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Book Launch: Andrea Pia, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China, 28 February
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Book Launch: Andrea Pia, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China, 28 February

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Andrea Pia, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China (JHU Press, 2025).On 28 February (10:00-12:00, CMB Practice Suite 1.12) EEHN and Social Anthropology are delighted to co-host a book launch for Andrea Pia’s new monograph, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China (JHU Press, 2024).

This important new book explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change. It examines what Pia describes as the ‘climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding’ currently being experienced in China, in the context of global anxieties over the future of water supplies.

The full book is available for download for UoE staff and students here. In addition to the Introduction, Dr. Pia suggests the following chapters based on your interests:

  • Chapter 1: The study of Chinese bureaucracy/sustainability
  • Chapter 2: Infrastructures
  • Chapter 3: Redistribution/justice
  • Chapter 4 or 5: Political anthropology/the commons

Please save the date for this exciting event.

Book Launch: Andrea Pia, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China, 28 February / EEHN by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0

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