Josiah McC. Heyman, Ph.D. (City University of New York, 1988) Chair, Professor of Anthropology Department of Sociology and Anthropology Old Main, Room 110 El Paso, TX 79968-0558  PHONE: (915) 747-7356  FAX: (915) 747-5505  E-MAIL: jmheyman@utep.edu

Major Publications (* = Refereed Journal or Book)

Books and Edited Journal Issues

*2004    Josiah McC. Heyman and Hilary Cunningham, eds.,“Movement on the Margins: Mobilities and Enclosures at Borders,” special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11(3) Fall 2004

*1999    States and Illegal Practices, edited by Josiah Heyman (Oxford: Berg Publishers).

*1998    Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy: An Anthropological Perspective, American Ethnological Society, Monographs in Human Policy Issues.  (Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association).

*1991    Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886-1986 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

Major Articles/Book Chapters/Other Items of Public Interest

2013   “Political Economy,” in James G. Carrier and Deborah Gewertz, eds., Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology, pp. 88-106. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

 

*2013  Alarcón, Amado, and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Bilingual Call Centers at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Location and Linguistic Markers of Exploitability,” Language in Society 42:1-21.

 

2012   “Capitalism and US policy at the Mexican border,” Dialectical Anthropology 36 (3-4): 263-77.

2012 “Culture Theory and the US–Mexico Border,” In Hastings Donnan and Thomas Wilson, eds., A Companion to Border Studies, pp. 48-65. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

2012    Heyman, Josiah McC., and John Symons, “Borders,” in Didier Fassin, ed., A Companion to Moral Anthropology, pp. 540-557.  Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

 *2012 “Political Economy and Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region,” in Mark Lusk, Kathleen Staudt, and Eva Moya, eds., Social Justice In The U.S.-Mexico Border Region, pp. 41-59. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Verlag.

*2012 Greenberg, James B., and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Neoliberal Capital and the Mobility Approach in Anthropology,” in James B. Greenberg, Thomas Weaver, Anne Browning-Aiken, and William L. Alexander, eds., Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico, pp. 241-68. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

*2012  “Constructing a ‘Perfect’ Wall: Race, Class, and Citizenship in US-Mexico Border Policing,” in Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem, eds., Migration in the 21^st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography, pp. 153-74 (New York and London: Routledge).

*2012 “Class Consciousness in a Complicated Setting: Race, Immigration Status, Nationality, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” in E. Paul Durrenberger, ed., The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness, pp. 223-248. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

2012    Heyman, Josiah McC., and Howard Campbell.  “The Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border Region,” Revista de Estudos Universitários [Universidade de Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil] 38(1): 75-94.  (Special issue: Militarização nas Américas).

*2012  Alarcón A., Amado, and Josiah McC. Heyman.  “Limites socioeconómicos a la extensión de la lengua española en los Estados Unidos,” REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicos 139: 3-20.

*2012  Smith, Curtis, Ernesto Castañeda, and Josiah McC. Heyman.  “The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99%,” Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest, DOI:10.1080/14742837.2012.704179.

 *2012 “Eric R. Wolf,” Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. John L. Jackson, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. http://oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0042.xml .

2012 Castañeda, Ernesto, and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Is the Southwestern Border Really Unsafe?” Scholars Strategy Network, Basic Facts Brief, http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/sites/default/files/ssn_basic_facts_casteneda_and_heymann_on_border_safety.pdf

*2011 "An Academic in an Activist Coalition: Recognizing and Bridging Role Conflicts. Annals of Anthropological Practice 35(2): 136-153.

2011 "Guns, Drugs, and Money: Tackling the Real Threats to Border Security" (invited public policy paper). Washington, DC: Immigration Policy Center. 

2011 "Essay: The U.S. Political Community: Anti-Immigration Sentiment and Issues of Race, Class, Gender, Conscience, and Political Belief," in Anti-Immigrationism in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Kathleen Arnold, ed. Vol. 2, pp. 795-806. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. Also entries on Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Immigration Enforcement since the 1970s.

*2011 Heyman, Josiah McC., and Howard Campbell, "Afterword: Crime on and Across Borders," in Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America's Borderlands. Elaine Carey and Andrae M. Marak, eds., pp. 177-190. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

2011 "Cuatro temas en los estudios de la frontera contemporánea," in Natalia Ribas Mateos, ed., El Río Bravo Mediterráneo: Las Regiones Fronterizas en la Epoca de la Globalización, Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona.

 2011 Núñez, Guillermina G. and Josiah McC. Heyman. "Comunidades de inmigrantes “atrapadas” en los procesos de control de la libre circulación: consecuencias de la intensificación de la vigilancia en la zona fronteriza México-Estados Unidos." In Migración y Seguridad: nuevo desafío en México. Editora: Natalia Armijo Canto. Mexico: Casede. Translation of Núñez and Heyman, 2007, citation below.

