... the poor peasants in Guizhou Province in southwest China are compelled to farm on steep slopes, showing that China does not have an overall strategy that takes care of the nation's environmental protection and sustainable development. Story 3. The Story of “Enclosures”: how the grave traffic jams and air...

... “Minamata studies” ( Minamatagaku , 水俣学) as a way to develop new modes of analysis and remediation of toxic sites. This article focuses on the key category of the lived site, the genba (現場), and the role it plays in the politics and medicine of environmental disease. Finally, this article explores...

...Charlotte Bruckermann Abstract Faced with environmental degradation and atmospheric pollution, Chinese citizens increasingly envision the good life as a green life. Yet in cities and the countryside, understandings of environmental hardship and ecological redress diverge and at times even...

... understanding of hygiene is intimately connected with environmental degradation, a perceived “dirtiness” that is not really of their own making. Grounded in anthropological field research in rural Henan, it argues that the lack of any infrastructure to dispose of trash is core to rural environmental problems...

...Margherita Long This article tells the story of one reader’s search for an environmental humanities approach to the work of Ōe Kenzaburō. When the Fukushima Power Plant melted down in March 2011, Ōe had already been an antinuclear activist for almost fifty years. Yet the conviction that drove his...

... the contemporary art world. The author’s inquiry suggests that Yin’s reluctance to embrace her gender identity as central to her ecological art reflects her species-based environmental ethics that goes beyond identity politics. Yin’s ecological focus manifests her situated knowledge as a metropolitan resident...

... produce and reflect a contemporary cultural moment that is predicated on climate control and environmental engineering and haunted by the legacies of coloniality and developmental politics. The theorization of new Asian tropicalities provides a new critical lens with which to consider the relationships...

...Chang-Min Yu Abstract In confronting environmental catastrophes, how can we find a medium that can augment the view of these burning issues? How can we unfold the circularity that the seeming insignificance of particles at the micro level is inextricably, in sedimented spatiotemporal layers, linked...

... a powerful, affluent, and repressive China is a key player, however, middle-class migrants increasingly leave China to pursue a better life defined in nonmaterial terms such as cultural authenticity, environmental purity, social solidarity, and individual freedom. As a new wave of middle-class migrants...

... of factories of multinational corporations as employers and their roles in mediating workers’ health. References ADL (Arthur D. Little) . 1989 . Oversight of Environmental Investigations at Taoyuan and Chu Pei, Taiwan, Summary Report for Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. (Reference 64152...

.... There is a widely held view that environmental pollution and ecological destruction are inevitable in the process of economic and social develop- ment but the problem will be solved as science and technology develop, and economic growth itself will generate...

... – 33 . Broadbent Alex . 2013 . Philosophy of Epidemiology . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Brown Phil . 2007 . Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses, and the Environmental Health Movement . New York : Columbia University Press . Flam Helena King Debra 2010...

... according to historical context and social structure. More precisely, we argue that in the early 1900s the bangbot legitimized rural leaders in the context of colonialism, whereas today they represent an increasing urban environmentalism reflecting the emergence of new urban milieus. While under colonialism...

...: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Deng Yanhua Yang Guobin . 2013 . “ Pollution and Protest in China: Environmental Mobilization in Context .” China Quarterly 214 : 321 – 36 . Denzin Norman Lincoln Yvonna S. . 2005 . “ Introduction...

... is coupled with pervasive messages from state and market institutions about people's responsibility to care for the disadvantaged and the environment. Socialist ethos of mutuality and solidarity are actively deployed to mobilize individual contributions to social and environmental care (Nguyen 2018b...

...Shigeki Takeo 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 A Message to the World Shigeki Takeo Iriomote Island, one of many beautiful natural settings of the Ryukyu Is- lands, is standing on the verge of environmental destruction. A group...

... to Fukushima: Environmental Activism and the Nuclear Blind Spot in Contemporary Japan .” Environmental History 17 , no. 2 : 244 – 76 . Calabrese Edward J. 2011 . “ Key Studies Used to Support Cancer Risk Assessment Questioned .” Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 52 , no. 8 : 595 – 606...

... of this act by pointing to the subsequent expansion of the Korean church. However, McCully was also careful to stipulate that McKenzie s suicide was drawn out of the missionary by the environmental conditions of the colony. As she explains in the closing line of her account, Climate and fever, exposure...

... particularly the so-called Tonghak teaching that “the person is heaven.” You have also concluded that “the greatest problem facing the present age is environmental. And not merely environmental degradation, but the ques- tion of life...

... Accident on the Pale Grass Blue Butterfly .” Scientific Reports 2 , article no. 570 . doi: 10.1038/srep00570. IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) . 2006 . Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident and Their Remediation: Twenty Years of Experience: Report of the UN Chernobyl...