Outputs (13)

Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China (2023)
Book Chapter
Lou, L. I. (2023). Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China. In E. Kryder-Reid, & S. May (Eds.), Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice (174-198). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365259-20

This chapter explores how residents in a Chinese neighbourhood bargained with their “toxic heritage.” Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between the spring and autumn of 2018, the chapter details how the villagers of Samtilwei, a periurban nei... Read More about Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China.

The art of unnoticing: Risk perception and contrived ignorance in China (2022)
Journal Article
Lou, L. I. T. (2022). The art of unnoticing: Risk perception and contrived ignorance in China. American Ethnologist, 49(4), 580-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13099

In China many petrochemical plants are adjacent to residential areas. Despite this, the people who live in these areas appear indifferent to the threat of toxic pollution and chemical explosions, even though they are aware of the danger. Building on... Read More about The art of unnoticing: Risk perception and contrived ignorance in China.

From Hygienic Modernity to Green Modernity: Two Modes of Modern Living in Hong Kong Since the 1970s (2022)
Book Chapter
Lou, L. I. (2022). From Hygienic Modernity to Green Modernity: Two Modes of Modern Living in Hong Kong Since the 1970s. In Y. Lee, & M. Rajguru (Eds.), Design and Modernity in Asia: National Identity And Transnational Exchange 1945–1990 (105-120). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350091498.ch-6

The multiplicities of freedom in Hong Kong (2022)
Digital Artefact
Lou, L. (2022). The multiplicities of freedom in Hong Kong

Casino capitalism in the era of COVID-19: examining Macau’s pandemic response (2021)
Journal Article
Lou, L. (2021). Casino capitalism in the era of COVID-19: examining Macau’s pandemic response. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 17(2), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1108/stics-09-2020-0025

Bullshit Jobs: A Conversation with David Graeber (2019)
Journal Article
Graeber, D., & Lou, L. I. T. (2019). Bullshit Jobs: A Conversation with David Graeber. Made in China, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.22459/mic.04.02.2019.19

The Struggle for Sustainable Waste Management in Hong Kong: 1950s–2010s (2019)
Journal Article
Fabian, N., & Lou, L. I. T. (2019). The Struggle for Sustainable Waste Management in Hong Kong: 1950s–2010s. Worldwide Waste, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.5334/wwwj.40

Freedom as ethical practices: on the possibility of freedom through freeganism and freecycling in Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article
Lou, L. I. T. (2019). Freedom as ethical practices: on the possibility of freedom through freeganism and freecycling in Hong Kong. Asian Anthropology, 18(4), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478x.2019.1633728

Although the idea of freedom has been well studied as an ideal in political philosophy, relatively little scholarship has focused on the human experience of freedom. Drawing on ethnographic research between 2012 and 2013, I examine how freedom was ac... Read More about Freedom as ethical practices: on the possibility of freedom through freeganism and freecycling in Hong Kong.

Review of Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell. Seattle, WA, and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. (2018)
Journal Article
Lou, L. I. T. (2018). Review of Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell. Seattle, WA, and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. China Quarterly, 233, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741018000292

The Material Culture of Green Living in Hong Kong (2017)
Journal Article
Lou, L. I. T. (2017). The Material Culture of Green Living in Hong Kong. Anthropology Now, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2017.1291055

In the Absence of a Peasantry, What, Then, Is a Hong Kong Farmer? (2017)
Journal Article
Lou, L. I. T. (2017). In the Absence of a Peasantry, What, Then, Is a Hong Kong Farmer?. Made in China, 2(4), https://doi.org/10.22459/mic.02.04.2017.10

Review of "Green Politics in China: Environmental Governance and State–Society Relations", by Joy Y. Zhang and Michael Barr. London: Pluto Press, 2013. (2014)
Journal Article
Lou, L. I. (2014). Review of "Green Politics in China: Environmental Governance and State–Society Relations", by Joy Y. Zhang and Michael Barr. London: Pluto Press, 2013. The China journal (Canberra, A.C.T. Online), 72, https://doi.org/10.1086/677088

Hong Kong’s vegan guru (2014)
Digital Artefact
Lou, L. (2014). Hong Kong’s vegan guru