China's Green Consensus: Participation, Co-optation, and Legitimation

by Virginie Arantes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032138831
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2024
Series:	Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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