Sarah Rogers

Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics

Sarah Rogers, Zali Fung, Vanessa Lamb, Ruth Gamble, Brooke Wilmsen, Fengshi Wu, Xiao Han

Journal article  |  2023  |  Geography Compass

Farmer Cooperatives and the Limits of Agricultural Reform in Rural Hubei

Brooke Wilmsen, Sarah Rogers, Yuefang Duan, Ju-Han Zoe Wang

Journal article  |  2023  |  The China Journal

The fence 'didn't work': the mundane engagements and material practices of state-led development in China's Danjiangkou Reservoir

Vanessa Lamb, Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang

Journal article  |  2022  |  TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE

Central China’s Danjiangkou Reservoir supplies clean water to major cities as part of the South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWT..

Networking Shangnan's tea: socio-economic relations, commodities and agrarian change in rural China

Xiao Han, Sarah Rogers

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES

China's central government has long signalled its desire for scaled-up agriculture. This study scrutinises the place-specific dyna..

Apples and oranges: Political crops with and against the state in rural China

Sarah Rogers, Xiao Han, Brooke Wilmsen

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY

In this article we bring together conceptual threads from political ecology, commodity geographies and agrarian studies to enable ..

Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China

Sarah Rogers, Brooke Wilmsen, Xiao Han, Zoe Ju-Han Wang, Yuefang Duan, Jun He, Jie Li, Wanlong Lin, Christine Wong

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD DEVELOPMENT

Major changes are taking place in the Chinese countryside. Long a smallholder dominant economy with small and fragmented farms, a ..

Inside-out: Chinese academic assessments of large-scale water infrastructure

Michael Webber, Xiao Han, Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang, Hong Jiang, Wenjing Zhang, Jon Barnett, Nahui Zhen

Journal article  |  2021  |  WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER

Little is known in the international academic community about Chinese-language research on water management. To remedy this defici..

Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China: A Typology of Official-Household Relations

Georgina Davie, Mark Wang, Sarah Rogers, Jie Li

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

‘Targeted Poverty Alleviation’ (TPA) is the Chinese government’s latest anti-poverty policy, aiming to lift the remaining 70 milli..

Producing a Chinese hydrosocial territory: A river of clean water flows north from Danjiangkou

Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

Hydrosocial territories are produced not just through concrete water infrastructure, but through flows of people, water, money, an..

China’s rapidly evolving practice of poverty resettlement: Moving millions to eliminate poverty

Sarah Rogers, Jie Li, Kevin Lo, Hua Guo, Cong Li

Journal article  |  2020  |  Development Policy Review

Motivation: Unlike in other places where resettlement is largely a by-product of large infrastructure projects, in China, resettle..