Meredith J Deboom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith J Deboom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith J |
| FAMILY NAME | Deboom |
| SIGNATURE | DEBOOM M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8748-5634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Displaced decarbonization: Climate necropolitics and the contested spatialities of green hydrogen in Namibia
Green hydrogen is often presented as a transformative solution to the dual challenges of decarbonization and economic development. This article applies the framework of climate necropolitics to interrogate the contested spatialities underlying such “win-win” narratives. It does so through an extended case study of Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, a $10 billion green hydrogen project planned for Lüderitz, Namibia. A remote town of 20,000 in a country with …
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary
‘Global China’ has emerged as a shorthand for China's relationship to the global, but its axiomatic uses disguise considerable complexity. This article troubles self-evident uses and tidy categorizations of Global China by approaching it as an emergent, pluralistic geographical imaginary warranting critical analysis. Employing a genealogical approach that privileges indeterminacy and inconsistency over linearity and singularity, we draw on wide-r…
Unsettling global China
This response reflects on four commentaries that engage our article on the six paths of Global China. The commentators’ interventions call on us to interrogate Global China's entanglements with (racial) capitalism, resist exceptionalism, foreground multiplicity and ambiguity, and attend to the everyday, embodied, and relational. Our response builds with these insights to illustrate how the structural logics of capitalism, the production of differ…
Hedging energy transition: Green hydrogen, oil, and low-carbon resilience as state strategy in Namibia
The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks
Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in this article is two-fold. First, we historically situate contemporary US-China rivalry to conceptualise the Second Cold War (SCW). We argue that in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, both the US and China launched ‘restorative’ political projects that harked back to imag…
Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality
Climate Necropolitics: Ecological Civilization and the Distributive Geographies of Extractive Violence in the Anthropocene
The declaration of the Anthropocene reflects the magnitude of human-caused planetary violence, but it also risks disguising the inequitable geographies of responsibility and sacrifice that underlie its designation. Similarly, many existing strategies for climate change mitigation, including the development of low-carbon energy, are critical to reducing carbon emissions and yet simultaneously risk deepening extractive violence against marginalized…
Who is afraid of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’? Geopolitical narratives, agency and the multiscalar distribution of risk
This commentary uses a geographical approach to make three points about the multiscalar distribution of risk and opportunity associated with ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ in the context of China–Africa relations. First, although geopolitical narratives are often inaccurate, they affect geopolitical perceptions and, in turn, the distribution of debt-related risk. Second, just as geopolitical dynamics affect domestic politics, domestic political dynamics i…
Nuclear (Geo)Political Ecologies: A Hybrid Geography of Chinese Investment in Namibia's Uranium Sector
Namibia's Husab uranium mine is the Chinese government's largest investment in Africa to date. This article develops a theoretical framework of hybridity to analyse the (geo)political and ecological implications of China's rising global influence in uranium mining. Drawing on multiple-methods fieldwork, the article explains how Husab has resuscitated Namibia's uranium industry and facilitated the political goals of both Chinese and Namibian leade…
The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks
Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in this article is two-fold. First, we historically situate contemporary US-China rivalry to conceptualise the Second Cold War (SCW). We argue that in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, both the US and China launched ‘restorative’ political projects that harked back to imag…
Climate Necropolitics: Ecological Civilization and the Distributive Geographies of Extractive Violence in the Anthropocene
The declaration of the Anthropocene reflects the magnitude of human-caused planetary violence, but it also risks disguising the inequitable geographies of responsibility and sacrifice that underlie its designation. Similarly, many existing strategies for climate change mitigation, including the development of low-carbon energy, are critical to reducing carbon emissions and yet simultaneously risk deepening extractive violence against marginalized…
Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality
Nuclear (Geo)Political Ecologies: A Hybrid Geography of Chinese Investment in Namibia's Uranium Sector
Namibia's Husab uranium mine is the Chinese government's largest investment in Africa to date. This article develops a theoretical framework of hybridity to analyse the (geo)political and ecological implications of China's rising global influence in uranium mining. Drawing on multiple-methods fieldwork, the article explains how Husab has resuscitated Namibia's uranium industry and facilitated the political goals of both Chinese and Namibian leade…
