Jennifer A Devine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Devine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Devine |
| SIGNATURE | DEVINE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Geography Texas State University San Marcos TX USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8122-2809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Central America’s agro-ecological suitability for cultivating coca, Erythroxylum spp
We assess how much of Central America is likely to be agriculturally suitable for cultivating coca ( Erythroxylum spp), the main ingredient in cocaine. Since 2017, organized criminal groups (not smallholders) have been establishing coca plantations in Central America for cocaine production. This has broken South America’s long monopoly on coca leaf production for the global cocaine trade and raised concerns about future expansion in the isthmus. …
Narcotrafficking and Land Control in Guatemala and Honduras
On frontiers dominated by illicit activities such as narcotrafficking, criminal organizations’ usurpation of land and resources is profoundly changing rural livelihoods and prospects for biodiversity conservation. Prior work has demonstrated how drug trafficking catalyzes forest loss and smallholder dispossession but does not make clear the extent to which the long-term control of land is moved from state, Indigenous, or smallholders to criminal …
Im/Mobility at the US-Mexico Border during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included Title 42, which deported asylum seekers immediately and prevented them from applying for asylum. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US-Mexico border for an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers who were preven…
The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America
Drug trafficking, cattle ranching and Land use and Land cover change in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
The Political Forest in the Era of Green Neoliberalism
Nancy Peluso and Peter Vandergeest first used the term “political forest” to denaturalise forests, refiguring them as political ‐ecological entities. Across three moments of colonialism, post‐colonial independence, and counter‐insurgency struggles, they analyse how states in Southeast Asia (re)made forests as a means of territorialising power. More recently, they identify a fourth, contemporary moment characterised by the entry of diverse non‐sta…
Narco‐Cattle Ranching in Political Forests
In Central America, drug traffickers are deforesting the region's remaining forests and protected areas through a process known as narco‐ganadería , narco‐cattle ranching. Drawing on the case study of Laguna del Tigre National Park, this article argues that narco‐cattle ranching is a key driver of deforestation in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. Using ethnographic and remote‐sensing methods, we describe narco‐cattle ranching's money‐launderin…
Formaciones actuales de lo campesino en América Latina: Conceptualizaciones, Sujetos/as Políticos/as Y Territorios en Disputa
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Community forest concessionaires: Resisting green grabs and producing political subjects in Guatemala
In 2005, Guatemalan community forest concessionaires achieved a remarkable legislative victory that reversed a green land grab in the Maya Biosphere. The fight over this space, the Mirador Basin, provides valuable contributions to analyses of global land grabs, grassroots politics and power relations underpinning environmental governance. First, the fight for the Mirador Basin illustrates how green land grabs create new natures, rather than simpl…
The rise of the American conservation movement: Power, privilege, and environmental protection
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection is the third part of a three-book series on human-environment relations and environmental politics wri
Contesting Global Heritage in the Chicle Workers’ Museum
In the village of Ch'umil in northern Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, competing heritage claims to Maya archaeological sites and artifacts politicize the region's cultural and ecological landscapes. Using a geographical understanding of the production of space (Lefebvre 1991), I ethnographically unpack Ch'umil residents' definitions of cultural and ecological heritage that reflect village-level histories of living and laboring in forests and …
Community forest concessionaires: Resisting green grabs and producing political subjects in Guatemala
In 2005, Guatemalan community forest concessionaires achieved a remarkable legislative victory that reversed a green land grab in the Maya Biosphere. The fight over this space, the Mirador Basin, provides valuable contributions to analyses of global land grabs, grassroots politics and power relations underpinning environmental governance. First, the fight for the Mirador Basin illustrates how green land grabs create new natures, rather than simpl…
Im/Mobility at the US-Mexico Border during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included Title 42, which deported asylum seekers immediately and prevented them from applying for asylum. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US-Mexico border for an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers who were preven…
Formaciones actuales de lo campesino en América Latina: Conceptualizaciones, Sujetos/as Políticos/as Y Territorios en Disputa
Section:ChooseTop of pageAbstract <
The Political Forest in the Era of Green Neoliberalism
Nancy Peluso and Peter Vandergeest first used the term “political forest” to denaturalise forests, refiguring them as political ‐ecological entities. Across three moments of colonialism, post‐colonial independence, and counter‐insurgency struggles, they analyse how states in Southeast Asia (re)made forests as a means of territorialising power. More recently, they identify a fourth, contemporary moment characterised by the entry of diverse non‐sta…
