Margath Walker, PhD is a Professor in the Departments of Geography and Geosciences and Urban and Public Affairs. Her upcoming book manuscript Spatializing Marcuse: Critical Theory for Contemporary Times (expected 2021) is with Bristol University Press. In it, she develops the spatial sensibility of the social philosopher, Herbert Marcuse, through an engagement with an array of contemporary issues including securitization, the logics of technology, geopolitics and human liberation. Dr. Walker continues to work on borders and belonging, where she use Mexico’s two borders as a window on the links between insecurity and securitization. She is also interested in the geographies of Artificial Intelligence and the geographies of knowledge production.

Research Interests: Latin America borders, qualitative methods, social theory, Herbert Marcuse

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Geography, University of Kentucky

Master of Arts, Latin American Studies, San Diego State University

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, University of Kentucky

Courses

GEOG 390: Geopolitics

GEOG 510: Globalism in the Urban South

GEOG 600: History and Philosophy of Geography

GEOG 660: Qualitative Methods

Recent Publications

Walker, Margath A. and Frimpong Boamah, Emmanuel. 2019. “Making the invisible hyper-visible: Knowledge production and the gendered power nexus in critical urban studies.” Human Geography 12 (2), 36-50.

Walker, Margath A. 2018. “The other US Border? Techno-cultural-rationalities and fortification in Southern Mexico.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50 (5), 948-968

Walker, Margath A. and Frimpong Boamah, Emmanuel. 2017. “Map the gap: alternative visualizations of geographic knowledge production.” Geo: Geography and Environment 4 (2), 1-16.

Walker, Margath A. 2017. “Borders as systems of continuity and discontinuity in the age of Trump.” Journal of Latin American Geography 16 (2), 173-176

Walker, Margath A. and Winton, Ailsa. 2017. “Towards a theory of the discordant border.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 38 (2), 245-257