2022. Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo, editors. The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide. Bristol University Press.
2021. DiCarlo, Jessica. Grounding Global China in Northern Laos: The Making of the Infrastructure Frontier. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado Boulder.
2023. DiCarlo, Jessica (Introduction and Forum Editor). Forum: A Decade of the Belt and Road Initiative. Global China Pulse, 2(1): 117-146.
2023. DiCarlo, Jessica. The BRI, Grounded. Global China Pulse, 2(1): 143-146.
2023. Schindler, Seth, Ilias Alami, Jessica DiCarlo, Nicholas Jepson, Steve Rolf, Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Louis Cyuzuzo, Meredith DeBoom, Alireza F. Farahani, Imogen T. Liu, Hannah McNicola, Julie T. Miao, Philip Nock, Gilead Teri, Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane, Kevin Ward, Tim Zajontz, and Yawei Zhao.. The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks. Geopolitics.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica and Annah Lake Zhu. Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China: A Conversation with Annah Lake Zhu. Global China Pulse, vol. 2.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica. Eventuality and Rhythms of Life in a City Yet-to-Come. Global China Pulse, 1(1): 145-159.
2022. Schindler, Seth & Jessica DiCarlo. Towards a critical geopolitics of China-US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts, and transnational connections. Area, 00, 1–8. Available from: https://doi. org/10.1111/area.12812.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica. From Dawn till Dusk. Global China Pulse, 1(1): 141-144.
2021. Schindler, Seth, Jessica DiCarlo and Dinesh Paudel. The new Cold War and the rise of the 21st-century infrastructure state. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 00: 1-16.
2021. Suhardiman, Diana, Jessica DiCarlo, Oulavanh Keovilignavong, Jonathan Rigg, and Alan Nicol. (Re)constructing state power through the Laos-China Railway project. Geoforum, 124(2): 79-88.
2020. DiCarlo, Jessica. Development as Palimpsest: Infrastructures Revived in Boten’s Architecture. Roadsides, 004: 15-23.
2020. DiCarlo, Jessica. Mind the Gap: Grounding Development Finance and Safeguards through Land Compensation on the Laos-China Belt and Road Corridor. Global China Initiative Working Paper 013. Boston University, Global Development Policy Center.
2018. DiCarlo, Jessica, Katie Epstein, Robin Marsh & Inger Måren. Post-disaster agricultural transitions in Nepal. Ambio, 1–12.
2018. Epstein, Katie, Jessica DiCarlo, Robin Marsh, Bikash Adhikari, Dinesh Paudel, Isha Ray & Inger Måren. Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: A smallholder household perspective. Ecology and Society, 23(1).
2017. Epstein, Katie, Jessica DiCarlo, Robin Marsh, Isha Ray & Inger Måren. Coping Strategies of Smallholder Farming Communities after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Insights into Post-Disaster Resilience and Social–Ecological Change. Case Studies in the Environment.
2016. DiCarlo, Jessica, Sri Gopakumar, Suneeta Krishnan & Preet K. Dhillan. Adoption of information and communication technologies for early detection of breast and cervical cancers in low- and middle-income countries. The Journal of Global Oncology and the Annals of Global Health.
2023. DiCarlo, Jessica and Kearrin Sims. Corridors of connectivity and the infrastructural land rush in Laos. The Routledge Handbook for Global Land and Resource Grabbing.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica and Micah Ingalls. Multipolar infrastructures: Mosaic geopolitics and state restructuring in Laos. In The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide. Bristol University Press.
2022. Schindler, Seth and Jessica DiCarlo. Twenty-first-century Third Worldism? In The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide. Bristol University Press.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica and Seth Schindler. Introduction: Geopolitics, infrastructure, and the emergent geographies of US-China competition. In The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide. Bristol University Press.
2021. Song Zhouying and Jessica DiCarlo. Socio-environmental implications of the Laos-China Railway. Case Study for the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research. In Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative: Case Study Perspectives, edited by Liu Weidong. Beijing: The Commercial Press.
2021. 宋周莺，Jessica DiCarlo，邹明权，姚秋蕙, 陶蕾. 中老铁路. “一带一路”建设案例研究：包容性全球化的视角. 刘卫东等著. 北京：商德印書馆.
2023. DiCarlo, Jessica. Review of June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 by Jeremy Brown, 2021. Eurasian Geography and Economics.
2023. DiCarlo, Jessica. Review of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia by David Lampton, Selina Ho, and Cheng-Chwee Kuik, 2020. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.
2020. DiCarlo, Jessica. Review of Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China by Anna Lora-Wainwright, 2017. Environment and Society, 11.
