Jessica Dicarlo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Dicarlo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Dicarlo |
| SIGNATURE | DICARLO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1178-5053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Midstream geopolitics: Processing power in critical mineral supply chains
The emerging geopolitics of critical minerals hinges not only on their extraction but also on their transformation. Smelters, refiners, magnet factories, and other processing facilities are new sites of geopolitical competition and dependencies, linking countries that increasingly see one another as strategic rivals. This article introduces the concept of midstream geopolitics to move beyond notions of resource geopolitics often focused on extrac…
The emergence and politics of polyalignment
In the Second Cold War between the US and China, middle ground countries are overwhelmingly refusing to choose sides. However, despite resultant talk of ‘new non-alignment’, they do not seek to keep major states at arm’s length, as in the first Cold War; rather, they seek to build and maintain connections with rival players as much as possible, reflecting their attachment to the deep networks created under globalisation in the decades since 1989.…
On the coloniality of green finance: Green capital landing and accumulation by decarbonization
Vast quantities of minerals are being extracted for the so-called “green transition”. Framed as climate solutions and motivated by geoeconomic competition, green extractive projects mobilize billions of dollars, particularly from Western and Chinese interests. Yet, such capital-intensive ventures disproportionately land in the Global South or Indigenous and agrarian territories of the Global North, reproducing (post)colonial dynamics of accumulat…
Minerals at the margins and the new geopolitics of critical minerals
The new resource geopolitics is not solely a race against China; it is a test of foresight, adaptability, and the ability to invest in futures not yet fully visible across the full spectrum of ‘critical’ resources. While Western powers rush to counter China's dominance in mainstream critical minerals —such as rare earths, lithium, and cobalt—policy, research, and public attention tend to overlook minerals at the margins : materials recognized as …
The world from a bicycle: Cycling as kinesthetic methodology
We theorize the epistemological orientations and methodological possibilities of cycling as a sociotechnical, kinesthetic, and emplaced practice relevant across human geography. Foregrounding the liminalities, contingencies, and improvisational potentials of cycling, we highlight how its unique pacing and capacity to traverse and transcend infrastructural and social constraints foster embodied engagements. Our cycling experiences illustrate the a…
Infrastructural polyalignment and Himalayan geopolitics: Subjugation, small-state agency, and regional competition in Nepal
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…
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage
China has transformed from a laggard to a rising leader of environmental governance. It plays a unique and essential role in promoting environmental cooperation, financing and implementing global green infrastructure, and generating and disseminating environmental technology and scientific knowledge. On each front, global progress cannot be made without China, especially with the US’ retreat from global leadership under the second Trump presidenc…
The Corridor as Commodity: Enclosure, Legibility, and Uneven Development in Southeast Asian Railway Projects
Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for some while unevenly and, at times, violently reshaping the lives of others. This paper examines how corridors are constructed through dialectical processes of enclosure and opening, involving the enclosure of land, livelihoods, and social relations al…
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…
Standardizing “green” extractivism: Chinese & Western environmental, social, and governance instruments in the critical mineral sector
Pericentricity on the Congolese copperbelt: How the DRC shapes Chinese cobalt supply chains and the low-carbon transition
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…
Towards a critical geopolitics of China– US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts and transnational connections
The deterioration of bilateral relations between the US and China heralds a new chapter in geopolitics increasingly characterised by competition and confrontation. We introduce insights from contemporary Cold War historiography, which we suggest can help deepen our understanding of the present. Historians have largely rejected the notion that the Cold War was a bipolar struggle between great powers. Instead, the ‘Global Cold War’ is increasingly …
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state
The unipolar international order led by the USA has given way to a multipolar order with the emergence of China as a great power competitor. According to many commentators, the deterioration of Sino–US relations in recent years heralds a “new Cold War.” The new Cold War differs from its namesake in many respects, and in this paper we focus on its novel territorial logic. Containing the USSR was the overriding objective of American foreign policy …
