Most Recent Publications (2023-2024):
Books
B-4 Walter J. Nicholls (2019) The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.
B-3 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2016) Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the United States, France and the Netherlands, 1970-2015. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, Studies in Urban and Social Change series
B-2 Walter J. Nicholls (2013) The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate in the United States. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
B-1 Walter J. Nicholls, Byron Miller, Justin Beaumont (eds.) (2013) Spaces of Contention: The Spatialities of Social Movements. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Guest Editorships
JO-8 Thomas Swerts and Walter J. Nicholls (2021) “Undocumented Immigrant Activism and the Political,” Antipode.
JO-7 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2016) “Planning-Resistance”, Urban Geography.
JO-6 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2016) “Migrant Cities”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42 (6).
JO-5 Walter J. Nicholls, Byron Miller, Justin Beaumont (2013) “Cities, Spatialities, and Politicization”, Urban Geography, 34 (4).
JO-4 Justus Uitermark, Walter J. Nicholls, Maarten Loopmans (2012) “Cities and Social Movements,” Environment and Planning A, 44 (11).
JO-3 Justin Beaumont and Walter J. Nicholls (2008) “Plural Governance, Participation, and Democracy in Cities”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32 (1).
JO-2 Walter J. Nicholls and Justin Beaumont (2007) “Investigating the Geographies of Justice Movements”, Environment Planning A, 39 (11).
JO-1 Walter J. Nicholls and Justin Beaumont (2004) “The Urbanization of Justice Movements? Theories and Evidence”,Space and Polity 8 (2).
Articles (*indicates student)
You can access these articles through my Google Scholar site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O6q8ZLQAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1
J-51 Sander van Haperen*, Justus Uitermark, and Walter J. Nicholls (2023) “The Swarm versus the Grassroots: Places and Networks of Supporters and Opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter,” Social Movement Studies, 22(2): 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2031954
J-50 Marieke de Wilde* and Walter J. Nicholls (equal authorship, authors listed in alphabetical order) (2021) “Municipal Institutions and Local Policy Responses to Immigrants: A Case Study Day Laborers in California,” Territory Politics Governance, DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2021.2011392.
J-49 Walter J. Nicholls, Justus Uitermark, and Sander van Haperen* (2021) “Dynamics of Distinction and Solidarity: Explaining Relations Between Privileged and Underprivileged Groups in the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement,” Sociological Perspectives, 64(6): 1104-1121.
J-48 Walter J. Nicholls (2021) “The Geography of Political Subject Formation: The Case of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement,” Antipode, 52(2): 465-485.
J-47 Thomas Swerts and Walter J. Nicholls (2021) “Undocumented immigrant activism and the political: Disrupting the order or reproducing the status quo?”, Antipode, 52(2): 319-330.
J-46 Walter J. Nicholls, Davide Gnes*, and Floris Vermeulen (2021) “Local Path Dependency and Scale Shift in Social Movements: The Case of the Immigrant Rights Movement,” Geographical Review, 111(2): 269-286.
J-45 Walter J. Nicholls, Cecilia Menjívar, and Daniel Alvord* (2021) “ ‘No Tyson in Tongie!’: The Battle to Protect a Rural Way of Life in Kansas,” Sociological Forum, 36(1): 29-50.
J-44 Marieke de Wilde* and Walter J. Nicholls (2021) “Suburban Battles over Immigration: A Case Study of Local Day Laborer Policies,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(16): 44-62.
J-43 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2021) “A virtuous nation and its deserving immigrants. How the immigrant rights movement embraced nationalism,” Social Movement Studies, 20(4): 381-398.
J-42 Walter J. Nicholls (2020) “The Dark Side of Immigrant Integration Policies: The Case of Day Laborers in the United States,” Social Problems, 67 (3): 437–451.
J-41 Walter J. Nicholls, Justus Uitermark, and Sander van Haperen* (2020) “Going National: How the Fight for Immigrant Rights Became a National Social Movement,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(4): 705-727.
J-40 Allison Laskey* and Walter J. Nicholls (2019) “Jumping off the Ladder: Participation and Insurgency in Detroit’s Urban Planning,” Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(3): 348-362.
- Reprinted in, Carissa Schiverly Slotterback and Mickey Lauria (eds.) (2020) Learning from Arnstein’s Ladder: From Civic Participation to Public Engagement. New York Taylor and Francis.
J-39 van Haperen, Sander*, Walter J. Nicholls, and Justus Uitermark (2018) “Building Protest Online: Engagement with the Digitally Networked #not1more Protest Campaign on Twitter.” Social Movement Studies 2837:1–16.
J-38 Justus Uitermark and Walter J. Nicholls (2017) “Planning for social justice: Strategies, dilemmas, tradeoffs,” Planning Theory, 16(1): 32–50.
