Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China

Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change.

China is experiencing climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding—that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set against mounting anxiety over the future of global water supplies, Cutting the Mass Line explores the enduring political, technical, and ethical project of making water available to human communities a...