On Monday, November 18th 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., Dr. Maria Bondes' "Contentious Politics" seminar will host Fengshi Wu, who is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Based on her influential 2015 paper "In the Name of the Public: Environmental Protest and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China," co-authored with Christoph Steinhardt from the University of Vienna, she will discuss the main features of environmental activism in today's China and reflect what has changed in recent years under the Xi Jinping administration.