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Resigned activism : living with pollution in rural China / Anna Lora-Wainwright.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lora-Wainwright, Anna, 1979- author.
Series:
Urban and industrial environments
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pollution--Health aspects--China.
Pollution.
Environmental policy--China--Citizen participation.
Environmental policy.
Rural health--China.
Rural health.
Rural development--Environmental aspects--China.
Rural development.
Environmental conditions.
Rural development--Environmental aspects.
Political participation.
Pollution--Health aspects.
China--Rural conditions.
China.
Rural conditions.
China--Environmental conditions.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, ©2017.
System Details:
text file
Summary:
An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.
Contents:
1 Situating the Study of Rural China's Environmental Health Activism 1
2 China's "Cancer Villages": The Social, Political, and Economic Contexts of Pollution 33
3 "Toxic Culture": The Spectrum and Origins of Resigned Activism 59
4 "Undermining" Environmental Health: "Madness," Struggles for Clean Water, and the Challenges of Intervention 89
5 E-Waste Work: Hierarchies of Value and the Normalization of Pollution in Guiyu 125.
Notes:
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
9780262341097
0262341093
OCLC:
990318699
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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