About the Book
Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead such formations have been constituted transformed and propelled through diverse site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists officials villagers and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past 25 years. Hathaway reveals how global environmentalism has been enacted and altered in China often with unanticipated effects such as the rise of indigenous rights or the reconfiguration of human/animal relationships fostering what rural villagers refer to as “the revenge of wild elephants.”