Jesse Rodenbiker is an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, an Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography at Rutgers University, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance, urbanization, and social inequality in China and globally.
Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023, Cornell University Press), which draws on long-term fieldwork to examine how ecology has become instrumental to state power, urbanization, and involuntary resettlement in China. He has written for Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Land Use Policy, and other venues. Rodenbiker has served as a Cornell University Atkinson Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sustainability with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and as Visiting Scholar at Sichuan University in the School of Public Administration and Department of Land Resource Management. He holds a doctorate in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023, Cornell University Press), which draws on long-term fieldwork to examine how ecology has become instrumental to state power, urbanization, and involuntary resettlement in China. He has written for Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Land Use Policy, and other venues. Rodenbiker has served as a Cornell University Atkinson Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sustainability with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and as Visiting Scholar at Sichuan University in the School of Public Administration and Department of Land Resource Management. He holds a doctorate in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
Selected Recent Works:
Jesse Rodenbiker, Nina .O. Therkildsen, Cheong Chun Li, (2023). Global Shark Fins in Local Contexts: Multi-scalar Dynamics Between Hong Kong Markets and Mid-Atlantic Fisheries. Ecology and Society. 28(3): 5.
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2023). Urban Oceans: Social Differentiation in the City and the Sea. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 6(1) 412-432.
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2023). Green Silk Roads, Partner State Development, and Environmental Governance: Belt and Road Infrastructures on the Sino-East African Frontier. Critical Asian Studies. 55 (2) 169-192.
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2023). China's Ecological Migration from the Ground Up. New Security Beat. 6 (15).
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2023). Ecological Militarization: Engineering Territory in the South China Sea. Political Geography. 102932.
Jesse Rodenbiker (2022). Social Justice in China's Cities: Urban-Rural Restructuring and Justice-Oriented Planning. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research. 1 (1-2): 184-198.
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2022). Geoengineering the Sublime: China and the Aesthetic State. Made in China Journal. 7(2): 138-143.
Jesse Rodenbiker (2022). High Stakes: China's Leadership in Global Biodiversity Governance. New Security Beat. 11 (3).
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2021). Making Ecology Developmental: China's Environmental Sciences and Green Modernization in Global Context. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111 (7), 1931-1948
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2020). Urban Ecological Enclosures: Conservation Planning, Peri-urban Displacement, and Local State Formations in China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44(4), 691-710
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2019). Uneven Incorporation: Volumetric Transitions in Peri-urban China's Conservation Zones. Geoforum. 104, 234-243
