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Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China

Becoming Activists over Wild Public Networks

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Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China

Becoming Activists over Wild Public Networks

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Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China: Becoming Activists over Wild Public Networks builds upon existing social movement scholarship in communication studies, China studies, and sociology by analyzing China’s vibrant contemporary environmental protests. Using news reports, social media feeds, and conversations with witnesses and participants in the protests, Elizabeth Brunner examines three important antiparaxylene (PX) protests: the 2007 protests in Xiamen, the 2011 protests in Dalian, and the 2014 protests in Maoming. Brunner argues for the treatment of protests as forces majeure and asserts the legitimacy of wild public networks. Brunner stresses that scholars must take a networked approach to social movements as new media become valid platforms for furthering social change, especially in areas where censorship is common.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Entangled Environments of Degradation and Activism

Chapter 1: The Environmental Impacts of China’s “Opening”: A Rising Culture of Protest

Chapter 2: Social Movements over Wild Public Networks

Chapter 3: Social Movements as Force Majeure: Xiamen’s 2007 PX Protest

Chapter 4: The Disappointment in Dalian

Chapter 5: Maoming: Networks of Corruption and Activism

Conclusion: Force Majeure: Understanding Social Media, Social Movements, and Rhetoric as Force

Product details

Published Jul 05 2019
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 200
ISBN 9781793606129
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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