【学术报告】Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China
顺从的行动主义：与农村污染共处

【学术报告】Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China

顺从的行动主义：与农村污染共处

TOPIC：    Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China

SPEAKER:  Prof. Anna Lora-Wainwright, University of Oxford

LANGUAGE: English

TIME: 18:30-20:30, November 6, 2017 (Monday)

VENUE: Room 008, COHD (west campus of CAU)

CONTACT: Dr. Jixia Lu, tel: 62732644, 18610320044

Anna Lora-Wainwright is Associate Professor of the Human Geography of China in the School of Geography and the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford. She has a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University; an MA in Chinese Studies and a BA in Anthropology, both from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Before taking up her post in Oxford, Anna worked as a lecturer and research fellow in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. Anna's current research covers a diverse range of topics, including: experiences of urbanisation and land loss; resistance to waste incineration; the production and contestation of knowledge around pollution; environmental health activism and the formation of 'environmental health subjects.'

She is the author of Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (2017) and Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in Rural China (2013). She edited a special collection for The China Quarterly on 'Dying for Development: Pollution, Illness and the Limits of Citizens' Agency in China' and co-edited (with Peter Wynn Kirby) a special section in the journal Area titled 'Peering Through Loopholes, Tracing Conversions: Remapping the Transborder Trade in Electronic Waste'. Her research has appeared in World Development, AREA, Positions, Social Anthropology, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary China, Evidence and Policy and the Pace Environmental Law Review.

Link to: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/alorawainwright.html