Publications and Presentations

Peer-reviewed Publications:

2013
“Geographers and Drugs: A Survey of the Literature" (with Chris Jasparro and Kevin Mattson), Geographical Review, 2013, 103(3): 415-430.

“Is DMT Everywhere? The Short, Intense Trip of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine” (with Jon Hanna), Transnational Subjects, 2013, forthcoming.

“Nuclear Power in Japan after Fukushima,” book chapter, The 2011 Sanriku Coastal Tsunami Earthquake, ed. P.P Karan and U. Suganuma, forthcoming, University of Kentucky Press, 2013.

"Golden States of Mind: A Geography of California Consciousness" (with Erik Davis), book chapter, The Changing World Religion Map, ed. Stanley D. Brunn, Springer, forthcoming, 2013.

2011
“California Proposition 2: Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act” (with Mark Drayse), book chapter, Atlas of the 2008 Elections, edited by S.D Brunn, Lavin, S. J., & Archer, J. C. 2011, Lanham, Md, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

2010
“Transnational Geopolitical Competition and National Disasters: Lessons From the Indian Ocean Tsunami” (with Chris Jasparro), book chapter, The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster edited by P.P. Karan and S. Subbiah, 2010, University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY

2008
“Climate Change and Regional Vulnerability to Transnational Security Threats in Southeast Asia”, (with Chris Jasparro), Geopolitics, 2008, 13(2): 232-256.

“Anti-Military and Environmental Groups in Okinawa, Japan,” book chapter in P.P. Karan and U. Suganuma (eds), Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan. University of Kentucky Press.

2006
“Environment and Security Conflicts: The U.S. Military in Okinawa”, Geographical Bulletin, 2006, 48(1): 3-13.

2003
“Forest Resource Trade between Japan and Southeast Asia: The Structure of Dual Decay,” (with Kami Seo),
Ecological Economics, 2003, 45(1): 91-104.

“Editorials and Geopolitical Explanations of 11 September” (with Chris Jasparo), Geopolitics, 8(3), Autumn 2003, 217-252.

2000
"Using the World Wide Web in Undergraduate Geography Courses: Potentials and Pitfalls,” Journal of Geography, January 2000, 99(1):11-22.

1999
"Japan’s Global Environmentalism: Rhetoric and Reality,” Political Geography, May 1999, 18(5): 535-562.

1998
“GIS Uses and Constraints on Diffusion in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR,” Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, (with Stanley Brunn and Carl Dahlman), December 1998, 39(10):566-587.

1997
"The Emerging Geographies of Virtual Worlds," Geographical Review, April 1997, 87(2).

Editor-reviewed Publications:

2012
Taylor, J.S. (2002, April 17). [review of the book To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War, by J. Gibler], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=354

Taylor, J.S. (2012,  January 19). [Review of the book The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells us About Beating Addiction, by D. Hanson], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=347

2011
Taylor, J.S. (2011, July 20). [Review of the book High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science, and Culture, by M. Jay], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=338

Taylor, J.S. (2011, June 7). [Review of the book Cocaine Nation: How the White Trade Took Over the World, by T. Feiling], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=335

Taylor, J.S. (2011, March 2). [Review of the book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by G. Mate], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=330

Taylor, J. S. (2011, February 1). [Review of the book Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, by E. Davis],The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=328

Taylor, J.S. (2011, January 31). [Review of the book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underground, by M. Glenny], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=327

2010
Taylor, J. S. (2010, November 3). [Review of the book Chemical Cowboys: The DEA's Secret Mission to Hunt Down a Notorious Ecstasy Kingpin, by L. Sweetingham], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=319

Taylor, J.S. (2010, September 1). [Review of the book Orange Sunshine, by N. Schou], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=316

Taylor, J.S. (2010, July 31). [Review of the book Methland by N. Reding], The Erowid Review, http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=313

2004
“Editorials and Geopolitical Explanations of 11 September” (with Chris Jasparo). In 11 September and its Aftermath: The Geopolitics of Terror, Stanley Brunn ed. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd

2003
“Anti-Military and Environmental Groups in Okinawa, Japan,” conference paper, International Conference on Grassroots Environmental Movements in Japan and the United States, April 2003.

2002
“Grass-roots Movements and Environmental Security and Development in Okinawa”, Regional Development Dialogue, 2002, 23(1): 122-131
Comments on C. Jasparro and E. Shibuya, Regional Development Dialogue, 2002, 23(1): 18-19.

“The Subjectivity of the Near Future: Geographical Imaginings in the Work of J. G. Ballard,” book chapter, ‘Lost in Space': Geographies of Science Fiction edited by Rob Kitchin and James Kneale, May 2002, Athlone Press, London.

2000
“Okinawa on the Eve of the G-8 Summit”, Geographical Review, January 2000, 90(1): 123-130.

1997
Book Review of “The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence,” by Gavan McCormack, Geographical Review, October 1997, 87(3).