M M Bennett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 353356 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M M Bennett |
| NOMBRES | M M |
| APELLIDO | Bennett |
| FIRMA | BENNETT M M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1897-1334 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1927 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Breaker of images
Over time, humans have developed the capability to distinguish and capture finer portions of the electromagnetic spectrum at higher resolutions. Modern optical sensors can resolve the Earth in detailed color at resolutions of up to 10 cm. This type of passive remote sensing mimics human vision by recording spectral information, or light. Yet another technique which does not measure spectral information, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), is increasi…
Holding up the skies
The world from a bicycle
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…
Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry
Satellite data, information, or knowledge? Critiquing how Arctic environmental NGOs derive meaning and power from imagery
Through interviews and correspondence carried out with six Arctic environmental NGOs (ENGOs) in 2024, this article identifies how they derive meaning and power from satellite imagery. It applies the distinctions between data, information, and knowledge made by Boisot and Canals (2004) to satellite imagery, defining satellite data as that which contains information about the Earth, satellite information as that which can modify understandings of t…
One railway, many environmental problems
Divergent trajectories of Arctic change
Climate change is causing rapid warming in the Arctic, which, alongside other physical, socio-economic, cultural, geopolitical, and technological factors, is driving change in the far north. This research presents a conceptual model summarizing Arctic change factors which in turn was used in the design of a Delphi exercise which leveraged a variety of experts to forecast trajectories in different parts of the Arctic. Based on these experts’ expec…
Withdrawn
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
Polar projections
Making spaces for debate in the digital age
Withdrawal notice to 'Making spaces for debate in the digital age' [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, http://10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
The Dark Arctic
The snow-white Arctic is darkening physically and economically. Climate change is turning frozen seas into open water and blackening snow and ice as soot spreads and algae propagates. At the same time, the region’s shadow economy is expanding. Illicit activities like human trafficking and fishing have long thrived in northern peripheries beyond state reach, while Russia’s transition to capitalism in the 1990s institutionalized the black market. T…
Care, continuity, and meaningful change
Conclusion
Governing the Extraterritorial
This article proposes a global environmentality framework to critique efforts to “green” the Belt and Road Initiative (or Green BRI) by examining the Chinese state’s environmental governance of extraterritorial spaces. The article transcends a focus within governmentality studies on domestic processes to reveal the relations between governance techniques and environmental subjects, including state and nonstate actors, beyond sovereign borders. Dr…
Chinese sociotechnical imaginaries of Earth observation
Although Earth observation (EO) is considered a universal scientific technique with a hegemonic gaze, national sociotechnical imaginaries shape its practice. Historically established and organized by national governments, EO, which is commonly pursued via satellite remote sensing, depends on domestic perceptions of the technique's scope and applications. EO is also a political technology with the capacity to mediate and potentially regulate life …
Hotels as border infrastructure
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online June 8, 2023Hotels as border infrastructure: Quarantine filtration and violence along China's edgesXiaofeng Liu and Mia BennettView all authors and affiliationsOnlineFirsthttps://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231157254e
Going out and going green
10.1080/15387216.2023.2279549
The biopolitics of Chinese tourism governance in the Arctic
Scholarly attention to China's domestic experimentation and control measures applied to its population (e.g. the Family Planning Policy and Zero-Covid) has expanded. So, too, has the popularity of the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, which refers to political strategies of governing based on a population's biological features. However, China's biopolitical rationales for its growing participation in global governance (全球治理 quanqiu zhili) beyon…
Gravel grabs
Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities
This editorial introduces the special issue 'Earthly Volumes, Voluminous Materialities: Working with Apprehension'. Situated within the volumetric turn while adopting voluminous approaches that critique how social and natural relations shape and are shaped by territory's multidimensionality, the issue's articles explore how state and non-state actors have sought to understand, grasp, and control emergent domains historically and into the present.…
