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Man and Nature in China: Gender, Natural Resources Management and the Chinese State in an Inner Mongolia Village
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Man and Nature in China: Gender, Natural Resources Management and the Chinese State in an Inner Mongolia Village
About this book
The process of China's rural modernization over the past half-century was punctuated by an ambitious attempt to transform the natural environment. "Wars against nature" were long a nationwide characteristic in rural China during the collective period. After decollectivization, rather than being reversed, overexploitation of nature intensified due to rapid economic development and increased inequality. Meanwhile, the rhetoric of "man can conquer nature" was replaced by "rehabilitate beautiful landscapes," seeming to embody a shifting conceptualization of people's relationship to nature. In the background of the twin campaigns of "war against nature" and "rebuilding beautiful landscapes," this dissertation provides a first-hand understanding of natural resource management and environment changes from a gender perspective in the context of larger economic and ecological transformations in a peasant community in Inner Mongolia over the past five decades. It examines how village men and women managed, viewed, and negotiated environmental resources in their everyday lives along lines of wealth, ethnicity, age, marriage status, and livelihood.
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Yes, you can access Man and Nature in China: Gender, Natural Resources Management and the Chinese State in an Inner Mongolia Village by Yukun Hu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- ABSTRACT
- Contents
- Figure and Table List
- Measures, Weights and Abbreviations
- Chapter OneEngendering Rural Development andEnvironmental Changes
- Chapter TwoThe Politics of Fieldwork
- Chapter ThreeThe Setting: Land and Its People
- Chapter FourAgrarian Changes and the Crusadeagainst Local Environment
- Chapter FiveVoices from the Grassroots: Gender,Bureaucratic State Power and the MassMobilization Conservation Campaign
- Chapter SixThe State, Community-based NaturalResource Management and ResistancePolitics
- Chapter Seven Intra-household Dynamics and InterhouseholdInteractions
- Chapter Eight Market, Off-farm Work and SocioeconomicDifferentiation: Money ChangesEverything
- Chapter Nine Gender, Conservation, Development:Sustainability Dilemmas
- Literature Cited
- copyright