Joseph Nevins
Biographic Data
| ID | 629922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Nevins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Nevins |
| SIGNATURE | NEVINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2441-3284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Firepower and its Violent Geographies
Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Greater Boston in 2050
A tourist, not a god: Mike Davis, radical geographer
Mike Davis (1946–2022) was a leftist intellectual and activist, in addition to a prolific author on myriad subjects. His major writings focused on topics that included power relations and inequality in US cities, particularly in Southern California: the history of the car bomb; the ties between climate change, empire, and famine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the explosive growth of shantytowns in the global South; and the political e…
Unsettling Self-determination, Sovereignty, and Claims to Nativeness
Sorry to Bother You: The AAG Climate Action Task Force as a Necessary Inconvenience
General Introduction
Introduction and Abridged Text of Lecture: “Laggards or Leaders: Academia and Its Responsibility in Delivering on the Paris Commitments”
On 8 April 2020, the Climate Action Task Force of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) held its inaugural event—a plenary lecture by Dr. Kevin Anderson, a Professor of Energy and Climate C
Beyond Borders
Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds: The US Government’s Complicity in Crimes against Humanity and Genocide
Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror
The speed of life and death: Migrant Fatalities, Territorial Boundaries, and Energy Consumption
This article considers how migrant deaths – particularly in the borderlands of Europe and the United States – relate to the speed at which migrants travel. It argues that the most dangerous boundaries for migrants, and the most difficult ones to traverse, are those which embody the sharpest divides in energy consumption, divides reflected in the vulnerability of migrants who typically move at relatively slow speeds and have insufficient access to…
Thinking Out of Bounds: A Critical Analysis of Academic and Human Rights Writings on Migrant Deaths in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
The number of unauthorized immigrants who have died attempting to cross the U.S. southern boundary from Mexico has grown to alarming levels. It is conservatively estimated that between January 1995 and September 2003—a time of an intensified enforcement strategy along the U.S.-Mexico boundary—there were over 2,600 documented deaths of unauthorized migrants in the border region (see CRLAF, 2003). These deaths have received critical attention by ac…
Beyond Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall: Trump’s plan to wall off the entire U.S.-Mexico border is just one of a growing list of actions that extend U.S. border patrol efforts far past the international bo…
In the fall of 2016, Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” along the U.S.-Mexico divide seemed like an unlikely presidential candidate’s campaign bluster. Since the New York real estate magnate’s sw
Remembering Fidel: Naclistas reflect on the 2016 passing of Fidel Castro and the meaning of the Cuban revolution
The Right to the World
The global number of refugees, asylum seekers, and those displaced within their countries are at record levels in the post‐World War II era. Meanwhile, efforts by relatively wealthy and powerful nation‐states to exclude unwanted migrants through enhanced territorial control have reached unprecedented heights, producing great harm–most notably premature death–for many. The factors driving out‐migration from homelands made unviable, coupled with mu…
A New Agenda in U.S.-Latin American Relations
The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Sonora, looking toward Nogales, Arizona. MIZUE AIZEKIAs the Winter 2016 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas went to press, U.S. voters were preparing t
No sovereign nation, no reservation’: Producing the new colonialism in Cayuga Count(r)y
‘No sovereign nation, no reservation’: producing the new colonialism in Cayuga Count(r)y. Territory, Politics, Governance. Since 1980, the Cayuga Nation has worked through various US politico-legal mechanisms to establish sovereignty over land taken from them by European settlers and their descendants in what is today New York State beginning in the 1700s. When, in 2005, the US Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s dismissal of their ca…
Planting Seeds So Something Bigger Might Emerge: The Paris Agreement and the Fight Against Climate Change
FlyingLess: In a piece that you wrote and that was published in Nature, you assert that the Paris climate agreement constitutes "a genuine triumph of international diplomacy," while at the same time arguing that it "risks being total fantasy." 2 Why do you say this?Kevin Anderson: The triumph of Paris lies in the international diplomacy that brought together all the leaders of the world's countries.These leaders sang from the same hymn sheet for …
Commodification, violence, and the making of workers and ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras
Policing the Workplace and Rebuilding the State in “America's Finest City”: US Immigration Control in the San Diego, California–Mexico Borderlands
In 2008, US immigration authorities raided the French Gourmet restaurant, bakery and catering business in San Diego, California. They arrested 18 employees for working in the United States without authorisation, and ultimately deported most of them. The raid reflects a growing effort by the federal government over time to compel employers to cooperate with state-led efforts to police workplaces and effectively cleanse them of unauthorised workers…
Capital and the territorial nation-state: A multilectical approach
Obama’s Immigration Reform for Youth: A DREAM Deferred
"Obama’s Immigration Reform for Youth: A DREAM Deferred?." NACLA Report on the Americas, 45(3), pp. 4–5 Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph NevinsJoseph Nevins teaches geography at Vassar College. His latest book is Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on“Illegals” and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2010)
Light and Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Immigrants in the Aftermath of Obama’s Reelection
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph NevinsJoseph Nevins teaches geography at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Among his books are Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights, 2008); and Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on“Illegals” and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2010)
