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Extending a geographic lens towards climate justice, part 1: climate change characterization and impacts (with Morey Burnham, Zhao Ma, and Ann Laudati), Geography Compass (2013)
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice...
Gendered mobility and morality in a south-eastern Mexican community: Impacts of male labour migration on the women left behind (with J. McEvoy, P. Petrzelka, and B. Schmook), Mobilities (2012)
Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male...
Keeping Them in Their Place: Migrant Women Workers in Spain’s Strawberry Industry (with Susan E. Mannon, Peggy Petrzelka, and Christy M. Glass), International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food (2012)
The idea of guest-worker migration has resurfaced in recent decades as the global agri-food industry...
Labor migration and gendered agricultural relations: The feminization of agriculture in the ejidal sector of Calakmul, Mexico (with Birgit Schmook, Jamie McEvoy, Crisol Mendez, and Peggy Petrzelka), Journal of Agrarian Change (2012)
Migración, género y tenencia de la tierra: Identidades femeninas complejas en el sector rural de Calakmul (with B. Schmook, C. Mendez, J. McEvoy, and P. Petrzelka), Género y Migración en México (2012)
Outcomes of conservation alliances with women’s community-based organizations in southern Mexico, Society & Natural Resources (2012)
Gendered livelihoods and the politics of socio-environmental identity: Women’s participation in conservation projects in Calakmul, Mexico, Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (2011)
A livelihoods approach positions individuals, situated within households, as active agents within processes occurring at...
Becoming farmers: Opening spaces for women’s resource control in Calakmul, Mexico, Latin American Research Review (2011)
Despite empirical findings on women’s varied and often extensive participation in smallholder agriculture in Latin...
Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: Case studies from Southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA (with B. Schmook and S. McCandless), Population and Environment (2010)
Gender shapes the migration–environment association in both origin and destination communities. Using quantitative and qualitative...
Untangling a Decline in Tropical Forest Resilience: Constraints on the Sustainability of Shifting Cultivation Across the Globe (with Deborah Lawrence, Katherine Tully, Birgit Schmook, and Laura Schneider), Biotropica (2010)
Shifting cultivators depend on forest biomass inputs to nourish their crops. For them, forest resilience...
Migration and Gender: The Case of a Farming Ejido in Calakmul, Mexico (with Birgit Schmook), The Yearbook of the Associatio of Pacific Coast Geographers (2009)
As one of Mexico’s last agricultural frontiers, southern Mexico’s rural farming municipality of Calakmul has...
Nature / Environment: Natures, Gendered, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2009)
The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on...
International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and an Incipient Forest Transition--the Southern Yucatán Case (with Birgit Schmook), Human Ecology (2008)
This study documents labor migration and its impacts on household income, material well-being, and land-use...
Male Transnational Migration and its Linkages to Land Use Change in a Southern Campeche Ejido (with Birgit Schmook), Journal of Latin American Geography (2008)
This paper describes findings of a case study examining linkages between emerging transnational migration patterns...
Women's Community-Based Organizations, Conservation Projects, and Effective Land Control in Southern Mexico, Journal of Latin American Geography (2005)
This paper examines outcomes for women's effective land control from engagement of women's agricultural community-based...