Jamey Essex
Biographic Data
| ID | 975793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamey Essex |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamey |
| FAMILY NAME | Essex |
| SIGNATURE | ESSEX J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Diagnosing American Decline: The Geopolitics of Havana Syndrome
Beginning in 2016, American diplomats and family members posted to Havana, Cuba reported debilitating medical symptoms with no known physical cause. Many US officials labelled these as evidence of a new malady called ‘Havana syndrome’, caused by experimental weaponry deployed by hostile rival states. Since then, American personnel in numerous other countries have self-reported hundreds more cases. Despite no medical consensus on the cause or cohe…
The kids are not alright: Children as objects, audience, and agents in the 2022 Canadian convoy protests
Children figure prominently in far‐right movements, ideologies, and conspiracy theories as innocent targets of nefarious and decadent forces, unwitting symbols of social and political decay, and potentially dangerous objects of moral panic. Far‐right movements thus map a wide‐ranging network of concerns about immigration, race, public health, education, and globalization onto children's bodies and spaces. Yet children and youth also actively part…
From the Green Zone to Havana Syndrome: Making Geographic Sense of Rotationality and Hardship in Diplomacy
Most foreign ministries use a rotational system in deploying personnel abroad, with diplomats moving between foreign posts every few years and earning salary premiums based on the risks, dangers, and hardships associated with different foreign posts. We examine rotationality and hardship in diplomacy, identifying these as spatial and institutional practices for managing a global network of diplomatic personnel and sites. These are institutionaliz…
Aid
Aid is the transfer of goods, services, and other resources on concessionary but often conditional terms, typically as a form of development or humanitarian assistance. Aid functions through complex networks of official state, intergovernmental, and multilateral institutions, mostly but not entirely in the Global North, working alongside a wide array of private, nongovernmental, and philanthropic organizations and actors. Historically, aid has be…
Striped pants and Birkenstocks: Work culture, gender, and clothing at Global Affairs Canada
The 2013 amalgamation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has facilitated far-reaching changes in how the merged department, Global Affairs Canada (GAC), organizes expertise and the day-to-day work of its professional officer personnel. This paper examines this institutional change by approaching GAC as a highly differentiated workplace and work force in whi…
Geographies of diplomatic labor: Institutional culture, state work, and Canada's foreign service
The common perception of a foreign service career emphasizes the role of high-ranking diplomats traveling the world to engage in the high politics of statecraft and negotiation. Critical geographic scholarship, however, has recently turned to examine the more mundane, quotidian, and regularized work of foreign policy professionals in consulates, embassies, and foreign ministries. This paper builds a historical and institutional understanding of t…
A review of The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity. By Andrew Brooks
Aid
Aid is the transfer of goods, services, and other resources on concessionary and often conditional terms, typically as a form of development or humanitarian assistance. Aid functions through complex networks of official state, intergovernmental, and multilateral institutions, mostly but not entirely in the Global North, working alongside a wide array of private, nongovernmental, and philanthropic organizations and actors. Historically, aid has be…
Restructuring development expertise and labour in the Cida‐DFAIT merger
Key Messages In 2013, the Canadian federal government amalgamated its development, foreign, and trade policy institutions into a single department. We examine this merger by focusing on development experts from the Canadian International Development Agency who have moved into the amalgamated department. The merger is producing far‐reaching changes in institutional culture, bureaucratic structures, and labour relations as the new department takes …
Geopolitics, geoeconomics, and further developments at Usaid
International development institutions and the challenges of urbanisation: The case of Jakarta
Urbanisation in the Global South presents numerous challenges for international development institutions. Building from interviews at nine different international development institutions working in Jakarta, Indonesia, this article examines how such institutions approach urban poverty, governance, and collaboration. The case study of Jakarta indicates that urban governance is often fragmented and difficult for such institutions to navigate, makin…
Introduction: Global Food Crisis
This special issue of Geopolitics focuses on recent shifts in the geopolitics of agro-food systems linked to debates around a new ‘Global Food Crisis’ and its implications for (trans)national polit
From the Global Food Crisis to the Age of Austerity: The Anxious Geopolitics of Global Food Security
The impacts of recent food, financial, and energy crises have reinvigorated a geopolitical enframing of global food security that makes foreign development assistance a primary component of national security strategies. This centres elite fears of hunger and underdevelopment and strongly shapes policies and strategies adopted in response. Geopolitical fears of hungry and food insecure populations are compounded by the politics of austerity and cu…
