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