Journal of the Southwest Radio

Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity, discusses his work protecting wildlife, ecosystems and communities along the US-Mexico borderlands. Laiken shares his experiences at the National Parks Service and his struggle to alert about the damage caused by the wall and the militarization of the border.

Second part of our morning coffee with Dr. Rubio, reviewing six decades of research, community activism, and the very history of Mexico and the US. Raquel shares her rich anecdotes from her academic and militant experiences, and her invaluable insights on the present of migrations flows across the Southwest.

Dr. Rubio-Goldsmith is the co-director of the Binational Migration Institute in the University of Arizona's Department of Mexican-American Studies. A professor of History at Pima College for three decades, she has participated since the late sixties on a diversity of human rights initiatives in Tucson and the greater Southwest, and has led numerous community-based research projects focused on the...

A chat with Dr. David Seibert, watersheds restoration manager and co-founder of the Borderlands Restoration Network in Patagonia, Arizona. A cultural anthropologist, David has worked on ecological conservation and education for more than 20 years. He has collaborated with Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Southern Paiute partners to restore sacred springs and wetlands, with ranchers across Southern Arizona...

After sharing the experience of growing in small-town Texas and the realization of the chicanx and queer realities of her time and place, Dr. Pérez discusses objectivity, race, gender and the challenges of Academia in the current social and political climate.

A conversation with professor Emma Perez, a research social scientist in the Southwest Center and professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. Perez's first novel, "Gulf Dreams," was published in 1996 and is considered one of th first Chicana lesbian novels in print. Her second novel, "Forgetting the Alamo, or Blood Memory" (2009) won the Christopher Isherwood Writing Gran...

An introductory message from professor Jeff Banister, director of the Southwest Center and publisher of the Journal of the Southwest