The 'Global Food Crisis' and the Geopolitics of Food Security
Growing anxieties over food security have recently brought sharp geopolitical overtones to debates about the agro-food sector. Contending that this ‘geopolitical moment’ highlights the mutually constitutive nature of geopolitics and political economies of food, we examine how dominant geopolitical framings of food security extend and deepen neoliberal models of agro-food provisioning, and highlight the need for further attention to these dynamics…
The politics of effectiveness in Canada's international development assistance
Despite promoting innovations in multilateralism and aid, Canadian development assistance often operates in politically instrumental ways and has been criticised as wasteful and ineffective. Aid effectiveness has thus become a central rubric for programming and assessing aid at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and a primary means for reforming the global aid architecture. The meaning of effectiveness, however, is not straightf…
Idle Hands Are The Devil's Tools: The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Hunger
In current geopolitical and geoeconomic discourses, hunger is understood as both a threat to be contained, resulting in an often severe social and spatial localization of food insecurity, and a humanitarian problem to be solved through diffuse global flows of food and other aid. The resulting scalar tensions demonstrate the potentially contradictory alignment of geopolitics and geoeconomics within processes of globalization and neoliberalization.…
The Work of Hunger: Security, Development and Food-for-Work in Post-crisis Jakarta
Food-for-work programs distribute food aid to recipients in exchange for labor, and are an important mode of aid delivery for both public and private aid providers. While debate continues as to whether food-for-work programs are socially just and economically sensible, governments, international institutions, and NGOs continue to tout them as a flexible and cost-effective way to deliver targeted aid and promote community development. This paper c…
The Neoliberal Geopolitics of Food Security: The Case of Indonesia
The centering of development in post-9/11 US national security strategies, combined with the restructuring of the US state's foreign development apparatus, promise deep changes in understandings and practices of food security and its relationship to development and processes of neoliberalization, securitization, and militarization. Long a stated objective within US foreign aid programs, especially those based around food aid, recent strategic shi…
The Neoliberalization of Development: Trade Capacity Building and Security at the US Agency for International Development
This paper examines recent changes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) regarding the connections between trade liberalization, development, and security. USAID has adopted “trade capacity building” as a framework for development, and, in conjunction with new US national security discourses, now operates under the assumption that underdevelopment is a source of state weakness that produces insecurity. I argue that these changes …
Deservedness, development, and the state: Geographic categorization in the US Agency for International Development’s Foreign Assistance Framework
Getting What you Pay for: Authoritarian Statism and the Geographies of us Trade Liberalization Strategies
The role of the US state in advancing neoliberal globalization is the subject of Jamey Essex’s detailed study of the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). Drawing on the new Marxist geography as well as Poulantzas’s conception of authoritarian statism, Essex argues that the USTR is engaged in a contradictory double geographic movement that involves insulating state economic policy from democratic accountability as it liberalizes internati…
"The Real South Starts Here": Whiteness, the Confederacy, and Commodification at Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia, has served as a vital landscape for the construction of regional and racial identities in the South through the construction of a White identity based on the region's Confederate past. This paper examines Stone Mountain's historical development as a landscape of southern White identity construction, with particular focus on the roles played by "Lost Cause" interpretations of southern history, the Ku Klux Kla…
From world cities to gateway cities: Extending the boundaries of globalization theory
The focus on world cities has narrowed our understanding of the globalization/city relationship and ignores the processes of globalization occurring in almost all cities. By developing the notion of gateway cities, the authors seek to widen globalization research. They provide a list of topics that can be explored using this gateway city notion, including reglobalization, rescaling, representation, spectacle and urban regimes. These themes are us…
From world cities to gateway cities: Extending the boundaries of globalization theory
The focus on world cities has narrowed our understanding of the globalization/city relationship and ignores the processes of globalization occurring in almost all cities. By developing the notion of gateway cities, the authors seek to widen globalization research. They provide a list of topics that can be explored using this gateway city notion, including reglobalization, rescaling, representation, spectacle and urban regimes. These themes are us…
The 'Global Food Crisis' and the Geopolitics of Food Security