 * 2011 L. M. Lapeyrouse, O. Morera, J. McC. Heyman, M. A. Amaya, N. E. Pingitore and H. Balcazar, "A Profile of US-Mexico Border Mobility Among a Stratified Random Sample of Hispanics Living in the El Paso-Juarez Area," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, on-line first, DOI: 10.1007/s10903-011-9453-x

*2010 “The State and Mobile People at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” in Winnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner Barber, eds., Class, Contention, and a World in Motion, pp. 58-78 (Oxford: Berghahn Press).

 *2010 "US-Mexico Border Cultures and the Challenge of Asymmetrical Interpenetration," in Hastings Donnan and Thomas M. Wilson, eds., Borderlands: Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity, pp. 21-34 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America).

*2010 Talavera, Victor S., Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri, and Josiah McC. Heyman, "Deportation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Anticipation, Experience, and Memory," in Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz, editors, The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement, pp. 166-95 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).

2010 "Activism in Anthropology: Exploring the Present through Eric R. Wolf’s Vietnam-Era Work" [invited essay] Dialectical Anthropology 34(2): 287-293.

2010 Heyman, Josiah McC., and Howard Campbell, “Bordering Culture: The U.S.-Mexico Case,” in E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem, eds., Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader, pp. 189-201 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers).

*2009 Josiah McC. Heyman, Guillermina Gina Núñez, and Victor Talavera, “Health Care Access and Barriers for Unauthorized Immigrants in El Paso County, Texas,” Family and Community Health, 32(1): 4–21.

*2009 Heyman, Josiah McC., Maria Cristina Morales, and Guillermina Gina Núñez, "Engaging with the Immigrant Human Rights Movement in a Besieged Border Region: What Do Applied Social Scientists Bring to the Policy Process?" NAPA Bulletin [National Association for the Practice of Anthropology] 31: 13–29.

*2009 Heyman, Josiah McC., and Howard Campbell, “The Anthropology of Global Flows: A Critical Reading of Appadurai’s “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” Anthropological Theory 9(2): 131–148.

2009 “Ports of Entry in the ‘Homeland Security’ Era: Inequality of Mobility and the Securitization of Transnational Flows,” in Samuel Martínez, ed., International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy, pp. 44-59. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

*2009 "Trust, Privilege, and Discretion in the Governance of the US Borderlands with Mexico," Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société 24(3): 367-390 (special issue on discretion in law, administration, and policing).

*2009 "Risque et confiance dans le contrôle des frontières américaines" ["Risk and Trust in U.S. Borderlands Enforcement"] Politix Vol. 22, No. 87: 21-46.

*2009 "Conclusion: Can the World Be Micromanaged?" in James G. Carrier and Paige West, eds., Virtualism, Governance and Practice: Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation, pp. 177-88. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Press.

 *2009 Campbell, Howard, and Josiah McC. Heyman, "The Study of Borderlands Consumption: Potentials and Precautions," in Alexis McCrossen, ed., Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands, pp. 325-332, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

*2009 "A Border That Divides. A Border That Joins," Anthropology Now 1(3): 79-85.

*2008 “Constructing a Virtual Wall: Race and Citizenship in U.S.-Mexico Border Policing,” Journal of the Southwest 50(3): 305-334.

*2008  Pallitto, Robert, and Josiah McC. Heyman (2008) “Theorizing Cross-Border Mobility:
Surveillance, Security and Identity,” Surveillance & Society 5(3): 315-333.  Available at: http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles5(3)/mobility.pdf

*2008    Dudley Ward, Nicholas, Gurian, Patrick L., Heyman, Josiah M., and Howard, Cheryl
"Observed and Perceived Inconsistencies in U.S. Border Inspections," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 5(1), Article 17.  Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol5/iss1/17

*2007    Núñez, Guillermina Gina, and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Entrapment Processes and Immigrant
Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance,” Human Organization 66(4): 354-365.

*2007    Campbell, Howard, and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Slantwise: Beyond Domination and
    Resistance on the Border,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36(1): 3-30. 

*2007    Heyman, Josiah McC., and Howard Campbell, “Corruption in the U.S. Borderlands with
Mexico: The ‘Purity’ of Society and the ‘Perversity’ of Borders,” in Monique Nuijten and Gerhard Anders, eds., Corruption and the Secret of Law: A Legal Anthropological Perspective, pp. 191-217, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

* 2007  “Environmental Issues at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Unequal Territorialization of
    Value,” in Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier, eds., Rethinking
    Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change,
    Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, pp. 327-344.

