A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities Lin Jean Yen-Chun
Environmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash…
Specifikacia A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities Lin Jean Yen-Chun
Environmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash problem and overflowing landfills, many first-time homeowners found their new neighborhoods facing an unappetizing prospect-waste incinerator projects slated for their backyards.Delving into the online and offline conversations of communities affected by the proposed incinerators, A Spark in the Smokestacks demonstrates how a rising middle class acquires the capacity for organizing in an authoritarian context. Jean Yen-chun Lin examines how urban residents create civic life through everyday associational activities-learning to defend property rights, fostering participation, and mobilizing to address housing-related grievances. She shows that homeowners cultivated
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