Publications
Publications
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Peer Reviewed Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Authoritarian Continuity Amidst Structural Change_20230408.pdfSchmitt, Edwin. Forthcoming "Authoritarian Continuity Amidst Structural Change: Management of Electricity Generation in the People’s Republic of China" British Journal of Chinese Studies (Accepted April 2023)
Urban Tension and Modernist Architecture as Contentious Heritage.pdfBerg, Sveinung Krokann, and Edwin Schmitt. 2025. "Urban Tension and Modernist Architecture as Contentious Heritage." Heritage & Society: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2025.2554493
Schmitt 2024 - Conceptualising doing things.pdfSchmitt, Edwin, Madison M Macias and Darshan M.A. Karwat. 2024. “Conceptualising Doing Things: The Experience of Collaboration for Community Groups and Academics while Addressing Environmental Justice” Science and Technology Studies https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.121502
The engineering and scientific challenges of environmental justice organizations in the US_A qualitative study.pdfMacias, Madison, Jorge Morales Guerrero, Edwin A. Schmitt, Anthony M. Levenda, Jean Léon Boucher, and Darshan MA Karwat. "The engineering and scientific challenges of environmental justice organizations in the US: A qualitative study." Journal of Cleaner Production 377 (2022): 134463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134463
Project Confluence_Reflections on Addressing Environmental Justice Challenges Through a Hybrid University- and Community-Managed Research Approach.pdfSchmitt, Edwin, Madison Macias, Jean Léon Boucher, and Darshan MA Karwat. "Project Confluence: Reflections on Addressing Environmental Justice Challenges Through a Hybrid University-and Community-Managed Research Approach." Environmental Justice (2022). https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0043
Compressed Environmentalism_Greening a Digital Chengdu through Digital Platforms and Smart Housing Estates.pdfSchmitt, Edwin. 2022. "Compressed Environmentalism: Greening a Digital Chengdu through Smart Housing Estates and Big Data." British Journal of Chinese Studies. 12(1), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.51661/bjocs.v12i1.139
A Mixed-Methods Approach for Evaluating the Relationship between Sustainable Urban Renewal Projects and Environmental Perception and Action in Chengdu.pdfSchmitt, Edwin, Yuqian Shao, Yuehan Wang, Baoyang Zhao and Yushi Gao. 2021. "A Mixed-Methods Approach for Evaluating the Influence of Sustainable Urban Renewal Projects on Environmental Perception and Action in Chengdu." Journal of Applied Social Science. 16(1): 261-280. https://doi.org/10.1177/19367244211042553.
The Retreat of the Human_Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China FT.pdfYuan, Shang and Edwin Schmitt. 2020. “The Retreat of The Human: Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China” Environment and History. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734020X15900760737310
Engaging truthiness and obfuscation in a political ecology analysis of a protest against the Pengzhou Petroleum Refinery.pdfSchmitt, Edwin and Li Hongtao. 2019. “Engaging Truthiness and Obfuscation in a Political Ecology Analysis of a Protest against the Pengzhou Petroleum Refinery” Journal of Political Ecology. 26: 579-598 https://doi.org/10.2458/v26i1.23118
Fertility trends sex ratios and son preference among Han and minority households in rural China.pdfTilt, Bryan, Shaoyue Li and Edwin Schmitt. 2019. “Fertility Trends Sex Ratios and Son Preference among Han and Ethnic Minority Households in Rural China” Asian Anthropology. 18(2): 110-128 https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2019.1588199
Measuring Micrometers of Matter and Inventing Indices_Entangling Social Perception within Discrete and Continuous Measurements of Air Quality.pdfSchmitt, Edwin. 2019. “Measuring Micrometers of Matter and Inventing Indices: Entangling Social Perception within Discrete and Continuous Measurements of Air Quality” Social Science 8(2): 48 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020048
Living in an Ecological Civilization.pdfSchmitt, Edwin. 2018. “Living in an Ecological Civilization: Ideological Interpretations of an Authoritarian Mode of Sustainability in China”. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines. 10(2): 69–91 https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/04-Schmitt.pdf
The Influence of Inter-ethnic Relations on Historical Shifts in the Value Systems of Agricultural Goods and Practices among the Ersu and Han of Sichuan, China.pdfSchmitt, Edwin. 2014. “The Influence of Inter-ethnic Relations on Historical Shifts in the Value Systems of Agricultural Goods and Practices among the Ersu and Han of Sichuan, China” Cahier d’Extrême Asie, 23: 105-135 https://doi.org/10.3406/asie.2014.1436
The History and Development of De-swiddening among the Ersu in Sichuan, China_20141217.pdfSchmitt, Edwin A. 2014. "The History and Development of De-swiddening among the Ersu in Sichuan, China," Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 34:2, Article 12. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol34/iss2/12
Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Geopolitical Vulnerabilities to Hydropower Development on the Nu River, China.pdfTullos, Desiree, Eric Foster-Moore, Darrin Magee, Bryan Tilt, Aaron Wolf, Edwin Schmitt, Francis Gassert and Kelly Kibler. 2013. "Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Geopolitical Vulnerabilities to Hydropower Development on the Nu River, China." Ecology and Society 18 (3): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05465-180316
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
1. Schmitt, Edwin and Laia Colomer. 2021. “Coping with the Pandemic: Exploring COVID-19 Memorials around the World” ScienceNorway January 16th, 2021. https://sciencenorway.no/covid19-history-researchers-zone/covid-19-memorials-how-people-around-the-world-are-remembering-those-who-have-died/1798348
2. Schmitt, Edwin. 2020. “Is it ok to publish racist representations if your intention was for it to be funny and cute?” ScienceNorway https://sciencenorway.no/communication-media-opinion/is-it-ok-to-publish-racist-representations-if-your-intention-was-for-it-to-be-funny-and-cute/1704978
3. Schmitt, Edwin. 2018. “雾霾科普的困境与机遇 (The Trials and Opportunities of Disseminating Scientific Knowledge about Air Pollution to the Public)” 眺望窗外的天空(A Window on the Sky: Chinese and Foreign Scholars Discuss the Atmospheric Environment and its Governance). 浙江大学出版社，杭州.
