Books
- Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán (University of California Press, 2020
–2020 Best Book Award, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA), American Anthropological Association
–2021 Nelson Graburn Book Prize, Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group, American Anthropological Association
- Tourism Geopolitics. Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect and Imagination co-edited with M. Mostafanezhad & R. Norum (University of Arizona Press, 2021)
- Celestún a vista de pájaro. (Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011)
- Tres Estudios Antropológicos del Occidente Asturiano, with Rozas Vidal, C and Hernández, C. C. (Museo del Pueblo Asturiano, Gijón, 2006)
Journal Articles
- “Fueling Ecological Neglect in a manufactured tourist city: planning, disaster mapping and environmental art in Cancun, Mexico”, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, (in English) 2018
- “Enclosures within enclosures and hurricane reconstruction in Cancún (México)” with Baptista, I; Domínguez Rubio F., City and Society 26 (1): 96-119 (in English), 2014
- “Bio politics and Biosphere Reserves: spaces of immobility and conflict. An ethnographic perspective” Revista Política y Sociedad, 49: 519-532 (in Spanish), 2012
- “Anthropology at no cost, but Anthropology nonetheless. Anthropology, Globalization and ethnographic practices”, Revista de Antropología Social, 21: 9-22 (in Spanish), 2012
- “Turisteros, ecotourists and other tourists at the community of Celestún (Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico)” Revista Pasos, 7: 197-220 (in Spanish), 2012
- “Thanks God this is not Cancun! Alternative tourism imaginaries in Yucatan (Mexico)”, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 9 (3): 174–191 (in English), 2011
- “Contentiuos Hotspots: Restructuring of place at the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestún (Yucatán, México)”, Tourist Studies 10 (2): 99 – 116 (in English), 2010
- “Between local and global, discourses and practices. Rethinking ecotourism development in Celestún (Yucatán, Mexico)”, Journal of Ecotourism, 5, (1): 97-112 (in English), 2006
- “Local effects of global policies: the case study of Celestún and ‘its’ Biosphere Reserve”, with Córdoba Ordóñez, J., García de Fuentes, A. & Ayala Arcipreste, ME Anales de Geografia, 24: 55-78 (in Spanish), 2004
Book Chapters (selection)
- “Ser Camaleón: Indigenous Community-Based Tourism for Emancipatory Futures” in Katharina Ruckstuhl, Irma A. Veásquez Nimatuj, John Andrew-McNeish and Postero, Nancy. The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development London: Routledge (In English), 2023
- “Tourism Governance in Mexico: A Timeline”, in Gohar, Amir Tourism Governance: A Critical Discourse on a Global Industry De Gruyter. (In English), 2022
- “Guardians of Tradition: The Affective and Popular Geopolitics of Yucatec Maya Women on Tour” with M.B. Castellanos, in Mostafanezhad, M. Córdoba Azcárate, M. and Norum, R. (Eds.) Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect and Imagination, University of Arizona Press, 2020
- “When pesos come at the expense of tourism proximity and moorings”, in J. Rickley (Ed.) Tourism and Leisure Mobilities. Politics, Work and Play Routledge, pp. 208-2017 (in English), 2017.
- “Tourism development, architectures of escape and the passive beloved in contemporary Yucatán (México)” in Hannam, K & M. Mostafanezhad (Eds.) Moral Encounters in Tourism, Ashgate, pp. 59-69 (in English), 2014
- “Ethnographic writing, virtual correspondence and the collaborative character of Anthropology, in Cátedra, M. and Devillard, MJ. (Eds.) Cultural Knowledges, Madrid, Bellaterra, pp. 79-105 (in Spanish), 2014
- “The uneven pragmatics of luxury tourism: the transformation of haciendas ex-henequeneras into luxury hotels in the Peninsula of Yucatan (Mexico)”, in Birtchnell, T. and Caletrío, J. (Eds.) Elite Mobilities, Routledge, pp. 149-175 (in English), 2013
- “When nature becomes heritage, or the political uses of heritage”, with García García JL, in Mármol, C. del; Frigolé, J.; Narotzky, S. (Coords.) Los lindes del patrimonio: consumo y valores del pasado. Icaria, Barcelona, pp. 191-209 (in Spanish), 2010
- “Tourism and regional development. Three models of tourist implementation in the state of Quintana Roo (Yucatán, México)”, with Cordoba Ordoñez in Muscar Benasayag, E. & Schmitt, B. (Eds.) Local development and environment in Latin America. Tools and actions. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (in Spanish), 2007
- “Mobility”; “Nomadism and Tourism” and “Travels and Mobility Systems”, with Urry, John, in Barañano, A.; Cátedra, M. Devillard, MJ. García, JL. (Coords) Diccionario de Relaciones Internacionales. Diversidad y Cultura, Editorial Complutense, Madrid (pp. 244-250, 275-279, 355-358) (in Spanish), 2007
- “Tourism and development: re-visiting a controversy. The case of Cancún (Quintana Roo, México)”(with Córdoba Ordóñez, J., Gago, C., Serrano Cambronero, M.), in García Ballesteros, A. (Ed.) A world of cities. Urbanization processes in Mexico at global times. Editorial GEoForum (pp.180-210) (in Spanish), 2007
Edited Journal Volumes
- “Anthropology, Globalization and Ethnographic Practices”, Revista de Antropología Social, 21 (in Spanish), 2012
Invited Commentaries
- “Fronteras Desarticuladas”, Etnográfica 26(3):97-102, 2022
- “Author Meets Critic Forum: “Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán” Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020, 316 pp, with E. Von Berrab, in Tourism Geographies, 2022
- “The Critical as an Intellectual Space”, City & Society, Forum, 33 (3): 51-61, 2022
- “Discussing Tourism Traps with author of Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán” Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020, 316 pp (with J. Feldman) in Anthropology News (June 2022) (In English and in Spanish), 2022
- “Cuba Otherwise and the Power of Spatial Representation”, Commentary on World Anthropologies, American Anthropologist 121(3): 766-768, 2019
- “On keeping and selling: the political economy of heritage-making in contemporary Spain”, commentary on Jaume Franquesa’s article, Current Anthropology, 54 (3):371, 2013
Book Reviews and Other Publications (selection)
- Review of Katrina Phillips’ “Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History” University of North Carolina Press, in New Mexico Historical Review 27 (3) 396-398 (in English), 2022
- Review of Carla Guerrón Montero’s “From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama” The University of Alabama Press, 2021, in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History 79 (3): 552-554 (in English), 2022
- Review of Tamar Diane Wilson’s 2013 Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors, Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas. New York, Lexington Books, in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2018
- Review of Jonathan R Wynn’s 2011 “The Tour guide. Walking and talking New York”, University of Chicago Press, in Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal on Mobility Studies 5 (2): 160-162, 2015
- Commentary on Jaume Franquesa’s “On keeping and selling: the political economy of heritage-making in contemporary Spain”, in Current Anthropology, 54 (3): 371. 2013
- Review of Bianet Castellanos’ 2010 A return to servitude. Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancún. University of Minnesota Press, in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 17 (3): 520-522. 2012
- Review of Lechner and Boli’s 2008 The Globalization Reader, Blackwell Publishing, in Journal of International Development 21(3): 470-471, 2009
- Commentary on Ethnographic Research Design, with Castillo, S.; Devillard, MJ; Franzé, A.; Jociles,M. In Revista de Antropología Social, 18: 261-263. 2009
- Review of Devillard Desroches, MJ “Españoles en Rusia y rusos en España. Las ambivalencias de los vínculos sociales”, in Política y Sociedad, 2008, Vol. 45 (1) 285-287, 2008