DESCRIZIONE
Presentazione del volume "Cutting the Mass Line Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China"
Abstract:
What does everyday life feel like if stripped of the certainty that thirst will be quenched? What is left of ethnic rural communities once their life-sustaining resources are taken away and enclosed? What kind of future is possible if the collective capacity to address these challenges is systematically foreclosed? "Cutting the Mass Line" examines the challenges of water sustainability in Huize County, Yunnan, China, an ethnically composite rural area, amidst the socio-natural disruptions brought about by climate change. Anthropologist Andrea E. Pia investigates how drought, flooding, and aging infrastructure differently impact local communities. Through ethnographic research conducted with local state agencies, international water development planners, and rural communities, the book demonstrates how the climate crisis creates opportunities for grassroots counter-management initiatives, challenging traditional top-down approaches. By reclaiming decision-making power previously delegated to market forces, technology, or state institutions, the bottom-up sustainability efforts described in the book highlight the limitations of current technocratic solutions and offer a potential antidote to climate doom.
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