An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.
List of Figures ix
Preface to the Revised Edition xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xix
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
61
4 "Undermining" Environmental Health: "Madness," Struggles for
Clean Water, and the Challenges of Intervention 93
5 E-Waste Work: Hierarchies of Value and the Normalization of
Pollution in Guiyu 129
Conclusion 163
Appendix: Methodological Strategies and Challenges 183
Notes 199
Bibliography 207
Index 233
Anna Lora-Wainwright is Professor of the Human Geography of China at the University of Oxford, and the author ofFighting for Breath- Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village.
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