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Jeffrey Banister

  • Director, Southwest Studies Center
  • Associate Research Scientist
  • Associate Editor
  • Associate Research Professor
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 621-2484
  • Little Chapel of All Nations, Rm. 110
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • banister@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Geography
    • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    • “Río Revuelto:Irrigation and the Politics of Chaos in Sonora’s Mayo Valley”
  • M.A. Latin American Studies
    • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • B.S. Criminal Justice
    • Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona

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Courses

2024-25 Courses

  • Dissertation
    GEOG 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Geography of Mexico
    GEOG 311A (Spring 2025)
  • Geography of Mexico
    LAS 311A (Spring 2025)
  • Dissertation
    GEOG 920 (Fall 2024)
  • Independent Study
    GEOG 699 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Geography of Mexico
    GEOG 311A (Spring 2024)
  • Geography of Mexico
    LAS 311A (Spring 2024)

2022-23 Courses

  • Dissertation
    GEOG 920 (Fall 2022)
  • Master's Report
    RNR 909 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Master's Report
    RNR 909 (Spring 2022)
  • Political Geography
    GEOG 696H (Spring 2022)

2020-21 Courses

  • Dissertation
    GEOG 920 (Summer I 2021)
  • Arizona + The Southwest
    GEOG 408 (Spring 2021)
  • Thesis
    GEOG 910 (Spring 2021)
  • Thesis
    GEOG 910 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Arizona + The Southwest
    GEOG 408 (Spring 2020)
  • Independent Study
    GEOG 699 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Arizona + The Southwest
    GEOG 408 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    GEOG 499 (Spring 2019)
  • Research
    GEOG 900 (Spring 2019)
  • Senior Capstone
    EVS 498 (Spring 2019)

2017-18 Courses

  • Political Geography
    GEOG 696H (Spring 2018)

2016-17 Courses

  • Arizona + The Southwest
    GEOG 408 (Spring 2017)
  • Dissertation
    GEOG 920 (Spring 2017)
  • Independent Study
    GEOG 699 (Spring 2017)
  • Dissertation
    GEOG 920 (Fall 2016)
  • Env & Soc in SW Borderlands
    GEOG 250 (Fall 2016)
  • Independent Study
    GEOG 699 (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • Arizona + The Southwest
    GEOG 408 (Spring 2016)
  • Dissertation
    GEOG 920 (Spring 2016)
  • Independent Study
    GEOG 699 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

  • Fitzsimmons, R., Banister, J., Nabhan, G. P., & Alvarez, M. L. (2012). Hungry for Change: Borderlands Food and Water in the Balance.. Tucson, AZ: The Southwest Center’s Kellogg Program in Sustainable Food Systems.

Journals/Publications

  • Banister, J. (2017). The Shifting Geopolitics of Water in the Anthropocene. Geopolitics-Forum. doi:dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2017.1282279
  • Soto, V. (2016). Building Cities, Constructing Citizens: Sustainable Rural Cities in Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography, 35. doi:10.1353/lag.2016.0004
  • Widdifield, S. (2015). A Visual History of Water in Mexico City: Modernity and Memorial. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin America History. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.305
  • Banister, J. (2015). Patria Fugáz: The Troubled Birth of Hydraulic Populism on Sonora’s Río Mayo, 1910 to 1934. Journal of the Southwest. doi:10.1353/jsw.2015.0001
  • Banister, J. (2015). You and What Army? Violence, the State, and Mexico's War on Drugs. Territory, Politics, Governance. doi:10.1080/21622671.2015.1064251
  • Kelly, S. -. (2015). A state of suspended animation: Urban sanitation and water access in Nogales, Sonora. Political Geography. doi:dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.04.002
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    Collaborative with Ph.D. student Sarah Kelly
  • Banister, J. -. (2014). Are You Wittfogel or are You Against him? Hydro-sociality, Aridity, and the State. Geoforum, 57, 205-214. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.03.004
  • Widdifield, S. -. (2014). The Debut of Modern Water in Early 20th Century Mexico City: The Xochimilco Potable Waterworks. Journal of Historical Geography. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2014.09.005
    More info
    ;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Full Citation:Journal of Historical Geography
  • Banister, J. -. (2012). Diluvios de Grandeza: Agua, Territorio y Poder en El Rio Mayo, 1880-1910. Región y Sociedad, 24(3).
  • Banister, J. -. (2012). Towards a "New Culture of Water" on Sonora's Rio Mayo. The Southwestern Geographer, 15.
  • Banister, J. -. (2011). Deluges of Grandeur: Water, Territory, and Power On Northwest Mexico’s Río Mayo, 1880-1910. Water Alternatives, 4(1).
  • Scott, C. -. (2008). The Dilemma of Water Management 'Regionalization' in Mexico under Centralized Resource Allocation. Water Resources Development, 24(1). doi:10.1080/07900620701723083
  • Banister, J. (2007). Stating Space in Modern Mexico. Political Geography, 26. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.12.003

Reviews

  • Banister, J. -. (2011. Review for the Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, and Scale.
  • Banister, J. -. (2009. Review for Water History: Notarios y agricultores: crecimiento y atraso en el campo mexicano, 1780-1920.

Others

  • Banister, J. -. (2014, November). Among Yoris and Guariios. Journal of the Southwest.
    More info
    This is a 200-pp. translation of a book that has now been accepted for publication in Journal of the Southwest for Autumn 2014. I have completed the translation and am working on edits with the author, Dr. Teresa Valdivia, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).;Full Citation: Journal of the Southwest;Status: book-length journal manuscript translation in Preparation;

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