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Jessica DiCarlo

@jessicadicarlo.bsky.social
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Geographer | University of Utah Co-Founder @scwobservatory.bsky.social Editor @globalchinamap.bsky.social PIP Fellow @ncuscr.bsky.social *political ecology, Global China, development, geopolitics* www.jessicadicarlo.phd Opinions here are my own.

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CAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures 2026!! Thursday 3/19, 7:30-10pm @ Standard Deviant Brewing
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SCWObservatory @scwobservatory.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
@sethschindler.bsky.social and @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social sat down with weilagong.bsky.social to discuss her book: "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities," which asks: who actually makes low-carbon policy work on the ground? newbooksnetwork.com/implementing...
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Weila Gong (@weilagong.bsky.social)
Visiting Scholar at UC Davis and Nonresident Scholar with the 21st Century China Center (UC San Diego) | Author of Implementing a Low Future (OUP 2025)
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
New article out in JCCA on China as an environmental leader, which emerged from the Navigating Global China event thanks to @sppga.ubc.ca, @globalaffairs.canada.ca & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social. A treat to think with this brilliant group!
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Juliet Lu (she/her/hers) @profjulietlu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New paper out in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage? It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
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CAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📢 CAPE Award Deadlines capeaag.wordpress.com 12/20: Outstanding Book 1/15: Nominations for Outstanding Article & Distinguished Career Award 2/1: Student Paper Award & FitzSimmons Early Career Award 2/15: Scholar-Activist Award & Field Study Award @geographers.bsky.social
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Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
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Belt and Road Podcast @beltandroadpod.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check out Ellen Li's great profile of the Saysetta SEZ near Vientiane, Laos! It built on my visit (@profjulietlu.bsky.social) w Tyler Harlan & Nicholas Bosoni. Thanks to @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and @globalchinamap.bsky.social for support! @ellenlhl.bsky.social thepeoplesmap.net/project/vien...
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Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone - The People's Map of Global China
The Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone (SDZ) is China’s only national-level overseas economic and trade cooperation zone in Laos. Established through a ‘land-for-funding’ arrangement, it was develop...
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Progress in Human Geography @proghumgeog.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🚲 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🚲 'The world from a bicycle: Cycling as kinesthetic methodology' by Mia Bennett, Jessica DiCarlo, and Sarah Elwood journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social
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The world from a bicycle: Cycling as kinesthetic methodology - Mia Bennett, Jessica DiCarlo, Sarah Elwood, 2025
We theorize the epistemological orientations and methodological possibilities of cycling as a sociotechnical, kinesthetic, and emplaced practice relevant across...
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 09/09/2025
Neither fully accepted nor entirely apart, the descendants of foreigners in China embody the tensions of identity in a globalised yet nationalistic age. Chengzhi Zhang traces their struggles for belonging and what this reveals about the boundaries of Chineseness.
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Flowing without Roots: The Identity Crisis of Foreigners’ Descendants in Mainland China | Made in China Journal
In 2009, a woman named Lou Jing, born to a Chinese mother and an African American father, went on a TV show in China and declared herself a proud and patriotic Chinese person (Leung 2015). Her remarks...
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SCWObservatory @scwobservatory.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Check out our latest podcast episode with @jacktaggart.bsky.social on "The end of aid? US, China, and the future of development" 🌍 newbooksnetwork.com/the-end-of-a...
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The end of aid? US, China, and the future of development - New Books Network
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Tune into this *important* discussion on the first survey of Chinese public opinion on foreign policy and what these findings mean for US-China relations and China's role in the world. September 3rd online and in person. globalaffairs.org/events/china...
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China and the World: How Citizens View Their Country's Global Future
Join us as we discuss the results of the first-ever survey of Chinese public opinion on foreign policy and what these findings mean for US-China relations and China's role in the world.
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Trivium is hiring a Beijing-based junior analyst to focus on industrial policy, supply chains, and decarbonization. I could not recommend this brilliant team of people more highly. Apply! www.linkedin.com/posts/cory-c...
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Trivium China | JD and Application Instructions | Cory Combs
Trivium China is hiring! My team is looking for an analyst or junior analyst keen to dive into the rapidly evolving nexus of industrial policy, supply chains, and decarbonization. The role will be #C...
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Over the past 2 decades, China has become Laos’s top investor, main creditor, and 2nd-largest trade partner. In a new report, @profjulietlu.bsky.social and I unpack Chinese investment across four land-intensive sectors: agriculture & plantations, mining, infrastructure & SEZs. tinyurl.com/kw5vteem
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire - @dukepress.bsky.social, September 2024 www.dukeupress.edu/judicial-ter... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Second Cold War Observatory. newbooksnetwork.com/judicial-ter...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Wrote a new piece for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on how the Second Cold War is shaping the future climate and energy transition, including in developing countries www.break-down.org/post/a-green... @campolis.bsky.social @scwobservatory.bsky.social a few quotes in the thread below: 1/6
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A Green Cold War
In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The next Global China Pulse CfP is out! A Gendered Lens on Global China @globalchinamap.bsky.social globalchinapulse.net/calls-for-pa...
