The inadequate life: rural industrial pollution and lay epidemiology in China by Lora-Wainwright, A

“… Based on fieldwork in a heavily industrialized Yunnan village, this article examines how villagers understand and respond to pollution-related health risks. …”

Of farming chemicals and cancer deaths: the politics of health in contemporary rural China by Lora-Wainwright, A

“…These different cancer aetiologies define the contours of a biological citizenship which does not only operate in relation to the state or premised on 'scientific' or biomedical evidence, but also on the basis of competing parameters of wellbeing and welfare drawing on personal and social experiences of work and eating. With data from fieldwork in rural Sichuan, this article illustrates that disputes about cancer causality and attitudes towards farm chemicals are also ways to voice villagers' ambivalent attitudes towards modernisation, consumerism, and development as contending forms of morality.…”

The quest for environmental justice in China: citizen participation and the rural–urban network against Panguanying’s waste incinerator by Johnson, T, Lora-Wainwright, A, Lu, J

“…Drawing on in-depth fieldwork, we show how this case was notable, because it transcended the local arena to raise bigger questions about environmental justice, particularly in relation to public participation in siting decisions, after villagers exposed fraudulent public consultation in the environmental impact assessment. …”

Digesting industrialisation: social changes in two industrialised villages in East China by Zhang, G

“…<p>Industrialisation has caused substantial and profound changes in rural China. Based on fieldwork in two industrialised villages, Jiangbin (江滨) and Weiken (围垦), on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, this research examines how the rural residents and the rural communities cope with the challenges brought by the industries. …”

"Green are fields, not mines": the case of lithium mining and resistance in Serbia by Djukanovic, N

“…Through ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this research examines the attitudes of locals and activists to lithium mining in Serbia. …”

Exporting harm, scavenging value: transnational circuits of e‐waste between Japan, China and beyond by Kirby, PW, Lora-Wainwright, A

“…They then turn to the protean material flows and the makeshift configurations engendered by e‐waste itself – not only pollutant when scavenged but frequently lucrative and welcome in de‐manufacturing hotspots in China – and analyse the circulation of scavenged ‘resources’ in the researchers' fieldsite in the world's most notorious e‐waste processing node, in Guangdong Province, where the team conducted ethnographic fieldwork intermittently during 2012–13. China's grand initiative of converting to state‐controlled formal processing, with Panasonic's assistance, facilitates a cross‐cultural comparison of tensions between formal and informal conversion against the backdrop of the flawed Basel Convention regime, relevant to a range of societies. …”

Grassroots perspectives on relocation: threats and opportunities by Lora-Wainwright, A

“…This article provides some ethnographic context for the widely discussed related topics of land disputes and compensation. Based on fieldwork in rural Sichuan, it examines how the selection of agricultural areas for industrialization and road building, entailing relocation of villagers, has been understood by local villagers. …”

'Do you eat meat everyday'? Food, distinction and social change in contemporary rural China by Lora-Wainwright, A

“…<p>During my fieldwork in rural China, the question of what I was fed by my landlady was a matter of great contention amongst villagers. …”