ABSTRACT

Chapter Nine concludes on the findings from the five controversy studies. It discusses the exciting contributions that the lens of the Anthropology of Markets within Science & Technology Studies (STS) can make to contemporary China Studies. In particular, the analytical lens has revealed the socio-material and politicised constitution of Chinese experimental greening, shedding light on the socio-material grounding of vested interests and fragmented authoritarianism. Simultaneously, the volume extends the traditional ‘modest sociology’ of STS to a broader story of China's contested, risk-prone greening ‘through failure’, debating the sustainability of green experimentalism in the relatively complex technological field of wind power.