Governing China’s Coal Challenge: Changing Public Policy, Debate and Advocacy

Jeffreys, E; Xu, J

Governing China’s Coal Challenge: Changing Public Policy, Debate and Advocacy

Jeffreys, E

Xu, J

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Environmental Communication, 2018, 12 (5), pp. 575 - 588
Issue Date:: 2018-07-04

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dc.contributor.author	Jeffreys, E https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8269-7080	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Xu, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2798-0996	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:16:41Z
dc.date.issued	2018-07-04	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Environmental Communication, 2018, 12 (5), pp. 575 - 588	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1752-4032	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/129519
dc.description.abstract	© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the nexus of coal–government–society relations in present-day China using a governmentality approach to explore the interactions between policy change, “crisis” management and social action. It outlines the noticeable shift in government rationalities and communication regarding the coal industry in recent years. It then frames this shift within the broader context of government–society relations focusing on public debate regarding the calamitous nature of China’s air pollution and its filtering via the censorship apparatus of the Communist Party-state. Finally, it shows how problems relating to coal extraction and combustion have been taken up at the level of grass-roots protest and philanthropic advocacy. An examination of such activism illustrates the crucial role played by digital media networks in sparking debate on coal-related environmental and health crises, and in pushing an authoritarian government to change national coal and other policies in order to maintain social and political stability.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100871
dc.relation.ispartof	Environmental Communication	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/17524032.2018.1452775	en_US
dc.title	Governing China’s Coal Challenge: Changing Public Policy, Debate and Advocacy	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	5	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of International Studies
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Abstract:

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the nexus of coal–government–society relations in present-day China using a governmentality approach to explore the interactions between policy change, “crisis” management and social action. It outlines the noticeable shift in government rationalities and communication regarding the coal industry in recent years. It then frames this shift within the broader context of government–society relations focusing on public debate regarding the calamitous nature of China’s air pollution and its filtering via the censorship apparatus of the Communist Party-state. Finally, it shows how problems relating to coal extraction and combustion have been taken up at the level of grass-roots protest and philanthropic advocacy. An examination of such activism illustrates the crucial role played by digital media networks in sparking debate on coal-related environmental and health crises, and in pushing an authoritarian government to change national coal and other policies in order to maintain social and political stability.

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