(Re)constructing state power and livelihoods through the Laos-China Railway project
Development as Palimpsest: Infrastructures Revived in Boten’s Architecture
Jessica DiCarlo examines how the rubbles of past infrastructures, visual culture, and vernacular architecture are employed to transform Boten SEZ into an attractive place for capital investment at the Laos–China border
Post-disaster agricultural transitions in Nepal
Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: A Smallholder Household Perspective
Epstein, K., J. DiCarlo, R. Marsh, B. Adhikari, D. Paudel, I. Ray, and I. E. Måren. 2018. Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: a smallholder household perspective. Ecology and Society 23(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09909-230129
Coping Strategies of Smallholder Farming Communities after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Insights into Post-Disaster Resilience and Social–Ecological Change
Environmental disasters, such as hurricanes, landslides, and earthquakes, are pervasive and disproportionately affect rural and poor populations. The concept of resilience is typically used in disaster scenarios to describe how a community or person is able to “bounce back” from a disaster event. At the same time, resilience theory also contends that disasters, or environmental shocks, can produce or initiate profound changes in social and ecolog…
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state
The unipolar international order led by the USA has given way to a multipolar order with the emergence of China as a great power competitor. According to many commentators, the deterioration of Sino–US relations in recent years heralds a “new Cold War.” The new Cold War differs from its namesake in many respects, and in this paper we focus on its novel territorial logic. Containing the USSR was the overriding objective of American foreign policy …
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…
(Re)constructing state power and livelihoods through the Laos-China Railway project
Pericentricity on the Congolese copperbelt: How the DRC shapes Chinese cobalt supply chains and the low-carbon transition
Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: A Smallholder Household Perspective
Epstein, K., J. DiCarlo, R. Marsh, B. Adhikari, D. Paudel, I. Ray, and I. E. Måren. 2018. Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: a smallholder household perspective. Ecology and Society 23(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09909-230129
Towards a critical geopolitics of China– US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts and transnational connections
The deterioration of bilateral relations between the US and China heralds a new chapter in geopolitics increasingly characterised by competition and confrontation. We introduce insights from contemporary Cold War historiography, which we suggest can help deepen our understanding of the present. Historians have largely rejected the notion that the Cold War was a bipolar struggle between great powers. Instead, the ‘Global Cold War’ is increasingly …
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…
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage
China has transformed from a laggard to a rising leader of environmental governance. It plays a unique and essential role in promoting environmental cooperation, financing and implementing global green infrastructure, and generating and disseminating environmental technology and scientific knowledge. On each front, global progress cannot be made without China, especially with the US’ retreat from global leadership under the second Trump presidenc…
Post-disaster agricultural transitions in Nepal
The Corridor as Commodity: Enclosure, Legibility, and Uneven Development in Southeast Asian Railway Projects
Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for some while unevenly and, at times, violently reshaping the lives of others. This paper examines how corridors are constructed through dialectical processes of enclosure and opening, involving the enclosure of land, livelihoods, and social relations al…
Coping Strategies of Smallholder Farming Communities after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Insights into Post-Disaster Resilience and Social–Ecological Change
Environmental disasters, such as hurricanes, landslides, and earthquakes, are pervasive and disproportionately affect rural and poor populations. The concept of resilience is typically used in disaster scenarios to describe how a community or person is able to “bounce back” from a disaster event. At the same time, resilience theory also contends that disasters, or environmental shocks, can produce or initiate profound changes in social and ecolog…
Post-disaster agricultural transitions in Nepal
Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: A Smallholder Household Perspective
Epstein, K., J. DiCarlo, R. Marsh, B. Adhikari, D. Paudel, I. Ray, and I. E. Måren. 2018. Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: a smallholder household perspective. Ecology and Society 23(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09909-230129
Development as Palimpsest: Infrastructures Revived in Boten’s Architecture
Jessica DiCarlo examines how the rubbles of past infrastructures, visual culture, and vernacular architecture are employed to transform Boten SEZ into an attractive place for capital investment at the Laos–China border
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state
The unipolar international order led by the USA has given way to a multipolar order with the emergence of China as a great power competitor. According to many commentators, the deterioration of Sino–US relations in recent years heralds a “new Cold War.” The new Cold War differs from its namesake in many respects, and in this paper we focus on its novel territorial logic. Containing the USSR was the overriding objective of American foreign policy …
(Re)constructing state power and livelihoods through the Laos-China Railway project
Towards a critical geopolitics of China– US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts and transnational connections
The deterioration of bilateral relations between the US and China heralds a new chapter in geopolitics increasingly characterised by competition and confrontation. We introduce insights from contemporary Cold War historiography, which we suggest can help deepen our understanding of the present. Historians have largely rejected the notion that the Cold War was a bipolar struggle between great powers. Instead, the ‘Global Cold War’ is increasingly …
Standardizing “green” extractivism: Chinese & Western environmental, social, and governance instruments in the critical mineral sector
Pericentricity on the Congolese copperbelt: How the DRC shapes Chinese cobalt supply chains and the low-carbon transition
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…
Infrastructural polyalignment and Himalayan geopolitics: Subjugation, small-state agency, and regional competition in Nepal
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…
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage
China has transformed from a laggard to a rising leader of environmental governance. It plays a unique and essential role in promoting environmental cooperation, financing and implementing global green infrastructure, and generating and disseminating environmental technology and scientific knowledge. On each front, global progress cannot be made without China, especially with the US’ retreat from global leadership under the second Trump presidenc…
The Corridor as Commodity: Enclosure, Legibility, and Uneven Development in Southeast Asian Railway Projects
Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for some while unevenly and, at times, violently reshaping the lives of others. This paper examines how corridors are constructed through dialectical processes of enclosure and opening, involving the enclosure of land, livelihoods, and social relations al…
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…
Midstream geopolitics: Processing power in critical mineral supply chains
The emerging geopolitics of critical minerals hinges not only on their extraction but also on their transformation. Smelters, refiners, magnet factories, and other processing facilities are new sites of geopolitical competition and dependencies, linking countries that increasingly see one another as strategic rivals. This article introduces the concept of midstream geopolitics to move beyond notions of resource geopolitics often focused on extrac…
The emergence and politics of polyalignment
In the Second Cold War between the US and China, middle ground countries are overwhelmingly refusing to choose sides. However, despite resultant talk of ‘new non-alignment’, they do not seek to keep major states at arm’s length, as in the first Cold War; rather, they seek to build and maintain connections with rival players as much as possible, reflecting their attachment to the deep networks created under globalisation in the decades since 1989.…
On the coloniality of green finance: Green capital landing and accumulation by decarbonization
Vast quantities of minerals are being extracted for the so-called “green transition”. Framed as climate solutions and motivated by geoeconomic competition, green extractive projects mobilize billions of dollars, particularly from Western and Chinese interests. Yet, such capital-intensive ventures disproportionately land in the Global South or Indigenous and agrarian territories of the Global North, reproducing (post)colonial dynamics of accumulat…
Minerals at the margins and the new geopolitics of critical minerals
The new resource geopolitics is not solely a race against China; it is a test of foresight, adaptability, and the ability to invest in futures not yet fully visible across the full spectrum of ‘critical’ resources. While Western powers rush to counter China's dominance in mainstream critical minerals —such as rare earths, lithium, and cobalt—policy, research, and public attention tend to overlook minerals at the margins : materials recognized as …
The world from a bicycle: Cycling as kinesthetic methodology
We theorize the epistemological orientations and methodological possibilities of cycling as a sociotechnical, kinesthetic, and emplaced practice relevant across human geography. Foregrounding the liminalities, contingencies, and improvisational potentials of cycling, we highlight how its unique pacing and capacity to traverse and transcend infrastructural and social constraints foster embodied engagements. Our cycling experiences illustrate the a…
Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Business (7 works) · China (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Finance (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works)