Fields: political economy; political ecology; economic geography; development; food and agrarian studies; urban studies; Asian Studies; China and East Asia. My research combines these approaches to explore the mutual constitutions of society, space, and nature, and I have published on the following topics: industrial network restructuring in urban and rural Shanghai; China’s urbanization and transition to capitalism through the prism of 19th-century Europe and America; peak oil through the relationship between natural resources, technology change, and capitalism; the agrarian roots of flexible production networks in Taiwan; and the political economy of organic agriculture.
Office Hours, Winter 2024: Thursdays 10:30-12:30, or by appointment (email to request zoom link)
Recent Teaching:
Winter 2024: GEOG 342: Geographies of Globalization and Development
Other courses taught in recent years:
- ASIA 111: Great Books on Asia (w/Asian Studies faculty team)
- GEOG 342: Globalization & Development
- ASIA 425/525: Asian Foodways
- HC 431H: Global/Local Food
- GEOG 468/568: Contemporary Food Systems
- ASIA 480/580: The Chinese Economy
- GEOG 607: Society, Space, Nature
- GEOG 611: Geography Theory & Practice I (w/Mark Fonstad)
- GEOG 612: Geography Theory & Practice II (w/Mark Fonstad)
- ASIA 611: Critical Approaches to Asian Studies: Research Methods
- ASIA 612: Critical Approaches to Asian Studies: Theory
- GBE 610: Global Business Environments (China component)