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Josiah Heyman
   
Selected Publications    

    Books and Edited Journal Issues (* = Refereed Journal or Book)

    *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 Article/Book Chapter Length Works

    *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            Heyman, Josiah McC., 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., and Jason Ackleson, “United States Border Security after September 11," in John Winterdyck and Kelly Sundberg, eds., Border Security in the Al-Qaeda Era, pp. 37-74.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC 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 inthe United States-Mexico Borderlands, pp. 325-332, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

    *2008            “Constructing a Virtual Wall: Race and Citizenship in U.S.-Mexico Border Policing,” Journal ofthe 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.


       
    Honors and Professional Activities    

    • Chair, Public Policy Committee, Society for Applied Anthropology
    • Curl Essay Prize winner, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
    • and Ireland, 1999 
    • Distinguished Lecture, UC-MEXUS (University of California Mexico-U.S.
    • Studies Center), University of California, Riverside, 1999.
    • Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
    • Research, 1989
    • Research grants from NIH, NSF, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Wenner-Gren
    • Foundation, Doherty Foundation
       
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