Environmental Embeddedness: Ecology, Community, and Place-Based Environmental Activism in Urban China

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-981-9289-66-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Urban Sustainability

This book applies the concept of to explain how relationships among ecology, livelihoods, and community shape place-based environmental activism in urban China. Through an in-depth study of the Qidong wastewater-pipeline dispute, it examines how anticipated environmental threats acquire collective meaning and how activists combine local knowledge, legal claims, patriotic narratives, and digital communication to organise participation. It also traces the subsequent reconfiguration of environmental activism as governance institutions and opportunities for civic engagement change. Bringing environmental sociology into dialogue with collective action research and development studies, the book offers a relational and historically grounded perspective on environmental politics, with broader implications for understanding how development reshapes local communities, environments, and collective futures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lu, Jian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 3. The Emergence and Development of Environmental Contention in Qidong, 2005–2012.- Chapter 4. Environmental Embeddedness and the Emergence of Environmental Contention.- Chapter 5. Framing Place-Based Identity: Local Knowledge, Legal Claims, and Patriotism.- Chapter 6. ICTs and Entrepreneurial Mobilization: Linking Online and Offline Activism.- Chapter 7. After Qidong: Environmental Governance and the Reconfiguration of Activism in Contemporary China.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Jian Lu is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Science and Public Administration at China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. A political sociologist, he uses mixed methods to study environmental politics, civic participation, and grassroots governance in China. His research examines how interactions among public institutions, communities, environmental organisations, and market actors shape collective action and policymaking. He holds a PhD in Sociology from City University of Hong Kong. His current interests include climate governance, ENGO–business relations, and the social and institutional dimensions of environmental change.