Jerry C Zee
Biographic Data
| ID | 183596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry C Zee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zee |
| SIGNATURE | ZEE J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2731-2130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Surface and Retreat
This essay is an experiment in figuring the pandemic through its reconfigurations of Chineseness. It departs from the Sinophobic cliché that conflates race, geopolitics, and epidemiology: the “China Virus” and its cloud of cognate slurs. It considers the slogan-slur as both an epithet and a conceptual and political challenge to imagine the pandemic as it is lived, still, as a disorientation of Asian and Asian American life, time, and death. The e…
Liquidity and Liquefaction
This article considers the collision of earthly and monetary phase shifts. It situates itself in Richmond, British Columbia, a seam where multiple and disparate processes of landing collaborate in the ongoing transformation and modulation of the earth's surface. It poses a Chinese-funded construction boom on an island in western Canada as a geological formation, a physical outcropping at the collision of nineteenth-century Chinese terraforming la…
Monterey Park, Lunar New Year 2023
This piece is part of a special section of "hundreds" in honor of Kathleen Stewart. It reflects on a mass shooting in California through her sense of "atmosphere
Rise into Dust
In early April 2001, two closely spaced pulses of the Siberian jetstream blew into semi-arid Inner Mongolia, whipping surface sands into the air.The western reaches of the region, at the frontier with Mongolia, were bare of grass.The convergence of years of drought, a mounting crisis of land degradation, and an unusually warm winter left vast tracts of the region's sands exposed in the early spring.In these conditions, an early thaw of sandy land…
Machine Sky
This article explores Chinese environmental politics as a complex strategy for engineering weather and climate at national and then planetary scales. It argues that in times of meteorological insecurity, we can explore diverse sites in China's state environmental political apparatus as attempts at coordinating diverse physical, natural, and social processes into components of manipulable weather systems. Through considering two programs of state …
Asia as strategy
This contribution reflects on Aihwa Ong's thoughts on the global and her later work with Asian scientists to look at recent Chinese state approaches to climate change. Departing from popular accounts that pose China as either an engine of climate catastrophe or as a singular hope for its aversion, I argue that the planetary predicament that climate change raises has been taken up in Chinese politics as a strategic site to reimagine the Chinese Co…
Holding Patterns
This article considers possibilities for posing the relationship between historical, political, and environmental time-a key provocation of what has been called the Anthropocene-by exploring how sand gives form to political time in Chinese state antidesertification and sand-control efforts. Through an ethnographic exploration of how scientists, engineers, and bureaucrats in two desertification emergency zones in northern China read landscapes thr…
Condition-Suspension
Atmospheric scenes compel anthropology into a dilution: a shift in concentration. Working through suspension as a condition through which to ask into life in the air, this Opening pauses with moments of arrest, distribution, and deposit by various airs. Such moments compel a reorientation of attention toward airy things even as they model a recomposition of anthropological inquiry by atmosphere. Exploring how sands shift and settle in a Chinese w…
Condition-Suspension
Atmospheric scenes compel anthropology into a dilution: a shift in concentration. Working through suspension as a condition through which to ask into life in the air, this Opening pauses with moments of arrest, distribution, and deposit by various airs. Such moments compel a reorientation of attention toward airy things even as they model a recomposition of anthropological inquiry by atmosphere. Exploring how sands shift and settle in a Chinese w…
Holding Patterns
This article considers possibilities for posing the relationship between historical, political, and environmental time-a key provocation of what has been called the Anthropocene-by exploring how sand gives form to political time in Chinese state antidesertification and sand-control efforts. Through an ethnographic exploration of how scientists, engineers, and bureaucrats in two desertification emergency zones in northern China read landscapes thr…
Machine Sky
This article explores Chinese environmental politics as a complex strategy for engineering weather and climate at national and then planetary scales. It argues that in times of meteorological insecurity, we can explore diverse sites in China's state environmental political apparatus as attempts at coordinating diverse physical, natural, and social processes into components of manipulable weather systems. Through considering two programs of state …
Liquidity and Liquefaction
This article considers the collision of earthly and monetary phase shifts. It situates itself in Richmond, British Columbia, a seam where multiple and disparate processes of landing collaborate in the ongoing transformation and modulation of the earth's surface. It poses a Chinese-funded construction boom on an island in western Canada as a geological formation, a physical outcropping at the collision of nineteenth-century Chinese terraforming la…
Condition-Suspension
Atmospheric scenes compel anthropology into a dilution: a shift in concentration. Working through suspension as a condition through which to ask into life in the air, this Opening pauses with moments of arrest, distribution, and deposit by various airs. Such moments compel a reorientation of attention toward airy things even as they model a recomposition of anthropological inquiry by atmosphere. Exploring how sands shift and settle in a Chinese w…
Holding Patterns
This article considers possibilities for posing the relationship between historical, political, and environmental time-a key provocation of what has been called the Anthropocene-by exploring how sand gives form to political time in Chinese state antidesertification and sand-control efforts. Through an ethnographic exploration of how scientists, engineers, and bureaucrats in two desertification emergency zones in northern China read landscapes thr…
Machine Sky
This article explores Chinese environmental politics as a complex strategy for engineering weather and climate at national and then planetary scales. It argues that in times of meteorological insecurity, we can explore diverse sites in China's state environmental political apparatus as attempts at coordinating diverse physical, natural, and social processes into components of manipulable weather systems. Through considering two programs of state …
Asia as strategy
This contribution reflects on Aihwa Ong's thoughts on the global and her later work with Asian scientists to look at recent Chinese state approaches to climate change. Departing from popular accounts that pose China as either an engine of climate catastrophe or as a singular hope for its aversion, I argue that the planetary predicament that climate change raises has been taken up in Chinese politics as a strategic site to reimagine the Chinese Co…
Rise into Dust
In early April 2001, two closely spaced pulses of the Siberian jetstream blew into semi-arid Inner Mongolia, whipping surface sands into the air.The western reaches of the region, at the frontier with Mongolia, were bare of grass.The convergence of years of drought, a mounting crisis of land degradation, and an unusually warm winter left vast tracts of the region's sands exposed in the early spring.In these conditions, an early thaw of sandy land…
Surface and Retreat
This essay is an experiment in figuring the pandemic through its reconfigurations of Chineseness. It departs from the Sinophobic cliché that conflates race, geopolitics, and epidemiology: the “China Virus” and its cloud of cognate slurs. It considers the slogan-slur as both an epithet and a conceptual and political challenge to imagine the pandemic as it is lived, still, as a disorientation of Asian and Asian American life, time, and death. The e…
Liquidity and Liquefaction
This article considers the collision of earthly and monetary phase shifts. It situates itself in Richmond, British Columbia, a seam where multiple and disparate processes of landing collaborate in the ongoing transformation and modulation of the earth's surface. It poses a Chinese-funded construction boom on an island in western Canada as a geological formation, a physical outcropping at the collision of nineteenth-century Chinese terraforming la…
Monterey Park, Lunar New Year 2023
This piece is part of a special section of "hundreds" in honor of Kathleen Stewart. It reflects on a mass shooting in California through her sense of "atmosphere
China (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)