Research Overview
My research examines the ongoing debate over waste management in China and what it says about how environmental planning and conflicts help shape urban social and physical landscapes. I work with a range of actors — waste experts, environmental NGOs, industries and migrant collectors — to develop an ethnography of the making of the urban environment in two of China's largest megacities. I am interested in the interconnections between the social practices, technologies and infrastructures of waste management as well as public perception and reception of green technologies. I am currently carrying out 18 months of fieldwork in Guangzhou and Beijing.
