Publications

Ybarra, M (in press) “Radical placemaking is a verb.” Dialogues in Human Geography https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251345548

Douglass-Jaimes, G, Keeve, C and M Ybarra (in press) “Reorienting knowledge through storytelling and collaborative practice,” The Professional Geographer https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2025.2512095

Orosco, O and Ybarra, M (in press) “The datafication of environmental injustice.” Capitalism Nature Socialism https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2024.2448671

Muñoz, L and Ybarra, M (2024) “Latinx geographies.” In Chen, G and Eaves, L (eds) How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography. (pp 74-81). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar

Ybarra, M (2023) “Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies." Latino Studies 21: 22 - 41. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-022-00389-w

Carrasco, W. and Ybarra, M (2021) Unjust Enrichment: The struggle for fair wages and an end to all immigrant cages. https://tinyurl.com/unjustenrichment, published June 2021.

Ybarra, M (2021) "Site Fight! Towards the abolition of immigrant detention on Tacoma’s Tar Pits (and everywhere else)”. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography: 53(1): 36 – 55. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12610

Heynen, N and M. Ybarra (2021) “On Abolition Ecologies and Making Freedom as a Place”, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 53(1): 21 – 35. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12666

Ybarra, M (2020) Guerras Verdes: Conservación y Descolonización en la Selva Maya. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala (AVANCSO). Autores Invitados No 29. (272 pages) Available open access via CLACSO: https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/11549
Revised translation of Green Wars; with prologue by Gladys Tzul Tzul and epilogue by Jennifer J. Casolo.

Ybarra, M (2019) "We are not ignorant': Transnational migrants’ experiences of racialized securitization." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37(2): 197-215.  
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Ybarra, M (2019) "On becoming a Latinx Geographies Killjoy." Society & Space  Magazine; http://societyandspace.org/2019/01/23/on-becoming-a-latinx-geographies-killjoy/, published January 23, 2019

Ybarra, M (2017) Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

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.