China's Green Consensus - Virginie Arantes

China's Green Consensus

Participation, Co-optation, and Legitimation
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-13883-1 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Despite contrasting approaches, democratic and authoritarian governments all underline the fact that environmental protection is crucial and inevitable—and China’s enthusiasm in stepping up its efforts to protect the environment has not gone unnoticed. This book highlights how the consensual orchestration of sustainability in China’s biggest city, Shanghai, affects non-state actors’ ways of perceiving, acting, and organizing around environmental issues.

China’s Green Consensus examines grassroots realities as they intersect with events of everyday life, offering insights into areas that far transcend debates over coercive forms of environmentalism and exploring the “soft” and “green” facets of President Xi Jinping’s authoritarian approach to governance. The importance of environmental protection in people’s lives serves as a lens to analyze and understand authoritarian adaptations to environmental global phenomena. Arantes highlights how, through mobilization and (de)politicization, a “green” consensus leads to the displacement of state responsibilities and the cultivation of civil society in its own image. In so doing, she opens up new ways of thinking about the complexities of environmental governance, consensus politics, subject making, and citizenship in authoritarian contexts.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Chinese society and politics, environmental politics, political ecology, international relations, and urbanization in Asia, as well as all others interested in the rising appeal of authoritarianism around the globe.

Virginie Arantes is a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, England. She researches in the areas of environmental politics, governance and ideologies, state–society relations, and urban life.

1 Introduction: creating a “common green vision”

2 “Greening” authoritarianism

3 The cooperative road towards sustainability in Shanghai

4 An ironfist in a velvet glove

5 Embracing the market

6 Urban sustainability as consensual practice

7 Concluding thoughts: Environmental authoritarianism: from theory to practice

Appendix A: Semi-structured interviews

Appendix B: Observed registered SGOs

Appendix C: Characteristics of the analyzed social enterprises

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-032-13883-1 / 1032138831
ISBN-13 978-1-032-13883-1 / 9781032138831
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