Spark in the Smokestacks - Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Yen-chun Lin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2023
• EAN: 9780231194518
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19451-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Social Science, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics and government, Sociology & anthropology, Environmental policy and protocols