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Jacob Shell is an associate professor of geography at Temple University in the US.
RCC Research Project: The Quadruped and the Infinity Bridge
Selected Publications:
- Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants. New York: WW Norton Publishers, 2019.
- Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2015.
- "Elephant Riders of the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State: Evasive Mobility and Vadological Geography." Journal of Burma Studies 25, no. 2 (2021): 261–298.
- "The Enigma of the Asian Elephant: Sovereignty, Reproductive Nature, and the Limits of Empire." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109, no. 4 (2019): 1154–1171.
- "Elephant Convoys Beyond the State: Animal-Based Transport as Subversive Logistics." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37, no. 5 (2019): 905–923.
- "Verkehr; Or, Mobility and Subversion: Recovering Radical Transportation Geographies from Language.” Human Geography 11, no. 3 (2017): 11–29.