The reproductive climate concerns of young, educated Chinese: ‘when the nest is upset, no egg is left intact’

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2022.2132629

Xiyao Fu, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, M. J. Montefrio

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ABSTRACT An emerging area of research concerns the phenomenon of young people factoring climate change into their reproductive plans and choices, but existing scholarship and popular discourse have focused exclusively on Western and developed countries. This paper examines whether young people in China are also connecting their reproductive plans and choices to climate change, and why. Based on the quantitative and qualitative results from an exploratory survey of 173 young, educated, climate-alarmed or climate-concerned Chinese, we found that reproductive climate concerns are reported by many young Chinese. Respondents expressed deep and multi-layered concerns about the wellbeing of their (potential) children in a climate-changed future, though they did not rank climate change highly among other factors that might influence their reproductive choices. Climate-alarmed Chinese reported lower levels of reproductive climate concerns and more positive visions of the future than a similar group of US-Americans. We attribute these findings to China’s history of family planning, state-constructed climate discourse, stage of development, and hierarchical cultural worldview. As the first study on reproductive climate concerns in Asia, this research addresses a major gap in our knowledge, with implications for the sociology of climate change, the sociology of reproduction, environmental psychology, Asian studies, and demography.

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受过良好教育的中国年轻人对生殖气候感到担忧:“巢被翻了，蛋就不会完好无损了。”

一个新兴的研究领域关注年轻人将气候变化纳入其生育计划和选择的现象，但现有的学术和流行话语只关注西方和发达国家。本文考察了中国的年轻人是否也将他们的生育计划和选择与气候变化联系起来，以及原因。基于对173名受过教育、气候敏感或关注气候的中国年轻人的定量和定性调查结果，我们发现许多中国年轻人报告了生殖气候问题。受访者对其(潜在)子女在气候变化的未来中的福祉表达了深刻和多层次的担忧，尽管他们没有将气候变化列为可能影响其生育选择的其他因素中的重要因素。与美国人相比，对气候变化感到担忧的中国人对生殖气候的担忧程度较低，对未来的看法更为积极。我们将这些发现归因于中国的计划生育历史、国家建构的气候话语、发展阶段和等级文化世界观。作为对亚洲生殖气候问题的首次研究，本研究填补了我们对气候变化社会学、生殖社会学、环境心理学、亚洲研究和人口学的认识空白。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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4.60

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.

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