Biography
My work explores political geography, political economy, science & engineering.
Education
- Ph.D., New School for Social Research, Department of Politics
- MA, University of Westminster, Centre for the Study of Democracy
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Head, Geography and Geographic Information Science
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