River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50590-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: China Studies

This book explores the overexploitation of river-sand and its impact on Zhuang communities in China. A topical phenomenon, the book engages with the concept of authoritarian environmental management through a detailed analysis of state laws and policies on river-sand mining. Additional rich ethnographic material shows that riverfront Zhuang villagers and their indigenous ecological knowledge cannot compete with government policy, economic forces, and development trends in gaining control over river sand governance. This book provides appealing case studies in the interdisciplinary field of political ecology. As an example of "anthropology of home", it is of specific methodological interest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhu, Qian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Über Autor(innen)

Qian Zhu, Ph.D. (1984), is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Sociology and Anthropology of Sun Yat-sen University. She has published several articles in Journal of Chinese Overseas, Ecological Economic Review, and Soil & Social Sciences in Guangdong.