Liquidity and Liquefaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4960893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerry C Zee (0000-0002-2731-2130, Princeton University, corresponding author), Jerry Zee |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 190-202 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2201-1919 • E-ISSN: 2201-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/22011919-10746078 |
| OpenAlex | W4389727023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
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 labor and twenty-first-century flyaway Asian wealth. These collisions articulate fault lines in transpacific tectonic and geopolitical relations, even as the fluid dynamics of wealth and islands of impounded silt evince multiple figurations of Asian-ness. Through the juxtaposition of two permutations of land, economics, and racial formation across multiple centuries in the Fraser River Delta, I offer a notion of orogeny, the geological process of mountain building and crustal deformation, to attend to the earthmoving dynamisms of rivers, wealth, and Asian racialization
Archaeology · Boom · China · Collision · Earth science · Fault (geology · Geography · Geopolitics · Physical geography · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racialization · Seismology · Tectonics · American Environmental and Regional History · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology
Asia in the Mix
Alien Capital
Modernity at large
The organic machine
Anthropocene Insecurities
The Chinese Must Go
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Repairing the Broken Earth
Vancouver's suburban involution
Globalization and Urban Change
The Globalization of Urban Housing Markets
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Flexible Citizenship
Ecologies of Investment
Geologic subjects
Neoliberalism reified
Earth's Data
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |