Green Eating and Ecological Risk in China
How the Authoritarian State Shapes Consumer Responsibility
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 4. September 2026
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-90-485-6486-6 (ISBN)
Description
The book critically examines consumer advice urging Chinese citizens to change their food consumption habits and explores what it means to eat green in a country facing ecological risks, food safety concerns, and an authoritarian government aiming to create an eco-civilization.
Uncovering the political agendas behind this push for consumer responsibility, this book analyses a range of topics such as food waste and alternative food networks, showing how China's environmental authoritarianism mobilizes consumers to adopt greener food practices while restricting civil society-driven approaches to sustainability that do not align with the state's vision of eco-civilization.
Green Eating and Ecological Risk in China is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of Chinese society and politics, environmental sociology and political science, as well as others interested in environmental governance and the greening of consumption and lifestyles under authoritarianism.
Uncovering the political agendas behind this push for consumer responsibility, this book analyses a range of topics such as food waste and alternative food networks, showing how China's environmental authoritarianism mobilizes consumers to adopt greener food practices while restricting civil society-driven approaches to sustainability that do not align with the state's vision of eco-civilization.
Green Eating and Ecological Risk in China is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of Chinese society and politics, environmental sociology and political science, as well as others interested in environmental governance and the greening of consumption and lifestyles under authoritarianism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Illustrations
7 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 3 s/w Zeichnungen, 5 s/w Tabellen, 10 s/w Abbildungen
5 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-485-6486-6 (9789048564866)
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Person
Franziska M. Froehlich is a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her research focuses on the intersection of food consumption and the environment in consumer advice as well as science communication and scientific literacy in China. She holds a PhD in Sinology from the University of Wuerzburg.
Content
1. Introduction: The Greening of Eating in China 2. Eco-Civilization: Making the Environment a Matter of Morality 3. Eco-Civilization and Environmental Food Safety Risks: Responsible for Self and Society 4. Eco-Solidarity: Contesting China's Food Modernity 5. Eco-Safety: Self-Protection in an Age of Ecological Risk 6. Conclusion: Chinese Consumers Between Eating for Safety and Eating for Change