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Resigned activism : living with pollution in rural China /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lora-Wainwright, Anna, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:
Pollution > Health aspects > China.
Environmental policy > China > Citizen participation.
Rural health > China.
Rural development > Environmental aspects > China.
China > Rural conditions.
China > Environmental conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Situating the study of rural China's environmental health activism
  • China's "cancer villages": the social, political and economic contexts of pollution
  • "Toxic culture" : the spectrum and origins of resigned activism
  • "Undermining" environmental health: "madness," struggles for clean water, and the challenges of intervention
  • E-waste work: hierarchies of value and the normalization of pollution in Guiyu.