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River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China
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Qian Zhu
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2022
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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.
Author / Editor information
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.
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eBook published on:
January 10, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9789004505919
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Main content:
288
eBook ISBN:
9789004505919
Keywords for this book
Sand mining; Extractive industries; Political ecology; Property rights theory; Authoritarian environmental management; Zhuang people; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Indigeneity; Project-based development approach; Overlapping laws; Public participation; Local resistance; Environmental justice; Anthropology of home; Construction of Ecological Civilization
Audience(s) for this book
The primary readership is anthropology and sinology and environmental humanities students, researchers in the same fields of study, Chinese policymakers and government officials, and international organizations in the field of natural resource management.