*2006     Villegas, H., P.L. Gurian, J.M. Heyman, A. Mata, R. Falcone, E. Ostapowicz, S. Wilrigs,     M.
Petragnani, E. Eisele.  "Tradeoffs between Security and Traffic Flow:  Policy Options for Land Border Ports of Entry" Transportation Research Record, No. 1942: 16-22.

*2005  “Eric Wolf’s Ethical-Political Humanism, and Beyond,” Critique of Anthropology 25(1): 13-26.

*2004   “The Anthropology of Power-Wielding Bureaucracies,” Human Organization 63(4): 487-500.

2004    Josiah McC. Heyman and Howard Campbell, “Recent Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” (Review Essay), Latin American Research Review 39 (3): 205-220.

*2004    Hilary Cunningham and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Introduction: Mobilities and Enclosures at Borders,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11 (3): 289-302.

*2004    “Ports of Entry as Nodes in the World System,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11 (3): 303-327.

*2004    “The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt,” in Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds., Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales and Social Groups, Rutgers University Press, pp. 113-132.

*2004    “Conclusion: Understandings Matter,” in James G. Carrier, ed., Confronting Environments: Local Understanding in a Globalizing World, Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, pp. 183-195.

*2003    “The Inverse of Power,” Anthropological Theory, 3 (2): 139-56.

*2002  "U.S. Immigration Officers of Mexican Ancestry as Mexican Americans, Citizens, and Immigration Police," with “CA* Commentary” and a “Reply by the Author” Current Anthropology 43(3): 479-507.

*2001 "Working for Beans and Refrigerators: Learning About Environmental Policy from Mexican Northern-Border Consumers," in Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences, edited by Maurie J. Cohen and Joseph Murphy, Amsterdam: Pergamon Press, pp. 137-55.

*2001     "United States Ports of Entry on the Mexican Border," Journal of the Southwest, 43(4): 681-700.  Republished (2004) in Andrew Grant Wood, ed., On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico, Lanham, MD: Scholarly Resources, pp. 221-240.

*2001    "Class and Classification on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Human Organization 60(2): 128-140.

2001    "On U.S.-Mexico Border Culture," Journal of the West 40(2): 50-59.

2001    “Consumption in Developing Societies,” in Social and Cultural Development of Human Resources, edited by Tomoko Hamada, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers/UNESCO, no pagination [on-line]. Available at <http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/consumpt.htm>

*2000     “Respect for Outsiders?  Respect for the Law?  The Moral Evaluation of High-Scale Issues by US Immigration Officers,” Curl Prize Essay, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 6(4): 635-652.

*1999    “United States Surveillance over Mexican Lives at the Border: Snapshots of an Emerging Regime,” Human Organization 58(4): 429-37.

*1999    “Why Interdiction? Immigration Law Enforcement at the United States-Mexico Border,” Regional Studies 33(7): 619-30.

*1999   Josiah McC. Heyman and Alan Smart “States and Illegal Practices: An Overview,” in States and Illegal Practices, edited by Josiah Heyman, Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 1-24.

*1999    “State Escalation of Force: A Vietnam/US-Mexico Border Analogy,” in States and Illegal Practices, edited by Josiah Heyman, Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 285-314.

*1998    “State Effects on Labor Exploitation: The INS and Undocumented Immigrants at the Mexico-United States Border,” Critique of Anthropology, 18(2): 157-80.

*1997    James G. Carrier and Josiah McC. Heyman, “Consumption and Political Economy,” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, N.S., 3(2): 355-73.

*1997    “Imports And Standards Of Justice On The Mexico-United States Border,” in Benjamin S. Orlove, ed., The Allure of the Foreign: Post-Colonial Goods in Latin America, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), pp. 151-84.

*1995    “Putting Power into the Anthropology of Bureaucracy: The Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Mexico-United States Border,” with “CA* Commentary” and a “Reply by the Author” Current Anthropology, 36(2):261-87

*1995    “In the Shadow of the Smoke Stacks: Labor and Environmental Conflict in a Company Dominated Town,” in Jane Schneider and Rayna Rapp, eds., Articulating Hidden Histories: Anthropology, History, and the Influence of Eric R. Wolf, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press), pp. 156-74.

*1994    “The Mexico-United States Border in Anthropology: A Critique and Reformulation,” Journal of Political Ecology, 1:43-65.   On-line at  <http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_1/HEYMAN.PDF>

*1994    “Changes in House Construction Materials in Border Mexico: Four Research Propositions about Commoditization,” Human Organization, 53(2):132-42.

*1994    “The Organizational Logic of Capitalist Consumption on the Mexico-United States Border,” Research in Economic Anthropology, 15:175-238.

*1993    “The Oral History of the Mexican American Community of Douglas, Arizona, 1901-1941,” Journal of the Southwest, 35(2):186-206.

*1990    “The Emergence of the Waged Life Course on the United States-Mexico Border,” American Ethnologist, 17(2):348-59.