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Amy Zhang

Associate Professor

New York University

Affiliations

Arts & Science

Anthropology

Amy Zhang is currently serving as an Anthropology Associate Professor at New York University.

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Amy Zhang

New York University

Associate Professor

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waste management environmental engineering contemporary china waste reduction anthropology sustainable development circular economy indigenous innovation communication cultural anthropology economy of china enzyme inhibition enzyme specificity biocatalysis enzyme catalysis incineration zero waste waste prevention municipal solid waste black soldier fly immunology metabolism urban planning cooperation ethnography sociocultural anthropology immunity (medicine) disasters anthropological theory conflict resolution social anthropology nature social science research knowledge economy biochemical sciences urban studies climate policy educational strategies chinese political science distributed collaboration intergroup cooperation cognitive anthropology remote collaboration deterioration modeling human ecology applied social science black experience chinese law circularity environmental politics urban governance urban politics urban environments urban society climate communication climate governance chinese politics illegal dumping waste disposal solid waste pollution biosecurity host-microbe interactions metabolizing waste homeowner contention rational resistance waste incineration waste work invisible harms waste tours spectacular technology waste labor resistance rationnelle résistance rationnelle circular ecologies antitoxic politics global china environmental science sustainability science environmental anthropology environmental degradation

Notable Scholarly Works

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Collaborators

A Labor of Disassembly: Waste Labor and Embodied Knowledge in China's Circular Economy. Environment and Planning D Society and Space (2025)

chinese lawindustrial organizationcircularitycircular economycivilizationsknowledge economycontemporary chinawaste laboreast asian studieseconomy of chinaglobalizationmaterial culture

Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Witnessing Techno-Science on Waste Tours in China. Science Technology & Human Values (2024)

Amy Zhang

science and technology studiestechnologywaste toursinvisible harmsspectacular technology

Making Urban Environments: Infrastructures of Power, Resistance and Negotiation. Global Environment (2023)

Sonja DümpelmannRobert R. GioielliStephan PauleitAnindya SinhaKate WrightAmy Zhang

negotiationpolitical science

Environmental Quality and an Urban Politics of Exclusion. City & Society (2021)

Amy Zhang,

urban studiesurban governanceurban politicsenvironmental politicsurban environmentsurban societysocial sciencesenvironmental scienceurban sociology

From Immunity to Collaboration. Current Anthropology (2021)

Amy Zhang

anthropological theorydistributed collaborationsociocultural anthropologyremote collaborationcooperationcognitive anthropologysocial anthropologyintergroup cooperationimmunologyanthropologyimmunity (medicine)communicationethnographyconflict resolutioncultural anthropology

7. the Black Soldier Fly: An Indigenous Innovation for Waste Management in Guangzhou. Cornell University Press eBooks (2020)

Amy Zhang

environmental sciencewaste managementindigenous innovation

An Indigenous Innovation for Waste Management in Guangzhou. (2020)

Amy Zhang

indigenous innovationwaste reductionwaste managementenvironmental engineering

Circularity and Enclosures: Metabolizing Waste With the Black Soldier Fly. Cultural Anthropology (2020)

Amy Zhang

metabolismmetabolizing wastewaste managementanthropologycircular economycultural anthropology

How Nature Works. Current Anthropology (2020)

human ecologyevolutionary biologynaturehuman nature

The Black Soldier Fly. Cornell University Press eBooks (2020)

Amy Zhang

african american studiesblack experienceblack soldier fly

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Amy Zhang

Associate Professor

New York University

Affiliations

Arts & Science

Anthropology

Amy Zhang is currently serving as an Anthropology Associate Professor at New York University.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Amy Zhang

New York University

Associate Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

A Labor of Disassembly: Waste Labor and Embodied Knowledge in China's Circular Economy. Environment and Planning D Society and Space (2025)

chinese lawindustrial organizationcircularitycircular economycivilizationsknowledge economycontemporary chinawaste laboreast asian studieseconomy of chinaglobalizationmaterial culture

Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Witnessing Techno-Science on Waste Tours in China. Science Technology & Human Values (2024)

Amy Zhang

science and technology studiestechnologywaste toursinvisible harmsspectacular technology

Making Urban Environments: Infrastructures of Power, Resistance and Negotiation. Global Environment (2023)

Sonja DümpelmannRobert R. GioielliStephan PauleitAnindya SinhaKate WrightAmy Zhang

negotiationpolitical science

Environmental Quality and an Urban Politics of Exclusion. City & Society (2021)

Amy Zhang,

urban studiesurban governanceurban politicsenvironmental politicsurban environmentsurban societysocial sciencesenvironmental scienceurban sociology

From Immunity to Collaboration. Current Anthropology (2021)

Amy Zhang

7. the Black Soldier Fly: An Indigenous Innovation for Waste Management in Guangzhou. Cornell University Press eBooks (2020)

Amy Zhang

environmental sciencewaste managementindigenous innovation

An Indigenous Innovation for Waste Management in Guangzhou. (2020)

Amy Zhang

indigenous innovationwaste reductionwaste managementenvironmental engineering

Circularity and Enclosures: Metabolizing Waste With the Black Soldier Fly. Cultural Anthropology (2020)

Amy Zhang

metabolismmetabolizing wastewaste managementanthropologycircular economycultural anthropology

How Nature Works. Current Anthropology (2020)

human ecologyevolutionary biologynaturehuman nature

The Black Soldier Fly. Cornell University Press eBooks (2020)

Amy Zhang

african american studiesblack experienceblack soldier fly

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