Brian Marks
Assistant Professor
Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
United States of America
Biography
"Dr. Brian Marks is currently working as a Assistant Professor in the Department of Department of Geography and Anthropology , Louisiana State University , USA. His research interests includes political and economic geographer whose research in the coastal deltas of the Mekong and Mississippi rivers in Vietnam and the United States concerns the livelihoods of seafood producers in the context of a globalizing seafood industry and mounting environmental precarity in both deltas. He is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Dr. Brian Marks is the member of many international affiliations. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities. He has authored of many research articles/books related to political and economic geographer whose research in the coastal deltas of the Mekong and Mississippi rivers in Vietnam and the United States concerns the livelihoods of seafood producers in the context of a globalizing seafood industry and mounting environmental precarity in both deltas. "
Research Interest
Brian is a political and economic geographer whose research in the coastal deltas of the Mekong and Mississippi rivers in Vietnam and the United States concerns the livelihoods of seafood producers in the context of a globalizing seafood industry and mounting environmental precarity in both deltas. A native of southern Terrebonne Parish, Dr. Marks has broader interests in the cultural landscape of South Louisiana and Southern Vietnam, the socio-economic effects of offshore oil and gas development, the Gulf Coast’s connections in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds, and urban political economic regimes in New Orleans from Longite petro-populism to post-diluvian neoliberalism.
Publications
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Marks, B., Diane Austin, Preetam Prakash, Bethany Rogers, Tom McGuire, and Shannon Dosemagen. Forthcoming 2013. Offshore Oil and the Deepwater Horizon: Social Effects on Gulf Coast Communities. Volume II. Final Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region. pp. 206.
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Austin, Diane, Brian Marks, Preetam Prakash, Bethany Rogers, Carolyn Ware, Kelly McClain, Justina Whalen, Victoria Phaneuf, Tom McGuire, and Ben McMahan. Forthcoming 2013. Offshore Oil and the Deepwater Horizon: Social Effects on Gulf Coast Communities. Volume I. Final Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region. pp. 270.
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Marks, B. Forthcoming 2014. Making shrimp and unmaking shrimpers in the Mississippi and Mekong deltas. In Precarious Worlds: New Geographies of Social Reproduction, eds. Katherine Meehan and Kendra Strauss. Columbus, GA: University of Georgia Press.