J-37 Walter J. Nicholls (2016) “Politicizing Undocumented Immigrants One Corner at a Time: Day Laborers and the Urban Roots of the Immigrant Rights Movement.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40 (2): 299-320
J-36 Walter J. Nicholls, Marcel Maussen, Laura Mesquita* (2016) “The Politics of ‘Deservingness’: Comparing Youth-Centered Immigrant Mobilizations in the Netherlands and the United States.” American Behavioral Scientist. 60(13): 1590–1612.
J-35 Tara Fiorito* and Walter J. Nicholls (2016) “Silencing as Voice Making: Backstage Methods to Produce a Public Voice for Immigrant Activists.” Qualitative, Sociology, 39 (3): 287–308.
J-34 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2016) “Planning/Resistance,” Urban Geography, 38 (4): 512-520.
J-33 Walter J. Nicholls (2016) “Producing-resisting national borders in the United States, France and the Netherlands,”Political Geography, (55) 1: 43-52.
J-32 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2016) “Migrant Cities: Place, Power, and Voice in the Era of Super Diversity,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42 (6): 877-892.
J-31 Walter J. Nicholls, Justus Uitermark, and Sander van Haperen* (2016) “The networked grassroots. How radicals outflanked reformists in the United States’ immigrant rights movement,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(6): 1036-1054.
J-30 Walter J. Nicholls (2015) “Policing Immigrants as Politicizing Immigration: The Paradox of Border Enforcement”, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 14(2): 512-521.
J-29 Walter J. Nicholls and Tara Fiorito* (2015) “Dreamers Unbound: Immigrant Youth Mobilizing,” New Labor Forum, 24: 76-85.
J-28 Walter J. Nicholls (2014) “From Political Opportunities to Niche-Openings: The Dilemmas of Mobilizing for Immigrant Rights in Inhospitable Environments”, Theory and Society, 43 (1), 23-49.
J-27 Justus Uitermark and Walter J. Nicholls (2014) “From Politicization to Policing: The rise and decline of immigrant social movements in Amsterdam and Paris,” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 46 (4): 970-991
J-26 Walter J. Nicholls (2014) “Between Punishment and Discipline: Government Strategies to Control Undocumented Immigrants”, Citizenship Studies, 18 (6-7): 579-599.
J-25 Inge van Schipstal* and Walter J. Nicholls (2014) “Rights to the ‘Creative’ City: The Case of Squatters in Berlin”, Territory, Politics, Governance,2 (2): 173-193.
J-24 Walter J. Nicholls (2013) “Making Undocumented Immigrants into Legitimate Political Subjects: A Comparison of France and the United States”, Theory, Culture and Society 30 (3): 82-107.
J-23 Walter J. Nicholls (2013) “Fragmenting Citizenship: Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict in France’s Immigrant Rights Movement”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36 (4): 611-631.
J-22 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2013) “Post-Multicultural Cities: A Comparison of Minority Politics in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 1970–2010”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39 (10): 1555-1575.
J-21 Byron Miller and Walter J. Nicholls (2013) “Social Movements in Urban Society: The City as a Space of Politicization”, Urban Geography, 34 (4): 452-473.
J-20 Walter J. Nicholls (2012) “Immigration and Citizenship Regimes: The Case of France, 1950s – 1990s”, Citizenship Studies, 16 (3-4): 511-530.
J-19 Athina Arampatzi* and Walter J. Nicholls (2012) “The Urban Basis of Greece’s anti-Neoliberal Movement,” Environment and Planning A, 44 (11): 2591-2610.
J-18 Justus Uitermark, Walter J. Nicholls and Maarten Loopmans (2012) “A Relational Approach to Cities and Social Movements: Theorizing beyond Rights to the City,” Environment and Planning A, 44 (11): 2546-2554.
J-17 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2012) “How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement: Comparing Occupy Mobilizations in Amsterdam and Los Angeles,” Social Movement Studies, 11 (3-4): 295-308.
J-16 Walter J. Nicholls (2011) “Cities and the unevenness of social movement space: the case of France’s immigrant rights movement”, Environment and Planning A 43 (7): 1655-1673.
J-15 Walter J. Nicholls (2011) “The Los Angeles School: Difference, Politics, City,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35 (1): 189-206.
J-14 Walter J. Nicholls (2009) “Place, Relations, Networks: The Geographical Foundations of Social Movements”, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34 (1): 78–93.
J-13 Walter J. Nicholls (2008) “The Urban Question Revisited: The Importance of Cities for Social Movements”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32(4): 1468-2427.
J-12 Walter J. Nicholls (2008) “Plural Governance, Participation and Democracy in Cities,” (with Justin Beaumont), International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, 32 (1): 87-94.
J-11 Justin Beaumont and Walter J. Nicholls (2007) “Between Relationality and Territoriality: investigating the geographies of justice movements in The Netherlands and the United States”, Environment and Planning A, 39 (11): 2554-15574.
J-10 Walter J. Nicholls and Justin Beaumont (2007) “An Introduction to the Geographies of Social Justice Movements,” Environment and Planning A, 39 (11): 2549-2553.
J-9 Walter J. Nicholls (2007) “The Geographies of Social Movements”, Geography Compass, 2 607-622.
J-8 Walter J. Nicholls (2006) “Associationalism from Above: Explaining Failure in the Case of France’s La Politique de la Ville”, Urban Studies, 43 (10): 1779-1802.
J-7 Walter J. Nicholls (2006) “Between Growth and Exclusion in Technopolis: Managing Inequalities in Toulouse, France”, City and Community, 5 (3), 319-345.
J-6 Walter J. Nicholls (2006) “Power to the Periphery: Suburban Empowerment in Toulouse, France”, Environment and Planning A, 38 (9): 1715-1737.
J-5 Walter J. Nicholls (2005) “Power and Governance: Metropolitan Governance in Contemporary France”, Urban Studies, 42 (4): 783-800.
J-4 Walter J. Nicholls and Justin Beaumont (2004) “The Urbanization of Justice Movements? possibilities and constraints for the city as a space of contentious politics”, Space and Polity 8 (2): 119-135.
J-3 Walter J. Nicholls and Justin Beaumont (2004) “Guest Editorial: The Urbanization of Justice Movements”, Space and Polity 8 (2): 107-117.
J-2 Walter J. Nicholls (2003) “Poverty Regimes as Constraints on Urban Democratic Politics? Lessons from Toulouse, France”, European Urban and Regional Studies 10 (4): 359-372.
J- 1 Walter J. Nicholls (2003) “Forging a ‘New’ Organizational Infrastructure for Los Angeles’s Progressive Community”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27 (4): 881-96.
Papers Under Review
UR-3 Walter J. Nicholls, “Citizenship Contests through the Municipal Bureaucracy: A Case Study of a Sanctuary City Campaign in Mayville, California,”
UR-2 Walter Nicholls and Ian Baran,* “Municipal Bureaucrats as Insurgent Political Subjects: A Theoretical Framework,”
UR-1 Marieke de Wilde,* Walter Nicholls, Floris Vermeulen, “Inverted Social Movements: Pro- and Anti-Immigrant Mobilizations in Orange County, California,”
Book Chapters (*student)
BC-8 Walter J. Nicholls and Amrita Jain* (2024) “Comparing Urban Social Movements,” in J. Robinson and P. Le Galès (eds.) Handbook of Comparative Urban Studies. New York: Routledge.
BC-7 Walter J. Nicholls and Zayda* (2023) “Undocumented Immigrant Activism: The Struggle for Rights and Recognition,” in I. van Liempt, J. Schapendonk, and A. Campos-Delgado (eds.) Critical Handbook on Irregular Migration. New York: Routledge.
BC-6 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2017) “Counter Publics and Counter Space,” in U. Rossi and T. Enright (eds.) The Urban Political. London: Palgrave.
BC-5 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2015) “Giving Voice: The Ambivalent Roles of Specific Intellectuals in Immigrant and LGBT Movements,” J. Jasper and J.W. Duyvendak (eds.) Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
BC-4 Walter J. Nicholls and Justus Uitermark (2015) “Wildfire Movements Crashing on the Local Trenches: A comparison of Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Amsterdam.” in N. Konak and R. Özgür Dönmez (eds.) Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century. Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Rowman and Littlefield.
BC-3 Walter J. Nicholls (2013) “Voice and Power: The case of the Undocumented Youth Movement in the United States”, in Cecilia Menjívar and Daniel Kanstroom (eds) Constructing Illegality in America: Immigrant Experiences, Critiques, and Resistances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
BC-2 Walter J. Nicholls (2013) “Conceptualizing the Spatialities of Social Movements”, (with Byron Miller and Justin Beaumont) in W. Nicholls, J. Beaumont, and B. Miller (eds) Spaces of Contention: places, scales, and networks of social movement, Ashgate.
BC-1 Walter J. Nicholls (2012) “Rights through the City: The Role of the City for Immigrant Rights Movements”, (with Floris Vermeulen) in Michael Peter Smith and Michael McQuarrie (eds.) Remaking Urban Citizenship: Organizations, Institutions, and the Right to the City. New Brunswick: Transactions Publishers.
Commentaries and Encyclopedia Entries
C-6 Walter J. Nicholls (2018) “Southern Cities in the United States: Cracking the Black Box,” Introduction to Virtual Issue, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
C-5 Walter J. Nicholls (2016) “The Coalition that Can Win,” essay in Jacobin, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/trump-deportation-immigration-dream-act.
C-4 Walter J. Nicholls (2016) “The Worst and Best of Times: Contrasting Strategies of the Immigrant Rights Movement, 2000-2014,” essay in Mobilizing Ideas, https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/the-worst-and-best-of-times-contrasting-strategies-of-the-immigrant-rights-movement-2000-2014/.
C-3 Walter J. Nicholls (2015) “The Politics of Regional Development,” Territory, Politics, Governance, 3 (3): 227-234.
C-2 (2012) “Undocumented and Unafraid: Undocumented Youths and the DREAMers’ Movement”, Immanuel Ness (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
C-1 (2010) “The Los Angeles School”, in R. Beauregard and R. Hutchinson (Ed) The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. New York: Sage.