Department of Geography
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X9

Office: SN1034
Tel: (709)864-7912
Fax: (709) 864-3119

E mail: d.banoub@mun.ca

My research examines the historical-geographical political economy of resource extraction in Newfoundland and Labrador, with a focus on fisheries, aquaculture, and mining.

Education

PhD University of Manchester, Geography (2012-2016)
MA York University, Social Anthropology (2009-2011)
BA (Hons) Memorial University, Anthropology (2005-2009)

Research interests

Historical geography, environmental economic geography, feminist political economy, environmental history, histories of science, resource extraction, North Atlantic world

Publications

Books

Banoub D 2021 Fishing measures: a critique of desk-bound reason. St. John’s, NL: Memorial University Press.

Nominated for the 2021 Peter Cashin Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award in Non-Fiction

Journal articles

Banoub D, Bridge G, Bustos B, de los Reyes J, Ertör E, and Gonzalez Hidalgo M 2020 Industrial dynamics on the commodity frontier: managing time, space and form in mining, forestry and fishing. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space EarlyOnline View doi: 10.1177/2514848620963362

Banoub D and Martin S J 2020 Storing value: the infrastructural ecologies of commodity storage. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38(6) 1101-1119 doi: 10.1177/0263775820911942

Banoub D 2019 Black Monday, 1894: saltfish, credit, and the ecology of politics in Newfoundland. Atlantic Studies doi: 10.1080/14788810.2019.1666646

Banoub D 2018 Buying vitamins: Newfoundland cod liver oil and the real subsumption of nature, 1919-1939 Geoforum 92 1-8 doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.002

Arboleda M and Banoub D 2018 Market Monstrosity in Industrial Fishing: Capital as Subject and the Urbanization of Nature Social and Cultural Geography 19(1), 120-138 doi: 10.1080/14649365.2016.1266025

Banoub D 2017 Natural Resources Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography Richard- son D, Castree N, Goodchild M, Liu W, Kobayashi A & Marston R eds Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford and Malden doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0496

Bavington D and Banoub D 2016 Marine Fish Farming and the Blue Revolution: Culturing Cod Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada London Journal of Canadian Studies 31(1) 35-44 doi: 10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2016v31.004

Banoub D 2015 Fish stocks in crisis: Why can’t we exploit fish sustainably? Geography Review 28(3) 10-14

Banoub D 2014 Book Review: Saving global fisheries: reducing fishing capacity to promote sustainability by Barkin S and DeSombre E R Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 32(1) 187-188 doi: 10.1068/c3201rv4

Banoub D 2014 Book Review: Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science by Lave R Progress in Human Geography 38(4) 628-629 doi: 10.1177/0309132513496962

Banoub D 2012 Fogo Island Arriving: An Anti-Essentialist Reading of the Production of Place Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 27(1) 33-62 doi: 10.15127/1.302724