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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China \n\n\n\nEcological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nAlthough Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing\, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead\, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However\, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork with scientists\, urban planners\, and everyday citizens in southwestern China\, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality. \n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker is an associate research scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, and an assistant teaching professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023\, Cornell University Press). His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\,  Fulbright\, Social Science Research Council\, and the Wilson Center\, among others. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlc-CsqjwiEtNUqQ1sEFhmYYHp9hHGJwTX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Timothy Brook\, The University of British Columbia\, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino\, Trinity CollegeYan Gao\, University of MemphisIan M. Miller\, St John’s University \n\n\n\nSeries Convener:Ling Zhang\, Boston College \n\n\n\nIn 1644\, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity\, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China\, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China\, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. \n\n\n\nThe mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age\, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s\, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster\, the Ming price regime collapsed\, and with it the Ming political regime. \n\n\n\nA masterful work of scholarship\, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. \n\n\n\nTimothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State\, Mr. Selden’s Map of China\, and Vermeer’s Hat. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qjb4CtrvRQSr5k5Tj6owiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-timothy-brook/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen - Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen\, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander\, Brown University \n\n\n\nThis study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society in the medieval periods\, and vice versa\, how Chinese state ideology\, Daoism\, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism in understanding and engaging with animals. Taking approaches from history\, religious studies\, animal studies\, and environmental studies\, this study explores the entangled power relations among animals\, religions\, the state\, and the local community in medieval China. With the drastic increase of population in the medieval periods\, local community and religious practitioners expanded their activities and were often confronted with various wild animals. While competing with the dominant power of the state and negotiating with the local community\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and Daoism mobilized their intellectual\, spiritual\, and material resources of knowing\, categorizing\, pacifying\, petting\, and accompanying animals and developed their doctrines\, rituals\, discourses\, and practices to deal with complicated power relations between animals and humans. Drawing upon a wide range of sources\, such as traditional texts\, stone inscriptions\, and manuscripts\, as well as visual materials\, this study invites readers to embark on a journey to the unchartered territory of felines\, reptiles\, and birds that surrounded the medieval Chinese religious world\, represented by the tiger\, snake\, and parrot especially. Wisdoms\, virtues\, colors\, sounds\, and powers from both human and animal realms piece together for making a fascinating chapter of human history. \n\n\n\nHuaiyu Chen (Ph.D.\, Princeton University) is Professor of Buddhism and Chinese Religions at Arizona State University. He has many publications on Chinese Buddhism\, Religions on the Silk Road\, animals in Chinese religions\, and the history of modern Chinese humanities. His recent publications include In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023) and Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (2023). He has received a membership from Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2011-2012)\, Spalding Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall of Cambridge University (2014-2015)\, and a visiting scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2018).  \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcuygqjsiGNbg0qfZTS1ZdCxjnoKg9zx9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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