Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China
Michael J. Hathaway
Abstract
This book challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such globalized formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between “global” and “local.” The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese experts and scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past twenty-five years. It reveals how global environmentalism has been enact ... More
Keywords: indigenous rights, Global North, globalized formations, Global South, Chinese scientists, villagers, environmentalism, People’s Republic of China, indigenous rights, expatriate conservationists
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520276192 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520276192.001.0001 |
