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Abstract
Communities across China are now being required by municipalities to sort their own waste. This chapter develops an understanding of this recent wave of community reimagination by tracing the changing relationship between the state, society and urban waste. It sees the reimagination as a part of the state’s effort to redraw the boundary of its grand developmental vision ‘ecological civilization’, incorporating recycling into the vision and yet at the same time eliminating the urban informality that waste-sorting, trade and processing have long been embedded in. The chapter points out that boundary-redrawing has been driven primarily by middle-class urban residents’ opposition to the vision’s promotion of waste-to-energy incineration. In addition, it puts forth the observation that the elimination of informal recycling networks has made ordinary residents in cities more alienated from the waste that they produce at home.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance |
Editors | Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Chapter | 21 |
Pages | 340-353 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978 1 80392 204 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 978 1 80392 203 4 |
Publication status | Published - 24 Nov 2023 |
Publication series
Name | HANDBOOKS OF RESEARCH ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA |
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Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Keywords
- Compulsory waste-sorting
- Ecological civilization
- Anti-incineration activism
- Informal recycling networks
- Urban China
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From Climate Change Mitigation to Adaptation: The Fever of Sponge City Construction in China and Its Implications to Local Environmental Governance
1/09/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Internal Research Project