Hedging energy transition: Green hydrogen, oil, and low-carbon resilience as state strategy in Namibia
Who is afraid of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’? Geopolitical narratives, agency and the multiscalar distribution of risk
This commentary uses a geographical approach to make three points about the multiscalar distribution of risk and opportunity associated with ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ in the context of China–Africa relations. First, although geopolitical narratives are often inaccurate, they affect geopolitical perceptions and, in turn, the distribution of debt-related risk. Second, just as geopolitical dynamics affect domestic politics, domestic political dynamics i…
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary
‘Global China’ has emerged as a shorthand for China's relationship to the global, but its axiomatic uses disguise considerable complexity. This article troubles self-evident uses and tidy categorizations of Global China by approaching it as an emergent, pluralistic geographical imaginary warranting critical analysis. Employing a genealogical approach that privileges indeterminacy and inconsistency over linearity and singularity, we draw on wide-r…
Displaced decarbonization: Climate necropolitics and the contested spatialities of green hydrogen in Namibia
Green hydrogen is often presented as a transformative solution to the dual challenges of decarbonization and economic development. This article applies the framework of climate necropolitics to interrogate the contested spatialities underlying such “win-win” narratives. It does so through an extended case study of Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, a $10 billion green hydrogen project planned for Lüderitz, Namibia. A remote town of 20,000 in a country with …
Nuclear (Geo)Political Ecologies: A Hybrid Geography of Chinese Investment in Namibia's Uranium Sector
Namibia's Husab uranium mine is the Chinese government's largest investment in Africa to date. This article develops a theoretical framework of hybridity to analyse the (geo)political and ecological implications of China's rising global influence in uranium mining. Drawing on multiple-methods fieldwork, the article explains how Husab has resuscitated Namibia's uranium industry and facilitated the political goals of both Chinese and Namibian leade…
Who is afraid of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’? Geopolitical narratives, agency and the multiscalar distribution of risk
This commentary uses a geographical approach to make three points about the multiscalar distribution of risk and opportunity associated with ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ in the context of China–Africa relations. First, although geopolitical narratives are often inaccurate, they affect geopolitical perceptions and, in turn, the distribution of debt-related risk. Second, just as geopolitical dynamics affect domestic politics, domestic political dynamics i…
Climate Necropolitics: Ecological Civilization and the Distributive Geographies of Extractive Violence in the Anthropocene
The declaration of the Anthropocene reflects the magnitude of human-caused planetary violence, but it also risks disguising the inequitable geographies of responsibility and sacrifice that underlie its designation. Similarly, many existing strategies for climate change mitigation, including the development of low-carbon energy, are critical to reducing carbon emissions and yet simultaneously risk deepening extractive violence against marginalized…
Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality
The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks
Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in this article is two-fold. First, we historically situate contemporary US-China rivalry to conceptualise the Second Cold War (SCW). We argue that in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, both the US and China launched ‘restorative’ political projects that harked back to imag…
Displaced decarbonization: Climate necropolitics and the contested spatialities of green hydrogen in Namibia
Green hydrogen is often presented as a transformative solution to the dual challenges of decarbonization and economic development. This article applies the framework of climate necropolitics to interrogate the contested spatialities underlying such “win-win” narratives. It does so through an extended case study of Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, a $10 billion green hydrogen project planned for Lüderitz, Namibia. A remote town of 20,000 in a country with …
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary
‘Global China’ has emerged as a shorthand for China's relationship to the global, but its axiomatic uses disguise considerable complexity. This article troubles self-evident uses and tidy categorizations of Global China by approaching it as an emergent, pluralistic geographical imaginary warranting critical analysis. Employing a genealogical approach that privileges indeterminacy and inconsistency over linearity and singularity, we draw on wide-r…
Unsettling global China
This response reflects on four commentaries that engage our article on the six paths of Global China. The commentators’ interventions call on us to interrogate Global China's entanglements with (racial) capitalism, resist exceptionalism, foreground multiplicity and ambiguity, and attend to the everyday, embodied, and relational. Our response builds with these insights to illustrate how the structural logics of capitalism, the production of differ…
Hedging energy transition: Green hydrogen, oil, and low-carbon resilience as state strategy in Namibia
Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · China (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Business (2 works)