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Calls for Papers - Global China Pulse
Calls for Papers Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain the key argument of your p...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Pleased to see Infrastructural Times on the bookshelf, especially w/chapters by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social, and Schindler & Kanai exploring temporalities connected to the BRI and Chinese-led global infrastructure development. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
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Infrastructural Times
Infrastructural Times - Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds; This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between tempor...
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧵1/What is Global China? @meredeboom.bsky.social & I argue it’s not one thing, but a plural, evolving imaginary. We trace 6 paths—Other, Integration, Bridge, Status, Threat, Alternative—showing how China’s global role is imagined, claimed & contested as meanings collide & open possibilities.
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Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary - Jessica DiCarlo, Meredith DeBoom, 2025
‘Global China’ has emerged as a shorthand for China's relationship to the global, but its axiomatic uses disguise considerable complexity. This article tro...
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New Online 1st Article “Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary” by Jessica DiCarlo and Meredith DeBoom doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Meredith DeBoom @meredeboom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
'Global China' is suddenly everywhere, from think tank reports to political speeches to academic texts. But what political work does the term 'Global China' itself do? @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and I identify six 'paths' of Global China: Other, Integration, Status, Bridge, Threat, & Alternative.
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Petition Against Visa Restrictions on Chinese Students medium.com/@lawasia/pet...
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Petition Against Visa Restrictions on Chinese Students
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SCWObservatory @scwobservatory.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What did you do during the Trump times? If the US steps back from the brink and doesn't become a police state, its citizens will all have to answer that question. Want to have an answer? Begin by reading this essay by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and @sethschindler.bsky.social t.co/p3siYH9YOY
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What did you do during the Trump Times?
Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler explore how foreign policy professionals should respond to Trump.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
@kyleichan.bsky.social on the "Chinese century": While Trump touts tariffs and weakens America’s innovation engines, China surges ahead—dominating manufacturing, investing in tech, and forging a model that’s reshaping global power. The US risks irrelevance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
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Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
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National Committee on U.S.-China Relations @ncuscr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How are the U.S. and China navigating deep uncertainty? Registration is open to join Alison Friedman (Carolina Performing Arts), Andrew Polk (Trivium China), and @jessicacweiss.bsky.social (Johns Hopkins SAIS) live in NYC. TIME: 4:45 PM, May 20 SIGN UP by May 16 www.ncuscr.org/event/new-pa...
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Forging a New Path Forward: Navigating the Future of U.S.-China Relations
Join us in-person or virtually to discuss the state of the U.S.-China relationship from cultural, economic and trade, and political perspectives.
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
@iliasalami.bsky.social on our essay for @tninstitute.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@ideasintomo... Geopolitical competition is no longer a fight over territory, but rather a struggle for control of global networks. How can the global South & social movements navigate this new geopolitical terrain?
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We are living through a Second Cold War—one that’s not just about nations competing but about how that competition affects you. From the apps you use to the energy that powers your home, geopolitical ...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/05/2025
So what's next after today's May Day mobilizations? On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. But real power isn't staged in DC. It rises up everywhere else. That's why we're planning a nationwide day of action to say No Kings. 🧵
(next to an image of Trump wearing a crown that has been crossed out) NO KINGS
MASS PROTEST
JUNE 14, 2025
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Are we in a second Cold War? @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social, @steverolf.bsky.social and @sethschindler.bsky.social argue that the current conflict focuses on controlling global economic networks rather than ideology or territory. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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The new frontline | Transnational Institute
Current geopolitical competition has deepened into a Second Cold War between US and China, but this is no longer a fight over territory but rather control of global networks – with increased state-led...
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Tracker where international student visas have been revoked. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Appalling. 18 students at the U have had their visas revoked. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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18 University of Utah international students see visas revoked by Trump admin
At least 18 international students and recent graduates at the University of Utah have had their visas revoked — receiving letters from President Donald Trump’s administration instructing them to imme...
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Job: Assistant Professor - Environmental Humanities and Social Science @sunyesf.bsky.social esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... @cape-aag.bsky.social
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Nick Zeller @nickzeller.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
These are the authors who taught me how to stop worrying and love the phrase 'new cold war.'
