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
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
Awards
- Faculty Research Travel Grant
- Binational Consortium University of Arizona-Universidad Autónoma de México, Fall 2019
- SBS College Teaching Award--Lower Division
- Fall 2016
- Collaborative Research Fellowship
- American Council of Learned Societies, Fall 2014
- Udall Center-Institute of the Environment Fellowship
- Udall-Institute of the Environment, Spring 2014
- Junior Sabbatical
- UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fall 2013
- Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship
- What type of organization made the award?: Federal government;, Fall 2010
- Tinker Summer Research Travel Award
- What type of organization made the award?: Foundation;, Fall 2010
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Dissertation
GEOG 920 (Fall 2024) -
Independent Study
GEOG 699 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Geography of Mexico
GEOG 311A (Spring 2024) -
Geography of Mexico
LAS 311A (Spring 2024)
2022-23 Courses
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Dissertation
GEOG 920 (Fall 2022) -
Master's Report
RNR 909 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Master's Report
RNR 909 (Spring 2022) -
Political Geography
GEOG 696H (Spring 2022)
2020-21 Courses
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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
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Arizona + The Southwest
GEOG 408 (Spring 2020) -
Independent Study
GEOG 699 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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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
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Political Geography
GEOG 696H (Spring 2018)
2016-17 Courses
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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
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Arizona + The Southwest
GEOG 408 (Spring 2016) -
Dissertation
GEOG 920 (Spring 2016) -
Independent Study
GEOG 699 (Spring 2016)
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.2015.04.002More infoCollaborative 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:10.1080/21622671.2015.1064251More infoThis 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.2014.09.005More 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 infoThis 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;