Although they live up and downstream on the same polluted river, residents of the two villages of Liangqiao and Shangba have quite different perceptions of the risk of heavy metal pollution from a local mine and different responses to it. At the time of this research, Liangqiao villagers were actively trying to problematize pollution, and attract attention in order to resolve it, while Shangba had already gone through this process of problematization, and realized that although it had brought some relief, being known as a ‘cancer village’ also had downsides. It was now trying to ‘de-stigmatize’ the community. The differences between the two communities were largely related to factors such as clan organization, local or migrant origin, population size, economic power and other such factors.
{"title":"Problematization and De-stigmatization","authors":"Liao Caihong, Cheng Pengli","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.12","url":null,"abstract":"Although they live up and downstream on the same polluted river, residents\u0000 of the two villages of Liangqiao and Shangba have quite different\u0000 perceptions of the risk of heavy metal pollution from a local mine and\u0000 different responses to it. At the time of this research, Liangqiao villagers\u0000 were actively trying to problematize pollution, and attract attention in\u0000 order to resolve it, while Shangba had already gone through this process\u0000 of problematization, and realized that although it had brought some\u0000 relief, being known as a ‘cancer village’ also had downsides. It was now\u0000 trying to ‘de-stigmatize’ the community. The differences between the two\u0000 communities were largely related to factors such as clan organization, local\u0000 or migrant origin, population size, economic power and other such factors.","PeriodicalId":277207,"journal":{"name":"Chinese \"Cancer Villages\"","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131537831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Money, or life? Town and Village Enterprises helped local farmers get rich quickly, but they also caused serious environmental pollution that was a threat to people’s health. Through a study of a village in northern Zhejiang, this chapter shows how, through their daily experiences, villagers established a logical relationship between industrial pollution and cancer and came to believe that the incidence of cancer was not only high, but strongly related to pollution. Facing health risks from pollution, the villagers initially engaged in resistance, but when this strategy was unsuccessful, they later switched to less active measures.
{"title":"A Prosperous ‘Cancer Village’","authors":"Cheng Pengli","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.10","url":null,"abstract":"Money, or life? Town and Village Enterprises helped local farmers get\u0000 rich quickly, but they also caused serious environmental pollution that\u0000 was a threat to people’s health. Through a study of a village in northern\u0000 Zhejiang, this chapter shows how, through their daily experiences, villagers\u0000 established a logical relationship between industrial pollution and\u0000 cancer and came to believe that the incidence of cancer was not only\u0000 high, but strongly related to pollution. Facing health risks from pollution,\u0000 the villagers initially engaged in resistance, but when this strategy was\u0000 unsuccessful, they later switched to less active measures.","PeriodicalId":277207,"journal":{"name":"Chinese \"Cancer Villages\"","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124332747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cause of death data show that Lianshui County has a high incidence of oesophagus cancer. This chapter considers health risks in the county from the perspective of environmental history. After the Yellow River became blocked and took over the course of the Huai River, it caused Lianshui to suffer an 800-year period of floods, waterlogging and attendant disasters. This brought prolonged poverty and water-related health risks. The later conversion of dry fields to rice paddy brought further changes in the water environment of Lianshui’s villages, connecting drinking water sources to the agricultural irrigation system, and causing new health risks. However, as the economic circumstances of the village improved, so did the drinking water supply, and water-related health risks then declined.
{"title":"Environmental Change and Health Risks","authors":"Chen Ajiang","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.8","url":null,"abstract":"Cause of death data show that Lianshui County has a high incidence of\u0000 oesophagus cancer. This chapter considers health risks in the county from\u0000 the perspective of environmental history. After the Yellow River became\u0000 blocked and took over the course of the Huai River, it caused Lianshui to\u0000 suffer an 800-year period of floods, waterlogging and attendant disasters.\u0000 This brought prolonged poverty and water-related health risks. The later\u0000 conversion of dry fields to rice paddy brought further changes in the water\u0000 environment of Lianshui’s villages, connecting drinking water sources to\u0000 the agricultural irrigation system, and causing new health risks. However,\u0000 as the economic circumstances of the village improved, so did the drinking\u0000 water supply, and water-related health risks then declined.","PeriodicalId":277207,"journal":{"name":"Chinese \"Cancer Villages\"","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124067369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The unclear scientific relationship between pollution and cancer, combined with weak governance systems, means that villagers have only incomplete information about pollution and disease. Their own lack of scientific knowledge is a further obstacle to their accurate perception of health risks. But villagers do not just resign themselves to their fate. They use the social structure and cultural mechanisms of the ‘familiar society’, to maximize their use of available information, and they rely on their life experience and common-sense strategies to mitigate the impact of pollution. Village social structure also affects the actions villagers take to avoid pollution. Thus, although they lack scientific guidance in mitigating health risks from pollution, their actions are informed by their own unique empirical logic.
