joel herrera
@jsherreraa
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Visiting Fellow @KelloggInst • politics, development, & historical sociology • drugs & violence in Mexico • PhD @UCLA • former Academy Scholar @HarvardWCFIA
Ixtlahuacán
Joined May 2020
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the autodefensa uprising in Tierra Caliente, Michoacán. My new article in @JLAScamb examines the breach between criminal rulers and civil society that gave way to this armed mobilization. https://t.co/1AbWQsBJeP
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“Bringing War Back In” is finally out in paperback 📖 Help me spread the word with a rt and I’ll dm a discount voucher valid for a week. • Winner of the 2025 Hedley Bull Award to the best book in International Relations (ECPR) • Honorable mention, 2025 Charles H. Levine
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Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Bringing War Back In
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Check out this new article in OnlineFirst! Rushing Infrastructure Projects Under Austerity: The Militarization of the Mexican Public Administration During AMLO’s Government - Raúl Zepeda Gil (@rgzepeda), Luis Roberto Vargas Pineda, 2025 #OpenAccess
https://t.co/xx3m0LfCHw
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Read the new article by our postdoc fellow James A. Nealey published with the Contemporary European History on the efforts to improve socioeconomic conditions in the USSR during the late 20 century: "The Shchekino Method"
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The Shchekino Method: Flexible Production with Socialist Characteristics
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Les comparto una carta escrita por plebes estudiantes de Vía Reggio en Culiacán por el hartazgo al estigma sobre los sinaloenses y en particular sobre los culichis. Es una carta abierta, sobre todo a colegas periodistas y académicos.
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Join us this Thursday for a discussion on the consequences of criminal conflict in Culiacán!
04/24 @ 12PM: Culiacán Under Siege: The Social Impacts of a Criminal War A devastating turf war is reshaping lives. Hear from Sinaloan experts @marcosvizcarra, @iliana_pr, and @LuciaMimiaga – on the dynamics and consequences of this armed conflict. https://t.co/ItTvoNqqFW
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Join us in two weeks @HarvardDRCLAS for a conversation on the consequences of criminal violence in Culiacán!
04/24 @ 12PM: Culiacán Under Siege: The Social Impacts of a Criminal War A devastating turf war is reshaping lives. Hear from Sinaloan experts @marcosvizcarra, @iliana_pr, and @LuciaMimiaga – on the dynamics and consequences of this armed conflict. https://t.co/ItTvoNqqFW
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I am happy to share now that my article “Organised Violence, Inequality and Work: Violence Specialists as a Classed Occupation” was published by @CritSoc! Open access! 🎉 This is a different version of my PhD thesis theory. In this thread, I will tell you my argument.
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Leading the new November issue of the American Journal of Sociology is my article on the influence of a small group of Iraqi exiles in making regime change in Iraq the official foreign policy of the US. The Iraqi case yields insights into this particularly fraught historical
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En Revista Espejo (@EspejoRevista) decidimos abrir la edición para que jóvenes y adolescentes pudieran contar sus experiencias en esta narcopandemia que se vive en Culiacán, Sinaloa Sus historias son tremendamente fuertes. Abro 🧵
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Interested in racial inequality in Latin America? Check out my new article in @CSSHJournal with César Ayala on income and labor in early twentieth-century Puerto Rico. https://t.co/t7th9nDBOq
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The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism - Volume 66 Issue 4
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excited to share that my article on the transnational origins of regime change in Iraq has been accepted at the American Journal of Sociology. This paper speaks to contemporary concerns about foreign policy lobbying and elite control over foreign affairs.
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The first panel on disappearances is tomorrow!
Join us next week @HarvardDRCLAS for a two-day hybrid event on violence and disappearances featuring prominent voices from Mexican academia, journalism, and civil society!
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Join us next week @HarvardDRCLAS for a two-day hybrid event on violence and disappearances featuring prominent voices from Mexican academia, journalism, and civil society!
04/24 & 04/25: Join us for a two-day panel series on Violence and Disappearance in Mexico (Hybrid) https://t.co/nD2tUgSjq7
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My article "Escaping Precariousness: Criminal Occupational Mobility of Homicide Inmates During the Mexican Drug War" has been published by @IllicitEcons! It is the first glance at my PhD Thesis. You can read it for free here: https://t.co/wAisgf0MkP
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Recientemente @vistprojects lanzó un trabajo de investigación en el que trabajé con @RodCaballero para tratar de contestar algunas preguntas sobre el movimiento de #Autodefensas en #Michoacán a 10 años de su formación. ¿Cambió algo respecto a la seguridad y la violencia? 🧵👇🏽
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📢 New publication is out! Excited to see my latest article with @josemiguecruz published in Crime, Law and Social Change "The 'New Wars': security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America" Free access 👇✨ https://t.co/lkUx6Bp7HM Brief 🧵
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En los archivos del Ejército está documentado toda la operación los Vuelos de la Muerte en los años 70. Aquí la primera investigación de @LaFabricaMX_ en colaboración con mi querido José Reveles. https://t.co/pUlRMnWjkQ
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Los vuelos de la muerte en México fueron una operación de Estado y fueron autorizados por el general secretario de la Defensa Nacional
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What Are Cartels? The term "drug cartel" is criticized yet ubiquitous. Agents impose it to construct cases. Yet the networks of organized crime unleashing death are very real. I break down the concept, critique and meaning of cartels in my latest here. https://t.co/l5g3UD80WN
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The term "drug cartel" is criticized yet ubiquitous. Agents impose it to construct cases. Yet organized crime networks unleashing death are very real.
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Agradecemos el Premio Nacional de Periodismo en la categoría de Periodismo Multiformato por el especial #FragmentosdelaDesaparición, que publicamos junto con @DesaparecerEnMx al rebasar las 100 mil desapariciones en México. Hoy son más de 112,800 víctimas. https://t.co/ivaQo8zgHa
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“Fragmentos de la Desaparición” es una investigación periodística que permite explorar la información sobre cómo México llegó a las 100 mil personas desaparecidas, quiénes faltan, desde cuándo y en...
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