The mid-term evaluation is organized in two parts and starts with a 2-hour public seminar, followed by a closed meeting.
The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the progress of the PhD project at a point when it is still possible to make small or substantial changes. In general, we want to know how the candidate is doing, how much work is done, and what is left.
About the PhD candidate and her Research
Lu Chen is employed as a Research Fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages. Her project is connected to the lager research project "Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise"
Lu Chen's Ph.D. project "Taking Political Ecology to China: An Ethnographic Study of Social and Political Responses to Climate and Environmental Change in Zhejiang Province" is aimed to study impacts of and responses to climate and environmental change at local levels in China in-depth. The project is part of the efforts to study processes of adaptations in practice at the local level through a case study in one of the Chinese coastal provinces, Zhejiang. The candidate explore processes of co-production between power relations and changes in climate and environment within a local area and examine the impacts of such processes. One important aspect of this is to study different forms of agency among local people and the government.