Publications

2022

Zee, Jerry. “Mt. Rainier.” Black Warrior Review 48.2 (2022): 125–129. Print.

Zee, Jerry. “Planetary Bodies: Faults, Flesh, and Orogenesis in Ilana Halperin’s Physical Geology.” Ilana Halperin: Felt Events. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.

Zee, Jerry. Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.

Abstract

In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand “the rise of China” literally, as the country itself rises into the air?

2020

Zee, Jerry. “The Dust Kaleidoscope.” Geological Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology Online, 2020.

Zee, Jerry. “Asia As Strategy: Deployments of a Chinese Planet.” Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10 (2020): 1068–1070.

Zee, Jerry. “Downwind: Three Phases of an Aerosol Form.” Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.

Zee, Jerry. “Mercury Fog.” Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 2020.

Zee, Jerry. “Machine Sky: Social and Terrestrial Engineering in a Chinese Weather System.” American Anthropologist 122.1 (2020): 9–20.

2019

Zee, Jerry. “Book Review: Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change. Kenner, Alison, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 248 Pp..” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 33.4 (2019): e7-e9.

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Zee, Jerry. “Groundwork in the Margins: Symbiotic Governance in a Chinese Dust-Shed.” Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia. London: Wiley, 2019. 59–73.

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2017

Zee, Jerry. “Downwind.” Cultural Anthropology Online. N.p., 2017.

Zee, Jerry. “Holding Patterns: Sand and Political Time at China’s Desert Shores.” Cultural Anthropology 32.2 (2017): 215–241.

2015

Choy, Timothy, and Jerry Zee. “Condition - Suspension.” Cultural Anthropology 30.2 (2015): 210–223.

Zee, Jerry. “Breathing in the City: Beijing and the Architecture of Air.” Scapegoat 8 (2015): 46–56.

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