Growing anxieties over food security have recently brought sharp geopolitical overtones to debates about the agro-food sector. Contending that this ‘geopolitical moment’ highlights the mutually constitutive nature of geopolitics and political economies of food, we examine how dominant geopolitical framings of food security extend and deepen neoliberal models of agro-food provisioning, and highlight the need for further attention to these dynamics…
Idle Hands Are The Devil's Tools: The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Hunger
In current geopolitical and geoeconomic discourses, hunger is understood as both a threat to be contained, resulting in an often severe social and spatial localization of food insecurity, and a humanitarian problem to be solved through diffuse global flows of food and other aid. The resulting scalar tensions demonstrate the potentially contradictory alignment of geopolitics and geoeconomics within processes of globalization and neoliberalization.…
The Work of Hunger: Security, Development and Food-for-Work in Post-crisis Jakarta
Food-for-work programs distribute food aid to recipients in exchange for labor, and are an important mode of aid delivery for both public and private aid providers. While debate continues as to whether food-for-work programs are socially just and economically sensible, governments, international institutions, and NGOs continue to tout them as a flexible and cost-effective way to deliver targeted aid and promote community development. This paper c…
Striped pants and Birkenstocks: Work culture, gender, and clothing at Global Affairs Canada
The 2013 amalgamation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has facilitated far-reaching changes in how the merged department, Global Affairs Canada (GAC), organizes expertise and the day-to-day work of its professional officer personnel. This paper examines this institutional change by approaching GAC as a highly differentiated workplace and work force in whi…
The Neoliberalization of Development: Trade Capacity Building and Security at the US Agency for International Development
This paper examines recent changes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) regarding the connections between trade liberalization, development, and security. USAID has adopted “trade capacity building” as a framework for development, and, in conjunction with new US national security discourses, now operates under the assumption that underdevelopment is a source of state weakness that produces insecurity. I argue that these changes …
Geographies of diplomatic labor: Institutional culture, state work, and Canada's foreign service
The common perception of a foreign service career emphasizes the role of high-ranking diplomats traveling the world to engage in the high politics of statecraft and negotiation. Critical geographic scholarship, however, has recently turned to examine the more mundane, quotidian, and regularized work of foreign policy professionals in consulates, embassies, and foreign ministries. This paper builds a historical and institutional understanding of t…
Deservedness, development, and the state: Geographic categorization in the US Agency for International Development’s Foreign Assistance Framework
The kids are not alright: Children as objects, audience, and agents in the 2022 Canadian convoy protests
Children figure prominently in far‐right movements, ideologies, and conspiracy theories as innocent targets of nefarious and decadent forces, unwitting symbols of social and political decay, and potentially dangerous objects of moral panic. Far‐right movements thus map a wide‐ranging network of concerns about immigration, race, public health, education, and globalization onto children's bodies and spaces. Yet children and youth also actively part…
Restructuring development expertise and labour in the Cida‐DFAIT merger
Key Messages In 2013, the Canadian federal government amalgamated its development, foreign, and trade policy institutions into a single department. We examine this merger by focusing on development experts from the Canadian International Development Agency who have moved into the amalgamated department. The merger is producing far‐reaching changes in institutional culture, bureaucratic structures, and labour relations as the new department takes …
International development institutions and the challenges of urbanisation: The case of Jakarta
Urbanisation in the Global South presents numerous challenges for international development institutions. Building from interviews at nine different international development institutions working in Jakarta, Indonesia, this article examines how such institutions approach urban poverty, governance, and collaboration. The case study of Jakarta indicates that urban governance is often fragmented and difficult for such institutions to navigate, makin…
From the Global Food Crisis to the Age of Austerity: The Anxious Geopolitics of Global Food Security
The impacts of recent food, financial, and energy crises have reinvigorated a geopolitical enframing of global food security that makes foreign development assistance a primary component of national security strategies. This centres elite fears of hunger and underdevelopment and strongly shapes policies and strategies adopted in response. Geopolitical fears of hungry and food insecure populations are compounded by the politics of austerity and cu…
The politics of effectiveness in Canada's international development assistance