On the Boundary of Abuse and Accountability
Remote places at the heart of empire
Pushing the boundary: State restructuring, state theory, and the case of U.S.–Mexico border enforcement in the 1990s
Dying for a Cup of Coffee? Migrant Deaths in the US-Mexico Border Region in a Neoliberal Age
Well over 4,000 unauthorised migrants have lost their lives in the U.S.-Mexico border region since 1995. These deaths have occurred at the intersection of a dramatically strengthened U.S. boundary policing enforcement apparatus and persistent and arguably growing out-migratory pressures in Mexico and beyond. A number of the deceased have come from coffee-growing and -harvesting households and regions in Mexico and Central America, areas devastate…
Operation Gatekeeper: The rise of the "illegal alien" and the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary
A Not-so-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor
Restitution over coffee: Truth, reconciliation, and environmental violence in East Timor
The Right to the World
The global number of refugees, asylum seekers, and those displaced within their countries are at record levels in the post‐World War II era. Meanwhile, efforts by relatively wealthy and powerful nation‐states to exclude unwanted migrants through enhanced territorial control have reached unprecedented heights, producing great harm–most notably premature death–for many. The factors driving out‐migration from homelands made unviable, coupled with mu…
Introduction: Borderline Contradictions: Neoliberalism, Unauthorised Migration, and Intensifying Immigration Policing
Contesting the Boundaries of International Justice: State Countermapping and Offshore Resource Struggles Between East Timor and Australia
The ongoing struggle between East Timor and Australia over access to and control of the oil and natural gas resources contained within the seabed between the two countries is manifest in the form of contested boundaries. Each side attempts to buttress its claim through, among other means, competing cartographic representations. In examining this case study, this article asserts that what has come to be known as countermapping is not limited to th…
The speed of life and death: Migrant Fatalities, Territorial Boundaries, and Energy Consumption
This article considers how migrant deaths – particularly in the borderlands of Europe and the United States – relate to the speed at which migrants travel. It argues that the most dangerous boundaries for migrants, and the most difficult ones to traverse, are those which embody the sharpest divides in energy consumption, divides reflected in the vulnerability of migrants who typically move at relatively slow speeds and have insufficient access to…
(Mis)representing East Timor’s past: Structural symbolic violence, international law, and the institutionalization of injustice
The Making of "Ground Zero" in East Timor in 1999: An Analysis of International Complicity in Indonesia's Crimes
Research Article| August 01 2002 The Making of "Ground Zero" in East Timor in 1999: An Analysis of International Complicity in Indonesia's Crimes Joseph Nevins Joseph Nevins Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2002) 42 (4): 623–641. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2002.42.4.623 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…
No sovereign nation, no reservation’: Producing the new colonialism in Cayuga Count(r)y
‘No sovereign nation, no reservation’: producing the new colonialism in Cayuga Count(r)y. Territory, Politics, Governance. Since 1980, the Cayuga Nation has worked through various US politico-legal mechanisms to establish sovereignty over land taken from them by European settlers and their descendants in what is today New York State beginning in the 1700s. When, in 2005, the US Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s dismissal of their ca…
Planting Seeds So Something Bigger Might Emerge: The Paris Agreement and the Fight Against Climate Change
FlyingLess: In a piece that you wrote and that was published in Nature, you assert that the Paris climate agreement constitutes "a genuine triumph of international diplomacy," while at the same time arguing that it "risks being total fantasy." 2 Why do you say this?Kevin Anderson: The triumph of Paris lies in the international diplomacy that brought together all the leaders of the world's countries.These leaders sang from the same hymn sheet for …
Policing the Workplace and Rebuilding the State in “America's Finest City”: US Immigration Control in the San Diego, California–Mexico Borderlands
In 2008, US immigration authorities raided the French Gourmet restaurant, bakery and catering business in San Diego, California. They arrested 18 employees for working in the United States without authorisation, and ultimately deported most of them. The raid reflects a growing effort by the federal government over time to compel employers to cooperate with state-led efforts to police workplaces and effectively cleanse them of unauthorised workers…
The Abuse of Memorialized Space and the Redefinition of Ground Zero
In writing on the connection between memory and horrific events, historian Tzvetan Todorov made a distinction between two ideal types of memories—literal ones and exemplary ones. Literal memories limit their focus to the event(s) relating to the particular experience of horror without making any connections of empathy to other horrendous occurrences. Such memories are used to connect individuals, groups, and other events to the specific suffering…
Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror
Embedded Empire: Structural Violence and the Pursuit of Justice in East Timor
East Timor faces severe limitations in its efforts to realize legal and material justice and to overcome the horrific violence associated with Indonesia's invasion and almost twenty-four-year occupation. Since the Indonesian military's withdrawal in October 1999, the now-independent country has struggled to realize legal and material justice for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed from 1975 to 1999 and to overcome the deprivation…
The Cavr: "Justice and Reconciliation in a Time of "Impoverished Political Possibilities
to the mandate of East Timor's Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) was the identification of state and non-state actors involved in perpetrating gross human rights violations. The commission had to determine who was responsible for the violations and to assess their level of responsibility. The commission also had to issue recommendations on how various actors responsible for the violations were to be held accountable. The co…
Resource conflicts in a new world order
