Joseph Nevins
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American activist, writer and academic
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Earth Sciences
#1621
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#2306
Historical Rank
#437
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Geography
#318
World Rank
#488
Historical Rank
#73
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Joseph Nevins's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geography University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Joseph Nevins Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Nevins is an American author, activist and associate professor of geography at Vassar College in New York. Background Joseph Nevins studies socio-territorial boundaries and mobility, imperialism, global apartheid and forms of political violence, political ecology, and matters of human rights, international law and social justice in the aftermath of mass atrocities. He has conducted research in East Timor, Mexico, and the United States-Mexico border region.
Joseph Nevins's Published Works
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Published Works
- Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the “Illegal Alien” and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary (2001) (405)
- Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War On "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary (2010) (179)
- Review of Jason De León, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (2016) (137)
- Pushing the boundary: state restructuring, state theory, and the case of U.S.–Mexico border enforcement in the 1990s (2005) (88)
- Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond (2010) (77)
- A not-so-distant horror : mass violence in East Timor (2006) (77)
- Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (2008) (73)
- Dying for a Cup of Coffee? Migrant Deaths in the US-Mexico Border Region in a Neoliberal Age (2007) (71)
- Academic Jet-Setting in a Time of Climate Destabilization: Ecological Privilege and Professional Geographic Travel (2014) (65)
- Restitution over coffee: truth, reconciliation, and environmental violence in East Timor (2003) (53)
- Taking Southeast Asia to market : commodities, nature, and people in the neoliberal age (2008) (51)
- Thinking Out of Bounds: A Critical Analysis of Academic and Human Rights Writings on Migrant Deaths in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region (2003) (40)
- Searching for Security: Boundary and Immigration Enforcement in an Age of Intensifying Globalization (2001) (22)
- The Making of "Ground Zero" in East Timor in 1999: An Analysis of International Complicity in Indonesia's Crimes (2002) (21)
- Contesting the Boundaries of International Justice: State Countermapping and Offshore Resource Struggles Between East Timor and Australia (2004) (21)
- Introduction: Borderline Contradictions: Neoliberalism, Unauthorised Migration, and Intensifying Immigration Policing (2007) (20)
- A Beating Worse Than Death: Imagining and Contesting Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2006) (17)
- The CAVR: Justice and Reconciliation in a Time of “Impoverished Political Possibilities” (2007) (13)
- (Mis)representing East Timor’s past: structural symbolic violence, international law, and the institutionalization of injustice (2002) (13)
- Timor-Leste in 2006: The End of the Post-Independence Honeymoon (2007) (13)
- Barricading the Border (2008) (13)
- The Abuse of Memorialized Space and the Redefinition of Ground Zero (2005) (12)
- The Law of the Land: Local-National Dialectic and the Making of the United States-Mexico Boundary (2000) (11)
- The Right to the World (2017) (11)
- The speed of life and death: migrant fatalities, territorial boundaries, and energy consumption (2018) (10)
- Embedded Empire: Structural Violence and the Pursuit of Justice in East Timor (2009) (9)
- Planting Seeds So Something Bigger Might Emerge: The Paris Agreement and the Fight Against Climate Change (2016) (9)
- Introduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia (2019) (9)
- Security First: The Obama Administration and Immigration ‘Reform’ (2010) (8)
- Migration as Reparations (2019) (8)
- Beyond Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall (2017) (7)
- Arming the Environment, and Colonizing Nature, Territory, and Mobility in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2019) (5)
- A path to decolonization? Reducing air travel and resource consumption in higher education (2022) (5)
- ‘No sovereign nation, no reservation’: producing the new colonialism in Cayuga Count(r)y (2018) (4)
- Commodification, violence, and the making of workers and ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras (2015) (4)
- Resource conflicts in a new world order (2004) (4)
- Policing the Workplace and Rebuilding the State in “America's Finest City”: US Immigration Control in the San Diego, California–Mexico Borderlands (2014) (4)
- A time to die: the "American way of life" in the Anthropocene (2014) (3)
- Introduction and Abridged Text of Lecture: “Laggards or Leaders: Academia and Its Responsibility in Delivering on the Paris Commitments” (2021) (3)
- Truth and Justice in the Aftermath of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (2003) (2)
- Obama’s Immigration Reform for Youth: A DREAM Deferred? (2012) (2)
- A New Agenda in U.S.-Latin American Relations (2016) (1)
- In the spirit of whiteness (2016) (1)
- Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution, S. Zunes, J. Mundy. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse (2010) (2011) (1)
- Nature, Energy, and Violence on the U. S. -Mexico Border (2019) (1)
- Introducing the “Climate Action Task Force” (2019) (1)
- East Timor, the USA, and Mass Atrocities: Remembering and Forgetting (2012) (1)
- Sorry to Bother You: The AAG Climate Action Task Force as a Necessary Inconvenience (2021) (1)
- Introduction to Symposium on Steve Herbert's Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community (2007) (1)
- On the Boundary of Abuse and Accountability (2012) (1)
- A comment on Heyman's capitalism and US policy at the Mexican border (2012) (0)
- National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy Since 1882. By Deirdre M. Moloney. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. (2013) (0)
- Books Received: JSEAS 2005, 2 (2005) (0)
- A People's Guide to Greater Boston (2020) (0)
- Dry Place: Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion, Patricia Price. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (2004), 222 pages, US$19.95 paperback (2005) (0)
- Nation Building in the Borderlands: Constructing the U.S.–Mexico Boundary (2010) (0)
- Beyond Borders (2019) (0)
- The Will to Wall (2014) (0)
- Book Review: National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882 (2013) (0)
- Producing the Crisis: the Emergence of Operation Gatekeeper (2010) (0)
- THE CREATION OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BOUNDARY AND THE REMAKING OF THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO IN THE BORDER REGION (2001) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- Remembering Fidel (2017) (0)
- “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die” : How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor : [book review] (2011) (0)
- Exile and Return Among the East Timorese by Amanda Wise. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2006. No. of pages: 238. ISBN 0 8122 3909 1 (2007) (0)
- Reviews (2011) (0)
- Light and Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Immigrants in the Aftermath of Obama’s Reelection (2012) (0)
- Third World and “Illegal” in the City of Angels (2002) (0)
- Reviews: Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California, Ethnography at the Border, the Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq (2006) (0)
- Traitements anticancereux individualises (2006) (0)
- General Introduction (2021) (0)
- Elana Zilberg, Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, $24.95). Pp. 344. isbn 978 0 8223 4730 9. (2013) (0)
- Special Issue Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- East Timor, the USA, and Mass Atrocities (2012) (0)
- Review of Jorge Galán’s November, Roberto Lovato’s Unforgetting, and Augustine Sedgewick’s Coffeeland (2020) (0)
- In Search of Appropriate Development Theory and Practice (2001) (0)
- Transport solutions: a local government responsibility? (2001) (0)
- Review of Ieva Jusionyte’s Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (2019) (0)
- Book review: Borders, asylum and global non-citizenship: The other side of the fence (2015) (0)
- Retraction and Corrections (2009) (0)
- Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness (2022) (0)
- The message is the market (2008) (0)
- Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror (2018) (0)
- Capital and the territorial nation-state: a multilectical approach (2012) (0)
- Concluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia (2019) (0)
- THE IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF THE “ILLEGAL”: THE “OTHER” AS THREAT AND THE RISE OF THE BOUNDARY AS THE SYMBOL OF PROTECTION (2001) (0)
- Generating Difference in San Diego–Tijuana (2010) (0)
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