Jean Yen-chun Lin

A Spark in the Smokestacks

Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231194501
• ISBN-10: 0231194501
• Artikelnr.: 67749568

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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