Operation Gatekeeper
By 1994 American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of migrants entered the U.S. nightly. In response, the INS launched "Operation Gatekeeper," the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's unprecedented effort to "regain control" of our borders. In Operation Gatekeeper, Joseph Nevins details the administration's dramatic overhaul of the San Diego-Tijauna border-the busiest land crossing in the world-adding miles…
Operation Gatekeeper
By 1994 American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of migrants entered the U.S. nightly. In response, the INS launched "Operation Gatekeeper," the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's unprecedented effort to "regain control" of our borders. In Operation Gatekeeper, Joseph Nevins details the administration's dramatic overhaul of the San Diego-Tijauna border-the busiest land crossing in the world-adding miles…
Operation Gatekeeper: The rise of the "illegal alien" and the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary
(Mis)representing East Timor’s past: Structural symbolic violence, international law, and the institutionalization of injustice
The Making of "Ground Zero" in East Timor in 1999: An Analysis of International Complicity in Indonesia's Crimes
Research Article| August 01 2002 The Making of "Ground Zero" in East Timor in 1999: An Analysis of International Complicity in Indonesia's Crimes Joseph Nevins Joseph Nevins Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2002) 42 (4): 623–641. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2002.42.4.623 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…
Truth and Justice in the aftermath of war crimes and crimes against humanity
Truth and Justice in the Aftermath of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Restitution over coffee: Truth, reconciliation, and environmental violence in East Timor
Response
Contesting the Boundaries of International Justice: State Countermapping and Offshore Resource Struggles Between East Timor and Australia
The ongoing struggle between East Timor and Australia over access to and control of the oil and natural gas resources contained within the seabed between the two countries is manifest in the form of contested boundaries. Each side attempts to buttress its claim through, among other means, competing cartographic representations. In examining this case study, this article asserts that what has come to be known as countermapping is not limited to th…
Resource conflicts in a new world order
The Abuse of Memorialized Space and the Redefinition of Ground Zero
In writing on the connection between memory and horrific events, historian Tzvetan Todorov made a distinction between two ideal types of memories—literal ones and exemplary ones. Literal memories limit their focus to the event(s) relating to the particular experience of horror without making any connections of empathy to other horrendous occurrences. Such memories are used to connect individuals, groups, and other events to the specific suffering…
Pushing the boundary: State restructuring, state theory, and the case of U.S.–Mexico border enforcement in the 1990s
A Not-so-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor
Timor-Leste in 2006: The End of the Post-Independence Honeymoon
Sporadic sociopolitical violence plagued Timor-Leste for much of 2006, a manifestation in many ways of the festering wounds associated with Indonesia's war and occupation. This violence spurred both international military intervention in an attempt to restore order and also a change in government, aggravating an already difficult socioeconomic situation
Introduction to Symposium on Steve Herbert's Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community
Dying for a Cup of Coffee? Migrant Deaths in the US-Mexico Border Region in a Neoliberal Age
Well over 4,000 unauthorised migrants have lost their lives in the U.S.-Mexico border region since 1995. These deaths have occurred at the intersection of a dramatically strengthened U.S. boundary policing enforcement apparatus and persistent and arguably growing out-migratory pressures in Mexico and beyond. A number of the deceased have come from coffee-growing and -harvesting households and regions in Mexico and Central America, areas devastate…
Introduction: Borderline Contradictions: Neoliberalism, Unauthorised Migration, and Intensifying Immigration Policing
The Cavr: "Justice and Reconciliation in a Time of "Impoverished Political Possibilities
to the mandate of East Timor's Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) was the identification of state and non-state actors involved in perpetrating gross human rights violations. The commission had to determine who was responsible for the violations and to assess their level of responsibility. The commission also had to issue recommendations on how various actors responsible for the violations were to be held accountable. The co…
Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age
Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast Asia to Market trace the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region. In case studies ranging from coffee and hardwoo…
Barricading the Border
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph NevinsJoseph Nevins teaches at Vassar College. He is the author of, most recently, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Books, 2008).Timothy DunnTimothy Dunn teaches at Salisbury University and is the author of Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso, Texas Operation that Remade U.S. Border Enforcement (forthcoming, 2009)
Embedded Empire: Structural Violence and the Pursuit of Justice in East Timor
East Timor faces severe limitations in its efforts to realize legal and material justice and to overcome the horrific violence associated with Indonesia's invasion and almost twenty-four-year occupation. Since the Indonesian military's withdrawal in October 1999, the now-independent country has struggled to realize legal and material justice for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed from 1975 to 1999 and to overcome the deprivation…
Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The war on illegals and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary
This is a major revision and update of Nevins’ earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up to date, but as a "case" of increasing economic integration and liberalization along with growing immigration control, the US / Mexico Border and its hist…
Security First: The Obama Administration and Immigration ‘Reform’
Remote places at the heart of empire
Capital and the territorial nation-state: A multilectical approach
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