Jeffrey Banister

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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
• Banister, J. -. (2014). Illicit Geographies--Special Issue. Territory, Politics, Governance. doi:10.1080/21622671.2015.1064251
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  This is a project with two Ph.D. students, Geoffrey Boyce and Jeremy Slack, and a researcher, Dominic Corva, to guest-edit and write a research paper for a special issue of the journal, Territory, Politics, Governance.The research for our paper focuses on drug-war related violence and the state in Mexico. The papers for the journal come from a series of panels we put together for the 2013 AAG meeting in Los Angeles. We have submitted the final round of revisions (small revisions) and areawaiting a publication confirmation and a pub. date.
• Banister, J., & Widdifield, S. G. (2014). Seeing Water in Early 20 th Century Mexico City: Henry Wellge’s “Perspective Plan of the City and Valley of Mexico, D.F. , 1906. Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas--Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. doi:10.22201/iie.18703062e.2015.107.2551
• 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
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  ;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.
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  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;