1st Edition
China's Green Consensus Participation, Co-optation, and Legitimation
By Virginie Arantes
Copyright 2023
204 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Despite contrasting approaches, democratic and authoritarian governments all underline the fact that environmental protection is crucial and inevitable—and China’s enthusiasm in stepping up its efforts to protect the environment has not gone unnoticed. This book highlights how the consensual orchestration of sustainability in China’s biggest city, Shanghai, affects non-state actors’ ways of... Read more
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
Biography
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.
