Heather L. Williams

2021: “‘If You Give Us the Best Place in the World, It Is Not So Good as This’: Some Reflections on Catastrophe, Consciousness, and the Right to Home,” The Arrow Journal 3 (2), September.

2021: “Debtors’ Revenge Revisited,” Gilbert Joseph and Timothy Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader, 2^nd edition. Durham, NC: Duke University Press

2020: With Alex Lintner, website, “Public Trust Thinking in Food and Agriculture,” with essays by Williams and Lintner

2020: “States of Emergency: New Writing on Deportation and Democracy,” Latin American Perspectives 47 (6): 148-156, November 1

2017: “Agricultural Subsidies and the Environment,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Environmental Science, DOI 10:1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.310.

2015: “The Paradoxical PANista: The Legacy of President Vicente Fox,” for Eric Zolov, Icons of Mexico, Greenport, CT: Greenwood Press, p. 241-246.

2015: “What Lies Beneath: An Eco-Historical View of High Andes Water Pollution,” Ambiente e Sociedade 18:1

2015: “The Organizers Who Never Gave Up: An interview with Alicia Jrapko, co-founder of the International Committee to Free the Cuban Five, on how persistence pays in uphill political struggles, NACLA Report on the Americas, online edition, January 13, 2015

2015: Guest editor and lead author, “Global Water Grab in the Andes,” winter issue feature for NACLA Report on the Americas 47 (1), including the following articles: “Glacial Retreat in the Andes”; “Peru’s Media-Friendly Mining Ban Masks Toxic Inaction”; “U.N. Climate Conference Exposes Peru’s Poor Record on the Environment.”

2015: “Both sides now: the rise of migrant activism and co-investment in public works in Zacatecas, Mexico,” with Fernando Robledo in Enduring Reform: Business Responses to Bottom-Up Social Change in the Americas, University of Pittsburgh Press.

2014: “A Din Amid Quiet Ruins,” The Arrow, 1 (2).

2012: “Both Sides Now: Migrant Philanthropy, State Power, and the Struggle for Accountability in the Zacatecas, Mexico” in Terrence Lyons and Peter Mandaville, eds. Diasporas and Globalization: Local Politics from Afar. Hurst/Columbia University Press, pp. 45-67.

2011: “After the Gold Rush in Peru,”  Los Angeles Times, August 7 (Sunday), p. A25.

2006. “Fighting Corporate Swine.” Politics & Society 34 (3): 369 - 398

2004: “Why France Joined the U.S. in Haiti,” CounterPunch, print edition 11 (4), February 16-23.

2004: With Karl LaRaque. “Marines Retake Haiti: The U.S. Coup Continues,” CounterPunch, March 3. 

2004: “Haiti As Target Practice: How the U.S. Media Missed the Story,” CounterPunch, March 1.

2003: “Of Legal Farce and Labor Tragedy: The Han Young Struggle in Tijuana, Mexico.” Social Science History 27 (4): 525-550,

2001: “Of Free Trade and Debt Bondage.” Latin American Perspectives 28 (4): 30-51.

2001: Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distribute Protest in Mexico. Cambridge University Press.

1999: “Mobile Capital and Transborder Labor Rights Mobilization.” Politics & Society 27 (1): 139-166.

1996: Planting Trouble: The Barzón Debtors' Movement in Mexico. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego.