Rice
Biographic Data
| ID | 11655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rice |
| FAMILY NAME | Rice |
| SIGNATURE | RICE |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2791-8973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Along came a spider … and capitalism killed it
In 2022, engineers at Rice University revealed a new procedure to reanimate the corpse of a spider. Hailed as a biotechnological achievement, the experimental procedures designed to convert death into useful, productive labor portend a deepening of necrocapitalism and the violence of science. In this commentary, we call attention to three overlapping dimensions epitomized by scientifically reanimated spiders: (a) the fetishization of violence, (b…
Scorched Earth
The last decade has seen a growing interest in the intersection of genocide and ecocide, with calls from scholars and activists to include forms of environmental destruction as crimes against humanity. Scorched Earth enters this discussion with a historically informed analysis of how wars have targeted the environmental basis for human life. Through ten case studies ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Emmanuel Kreike contributes t…
Divide and cultivate
This article examines the spatial history of U.S. food production through the evolution of two carceral spaces: rural penitentiaries and Indian reservations. These sites have long provided opportunities to spatially fix surplus labor and capital in U.S. agriculture: from the confinement of Indians during settler colonialism, through the regulation of labor surpluses after Reconstruction, to the present-day expansion of convict leasing to backfill…
Agrarian Marxism, Animal Geographies, and non-human labor in Democratic Kampuchea
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) embarked on a genocidal program of sweeping economic, social, and political change. In an effort to modernize Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia was renamed, CPK officials forced the entire populace to clear forests; build dams, canals, and reservoirs; and grow rice in an effort to accumulate rapidly the necessary capital for industrialization. In doing so, upwards of two million people…
Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration has become a prominent feature of modern society and an essential tool of statecraft. As a set of conditions, spatial practices, and discourses, incarceration is deeply integrated into everyday social relations and practices of government. In addition to inmates in traditional prisons, carceral practices affect migrants and asylum‐seekers, parolees, juvenile offenders, “undesirable” ethnic and religious minorities, former inmat…
Revanchist ‘nature’ and 21 st century genocide
The natural world is responding to anthropogenic change through novel pathogens, antibiotic-resistant microbes, and pest infestations. This resurgence is part of a non-human reappropriation and transformation of human-altered environments. In this commentary, we argue that this ‘revanchism’ has prompted two new forms of genocide: the pre-emptive mass slaughter of non-human animals, and the annihilation of humans as expressed through COVID-19 and …
Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide
For holistic accounts of past and present genocides to exist, the production of critical geographies of genocide, produced at the interface of human and physical geography, is vital. The emergent area of critical physical geography (CPG) scholarship stands to provide such holistic accounts in addition to providing genocide studies with a much‐needed geographic perspective, one that is grounded in the lived material realities and social relations …
Meaningful life in the time of Corona-economics
The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to think more deeply about who and what we value in society, with value determined not on conditions set by capital but instead on achieving meaning in life. In this commentary, we pose a series of interconnected questions to geography: What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Furthermore, is such a life possible under capitalism? And what does a society that prioritizes meaningful life look like
The hydro‐logic of genocide
Recent scholarship in hydropolitics and the hydrosocial cycle has emphasised the ways that water and society are co‐constitutive, acknowledging the productive entanglement of hydraulic and social actors and processes. In this paper, we apply a hydrosocial framework to understand an infamous waterscape of mass violence. Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge planned and partially implemented an extensive irrigation system to increase rice producti…
Systemic coordination and the problem of seasonal harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie
The management of natural resources may potentially be improved when governance structures in social-ecological systems enable coordination among multiple actors who may operate on the same or different geographic and/or governmental scales
Khmer Rouge Irrigation Schemes During the Cambodian Genocide
Between 1975 and 1979 Cambodia was witness to a period of mass violence in which approximately two million people died from famine, disease, and murder. This violence was the result of policies initiated by the Communist Party of Kampuchea, better known as the Khmer Rouge. To date, little research has systematically or empirically studied the geography of specific practices, notably the construction of irrigation schemes, initiated by the CPK tha…
The Spectacle of the Child Woman
Feminist Studies 44, no. 3. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 535 Carla Rice The Spectacle of the Child Woman: Troubling Girls and the Science of Early Puberty In 2007, pillowangel.org, a support forum documenting the life of Ashley X, received over two million hits after endocrinologist Dr. Daniel F. Gunther explained on CNN the growth attenuation treatment he had administered to Ashley X the previous year. In response to a desperate request from…
The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge
Over the last 20 years, urban political ecology has made substantial contributions to the study of urban ‘socionatures’, part of the field's aim of applying political ecology to urban space. At the same time, urban political ecology has been limited by a perspective that tends to confine urbanisation to urban spatial forms; a conflation of process and site. The city is seen to be made by and for urban metabolism, disconnected from both rural and …
Making land to make life
Recent work in environmental politics has sought to expand the domain of 'the geopolitical' to include geologic transformation, bringing the human alteration of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric forms into the political sphere. In line with this 'geologic turn', this paper examines China's recent land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea as a starting point for a broader conversation on the politics of geophysical change. With recent di…
To live and let die
Moving beyond the 'Arab Spring
State Capacity, Scalar Politics, and the Geographic Study of Civil Wars
Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the most dramatic development in the nature of conflict is the shift from international to civil wars (O'Loughlin and Raleigh 2008:494). Indeed, according to
Pushing on
Despite expanded debate on energy security, the American relationship to foreign oil in the ten years since 9/11 has remained unchanged. We argue that energy policy has languished for three reasons: (1) the creation of a fake ‘addiction’ discourse, (2) the real petroleum dependency of American militarism, and (3) the importance of oil as a weapon in American statecraft
To live and let die
The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge
Over the last 20 years, urban political ecology has made substantial contributions to the study of urban ‘socionatures’, part of the field's aim of applying political ecology to urban space. At the same time, urban political ecology has been limited by a perspective that tends to confine urbanisation to urban spatial forms; a conflation of process and site. The city is seen to be made by and for urban metabolism, disconnected from both rural and …
Meaningful life in the time of Corona-economics
The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to think more deeply about who and what we value in society, with value determined not on conditions set by capital but instead on achieving meaning in life. In this commentary, we pose a series of interconnected questions to geography: What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Furthermore, is such a life possible under capitalism? And what does a society that prioritizes meaningful life look like
Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide
For holistic accounts of past and present genocides to exist, the production of critical geographies of genocide, produced at the interface of human and physical geography, is vital. The emergent area of critical physical geography (CPG) scholarship stands to provide such holistic accounts in addition to providing genocide studies with a much‐needed geographic perspective, one that is grounded in the lived material realities and social relations …
Khmer Rouge Irrigation Schemes During the Cambodian Genocide
Between 1975 and 1979 Cambodia was witness to a period of mass violence in which approximately two million people died from famine, disease, and murder. This violence was the result of policies initiated by the Communist Party of Kampuchea, better known as the Khmer Rouge. To date, little research has systematically or empirically studied the geography of specific practices, notably the construction of irrigation schemes, initiated by the CPK tha…
Making land to make life
Recent work in environmental politics has sought to expand the domain of 'the geopolitical' to include geologic transformation, bringing the human alteration of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric forms into the political sphere. In line with this 'geologic turn', this paper examines China's recent land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea as a starting point for a broader conversation on the politics of geophysical change. With recent di…
The Spectacle of the Child Woman
Feminist Studies 44, no. 3. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 535 Carla Rice The Spectacle of the Child Woman: Troubling Girls and the Science of Early Puberty In 2007, pillowangel.org, a support forum documenting the life of Ashley X, received over two million hits after endocrinologist Dr. Daniel F. Gunther explained on CNN the growth attenuation treatment he had administered to Ashley X the previous year. In response to a desperate request from…
Pushing on
Despite expanded debate on energy security, the American relationship to foreign oil in the ten years since 9/11 has remained unchanged. We argue that energy policy has languished for three reasons: (1) the creation of a fake ‘addiction’ discourse, (2) the real petroleum dependency of American militarism, and (3) the importance of oil as a weapon in American statecraft
The hydro‐logic of genocide
Recent scholarship in hydropolitics and the hydrosocial cycle has emphasised the ways that water and society are co‐constitutive, acknowledging the productive entanglement of hydraulic and social actors and processes. In this paper, we apply a hydrosocial framework to understand an infamous waterscape of mass violence. Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge planned and partially implemented an extensive irrigation system to increase rice producti…
Moving beyond the 'Arab Spring
Divide and cultivate
This article examines the spatial history of U.S. food production through the evolution of two carceral spaces: rural penitentiaries and Indian reservations. These sites have long provided opportunities to spatially fix surplus labor and capital in U.S. agriculture: from the confinement of Indians during settler colonialism, through the regulation of labor surpluses after Reconstruction, to the present-day expansion of convict leasing to backfill…
Agrarian Marxism, Animal Geographies, and non-human labor in Democratic Kampuchea
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) embarked on a genocidal program of sweeping economic, social, and political change. In an effort to modernize Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia was renamed, CPK officials forced the entire populace to clear forests; build dams, canals, and reservoirs; and grow rice in an effort to accumulate rapidly the necessary capital for industrialization. In doing so, upwards of two million people…
State Capacity, Scalar Politics, and the Geographic Study of Civil Wars
Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the most dramatic development in the nature of conflict is the shift from international to civil wars (O'Loughlin and Raleigh 2008:494). Indeed, according to
Pushing on
Despite expanded debate on energy security, the American relationship to foreign oil in the ten years since 9/11 has remained unchanged. We argue that energy policy has languished for three reasons: (1) the creation of a fake ‘addiction’ discourse, (2) the real petroleum dependency of American militarism, and (3) the importance of oil as a weapon in American statecraft
Moving beyond the 'Arab Spring
To live and let die
Making land to make life
Recent work in environmental politics has sought to expand the domain of 'the geopolitical' to include geologic transformation, bringing the human alteration of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric forms into the political sphere. In line with this 'geologic turn', this paper examines China's recent land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea as a starting point for a broader conversation on the politics of geophysical change. With recent di…
The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge
Over the last 20 years, urban political ecology has made substantial contributions to the study of urban ‘socionatures’, part of the field's aim of applying political ecology to urban space. At the same time, urban political ecology has been limited by a perspective that tends to confine urbanisation to urban spatial forms; a conflation of process and site. The city is seen to be made by and for urban metabolism, disconnected from both rural and …
Khmer Rouge Irrigation Schemes During the Cambodian Genocide
Between 1975 and 1979 Cambodia was witness to a period of mass violence in which approximately two million people died from famine, disease, and murder. This violence was the result of policies initiated by the Communist Party of Kampuchea, better known as the Khmer Rouge. To date, little research has systematically or empirically studied the geography of specific practices, notably the construction of irrigation schemes, initiated by the CPK tha…
The Spectacle of the Child Woman
Feminist Studies 44, no. 3. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 535 Carla Rice The Spectacle of the Child Woman: Troubling Girls and the Science of Early Puberty In 2007, pillowangel.org, a support forum documenting the life of Ashley X, received over two million hits after endocrinologist Dr. Daniel F. Gunther explained on CNN the growth attenuation treatment he had administered to Ashley X the previous year. In response to a desperate request from…
Systemic coordination and the problem of seasonal harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie
The management of natural resources may potentially be improved when governance structures in social-ecological systems enable coordination among multiple actors who may operate on the same or different geographic and/or governmental scales
Meaningful life in the time of Corona-economics
The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to think more deeply about who and what we value in society, with value determined not on conditions set by capital but instead on achieving meaning in life. In this commentary, we pose a series of interconnected questions to geography: What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Furthermore, is such a life possible under capitalism? And what does a society that prioritizes meaningful life look like
The hydro‐logic of genocide
Recent scholarship in hydropolitics and the hydrosocial cycle has emphasised the ways that water and society are co‐constitutive, acknowledging the productive entanglement of hydraulic and social actors and processes. In this paper, we apply a hydrosocial framework to understand an infamous waterscape of mass violence. Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge planned and partially implemented an extensive irrigation system to increase rice producti…
Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration has become a prominent feature of modern society and an essential tool of statecraft. As a set of conditions, spatial practices, and discourses, incarceration is deeply integrated into everyday social relations and practices of government. In addition to inmates in traditional prisons, carceral practices affect migrants and asylum‐seekers, parolees, juvenile offenders, “undesirable” ethnic and religious minorities, former inmat…
Revanchist ‘nature’ and 21 st century genocide
The natural world is responding to anthropogenic change through novel pathogens, antibiotic-resistant microbes, and pest infestations. This resurgence is part of a non-human reappropriation and transformation of human-altered environments. In this commentary, we argue that this ‘revanchism’ has prompted two new forms of genocide: the pre-emptive mass slaughter of non-human animals, and the annihilation of humans as expressed through COVID-19 and …
Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide
For holistic accounts of past and present genocides to exist, the production of critical geographies of genocide, produced at the interface of human and physical geography, is vital. The emergent area of critical physical geography (CPG) scholarship stands to provide such holistic accounts in addition to providing genocide studies with a much‐needed geographic perspective, one that is grounded in the lived material realities and social relations …
Along came a spider … and capitalism killed it
In 2022, engineers at Rice University revealed a new procedure to reanimate the corpse of a spider. Hailed as a biotechnological achievement, the experimental procedures designed to convert death into useful, productive labor portend a deepening of necrocapitalism and the violence of science. In this commentary, we call attention to three overlapping dimensions epitomized by scientifically reanimated spiders: (a) the fetishization of violence, (b…
Scorched Earth
The last decade has seen a growing interest in the intersection of genocide and ecocide, with calls from scholars and activists to include forms of environmental destruction as crimes against humanity. Scorched Earth enters this discussion with a historically informed analysis of how wars have targeted the environmental basis for human life. Through ten case studies ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Emmanuel Kreike contributes t…
Divide and cultivate
This article examines the spatial history of U.S. food production through the evolution of two carceral spaces: rural penitentiaries and Indian reservations. These sites have long provided opportunities to spatially fix surplus labor and capital in U.S. agriculture: from the confinement of Indians during settler colonialism, through the regulation of labor surpluses after Reconstruction, to the present-day expansion of convict leasing to backfill…
Agrarian Marxism, Animal Geographies, and non-human labor in Democratic Kampuchea
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) embarked on a genocidal program of sweeping economic, social, and political change. In an effort to modernize Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia was renamed, CPK officials forced the entire populace to clear forests; build dams, canals, and reservoirs; and grow rice in an effort to accumulate rapidly the necessary capital for industrialization. In doing so, upwards of two million people…
Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Genocide (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Cambodian History and Society (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works)