Lin A Spark in the Smokestacks

Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55086-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

Delving into the online and offline conversations of Beijing communities affected by waste incinerator projects slated for their backyards, Jean Yen-chun Lin demonstrates how a rising middle class acquires the capacity for organizing in an authoritarian context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Jean Yen-chun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. A Stench on Success: Urban Middle-Class Homeowners and Rising Environmental Challenges
2. Gated Communities as Schools of Democracy
3. Making Sense of External Threats: Individual, Collective, and Representative Responses
4. Mobilizing and Organizing for Environmental Collective Action
5. Trajectories of Citizen Science
6. Consequences of Community Environmental Organizing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Yen-chun Lin is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, East Bay.