Wenjia Zhou

About

I'm a doctoral researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. With a background in journalism, gender studies, and anthropology, I am interested in the socio-material entanglements between human and more-than-human beings in the web of life.

Currently, I am working on the ERC project "A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China' (MidWay), where my focus lies on the production and consumption of milk. Instead of regarding milk as natural, self-evident, and singular, I see milk as diverse, the assemblage of cow, fodder, milking activity, and transformative human actions and technologies including but not limited to fortification, transportation, and marketing that emerge in different socio-material contexts, that co-generate the resulting expression as liquid, powder, or emulsion. By seeing milk as an assemblage of actors and processes, I emphasize the entanglement of heterogeneous entities – both human and nonhuman – in rendering milk. I set out to study the becoming (Barad, 2003) of milk in China with multi-sited ethnography.

Education

2018 M.Phil. in Gender Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

2013 M.A. in Gender Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2012 B.A. in Broadcasting and Television Journalism, Fudan University, China

Research

MidWay

Publications

Outreach

2024

Popular scientific lecture

Zhou, Wenjia. (2024) The naughty cow and the heartless dzomo . Nice Community Event 2024-07-17 - 2024-07-17
Lecture

Zhou, Wenjia. (2024) Tasting milk, tasting modernity?The naughty cow and the heartless dzomo . AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024-07-10 - 2024-07-10

2023

Lecture

Zhou, Wenjia. (2023) The becoming of milk in China. ASIANET/NNC conference 2023: Consuming Asia 2023-06-23 - 2023-06-23

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Competencies

Research

Publications

2023

2018

Journal publications

Report

Outreach

2024

2023