{"id":5030,"date":"2026-10-27T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/?page_id=5030"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:43:21","slug":"wg-7-china-and-the-new-geographies-of-green-transition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/working-groups\/wg-7-china-and-the-new-geographies-of-green-transition","title":{"rendered":"WG 7: China and the New Geographies of Green Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coordinators:
\n<\/b><\/span>Usman Ashraf (<\/em>University of Helsinki)\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/span>Mira K\u00e4k\u00f6nen (<\/em>University of Helsinki)\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/span>Chenmei Li (<\/em>University of Helsinki)\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Description:
\n<\/b>China has a paradoxical role in contemporary environmental politics. It is simultaneously the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases and consumer of coal, while also leading global investments in renewable energy and exporting low-carbon technologies, infrastructure, and environmental solutions around the world. As China’s domestic green transition gathers momentum, Chinese state agencies, financiers, companies, experts, and other actors are increasingly shaping environmental futures far beyond China’s borders.<\/span><\/p>\n

This panel explores the emergence and implications of China’s growing \u2018green power\u2019 both within China and across the global South. We invite papers that examine how forms of Chinese green power are produced, mobilised, experienced, and contested across diverse contexts. We are especially interested in the connections between China’s domestic greening efforts and the greening, or not, of its overseas engagements in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and beyond. Contributions are also encouraged to pay attention to the tensions, contradictions, and power relations embedded in green and low-carbon transitions, including competing development visions, environmental justice concerns, and uneven social and ecological outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The panel aims to bring the following bodies of scholarship into conversation: China studies, research on global China, global development studies and critical environmental social science, including political ecology.<\/span><\/p>\n

We welcome papers addressing topics such as:
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