Despite promoting innovations in multilateralism and aid, Canadian development assistance often operates in politically instrumental ways and has been criticised as wasteful and ineffective. Aid effectiveness has thus become a central rubric for programming and assessing aid at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and a primary means for reforming the global aid architecture. The meaning of effectiveness, however, is not straightf…
The Neoliberal Geopolitics of Food Security: The Case of Indonesia
The centering of development in post-9/11 US national security strategies, combined with the restructuring of the US state's foreign development apparatus, promise deep changes in understandings and practices of food security and its relationship to development and processes of neoliberalization, securitization, and militarization. Long a stated objective within US foreign aid programs, especially those based around food aid, recent strategic shi…
From world cities to gateway cities: Extending the boundaries of globalization theory
The focus on world cities has narrowed our understanding of the globalization/city relationship and ignores the processes of globalization occurring in almost all cities. By developing the notion of gateway cities, the authors seek to widen globalization research. They provide a list of topics that can be explored using this gateway city notion, including reglobalization, rescaling, representation, spectacle and urban regimes. These themes are us…
"The Real South Starts Here": Whiteness, the Confederacy, and Commodification at Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia, has served as a vital landscape for the construction of regional and racial identities in the South through the construction of a White identity based on the region's Confederate past. This paper examines Stone Mountain's historical development as a landscape of southern White identity construction, with particular focus on the roles played by "Lost Cause" interpretations of southern history, the Ku Klux Kla…
Getting What you Pay for: Authoritarian Statism and the Geographies of us Trade Liberalization Strategies
The role of the US state in advancing neoliberal globalization is the subject of Jamey Essex’s detailed study of the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). Drawing on the new Marxist geography as well as Poulantzas’s conception of authoritarian statism, Essex argues that the USTR is engaged in a contradictory double geographic movement that involves insulating state economic policy from democratic accountability as it liberalizes internati…
The Neoliberal Geopolitics of Food Security: The Case of Indonesia
The centering of development in post-9/11 US national security strategies, combined with the restructuring of the US state's foreign development apparatus, promise deep changes in understandings and practices of food security and its relationship to development and processes of neoliberalization, securitization, and militarization. Long a stated objective within US foreign aid programs, especially those based around food aid, recent strategic shi…
The Neoliberalization of Development: Trade Capacity Building and Security at the US Agency for International Development
This paper examines recent changes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) regarding the connections between trade liberalization, development, and security. USAID has adopted “trade capacity building” as a framework for development, and, in conjunction with new US national security discourses, now operates under the assumption that underdevelopment is a source of state weakness that produces insecurity. I argue that these changes …
Deservedness, development, and the state: Geographic categorization in the US Agency for International Development’s Foreign Assistance Framework
The Work of Hunger: Security, Development and Food-for-Work in Post-crisis Jakarta
Food-for-work programs distribute food aid to recipients in exchange for labor, and are an important mode of aid delivery for both public and private aid providers. While debate continues as to whether food-for-work programs are socially just and economically sensible, governments, international institutions, and NGOs continue to tout them as a flexible and cost-effective way to deliver targeted aid and promote community development. This paper c…
The politics of effectiveness in Canada's international development assistance
Despite promoting innovations in multilateralism and aid, Canadian development assistance often operates in politically instrumental ways and has been criticised as wasteful and ineffective. Aid effectiveness has thus become a central rubric for programming and assessing aid at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and a primary means for reforming the global aid architecture. The meaning of effectiveness, however, is not straightf…
Idle Hands Are The Devil's Tools: The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Hunger
In current geopolitical and geoeconomic discourses, hunger is understood as both a threat to be contained, resulting in an often severe social and spatial localization of food insecurity, and a humanitarian problem to be solved through diffuse global flows of food and other aid. The resulting scalar tensions demonstrate the potentially contradictory alignment of geopolitics and geoeconomics within processes of globalization and neoliberalization.…
Introduction: Global Food Crisis
This special issue of Geopolitics focuses on recent shifts in the geopolitics of agro-food systems linked to debates around a new ‘Global Food Crisis’ and its implications for (trans)national polit
From the Global Food Crisis to the Age of Austerity: The Anxious Geopolitics of Global Food Security