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Nick Zeller @nickzeller.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Everything in this report is incredible. The chapter on state-capitalist geopolitics by Jessica DiCarlo et al. is a must-read for anyone interested in U.S.-China relations. Great work @tninstitute.bsky.social @nickbuxton.bsky.social
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Irna Hofman @irnahofman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It was a real pleasure talking with Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo on Tajikistan's cotton fields as geopolitical sites:
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 05/02/2025
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Screenshot of contents page for transnational institute state of power 2025 - geopolitics of capitalism

CONTENTS
1. A Fractured World
Reflections on power, polarity and polycrisis Conversation with Adam Tooze and Walden Bello
2. The New Frontline
The US-China battle for control of global networks Ilias Alami, Jessica DiCarlo, Steve Rolf and Seth Schindler
3. Geopolitics of Genocide
Interview with Rafeef Ziadah
4. Building BRICS
Challenges and opportunities for South-South collaboration in a multipolar world
Ana Saggioro Garcia
5. Al Wars in a New Age of Great Power Rivalry Interview with Tica Font, Centre Delàs d'Estudis per la Pau, Barcelona
6. Can China Challenge the US Empire?
Sean Kenji Starrs
7. China and the Geopolitics of the Green Transition
Ben Wray
8. The Emerging Sub-Imperial Role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa
Husam Mahjoub
9. A Transatlantic Bargain
Europe's ultimate submission to US empire
Juan Lovera
10. Beyond Big Tech Geopolitics
Moving Towards Local and People-Centred Artificial Intelligence
Kai-Hsin Hung
11. In Search of Alternatives
Strategies for social movements to counter imperialism and authoritarianism
Iqra Anugrah
12. Illustrating Geopolitics
State of Power illustrator reflects on the artwork and the process
Shehzil Malik
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SCWObservatory @scwobservatory.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The competition to control infrastructure networks is fueling 'corridorisation' - our co-founder & research associate @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social explains how this process unfolds in Laos and Indonesia. t.co/P3uqvO3Mhn
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Miles Kenney-Lazar @mklaz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
If you haven't left Detroit #AAG2025 yet, come by the two-part session Friday morning on Frontiers of Green Capitalism organized by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and Shae Frydenlund. Room 420B - it's gonna be lit.. @geographers.bsky.social
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CAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures Party - THIS Wednesday, 3/26, at Batch Brewing!
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Corridors promise seamless development—but often conceal violence, exclusion & inequality. In a new article, David Bachrach and I theorize the dialectics of 'corridorisation,' tracing how it reshapes lives & land in SEAsia. @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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 ....
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The Monitor @uscnpm.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
@jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @steverolf.bsky.social @sethschindler.bsky.social on the contours of the new Cold War. open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
@jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @sethschindler.bsky.social @steverolf.bsky.social and I wrote a thing for China Focus: "Sinews of Control: How state-capitalist geopolitics is reshaping global networks and power" uscnpm.substack.com/p/sinews-of-...
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Sinews of Control
How state-capitalist geopolitics is reshaping global networks and power
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SCWObservatory @scwobservatory.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚜 How do Tajikistan’s cotton fields reveal shifting power dynamics in Central Asia? Rural sociologist @irnahofman.bsky.social discusses the region’s evolving geopolitics—from Soviet-era soft power to today’s global rivalries. 🎧 Listen now: newbooksnetwork.com/cotton-centr...
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Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game - New Books Network
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 06/03/2025
The new issue of GCP is out! How is Mandarin evolving in a changing world? Our contributors explore its transformation at China’s frontiers and beyond—where state control meets public innovation, and global encounters spark new hybrids. Download for free at globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
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National Committee on U.S.-China Relations @ncuscr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
China finances and manages hundreds of overseas infrastructure projects. How are these projects shaping Chinese firms and local communities? Congratulations to #PIPFellow @matthewserie.bsky.social on the launch of "A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment": www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment
Cambridge Core - Business Ethics - A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A Feminist Lens on #GlobalChina 2025 Colloquium, March 7th, hosted by the Department of Women & Gender Studies at CU Boulder. Register here: www.colorado.edu/wgst/2025/02...
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A Feminist Lens on Global China 2025 Colloquium
03/07/2025 10:00:00Friday March 7, 2025 10:00am - 4:30pmRSVPThe Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder is hosting a
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Are we in a second Cold War? @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social, @steverolf.bsky.social and @sethschindler.bsky.social argue that the current conflict focuses on controlling global economic networks rather than ideology or territory. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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CAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party @geographers.bsky.social!
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 24/02/2025
China’s push for Mandarin as a 'neutral' language clashes with Tibetan efforts to preserve their linguistic heritage. As pressures mount, the fight for language becomes a fight for identity, power, and cultural survival, writes Dak Lhagyal.
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Navigating Linguistic Hierarchies in Tibet
China’s complex linguistic landscape reveals deep tensions between the state’s push for the use of Mandarin and the preservation of minority languages like Tibetan. As Mandarin is promoted as a neutra...
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