Virtual Forum Introduction
Small steps
Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons
China is expanding its Arctic presence by developing infrastructure in the global commons that intersect with the region. Operations in outer space, the deep sea and cyberspace minimise the need for terrestrial footholds and generate data, a virtual resource. To analyse the epistemic and geopolitical consequences of developing the Arctic global commons as a vertically and digitally integrated volume, we examine a critical form of Chinese 'remote …
Satellite Underworld
Reminding us not to forget the ground when we dream about the possibilities of the sky, Mia M. Bennett explores the logistics of situating satellite ground stations in areas like the Arctic and Xinjiang
Working After Retirement
The majority of (U.S.) retirees now work for pay after they retire from their major/longer-term job, a phenomenon referred to as bridge employment. Retirement can take many forms, as can bridge employment, which is sometimes considered a form of partial retirement spanning the period from full-time work to full retirement. Although bridge employment has occurred for a long time, its study in the social sciences is relatively new and sparse. The d…
Viral borders
As COVID-19 spreads, new processes, forms, and scales of bordering practices are transcending national territorial limits. This commentary critiques how ‘viral borders’ are securitizing the global supply chains of medical products, disciplining citizens, and reterritorializing communities and contemplates the consequences of these practices for the post-pandemic era
Is a pixel worth 1000 words? Critical remote sensing and China's Belt and Road Initiative
Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities
This editorial introduces the special issue 'Earthly Volumes, Voluminous Materialities: Working with Apprehension'. Situated within the volumetric turn while adopting voluminous approaches that critique how social and natural relations shape and are shaped by territory's multidimensionality, the issue's articles explore how state and non-state actors have sought to understand, grasp, and control emergent domains historically and into the present.…
From state-initiated to Indigenous-driven infrastructure
How China Sees the Arctic
In May 2013, China gained observer status in the Arctic Council, exemplifying its growing legitimacy as a regional actor in the eyes of the eight countries with territory north of the Arctic Circle. Yet since China remains an extraregional state without territory in the Arctic, Chinese officials continue to bolster their state’s legitimacy as an Arctic stakeholder through two spatially inconsistent but mutually reinforcing grand regional narrativ…
The Silk Road goes north
Russia, the world’s largest country, forms a key part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Underfunded infrastructure and vast energy resources into which Western investment is now largely prohibited by US and European Union sanctions also make Russia a logical site for BRI projects. Two are currently under way: the Moscow–Kazan high-speed railway and the Yamal liquefied natural gas plant. These BRI endeavours build on recent Sino-Russia en…
The geopolitics of China’s Arctic tourism resources
Chinese outbound tourism is extending into new frontiers, including the Arctic. In this region, where the Chinese state does not claim territorial sovereignty, it seeks to exert its influence by other means. One strategy involves the development of ‘tourism resources’, which the government’s 2018 Arctic Policy promotes. In line with recent work interrogating the geopolitics of tourism, we draw on a review of policy and media documents complemente…
North by Northeast
Though the Arctic Council accepted China, Japan, and South Korea as observers in May 2013, the multilateral organization’s permanent member states continue to treat them as non-Arctic outsiders due to their lack of territory north of the Arctic Circle. Applying geographic perspectives that consider the importance of territory and proximity on the one hand and relations and networks on the other, the author argues for a reconceptualization of the …
Which states will lead a just transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR analysis of global data on Arctic states and formal observer states
A fair and equitable low carbon future depends on a just transition which, in turn, requires leadership. Where the Arctic is concerned, this leadership is currently lacking. To gauge which states are most likely to provide leadership in the global energy transition, a quantitative rank-percentile assessment of 21 Arctic Council members and Observer states was conducted, using measures relevant to the just transition. Data from multiple open-acces…
The geopolitics of knowledge communities
Articulating the Arctic
This paper compares four maps produced by the Canadian government and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the indigenous peoples’ organisation representing Inuit living in the four recognised Inuit regions ( Inuit Nunangat ) of Canada. Our analysis is based on publicly available maps, documents, and records and extends the rich existing literature examining the history of definitions of the Canadian north. Distinctly, our research aims to understand the dif…
