Dr. Jamey Essex

Associate Professor

Email: jessex@uwindsor.ca
Phone: 519-253-3000 ext 2358
Office: Chrysler Hall North 1139
Fall 2011 office hours: On research leave, 2011-12

Education
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2005 (Geography)
M.A., Syracuse University, 2001 (Geography)
B.A., University of Kentucky, 1999 (Geography and History)

Courses taught
45-160 Introduction to International Relations
45-238 Political Geography
45-249 Political Economy of Agriculture and Food
45-338 Political Geography of the US and Canada
45-356 Theories of International Political Economy
45-465 Globalization and the State
45-530 Politics in the Developed World

Research
Dr. Essex's research concentrates on three broad areas: the political and economic geographies of globalization, focusing on changes in governance and the state; the geopolitics and geoeconomics of development, focusing on shifts in development and aid strategies; and the restructuring of agriculture and food systems at multiple scales, focusing on food security and hunger.

Dr. Essex's major ongoing research project focuses on the geographical and strategic framing of hunger and the hungry in relation to development and humanitarian aid, national security, and global order. His two most recent emphases in this research track focus on the geopolitical and geoeconomic strategies and discourses of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and the urbanization of hunger and accompanying shifts in food and development aid provision. This research has been funded by grants from the University of Windsor and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He also has research interests in the changing geographies of labor, especially state bureaucratic labor, community food security and food activism at the local scale and in urban contexts, and Marxist theories of political economy and the state.

Principal publications
Essex, J.  (2012)  “Idle hands are the devil’s tools: The geopolitics and geoeconomics of hunger.”  Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102 (1): 191-207. (read more)

Essex, J.  (2010)  "Sustainability, Food Security, and Development Aid after the Food Crisis: Assessing Aid Strategies across Donor Contexts." Sustainability, 2 (11): 3354-3382. (read more)

Essex, J.  (2010)  “Food, Geography of.”  In B. Warf (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geography (Vol. 3).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1144-1146.

Essex, J.  (2009)  “The work of hunger: Security, development, and food-for-work in post-crisis Jakarta.”  Studies in Social Justice, 3 (1): 99-116. (read more)

Essex, J.  (2008)  “Biotechnology, sound science, and the Foreign Agricultural Service: a case study in neoliberal rollout.”  Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 26 (1): 191-209. (read more)

Essex, J.  (2008)  “Deservedness, development, and the state: Geographic categorization in the US Agency for International Development’s Foreign Assistance Framework.”  Geoforum, 39 (4): 1625-1636. (read more)

Essex, J.  (2008)  “The neoliberal geopolitics of food security: The case of Indonesia.”  Human Geography, 1 (2): 14-25. (read more)

Essex, J.  (2008)  “The Neoliberalization of Development: Trade Capacity Building and Security at the US Agency for International Development.” Antipode, 40 (2): 229-251. (read more)

Essex, J.  (2007)  “Getting what you pay for: Authoritarian statism and the geographies of US trade liberalization strategies.” Studies in Political Economy, 80 (Autumn 2007): 75-103. (read more)