{"title":"Villagers Strategies for Mitigating Environmental Health Risks","authors":"Chen Ajiang, Cheng Pengli","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.15","url":null,"abstract":"The unclear scientific relationship between pollution and cancer, combined\u0000 with weak governance systems, means that villagers have only\u0000 incomplete information about pollution and disease. Their own lack of\u0000 scientific knowledge is a further obstacle to their accurate perception\u0000 of health risks. But villagers do not just resign themselves to their fate.\u0000 They use the social structure and cultural mechanisms of the ‘familiar\u0000 society’, to maximize their use of available information, and they rely on\u0000 their life experience and common-sense strategies to mitigate the impact\u0000 of pollution. Village social structure also affects the actions villagers\u0000 take to avoid pollution. Thus, although they lack scientific guidance in\u0000 mitigating health risks from pollution, their actions are informed by their\u0000 own unique empirical logic.","PeriodicalId":277207,"journal":{"name":"Chinese \"Cancer Villages\"","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125308588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In some relatively undeveloped rural areas of China, cancer is deeply entangled with poverty and other social problems. This study discusses a state-owned farm in Jiangxi, where residents believed that cancer was caused by pollution from a local glass factory and phosphorus fertilizer plant. Our analysis of what the villagers considered ‘iron proof’ could not confirm an association between cancer and pollution from existing industries, but despite this, residents took their evidence and petitioned various levels of government. Their persistence was fuelled by their resentment of their relative disadvantage in relation to surrounding villages and their desire to get the government to improve their water supply. The case illustrates how different social problems become ‘bundled,’ and how emotions shape perceptions of risk.
{"title":"Coexistence of Poverty and Cancer","authors":"Cheng Pengli, Liao Caihong","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.11","url":null,"abstract":"In some relatively undeveloped rural areas of China, cancer is deeply\u0000 entangled with poverty and other social problems. This study discusses\u0000 a state-owned farm in Jiangxi, where residents believed that cancer was\u0000 caused by pollution from a local glass factory and phosphorus fertilizer\u0000 plant. Our analysis of what the villagers considered ‘iron proof’ could\u0000 not confirm an association between cancer and pollution from existing\u0000 industries, but despite this, residents took their evidence and petitioned\u0000 various levels of government. Their persistence was fuelled by their resentment\u0000 of their relative disadvantage in relation to surrounding villages\u0000 and their desire to get the government to improve their water supply. The\u0000 case illustrates how different social problems become ‘bundled,’ and how\u0000 emotions shape perceptions of risk.","PeriodicalId":277207,"journal":{"name":"Chinese \"Cancer Villages\"","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130239774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
From 2000, local governments actively recruited polluting industries to move into rural areas of Northern Jiangsu (Subei). This chapter analyses the case of Dongjing Village. It describes the actual situation regarding industrial pollution, the interests and choices of the local government, the villagers’ resistance, the actions and limitations of the media, and the disconnect between environmental law and the actual handling of conflicts over pollution. The research found that the attitude and actions of the government showed a tendency towards post hoc crisis management. But the problem of industrial pollution is difficult to solve, and the appearance of ‘cancer villages’ during this period was related to factors including the cadre evaluation system, the structure of power and interest relations, and the lack of independence of administrative agencies.
{"title":"A Subei ‘Cancer Village’","authors":"Luo Yajuan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk8t.7","url":null,"abstract":"From 2000, local governments actively recruited polluting industries to\u0000 move into rural areas of Northern Jiangsu (Subei). This chapter analyses\u0000 the case of Dongjing Village. It describes the actual situation regarding\u0000 industrial pollution, the interests and choices of the local government,\u0000 the villagers’ resistance, the actions and limitations of the media, and\u0000 the disconnect between environmental law and the actual handling\u0000 of conflicts over pollution. The research found that the attitude and\u0000 actions of the government showed a tendency towards post hoc crisis\u0000 management. But the problem of industrial pollution is difficult to solve,\u0000 and the appearance of ‘cancer villages’ during this period was related\u0000 to factors including the cadre evaluation system, the structure of power\u0000 and interest relations, and the lack of independence of administrative\u0000 agencies.","PeriodicalId":277207,"journal":{"name":"Chinese \"Cancer Villages\"","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124723944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：