Ruins of the Anthropocene
In the Anthropocene, ruin appreciation is shifting its focus from crumbling architecture to the deteriorating planet. Whereas Romantic and modern ruin gazing privileged nature’s reconquest of the built environment, now, the carbon-intensive infrastructures of global capitalism are turning nature itself to ruin. By critiquing popular representations of the melting Arctic—a visual trope within Anthropocene aesthetics involving images of shrinking i…
Anywhere but here
This study considers the phenomenology of ‘islandness’ by analysing the experiences of tourists, islanders, and migrant tourism workers on two Chinese islands in the South China Sea. Although we begin by presuming place to be a phenomenological concept centring on ‘being-in-the-world’, we find that people’s experiences both on and off the islands of Dong’ao and Wailingding engender a desire to ‘be-in-many-worlds’ at once. Findings drawn from thre…
Torched Earth
Notes on the Dalleburra Tribe of Northern Queensland
Going out and going green
10.1080/15387216.2023.2279549
Introduction
The Making of Post-Post-Soviet Ruins
Chinese infrastructure diplomacy in Russia
The Chinese government actively engages in infrastructure diplomacy, with the state financing and constructing capital goods multilaterally under the Belt and Road Initiative and bilaterally in countries like Russia. There, Chinese infrastructure diplomacy is making inroads, especially in Russia's transportation and energy sectors. New bridges and pipelines will soon link the two countries across the Amur River border. While some scholars see inf…
Care, continuity, and meaningful change
Governing the Extraterritorial
This article proposes a global environmentality framework to critique efforts to “green” the Belt and Road Initiative (or Green BRI) by examining the Chinese state’s environmental governance of extraterritorial spaces. The article transcends a focus within governmentality studies on domestic processes to reveal the relations between governance techniques and environmental subjects, including state and nonstate actors, beyond sovereign borders. Dr…
The biopolitics of Chinese tourism governance in the Arctic
Scholarly attention to China's domestic experimentation and control measures applied to its population (e.g. the Family Planning Policy and Zero-Covid) has expanded. So, too, has the popularity of the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, which refers to political strategies of governing based on a population's biological features. However, China's biopolitical rationales for its growing participation in global governance (全球治理 quanqiu zhili) beyon…
Gravel grabs
Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons
China is expanding its Arctic presence by developing infrastructure in the global commons that intersect with the region. Operations in outer space, the deep sea and cyberspace minimise the need for terrestrial footholds and generate data, a virtual resource. To analyse the epistemic and geopolitical consequences of developing the Arctic global commons as a vertically and digitally integrated volume, we examine a critical form of Chinese 'remote …
Notes on the Dalleburra Tribe of Northern Queensland
Tourism the State of the Art
Working After Retirement
The majority of (U.S.) retirees now work for pay after they retire from their major/longer-term job, a phenomenon referred to as bridge employment. Retirement can take many forms, as can bridge employment, which is sometimes considered a form of partial retirement spanning the period from full-time work to full retirement. Although bridge employment has occurred for a long time, its study in the social sciences is relatively new and sparse. The d…
North by Northeast
Though the Arctic Council accepted China, Japan, and South Korea as observers in May 2013, the multilateral organization’s permanent member states continue to treat them as non-Arctic outsiders due to their lack of territory north of the Arctic Circle. Applying geographic perspectives that consider the importance of territory and proximity on the one hand and relations and networks on the other, the author argues for a reconceptualization of the …
How China Sees the Arctic
In May 2013, China gained observer status in the Arctic Council, exemplifying its growing legitimacy as a regional actor in the eyes of the eight countries with territory north of the Arctic Circle. Yet since China remains an extraregional state without territory in the Arctic, Chinese officials continue to bolster their state’s legitimacy as an Arctic stakeholder through two spatially inconsistent but mutually reinforcing grand regional narrativ…
Discursive, material, vertical, and extensive dimensions of post-Cold War Arctic resource extraction
This paper proposes an integrated framework for rethinking the Arctic resource frontier that involves consideration of its discursive, material, vertical, and extensive dimensions. Such a model enables more rigorous analysis of the drivers of Arctic natural resource extraction in the post-Cold War era than contemporary pronouncements about the region as pristine, unexploited, and newly opened by climate change. Indeed, despite five centuries of e…
