Jennifer Devine

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2013
Office: ELA 381
Phone: 512.245.3937
Email: devine@txstate.edu
Vita HB2504 information
Personal Website: http://www.jenniferdevine.com
Research Interests: Human-environmental relations, Latin American - US politics, critical social theory
Publications:
2020. Devine, J., D. Ojeda, M. Yei "Formaciones actuales de lo campesino en América Latina: Subjetividades y territorios
en disputa (Current dynamics of the Latin America peasantry: Subjectivities and disputed territories),"Antipoda:
Jornada de Anthropología y Arqueología, available: https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda40.2020.01
2020. Wrathall, D., J. Devine, B. Aquilar-Gonzalez, B. Tellman, K. Benessaiah, "The impacts of cocaine trafficking on
conservation governance in Central America, "Global Environmental Change, available:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378019310076
2020. B. Tellman, S. Sesnie, N. Magliocca, E. Nielsen, J. Devine, K. McSweeney, D. Wrathall, B. Aquilar - González,
J. Bryan, K. Benessaiah, M. Jain, "Accounting for "illicit" activity in land use change: Narcotrafficking and forest loss
in Central America,” Global Environmental Change, available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102092
2020. Devine, J., N. Currit, Y. Reygadas, L. Liller, G. Allen. "Drug Trafficking, Cattle Ranching and Land Use Change
in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere,"Land Use Policy, available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104578
- Nominated for an Elsevier May 2020 Atlas award dedicated to UN Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land
2020. Devine, J. and J. Baca, "The Political Forest: Special Issue Introduction,"Antipode, available:
https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12624
2019. N.R. Magliocca, Kendra McSweeney, S. Sesnie, E. Tellman, J.A. Devine, E.A. Nielsen, Z. Pearson, D.J. Wrathall,
" NarcoLogic: Spatial structure and adaption of transnational cocaine trafficking networks" Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 116 (16), pp. 7784 - 7792.
2018. Devine, J., D. Wrathall., N. Currit, B. Tellman, Y. Reygadas "Narco-cattle ranching in Guatemala's Political Forests,"
Antipode, available, https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12469
2018. Devine, J., "Community Forest Concessionaires: Resisting Green Grabs and Producing Political Subjects in Guatemala,"
Journal of Peasant Studies, 45 (3), pp. 565 - 584.
2017. McSweeney, K., N. Richani, Z. Pearson, J. Devine, D. Wrathall. "Why do drug traffickers invest in rural land?" Journal of
Latin American Geography, 16 (2), pp. 3 - 29.
2017. Devine, J. and D. Ojeda, "Violence and dispossession in tourism development: a critical geographical approach," Journal
of Sustainable Tourism, 25 (5), pp. 605 - 617.
2017. Devine, J., "Colonizing Space, Commodifying Place: Tourism's Violent Geographies," Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25
(5), pp. 634 - 650.
2016. Devine, J., "Contesting Global Heritage in the Chicle Worker's Museum," Latin America Research Review, vol. 51, no. 3,
pp. 101 - 122.
2016. Devine, J., "The Politics of Post-War Tourism in Guatemala: Contested Identities, Histories, and Futures," L'Espace
Politique, DOI : 10.4000/espacepolitique.3723 (online journal, no page numbers, full length article)
2014. Devine, J., "Counterinsurgency Eco-tourism," Environment & Planning D, Society and Space, 32, 6, pp. 984 - 1001.
2013. Devine, J., "Tourism and Socio-Cultural Change in Latin America," Tourism Tribune (Lu You Xue Kan), vol. 28, no. 12, pp.
6 - 7.
2011. Barker, D., Bond, A., Devine, J., Jarosz, J., Lawson, V., Nelson, L., and P. Nelson in Seattle Geographies, M. Brown
and R. Morrill (Eds.), UW Press, pp. 71 -86.
2009. Devine, J., "The Mayan Spirit: Tourism & Multiculturalism in Post Peace Accords Guatemala," London Journal of
Tourism, Sport & Creative Industries, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 30 - 45.
2006. Devine, J., "Hardworking Newcomers versus Generations of Poverty," Antipode, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 953 - 976.
Courses Taught:
Geography 3340: Political Geography
Geography 5300: Applied Research Design and Techniques
Geography 5395/7373: Qualitative Methods
Geography 5395/7373: Political Geography