The impacts of recent food, financial, and energy crises have reinvigorated a geopolitical enframing of global food security that makes foreign development assistance a primary component of national security strategies. This centres elite fears of hunger and underdevelopment and strongly shapes policies and strategies adopted in response. Geopolitical fears of hungry and food insecure populations are compounded by the politics of austerity and cu…
The 'Global Food Crisis' and the Geopolitics of Food Security
Growing anxieties over food security have recently brought sharp geopolitical overtones to debates about the agro-food sector. Contending that this ‘geopolitical moment’ highlights the mutually constitutive nature of geopolitics and political economies of food, we examine how dominant geopolitical framings of food security extend and deepen neoliberal models of agro-food provisioning, and highlight the need for further attention to these dynamics…
Geopolitics, geoeconomics, and further developments at Usaid
International development institutions and the challenges of urbanisation: The case of Jakarta
Urbanisation in the Global South presents numerous challenges for international development institutions. Building from interviews at nine different international development institutions working in Jakarta, Indonesia, this article examines how such institutions approach urban poverty, governance, and collaboration. The case study of Jakarta indicates that urban governance is often fragmented and difficult for such institutions to navigate, makin…
Aid
Aid is the transfer of goods, services, and other resources on concessionary and often conditional terms, typically as a form of development or humanitarian assistance. Aid functions through complex networks of official state, intergovernmental, and multilateral institutions, mostly but not entirely in the Global North, working alongside a wide array of private, nongovernmental, and philanthropic organizations and actors. Historically, aid has be…
Restructuring development expertise and labour in the Cida‐DFAIT merger
Key Messages In 2013, the Canadian federal government amalgamated its development, foreign, and trade policy institutions into a single department. We examine this merger by focusing on development experts from the Canadian International Development Agency who have moved into the amalgamated department. The merger is producing far‐reaching changes in institutional culture, bureaucratic structures, and labour relations as the new department takes …
A review of The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity. By Andrew Brooks
Geographies of diplomatic labor: Institutional culture, state work, and Canada's foreign service
The common perception of a foreign service career emphasizes the role of high-ranking diplomats traveling the world to engage in the high politics of statecraft and negotiation. Critical geographic scholarship, however, has recently turned to examine the more mundane, quotidian, and regularized work of foreign policy professionals in consulates, embassies, and foreign ministries. This paper builds a historical and institutional understanding of t…
Aid
Aid is the transfer of goods, services, and other resources on concessionary but often conditional terms, typically as a form of development or humanitarian assistance. Aid functions through complex networks of official state, intergovernmental, and multilateral institutions, mostly but not entirely in the Global North, working alongside a wide array of private, nongovernmental, and philanthropic organizations and actors. Historically, aid has be…
Striped pants and Birkenstocks: Work culture, gender, and clothing at Global Affairs Canada
The 2013 amalgamation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has facilitated far-reaching changes in how the merged department, Global Affairs Canada (GAC), organizes expertise and the day-to-day work of its professional officer personnel. This paper examines this institutional change by approaching GAC as a highly differentiated workplace and work force in whi…
From the Green Zone to Havana Syndrome: Making Geographic Sense of Rotationality and Hardship in Diplomacy
Most foreign ministries use a rotational system in deploying personnel abroad, with diplomats moving between foreign posts every few years and earning salary premiums based on the risks, dangers, and hardships associated with different foreign posts. We examine rotationality and hardship in diplomacy, identifying these as spatial and institutional practices for managing a global network of diplomatic personnel and sites. These are institutionaliz…
The kids are not alright: Children as objects, audience, and agents in the 2022 Canadian convoy protests
Children figure prominently in far‐right movements, ideologies, and conspiracy theories as innocent targets of nefarious and decadent forces, unwitting symbols of social and political decay, and potentially dangerous objects of moral panic. Far‐right movements thus map a wide‐ranging network of concerns about immigration, race, public health, education, and globalization onto children's bodies and spaces. Yet children and youth also actively part…
Diagnosing American Decline: The Geopolitics of Havana Syndrome
Beginning in 2016, American diplomats and family members posted to Havana, Cuba reported debilitating medical symptoms with no known physical cause. Many US officials labelled these as evidence of a new malady called ‘Havana syndrome’, caused by experimental weaponry deployed by hostile rival states. Since then, American personnel in numerous other countries have self-reported hundreds more cases. Despite no medical consensus on the cause or cohe…
Political science (23 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Geopolitics (9 works) · Law (8 works)