The Silk Road goes north
Russia, the world’s largest country, forms a key part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Underfunded infrastructure and vast energy resources into which Western investment is now largely prohibited by US and European Union sanctions also make Russia a logical site for BRI projects. Two are currently under way: the Moscow–Kazan high-speed railway and the Yamal liquefied natural gas plant. These BRI endeavours build on recent Sino-Russia en…
Articulating the Arctic
This paper compares four maps produced by the Canadian government and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the indigenous peoples’ organisation representing Inuit living in the four recognised Inuit regions ( Inuit Nunangat ) of Canada. Our analysis is based on publicly available maps, documents, and records and extends the rich existing literature examining the history of definitions of the Canadian north. Distinctly, our research aims to understand the dif…
Torched Earth
Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics
Singapore
Singapore’s Arctic interests are typically explained by its limited regional market and the government’s stakes in shipping, maritime infrastructure, and global governance. Yet the city-state’s polar pursuits also reflect the government’s strategy of crafting a global national identity in step with its expansion of overseas economic activities. In this article, based on reviews of government speeches, documents, and press releases, observations a…
Arctic Law and Governance
Unfreezing the Arctic
Chinese infrastructure diplomacy in Russia
The Chinese government actively engages in infrastructure diplomacy, with the state financing and constructing capital goods multilaterally under the Belt and Road Initiative and bilaterally in countries like Russia. There, Chinese infrastructure diplomacy is making inroads, especially in Russia's transportation and energy sectors. New bridges and pipelines will soon link the two countries across the Amur River border. While some scholars see inf…
From state-initiated to Indigenous-driven infrastructure
Indigenous perceptions of climate anomalies in Malaysian Borneo
The opening of the Transpolar Sea Route
Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014
Rivers are essential to human livelihoods and agricultural production, yet human usage and irrigation are jeopardizing river sustainability. It is thus crucial to investigate the fine-scaled spatiotemporal dynamics of anthropogenic pressures on rivers. Most research, however, is conducted at the grid-scale, which impedes detailed investigations. In this study, by tracking anthropogenic pressures at the scale of river reaches (the length of river …
Viral borders
As COVID-19 spreads, new processes, forms, and scales of bordering practices are transcending national territorial limits. This commentary critiques how ‘viral borders’ are securitizing the global supply chains of medical products, disciplining citizens, and reterritorializing communities and contemplates the consequences of these practices for the post-pandemic era
Anywhere but here
This study considers the phenomenology of ‘islandness’ by analysing the experiences of tourists, islanders, and migrant tourism workers on two Chinese islands in the South China Sea. Although we begin by presuming place to be a phenomenological concept centring on ‘being-in-the-world’, we find that people’s experiences both on and off the islands of Dong’ao and Wailingding engender a desire to ‘be-in-many-worlds’ at once. Findings drawn from thre…
Is a pixel worth 1000 words? Critical remote sensing and China's Belt and Road Initiative
The Making of Post-Post-Soviet Ruins
High-resolution satellite-derived river network map reveals small Arctic river hydrography
Small rivers (width 80% of total river length and surface area of the Colville river network and drain >90% of the catchment area; (2) including numerous small rivers increases the peak of hillslope-channel travel time distribution (TTD) by ∼4 times and shortens the mean hillslope-channel travel time by at least an order of magnitude compared to coarser-resolution river hydrography products; and (3) 87% of the Colville River Basin’s carbon dioxid…
Whose offshore? Rescaling Hong Kong from Asia's World City to China's Greater Bay Area
Divining the future of development, not least of all of China, from Hong Kong has long been fraught. Taking up Jamie Peck’s call for ‘conjunctural theorizing’ that destabilizes idealizations of the state and market, through examples drawn from the Pearl River Delta, this paper explores how the colonial and contemporary accumulation of political power and financial capital by wealthy individuals, families and their corporations renders divisions b…
The geopolitics of China’s Arctic tourism resources
Chinese outbound tourism is extending into new frontiers, including the Arctic. In this region, where the Chinese state does not claim territorial sovereignty, it seeks to exert its influence by other means. One strategy involves the development of ‘tourism resources’, which the government’s 2018 Arctic Policy promotes. In line with recent work interrogating the geopolitics of tourism, we draw on a review of policy and media documents complemente…
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