Alexander Dodge
alexanderdodge.bsky.social
Alexander Dodge
@alexanderdodge.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Geography @ NTNU | Global Production Networks | Political-Economy of Energy Systems | Shifting Geographies of Extraction
https://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/alexander.dodge
Here the students will explore the anticipatory politics surrounding oil which is actively shaping economic activity in the present moment. At the same time students will engage with the community to outline pathways for prefigurative politics for creating a just and fair urban economy.
June 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Meanwhile, China is going to continue to focus on building capacity in advanced manufacturing and dominating clean-tech and digital sectors, while the US continues to fall behind.
April 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This is Trumps "Art of the Deal" - all show and no substance from a reality TV personality. And we have been through this before - just look at Foxconn in Wisconsin eu.jsonline.com/story/money/...
What's happening at the Foxconn site in Wisconsin five years after the company announced its plans
It's been 5 years since Foxconn was rumored to be coming to the state. Now the company has been here many things have changed during that time.
eu.jsonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
They will be highly automated, foreign-owned, and result in few economic spillovers in the places they are located. The proposed investments will be largely inflated, but in reality the investments will at a much lower scale than initially proposed.
April 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
For example, reintroduce EV subsidies to stimulate investment in EV manufacturing to cover the shortfall of US automotive markets.
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We suspect that similar contradictions are likely to be found in industries that require capital intensive infrastructure development where the dimensions of ownership, commodification and risk-allocation are present such as critical minerals, hydrogen and CCS.
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We find that the resource-making interventions needed to deliver natural gas to markets contradicted with the configurations of ownership, commodification, and risk allocation through which the Indonesian government has sought to realize state strategies.
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The discussion in the paper is informed by an empirical case study of failed plans by the Indonesian government from 2016 to 2019 to draw upon public-private partnerships to create markets for LNG in the peripheral regions of the country.
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The configurations of ownership, commodification, and risk allocation that states draw on will vary based on ideological, political, and economic reasons related to state strategies. The success of these strategies will depend on the alignment of public-private interests.
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We posit that when private capital fails to create markets for resources on its own initiative, states may intervene by facilitating resource-making and governing market development through configurations of ownership, commodification, and risk allocation.
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We coin the term "the resource-making" state to describe states that play an active role in resource-making and governance related to the development of markets. Resource-Making refers to entails attention to interventions deployed to exploit and commercialize nature.
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In the article we argue that geopolitical uncertainty, climate change, and new technologies are leading resource-producing states to take a more active role in creating markets for resources, but doing so requires complex material transformations.
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM