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This project is designed to mapping aqua-crisis in Southwest Yunnan province, home to World Natural Heritage Three Parallel Rivers, through environmental anthropology and advocacy journalism perspectives; in order to document how mega-urbanization initiative and water-transfer projects will shape Southwest China.
This project will focus on four following parts:
- Dianchi Lake pollution and cleansing project (by using water transfer from upper-Yangtze River) : governmental strategies and eco-worries behind
- Demolition of villages and urban sprawl (the details of “Oriental Geneva”, an exotic concept that has shaped the politico-cultural geography of Southwest China)
- Water transfer site: talking with Lamas and villagers (the water transfer projects concern many ethnic counties and Tibetan regions)
- Drought stricken Southwest Yunnan and rubber plantation frenzy (investigation of drought stricken problems and their interrelation with urbanization, governmentality, and social injustice)
This project will be rendered through photo journalism, visual anthropology films, investigative reportage and anthropological commentaries. All the products would be carried or shared by media, organizations, institutions and governmental research entities.
- China Dialogue bilingual website, established by UK BBC veteran journalist (photo journalism, investigative stories)
- Xinhua News Agency (Outlook magazine, Xinhua international website, photo journalism, investigative stories, journals; stories will also be distributed through Earth Journalism Network, a U.S. based journalism training NGO)
- Wilson Environmental Center (research paper, commentaries and presentation)
- Regional Center for Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University (paper presentation)
- Institute for Nationalities Research, Yunnan University (paper presentation, seminars)
- London School of Economics (paper presentation for European urbanization research project)
- Institute of Journalism, Nanjing University and Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center (paper presentation, seminars, photo exhibition, visual anthropology film showing)
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Zhou Lei