Narco‐Cattle Ranching in Political Forests
In Central America, drug traffickers are deforesting the region's remaining forests and protected areas through a process known as narco‐ganadería , narco‐cattle ranching. Drawing on the case study of Laguna del Tigre National Park, this article argues that narco‐cattle ranching is a key driver of deforestation in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. Using ethnographic and remote‐sensing methods, we describe narco‐cattle ranching's money‐launderin…
The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America
The rise of the American conservation movement: Power, privilege, and environmental protection
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection is the third part of a three-book series on human-environment relations and environmental politics wri
Narcotrafficking and Land Control in Guatemala and Honduras
On frontiers dominated by illicit activities such as narcotrafficking, criminal organizations’ usurpation of land and resources is profoundly changing rural livelihoods and prospects for biodiversity conservation. Prior work has demonstrated how drug trafficking catalyzes forest loss and smallholder dispossession but does not make clear the extent to which the long-term control of land is moved from state, Indigenous, or smallholders to criminal …
Drug trafficking, cattle ranching and Land use and Land cover change in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
Contesting Global Heritage in the Chicle Workers’ Museum
In the village of Ch'umil in northern Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, competing heritage claims to Maya archaeological sites and artifacts politicize the region's cultural and ecological landscapes. Using a geographical understanding of the production of space (Lefebvre 1991), I ethnographically unpack Ch'umil residents' definitions of cultural and ecological heritage that reflect village-level histories of living and laboring in forests and …
The rise of the American conservation movement: Power, privilege, and environmental protection
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection is the third part of a three-book series on human-environment relations and environmental politics wri
Community forest concessionaires: Resisting green grabs and producing political subjects in Guatemala
In 2005, Guatemalan community forest concessionaires achieved a remarkable legislative victory that reversed a green land grab in the Maya Biosphere. The fight over this space, the Mirador Basin, provides valuable contributions to analyses of global land grabs, grassroots politics and power relations underpinning environmental governance. First, the fight for the Mirador Basin illustrates how green land grabs create new natures, rather than simpl…
The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America
Drug trafficking, cattle ranching and Land use and Land cover change in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
The Political Forest in the Era of Green Neoliberalism
Nancy Peluso and Peter Vandergeest first used the term “political forest” to denaturalise forests, refiguring them as political ‐ecological entities. Across three moments of colonialism, post‐colonial independence, and counter‐insurgency struggles, they analyse how states in Southeast Asia (re)made forests as a means of territorialising power. More recently, they identify a fourth, contemporary moment characterised by the entry of diverse non‐sta…
Narco‐Cattle Ranching in Political Forests
In Central America, drug traffickers are deforesting the region's remaining forests and protected areas through a process known as narco‐ganadería , narco‐cattle ranching. Drawing on the case study of Laguna del Tigre National Park, this article argues that narco‐cattle ranching is a key driver of deforestation in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. Using ethnographic and remote‐sensing methods, we describe narco‐cattle ranching's money‐launderin…
Formaciones actuales de lo campesino en América Latina: Conceptualizaciones, Sujetos/as Políticos/as Y Territorios en Disputa
Section:ChooseTop of pageAbstract <
Narcotrafficking and Land Control in Guatemala and Honduras
On frontiers dominated by illicit activities such as narcotrafficking, criminal organizations’ usurpation of land and resources is profoundly changing rural livelihoods and prospects for biodiversity conservation. Prior work has demonstrated how drug trafficking catalyzes forest loss and smallholder dispossession but does not make clear the extent to which the long-term control of land is moved from state, Indigenous, or smallholders to criminal …
Im/Mobility at the US-Mexico Border during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included Title 42, which deported asylum seekers immediately and prevented them from applying for asylum. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US-Mexico border for an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers who were preven…
Central America’s agro-ecological suitability for cultivating coca, Erythroxylum spp
We assess how much of Central America is likely to be agriculturally suitable for cultivating coca ( Erythroxylum spp), the main ingredient in cocaine. Since 2017, organized criminal groups (not smallholders) have been establishing coca plantations in Central America for cocaine production. This has broken South America’s long monopoly on coca leaf production for the global cocaine trade and raised concerns about future expansion in the isthmus. …
Geography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Agroforestry (4 works) · Corporate governance (4 works)