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- Title
'My body tells me to stay here': Materiality, identity and everyday politics in Wentang Town, China.
- Authors
Li, Peng; Tian, Siyu; Yao, Luchao; Feng, Dan
- Abstract
This paper explores the relations of materiality, identity formation and everyday politics in the governance of geothermal resource in contemporary China. Drawing on ethnographic data, we found that the materiality of geothermal water in its lively and dynamic forms plays agentic roles in discourse constructions, embodied experiences and material practices, shaping the socio-natural politics. The social relations, contestations and conflicts are rooted in the ontological differences of geothermal water as understood by the competing actors. The study of geothermal water contributes to recent debates on the agency of materials in urban political ecology studies as well as exploring everyday politics by highlighting the multiplicity and heterogeneity of actors and the ways in which identity formations are mobilized in everyday governance. This paper sheds light on the heterogeneous configurations of urbanization processes and resource governance.
- Subjects
CHINA; GEOTHERMAL ecology; IDENTITY politics; IDENTITY (Psychology); POLITICAL ecology; GEOTHERMAL resources
- Publication
Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 2024, Vol 7, Issue 2, p517
- ISSN
2514-8486
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/25148486231203111