Biography
My work explores political geography, science, technology, and engineering.
Education
- Ph.D., New School for Social Research, Department of Politics
- MA, University of Westminster, Centre for the Study of Democracy
Courses Taught
GGIS 105 - The Digital Earth
GGIS 221 - Geographies of Global Conflict
GGIS 412 - Geospatial Technology and Society
GGIS 595 - Geopolitics and Engineering
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Jefferson, B. J. (2020). Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age. University of Minnesota Press.
Jefferson, B. J. (2024). Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Political Geography, 113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103160
Recent Publications
Jefferson, B. J. (2024). Control-X: Communication, Control, and Exclusion. In Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (pp. 192-202). Haymarket Books.
Jefferson, B. J. (2024). Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Political Geography, 113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103160
Jefferson, B. J. (2024). Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Political Geography, 113, Article 103160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103160
Jefferson, B. J. (2022). Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities. In S. Koshy, L. M. Cacho, J. A. Byrd, & B. J. Jefferson (Eds.), Colonial Racial Capitalism (pp. 232-254). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023371-008
Jefferson, B. J., & Melamed, J. (2022). Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In S. Koshy, L. M. Cacho, J. A. Byrd, & B. J. Jefferson (Eds.), Colonial Racial Capitalism (pp. 311-332). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023371-011
