Joy Y Zhang – författare

Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China is an in-depth account of the novel ways Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples rarely captured in Western media or academia.The struggle for clean air, low-carbon conspiracy theories, is transforming Chinese society, producing new forms of public fund raising and the encouraging the international tactics of grassroots NGOs. In doing so, they challenge static understandings of state-society relations in China, providing a crucial insight into the way in which China is changing internally and emerging as a powerful player in global environmental politics.

This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in the two countries’ rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation.

This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in the two countries’ rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation.

Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China is an in-depth account of the novel ways Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples rarely captured in Western media or academia.The struggle for clean air, low-carbon conspiracy theories, is transforming Chinese society, producing new forms of public fund raising and the encouraging the international tactics of grassroots NGOs. In doing so, they challenge static understandings of state-society relations in China, providing a crucial insight into the way in which China is changing internally and emerging as a powerful player in global environmental politics.

This volume addresses the critical question of how scientific collaboration can remain possible in an era of deepening geopolitical tension, without denying difference or enforcing false consensus. It is the outcome of an ongoing, real transnational forum on biogovernance commons, and offers a rare, inside account of the experimental effort to rebuild trust in the governance of the life sciences across the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and beyond.Drawing on sustained dialogue among scientists, ethicists, lawyers, and policy scholars, the volume introduces the idea of the ‘commons’ as a practice of commoning: the ongoing work of making differences intelligible, negotiating conflict, and sustaining cooperation under constraint. Through richly grounded case studies—from genetic data governance and biobanking to biosecurity, CRISPR, and global health—it shows how regulatory impasse is often produced not by incompatible values, but by fractured relations, politicised language, and unequal epistemic authority.Neither a blueprint for harmonisation nor a polemic about China, the volume demonstrates how meaningful collaboration can be rebuilt when formal channels narrow. At once empirically revealing and conceptually innovative, it speaks to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking new ways to govern science responsibly in a divided world.