4. Schmitt, Edwin. 2017. “关于汶川地震中谣言和信息传播的反思 (Reflections on the Transmission of Rumor and Information during the Wenchuan Earthquake)” 李永祥编辑，灾害人类学及防灾减灾 (Disaster Anthropology and Disaster Prevention). 云南大学出版社.
5. Fuchs, Daniel and Edwin Schmitt. 2017. “How China’s Environmental Crackdown Is Affecting Business Owners and Workers: The Case of Chengdu” Made in China 2(4): 44-49. http://www.chinoiresie.info/how-china-environmental-crackdown-is-affecting-business-owners-and-workers-the-case-of-chengdu/
6. Schmitt, Edwin. 2017. “Burning Coal in Tangshan: Energy Resources as Commons” Made in China 2(2): 42-45. https://www.chinoiresie.info/burning-coal-in-tangshan-energy-resources-as-commons/
7. Schmitt, Edwin. 2017. “Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literature by Karen Thornber” (Book Review). Journal of Political Ecology. 24.
8. Schmitt, Edwin. 2017. “Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics by Dan Smyer Yu” (Book Review). Asian Anthropology 16(1).
9. Zinda, John, Kelly Hopping, Edwin Schmitt, Emily Yeh, Stevan Harrell, and Eugene Anderson. 2016. China's ecosystems: Sacrificing the poor. Science, 353 (6300), pp.657-658. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aah4960
10. Schmitt, Edwin. 2016. “The West as the Other: A Genealogy of Chinese Occidentalism, by Wang Mingming” (Book Review). Asian Anthropology. 15(3).
11. Schmitt, Edwin. 2014. “Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia, by Manduhai Buyandelger” (Book Review). Asian Anthropology, 13(1): 86-87.
12. Schmitt, Edwin. 2013. “Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China's New Rich by John Osburg” (Book Review). Asian Anthropology. 12(2):181-183.
13. Tilt, Bryan and Edwin Schmitt. 2013. “The Integrative Dam Assessment Model: Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective” Practicing Anthropology 35(1): 4-7
14. Schmitt, Edwin, and Bryan Tilt. 2012. “Dam-Induced Displacement in China’s Nu River Valley: Villager Perspectives and Vulnerability.” In Distasters and Cultural Stereotypes, edited by E. Tzaneva with Edwin Schmitt and Fang Sumei. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 184-204
Translations
Translations
Li, Hongtao and Huang Shunming. 2021. The Nanjing Massacre and the Making of Mediated Trauma (记忆的纹理：媒介、创伤与南京大屠杀). Trans. Xinyue Chang and Edwin Schmitt. London: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003199366
Sichuan Provincial Cultural Bureau. 2009. Tianfu Treasures: The Elite Cultural Relics amongst Collections in the Sichuan Museums. (天府藏珍 四川馆藏文物精华). Trans. Edwin Schmitt. Sichuan Kexue Jishu Chubanshe.
Thesis
Thesis
Schmitt, Edwin. 2016. The Atmosphere of an Ecological Civilization: A Study of Ideology, Perception and Action in Chengdu, China. Ph.D. Dissertation-CUHK. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1964279741/CEA2A6D530F047A0PQ/1
Schmitt, Edwin. 2011. Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan Village of Sichuan China. M.A. Thesis-OSU. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/pk02cd553
Blogs/Podcasts (Invited Posts)
Blogs/Podcasts (Invited Posts)
Schmitt, Edwin and Joseph Bosco. Solar Energy in China. Technoviews Podcast, April 21st, 2019.
https://www.scitechasia.org/podcasts/solar-energy-in-china
Schmitt, Edwin. Weekly Energy News Update. Energy Anthropology Network Blog.
https://ean.hypotheses.org/838 (generally a weekly post May-Dec. 2017)
艾迪. 2016. 我在挪威“买买买”: 环保不剁手 (一). 成都根与芽. November 11th, 2016. http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/I0Rdx8PjB3YLBaCLNG14Ag
艾迪. 2016. 我在挪威“买买买”: 环保不剁手 (二). 成都根与芽. November 13th, 2016.
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/CpxQFi9_9ZdWztVwRE24tg
Schmitt, Edwin. 2012. From Conservation to Eco-Toilets to Organic Markets: The Evolution of a Chinese Environmental NGO. Engagement Blog: Anthropology and Environment Society. November 12th, 2012.
Schmitt, Edwin 2012. What would a Carbon Neutral Global Anthropology look like? Global Anthropology: A Blog of the World Council of Anthropological Associations
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