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His academic interests include restoration of peri-urban landscapes, wise
use of peri-urban coppice woodland (satoyama) through re-introduction of
community-based bioenergy utilization, and evaluation of hobby farmers’
agro-activities for designing urban areas with self-reliance in food.Sarah Webb is a Sessional Lecturer in anthropology and material culture studies
at the University of Queensland. Her ethnographic research in the Philippines
examines how commodities are valued through everyday social practices of
production, circulation, and consumption. Her doctoral research investigated
the value creation of forest honey products along their trajectories. She is a
recipient of the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and
a contributor to the Engagement Blog of the Anthropology and Environment
Society (American Anthropological Association).
Tim Winter is Research Professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and
Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne. He currently leads two international
collaborations on urban sustainability and indoor comfort, one funded by the
Australian Research Council, the other by the Qatar National Research Fund. For
further details see http://www.comfortfutures.net. [email protected].
Scott Writer is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Languages, Cultures, and
Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. His dissertation is an ethnographic
study of the production, appraisal, and consumption of oolong tea in Taiwan.
Ka-ming Wu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Religious
Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is interested in questions of
modernity, cultural politics, and state-society relationship in contemporary
China. Her first monograph, Reinventing Chinese Tradition: Cultural Politics
of Late Socialism (University of Illinois Press, 2015), examines the ways
cultural traditions become battlegrounds where conflicts among the state,
market forces, and intellectuals in search of an authentic China play out. Her
second forthcoming book, Life of Waste: Economy, Community and Space at a
Scavengers’ Site in Beijing (Chinese University Press, 2016), examines the lives
of a group of scavengers to analyze the many developmental contradictions
of urban China. She is also interested in and has published on questions of
citizenship in post-colonial Hong Kong.
Janice Hua Xu (PhD degree in communication, University of Illinois at Urbana–
Champaign) is Associate Professor of communication at Holy Family University,
Pennsylvania. Prior to college teaching in the United States, she worked as
lecturer in international communication in Peking University in China, news
assistant at the New York Times Beijing Bureau, and radio broadcaster at Voice
of America, Washington DC. Her research interests include cultural studies,
ethnography, media globalization, and grassroots activism.
Makoto Yokohari is Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering, The
University of Tokyo. His professional career includes research fellow at the
National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences (1986–1998); visiting