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DESCRIPTION:Running in Circles?: Visions of Circular Economies from Mao to 
 Xi\nMonday\, March 24\, 2025 | 4:00PM-5:30PM | SOS B40 | RSVP\n\nJoin us f
 or an engaging discussion on development\, waste and environmental governa
 nce in China moderated by Prof. Joshua Goldstein\, EASC Director and Profe
 ssor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures. Our speakers will e
 xplore how visions of a “circular economy” have been integral to the P
 RC state’s visions of development across decades of tumultuous and trans
 formative change. From Mao-era policies of "comprehensive utilization" tha
 t sought a uniquely Socialist solution to the elimination of wastes to tod
 ay’s China where hundreds of waste-to-energy incinerators are presented 
 as a circular solution to the country’s explosive growth in post-consume
 r wastes\, our speakers explore over 50 years of “circular economy” in
  China. \n\n\nPanelists\n\n\n\nAmy Zhang \nBio: Amy Zhang is an Assistant 
 Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is an anthropologist
  and political ecologist whose research investigates environment\, technol
 ogy\, labor\, and urban life. Her first book Circular Ecologies: Environme
 ntalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (Stanford University Press\, 202
 4)\, is a study of the implementation of technologies and infrastructures 
 to modernize a mega-city's waste management system\, and the grassroots ec
 ological politics that emerged.  \n\nTalk: Waste’s Technopolitics in Urb
 an China\nStarting in the early 2000s\, Chinese policymakers came to see w
 aste management as an object of environmental governance central to the cr
 eation of “modern” cities\, and experimented with the circular economy
 \, in which technology and policy could convert all forms of waste back in
 to resource. This talk traces the impact of the deployment of WTE incinera
 tors in Guangzhou\, as the preferred technological solution for realizing 
 the circular economy. The building of new WTE incinerators on the city’s
  peri-urban edge\, elicited a diverse range of techno-scientific engagemen
 t by both villagers and the middle-class. Experiments with the circular ec
 onomy facilitated not only displacement but new forms of techno-scientific
  articulations and engagements between rural and urban dwellers. \n \n\n\n
 \nBrian Spivey\nBio: Brian Spivey is a historian of modern China whose res
 earch focuses on the study the environmental and social changes brought ab
 out by China’s dramatic and uneven industrialization in the twentieth ce
 ntury. He completed his PhD in History at the University of California\, I
 rvine in 2023 and was a Mellon Faculty Fellow at UC Irvine from 2023-2024.
  This year\, he will begin a multiyear research postdoc at the Centre on C
 hina in the World at The Australian National University. His book project\
 , Pollution Revolution: Maoism\, Environmentalism\, and the Consequences o
 f Industrialization in Modern China\, is a history of the origins and char
 acter of concerns about environmental degradation and sustainability in th
 e People’s Republic of China (PRC). \n\nTalk: Comprehensive Utilization:
  Eliminating Waste and the Socialist Solution to Pollution\nIn this talk\,
  Brian Spivey examines how the resource management framework of "comprehen
 sive utilization" (综合利用) evolved in Maoist China from the 1950s to
  the 1970s. In the resource-scarce 1950s\, comprehensive utilization emerg
 ed as a frugal\, anti-waste philosophy aimed at maximizing industrial outp
 ut through holistic production planning that eliminated any and all waste.
  In the early 1970s\, Chinese leaders retranslated this framework as their
  primary solution for reconciling industrial growth with environmental pro
 tection\, positioning it as the cornerstone of a Maoist environmentalism.
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LOCATION:Social Sciences Building (SOS)\, B40
SUMMARY:Running in Circles?: Visions of Circular Economies from Mao to Xi
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 ions-of-circular-economies-from-mao-to-xi
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
CATEGORIES:Sustainability
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