) Comparison of environmental impact assessment and corporate social responsibility
Olivia Collins (2014) Future of social assessment in national EA policy
Matthias Bieber (2014) Avian indicator species for environmental assessment
Patrick Marcoux (2013) Bioremediation of toxics: impacts of petroleum contamination
Chelsea Quirke (2011) Participation and power: participatory monitoring of environmental impacts under NAFTA
Nicole Becker (2010) Social production of toxicity: national management of textile mill effluents
