School of Social and Political Science

Description

This important new book explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change. It examines what Pia describes as the ‘climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding’ currently being experienced in China, in the context of global anxieties over the future of water supplies.

The full book is available for download for UoE staff and students here. In addition to the Introduction, Dr. Pia suggests the following chapters based on your interests:

• Chapter 1: The study of Chinese bureaucracy/sustainability
• Chapter 2: Infrastructures
• Chapter 3: Redistribution/justice
• Chapter 4 or 5: Political anthropology/the commons