Research

Green Wars: Conservation & Decolonization in the Maya Forest

Conservation & Security

The Hunger Strikers Handbook (image by Murphy Mitchel)

Mexico's Southern Border (image by Favianna Rodriguez)

You can check out a selected list of publications below, or on my CV. If a paywall is standing between you and something I've written, please drop me a line.

Selected Publications
Ybarra, M and Peña, IL (2017) “We Don’t Need Money, We Need to be Together”: Forced Transnationality in Deportation’s Afterlives. Geopolitics 22: 34-50.

Ybarra, M. (2016) "'Blind Passes' and the Production of Green Security through Violence on the Guatemalan border"Geoforum 69: 194-206

Ybarra, M. (2013) You Cannot Measure a Tzuultaq'a: Cultural Politics at the Limits of Liberal Legibility. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 45(3): 584-601.

Ybarra, M. (2012) Taming the Jungle, Saving the Maya Forest: Sedimented counterinsurgency practices in contemporary Guatemalan conservation. Journal of Peasant Studies 39(2): 479-502. 

Ybarra, M., O. Obando Samos, L. Grandia, and N. B. Schwartz. (2012) Tierra, Migración y Vida en Petén, 1999-2009. Guatemala City: CONGCOOP-IDEAR. (download pdf)