J A Devine
Biographic Data
| ID | 23206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Devine |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Devine |
| SIGNATURE | DEVINE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7562-6994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Migrant journeys to the US southern border
From 2021 to 2024, there was an unprecedented expansion of migrant entry and asylum seeking along the US-Mexico border from a growing diversity of countries, but especially from Venezuela and Haiti. This article focuses on the aspirations and capabilities of migrants seeking asylum, and the risks they undertake to reach the US southern border. The study is based on field research in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in which 153 migrants were interview…
A convergence research approach to resolving ‘wicked problems’
Many contemporary social and environmental problems are increasingly ‘wicked.’ Convergence research offers an effective approach to tackle wicked problems by integrating diverse epistemologies, methodologies, and expertise. Yet, there exists little discussion of how to develop and employ a convergence research approach. This article describes our collaborative research efforts to achieve convergence research and team science. For over a decade, w…
Narco-degradation
Ethnographies of Power
generations, classes, genders and societies.He introduces
Illicit Drivers of Land Use Change
Violence and dispossession in tourism development
This article introduces a special issue that illustrates how violence and dispossession frequently define everyday practices, livelihoods and representations in tourism. The authors take a relational approach to violence, emphasizing how violence's many forms (physical, symbolic, epistemic, structural, etc.) interweave in practice to produce the built tourism environment, creating unequal power relations between "hosts" and "guests". The special …
Counterinsurgency Ecotourism in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Through analysis of a Guatemalan ecotourism project, this paper examines how tourism development is driving the militarization of conservation through a modality of violence I identify as counterinsurgency ecotourism. I look at four manifestations of counterinsurgency ecotourism: the repurposing of the army to enforce conservation law; the creation of an environmental 'predator' discourse; the eviction of peasants from protected areas; and the co…
Tourism, power, and space
Tourism, power, and space, edited by Andrew Church and Tim Coles, Abingdon & New York, Routledge, 2007, 320 pp., $210.00 (hardback) ISBN, 978-0-415-32952-1 Tourism, power, and space is an insightfu
Hardworking Newcomers and Generations of Poverty
This research is part of a project that aims to reinterpret geographies of poverty in the American Northwest by focusing on the intersections of cultural and political–economic processes that produce poverty differences. This paper contributes to this aim by unpacking poverty beliefs by race at the local county level. This qualitative analysis is grounded in a brief discussion of the political economy of Kittitas County in Central Washington Stat…
Violence and dispossession in tourism development
This article introduces a special issue that illustrates how violence and dispossession frequently define everyday practices, livelihoods and representations in tourism. The authors take a relational approach to violence, emphasizing how violence's many forms (physical, symbolic, epistemic, structural, etc.) interweave in practice to produce the built tourism environment, creating unequal power relations between "hosts" and "guests". The special …
Counterinsurgency Ecotourism in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Through analysis of a Guatemalan ecotourism project, this paper examines how tourism development is driving the militarization of conservation through a modality of violence I identify as counterinsurgency ecotourism. I look at four manifestations of counterinsurgency ecotourism: the repurposing of the army to enforce conservation law; the creation of an environmental 'predator' discourse; the eviction of peasants from protected areas; and the co…
Narco-degradation
Illicit Drivers of Land Use Change
Hardworking Newcomers and Generations of Poverty
This research is part of a project that aims to reinterpret geographies of poverty in the American Northwest by focusing on the intersections of cultural and political–economic processes that produce poverty differences. This paper contributes to this aim by unpacking poverty beliefs by race at the local county level. This qualitative analysis is grounded in a brief discussion of the political economy of Kittitas County in Central Washington Stat…
Hardworking Newcomers and Generations of Poverty
This research is part of a project that aims to reinterpret geographies of poverty in the American Northwest by focusing on the intersections of cultural and political–economic processes that produce poverty differences. This paper contributes to this aim by unpacking poverty beliefs by race at the local county level. This qualitative analysis is grounded in a brief discussion of the political economy of Kittitas County in Central Washington Stat…
Tourism, power, and space
Tourism, power, and space, edited by Andrew Church and Tim Coles, Abingdon & New York, Routledge, 2007, 320 pp., $210.00 (hardback) ISBN, 978-0-415-32952-1 Tourism, power, and space is an insightfu
Counterinsurgency Ecotourism in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Through analysis of a Guatemalan ecotourism project, this paper examines how tourism development is driving the militarization of conservation through a modality of violence I identify as counterinsurgency ecotourism. I look at four manifestations of counterinsurgency ecotourism: the repurposing of the army to enforce conservation law; the creation of an environmental 'predator' discourse; the eviction of peasants from protected areas; and the co…
Violence and dispossession in tourism development
This article introduces a special issue that illustrates how violence and dispossession frequently define everyday practices, livelihoods and representations in tourism. The authors take a relational approach to violence, emphasizing how violence's many forms (physical, symbolic, epistemic, structural, etc.) interweave in practice to produce the built tourism environment, creating unequal power relations between "hosts" and "guests". The special …
Illicit Drivers of Land Use Change
Narco-degradation
Ethnographies of Power
generations, classes, genders and societies.He introduces
A convergence research approach to resolving ‘wicked problems’
Many contemporary social and environmental problems are increasingly ‘wicked.’ Convergence research offers an effective approach to tackle wicked problems by integrating diverse epistemologies, methodologies, and expertise. Yet, there exists little discussion of how to develop and employ a convergence research approach. This article describes our collaborative research efforts to achieve convergence research and team science. For over a decade, w…
Migrant journeys to the US southern border
From 2021 to 2024, there was an unprecedented expansion of migrant entry and asylum seeking along the US-Mexico border from a growing diversity of countries, but especially from Venezuela and Haiti. This article focuses on the aspirations and capabilities of migrants seeking asylum, and the risks they undertake to reach the US southern border. The study is based on field research in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in which 153 migrants were interview…
Geography (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (3 works) · Deforestation (computer science (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (2 works)