2020. DiCarlo, Jessica. Review of High-speed rail and China’s new economic geography, edited by Zhenhua Chen and Kingsley E. Haynes. The Pennsylvania Geographer.
2015. DiCarlo, Jessica. Review of Blindspot: How neoliberalism infiltrated global health, by Salmaan Keshavjee. UC Berkeley MDP Blog.
2022. Oakes, Tim, Jessica Clendenning, Jessica DiCarlo, Matthew S. Erie, Max Hirsh, Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi, Hasan H. Karrar, Verena La Mela, Juliet Lu, Till Mostowlansky, Galen Murton, Huiying Ng, Roger Norum, Nadine Plachta, Björn Reichhardt, Alessandro Rippa, Jasnea Sarma, Emilia Sulek, Dorothy Tang, Zarina Urmanbetova and Thomas White. China’s global development model: Looking beyond the Belt and Road Initiative. Fribourg, Munich, and Boulder. Available at: chinadevelopmentmodel.roadworkasia.com
2022. Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka, Alessandro Rippa, Jessica Clendenning, Jessica DiCarlo, Matthew S. Erie, Max Hirsh, Hasan H. Karrar, Verena La Mela, Juliet Lu, Till Mostowlansky, Galen Murton, Huiying Ng, Roger Norum, Tim Oakes, Nadine Plachta, Björn Reichhardt, Jasnea Sarma, Emilia Sulek, Dorothy Tang, Zarina Urmanbetova and Thomas White. Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative. Fribourg, Munich and Boulder. Available at: demystifyingBRI.roadworkasia.com
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica and Timothy Oakes. From China Model to Global China (ChinaMade Brief #14). ChinaMade: Asian Infrastructures and the ‘China Model’ of Development.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica and Courtney Wittekind. Infrastructures of Urban Life Yet-to-Come (ChinaMade Brief #12). ChinaMade: Asian Infrastructures and the ‘China Model’ of Development.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica. Boten Special Economic Zone on The People’s Map of Global China.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica, Sam Williams, Aaditee Kudrimoti, Pakhi Das, Melissa Butynski, Amrita Neelakantan. FOCUS-BRI: Framing Opportunities for Conservation by Understanding Safeguards in the Belt and Road Initiative. Report for the Center for Large Landscape Conservation and the Hewlett Foundation.
2022. DiCarlo, Jessica et al. (other authors to remain anonymous). Understanding Social and Environmental Impacts and Safeguards surrounding BRI projects in Laos for Navigating the Belt and Road Initiative Phase II. Asia Society Policy Institute, New York.
2021. Chen, Wanjing (Kelly) and DiCarlo, Jessica. Laos-China Railway on The People’s Map of Global China.
2021. DiCarlo, Jessica. Lost in Translation: Environmental and Social Safeguards for the Laos-China Railway. Global Development Policy Center Blog, Boston University.
2020. DiCarlo, Jessica and Seth Schindler. Will Biden pass the America LEADS Act and start a new Cold War with China? Global Policy Journal.
2019. DiCarlo, Jessica. Case studies on megaprojects in Vang Vieng: The railway, expressway, and new city. Report for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Poverty.
2017. DiCarlo, Jessica. Belt and Road Infrastructures: Modernist Dreams, Local Dilemmas? The Asia Dialogue of the University of Nottingham’s Asia Research Institute.
2017. Kathleen Epstein, Robin Marsh, Inger Måren, Isha Ray, Jessica DiCarlo, Dinesh Paudel and Bikash Adhikari. Research Summary: Adaptation after the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: a smallholder perspective. Published by Forest Action.
2016. DiCarlo, Jessica. Post-disaster community resilience in Nepal. UC Berkeley’s Master of Development Practice Blog.
R e s e a r c h
My research engages critical development studies, political ecology, cultural anthropology, and political and economic geography. It features work spanning Asia, from pastoral communities (Tibet) and rural upland villages (Nepal, Laos), to economic zones and new cities (Southeast Asia), and urban centers (India, China, Laos). My more recent work contributes to debates on global China’s role in shaping global capitalism, resource politics, and development, particularly in Asia. My research appears in high-ranking international journals, including Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Ecology and Society, Ambio, and Area. My co-edited book, The Rise of the Infrastructure State (2022), contributes timely perspectives on infrastructural competition as it unfolds across scales and places.
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Economic zones, corridors,
and the city yet-to-come
Development, infrastructure, and global China in Southeast AsiaPolitical ecologies of land and resources; energy transition and critical mineralsGeopolitics and geoeconomics
of China’s global engagement; US-China competition